Erectile dysfunction (ED) is common and to many healthcare professionals surprisingly common (1). ED is associated with the same risk factors as coronary artery disease and the two frequently co-exist with ED often preceding a coronary event, in men with no cardiac symptoms, by 2–5 years (2). For example, 67% of men with hypertension have ED and 71% of men with diabetes have ED and in those men unfortunately suffering from hypertension and diabetes the incidence of ED is 77% (3). Interestingly, 42% of men presenting with ED have previously undetected hypertension, so that men with hypertension are more likely to have ED and men with ED are more likely to have hypertension (3). As phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5i) are effective in treating hypertension it continues to amaze me that formal hypertension trials are not being considered (4). One can imagine the clinic conversation – 'I can prescribe a thiazide for your blood pressure which may give you ED or a PDE5i which will probably improve your erections – which would you like to try?' I believe in current jargon this is a 'no-brainer'. PDE5 is are a very safe and effective therapy for ED and the three currently available agents (sildenafil, vardenafil and tadalafil) have been thoroughly evaluated (1). In this issue the ENDURANCE study looks at the duration of an erection comparing vardenafil with placebo in 175 men who completed the trial (5). Using conventional and validated questions, vardenafil as expected significantly improved ED compared with placebo but in addition using a novel stopwatch technique the duration of the erection was increased to an average of nearly 13 min from an average of 5.45 min on placebo. When men complain of ED, usually after waiting too long to come forward, they mention two factors – rigidity and duration of erection. ENDURANCE addresses both of these issues providing clear evidence of a double benefit. In addition, in the 191 men in the safety population there were relatively minor adverse effects. Realistically the commonest adverse effects of headache and flushing are not going to concern most men who have their erections restored! Perhaps my only criticism of this study is its title. Endurance in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is defined as 'the ability to withstand prolonged strain' from endure (undergo a difficult hardship, tolerate a person, remain in existence; last, submit to). I suppose to remain in existence or last is appropriate, but would not SUSTAIN have been better (give strength to, maintain or keep going). Importantly, ENDURANCE adds to the growing literature emphasising the safety and effectiveness of PDE5 inhibitors, in this case vardenafil. Restoring an erection and sustaining the erection to facilitate satisfactory sexual intercourse will bring to many couples the closeness ED often destroys. ED may be a man's problem but it is a couple's concern and I cannot emphasise enough the importance of treating ED restoring the man's self-esteem and the couple's relationship.


Deuterium loaded palladium foils, produced by both electrolytic and ultrasonic processing, have been micro-analyzed for nuclear reactions. The characteristic strike marks of charge clusters, known as EVs, have been found to occur concurrently with nuclear reactions in micrometer-sized areas. In the electrolytic case, the reaction is attributed to charge clusters generated from mechanical energy, first stored and then suddenly released, from a brittle metal lattice through the mechanism of fracto-emission of electrons. For the acoustic case, EVs are generated by charge separation in a collapsing bubble. When areas previously free of low energy nuclear reactions are bombarded in either vacuum or air by externally generated charge clusters, nuclear reactions are produced at the bombardment site. Charge clusters are considered to function as a collective accelerator capable of injecting a large group of nuclei into a target with sufficient energy density to promote the nuclear cluster reactions observed.


According to characteristics of the accident of the chemical dangerous goods and conditions of the fitted equipments on fire forces, this paper raises a complete set of order of managing the chemical dangerous goods, and introduces the key technology in the course of the management.


A QCD-Pomeron composed by two non-perturbative gluons with a dynamically generated mass, is constructed in a gauge invariant way. The gluon propagator is infrared-finite. The model properly describes data on elastic scattering, exclusive ρ production in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and the J/ Ψ-nucleon total cross-section in terms of a single gluon mass m g ≃ 0 . 37 GeV. The total cross sections of hadrons with small radii, such as J/ Ψ, are very sensitive on the effective gluon mass.


This paper proposes an integer linear programming (ILP) solution to the combined problem of memory hierarchy design and data allocation in the context of embedded chip multiprocessors. The proposed solution uses compiler analysis to extract data access patterns of parallel processors and employs integer linear programming for determining optimal on-chip memory partitioning across processors and data allocations across the resulting memory components. Our experimental results show that the application-specific on-chip memory hierarchies designed using this approach are much more energy efficient than conventional (pure shared or pure private) on-chip memories, conventional caches, and those designed by a prior work that partitions memory space across parallel processors without designing a multi-level hierarchy


Cerebral palsy (CP) is a condition that can occur at any time during brain development. Although its etiology is multifactorial, CP is usually linked to brain injury or infections during prenatal, perinatal, neonatal or early childhood period. The disability associated with CP varies from mild to severe, and may include involuntary movements, poor coordination, maintaining balance problems and the difficulty of performing voluntary movements. Although this condition (brain impairment) does not directly cause pulmonary complications, neuromuscular dysfunctions do so. In fact, aspiration and ineffective coughing could interfere with normal airway clearance, impair respiratory function, and worsen lung damage, resulting in increased mucus production and reduced secretions elimination. This consequent alteration of the pulmonary defense system increases the susceptibility to serious, progressive lung diseases. Physiotherapy is an essential component in the management of respiratory complications associated with severe CP. For optimal results, however, it is important customized treatment for every patient. This mini non-ystematic review would highlight the possible complications and the possible interventions for reduce them.


In this paper, we propose a learning-based moving-object tracking method utilizing the newly developed LiDAR sensor, Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR. Compared with most existing commercial LiDAR sensors, FMCW LiDAR can provide additional Doppler velocity information to each 3D point of the point clouds. Benefiting from this, we can generate instance labels as ground truth in a semi-automatic manner. Given the labels, we propose a contrastive learning framework, which pulls together the features from the same instance in embedding space and pushes apart the features from different instances, to improve the tracking quality. Extensive experiments are conducted on the recorded driving data, and the results show that our method outperforms the baseline methods by a large margin.


Database Design discipline involves so different aspects as conceptual and logical modelling knowledge or domain understanding. That implies a great effort to carry out the real world abstraction task and represent it through a data model. CASE tools emerge in order to automating the database development process. These platforms try to help to the database designer in different database design phases. Nevertheless, this tools are frequently mere diagrammers and do not carry completely out the design methodology that they are supposed to support; furthermore, they do not offer intelligent methodological advice to novice designers. This paper introduces the PANDORA tool (acronym of Platform for Database Development and Learning via Internet) that is being developed in a research project which tries to mitigate some of the deficiencies observed in several CASE tools, defining methods and techniques for database development which are useful for students and practitioners. Specifically, this work is focused on two PANDORA components: Conceptual Modelling and Learning Support subsystems.


We consider $n$-dimensional hypersurfaces flowing by mean curvature flow with Neumann free boundary conditions supported on a smooth support surface. We show that the Hausdorff $n$-measure of the singular set is zero. In fact, we consider two types of interaction between the support and flowing surfaces. In the case of weaker interaction, we need make no further assumptions than in the case without boundary to achieve our result. In the case of stronger interaction, we need only make the additional assumption that $H_{\Sigma}>0$, that is, that the support surface be mean convex. We go on, in this case, to show that the result is not, in general, true without the mean convexity assumption.


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First- and second-order statistical regression models are presented for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) demand in an urban area as it relates to various socioeconomic, demographic, and other characteristics of the area. Individual models are formulated for different types of medical emergencies with the city of Atlanta, GA, serving as the data base. These models are generally shown to provide excellent fits to the empirical data.


The techniques of matched groups, analysis of covariance, and partial correlation represent various approaches to the prevention of a spurious association between Xi and X2 due to a confounding variable, Xa. In all these techniques the use of an unreliable measure for Xa leads to a systematic bias of undercorrection. Adequate corrections are possible for the case of known reliability of XB. Groups should be matched on true scores rather than observed scores, but no correction is possible for the factorial design in which groups are formed on the basis of unreliable correlated measures. Partial correlations should be corrected for the effects of unreliability of the controlled variable. Spuriously high partials are usually obtained when this correction is not applied.


Self-supervised goal proposal and reaching is a key component for exploration and efficient policy learning algorithms. Such a self-supervised approach without access to any oracle goal sampling distribution requires deep exploration and commitment so that long horizon plans can be efficiently discovered. In this paper, we propose an exploration framework, which learns a dynamics-aware manifold of reachable states. For a goal, our proposed method deterministically visits a state at the current frontier of reachable states (commit- ment/reaching) and then stochastically explores to reach the goal (exploration). This allocates exploration budget near the frontier of the reachable region instead of its interior. We target the challenging problem of policy learning from initial and goal states specified as images, and do not assume any access to the underlying ground-truth states of the robot and the environment. To keep track of reachable latent states, we propose a distance-conditioned reachability network that is trained to infer whether one state is reachable from another within the specified latent space distance. Given an initial state, we obtain a frontier of reachable states from that state. By incorporating a curriculum for sampling easier goals (closer to the start state) before more difficult goals, we demonstrate that the proposed self-supervised exploration algorithm, superior performance compared to existing baselines on a set of challenging robotic environments. https://sites.google.com/view/leaf-exploration


We used photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy combined with scanning near-field optical microscopy to directly observe the potential barriers in InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) on a GaN layer grown under moderate temperatures (MT-GaN) as the V-pit expansion layer. Area-averaged PL spectra revealed shoulders on the higher-energy side of the InGaN/GaN MQW emission (HE emission) even at room temperature (RT), as well as at low temperature. These HE emission regions, which possessed island-like shapes in the PL intensity maps at RT, corresponded to the dark regions in the PL intensity maps of GaN emission. Low-temperature local PL spectra acquired at the measurement points where HE emissions were observed revealed multiple HE emission peaks at two distinct energies. Most of the regions where the HE emission occurred corresponded to the dark regions of GaN emission and their outer circumference. These experimental observations demonstrate the formation of potential barriers around threading dislocations in the InGaN/GaN MQWs on an MT-GaN layer as the pit expansion layer. The energy difference between the HE emissions and the MQW emissions on the MT-GaN layer tended to increase with increasing V-pit diameter and was much larger than the energy difference for an InGaN/GaN superlattice structure. This was rationalized by the greater change in transition energy for thinner MQWs on V-pits than for planar MQWs, when the thickness in the MQWs on MT-GaN decreases owing to strain effects.We used photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy combined with scanning near-field optical microscopy to directly observe the potential barriers in InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) on a GaN layer grown under moderate temperatures (MT-GaN) as the V-pit expansion layer. Area-averaged PL spectra revealed shoulders on the higher-energy side of the InGaN/GaN MQW emission (HE emission) even at room temperature (RT), as well as at low temperature. These HE emission regions, which possessed island-like shapes in the PL intensity maps at RT, corresponded to the dark regions in the PL intensity maps of GaN emission. Low-temperature local PL spectra acquired at the measurement points where HE emissions were observed revealed multiple HE emission peaks at two distinct energies. Most of the regions where the HE emission occurred corresponded to the dark regions of GaN emission and their outer circumference. These experimental observations demonstrate the formation of potential barriers around threading dislocations ...


Five macaque monkeys, three Macaca fascicularis, one M. fuscata, and one M. cyclopis were inoculated orally with 120 metacercariae of Paragonimus westermani and they were necropsied 70 to 400 days after infection. None of the infected monkeys became ill or manifested apparent clinical signs of paragonimiasis, although all the animals examined showed marked peripheral blood eosinophilia. The eosinophilia appeared soon after inoculation, reached peak by the 5th or 7th week, remained on a high level for about ten weeks, and thereafter declined gradually. The recovery of the inoculated metacercariae varied from 35.0 to 51.7%, with an average of 44.2%. All worms recovered were on the youngest developmental stage and 93.2% (88.1 to 100%) of them apparently remained in a slightly developed state in the skeletal muscles, irrespective of the species of the monkey. These flukes of the youngest stage recovered from the muscles of monkeys were infective for cats and 74.3% (60.0 to 90.0%) of the worms given orally developed into mature adults capable of producing normal eggs in the feces of the recipient cats 41 to 66 days after transfer. Thus, it was found that the three species of macaques were the paratenic host of P. westermani under laboratory conditions. The gross lesions which might be attributable to migration of immature P. westermani and the histopathologic findings in the experimental monkeys are described and illustrated.


Chen Bangyan,a famous poet and prose writer,was reputed as "Du Fu in Yue",and one of the "Earlier Three Great Pens of Lingnan".Meanwhile he was also a national hero in Ming Dynasty,leading the "Three Great Loyalists of Lingnan".In his prose,he expresses his wishes to rebuild his nation,his everlasting and strong loyalty to the monarch and the emperor;he also demonstrates his extraordinary thoughts on state affairs and solutions to the problems;he advocates pragmatism in writing and practices it by solving his own affairs with prose.


Acoustic-optic diffraction is an important problem in physical acoustics.As an effective method in investigation of sound field it has advantages,therefore is of interest and has been developed continuously since 1930s.The history of acoustic-optic diffraction is described and advantages in sound field studies discussed in this paper.Qualitative and quantitative analyses of sound field are reviewed and possible development proposed.


lore as resistance to, or liberation from, dominant cultural values. the military rituals and practices that burke investigates clearly have one goal in mind: conformity to a notion of masculinity as it is conventionally and conservatively defined in military culture. burke's book also examines what happens to women when they enter the military system of "gender apartheid" (p. x). She asks whether women will ever be treated equally and with respect and whether they will have access to all levels of military service, including intensive combat roles. burke makes the case that women can be successful and should have the opportunity to advance in all aspects of the military. this feminist interrogation of the current military system is engaging and compelling. the next step would be to apply burke's analysis to a broader critique of the military itself, an institution that, at its core, is based on the use of force and violence to impose the will of those in power on those who are less powerful. burke amply demonstrates how the military, as a social institution, reifies conventional systems of male domination, masculinity, and socialized violence. When we recognize the ways in which social hierarchies are reinforced by the military, bigger questions emerge. Should we have a military at all? Should we encourage anyone— male or female—to participate in it or support it? When burke asks if women are ever going to be full and equal members of the military (p. 124), i thought about the extensive scholarship of cynthia enloe, which demonstrates how militarism is, in itself, a sexist, racist, classist, and imperialist enterprise. While i agree that women must have equal opportunity in all avenues of achievement, burke's argument for women gaining access to the military made me somewhat uneasy in the same way that "dress for success" workshops do. is the goal simply to move greater numbers of marginalized people into the existing capitalist and hierarchical systems, or do we need to question and change these systems in their entirety? As we read the daily news about missiles annihilating neighborhoods and cities, killing and maiming thousands of civilians and combatants, do we simply want a military in which more women can do the killing and send those missiles? the strong and compelling ethnographic analysis that carol burke provides in this book offers ample material for asking larger questions.


Predicting drug-related associations is an important task in drug development and discovery. With the rapid advancement of high-throughput technologies and various biological and medical data, artificial intelli-gence (AI), especially progress in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), has paved a new way for the development of drug-related associations prediction. Many studies have been conducted in the literature to predict drug-related associations. This study looks at various computational methods used for drug-related associations prediction with the hope of getting a better insight into the computational methods used.

The various computational methods involved in drug-related associations prediction have been re-viewed in this work. We have first summarized the drug, target, and disease-related mainstream public da-tasets. Then, we have discussed existing drug similarity, target similarity, and integrated similarity measurement approaches and grouped them according to their suita-bility. We have then comprehensively investigated drug-related associations and introduced relevant computa-tional methods. Finally, we have briefly discussed the challenges involved in predicting drug-related associa-tions.

We discovered that quite a few studies have used implemented ML and DL approaches for drug-related associations prediction. The key challenges were well noted in constructing datasets with reasonable neg-ative samples, extracting rich features, and developing powerful prediction models or ensemble strategies.

This review presents useful knowledge and future challenges on the subject matter with the hope of promoting further studies on predicting drug-related as-sociations.


FIELD: weapons and ammunition. SUBSTANCE: collapsible aerofoil of an unmanned aircraft comprises a fixed part (1), a movable part (2) and a device of unfolding and fixation. The unfolding and fixation device comprises a vessel (3) installed in the fixed part (1), where a unit of unfolding is installed with a drive and a fixation unit. The unfolding unit comprises a piston (5), a chamber (7) of which is connected to a pneumatic system and is arranged along a chord of the fixed part (1), and an element to reduce friction (9). At the end of the piston (5) there is a rope (8) is fixed, stretching via a through channel in the piston (5). The fixation unit is arranged in the form of spring-loaded stems (14) installed in the body and responsive holes in a bracket (4), the movable part (2) is fixed on the bracket (4). The bracket (4) is installed in the vessel (3) as capable of rotation relative to the axis of aerofoil unfolding. With the bracket (4) there is the second end of the rope (8) connected, equipped with an element to adjust tension of the rope (8). EFFECT: optimised dimensional characteristics of aerofoil in the folded position when ensuring an unfolding force under conditions of a strong approach flow and higher reliability, possibility to fold repeatedly, for instance, during ground tests of rocket systems. 4 cl, 3 dwg


The World Conference on Human Rights (the Vienna Conference) that was held in Vienna in 1993, marked an important beginning in the recognition of reproductive and sexual rights as human rights. Among other goals, the Vienna Conference sought to end gender discrimination in all its manifestations; gender-based violence, sexual harassment, and sexual exploitation. However, the turning point for the development of reproductive and sexual rights was the consensus that emanated from the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994 (the Cairo Conference), and the Fourth World Conference on Women in held in Beijing 1995 (the Beijing Conference) as evidenced by the programs for action that were adopted. The Cairo Conference defined reproductive health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes."


The seismic data usually is a non-linear non-stationary series for many reasons,so the Fourier transform based on stationary signal can not show the news of frequency at sometime.The time-frequency analysis can give the news of time and frequency at the same time,now there have many methods of time-frequency analysis.This paper introduces eight methods of time-frequency analysis,such as Hilbert transform,Hilbert-Huang transform,sine curve fitting,Ricker wavelet matching,short time Fourier transform,wavelet transform,S transform and Cohen methods.This paper explains the merits and defects of those methods from the time resolution,frequency resolution and the adaptive ability of multi-frequency signals.Moreover,this paper explains the advantages and shortcomings of some methods deeply by some test cases.


Frequency response analysis (FRA) is a regular method to detect winding faults in transformer. According to the kind of excitation source, it can be divided into two categories that are impulse frequency response analysis (IFRA) and sweep frequency response analysis (SFRA). Compared with SFRA, IFRA use less time during test and can reach higher frequency domain it's about 10MHz, with SFRA usually up to 1MHz only. However, it has been discovered that the test result of IFRA can be heavily influenced by the repetition frequency of input impulse. In addition, frequency resolution of the test result also need to be considered. In this regard, at first, the impact of repetition frequency is discussed. Then, experiments using input impulse with different repetition frequency are carried out on a 10kV/400V oil-immersed transformer and compared with the test result of SFRA, which can be regard as an accurate reference.


This paper aims to investigate the flexural behaviour of the rubberized and hybrid rubberized reinforced concrete beams. A total of fourteen beams, 150×200 mm in cross-section with 1000 mm in length, were subject to a laboratory test over an effective span of 900 mm. The sand river aggregate was replaced by 10%, 12.5%, and 15% of crumb rubber (volume).   The hybrid structure contained two double layers: 1) rubberized reinforcement concrete at the top layer of the beam and 2) reinforcement concrete at the bottom layer of the concrete beam. The static responses by the flexural test of all the beams were evaluated in terms of their fresh properties, failure patterns, total energy, flexural strength, stiffness, and ultimate deflection, modulus of rupture, strain capacity, and ductility index. The results showed that there were improvements when the hybrid beams were used in most cases such as failure pattern, ultimate load, stiffness, modulus of rupture, and stress. The rubberized concrete beams showed improvements in the strain capacity as illustrated in strain gauges and stress-strain curves, toughness, ultimate deflection, and ductility index. The findings of the study revealed an improved performance with the use of the hybrid beams. This has resulted in the implementation of innovative civil engineering applications in the engineering sustainable structures.


Ana (participant in Robins Alternative School Book Group) By introducing high quality, engaging, multicultural literature (appendix #1) to twelve Mexican-American adolescent women in the Robins Alternative School Book Group, the Literature Sisters organization, and particularly its leader, Kathy Tillman, helped participants come to enjoy reading and responding to literature and to develop a literate identity. Through their transactions with literature, group members were able to live through texts (Rosenblatt, 1978) and evoke responses that the young women and Kathy shared, discussed, and collaboratively examined in weekly sessions. These conversations enhanced existing perspectives and views, while also serving to help the young women transform and construct new understandings. In this way, the book group became an intimate literate community that enabled its participants to learn how to engage in literate practices such as negotiating, comparing, evaluating, predicting, and reflecting on literature. The concept of literacy described here comes from an understanding that "to be literate is to have the disposition to engage appropriately with texts of different types in order to empower action, thinking, and feeling in the context of purposeful social activity" (Wells, 1990, p. 379). Understood in this way, literacy refers to more than just an individual's ability to read and write—it is invariably tied to the purposes involved in interacting or transacting with literature and the contexts in which these events take place.


In previous reports a compile-time prediction technique has been introduced that yields lowcost, highly parameterized performance models, to be used during the initial optimization loops in parallel system design. Aimed to provide an acceptable accuracy in the face of resource contention the approach is based on a combination of asymptotic bounding analysis and critical path analysis, yielding an analytical lower bound estimate. In this report we present an initial study into the accuracy of the analytical technique compared to the result from simulation in terms of both theory and experiments. For simple models it is conjectured that the maximum relative error of the lower bound estimate is typically independent of the system size and can be approximated by a simple expression. For complex models it is shown that the average relative deviation of the estimate is limited and predictable. A simple operational model parameter is proposed which provides a good indication of the credibility of the estimate. The validity of the overall technique is shown through a case study which involves dataow style execution of various statically mapped computations on a distributed-memory machine. This report concludes a series of reports which will form the basis for a thesis describing our approach to the performance modeling of parallel systems.


Objective To study the mechanism of pathogenesis and clinical manifestation of chronic colitis Method The author studied the prescription of strengthening spleen and nursing colon in order to get an effective prescription Result The effective rate is 86.96%, is much better than the comparison group ( P 0.01) Conclusion The prescription of strengthening spleen and nursing colon is an effective prescription


Mary Ann Hitt spoke of the dots connected by David Orr's essay: mountaintop-removal coal mining, hurricane Katrina, and carbon. I would like to connect to another dot that is discussed in David Johns' editorial in this issue: politics. This dot is rather large and ominous, figures prominently in the carbon scenario, and must be addressed directly if we are ever to be extracted from the horrific corner into which we have so thoroughly painted ourselves. Unprecedented political leadership will need to be exercised by prominent individuals at all levels of government if the problems of Orr's scenario are to be addressed. This leadership must be like none we have seen in our lifetimes (or perhaps ever). Addressing the problem will take new, courageous, intelligent, and innovative politics, something that—at least in the United States—is in precious short supply at this time. It will take individuals who competently understand the issues, who are not afraid to advance honest and difficult public conversations, and who are willing to expose and resist the massive, timehonored traditions of industry calling all the shots. It will take the political equivalent of scaling Mt. Everest in street clothes. Such a task might be considered virtually impossible, but there is one potential entry into this morass that could just do the trick: a political approach that is embraced and promoted as an unparalleled and exciting opportunity with huge benefits, rather than a horrendous, painful, and costly correction. For as the Chinese symbol of the yin and yang tells us, crisis and opportunity are two sides of the same issue. It has often struck me how blindly and stubbornly uncreative our political leaders are in times of crisis. In endorsing the worn and broken policy models of the past, they limit our abilities to address complex problems not only in more effective ways, but in ways that would also create exciting and beneficial opportunities that solve multiple problems simultaneously. Approached the right way, dealing with the dots that David Orr connected could begin to resolve the immediate carbon problems while promoting economic stability, national and global security, human health, individual freedoms, and technological advancement that could better our lives and reduce our planetary footprint. As Thomas Homer-Dixon (2006: 282) has stated, "We need to exercise our imaginations so that we can challenge the unchallengeable and conceive the inconceivable." Let us imagine for a moment a political system in which energy is the central focus of all public policy. Energy may well be the common denominator that connects all people. (Yes, I recognize that ecological health is an even more fundamental denominator, but I am trying to be politically realistic for the moment.) Virtually everything we do as a modern society—produce food, construct shelter, manufacture material goods, transport materials, protect ourselves against enemies, create great art, or write, publish, and read scientific papers—is impossible without an energy source, and it is almost always carbon-based energy. It seems painfully obvious that energy should be at the heart of all policy decisions and that all policy should be consistent with smart energy use. What might energy-based political leadership look like? What form might an energy-based political vision take? It would embrace energy issues as unprecedented opportunities for creativity, a license to think in completely new ways to solve—or at least reduce—many problems at once. Take energy conservation and development of renewable energy sources for starters. What problems would true advances—say, a 50% reduction in carbonbased energy use—address? First, it would stimulate development of new technologies, leading to job creation and economic growth in a positive and sustainable manner, something everyone can embrace and benefit from. Second, it would reduce carbon emissions and thus help stabilize climate change and alleviate the catastrophic ecological, social, and economic problems it brings. Third, by using less energy, global strife over declining energy sources would be reduced, leading to fewer wars fought over oil, coal, or natural gas, and reducing the obvious human, environmental, and economic costs therein. Fourth, it would spawn new and cleaner industries that are sustainable and socially positive, thereby diversifying and strengthening economies. Fifth, it would improve human health and reduce insurance and health care costs because fewer pollutants and carcinogenic agents would be in the air, water, and soil. Finally, if done in a way that decentralizes power production, it would provide fewer and more difficult targets for would-be terrorists. Imagine


From a conversation -analytic perspective, this paper examines the interactional import of pauses before TCU completion (hereafter PBTCs) as an object of analysis that is demonstrably oriented to by the participants in conversation PBTCs have interactional implications not only for the construction of the TCU in which they are found but also for shaping the tum (and discourse) by way of projecting an additional TCU (or sets of TCUs). PBTCs project not only the TCU-final component, which is formulated as a 'mid-point' designed to solicit only a mildly collaborative uptake, but also an additional rcu (or a set of TCUs), which is produced as a more upshot-relevant unit that warrants an upgraded, more fully collaborative (or confrontational) uptake by the recipient. It is proposed that this interactionally motivated structural feature of PBTCs furnishes the speakers with the resource for using them as a place where they can plant an expression with delicate or face-threatening content and present it as something that is designedly to be taken up only briefly in passing by the recipient. It is shown that the discourse-organizational pattern involving PBTCs, with the TCU-final component serving as a mid-point in the tum being unfolded, is also relevant to story-telling contexts where Tills containing a PBTC are oriented to by the story-recipient as a place furnishing a pre-upshot stage in which such actions as repair or clarification can be relevantly initiated and pursued before the speaker moves on to the main segment of the story.


The research was carried out in 2019, in a young vineyard planted in 2012 by the Restructuring Reconversion Program, designed to allow if needed the mechanical pruning and tillage. For research were chosen Feteasca neagra and Pinot noir varieties with different vine vigour. The randomized block design with three replications was allocated in a 45 ha vineyard, from Minis-Maderat, The main objective was to determine the efficiency of mechanical seasons pruning, which suppose very intensive labour for replace the shortage and time-consuming manual work. The variability was established between the manual pruning, and mechanical pruning on one hectare plots for each variety and control. Both the time required for pruning perform knowing that the climate variability during the same day requires to concentrate the time available for working at best moment in each growing stage, and the comparative cost to quantify the economics of pruning were analysed. The only onegrowing season did not allow proper data collection order to observe the influence of manual or mechanical pruning on the yield and quality of grapes and must. .


MS-NPN-190 line of tobacco is male sterile. Its flowers possess stigmatoid stamens bearing ovules on carpelloid outgrowths. Administration of exogenous gibber-ellic acid (GA 3 ) inhibits the formation of ovules on the carpelloid outgrowths, but does not affect the stigmatoid distal end of the stamen. Male sterile stamens contain more sugars than wild type. Since the presence of high level of sugars is linked to endogenous gibberellins, our results suggest that MS-NPN-190 tobacco is not gibberellin-deficient. The suppression of formation of ovules on carpelloid branch in GA 3 -treated stamens is possibly due to alteration in the balance among endogenous plant growth substances.


The method of shooting and bouncing rays (SBR) is evaluated for electromagnetic analysis of radomes. A dense grid of ray-tubes are launched from the antenna and traced by the laws of geometrical optics (GO) until they reach a defined exit aperture, from which the farfield contribution of the ray-tube is obtained by surface integration. Approximate SBR results are compared with exact solutions for spherical radomes with different sizes. It is concluded that the high-frequency SBR method agrees excellently for radomes with size of 20 wavelengths or larger. One main advantage of the SBR method is that it predicts from where the energy is leaving the radome, as the rays are traced also inside the dielectric radome.


Competency‐based medical education (CBME) is being adopted wholeheartedly by organisations worldwide in the hope of meeting today's expectations for training a competent doctor. But are we, as medical educators, fulfilling this promise?


The aim of this work is to study the development of tourism in the Republic of Dagestan and determining the location of the hotel sector in tourism, which includes a range of services for tourists and is a key determinant of the prospects of tourism development in Dagestan in the sphere of inbound and domestic tourism. Methods. Analysis of the literature devoted to the issues of tourism, collection and processing of statistical materials, survey. Results. Tourism is aimed at raising the level and quality of life of the population and is an additional sphere of the economy. Accommodation is the most important element of tourism. If there is no accommodation, there is no tourism. This is an indispensable requirement of the economy of any tourist region. Conclusion. The development of tourism and hotel business are closely related structures, the number of different media placements will increase with tourists traffic. For the development of tourism in the region, it is necessary to make maximum use of potential opportunities and available resources, which, accordingly, will give a certain economic effect in the republic.


This paper presents preliminary results of the investigation of the possibility to improve the voltage quality by introducing a coordinated control of electric power system components that exhibit voltage control capabilities. It is believed that the coordination of the controls allows for a partial reduction of the costs associated with the installation of new voltage sag mitigation equipment. Also a numerical proportional-integral-derivative controller tuning technique was developed to address the robustness issue. The validity of the proposed strategy of voltage quality improvement was verified by means of nonlinear EMTDC simulations.


Human Body Communication (HBC), which utilizes the human body as communication channel to convey health informatics, is a prospective communication technique for implantable and surface-mounted medical devices. In this article, we have applied Shannon's theorem to derive the channel capacity for the general galvanic coupling HBC channel. The channel characteristics and channel model of general galvanic coupling HBC channel are firstly discussed. Based on this channel model, the channel capacity is derived. By using the water-filling algorithm, the HBC channel capacity is estimated and the suitable frequency bands for low power data transmission in both on-body and in-body HBC channels are found. The results can provide suggestion for better system design.


This study evaluated the effects of crude (CVG) and semi-purified (SPVG) vegetable glycerins inclusion in the broiler chickens diet on performance, meat quality and lipid profile. 1,350 1-day-old male Cobb-Vantress chicks were distributed in a completely randomised design in a factorial 2x4 arrangement with two types of vegetable glycerin (crude and semi-purified) and four inclusion levels (3, 6, 9 and 12%) and a control group, totalling 11 treatments with five replications and 30 birds per experimental unit. At 42d of age, performance, meat quality and lipid profile of meat were assessed. There was no interaction between types and levels of glycerin for performance and meat quality. The body weight gain and feed:gain ratio showed a quadratic response, with the highest body weight gain at 9.4% of glycerin and lowest feed:gain ration at 7%, respectively. The meat quality was not affected by the inclusion of glycerin. There was an interaction between types of glycerin and levels for all fatty acids in thigh meat, exception for vaccenic, α-linolenic and eicosanoic acid. The thighs of chickens fed SPVG showed a linear increase in myristic, palmitic, stearic and SFAs concentration. The thighs of broilers fed CVG showed a linear increase in linoleic acid, α-linolenic, docosahexaenoic acid, PUFAs, ω-6, and ω-3, and a linear decrease in stearic acid concentration and ω-6/ω-3 ratio. The CVG and SPVG can be included in broilers diets up to 7% with no effects on meat quality. Considering the meat fatty acids profile, the inclusion of CVG glycerin increased ω-3 concentrations while SPVG inclusion increased the SFAs in meat.


Exchange bias (EB) and its associated training effects are studied in an epitaxial Fe(10 nm)/Cr203(2.7 nm)/Fe(10 nm) trilayer heterostructure grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The EB decreases linearly with increasing temperature from T=5 K to T=5Q K. It changes sign and becomes positive within 50 K 200 K up to the highest measured temperature of r=395 K. Remarkably, the latter is far above the bulk Neel temperature rN=307 K. EB training effects occur only at 5 K < T < 50 K. We show that this training can be quenched by subjecting the system to DC magnetic field, ^O^_DC ^ 7 T. The applied field most likely induces a temperature dependent spin-flop transition. Upon its removal the antiferromagnetic Cr203 pinning layer evolves uniformly into its quasi-equilibrium spin configuration thus leading to quasi-equilibrium EB.


With the flourishing development of computer network applications,Ethernet is becoming more and more complex,in order to manage it easily,automatic topology discovery is becoming increasingly important.The physical topology is mainly the connection relation between the discovery of the link layer and the physical layer device.In this paper,raise a method used to obtain the physical topology.


Sir: In the course of our screening program for novel antimetabolites competitive with Lglutamine from soil actinomycetes, a new herbicidal antibiotic was isolated from the culture filtrate of Kitasatosporia phosa/acinea sp. nov. KA-338. The taxonomy, isolation and biological activities will be reported in separate papers''". In the present communication, the structure elucidation of the new phosphorouscontaining tripeptide herbicide is described. Phosalacine (1) is a water-soluble amphoteric peptide: mp :.225'C (dec), [a]~U 38.8° (C0.65, H2O), FD-MS n:/z 366 (M1)+. The molecular formula C1,H2SN,O"P was confirmed by the high resolution EI-MS spectrum (obsd ,nlz 489.182, Calcd for C,tH"N,O,PF:, m/z 489.185) of N-trifluoroacetylphosalacine dimethylester. IR spectrum suggested the presence of carboxylic acid (1658 and 30003500 cm-') and amide carbonyl groups (1545 cm-'). The 13C NMR spectrum showed the signals of four methyl, three methylene, four methine (three methine attributed to be a-carbon of aamino acid by their chemical shifts), two amide carboxy and a carboxylic acid. Among them, two signals split to doublets in the proton noise decoupling spectrum (Fig. 2), i.e. a methyl (n" 16.3, J93 Hz) and a methylene (d, 27.5, J-90 Hz). These observations suggested that I was a tripeptide containing a methylphosphorousmethylene skeleton. By the amino acid analysis of the acid hydrolysate (6 N HCI, I I0'C, 18 hours), phosalacine was found to be composed of alanine (I mol), leucine (1 mol) and an unusual amino acid. Since the unusual amino acid had to be constructed with a methylene, an a-carbon of aamino acid, an amide carbonyl and the abovementioned phosphorous-containing partial structure, it was revealed to be phosphinothricin which is a component of a known glutamine antimetabolite, phosphinothricylalanylalanine3j (bialaphos)1,". The direct comparison of the hydrolysate of 1 with that of phosphinothricylalanylalanine in silica gel and cellulose TLC using BuOH AcOH H,O (4: 1 : 1) as developing solvent supported the existence of the unusual amino acid. The EI-MS spectrum of N-trifluroacetyl dimethylester of 1 showed several characteristic fragment ion peaks as shown in Fig. 3, and indicated that the amino acid sequence of 1 is phosphinothricylalanylaeunine. All amino acids isolated from the hydrolysate of 1 were assigned to be L-configuration by the optical Fig. 1. Phosalacine (I).


A new paradigm was introduced to Brazilian legal culture by means of the 1988 Federal Constitution, the Children's and Adolescents' Statute (Law 8,069/90) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Brazil on September 24, 1990. This paradigm was inspired by the conception of children and adolescents[2] as true subjects of rights, in a peculiar condition of development. Brazilian Law may be divided into two phases, before and after 1988. The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 constitutes a legal watershed in terms of the democratic transition and of the institutionalization of human rights in the country.


Cloud computing is a paradigm which modernize the world around us and ease the human efforts in day-to-day life. In recent years, the cloud computing has became a promising platform for business concepts and it is one of the fastest growing factor in IT industry. The money exchange operations have undergone incredible evolutions from physical transfer to digital transfer via cloud. As the technology is developing and implementing new facilities in the cloud to perform the money transfer, the security issue remains constant. The secret data used for authenticating the money transfer remains insecure due to in between attacks makes cloud computing an insecure one. This paper investigates and presents a survey report on categories of threats and assault involved in cloud computing and various research measures taken to solve the same.


Carrier transport in materials is often diffusive due to momentum-relaxing scattering with phonons and defects. Suppression of momentum-relaxing scattering can lead to the ballistic and hydrodynamic transport regimes, wherein complex non-Ohmic current flow patterns, including current vortices, can emerge. In the ballistic regime addressed here, transverse magnetic focusing is habitually understood in a familiar single-particle picture of carriers injected from a source, following ballistic cyclotron orbits and reaching a detector. We report on a distinctive nonlocal magnetoresistance phenomenon exclusive to fermions, in an enclosed mesoscopic geometry wherein transverse focusing magnetoresistance peaks also occur at values of the cyclotron diameter that are incommensurate with the distance between the source and detector. In low-temperature experiments and simulations using GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures with high electron mobility, we show that the peaks occur independently of the location of the detector, and only depend on the source-drain separation. We reproduce the experimental findings using simulations of ballistic transport in both semiclassical and quantum-coherent transport models. The periodicity of magnetic field at which the peaks occur is matched to the lithographically defined device scale. It is found that, unlike in transverse magnetic focusing, the magnetoresistance structure cannot be attributed to any set of ordered single-particle trajectories but instead requires accounting for the collective dynamics of the fermion distribution and of all particle trajectories. The magnetoresistance is further associated with current flow vorticity, a collective phenomenon.


Debates over energy futures are routinely couched in terms of 'autonomous, unavoidable imperatives' – by this we mean, when we think of solutions to our energy future problems we often think of simple, single answers set apart from a more complex and messy reality. Nowhere is this more true, than in discussions of the role of nuclear power. Here, attention turns again and again to ostensibly concrete limits on what is possible by other means. Very often, the bottom line is simply that there is no alternative. As any politician well knows, even the most ardent sceptic can be cowed by this rhetoric. This section looks at what happens if we remain sceptical and un-cowed.


A method for controlling an etching process, comprising: Providing a disc having at least a first layer and a second layer formed over the first layer; Measuring the thickness of the second layer; Determining a Atzselektivitatsparameters on the basis of the measured thickness of the second layer; and Modifying an operating recipe of an etch tool (130) on the basis of Atzselektivitatsparameters.


Virtual environments have commonly been used for the dissemination, education and public awareness of cultural heritage. However, interactive virtual environments have yet to be fully utilised as a tool to promote acoustical heritage in virtual tourism using mobile device. This paper introduces a practical implementation of acoustical heritage on iPhone platform that allows the user to experience panoramic view of various heritage sites, accompanied by its background sounds of different frequencies and amplitudes. The 360-degree panoramic view consists of immersion in an artificial heritage sites where the visitors feel just as immersed as they usually feel in reality. On top of this, an emotive background ambience with clearly defined sound can provide a certain degree of information about the present heritage sites that are tailored for mobile device sound properties. This will permit the user to navigate the cultural values in virtual heritage and explore multiple hypothetical acoustical heritage of a heritage site on mobile device.


Telecommunications (both voice and data) is a critical rcsource for most companies. Over the last few years, building cabling has increasingly been recognized as a vital (and costly) part of a company's telecommunications system. In this context, the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) (Figure 1) has undertaken the task of issuing a series of standards covering customer premise cabling. The purpose of these standards is to insure that a building can be pre-cabled without knowledge of the particular types of telecommunications and computing equipment and/or applications to be installed later. There are a number of other organizations which issue standards that affect building wiring. These include: - Underwriters Laboratories (UL) standards are primarily concerned with safety issues, such as electric shok, fire hazards, etc. - The Insulated Cable Engineers Association (ICEA) issues standards relating to cable manufacturing, color-coding, etc. - The National Electric Code is also primarily concerned with safety issues. - There are a number of international standards bodies (e.g., ISO/IEC JTC1/SC25/WG3) which are starting to address building wiring. The EIA/TIA standards are unique in that they were the first to consider building wiring as a system rather than a collection of individual components. These standards place requirements on the architecture and performance of the entire wiring system to ensure compatibility among different applications and equipment.


1-Methyl-1-(3-vinylphenylazo)ethyl acetate (1a), diphenyl-(3-vinylphenylazo)methyl acetate (1b), and α-phenylazo-α-(4-vinylphenyl)benzyl acetate (2) were prepared and copolymerized with styrene using AIBN as initiator at 50°C. The azo functions of the monomers remain unaltered during the polymerization process at this temperature. The resulting copolymers 3a, 3b, and 4 were used as initiators for the polymerization of methacrylonitrile (MAN). The grafted copolymers of styrene and MAN were separated from polystyrene and poly(methacrylonitrile). The different rates of polymerization of MAN, initiated by the azo group containing polymer 3b or 4 or by diphenylphenylazomethyl acetate, a low molecular model initiator, and the different molar masses obtained allow a discussion of the mechanism involved.


A method is presented for the synthesis of monodisperse carboxylated polystyrene (3) and derivatives by a Friedel-Crafts acylation of monodisperse polystyrene with ethyl oxalyl chloride (1). Saponification of the resulting α-keto ester yields the randomly carboxylated copolymer, whose structure was confirmed by NMR and infrared spectra. Viscosity measurements and gel permeation chromatography showed that no chain cleavage operated during the process of functionalization. The value of the technique lies in its simplicity of execution and the availability of starting materials.


[Objective]To understand the cognition status about basic CPR of primary caregivers of heart disease patients and its influencing factors,to provide evidences for training relatives of heart disease patients.[Methods]Used self-designed scale to investigate training status and cognition level of 92 primary caregivers,that patients were in hospital between March to July in 2011.[Results]15.2% of the caregivers participated the CPR training,37% heard the term of CPR,and 25% of caregivers had understood the basic knowledge of CPR.The evaluation score of CPR knowledge was 25.00 ± 20.083 points,2.2% pass rate;there was no people answer correctly to the questions of the frequency and the depth of external cardiac massage,as well as the ratio of artificial respiration and external cardiac massage.The CPR knowledge scores were closely related with educational level and income(P﹤0.05).[Conclusion]The CPR training rate of caregivers is low,and most of people lack of knowledge.Strengthening heart disease primary caregivers with the CPR training will be able to effectively reduce the mortality and morbidity due to cardiac arrest outside of the hospital.


Readily available software designed for the production of music can be adapted easily to the physics classroom. Programs such as Apple's GarageBand access large libraries of recorded sound waves that can be heard and displayed both before and after alterations. Tools such as real-time spectral analysers, digital effects, and audio file editors enable a wide variety of sound demonstrations. This article is intended to serve two purposes. First, it will distil from the many capabilities of music production software those capabilities that are most essential to the physics instructor. Secondly, this article will suggest some of the many possible classroom applications of this software.


Both according to literature (Stich and Makkas, Tsimkhes, Tikhov, etc.) and in practical life, postoperative peritonitis flows atypically. Diagnosis of spilled peritonitis presents no difficulty and no doubt about it. The symptoms of peritonitis differ, both local and general, from intoxication of the organism (Zimges, Stich, Silberberg, etc.). Local symptoms: pain, sensitivity to pressure, muscle tension of the walls, exudate, paretic state of the intestine, resulting in meteorism, vomiting, hiccups, stool retention and gas exhaust, difficulty urinating. Common symptoms include: change in t, breathing, pulse and blood pressure.


Objective: To summarize and analyze the medication rule of professor DING Xia in treating chronic gastritis with factor analysis method combined with data mining. Methods: 98 outpatients with chronic gastritis who received definite therapeutic effects were collected during Jan. 2013 to Mar. 2013. The medical history and the first prescription of 98 outpatients with chronic gastritis were input Microsoft Excel. The data were analyzed with factor analysis method combined with data mining in PASW Statistics 18 software. Results: 9 common factors of drug combinations were extracted which contained74.9% of all variable information; By means of data mining, there was a significant correlation among some common factors of drug combinations and clinical manifestation of patients with chronic gastritis in the process of clinical diagnosis and treatment.Conclusion: Professor DING pays attention to the viscera relationship and followed the basic principles, such as regulating the liver qi, regulating the spleen and stomach qi, and so on, which get good curative effects in clinical. So the medication rule of professor DING in treating chronic gastritis deserves to be researched and promoted.


The growing concern about depleting oil reserves, harmful effects of green house gas emissions and the necessity to reduce emissions from power plants and vehicles are some of the key factors that increase the urgency for development of alternative energy options. Energy security is a major challenge, which needs imaginative and innovative solutions. Existing energy and power infrastructure exhibit several vulnerabilities. These include the risk of disruption of oil supply from politically volatile regions, the danger of electricity outages if power plants are targeted, and the risk of exposure to nuclear plant accidents.


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We study the toy model of interacting open and closed string tachyons which demonstrates some interesting properties of the unstable D-brane decay scenario. We compute a stress tensor of the system and study the energy and pressure dynamics. We show that the total energy of the system is conserved. We separate the stress tensor into two parts corresponding to open and closed strings and study the energy flow from open to closed strings. The two vacua of the system could be interpreted as corresponding to the unstable D-brane background and the open string tachyon vacuum. We study how for spatially homogenous solution interpolating between these two vacua the total energy of the open string dissipates to the closed string.


Mechanical endurance testing is critical to ensuring durability and safety of novel orthosis components. Stance phase control knee orthoses present challenges in this area because of the lock/release mechanisms, dynamic range of joint motion, and in some cases, the capability of locking at different joint positions. A new mechanical fatigue tester has been developed to evaluate stance phase control knee orthosis joint designs. Electromechanical and pneumatic elements of the fatigue tester are under computer control. The user can determine applied maximum load, applied load at release, and range of motion and can set specific failure criteria. The computer control algorithm also provides automated data logging and system diagnostic information. This system has been in operation for more than 2,000,000 cycles. The time to complete one test cycle is 4.3 seconds under a 44.7-Nm load and 50° range of motion.


In the Treatise, Hume writes several seemingly incompatible things about the moral sentiments, thus there is no general agreement about where they fit within his taxonomy of the perceptions. Some passages speak in favor of the view that moral sentiments are indirect passions, a few in favor of the view that they are direct passions, and yet a couple of explicit statements strongly suggest otherwise. Due to these tensions in Hume's text, we find at least five competing characterizations in the literature:

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 Moral sentiments are calm emotions.

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 Moral sentiments are calm direct passions.

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 Moral sentiments are calm versions of the indirect passions of love or hatred.

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 Moral sentiments are unique species of calm indirect passions.

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 Moral sentiments are indirect secondary impressions.

 This paper assesses each of these interpretations. When their virtues are brought together, a new interpretation of the origin of moral sentiments starts to emerge.


Deviations from the Standard Model (SM) can be parameterized in terms of the SM effective field theory (SMEFT), which is typically truncated at dimension-6. Including higher dimension operators -- as well as considering simultaneous insertions of multiple dimension-6 operators -- may be necessary in some processes, in order to correctly capture the properties of the underlying UV theory. As a step towards clarifying this in the Higgs boson production in gluon fusion process, we study double insertions of dimension-6 operators in the 1-loop virtual amplitude. We present needed Feynman rules up to $\mathcal{O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ and we numerically study the impact of various approximations to the $\mathcal{O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ expansion.


The purpose of this paper is to show the effects of experimental imprecision on the stress intensity factors calculated for various practical specimen types. A general form equation for the stress intensity factor is presented, and a general error equation is derived. The expected error in the stress intensity factor is given in terms of the precision levels of the basic experimental measurements and derivatives of the stress intensity calibration factor. Nine common fracture specimen types are considered, and the sensitivity of the various types to experimental error is illustrated. Some implications for fracture toughness testing and crack growth rate testing are discussed, and methods of analysis are proposed to compensate for the effects of experimental error.


Abstract Glauconites are dioctahedral, microdivided, Fe-containing silicates whose idealized structure may be described as a stacking of 2 : 1 layers with the same azimuthal orientation. The diffractometric and crystallochemical data do not coincide with this idealized structural model. For each glauconite studied the best fit between experimental and theoretical XRD patterns was obtained using the same model. It was possible to describe the stacking by an equally probable occurrence of layers rotated by multiples of 60°. The layer types alternate with a definite tendency to segregation. The model is characteristic for all glauconites, irrespective of composition, age and type of host rock. The alternation of layers rotated by 60° in the structure leads to both octahedral and prismatic coordination for the interlayer K+ cation.


Abstract : HER-2/neu (neu) transgenic mouse model (neu-N mice) overexpress neu in a mammary-specific fashion and develop spontaneous focal neu-expressing tumors. The neu-N mouse model is among the most informative pre-clinical models available for the development of immunotherapeutic strategies for breast cancer treatment and prevention, and insights gained through the use of neu-N mice can be readily applied to clinical trial development. The goal of the present work is to test the hypothesis that reproductive hormones can modulate immunity to breast cancer antigens in neu-N mice. We will explore this hypothesis by assessing vaccine-induced immunity a specific stages of the mouse estrous cycle, as well as during mammary gland involution. Results from these studies will lay the foundation for more detailed investigation of the mechanisms by which hormonal changes during the reproductive cycle modulate our ability to induce immunity to breast cancer antigens, and to identify the optimal stage of the reproductive cycle for vaccination. Due to a serious problem that we detected in our neu-N mouse breeding colony, we were forced to invalidate all of our early data in these studies and seek a no-cost extension of this project, which was approved. We have now re-established the neu-N mouse colony and will begin these studies anew when the first shipment of mice arrives.


An improved ant colony algorithm (ACA) is put forward to solve the mobile robot odor localization (MROL) problem. The so-called MROL means localizing an odor source with mobile robots. The improved algorithm is realized through three phases, which are genetic algorithm (GA) based local search, global search and pheromone update. The GA ensures that the optimal or sub-optimal points can be found within local areas. The global search phase consists of random and probability based searches. The random search can prevent the ACA from getting into local optimum. Detailed implementation procedure of the improved ACA for the MROL is presented. Two Gaussian concentration models are used to describe the odor distribution. Simulation results show that the robots can asymptotically approach and finally determine the odor source.


Traditional tablet manufacturing process has multiple powder handling and mixing phases. It is time consuming and limits individualized dosing. Furthermore, uniformity of the dose is difficult to achieve. Modern inkjet printing technology has been successfully applied to polymer electronics and biomaterial applications. It has many advantages that could be utilized in drug manufacturing process, such as faster production cycle with fewer processing steps, precise dosing, on-demand individualized dosing and possibility for on-line quality control. This study examines how well current printer technologies function in printing different types of drug solutions on paper-like substrate. Preliminary tests were carried out with paracetamol and riboflavin-water solutions. The study denoted that printing medicines and biopolymer coating was possible, the accuracy of dose was very satisfying and personalized dosing was easy to achieve. Further studies with specially manufactured printers are still needed to determine the suitability of the ink-jet printing process in commercial drug manufacturing.


A computer controlled data acquisition and processing method is proposed according to the operating principle and signal property of sector Self Scanning Photodiode array (SSPD).The method still consists of the amplification of weak signal,the matching of time sequence,the fast peak holding with low leakage,high speed A/D converting and nonlinear correction,etc.This method can acquire the peak signal of every ring of SSPD with higher accuracy at real time.It can be applied to the detection for the distribution of space light energy.


By the new Planning and Building Act that came into effect 2 May 2011, it became possible to use regulations of division into property units in detailed development plans. With these regulations, t ...


The success of fistulizing operations for the relief of hypertension in glaucoma depends in large measure upon the creation of a filtering area in the subconjunctival spaces. While it can be argued that the filtration factor is not the entire answer to the problem, as maintained, for instance, in the neurohumoral theory, it is certainly one of the most potent reasons for the prevalence of these procedures in this country. In order to secure permanent filtration from the anterior chamber to the immediate subconjunctival spaces, many substances working upon the principle of the seton operation have been employed, such as threads, gold drains, and horsehair, and quite recently Qadeer 1 has employed acrylic plates made of the same material as that used for the Ridley implants. Most of these substances have been discarded after trial and failure because they were irritating to the eye and, as a result, frequently increased


High performance InP/InGaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors(HBTs) have been widely used in high-speed electronic devices and optoelectronic integrated circuits. InP-based HBTs were fabricated by low pressure metal organic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD) and wet chemical etching. The sub-collector and collector were grown at 655 ℃ and other layers at 550 ℃. To suppress the Zn out-diffusion in HBT, base layer was grown with a 16-minute growth interruption. Fabricated HBTs with emitter size of 2.5×20 μm~2 showed current gain of 70~90, breakdown voltage(BV_(CE0))>2 V, cut-off frequency(f_T) of 60 GHz and the maximum relaxation frequency(f_(MAX)) of 70 GHz.


Electro-anatomical mapping is a widely used technique used by electrophysiologists to understand patient's activation pattern. The system measures activation time at different locations but does not provide information on underlying electrical pathways or triggering points, such as Purkinje-myocardial junctions or ectopic foci. We present a method to estimate the locations of Purkinje-myocardial junctions from a discrete set of endocardial samples. Using less than 1000 endocardial samples it can recover locations and activation times of the most influencing Purkinje myocardial junctions from Purkinje trees of up to 500 junctions. A simulation study revealed that using the estimated Purkinje myocardial junctions, mean squared errors of local activation times remain low for different tree structures.


Single crystal grain low-temperature polycrystalline thin-film transistors (LTPS-TFTs) fabricated on a glass substrate have been the key target for developing transparent electronics such as monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuits (3DICs) and glass sheet computers because of their ultrahigh-performance. This study proposes a simple method to pre-define single-crystal grains with hole-patterned polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) thin film. The crystal growth and the temperature distribution were clarified by observing the characterization of a hole-patterned poly-Si thin film. The relationship between the temperature gradient, crystal growth, and void formation in the poly-Si thin film is discussed. The location of voids is controllable in the hole-patterned poly-Si thin film. These pre-defined single-crystal grains are promising to fabricate ultrahigh-performance LTPS-TFTs.


This article offers an intellectual biography of the 19th century writer Luigia Codemo. While Codemo's writing directly originates from the Manzoni's historical novel, which inspires her interest for the lower levels of the society (for the "genti meccaniche e di piccolo affare"), it nevertheless also refers to the vast body of short stories, to all the exempla, the moral narrations and the "true stories" that are to be found among the pages of Gozzi's periodical «Gazzetta Veneta», as well as to the conversations in Venice's campielli as Goldoni describes them, or to the sentimental and romantic plots of serial novels. Such a heterogeneous mix of narrative genres represents the main feature of Codemo's writing: it is through a combination of short stories, tableaux, novels, dramas and sketches that she tries, just after Italy's unification, to meet the needs of cultural integration and pacification of people's "hearts". By creating popular literature Codemo aimed at «making the Italians», exhorting them to work toward the good and pointing out a set of social and domestic «small virtues» related to the obligations towards God, the nation and the family. The most important device of Codemo's educational pattern, which she made her "mission", is the book that narrates true (i.e. biographies) or likely stories (i.e. familial pictures), with verisimilar heroes, like the worker and inventor Beniamino Franklin. Influenced by the romantic interest for the «good and gentle customs of the common people», Codemo aims to «educate and polish the crowd's manners».  An unknown chapter of her life is the philanthropic action, which intersects a developing female occupation in the contemporary Venice. It was there that Mazzini's heritage was turned into pedagogical activities, such as in the undertakings of Rosa Piazza and Laura Goretti Veruda for the education of good mothers and for the institution of vocational schools for women. In taking part in such charitable activities Codemo also finds a symbolic compensation for her own maternal experience, tragically upset by the premature death of her son.


Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon that is often debilitating, commonly occurs at a young age, and has a serious effect on overall health and quality of life. The use of currently available medications for moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis results in sustained remission less than 30% of the time, and 20 to 30% of patients with ulcerative colitis eventually need to undergo a colectomy, which has its own complications and consequent problems. The worldwide incidence of ulcerative colitis is increasing, with rates as high as 19.2 cases per 100,000 persons in North America, 24.3 per 100,000 in . . .


The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) (the 'DDA') provides protection for the rights of people with disabilities in Australia in many facets of everyday life. This paper examines the DDA in relation to the prevention of discrimination in the area of education. This is of relevance to tertiary institutions such as universities, given that de-institutionalisation and mainstreaming over the last decade particularly has resulted in many more disabled people seeking to continue their studies at the tertiary level.The DDA prevents educational institutions from discriminating against a student on the grounds of the student's disability in relation to admission and access to the institution and its services and facilities. However, the DDA also provides that it is not unlawful to discriminate in relation to these matters if the disabled student's requirements are such that an unjustifiable hardship would be imposed upon the educational institution.


Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a backward compatible extension of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) designed to let an application send data over several TCP connections, usually called subflows. MPTCP presents several opportunities over legacy TCP, especially when these subflows follow disjoint paths: for instance bandwidth aggregation or seamless mobility across networks. While MPTCP is built as an extension of TCP, the scope of the modifications qualifies it almost as a new protocol. This means traditional TCP tools are not enough to analyze MPTCP performance. We thus develop and present an open source application able to analyze MPTCP specific metrics such as the aggregated goodput or inter-subflow retransmissions.


3 experiments are reported on the reinstatement of a bar-press response by rats during free operant extinction. After extended training on a VR schedule of food reward, an extinction procedure in which reward was negatively correlated with the bar-press response was initiated, i.e., reward was presented after 4 min of no bar presses. Results indicated that pause-contingent reward served to increase the rate of responding beyond what could be explained by the eliciting properties of reward-correlated stimuli or the "novelty" of stimulus change.


Although tunnel oxide passivating contact (TOPCon) solar cells (SCs) have achieved great success in the photovoltaic (PV) industry, the ultrahigh temperature to prepare boron emitters prolongs the preparation processes and increases the thermal budget. Herein, a new method is presented for simultaneously preparing the front‐side boron emitters and the rear‐side TOPCon structures through continuous plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of the precursor layers followed by one‐step high‐temperature annealing. The front‐side boron emitters are fabricated using a stack of nano‐SiOx/B‐doped a‐Si:H layers as the boron source, which can avoid the formation of the stacking faults and lower the annealing temperature to match the rear‐side TOPCon fabrication processes. The rear‐side TOPCon structure, consisting of a plasma‐assisted N2O oxidation (PANO) SiOx and a nitrogen‐doped a‐Si:H(n+), is used to match the B diffusion temperature with high‐quality passivation. The precursor TOPCon cell without electrodes features excellent passivation with the highest implied open‐circuit voltage (iVoc) of 726 mV. As a result, the proof‐of‐concept TOPCon SCs exhibit a remarkable efficiency of 24.07%. This work proposes a flexible and elegant process to prepare high‐efficiency TOPCon devices, which shows great potential for application in the PV industry.


Simin Behbahani is the most outstanding contemporary Iranian poet famous for her participation in political actions for civil freedoms such as women's rights, against cruel forms of punishment and against Iran-Iraq war. She participated in the movement of mothers of political prisoners as well. But she became more famous in Iran for her lyrical poetry written in a traditional form of ghazal and not for her political activities. The aim of the article is to make the analyses of Simin Behbahani's poetry and to consider the problems of its translation into different European languages. Such problems can be explained by the different ways of poetry in the eastern and western cultures: 1) the problem of keeping the metrics of ghazal; 2) the problem of keeping the sense of ghazal. Ghazal as the form originated in the Arabic literature was spread through the Near and Middle East culture and it was not known in Europe until 19th century. From the very beginning ghazal was performed against the backdrop of playing stringed musical instruments. According to the last researchers, ghazal became a base for the development of European sonnet. The authors of this article make a short review of the rhythmical features of ghazal and define its main components, such as bayt, matlaa, radif and others, that should be present at the translated text. It is important to keep these components in verse while translating because rhythmical characteristics of the ghazal are primary relatively to its sense. Scientific novelty. Simin Behbahani is known as a pioneer, who combined in her poetry genres and style of qasida and ghazal. This article deals with the translation of the ghazals by Simin Behbahani into different European languages, such as English and Romanian. Various poems by Simin Behbahani were translated by several interpreters who based their work on different reproduction principles of the original text. Metric and rhythmic of Persian verses were not kept even by the best translators into English. Farzane Milani used in her adaptation the free verse (vers libre) which had become the national form in the English poetry of the 20th century. This choise is good for translator who was born in Iran and now works at the University of Virinia. She made Persian verse understandable for native English speaker and focused at the main substance of poetry. In conclusion, Romanian translator reproduced metric and rhythmic features of the English translation but not of the Persian original. That's why Ukrainian translators must take in account such experience and use the original text for reading.


Rhizoctonia solani was found able to grow as a saprophyte through natural unsterilized soil. Its rate of growth under different soil conditions in glass tumblers was studied by the Rossi-Cholodny soil-plate method. Growth was most rapid at the lowest soil-moisture content tested, viz. 30 % saturation, and was accelerated by forced aeration of the soil. The maximum distance to which mycelial growth could be supported on the food reserves of the agar inoculum alone was some 5 cm., as shown by extent of growth through tubes of moist sand, but in 23 days the fungus grew 21–24 cm through tubes of soil. Removal of the agar disk 2 days after inoculation of the tubes reduced growth through sand by more than half, but through soil by only a small proportion. In soil, Rhizoctonia was able to cause 100% damping-off of radish seedlings planted at a radial distance of 4 cm. from the agar inoculum, and some 40 % damping-off at a distance of 9 cm. The depressing effect of additions of 1 % ground-wheat straw or dried grass to the soil upon growth of the fungus was attributed to (1) the negligible cellulose-decomposing ability of Rhizoctonia, (2) nitrogen starvation of the mycelium, through rapid utilization of the available soil nitrogen by the cellulose-decomposing micro-organisms multiplying upon the fresh organic material, (3) fungistatic action on Rhizoctonia of the respiratory carbon dioxide produced by the cellulose-decomposers.


This paper presents a study on "Administrative approach to teaching and student conflict in the field of secondary education". Data on current global situation and national conflicts in the social and educational is presented first. The research is based on bibliographic documents which provide a comprehensive view about the challenge of those who administer education, with emphasis in conflictsthat students experience when trying to fulfill the expectations and purposes of education in Costa Rica. It also contains the results drawn from this study and suggests strategies for a preventive approach.


Intramolecular vibrational energy transfer in isolated gas phase molecules of dioxane has been studied by spectrally resolving the IR laser induced fluorescence from C–H stretch fundamentals, combination bands, and overtones in the region from 2800 to 3000 cm−1. By comparing the experimentally observed relative energy content of the IR active modes with that calculated from a statistical model it is concluded that substantial randomization of the energy initially deposited in the zeroth order optically excited state occurs. This statistical distribution differs from a thermal distribution due to fluctuations in the local state density. The energy content distribution is best described by the model if coupling over a range of 4 cm−1 is assumed. Dilution factors for the various C–H stretch modes were observed which vary from 0.018 to 0.13. These values are dependent on the rotational state excited. Collisional time dependent spectra of several relaxed modes are presented. The experiments are performed by ex...


The "Chuckle Chuckle Joke Book" was compiled from jokes collected from the children and staff of St Anthony's School, Hampstead, to raise money for the Wishing Well appeal.


An internet data exchange point (IXP) is a connection between internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data of the subscribers. It becomes an essential element of the internet service model, which can reduce the number of connection between the ISPs and also the installation cost. However, as the existing situation of the current internet connection, which ISPs are connected directly to each other, encouraging them to use the IXP is a delicate problem. This work presents another cost advantage of IXP usage. A case study of Thailands internet network is used to present the analysis. The relations amount connection number, the distance and operation cost of IXP are derived. Computation results are used to demonstrate the assumption. The results show that IXP can reduce the individual ISP operational cost and also the market operational cost when a number of connection is over a certain number.


We apply Rosen's approach to the quantization of the gravitational collapse in the simple case of a pressureless "star of dust" and we find the gravitational potential, the Schroedinger equation and the solution for the collapse's energy levels without any approximation. By applying the constrains for a black hole (BH), we found the analogous quantum quantities and the BH mass spectrum, again without any approximation. Remarkably, such a mass spectrum is the same which was found by Beken- stein in 1974. Finally, our approach permits to find the exact quantum representation of the Schwarzschild BH ground state at the Planck scale.


In recent years it has been of great interest to tax, fiscal and customs authorities how trade and services provided over the Internet develop. A long time ago it was stated that the intense development of the Internet contributes to the expansion of the grey area. The grey area's functioning is very unfavourable to the state economy, because although it creates GDP, it does not directly support the state budget. When considering reduced inflows to the state budget and increases in the deficit, it is reasonable to take any and all actions in order to limit the grey area in each field of social and economic life. Thus, the interest of specialized public authorities in this field should not raise any concerns.


Abstract. Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in African Galerucinae are explicated. Pteromahutia borowieci gen. nov., sp. nov. is described. The authorship and status of Sesselia flavicincta (Jacoby, 1899) are clarified. Additional information on the distribution of some other African species is presented.


For any integers k ,d?:. I, a (p,q)- graph G with vertex set V(G) and edge set E(G), p=IV(G)1 and q=IE(G)I, is said to be (k,d) strongly indexable (in short (k,d)-SI) if there exists a function pair (f, f) which assigns


The present invention relates to a self-lubricating guide member, the main body (1) is wear-resistant and, or endoscopic jingseong (seizing) and corrosion resistance is made of a high material, each end of the bore (1a) is out of grease out of the friction zone one or more channels adapted to prevent having a (1b, 1c), the bore (1a) has a to act between the channels (1b, 1c), and terminating in at least one of the channels as a unit Yun Hwalje storage It characterized by including the appropriate orientation slot (1d).


Objective To explore the MRI findings of normal and acute injured medial patellofemoral ligament(MPFL).Materials and Methods MR findings of 30 normal and 25 surgically confirmed acute injured MPFLs were retrospectively reviewed.Results The normal MPFLs were presented as a band of low signal intensity extending from medial femoral epicondyle to the medial margin of the patella,which could be best visualized on transaxial images.MRI appearances of the ruptured MPFL were hyperintensity,thickening,and completely or partly discontinuance of the fibrous bundle,which was observed best on axial images.MPFL injury was observed in 23(92%) of the 25 knees,and MPFL injury types could be accurately diagnosed in 18 of 23 knees using MR imaging.subluxation/dislocation were found in 18 patients,bone contusion involving both the inferomedial patella and the anterolateral femoral condyle were found in 24 cases,chondral injuries were identified at 22 cases,injuries of vastus medialis oblique were found in 19 cases,medial collateral ligament injury were found in 10 patients.Conclusion MR imaging can clearly demonstrate the structure of the MPFLs,diagnose and classify the ligament injury accurately.Bone contusion involving both the inferomedial patella and the anterolateral femoral condyle is a suggestive secondary sign in diagnosing acute MPFL injury,and transaxial MR examination is recommended to evaluate MPFL injury.


In Part 4, Prentice and Records Enterprises Inc. studies the variables that may cause an irregular behavior during kick-killing operations. A description of the one-circulation well-control method demonstrates the effect of such variables as influx type, fluid migration, changes in mud-weight increment, and hole-geometry variations.


This paper deals with the routing protocols for distributed wireless sensor networks. The conventional protocols for WSNs like Low Energy adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), Stable Election Protocol (SEP), Threshold Sensitive Energy Efficient Network (TEEN), Distributed Energy Efficient Clustering Protocol (DEEC) may not be optimal. We propose a scheme called Away Cluster Head (ACH) which effectively increases the efficiency of conventional clustering based protocols in terms of stability period and number of packets sent to base station (BS). We have implemented ACH scheme on LEACH, SEP, TEEN and DEEC. Simulation results show that LEACHACH, SEP-ACH, TEEN-ACH and DEEC-ACH performs better than LEACH, SEP, TEEN and DEEC respectively in terms of stability period and number of packets sent to BS. The stability period of the existing protocols prolongs by implementing ACH on them.


A Nanoporous glass matrix is developed to encapsulate molecular probes for monitoring important biological parameters such as DO. The hydrophobic nanoporous host matrix is designed and fabricated using room temperature sol gel technique. The doped sol gel is then coated on biocompatible self adhesive patches or directly coated on the biocontainers. We demonstrate the application of this technique in non-invasive monitoring DO as well as oxygen partial pressure in a closed fermentation process as well as in a cell culture plate during bacterial growth. Dynamic response of sensor, sensitivity and accuracy is also demonstrated in this paper.


Various notions of diagnosability reported in literature deal with uniformly bounded finite detection or counting delays. The uniformity of delays can be relaxed while delays remain finite. We introduce various notions of diagnosability allowing nonuniformly bounded finite delays. A polynomial-time verification algorithm for diagnosability with nonuniformly bounded finite indefinite-counting delays is presented. A similar technique is applied to give a computationally better verification algorithm for diagnosability with uniformly bounded finite indefinite-counting delays than algorithms previously reported in literature. Finally, we develop a new on-line diagnosis algorithm that has a lower time and space complexity than on-line diagnosis algorithms reported in literature for counting the occurrence of repeated/intermittent faults.


This multi-authored essay presents some selected initial findings from the AHRC Staging Beckett research project led by the Universities of Reading and Chester with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. For example, how did changes in economic and cultural climates, such as funding structures, impact on productions of Beckett's plays in the UK and Ireland from the 1950s to the first decade of the twenty-first century? The paper will raise historiographical questions raised by the attempts to map or construct performance histories of Beckett's theatre in the UK and Ireland.


Diabetes is a serious health condition and can lead to a variety of health complications and increased morbidity. For this reason, it is imperative that individuals with diabetes understand the seriousness of their condition and learn to self-manage this chronic disease. There are a number of diabetes interventions that can help individuals manage this condition; however, there are not many diabetes interventions specifically aimed at diabetics who live in low-income communities. The purpose of this paper is to review such interventions and to discuss the impact that these interventions have had on this population.


The emerging H.264 video coding standard provides state-of-the-art video coding techniques and has significant coding performance improvement over existing standards. The general objective of this research is to reduce the H.264 encoder complexity without significant RD performance degradation. In particular, we have focused on the complexity reduction for the coding mode decision and motion estimation, which are the modules that demand a high computational cost in the encoder.
For the improved coding mode decision, we develop an efficient two-stage framework. Fist, a coarse level intra/inter coding mode prediction is performed to decide the class. The proposed algorithm calculates three features and maps them into the one of three regions; namely, risk-free, risk-tolerable, and risk-intolerable regions. Depending on the mapped region, we can apply algorithms of different complexities for the final mode decision. Based on the coding mode decision result, either intra predictive coding or inter predictive coding process is proceeded in macroblock adaptive manner. In case of intra predictive coding, we propose a fast intra mode decision scheme for the fine-level mode decision.
For inter predictive coding, a fast multiple reference assignment scheme for efficient motion estimation is proposed. First, the dynamic block-size effect on time-varying sequence characteristics is quantified by its impact on the RD performance degradation. The block-size effect on the RD coding gain is exploited to develop a new algorithm, called the block-size adaptive referencing (BAR) scheme, that assigns a different number of references in a block-size adaptive manner. The proper BAR scheme can be chosen to minimize the reference frame numbers while keeping the expected RD loss under a target level. Finally, fast motion search is performed within selected references in a block-size adaptive manner and the model parameters are adjusted using the normalized LMS adaptive filter to accommodate time varying sequence characteristics. The proposed algorithms can save considerable computational complexity of H.264 reference code with negligible degradation in the RD performance.


The Quantified Self Movement founded by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of Wired Magazine is gaining momentum with far reaching possibilities. The Quantified Self (QS) is about creating a digital repository of your personal existence. One can now monitor not only health data such as heart rate and blood glucose levels, but moods, sleep patterns, and the amount of time one spends with certain individuals. Tracking of all aspects of our daily lives with mobile devices, to build a picture of how productive, healthy, and happy we are, has ramifications for personal well-being and the well-being of others. This article introduces the concept of Quantified Self (QS) and ways for the hospital librarian to track his/her personal health data, keep up with its literature, and suggest its use in the personal and medical Electronic Health Record.


Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) and its improved method are introduced to detect and analyze power quality in ship power system for the first time, in this paper. The HHT method is used to detect surge current, voltage sag and swell, voltage interruption, etc. of the ship power system. By means of Hilbert-Huang transform, Beginning time, ending time, time-frequency, time- amplitude of the disturbance signal can be obtained accurately. Because the fundamental energy is bigger than other single harmonic's, mode mixing occurs when using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method to decompose harmonic signal in ship Power system, and consequently, each single harmonic component cannot be effectively extracted from the complex original signal. The improved HHT method based on Fourier transform is used to solve the mode mixing problem in this paper. By means of the improved HHT method, complex harmonic signal can be decomposed into single harmonic component, and time- amplitude and time-frequency of harmonics can be obtained accurately. In MATLAB/Simulink platform, harmonic source model is established according to characteristics of the ship power system to simulate harmonic current signal. And the improved HHT method and wavelet packet transform are applied in analyzing the harmonic current signal. Simulation results show that the improved method has better performance in harmonics analysis than wavelet packet transform.


Do you ever find yourself yelling at the TV? Do you open the newspaper and start shouting at your kid or your cat? Do you sometimes just get up on your imaginary soapbox and start to rant? I thought only old men yelled at the TV. Then one day, I started going on a tirade during the evening news. My family thought I had an anger management problem. Maybe I do. Then I realized that I was suffering from Knowledge Stagnation Syndrome, a well-documented condition, whereby academics with decades of high-level training and specialized knowledge in several fields are deprived of opportunities to impart their opinions on current events and public discourse. Have you ever worked for months to develop research for a conference paper only to have five people show up to your panel, two of whom are your friends? Have you ever worked five or even ten years on a book to have it sell only a few hundred copies, all of which went to university libraries? Have you ever developed courses and researched vast amounts of material only to find that you can teach that course only once and then perhaps to only a handful of students? These are the sources of frustration that lead to Knowledge Stagnation Syndrome. All joking aside, in what follows I will outline my own journey from yelling at the TV to being on TV and how it has transformed my thinking about what research is, why we do it, and whom it benefits. I will discuss some important institutional challenges to the "mobilization-turn" that is upon us and make the case that humanities disciplines have an important role to play in research dissemination. (Vocabulary note: For the purposes of this paper, TV is a stand-in for any news outlet, from mainstream media such as radio, newspaper, television to the multiple platforms in the blogosphere, Twitter, Tumbler, Facebook, etc.)