Air quality is recognized to be major risk factor for human health globally. Critical to addressing this important public health issue is the effective dissemination of air quality data, information about adverse health effects, and the necessary mitigation measures. The ability of people to understand air quality information and take actions to protect their health is not clear. Recent studies have shown that even when public get data on air quality and understand its importance, they do not exhibit a pro-environmental behavior to address the problem. All existing studies on public attitude and response to air quality are based on offline studies, with a limited number of survey participants and over limited number of geographical locations. For a larger survey size and global set of locations, we analyzed Twitter data collected over a period of nearly two years. We identify a limited number of hashtags (3) that can best correlate the frequency of tweets with local air quality (PM2.5) in three major cities around the world: Paris, London, and New Delhi. Using tweets with just these three hashtags, we determined that people's response to air quality in the three cities was nearly identical when considering relative changes in air pollution. Using machine learning algorithms, we determined that health concerns dominated public response when air quality degraded, with the strongest increase in concern being in New Delhi, where pollution levels are the highest amongst the three cities studied. The public call for political solutions when air quality worsens is consistent with similar findings with offline surveys in other cities. Our approach will allow for global analysis of public response to air quality and aid public health officials respond appropriately.


Distance education students have less access to classmates as a social resource and may, therefore, rely more on family members for support. However, first-generation students, or students who are the first in their family to attend university, may lack the academic resources that family members can provide. Overall, first-generation students in distance education programs may be at particular risk of lacking the necessary social capital to thrive in university. This study investigated whether two family resource variables—providing guidance about university and expressing supportive attitudes toward university— varied across generation status among distance education students. The study also investigated whether these family resource variables predicted students' academic adjustment and academic persistence. A sample of 224 undergraduate, distance education students in South Africa completed an online survey. First-generation students (n = 60) reported receiving less university guidance from family members compared to continuing-generation students. In addition, receiving university guidance predicted students' academic adjustment. The results suggest that university guidance from family members may serve as a protective factor against potential challenges that can impact students' academic adjustment, a protective factor that first-generation students are less likely to have.


The proper functioning of corporate governance has a positive impact on the competitiveness and growth of an economy. The characteristics of the capital markets influence th structure of established companiesA¢â'¬â"¢ problems with agency,by determining the different models and corporate governance requirements that are enacted in these markets. The objective of the study is to analyze the impact of the individual capitalization pension system in corporate governance practices by studying the Chilean case. It is observed that the establishment of private pension funds positively affects the quality of corporate governance. This effect is produced by different mechanisms: i) indirectly, by expanding the capital markets and financial resources; ii) directly, by increasing the demands exerted by pension fund administrators (PFAs) on firms that they have resources invested in, iii) and by influencing public institutions and regulatory framework that affects corporate governance.We identify specific cases where the active participation of PFAs have in turn led to the establishment or improvement of legislation. In particular, the paper reviews the details of the Fasa S.A. case, whose board was a public failure,but lead to the enactment of the 2009 Law on Corporate Governance and Independent Directors.


Cloud computing has emerged as a cost-effective solution. Schools have to maintain information regarding students, admin staff, teachers, finances, and community. They also need to immediately communicate between their branches for sharing of this information and resources that may be in remote and less technological developed or metropolitan areas. Traditional school information systems do not support efficient sharing of information between school branches, students, teachers and parents with cost-effectiveness. In this paper, we propose a Cloud-based School Information System (SIS) to manage and infer school related information and an architecture to associate school head office with its branches.


The main mechanisms of air entrainment by breaking waves are spilling breakers and plunging breakers. With plunging breakers, the entrainment of air bubbles is caused by the top of the wave forming a plunging jet and entraining air when it impacts the water in front of the wave. The potential for air bubble entrainment is much greater than the spilling wave type. New experiments were performed in a two-dimensional wave basin. The breaking process was investigated with a high-speed video camera. The results provide new information on the breaking point characteristics, the jet impact conditions and the energy dissipation process. The entrainment of air bubbles is detailed. And the rate of energy dissipation by plunging breakers is estimated. The interactions between air bubble entrainment and energy dissipation mechanisms are discussed.


Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease. Epidemiological studies in SLE have been reported in the literature in many countries and ethnic groups. Although SLE in China has been described in the past, there has not been a detailed evaluation of SLE patients in Xinjiang of China, a largely Uygur population. Objectives: To describe the clinical featuresand immunological features of 484 SLE subjects. Methods: 484 adult patients followed in the The People's Hospital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 211 patients with Uygur SLE as welI as 273patients with Han SLE. Results: Of the 211 Uygur SLE patients, 195 (92.4%) were female and 16 (7.6%) were male (female:male=12.2:1),the mean age at SLE onset was 34.67±11.57 years, mean disease duration was 20.77±35.16 months.Of the 273 Han SLE patients,247(90.5%)were female and 26(9.5%) were male,the mean age at SLE onset was 36.68±14.44 years,mean disease duration was 41.64±61.89 months.(2)between the Uygur and Han SLE patients,the Raynaud phenomenon(χ2=6.066 P=0.014), Chest pain(χ2=7.906 P=0.005), headache(χ2=4.572 P=0.029)has obvious differences(table 1).(3)The anti-nuclear (χ2=8.108 P=0.004), anti-AHA (χ2=4.952 P=0.026)were higer in Uygur SLE patients than those in Han SLE patients;the Uygur SLE patients has been anemia(χ2=6.904,P=0.009), high level of immunoglobulin (χ2=8.939,P=0.003),decrease of complement(χ2=6.330 P=0.012).(table 2) figure 1. Clinical manifestations figure 2. immunological manifestations Conclusion: The Uygur SLE patients have their own clinical and immunological characteristics, which has guiding significance in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of SLE. References: [1]Martyna TS,Hanna SS, Marek F. Clinical and immunological characteristics of Polish patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Adv Clin Exp Med. 2018;27(1):57–61 [2]Maloney K C, Ferguson T S, Stewart H D, et al. Clinical and immunological characteristics of 150 systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Jamaica: A comparative analysis[J]. Lupus, 2017, 26(13):961203317707828. [3]Ching K H, Burbelo P D, Christopher T, et al. Two Major Autoantibody Clusters in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus[J]. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7(2):e32001. Disclosure of Interests: None declared


We propose a new definition of complexity. The degree of complexity depends on the observer's knowledge and is expressed by templates and their interactions. Complexity of a pattern is measured in a procedure of tiling the pattern with the templates. A new relation of complexity vs. entropy is obtained wherein entropy becomes a function of complexity.


Of all the substances that can be present in water intended for human consumption, arsenic (As) is one of the most toxic. Many treatment technologies can be used for removing As from water, for instance, adsorption onto iron media, where commercially available adsorbents are removed and replaced with new media when they are exhausted. Since this is an expensive operation, in this work, a novel and portable plant for regenerating iron media has been developed and tested in four real case studies in Central Italy. The obtained results highlight the good efficiency of the system, which was able, from 2019 to 2023, to regenerate the iron media and to restore its capability to adsorb the As from water almost entirely. Indeed, when the legal threshold value of 10 μg/L is exceeded, the regeneration process is performed and, after that, the As concentration in the water effluent is at the minimum level in all the investigated case studies.


Objectives: The main objective of this investigation was to evaluate the potential of water extract from pteridophytes (Adiantum raddianum, Acrostichum aureum, and Christella dentata) in synthesizing silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) through eco-friendly routes and accessing their antibacterial activity.Methods: Water extract from pteridophytes (A. raddianum, A. aureum, and C. dentata) was used for synthesizing AgNPs. AgNPs formation was confirmed from the plasmonic absorbance spectra. Antimicrobial potential of synthesized particles was evaluated against human bacterial pathogens Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus species, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli. The results were statistically validated using two-way ANOVA. Most active AgNPs were characterized using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy to access the morphology and size.Results: Water extract from the pteridophytes is capable of synthesizing AgNPs through green synthetic routes. AgNPs synthesized using water extract from A. raddianum showed a significant activity against P. aeruginosa followed by K. pneumoniae. These AgNPs possessed spherical morphology with size ranging between 10 and 20 nm.Conclusion: Novel bioactive formulations, particularly effective against P. aeruginosa and K. pneumoniae, can be developed through eco-friendly methods using water extract of A. raddianum


Objective To investigate the relationship of CD138 cells to the prognosis of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura(ITP) patients and the relationship to relevant clinical indicators of ITP.Methods The expression rate of the CD138 cells in peripheral blood in 100 preliminary diagnosis patients with ITP and 20 normal controls were assayed by flow cytometry.Follow-up visited six months later,the ITP patients were divided into two groups of acute-type and chronic-type.Compared the expression rate of CD138 cells in peripheral blood when preliminary diagnosed and analyzed the relationship between the expression rate and treatment time,platelet count when preliminary diagnosis,platelet-associated antibody,bone marrow megakaryocyte count,therapeutic reaction.Results The expression rate of CD138 cells in peripheral blood had no significant difference in acute-type group and the control group(P 0.05),and it was significantly higher in chronic-type group than that of control group,the difference was statistically significant(P 0.05);The expression rate of CD138 cells in peripheral blood in chronictype group had no correlation with platelet count when preliminary diagnosis and platelet-associated antibodies(P 0.05),but it correlated with the treatment time,bone marrow megakaryocyte count,and therapeutic reaction(P 0.05).Conclusion CD138 cells in peripheral blood was over expression in patients with chronic ITP,which can be used as one of important indicators for early determination to prognosis of patients with ITP.


In this 21st century, we are living in the world of science & technology. Due to rapid growth in the field of industries, large amount of communication is required between the inter-departments of a particular industry for obtaining all information regarding a particular product from its manufacturing point to the deliv- ery of that particular product to the customers. So with respect to the previous scenario in large scale industries a system was developed for solving the problems of internal & external communication in a industry with its several other branches which are lo- cated at a far distances in nationwide. The system used was C-DOT 256 PORT RURAL AUTOMATIC EX- CHANGE (ABBREVIATED AS C-DOT 256P RAX). This system was designed to suit the distinctive needs of developing countries like India. In our organisation we need 312 port line. Due to this limitation we introducing new system called IN- TERNET PROTOCOL BASED EPABX. In this system we can use 1064 ports for the communication purpose and with this system we will be able to increase the number of users and reduce the call rates.


While considerable work has been done on chemically functionalizing hydroxyapatite, little has been done on tailoring the electrical surface potential. This has been due to limitations in the available methods to impart a surface charge. Work to date has charged conventionally manufactured hydroxyapatite exhibiting a random crystal orientation. At the outset, the microstructure has not been optimized for the highest surface potential. The aim of this work was to both orient the crystals as well as fill the structure with hydroxyl ions for further increasing the surface electrical potential. We used hydroxyapatite coatings with the same topography, but different hydroxyl ion concentration; this altered the surface potential that was measured by Kelvin probe AFM. Results indicate that a greater hydroxyl ion concentration increases the surface potential of the hydroxyapatite coating. Coatings with a higher surface potential showed improved biological response, measured as osteoblast attachment and osteoblast related gene expression.


SUMMARYIntroduction: Type IV Bacterial SecretionSystems (TFSS) have a variety of biologicalfunctions such as the exchange ofgenetic material with other bacteria andvirulent translocation of DNA with itseffector proteins into host cells. A. baumanniiis a pathogen that causes infections inhumans and exhibits high rates of multidrugresistance to drugs.Objective: To relate how type IV secretionsystems is associated with patterns ofresistance and virulence in A. baumannii.Materials and Methods: Exhaustive searchin PMC (NCBI) using a set of keywordswas performed.Results: The search yielded 133 articles.Fourteen articles were analysed to determinethe bacterial secretion system and theresistant and virulence of AA. baumannii.Conclusions: Systems of bacterial typeIV secretion present in A. baumannii arecrucial in understanding the patterns ofvirulence and resistance.Key words: Pathogenicity, type four secretionsystem (T4SS), A. baumannii, virulencefactors, multidrug bacterial resistance(MDR), horizontal gene transfer (HGT).


Using the technique of phagocytic chemiluminescence, we have shown that serotypes Ib and II of group B streptococci are resistant to opsonophagocytosis. The resistant strains became susceptible to opsonophagocytosis by trypsin treatment, but neuraminidase had no effect. Several studies have failed to define a significant role for the alternative pathway of complement in opsonisation of group B streptococci. By simple chelation and heat inactivation studies, we have shown that the alternative pathway of complement is activated by serotype III of group B streptococci.


This paper presents an ANSI S1.11-compliant filter bank for digital hearing aids, of which the power consumption is minimized through algorithmic, numerical and architectural optimizations. This filter bank has been implemented and fabricated using the TSMC 0.13μm CMOS technology. The transistor-level simulations show that the power dissipation is only 79μW for 24KHz & 18-band audio processing.


Through analysis of in-situ monitored ground surface movements due to shield tunnelling in construction of Hangzhou Qingchun Road Cross-river Tunnel,it was found that the transversal ground surface heave induced by tail grouting follows the Gaussian curve pattern.Based on the traditional Peck equation,a generalized Peck equation that takes the grouting heave into account was proposed,which can predict and back-analyze the shield tunnelling-induced ground surface movements including grouting heave inside with great accuracy.Based on the limiting tensile strain method,the combined influences of ground loss and tail grouting on overlying structures were studied.In the case study,the optimum grouting volume was explored.The case study showed that the key to minimize tunnelling's damage to overlying structures is to increase the factor of grouting,while additional grouting is harmful to the structures' safety.


This article is a review of the book The Who, What, and Where of America: Understanding the American Community Survey by Deirdre A. Gaquin.


Echinochloa colona (EC) and Hydrolea zeylanica (HZ) can be found in various Asian countries including India (Kerala, Maharashtra) and Tropical Africa and Australia. These plants have various ethno medical uses in various parts of Asia. The entire plant or parts of plant are used for various disorders including wound healing, antidiabetic, anti ulcer and antiseptic. This review shall discuss the various ethno medical uses of the plants and explore the scientific validation of such uses based upon scientific reports on phytoconstituents and pharmacological properties of plant extracts and phytoconstituents.


A crucial condition for the existence of a credit channel through bank loans is that monetary policy should be able to change bank loan supply. This paper contributes to the discussion on this issue by presenting empirical evidence from dynamic panel estimations based on a dataset that comprises individual balance-sheet information on all German banks. It shows that the average bank reduces its lending more sharply in reaction to a restrictive monetary policy measure, the lower its ratio of short-term interbank deposits to total assets is. This result is robust against a broad variety of changes in the specification. A dependence on its size can be found only if explicitly controlled for this dominating effect and/or if the very small banks are excluded. Overall, the evidence is compatible with the existence of a credit channel, although it is weakened by the banks' liquidity management.


Quinazolines and quinazolinones constitute a major class of biologically active molecules both from natural and synthetic sources. We will limit this review to compounds possessing the 4(3H)-quinazolinone skeleton, which is found in compounds displaying significant biological and pharmacological properties. The molecular design of potential lead compound is still a key line of approach for the discovery and development of new chemical entities. A combination of two or more chemical moieties into one is a common approach of operation and this can most likely result in the improvement of pharmacological activity and removal of unwanted side effects.We undertake search for peer-reviewed and research literature on quinazolinone moiety using different tools of literature survey. The quality of superior papers was assess using standard tools. The distinctiveness of screened papers was shorted and high-quality content was reorganiz and written in own language.The review will be expressed in two main sections, the first section will be related to synthetic procedures and the second section includes the biological importance of Quinazoline derivatives. Total hundred (100) to one hundred and ten (110) research papers ware searched. Out of these, seventy-eight papers were included in the review, the majority of research papers were from international journals. Fifty fours papers defined the different synthetic schemes considering the general strategies using orthosubstituted anilines such as 2-aminobenzoic acid (anthranilic acid) and its analogues, or isatoic anhydride as starting materials, which are condensed with acid chlorides, imidates or aldehydes. Microwave irradiation was also proven to be very useful to improve the yields, and in particular, it has been successfully applied to the Niementowski procedure involving the fusion of anthranilic acid with formamide. The remaining part of the review focuses on biological importance of the 4(3H)-quinazolinone scaffold as therapeutic agents and a broad range of activities like antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anticonvulsant, antitumor, antihypertensive, analgesic and anti-inflammatory agents has been highlighted.The present review focuses on simplified, efficient and widespread literature of the methods of synthesis and diverse pharmacological activities of quinazoline and its derivatives have been highlighted.


Like many countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, Kenya is experiencing a rapid rise in the burden of non‐communicable diseases (NCDs): NCDs now contribute to over 50% of inpatient admissions and 40% of hospital deaths in the country. The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Chronic Disease Management (CDM) programme builds on lessons and capacity of HIV care to deliver chronic NCD care layered into both HIV and primary care platforms to over 24,000 patients across 69 health facilities in western Kenya. We conducted a cost and budget impact analysis of scaling up the AMPATH CDM programme in western Kenya using the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research guidelines.


The propulsion force of electrodynamic suspension train is provided by air-cored superconducting linear synchronous motor (AC-SLSM). In this paper, the excitation magnetic field of the AC-SLSM is analyzed in detail. Firstly, the basic configuration of the motor is described. Secondly, the excitation magnetic field of AC-SLSM is analyzed in detail by Biot–Savart law. Finally, the effects of superconducting magnetomotive force, armature current and air gap length on propulsion force of AC-SLSM are analyzed by finite element software.


The article contains the ASME reports of different chapters from different parts of Australia. Chapters from the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria and the activities they conducted are highlighted.


In this note we derive a lower bound for the regret in the adversarial multi-armed bandit problem with expert advice, showing that the regret is Ω (√ KT lnN lnK ) , where K is the number of arms, T is the number of game rounds, and N is the number of experts. The √ lnN factor in the lower bound solves a problem that was open since the work of Auer et al. (2002) and posed explicitly in Stoltz (2005).


Classical polylogarithms give rise to a variation of mixed Hodge-Tate structures on the punctured projective line $S=\mathbb{P}^1\setminus \{0, 1, \infty\}$, which is an extension of the symmetric power of the Kummer variation by a trivial variation. By results of Beilinson-Deligne, Huber-Wildeshaus, and Ayoub, this polylogarithm variation has a lift to the category of mixed Tate motives over $S$, whose existence is proved by computing the corresponding space of extensions in both the motivic and the Hodge settings. In this paper, we construct the polylogarithm motive as an explicit relative cohomology motive, namely that of the complement of the hypersurface $\{1-zt_1\cdots t_n=0\}$ in affine space $\mathbb{A}^n_S$ relative to the union of the hyperplanes $\{t_i=0\}$ and $\{t_i=1\}$.


SNODGRASS that the Gospel of Thomas, which probably has a Syrian provenance, is dependent on this tradition. The old Syriac was probably dependent on the Diatessaron, and while one should not rule out the possibility of the dependence of the Gospel of Thomas on the Diatessaron too quickly, it is probable that the Gospel of Thomas was dependent on a pre-Tatian harmonizing tradition. Much more work needs to be done on the relation of the Gospel of Thomas and the Syriac-speaking Church, but clearly the Gospel of Thomas account of the parable under consideration cannot be used as proof that there was originally a simple non-allegorical form of the story. On the contrary, the twofold sending of the servants in the Gospel of Thomas stems from a postSynoptic stage of the parable.


, 289-294 268 2001 Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Marcel E. Visser and Leonard J. M. Holleman phenology Warmer springs disrupt the synchrony of oak and winter moth References http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/268/1464/289#related-urls Article cited in: Email alerting service here right-hand corner of the article or click Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article sign up in the box at the top


In recent converter technology, same of energy loss in inductor used in that converter. So, Efficiency of converter is reduces because of this loss energy. This loss is minimizing by using coupled inductor with switch capacitor. The recommended structure consist voltage multiplier circuits with coupled inductor to get maximum voltage gain. Two capacitors are charged amid the turn off period utilizing stored energy of coupled inductor windings which helps to increase the voltage conversion efficiency. The leakage inductive current is recycled through the clamp circuit because of that the voltage stress on switch is reduced and durability of converter will increase as well as efficiency. In this paper, Converter in view of Coupled inductor and Switch Capacitor is analyzed by using MATLAB SIMULINK and hardware implementation.


We provide a concrete and systematic connection between the statistical physics of the Ising ferromagnet on a Cayley tree, and the study of memory in exponentially expanding spaces. Memory turns out to be a clear signal of the `Bethe-Peierls' phase transition, and the average of memory divided by its standard deviation provides a clear signal of the `spin-glass' transition temperature. Numerical Monte Carlo simulations are used to make transparent the existence of the two different transition temperatures. The quantities used to spot the phase transitions with Monte Carlo could be useful when studying other systems where analytical methods don't work.


The invention discloses a method for cultivating asparaguses in North China. The method comprises the following steps: selecting soil conditions and seeds, growing seedlings, sowing, field planting, managing after field planting and controlling pests. Compared with the prior art, the method of the invention systematically provides a complete set of technological measures for cultivating asparaguses in a modeled manner, has strong operability and is convenient to use. The cultivating effect is stable and reliable, and the quality of the asparaguses is guaranteed, because the method is based on the related agricultural climate conditions and the characteristics of growth and development of the asparagus plant.


Heavy-ion and proton test results utilizing novel test methodologies of reprogrammable and non-volatile flash-based FPGAs are presented and discussed. The 5 programmable architectures in the A3P FPGA-family were tested: I/O structures, FPGA Core, PLL, FROM and SRAM. Furthermore, the circuitry used for the programming and the erase of the A3P product was exercised in proton beams. The data shows no major concern or disruption to all of the circuit features for fluences lower than 1011 particles or TID higher than 15 Krad.


Processing trade is one of the most important sources of trade in China. On January 18, 2016, The Chinese State Council issued "several proposals on promoting the development of processing trade", indicating that nowadays Chinese government has paid lots of attention on upgrading the processing trade in China. In consideration of this, the paper will mainly focus on how to develop Chinese processing trade, analyzing factors that may influence the promotion of processing trade, thus give some suggestions on how to transform or upgrade the processing trade effectively and efficiently concerning specific economical conditions in China.


Textbook is one of the form of teaching material and a significant guide for teachers and students. One of the factors determining student success in learning activity is the quality of the textbook. Learning vocabulary plays a vital role in all language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Thus the author decided to analyze the vocabulary materials in Bahasa Inggris Kelas XI textbook published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. This analysis needs to be done to prove whether or not this textbook has sufficient quality to develop students' vocabulary. This research will be conducted using a qualitative research approach. The data collection method uses descriptive method because the author focuses on the vocabulary material in each chapter of the textbook. The data is analyzed using the instrument of textbook assessment by Houtz elements (1955). The results of the analysis that has been carried out shows that the textbook is suitable to be used as teaching material for the learning process in schools.


Semiconductor quantum dots have been of major interest in recent years. This has largely been simulated by progress in quantum dot growth technology, whereby self-organized quantum dots array can be fabricated by MBE and MOCVD facilities using Stranski Krastanow growth mode. Quantum does material has achieved broad applications in optoelectronic devices and quantum information fields because of the unique 3D electron confinement. However, a good understanding about the electronic, excitonic and optoelectronics properties of the quantum materials are very important in fabrication nanostructure devices based on quantum dots. Based on the 1-band effective-mass theory, a finite element numerical technique is developed to calculate the electronic structure of truncated conical shaped InAs GaAs vertical aligned quantum dot molecular, including the wetting layer. Using the axis-symmetry model, the 3D effective-mass Schrödinger equation with step potential barrier can be reduced to a 2D problem by separating variable technique, which greatly reduced the calculation cost. Form the calculated results, we found that the coupling effects is obviously when the separation distance is in the range of the less than 10nm. The wave functions will exhibits large probability in the region between the quantum dots. In order to consider the effect of the distance between the two layers of quantum dots on the electronic state coupling, we calculated the results when the distance is 6nm, 11nm, 14nm and 17nm. The ground state, the second excited and the highest excited state will lower its energy with decreasing the distance between the quantum dots, but the second excited state will increase its energy. With increasing the distance between the two quantum dots, the coupling effect will become weaker, and for the ground state, the wave function distribution will tend to localized only in one of the quantum dot, the energy become something degenerate. The calculated results show that the ground state and the first excited state are degenerate. With decreasing of the distance, the degenerate states are broken, and the energy levels are separated. In our simulations, the strain effects are ignored. In the future woks, strain should be taken in to account as an easy way. The calculated results can help us to examine optoelectronic properties of the semiconductor nanostructure based on multi sheet of quantum dots with wetting layers.


resembling those of Pemphigus foliaceus. I n the first attack there was a rise of temperature to 102" F., but there was no such disturbance in the second attack. No reliable description of previous attacks could be obtained from the patient, who was an Irishman with a defective intellect. The exhibitor asked the members if the case was to be regarded as a localized Pemphigus foliaceus, and several members were inclined to adopt that view. (3.) A boy, set. 12, who had a slight recurrence of epidemic exjoliative Dermatitis. The boy lived in a large cottage on a hill in the country, and had had a previous severe attack of what the family doctor called " acute exfoliative dermatitis." The father, mother, and three other children had been affected. The source of infection was not traced. Further details will be published subsequently.


The research situation of historical climate change research in South China is summarized and analyzed based on the representative archives according to the proxy of historical documents. Temperature change, precipitation and dry/wet change are the main research content. Although plentiful achievements have been gained in the research of historical climate change in South China, there also exist a lot of problems that need to be further studied, such as lower temporal and spatial resolution as compared with that in North China, lower reliability for reconstructed data, lack of research on the related mechanism and variation cycles in climate change, and so on. We suggest that more attention should be paid to improvement of the temporal and spatial resolution, enhancement of the reliability of the data series, increase of the periodicity and trend analysis in historical climate change research in South China by proxy of historical documents with high resolution.


From the side of modelers and early-adopter industry, interest in reasoning over conceptual models and other online usage of conceptual models is growing. To obtain a more precise insight in the characteristics of the main conceptual modeling languages, we define the (semi-)standardized ORM, ORM2, UML, ER, and EER diagram languages in terms of the new generic conceptual data modeling language CMcom that is based on the DL language DLRifd . CMcom has the most expressive common denominator with these languages. CMcom advances prospects for automated, online, interoperability among diverse conceptual data models and ensures compatibility with and between industrygrade conceptual data modeling languages.


Studying the current state of cartography and ways of further developing the industry, the role of the map in the future of the society, new methods of promoting cartographic products is impossible without a deep scientific analyzing all the paths, events and factors influencing its formation and development throughout all the historic steps of cartographic production in Russia. In the article, the history of cartographic production in Russia is considered together with the development of private, state and military cartography, since, despite some differences, they have a common technical, technological and production basis. The author describes the stages of originating, formation and growth of industrial cartographic production from the beginning of the XVIII century until now. The connection between the change of political formations and technological structures with the mentioned stages of maps and atlases production is considered. Each stage is studied in detail, a step-by-step analysis was carried out, and the characteristics of each stage are described. All the events and facts are given in chronological order, highlighting especially significant moments influencing the evolution of cartographic production. The data on the volumes of printing and sales of atlases and maps by commercial and state enterprises are presented. The main trends and lines of further development of cartographic production in Russia are studied.


At last month9s comparative physiology meeting, researchers wowed the audience with studies using gene chips--glass slides dotted with thousands of bits of DNA--they had created to track the activity of many genes over time or under different conditions. Until recently, the chips were impractical for organisms whose genomes had not been sequenced. But now the seeds of microarray technology are helping comparative physiology bloom again.


ABSTRACT The late Professor Michael Evenari was a leader and agreat scientist with a very wide view and varied interests. Throughout the 26 years that I studied desert plants with Professor Evenari in the deserts of Israel and the Sinai Peninsula, he liked to summarize the seasonal field observations of seedling emergence with the words, "this particular year is a very special year." What are the reasons for such species' diversity, and what are the survival strategies of desert annuals'? Some species are common and others emerge only once in several years under unpredictable seasonal precipitation and massive seed consumption by ants. Escape dispersal strategies after maturation of the tiny, long-living seeds, and partial "opportunistic" germination strategies after only 10 mm of rain, are found in some common annuals such as Schismus arabicus and Spergularia diandra. Day lengthing seed maturation, and light and temperatures during seed wetting and germination, also affect their germinability. In S. dian...


Social worlds, Unruh suggests, are structured like a whirlpool; leaders and key figures are found in the central core; those who are less involved will be found in the periphery. Eight integrating activities are described: consuming, collecting, creating, performing, marketing, organising, representing, and evaluating. Consumers, the least integrated, are found in the periphery, while evaluators, the most integrated, are found in the core. Unruh notes that the social types are a more complex phenomenon than the integrating activities, and he does describe how the various social types tend to be involved in specific integrating activities. The distinctions are relatively minor, however, and as the typologies become somewhat burdensome, the reader begins to ask if too much emphasis has been placed on developing typologies. The strength of this book lies not so much in what it tells us about social worlds, but rather in what it teaches us about the resourcefulness, creativity, and strength of elderly people. I was fascinated, for example, by the cleverness of the gleaners and delighted by the achievements of the cyclist. And I was reminded again and again that the elderly are not unlike other age groups; the need for recognition, for meaningful activities, and for companionship is present in all age groups. Unruh justifiably concludes that 'older people have a remarkable capacity to make sense of their lives'. Unfortunately, they are often hindered by younger people in authoritarian positions who admonish them to 'act their age'. The woman in charge at the senior centre, for example, who thought it was foolish for old people to become involved in yoga is a classic example of ageism and its harmful effects. Unruh suggests that if social worlds were better understood, social workers might encourage integration of clients into age-heterogeneous social worlds. This is an excellent suggestion that would have been enlightened by some discussion of the age-segregated society we live in. Nevertheless, as one who has done considerable research in nursing homes, where there is a tremendous need to provide meaningful activities and to integrate rather than segregate residents from the greater society, I wholeheartedly support his recommendation. This is an important book that will be of interest to social scientists, to health care providers in geriatric facilities, and to all those interested in the process of ageing.


Olive stones is produced in large quantities during the manufacture process of the olive oil in the Tunisian oleic industry. This by-product. have been converted to granular activated carbon by carbonisation in the nitrogen atmosphere followed by steam activation. Activated carbon so obtained with 1150 m2/g specific surface area and 0,53 cm3/g pore volume, essentially microporous, has been used for the adsorption of two basic dyes: Methylene Blue (MB) and Rhodamine B (RB) in aqueous solution. The equilibrium adsorption isotherms of the two dyes at 30°C shows Langmuir shape. The maximum adsorption capacity of MB and RB are found to be 303 mg/g and 217 mg/g respectively. Adsorbent affinity to tested dyes is related to electric and steric effects. KEY WORDS: Olive stones, activated carbon, Methylene Blue, Rhodamine B, adsorption Global Jnl Pure & Applied Sciences Vol.10(1) 2004: 91-94


This paper is the first report on the atom transfer radical copolymerization of unsaturated cyclic acetal, 4,7 dimethyl 2 methylene 1,3 dioxepane(DMMDO) and styrene(St) in the presence of α bromobutyrate as the initiator and CuBr/2,2 bipyridine as the catalyst/ligand at 110 ℃ was investigated. Both DMMDO and St components could be found in main chains of the obtained polymer, and the copolymer had a narrow molecular weight distribution. DMMDO component in the copolymer contained both addition and ring opening units, thus the ester bond was introduced into the main chain, and the copolymer could be chemically degradable and biologically degradable.


Orienteering is a sport in which a competitor selects a path from a start to a destination, visiting control points along the path. Each control point has an associated score, and the travel between control points involves a certain cost. The problem is to select a set of control points to visit, so that the total score is maximized subject to a budget constraint on total cost. Several versions of this problem exist. In the version considered in this research, the start and the destination are the same, and the problem is to construct a subtour of the set of control points. The orienteering problem is a variant of the traveling salesman problem, and arises in vehicle routing and production scheduling situations. This problem has been shown to be NP-hard in the literature. We develop an optimal algorithm to solve this problem, using Lagrangean relaxation within a branch-and-bound framework. The Lagrangean relaxation is solved by a degree-constrained spanning tree procedure. Characteristics of the Lagrangea...


Background: Germline (g)BRCA1/2 mutations represent approximately 5% of metastatic breast cancer. Poly ADP-ribose polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) have shown improved clinical outcomes, a manageable toxicity profile, and favorable patient (pt)-reported outcomes versus chemotherapy in pts with gBRCA1/2 mutated HER2- locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. With the advent of PARPi, clinical guidelines have broadened eligibility criteria for gBRCA1/2 testing. However, limited information is available on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gBRCA1/2 testing rates. We assessed trends and factors associated with gBRCA1/2 testing in pts with HER2- ABC before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This retrospective study included pts from the Syapse LHN, a longitudinal database of pts with cancer cared for in community-based, integrated care delivery networks in 25 states in the United States. Pts were eligible for gBRCA1/2 testing from initial ABC diagnosis until death or date of last contact with the participating health system. Information on gBRCA1/2 testing was obtained from scaled sources and further curated by Certified Tumor Registrars. Logistic regression evaluated the associations between age at diagnosis, family history of relevant cancer, race/ethnicity, median household income, health system, and diagnosis year with gBRCA1/2 testing among HER2- ABCs; models included hormone receptor status. Results: The study population included 1769 pts with HER2- ABC, including 577 pts with triple negative ABC initially diagnosed from 2010: 96% were women, 69% were non-Hispanic White, and 94% had an estimated median household income >$30,000 USD; median age at initial diagnosis was 61 years. The percentage of pts ever gBRCA1/2-tested among those eligible increased over time: 26%, 28%, and 31% by end of 2018, 2019, and 2020, respectively. Similarly, the percentages of new testing among eligible but not previously tested pts increased from 2018-March 2020, decreased from April-September 2020, and trended upwards thereafter (Table 1). In logistic regression models combining data from pre- and post-COVID-19 periods, family history of relevant cancer (odds ratio [OR]=1.9; 95% CI, 1.5-2.4), younger age at diagnosis (>65 reference; <45: OR=12.8, 95% CI, 8.9-18.3; 45-54: OR=6.7, 95% CI, 4.9-9.3; 55-64: OR=2.0, 95% CI, 1.5-2.8), and diagnosis year of 2013 or later (OR=1.9, 95% CI, 1.4-2.6) were significantly associated with increased odds of gBRCA1/2 testing. Positive hormone receptor status (OR=0.5; 95% CI, 0.4-0.6) and Hispanic ethnicity (OR=0.5; 95% CI, 0.3-0.9) were significantly associated with reduced odds; associations with non-Hispanic Black ethnicity did not reach statistical significance (OR=0.8; 95% CI, 0.6-1.1). Conclusion: Following the expanded eligibility criteria for gBRCA1/2 testing, testing rates increased from 2018 to 2019 and decreased only slightly during the national COVID-19 lockdown. Age at diagnosis, family history, diagnosis year, ethnicity, and hormone receptor status impacted the odds of testing. Given that gBRCA1/2 mutations are actionable, focused efforts should be developed to resume the pre-pandemic trajectory of gBRCA1/2 mutation testing. Funding: Pfizer Inc
 Table 1.Percentages of Newly gBRCA1/2-Tested Pts with HER2- ABC Who Were Eligible for Testing Anytime During the Time Period and Not Previously TestedTime Period2018, % (n/N)2019, % (n/N)2020, % (n/NJanuary-March2.3 (10/427)2.7 (14/512)4.3 (23/537)April-June2.9 (13/447)3.4 (18/536)2.8 (14/495)July-September4.3 (20/468)4.7 (27/569)2.5 (13/517)October-December1.9 (9/478)3.1 (17/548)3.5 (16/456)Total8.4 (52/622)10.0 (76/757)8.8 (66/747)A pt diagnosed in February and tested in April of 2018 would be included in the denominator (N) for January-March and April-June of 2018 and in the numerator (n) for April-June of 2018.
 Citation Format: Alexander Niyazov, Monika Izano, Colden Johanson, Sheetal Walters, Anna Berry, Bhakti Arondekar, A. Douglas Laird, Lillian Shahied Arruda, Henry Kaplan. Germline BRCA1/2 mutation testing in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative advanced breast cancer (ABC): A real-world study in the Syapse Learning Health Network (LHN) [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2021 Dec 7-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P2-09-05.


This paper calculates seismic response of earth-rockfill dam on rock and different thickness of overburden foundation,compares their acceleration distribution law.And then it analyzes the influence of acceleration response of dam on different thickness of overburden.The results show that the influence of overburden on earthquake acceleration distribution and peak cannot be ignored.


Abstract A 16-year-old patient underwent successful ablation of ventricular arrhythmia originating from the aortic sinus of Valsalva following surgical unroofing of an anomalous right coronary artery. This case illustrates the complexity of decision making in the management of patients with anomalous coronary arteries and the importance of keeping an open mind when determining ventricular arrhythmia aetiology and origin.


This article uses Egyptian burials of the Roman period as an entry point for considering aesthetics in relation to archaeology, ancient art, and human remains. Although some archaeologists and Egyptologists reject or ignore the concept of aesthetics, this article argues that it complements questions of ontology, materiality, and social practice that concern much contemporary archaeological thought. Moreover, engaging with aesthetics in the study of the ancient world requires archaeologists (and others) to reflect critically on the relationship between disciplinary histories and knowledge production, and to recognize the influence that earlier aesthetic models, such as racial science, continue to exert in current aesthetic encounters with ancient Egypt and its dead.


Abstract Background: Feelings of isolation, insecurity, and instability triggered by COVID 19 could have a long-term impact on the mental health status of individuals. This study examined the prevalence and factors associated with the mental health symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress during the COVID 19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Methods: From 1st to 30th April 2020, we used a validated self-administered questionnaire to conduct a cross sectional study on 10,609 participants through an online survey platform. We assessed mental health status using the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The total depression, anxiety, and stress subscale scores were divided into normal, mild, moderate, severe, and multinomial logistic regression was used to examine associated factors. Results: The prevalence of depressive symptoms was 15%, 34%, and 15% for mild, moderate, and severe depressive symptoms, respectively. The prevalence of anxiety symptoms was 59% for severe anxiety symptoms, 14% for moderate anxiety symptoms, and 14% for mild anxiety symptoms while, the prevalence for stress levels were 16% for severe stress level, 22% for moderate stress level and 13% for mild stress level. Multivariate analyses revealed that the most consistent factors associated with mild, moderate, and severe of the three mental health subscales (depression, anxiety, and stress) were respondents who lived in Dhaka and Rangpur division, females, those who self quarantined in the previous 7 days before the survey and those respondents who experienced chills, breathing difficulty, dizziness, and sore throat. Conclusion: Our results showed that about 64%, 87%, and 61% experienced depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and levels of stress, respectively. In Bangladesh, there is a need for better mental health support for females especially those that lived in Dhaka and Rangpur division and experienced chills, breathing difficulty, dizziness, and sore throat during COVID 19 and other future pandemics.


A technique for combining scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and scanning photoelectrochemical microscopy (PEM) is described. The experimental setup is described and the several modes of operation are discussed. The electrochemical characteristics of the probe, collection efficiency, current efficiency, and the coupling efficiency for the two techniques, are examined in several model systems. SPECM was used to identify pitting precursor (PPS) sites on a titanium sample with a 50 A oxide layer in an acidic KBr solution. It was found that the PPS site could be imaged photoelectrochemically and that the photocurrent is reduced at the PPS.


For an ideal I in a commutative ring R we consider the ideal In = ({in | i ∈I}). We show that if n! is a unit in R, then In = In. We give an example of a doubly generated ideal I with Is not finitely generated.


Local positioning will be one of the most exciting features of the next generation of wireless systems. Completely new concepts and features for wireless data transmission and transponder systems will emerge. Self-organizing sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, location sensitive billing, context dependent information services, tracking and guiding are only some of the numerous possible application areas. This article introduces different concepts of several existing and emerging systems and applications.


In this paper the results from a validation of the functionality of Maneuver Load Limiter in the longitudinal control system for the generic aircraft simulation model ADMIRE, using global optimisation algorithms are presented. The analysis is based upon the reformulation of the nonlinear time domain simulation-based stability criterion Clonk, into a global optimisation problem. Results from both a traditional grid-based search for the worst uncertainty parameter combination and optimisation-based search with algorithms based upon a Genetic Algorithm and Adaptive Simulated Annealing are presented.


P. berghei ANKA parasites deficient in schizont membrane-associated cytoadherence protein reveal a beneficial role for CD36-mediated tissue sequestration in aiding parasite growth.


In this thesis I investigate the genres and structure of Theocritus' fifteenth Idyll, as well as its katabatic and ritual themes. Though often considered an urban mime, only the first 43 lines exhibit the formal qualities of mime found in Herodas' Mimiambi, the only other surviving corpus of Hellenistic mime. The counterpoint to the mimic first section is the Adonia that makes up the last section of the poem and amounts to an urban recasting of pastoral poetry. A polyphonic, katabatic journey bridges the mimic and pastoral sections and is composed of four encounters that correspond to ordeals found in ritual katabases. The structure of the poem is then tripartite, beginning in the profane world of the household mime, progressing through the liminal space of the streets and ending in the sacred world of the Adonia. This progression mirrors Theocritus' evolution from Syracusan mimic poet to Alexandrian pastoral poet.


Introduction and Aims With the
present analysis we seek to relate drug regulation with challenges of the
current global scenario in order to verify the importance of this phenomenon in
the themes present in the international discussions. Methods A review of articles developed by the author was made,
updating and revising the relevant cuts. Results
The criminalization of drugs was highlighted as one of the main challenges of
the modern world. Conclusion The
study does not conclude in this work, however, it is alert to the monitoring of
important lessons from the experiences of new legislation in the field of
drugs, considering of the problematic brought about in its criminalization.


That the nervous factor plays a very important role among the etiological mechanisms of hypertension has been amply demonstrated in the results obtained on blood pressure from removing varying amounts of this factor in the process of sympathectomy and splanchnicectomy. As pointed out by Allen and Adson (1), the fact that arteriolar tone can be diminished by sympathectomy is well established clinically by experience in the treatment of such conditions as Raynaud's disease and thromboangiitis obliterans. Just how the nervous factor works in producing hypertension is not understood. It may be due to increased number of impulses traveling over the sympathetic nervous system by virtue of a central abnormality in the hypothalmus. In this way the tone of the sympathetic


The present invention relates to an oral preparation for the rapidly disintegrating in the oral cavity, to a genus bungjeong and its manufacturing method having a rapid disintegrant sea component and a high hardness. More specifically, the present invention has an in bungjeong and to that of the production method, in bungjeong of the present invention is fast Borax sea component and a high hardness to a low wet granulation and dry granules containing the spray-dried mannitol and sucrose binder, especially suitable for drugs sensitive to light, temperature and water-like environment, and even includes a disorder that may cause the compression of drugs or excipients, additives and the like can be prepared by general tablet machine and general tablet manufacturing process with no problem.


Isolated noncompaction of left ventricular myocardium is a rare disorder of endomyocardial morphogenesis characterized by numerous, excessively prominent ventricular trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses. This study comprised eight cases, including three at necropsy. Ages ranged from 11 months to 22.5 years, with follow-up as long as 5 years. Gross morphological severity ranged from moderately abnormal ventricular trabeculations to profoundly abnormal, loosely compacted trabeculations. Echocardiographic images were diagnostic and corresponded to the morphological appearances at necropsy. The depths of the intertrabecular recesses were assessed by a quantitative echocardiographic X-to-Y ratio and


The purpose of this study was to explore the experience in cultural competence of multicultural counselors working with female immigrants by marriage. In-depth interviews, followed by a phenomenological analysis, were conducted on 10 multicultural counselors. 6 themes were emerged from data analysis: facing difficulties due to linguistic and cultural differences, feeling doubts about self and one's ability, reflecting self, putting efforts to learn other cultures and groups, realizing changes, and feeling insecure still. 3 categories appeared from the 6 themes above: difficulties, efforts to change, and change and limitations. Based on the results, social work suggestions for increasing cultural competence of multicultural counselors were discussed.


2016 proved to be a busy year for CT in Europe as the number of jihadi-related attacks increased and the nature of the threat evolved, with most plots involving 'home grown' radicalised individuals, as opposed to foreign fighters. This short analysis is a summary from a chapter published in the 2017 Counterterrorism Yearbook, published by ASPI.


Access to drinking water and safe sanitation are important in determining life expectancy. Construction of water and sanitation affect on health status, because the water and sanitation infrastructure is part of factors builder life expectancy. With increasing access to water and proper sanitation at the individual, household and society, will degrade society diseases and contribute to the increase in life expectancy resulting in an increase in the welfare of society. Using data from countries and cities in Indonesia in 1999 to 2013 to see the changes in life expectancy . We focused look at the role of water and sanitation because according to available data, there is a significant increase in household access to drinking water and improvement of sanitation. This variable will be used in explaining the variation in life expectancy changes. This paper will contribute to the development of health by looking at the factors that determine the increase in life expectancy in developing countries.


Seismic attenuation and scattering are two attributes that can be linked with porosity and permeability in laboratory experiments. When measuring these two quantities using seismic waveforms recorder at lithospheric and volcanic scales the areas of highest heterogeneity, as batches of melt and zones of high deformation, produce anomalous values of the measured quantities, the seismic quality factor and scattering coefficient. When employed as indicators of heterogeneity and absorption in volcanic areas these anomalous effects become strong indicators of magma accumulation and tectonic boundaries, shaping magmatic chambers and conduit systems.


The aim of this study was to investigate the beliefs of parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who had varying experiences with sleep problems and the factors affecting parental help-seeking behaviour and treatment selection. The study included 61 primary caregivers of children with ASD from around New Zealand (NZ). A descriptive analysis revealed that help-seeking and treatment selection was similar between groups and parental beliefs were correlated to treatment choice. Further, parental attributions about the stability of sleep problems in children with ASD tended to vary between our parent groups but attributions that were internal to the child and outside of the child's control showed no significant differences. Lastly, evidence was unable to support the belief that parenting a child with a sleep problem was a moderator for parent's attributions about sleep problems in children.


Abstract : The purpose of this study was the determination of the aerobic and anaerobic microflora of human feces and any effect, real or relative, of a space-type diet upon this flora. Fecal specimens from four young men confined in an experimental activity facility were cultured both aerobically and anaerobically thirteen times during a six-week period. During certain periods the men wore space suits. Two of the men were on an experimental space-type diet which was freeze-dehydrated. During this same time period the other two subjects were on a 'control' diet which contained identical foods, fresh and canned, in order to duplicate as nearly as possible the dehydrated diet from a nutritional viewpoint. Midway in the experiment the diets of the subjects were switched. The procedures used emphasized the anaerobic isolation of the predominating microorganisms using Gall's specialized technique. The aerobes were isolated and identified by standard procedures. An attempt was made to roughly quantitate the flora by the use of triplicate aerobic dilution series and by the plating from each dilution into differential media. Although the obligately anaerobic character of the flora remained constant, a shift was found in the types of anaerobic organisms isolated. This change in the biochemically distinct flora occurred after a sufficiently lengthy period on the diet to suggest that the diet was a contributing factory. (Author)


For arbitrary hydrodynamic flow in circular annulus we introduce the two circle theorem, allowing us to construct the flow from a given one in infinite plane. Our construction is based on q-periodic analytic functions for complex potential, leading to fixed scale-invariant complex velocity, where q is determined by geometry of the region. Self-similar fractal structure of the flow with q-periodic modulation as solution of q-difference equation is studied. For one point vortex problem in circular annulus by fixing singular points we find solution in terms of q-elementary functions. Considering image points in complex plane as a phase space for qubit coherent states we construct Fibonacci and Lucas type entangled N-qubit states. Complex Fibonacci curve related to this construction shows reach set of geometric patterns.


Article history: Received 16 December 2018 Received in revised form 24 March 2019 Accepted 29 March 2019 Available online 3 April 2019 Editor: M. Doser


The purpose of this publication is to present the construction and adaptation of the test stand intended for motorcycle simulation research. The stand is designed to study the impact of motorcycle vibrations that act on the body of the driver and passenger. Motorcycles belong to one of the types of transport that directly affects users. Excessive vibrations transmitted to the body of the driver and passenger can make driving uncomfortable and even dangerous. The vibrations of motorcycles depend mainly on the technical condition of the vehicle, the structure of the vehicle, and the construction of the engine. The stand was built on the basis of a hydraulic power supply unit, distributor, and electrohydraulic pulsators. The purpose of the construction of the stand is to examine a given group of motorcycles to learn and eliminate vibrations that occur in various areas of motorcycles and affect the comfort, health, and safety of motorcycle travelers. Test studies of the presented stand are presented in this article. The preliminary results of the simulation tests determined the possibility of testing individual elements and motorcycles on the laboratory stand.

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Bacterial strains were isolated and identified from the down-core sediments of Site 1202 of ODP Leg 195 in the Okinawa Trough. Their phylogenetic relationships and physiological characteristics were determined. The isolates were cultured in aerobic and anaerobic sulfate-reducing and fermentative media at temperatures of 30℃and 45℃. The results showed that there were gram-positive/negative rod- and/or sphere-shaped bacteria in the sediments at all depths from 3 to 358.3 meters below the seafloor (mbsf), but no bacteria were present at depths greater than 358.3 mbsf (>64.73 ka in age of sediment) were isolated (maximum core depth 406.5 mbsf). On the basis of the nucleotide similarities of 16S rDNA and reconstructed phylogeny, the bacterial isolates of the sediments of 10.1 mbsf (1202A002H) and 241.2 mbsf (1202D027X) were shown to share high identities with the Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas putida or γ-proteobacterium MPD-98 strains. Physiological experiments showed that the optimal temperature for growth of the studied bacteria was 30℃ but the bacteria obtained at some depths could tolerate temperatures up to 45℃. The maximum salinity allowed for the growth of the cultured bacteria was 60-65%. The optimal pH for bacterial growth was 7.0-8.3. None of the bacteria extracted from the studied sediments could survive at pH≤5 or ≥11. These halo-tolerant bacteria were capable of making consumption of Fe, Cu^(2+), Na^(+), K^(+), Mg^(2+), Ca^(2+), and F^(-), but no biogenic minerals could be identified in the present study.


ABSTRACT
 The oldest reported fossil record of Delphinidae is from the late Miocene (11 Ma) of California. Reliable Miocene fossil delphinids, however, are few. Eodelphis kabatensis from the upper Miocene Mashike Formation (8.5–13.0 Ma), Hokkaido, northern Japan, is the oldest described Miocene delphinid including a skull. Therefore, this species is a significant clue to understanding the early evolutionary history of Delphinidae. The original taxonomic assignment of this species within the genus Stenella is questionable; thus, we propose a new combination for the species, Eodelphis kabatensis Horikawa, 1977. Eodelphis is a basal delphinid, and comprehensive morphological cladistic analysis, including molecular topological constraints, supported this taxonomic revision. Paleobiogeographic analyses based on the present morphological cladistic analysis and analysis under the molecular constraints suggest that the origin and early diversification of Delphinidae occurred in the middle Miocene Pacific Ocean or elsewhere, respectively.


For components, the strength will decrease under the action of multiple loads. In this paper, based on the equivalent relationship of the load, a strength degradation model of the part under multi-stage load is established. This model solves the problem of calculating the remaining life of the part after multiple loads, and can guide the replacement or maintenance of the part during use.


Foreword by John Neal HooverPreface and AcknowledgmentsThe Magician's Rod: Railroads, the West, and Manifest DestinySpace Race or, A Tale of Rival CitiesTracking a TransformationLords of CreationManifest Destinies: The Railroad West and the Modern WorldNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex


Foreword by Declan Kiberd vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Writing and Politics 1 1 The Early Yeats: In Search of the Queen 5 2 The Abbey Fringe: 33 Part I: Shaw & Wilde: The Exiles Set the Stage 33 Part II: Moore, Martyn, Milligan: In the Shadow of Yeats 43 Part III: Lady Gregory: The Struggle for Recognition 52 3 J. M. Synge: The Art of Challenging 63 4 Conradh Na Gaeilge: Longing for the Past 87 5 Sinn Fein: The Gael, the Gael, & Nothing but the Gael 111 6 The Playboy and Other Riots: In Defence of Kathleen 125 7 1916: Gallous Stories and Dirty Deeds 151 8 Sean O'Casey: No Time for Love 181 9 The Elder Yeats: All Changed, Changed Utterly 199 10 Did that play send out certain men the English shot? The Literary Movement and Irish Nationalism 215 Notes 223 Bibliography 229 Index 239


The high-speed train TGV Mediterranee was to link two large French cities, Lyon and Marseille, in one hour. The decision process for selecting the TGV route, which unfolded between 1989 and 1994, revolved around the need to balance regional against national interests. It became a model for the organization of public consultations on other important planning projects in France. Although these issues are rooted in the current French context, this analysis may resonate with international research on and practice of environmental dispute resolution.


The Java-based Agent Framework for Multi-Agent Systems (JAFMAS) provides a generic methodology for developing speech-act based multiagent systems (MAS) along with a set of classes to support implementing these agents in Java. The methodology follows five stages: (i) agent identification, (ii) definition of each agent's conversations, (iii) determining the rules governing each agent's conversations, (iv) analyzing the coherency between all the conversations in the system, and (v) implementation. JAFMAS provides communication, linguistic and coordination support through sixteen Java classes. Communication support is provided for both directed and subject-based broadcast communication. Linguistic support is provided for speech-act (e.g. KQML) based communication languages. Coordination support comes from conceptualizing agent plans and their coordination as rule-based conversations represented by automata models.


The aroma components of 'Jinpeng No.1' tomato fruit grown in the greenhouse was studied.The aroma components was analyzed using head-space solid phase microextraction gas chromatograph-mass spectrophotometer(GC/MS) at 4 different fruit development stages.A total 54 compounds were identified from the sample extracts.Aldehydes,acids,alcohols,ketone,esters,phenols etc.were the major components.There was a significant difference of aroma components at the different development stages.The highest content of aldehydes was 45.87% in the green ripening stages,and the content of aldehydes was 12.65%,16.62%,17.15% at the half-ripe stage,firm-ripe stage and full-ripe stage,respectively,and C6 aldehydes were the main aldehydes which content were 43.7% at the green ripe stage and 15.27% at the full-ripe stage,respectively.The contents of acids increased firstly and then decreased at last.The acid content was 15.2%,which was the highest during the different development stages,and the acid content was decreased in the over-ripe stage,which content was 6.93%.The content of ketone increased to 18.27% in the over-ripe stage,which was the maximum content in the different stages.4 kinds important characteristic aroma components were identified at the green ripe stage and 5 kinds characteristic aroma components were identified on the half-ripe stage,6 kinds characteristic aroma components were identified at the firm-ripe stage and over-ripe stage respectively.It showed that the kinds of characteristic aroma components increased with the development of the fruit.


The paper discusses a general engineering model of a hybrid neuro-fuzzy system and its application to phoneme-based speech recognition and information retrieval. The speech recognition part consists of a low-level neural network module for phoneme recognition and a higher-level fuzzy reasoning module for word recognition and language modelling. Both low and high level modules are multi-modular, having a separate unit for each of the English phonemes. This architecture makes possible exploring different learning strategies to improve the recognition rate. The following ones have been introduced and experimented in the paper on the task of phoneme-based spoken digits recognition: i additional training/adjustment of individual neural network units; ii using both real and synthetic data in one training data set; iii averaging, over 3 time frames, the recognised speech signals; iv individual adjustment of membership functions in the fuzzy linguistic modelling units; v adjustment of a "level of tolerance" coefficient. It is demonstrated on a small scale experiment that all these strategies contribute to a better recognition rate of the overall system.


Beauty production in events containing two muons in the final state has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 114 pb(-1). A low transverse-momentum threshold for muon identification, in combination with the large rapidity coverage of the ZEUS muon system, gives access to almost the full phase space for beauty production. The total cross section for beauty production in e p collisions at root s = 318 GeV has been measured to be sigma(tot)(ep -> b (b) over barX) = 13.9 +/- 1.5(stat.)(-4.3)(+4.0)(syst.) nb. Differential cross sections and a measurement of b (b) over bar correlations are also obtained, and compared to other beauty cross-section measurements, Monte Carlo models and next-to-leading-order QCD predictions.


Abstract
This research aimed to describe the Javanese ethnic local wisdom in farmer community folklore of South coastal area of Kebumen. The problems studied were how the existence of folklore was in farmer community folklore of South coastal area of Kebumen and what local wisdoms were implied in their folklore. The data analyzed was oral folklore consisting of four criteria, partially oral folklore constituting farming sector rite, and non-oral folklore constituting food, drugs, and traditional house. The approach method used was an ethnographic descriptive qualitative with ethnoscientific analysis model. The data was collected using in-depth interview with selected informant. The sample of research was the farmer community of South coastal area of Kebumen Regency. The result of research showed that folklore in farmer community contained local wisdoms: 1) local cultural, 2) local spiritual. 3) local educative, 4) local symbolic, 5) local economic, 6) local practical, and local historic. In addition to containing local wisdom, folklore also served as education to the next generation as preserving the wisdom inherent to farmer environment.

Keywords: local wisdom, folklore


The magnetic field-induced magnetic anisotropy and thickness dependence of magnetic properties in the nanocrystalline alloy "Finemet" were investigated. Compared with amorphous alloys, it was difficult to induce a magnetic anisotropy in Finemet at low temperatures. However, magnetic anisotropy in Finemet could be easily induced by annealing at temperatures above 700 K, and the anisotropy increased with increasing annealing temperature and time. The magnetic properties of Finemet at high frequencies were improved by decreasing the thickness. This thickness dependence was similar to that for Co-based amorphous alloys. Thin Finemet materials are especially suited for use in magnetic components for use at high frequencies, because of their low core losses and high permeability at high frequencies.


Like any other pediatric surgeon, Athena is often perplexed by the recalcitrant variety of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in newborn. Despite appropriate therapy, they relentlessly progress to death. These cases are often shelved with a label "fulminant NEC". [1] The mystery is slowly being unraveled by a recent series of articles on gastrointestinal mucormycosis of neonates (GIMN). GIMN masquerading as NEC is really an eye-opener.


Web page is the building blocks of websites, are documents, typically composed in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). Those plain text are then connected to a web server that can be accessed over a network such as the Internet, or a local area network (LAN) via the Internet addresses known as URL. By being in a web server, a website will be freely accessible to everyone. Freedom of access makes the website become the best promotional media today. Wide coverage into people is another reason to select a website as a media campaign. Desa Gerbosari which has many potential should be able to take advantage of the website as media promotion. With the web site of the village and community and village officials who are able to manage, Desa Gerbosari's potential will be well-publicized and attract tourists.


Objective:Through continuous monitoring,to understand the pollution status of chemical contaminants in food in Shiyan.Methods: Mornitoring network points were set up in large farmers markets,supermarkets and bazaars in Shiyan city.A total of 1852 food samples were detected for the content of heavy metal,pesticide residues and food additive according to the national standard method or "Inspection manual of food contaminants".Results: The total exceeded rate of heavy metals,aluminium,pesticide,additives in food were 4.08%,26.1%,6.02%,7.20%.Conclusion: The contamination of lead,cadmium,arsenic and mercury in food is at different levels in the city,thereinto,the kinds of food,such as meat and animal innards and eggs and their products(preserved eggs) are the high risk food contaminated by heavy metal;the situation of pesticide residues in vegetable is not optimistic in the city;the additives in food are still abused to varying degrees,all these remind the relevant departments to intensify inspection and supervision on some high-risk food.


Concrete is the fundamental element in the construction activity which advancement enhances the durability properties. To achieve the strength of concrete within short time various curing techniques are available. One such curing technique is exposing concrete to carbon dioxide gas. Carbon dioxide gas is the abundantly released gas from the industries which pollutes the environment & also a main reason for the greenhouse effect. By utilizing carbon dioxide gas in construction activities, environmental pollution can be minimized. This study is about the investigation of mechanical properties of basalt fibre reinforced concrete subjected to conventional and carbon dioxide curing methods. Specimens are prepared of M25 grade concrete with 0, 1, 2, and 3, 4 Kg/m3 basalt fibres. Compressive strength and split tensile strength tests are performed to specimens after 28 days of conventional curing and 2.5 hours of carbon dioxide curing.


The concept of making metamaterial zipper antenna to serve as an off- body antenna is proposed and the stimulations are carried out. The feeding point is located at the bottom and in order to be more specific it is around one of the variation and reflection coefficient as well as radiation pattern or brought by excitation at certain tooth of zipper. The radiation pattern is reconfigurable to some extent. A fractional bandwidth of 4.80 percent at 2.48 GHz of industrial, scientific and medical band with a gain of about 5dBi has been achieved. The stimulation result indicate reasonable agreement to that of stimulation in both matching performance and the radiation feature of metamaterial zipper antenna, which makes the antenna more promising candidate for body centric wireless communication device .


Defence reactions of desiccated cotyledonary somatic embryos and mature zygotic embryos of Abies numidica were tested by dual cultures with tester, fungus Phaeolus schweinitzii. Both types of embryos expressed defence reactions. Mutual comparisons of zygotic and somatic embryos showed important differences between defence reac tions against mycelial growth towards these embryos. Greater defence reactions were observed in zygotic embryos relative to defence found in somatic embryos.


Paul O'Leary's Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, c.1830–1880 provides a detailed and lively account of mid 19th-century processional culture. It takes us on a journey through Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Swansea and investigates the diversity and complexity of street procession in these towns. According to O'Leary, the period 1830–80 witnessed the growth, proliferation and democratisation of processional culture, including 'funeral processions, the celebrations of friendly societies, temperance processions' (p. 9) as well as protest processions run by groups such as the Welsh Chartists (see chapter 3). O'Leary demonstrates that processions were part of the everyday rhythms of community in Wales and that they provided a unique mode of kinetic commentary on social and political issues. Indeed, mid 19th-century processions were both 'exceptional and cumulatively routine' (p. 9), placing groups, individuals and societies on display. O'Leary's book is centred on five themes: how processional culture ordered, sobered, sacralised and diversified the streets of south Wales. In order to unpack and explore the contours of these themes, O'Leary turns to Chartists, Friendly Societies, temperance movements, and a number of religious denominations under the rubric of Anglicanism, Non-Conformism and Catholicism for his material.


AbstractKnowledge based and mechanistic models for correcting carbon potential using an oxygen sensor (CPUOS) are considered. Although CPUOS is widely used, there usually exists a deviation between the true and measured values. Therefore it is important to establish a valid correction model. Experiments were designed and carried out to generate data for modelling and to identify the main influencing factors. Both single and multivariable knowledge models have been established using the support vector machine approach. Guided by these models, a mechanistic model based on the relevant theory of carbon potential has been built up.


Recent interest in global citizenship and civic responsibility illustrates a commitment to learning in ways that extend beyond the classroom (see Mayhew and Fernandez; Miller, et al.). Service learning is no stranger to this milieu. According to the National Service-learning Clearinghouse, "Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities" ("What Is Service Learning?"). Service-learning brings together "academic" expertise and experiential learning to create new ways of viewing the world (Mitchell; Moely, et al.; Rosenberger). Further, these opportunities afford students with the ability to engage in real rhetorical situations with real people (Deans; Rhoads). Implicit are assumptions about the potentials of these situations to create conditions of and for connection and engagement; these rhetorical situations position students and teachers to care. The complex role of care in service learning sites has to this point been highly invisible—with the exception of personal narratives revealing success. In these narratives, pedagogues discuss their ability to create effective assignments and readings that solidify students' engagement with others, and those who conduct service are lauded for their ability to "care" (Keller, Nelson, and Wick; Bay). However, these practices potentially reify rather than alter relationships of power and privilege (Densmore; Himley). In this essay, I explore how care—as an ethic, practice, and value—is represented through students' accounts of their experiences in a themed writing course with a designated service-learning component. I bring to light how students see, value, and define what constitutes effective practices of care. My purpose is to make visible how exposure to carefully crafted readings, assignments, and discussions produce both possibilities and conflicts when attempting to cultivate care. My work poses new directions for complicating relationships between care ethics and service-learning and reveals a strong commitment to pedagogical scholars' call for critical reflection (Rice and Pollack; Rosenberger; O'Grady; King).


The duskytail darter, Etheostoma (Catonotus) sp., is a relict species warranting protected status. Adults and juveniles in Little River, Tennessee were most abundant in pools among cobbles and small boulders. Most males and females reached sexual maturity at 1 yr of age. Sexual dichromatism and dimorphism were conspicuous only in breeding fish. Mean clutch size was 27, and females in aquaria produced multiple clutches. Estimates of spawning frequency ranged from 5-7 clutches/yr, and fecundity from 135-189. Spawning occurred beneath slab-shaped stones from late April-June at water temperatures from 17-24 C. Females remained inverted during spawning, and males inverted for 0.5-4.0 sec at mean intervals of 3.9 min. Single-layer clusters of 23-150 eggs (mean diameter = 2.8 mm) deposited on the undersides of stones by one or more females were guarded by males until hatching (11-14 d at 18-27 C). Larvae developed prominent stellate melanophores on top of the head. Early growth was rapid, males grew faster than females, and maximum age attained was 2 yr. The estimated population of the 200 m study reach was 1023 duskytail darters. Diet consisted mainly of microcrustaceans, chironomid larvae, and heptageniid nymphs. Excessive siltation and water quality degradation threaten this population.


Abstract Selective deacylation of N,N-disubstituted alkyl carbamates over N-monosubstituted alkyl carbamates can be achieved in excellent yield by the addition of three equivalents of methyl lithium.


"Routine to Research" (R2R) is well known for Thai research related to the development of routine works of medical and public health practitioners. R2R research contains useful practical knowledge beneficial to the health of Thai people. However, this knowledge cannot be shared easily because it is unstructured and not classified text, moreover, no tool for R2R Thai knowledge sharing yet. In this research, we attempt to use text mining techniques to get insights of R2R research data and the K4ThaiHealth is first implemented as a prototype for basic R2R knowledge sharing. A set of basic medical corpus are developed using Thai medical International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD10TM) and several resources. They are used for R2R Thai medical text classification and key terms relationship extraction. The results are classified into diseases, organs, symptoms, and others. K4ThaiHealth is then used as a knowledge sharing prototype to offer health and medical practice knowledge extracted from R2R data sharing to Thai people. R2R WordCloud and R2R WordNet are used to display the diseases knowledge extracted from R2R research data and their relationships to diseases, organs, symptoms and others are visualized.


Great progress has been made in the genetic improvement and seed production of Casuarina spe- cies through the researches during the last several years.This paper briefly reviews the major achievements in- cluding genetic variation and provenance selection,establishment of production population and breeding popu- lation,vegetative propagation and clonal forestry,emphatically discuss the important items on provenance study and extension,breeding zone development,protection and utilization of superior gene resources,resistance breeding,multi-aimed breeding and breeding plan etc.,and put forward certain views to benefit the future breedings of Casuarina species in China.


Abstract : A new conjugated rigid-rod polyquinoline, poly (2,2'-p-phenylene)-6,6'-bis(4-(p-tert-butylphenyl)quinoline)), was synthesized and its thin film was used as the emissive layer in light-emitting diodes. The electroluminescent devices, also containing 1,1-bis(di-4-tolylaminophenyl)cyclohexane dispersed in polystyrene as the hole-transport layer, emitted bright yellow light (lambda(max)=554 nm) with a quantum efficiency of 0.16% photons/electron, and a luminance of 200 cd/m2 at a current density of 120 mA/sq cm. These results demonstrate that the new polyquinoline is a good n-type (electron transport) electroluminescent material.


Fish and lobster embankment was main occupation of most of Lamongan regency people. So far they always used fabricated pellet as a fish and lobster food. And this food supplied by broker. There was a dependency between people and broker. This dependency caused problem, that was, broker could rise up the price of pellet whenever he wanted. At the other side, the use of fabricated pellet in long time will made embankment media in satiation condition. This condition will made many fishes and lobsters died in growth period and the death up to 40%. Gapoktan was a group of people who explored and invented the alternative fish and lobster food. This alternative food was made of natural raw material so it reduced the death until 20%. With this alternative food they wanted to be independent in fish and lobster food procurement. They wanted have alternative pellet. But they didn't have sciences and technologies to make it. This research was designed to overcome their problem. Designing the extruder machine was the answer of their problem. Designing was done based on the ergonomic concepts. Finally, was known this machine capacity up to 672 kg/day. It means that the machine could fulfill the minimum need of fish and lobster food. There were two variance of diameter of pellet, that was five and three millimeters with five until ten millimeter long. With this alternative pellet, they could save 50.8% food procurement cost or equal Rp 6,097/kg. Kata kunci: rancang bangun, mesin granul, pakan ikan dan udang


The sperm production (milt volume and spermatozoa concentration) and sperm motility characteristics (percentage of motile spermatozoa and duration of motility) were measured in order to assess the milt quality between hormone A (sGnRH-a with domperidone ) and hormone B ( sGnRH-a with domperidone and Benzyl alcohol ) stimulated African catfish, Clarias gariepinus. Six male broodstock were used, three were injected with hormone A and three with hormone B intramuscularly, eight hours after injection these fish were dissected to obtain their milt and the milt parameters were examined. Results showed that hormone A stimulated C. gariepinus produce more milt and the spermatozoa were more active than the hormone B simulated C. gariepinus.


This study evaluated cell mediated immunity of atorvastatin in rats.Cell mediated immunity was evaluated by haematological parameters and by studying phagocytic activity of PMN cells. The atorvastatin (10 mg/ kg) increased cellular immunity as compared to control (p 0.05).The study demonstrates that atorvastatin used in this study stimulates cell mediated immunity.


Technology of electric field (EF) control of magnetic properties is attractive for spintronic devices. In particular, it has been shown that the EF can change the magnetization and the magnetic anisotropy. According to an experimental study, an EF less than 0.1V/nm causes a large change of 40% in the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) of the Fe/Au(001) film. Also, another experimental study using the Co/Pt(111) film in the EF has shown that the Curie temperature of the film is changed up to 6K by applying an EF of about +0.2V/nm while down to 6K by applying an EF of about 0:2V/nm. A first-principles study of the MAE in the EF for the Fe/ Pt(001) film was carried out; it has been found that the change in the MAE is in proportion to the EF with the slope rate of 0.03meV/Fe per V/nm for Fe/Pt(001). Another firstprinciples study of the MAE in the EF for the Fe monolayer was carried out; it has been found that the MAE is affected considerably by applying the EF. On the other hand, to our knowledge, there are no first-principles studies of the Co/ Pt(111) film in the EF although the Co films are as important as the Fe films. In this study, we investigate the magnetic properties of the Co/Pt(111) film in the EF carrying out the first-principles calculations. We take account of the EF by introducing electrode far above Co/Pt(111) and changing the total number of electrons in the film. We calculate the spin moments and the numbers of electrons of the constituent atoms as well as the MAE of the film self consistently. We employ the fully relativistic full-potential linearcombination-of-atomic-orbitals method based on the density-functional theory within the local spin density approximation. The exchange-correlation energy functional used in this study is the Perdew–Wang parameterization of the Ceperley–Alder results. As shown in Fig. 1, the Pt(111) surface is modeled by a three-layer slab. We denote the Pt atoms in the top, middle, and bottom Pt layers by Pt(I), Pt(II), and Pt(III), respectively. We assume hcp stacking of the Co adlayer on the Pt(111) surface because the Co adatom prefers to occupy an hcphollow site on the Pt(111) surface. We use the lattice constant of the triangular lattice, 2.78 A, which is calculated from the lattice constant of fcc Pt, 3.92 A. All the interlayer distances between adjacent atomic layers of Co/Pt(111) are optimized calculating the forces acting on the Co and Pt atoms in the absence of the EF. The optimized interlayer distances are shown in Fig. 1. The EF is applied as follows. We change the total number of electrons in the film; we denote this change per Co atom by N. We introduce the following external potential originated in the electrode shown in Fig. 1:


Modern construction techniques and the changes they have engendered in the construction process, toghether with the increasing use of finite element programs, warrant a review of the validity of current creep and shrinkage provisions. Based upon a survey of published experimental data, equations were developed to calculate the modulus of elasticity, shrinkage, and creep coefficient in terms of developed concrete strength. The time function used was the product of a Ross-type relationship for size effects and logarithmic time. The proposed equations, together with those recommended by ACI 209-82 and the CEB 1990 Model Code, are compared with the published data.


The geoseismic interpretation of seismic lines from the East Govi, Tamtsag, and Choibalsan basins of eastern Mongolia illustrates basin development from typical rift geometry through fault subsidence, to a phase of wrench structuration and fault-block inversion. These eastern Mongolian basins are located in an accretion zone to the south of the Siberian craton. They are close to a number of similar Chinese intraplate basins. In particular, the geology of the Songliao basin is well documented and the Mongolian basins appear to have a similar geological history. The good-quality seismic response allows identification of the following features characteristic of different phases of the evolution of the basins: (1) rift fill sequences with typical chaotic to divergent seismic configuration on the edges of V-shaped grabens, (2) the oblique and sigmoidal internal seismic configuration of a prograding delta system, (3) parallel seismic reflectors in the center of the subsiding basins (By analogy with the adjacent Chinese basins these sediments are thought to consist of low-energy lacustrine sediments. In the Songliao basin these deposits are important source beds and it is likely that they represent the source of oils known in the East Govi basin), (4) deep fossil river erosion and subsequent infill, (5)more » wrench-type fault patterns, associated intrusions, and inversion of fault blocks, and (6) limited Neogene subsidence as a result of uplift due to interplate collision.« less


Because there has been little empirical evidence to back up patients' stories, chemobrain has been met with skepticism by the medical community and has been a painful puzzle for many patients who couldn't quite put a name to what they were feeling. This cognitive impairment—characterized by loss of memory and stumbling on words, among other symptoms—has come to be known as "chemobrain" or "chemofog."


for the Faith'. The author first gives a short history of the foundation of the Society with frequent quotations from the writings of its first members and then, using these same sources, he collects together from the Society's early literature the various characteristics or marks of its spirit (humility, piety, joy, charity, etc.), thus giving a faithful account of the 'first spirit' of the Society. An analysis of this 'first spirit' shows how these same ideals, by which the Society of St Vincent de Paul achieved so much for the preservation and spread of the Faith at a critical moment of the Church's history in France, are the very weapons which the Church would have us use to stem the growing evil in the world to-day. It is hoped that this little book will do much for the Society, not only by giving its members a greater realization of the importance of their work for the Church, but also by bringing before others the scope of the activities of the Society of St Vincent de Paul and thus extending its influence yet further. J.B.G.


The purpose of this study was to examine the interval vacation industry and to identify the key soft amenity factors that impact the vacation enjoyment of the owners. The methodology used in this study provides a unique perspective on key interval vacation attributes. The open-ended format used to generate the key vacation attributes identified several unique dimensions, especially for the interval vacationer. Interval vacation owners rated clean, functioning recreation areas most important to their vacation satisfaction--but 4 of the top 5 attributes focused on interactions between owners and staff. Results showed that communication, a vital link in any management equation, made the top 10 list of services important to a quality interval vacation experience. While the findings of this study provide a clear understanding of those soft amenities most important to interval owner vacation enjoyment, additional research is needed to fully explain these attributes.


This study aims at using the science and the technique, known nowadays, at the service of the Liturgy and of the holy architecture. In addition to this, its second goal is to investigate completely, on some general acoustic aspects that can be founded inside liturgical rooms, without overlooking the historical-architectural aspects regarding the difference "kinds" of manufactures and materials in relation to the specific liturgical needs. According to this, an interesting simulation of sound diffusion inside the Sanctuario of Altavilla Milicia, defined by the Cardinal S. De Giorgi "the first and most notorious Marian place of veneration belonging to the Church of Palermo", was performed. By means of this simulation, the acoustic parameters of the ecclesial room were taken, in compliance to the standards UNI EN ISO 3382/1997 (Measurements of enclosed environments Reverberation Time with reference to other acoustic parameters).