The beginnings of machine translation in Canada can be dated to 1965: that year while the ALPAC committee was preparing the infamous report that would decimate MT around the world for years to come, the National Research Council of Canada blithely decided to fund two machine translation projects, one at the University of Saskatchewan and the other at the University of Montreal. The Saskatchewan project came to an end a few years later; but the CETADOL project in Montreal (which later changed its name to TAUM) went on to become a world leader in the field.


The high-speed data acqu isition technology and method are deeply reseacged.The 4-ch annel parallel data acquisition arch itecture is proposed based on VHDL.The low-speed,low-cost analog/digital con version devices are adopted to realized the 400MSa/s high-speed data acquisition.The designe d digital storage oscilloscope card has shown high-speed,large capacity data ac quisition and oscilloscope functions.


We develop a model that derives "screening" and "incentive" effects of credit information systems that mitigate problems of adverse selection and moral hazard in credit markets. We also derive a "credit expansion" effect in which borrowers with clean credit records receive larger and more favorable equilibrium loan contracts. The credit expansion effect increases default rates, but does not overwhelm the reduction in portfolio default from screening and incentive effects. We create a simulation model which allows us to examine the relative magnitudes of these effects in relation to the order in which they occur. Our results indicate that a substantial portion of the positive effects of a bureau can be realized through the publicity of a bureau prior to its implementation. We then use loan-level data from the rollout of a credit information system used by a Guatemalan microfinance lender to show that this credit expansion effect partly, but not fully, counteracts the positive screening and incentive effects from the system.


The Federal Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 authorizes the Farm Board to stabilize the prices of agricultural products so that "agriculture will be placed on a basis of equality with other industries." To that end, the Board is empowered to establish stabilization corporations backed by an initial fund of $500,000,000. This function of the Farm Board is the culmination of a long campaign by the agricultural group to have the government, directly or indirectly, take a hand in the agricultural price situation. Stabilization has been the most popular form of proposed farm relief, yet the term itself has been one of those happy phrases of wide appeal but of very indefinite meaning. The general feeling among farmers has been that stabilizing prices meant increasing the prices for farm products which are paid to the farmer. To economists prices are unstable, and hence open to possible stabilization, when they have departed from some equilibrium. The nature of that equilibrium varies from the day to day market equilibrium to the very long time normal price or equilibrium. Between these extremes there are all degrees of equilibria, varying with the time period considered. The purpose of this discussion is to examine the meaning, and theoretical assumptions, of price stabilization as outlined in the Federal Agricultural Marketing Act and exemplified in the policies of the Farm Board. What type of market (competitive or otherwise) for agricultural products does the stabilization program assume? How does the Board relate the policy of conscious stabilization by combined governmental and producer action, to the type of market assumed? What is the Board's idea of the equilibrium or point around which prices are to be stabilized and how is this equilibrium located objectively? The beginning of the answers to these questions lies in the Farm Board's published statement regarding the meaning of stabilization. (595)


Complex systems often produce unanticipated emergent behavior as a result of the interactions between behaviorally complex sub-systems or agents. The sub-systems may be human or artificial. They may be co-located or geographically distributed and operate autonomously. Although the individual sub-systems may be tested and certified for high levels of reliability (e.g. 10-7), interactions between the sub-systems may occur so that emergent behaviors allow the system to migrate into an unsafe operating region. This may occur even when all of the sub-systems are behaving nominally and no equipment has failed. This phenomenon is called a "functional complexity failure." In this paper, we present an analysis of a functional complexity failure that resulted in a runway excursion and discuss the options for detecting and mitigating the conditions for these "normal accidents" before the accident occurs.


We propose and axiomatize a new model of preferences that achieves a separation between ambiguity, identified as a characteristic of the decision maker's subjective information, and ambiguity attitude, a characteristic of the decision maker's tastes.


Thiuram (DPTT, TMTD), thiazole (MBT, MBTS), sulfenamide (CBS, NOBS), and zinc containing thiuram (dithiocarbamate) (ZDBC) type accelerators were added into silica and carbon black filled natural rubber (NR) compounds. Their effects on vulcanization time and rate were compared. The vulcanization rate of thiuram type accelerator added compounds showed the fastest rate, followed by thiazole and sulfenamide types. Silica filled natural rubber (NR) compounds showed a slower vulcanization time (ts2, t10, t90) and lower cure rate index (CRI) than carbon black filled ones upon each accelerator.


At the core of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals lies his 'derivation' of the categorical imperative: his attempt to establish that, if there is a supreme principle of morality, then it is this imperative. Kant's argument for this claim is one of the most puzzling in his corpus. The received view, championed by Aune and Allison, is that there is a fundamental gap in the argument, which Kant elides by means of a simple but deadly confusion, thus robbing the argument of all validity. We will here contest the received view, as well as Korsgaard's alternative interpretation of the argument. In place of these positions we will offer a reconstruction of the derivation which reveals its coherence and force. We will show that it illuminates some interesting grounds for rejecting certain candidates, including a utilitarian principle, for status as the supreme principle of morality. While certainly not free of all defects, the argument will be shown to be far more powerful and interesting than it has commonly been held to be.


Active control over visual targets has been shown to influence spatial aspects of visual perception (eg, flash lag effect: Ichikawa & Masakura, 2006). We investigated whether or not observers' manual control over target motion affects the pattern of perceptual biases in audio/visual stream/bounce (Sekuler, Sekuler & Lau, 1997) displays. Participants completed four conditions: 1) zero control 2) full manual control over the targets via a concurrent left to right movement of a computer mouse 3) participants thought they were controlling the targets but were not 4) participants moved the mouse to accompany the target motion but were aware this motion was unrelated to the motion on the display. Participants responded "stream" or "bounce" at the end of each sequence when a sound was present or absent when the targets superimposed. Bouncing dominated when a sound was presented in the zero control condition replicated previous stream/bounce studies. The effect was reduced in the remaining conditions, though no sound trials elicited significantly fewer bounce reports than sound trials. These results support and extend our previous work (Grove & Sakurai, 2009) showing that the influence of a sound on the resolution of a motion sequence persists when proprioceptive information is consistent with streaming.


Acceleration of in-core LU decomposition of symmetrical dense MoM matrices by using multiple GPUs in parallel is presented in this paper. Memory limitations of GPUs are overcome by using block LU decomposition, where the entire system matrix is stored in CPU RAM, while only processed blocks are stored in GPU VRAM. The presented algorithm for LU decomposition enables highly efficient utilization of an arbitrary number of GPUs. Comparison of performance of up to 4 GTX 680 GPUs and up to 4 GTX 1080 Ti GPUs is shown. Presented results show that a symmetrical dense MoM matrix with 100 000 complex unknowns in single precision can be LU decomposed in about 3.5 minutes, on a personal computer equipped with 4 GTX 1080 Ti GPUs.


The progress and development of a region's economic development can be measured using economic growth. Economic growth can be influenced through labor, HDI, and poverty so that it can have an impact on the economic growth of a region. This study uses independent variables are labor, HDI, and poverty. Dependent variable in this study is economic growth. Times serries this study are 2014-2018 and cross section this study in district and city at Jawa Timur Province. This study used panel methode and used multiple linier regresion. The result from the study is aimed variables labor, HDI, and poverty have a significan impact to economic growth. Economic Growth can grows well if labor and HDI are in positive condition, and poverty is in a decreasing condition.


R. A. Popat, S. K. Van Den Eeden, C. M. Tanner, F. Kamel, D. M. Umbach, K. Marder, B. Ritz, G. Webster Ross, H. Petrovitch, B. Topol, V. McGuire and L. M. Nelson Department of Health Research and Policy, Division of Epidemiology, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Division of Research, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Oakland, CA; The Parkinson s Institute, Sunnyvale, CA; Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH Research Triangle Park, NC; Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH Research Triangle Park, NC; Department of Neurology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY; The Gertrude H Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System, Honolulu, HI and The Pacific Health Research Institute, Honolulu, HI, USA


This empirical study compared the average ages at which four children with congenital blindness acquired 29 verbal skills with given age norms for sighted children. The results indicated only small developmental delays in the acquisition of verbal skills in the four children, but a high degree of variability in developmental delays within and across nine categories of verbal skills.


Shielding of personnel and sensitive electronic equipment on a space vehicle from radiation damage becomes more important when the space vehicle moves beyond the Earth's atmosphere for an extended time interval.


Governments and health officials think their job is to stop people panicking. They do this by telling people not to panic and by making emphatic pronouncements that the risk of community transmission is very low or that we are well prepared. But they over-reassure. We say "over-reassure" because this tactic does not eliminate fear and it disastrously erodes trust if it fails to address the complex reality that underlies simple statements, or worse, if it is later proven to be wrong.


The statistical approach to modeling of process of microfilming from papers is reasonable, the generalized model is created, the complex of necessary researches is established, resultants target information characteristics of quality are chosen.


Tsvetaeva was one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century, recognized as an equal by Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. There is little in English literature to equal the violence of her emotion, the ferocity of her expression, and the completeness of her self-exposure. In her lyrical sequence "Poem of the End," for example, Tsvetaeva inspired by the end of an intense extramarital affair throws away all dignity when her lover declares they must part:


This paper conducts a corpus-based study of the occurrence/non-occurrence, structural pattern, and forms of the premodifier in the Nigerian English noun phrase, comparing the scenarios that emerge with those of the British and Ghanaian varieties of English. These three phenomena, which are crucial to the nature of premodifier in new varieties of English, are investigated in relation to predictors representing syntactic function, register, post-dependent syntactic weight, and animacy, showing, among other things, the extent to which structural complexity/simplicity is present in the structure of the premodifiers studied. Corpus findings indicate that premodifiers are more likely to occur (53%) than not (47%) and that simple premodifiers (i.e. one-word premodifier structural pattern (79%)) are significantly preferred to complex premodifiers (i.e. two-word at 17% and longer patterns at 4%). Relating to form, single premodifiers are most likely to be realized as adjectives. It is also found that the alternation between simple and complex premodifiers is most strongly predicted by the syntactic functions that the NP performs, as well as the syntactic weight present in the post dependent slot. Register, which is reputed as a very strong indicator of structural variation (Schils and De Haan 1993; Biber et al. 2007; Schilk and Schaub 2016) is outweighed by syntactic function and post-dependent weight.


These days suicides are being committed by students at all three levels of schooling. This serious problem is one that we should respond to as quickly as possible. Pediatric depression is a potential source of this problem. Previously, we have reported a simple diagnosis of the depressed state using facial expression cognition in the case of adults. There we implemented a self‐diagnostic inspection that can be carried out easily in a short time for the screening of depression. In this report, we examine whether the method we developed for adults may be applied to children as a fast and effective response to the big problem of pediatric depression. Through this examination, we hope that we can respond quickly to the problem of suicides by students in schools at all three levels caused by depression. Moreover, we can respond to a situation in which the school and parents do not understand the children's mental state that contributes heavily to these acts. From this response, we can evolve a better support system. Furthermore, we examine an application that uses a hand phone to improve the early stages of detection and evolve a support system through the increased number of users. Copyright © 2007 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate the role and mechanism of bombesin receptor subtype 3 (BRS-3) in the proliferation and protection against injury of human brochial epithelial cells (HBECs).

METHODS
Effect of P3513 (a specific agonist of BRS-3) on the proliferation of HBECs was observed by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) method; the release rate of 3H-Udr, and LDH activity, catalase activity, and the expression of cadherin and integrin beta1 were also analyzed under O3 stress with or without P3513 treatment.

RESULTS
The proliferation of HBECs was accelerated by P3513 in a concentration-dependent manner (10(-9) approximately 10(-7) mol/L). Ozone stress could promote the release rate of 3H-Udr, and LDH activity, which could be inhibited by P3513. P3513 could promote the activity of catalase. The effect of proliferation and protection against injury caused by P3513 could be inhibited by W7 (calmodulin inhibitor), PD98059 (tyrosin kinase inhibitor) and H89 (PKA inhibitor). P3513 could stimulate the expression of caderin and integrinbeta1 of ozone-stressed HBECs.

CONCLUSION
Activation of BRS-3 caused by P3513 may play an important role in protecting HBECs from oxidant injury, and the signal pathway is possibly relevant to Ca2+, MEK and PKA.


Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa (CPN) is a benign form of vasculitis of small and medium sized arteries without systemic involvement. Moreover, this entity is very rare in children. It usually manifest, as subcutaneous tender nodules, livedo reticularis, and ulcerations as predominant features while myalgia, arthralgia, peripheral neuropathy, and general symptoms such as malaise and fever may also be present in many cases. Here we report a case of a 12-year-old boy with erythema of distal phalanges and gangrene of one fingertip on the left hand as unusual initial manifestation of CPN.


We report the results of long-slit spectroscopy of the wind-blown bubble and photo-evaporating knots around the 06.5111f star BD+6002522 made with the HST-Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The Of star is the primary ionizing source for the H II region NGC 7635, located in the Perseus Arm. The spectra were taken through a (l'2 x 52" slit with low and medium resolution gratings covering the wavelength range 2900-6870A. Observations with two slit orientations were made; one across the line of embedded knots to the west of the Of star and the second running from the Of star across the bubble to the NE. The 2D-STIS spectra permit us to subtract the surrounding H II region's diffuse emission from that of the knots and the bubble, and to study the spatial variations in various emission lines in these features to a resolution of r--.J 0'.'2, an order of magnitude improvement over the best ground-based spectra of this object in the literature. We present high spatial-resolution emission-line and lineratio profiles across the bubble and knots, and compare them with the predicted variations from photo-ionization, photo-evaporation, and wind-shock models. We also present an analysis of temperatures, densities, and abundances in the features from higher SIN spectra extracted over selected lengths of the slit.


Grid dispersion is one of the criteria of validating the finite element method (FEM) in simulating acoustic or elastic wave propagation. The difficulty usually arisen when using this method for simulation of wave propagation problems, roots in the discontinuous field which causes the magnitude and the direction of the wave speed vector, to vary from one element to the adjacent one. To solve this problem and improve the response accuracy, two approaches are usually suggested: changing the integration method and changing shape functions. The Finite Element iso-geometric analysis (IGA) is used in this research. In the IGA, the B-spline or non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) functions are used which improve the response accuracy, especially in one-dimensional structural dynamics problems. At the boundary of two adjacent elements, the degree of continuity of the shape functions used in IGA can be higher than zero. In this research, for the first time, a two dimensional grid dispersion * : يكينورتكلا تسپ ،تابتاكم لوئسم : firstname.lastname@example.com


This paper presents a simulation framework for liquid wetting across porous textiles with anisotropic inner structure. The textile is composed by intersected fibers and forms capillary pores in the void space, which provides an important force to drive the diffusion by capillary action. The influence of the properties of the textile on the wetting process, such as contact angle, hygroscopicity and porosity, is considered into the liquid wetting process in detail. By liquid-textile coupling, the wetting process is simulated through liquid absorption/desorption by fiber and liquid diffusion in the means of inner fiber, intersected fibers and capillary action. The second Fick's law is used to describe the non-steady wetting process. Based on the SPH method for fluid simulation, this framework can simulate the liquid wetting across the porous textile by dripping single or multiple drops of water. We also demonstrate the wetting process with the influence of different properties of the textile.


Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDN), previously described as blastic NK cell lymphoma and CD4 +/ CD56 + hematodermic neoplasm is an aggressive hematologic malignancy with poor prognosis. We report a patient with BPDN who developed multiple recurrences and eventually leukemic progression. The patient died of disease 31 months after initial diagnosis. Long term survival for BPDN is poor despite multiple regimens of chemotherapy and bone marrow stem cell transplant. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jmc829w


Among the different types of organic semiconducting materials, porphyrins, DPPs and BODIPYs based small molecules and conjugated polymers have attracted high interest as efficient semiconducting organic materials for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) and bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells. Interestingly, they offer a synergistic effect when used together within a material, this coming from high complementarities of their absorption spectra, adapted prerequisites in order to be efficient energy transfer partners, and suitable frontier orbitals energy levels. We have recently designed different porphyrins, DPPs and BODIPYs based electron donor small molecules/polymers for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (Figure), and now report their synthesis as well as the study of their electrochemical, photophysical and photovoltaic properties.
 The "Consulat Général de France à Québec" and the "Programme Samuel de Champlain 2015/2016" are acknowledged for funding. We are thankful to Prof. P. D. Harvey (Université de Sherbrooke, CA) for PhD co-supervising and photophysical measurements.
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Creatinine has long been used as a basis for urinary excretion studies of drugs and metabolites. Nevertheless, the validity of this has been seriously challenged by Paterson (4), whose findings were confirmed by Scott and Hurley in adults (5) and by Applegarth, Hardwick and Ross in children (1). These authors found that evaluation of urinary creatinine output cannot replace the practice of careful timing of 24-hour specimens as a basis of excretion rate. However, collection of well-timed specimens in ambulant psychiatric patients usually presents a great deal of difficulty.


As a firm transforms from a small enterprise towards 50 or more individuals, organizational structure is essential to its sustainability. It is important as the firm grows to develop a firm that can transform from the small survival, often chaotic, staged firm of the individual entrepreneur and staff to one that can scale up to maintain the original reasons for the firm's initial success. This will require the development of a platform of multiple leaders, staff hierarchy, a culture development program, and consistent management policies in order to ensure success for the long term, no matter how large the firm grows.


Objective: have been done among workers in Africa. This study aimed to estimate metabolic prevalence among Campus Police workers of Yaounde I University, Cameroon. Methods: between 20 in Yaounde. Metabolic syndrome was diagnosed using Adult Treatment Pan guidelines. Results: (54.72%), High blood pressure level (41.51%) and abdominal obesity (20.75%) were respectively the commonest metabolic syndrome f metabolic syndrome, respectively. A high proportion of the workers (79.25%) has at least one metabolic syndrome abnormality. Conclusion: Yaounde I University, a high proportion of them are Annual Medical check should be an efficient measure for


This paper presents a technique for measuring surface roughness (Ra ), using photometric stereo method. The method utilizes three or more images of the measured surface from the same viewpoint, taken sequentially under different illumination conditions. The scenes captured by the camera were reconstructed by the least square method to obtain surface normal from surface topography. Three-dimensional surface textural patterns were recovered from those surface normal. The system was validated with five standard surface roughness specimens. The Ra calculated from the recovered surface was compared with the values measured from contacting roughness measurement (stylus instrument). The best coefficient of the slant angles can also be determined through the linear regression. The experimental results indicate that the technique can be applied to well recover standard surface roughness.


ABSTRACT Motorcycle taxis in Guatemala City are a form of transportation in which the customer pays to ride as the pillion. For a modest amount of money, Guatemalans can avoid road traffic by riding in between idling cars. Clients and drivers alike call this maneuver "eating traffic." The colloquialism captures a reversal in which commuters dominate traffic rather than traffic dominating them. This article, in response, assesses ethnographically the affective terrain of traffic in Guatemala City. Of interest is how eating traffic opens a window into the city as a field of emotions characterized by a constant, deeply felt desire to flee, to escape – to be anywhere but here.


In 1989 an agreement was signed between IBM-Mid Hudson Valley Education (with sites at Kingston and Poughkeepsie, New York) and the SUNY College at New Paltz to organize an educational program for the company's technicians that would include up to the first 45 credits of the BSEE curriculum. A pilot project was designed to provide instruction in introduction to engineering, calculus, physics, Fortran programming, differential equations, and beginning circuit analysis over a 15-month period. After some experimentation a format emerged which allowed 62% of the students to successfully complete the program while continuing to function in their jobs. Considerable acceleration of the course of study seems to be possible by means of carefully planned logistics; however, faster-paced courses did not work very well within the framework of the pilot project. A few courses may need to be modified to better serve this particular student population.<<ETX>>


We describe a novel lab based X-ray computed tomography system based on the architecture of X-ray Microscopes (XRM) used in synchrotron radiation facilities to be adapted for mineral processing and mineral liberation analysis. As this is a tomographic technique performed with an XRM, it is non-destructive and does not require complex preparation of polished sections typical of SEM-EDS techniques (such as MLA and QEMSCAN). It complements these existing techniques by providing 3D information and mineral liberation of multi-phase particles with much larger sample volume statistics but at a fraction of the time. In several applications, the technique is superior. These include the characterization of tailing loss in precious minerals; the characterization of porosity, particle size distribution, crack and pore network analysis during comminution, heap leaching and for texture and exposure/lock class analysis for floatation.


The current market situation of the organic intermediates used for manufacturing fine chemicals in Asia was reviewed in this paper, and the recent developments of the intermediate involving the industry in China and India were also introduced. Based on them, the key affecting the market of intermediate in Asia was pointed out, in order to possess an important reference value for the further development of intermediate industry in Asia.


This study was developed based on theoretical concepts such as existing campaign of recreating village, specialties of Culture Historic Village, performance administration system and performance indicators and related literature studies in order to evaluate outcomes of Culture Historic Village objectively. And then, technical experts, interested person of regional culture centers and village residents in thirteen village, where are promoting Culture Historic Village using developed performance indicators, were selected for questionnaire.


Abstract This article explores competing definitions of equality embedded in contending visions for regional finance in the Americas. The U.S. free market–oriented project envisions extension of a NAFTA-like regulatory framework hemispherewide, promising Latin Americans better financial services, credit, and investment in exchange for strong financial property protections and (implicitly) dramatically reduced financial policy autonomy for their governments. Venezuela's vision of "Bolivarian" finance, exported to the Caribbean and the upper Andes, promotes assertive state management of both foreign and domestic investors, populist redistribution, and increasing reliance on nonmarket financial transactions. Brazil's regional financial project would unite South America through continentwide physical infrastructure and capitalist financial markets while retaining a role for public sector banks responsive to central government priorities. Brazil's approach shares with Venezuela's an emphasis on governments' need for financial policy authority and with the U.S. approach a concern for regulatory predictability and financial deepening.


The following theorem was derived by S. Srinivasan:Finite group G is supersolvable, if every maximal subgroup of every Sylow subgroup of G is normal.In this paper, two extensions of Srinivasan's theorem are proved.Theorem 1 Finite group G is supersolvable, if every maximal subgroup of every Sylow subgroup of G is S-seminormal.A subgroup H of G is called S-seminormal if HK=KH for any Sylow subgroup K of G with (|H|, |K|)=1.Theorem 2 Finite group G is supersolvable, if every Sylow p-subgroup S of G has mD maximal subgroups which are S-quasinormal for each p||G|, whereA subgroup H of G is called S-quasinormal, if HK=KH for every subgroup K of G.


According to the prognoses of scientists in the future humanity will face the problem of the use and consumption of water. These days Central Asia has already faced this problem. Objective: to study the problem of water resources in Central Asia and their impact on the relationship between regional states, as well as offer recommendations for improving the joint use of water by the integrated management of water resources in Central Asia. Theory and research methods are based on a systematic and comparative analysis, which will allow the base of documentary and scientific sources, information, statistics, and conceptual development scientists and engineers to study the object and subject of study in a complex and dynamic, to identify the most important elements and their relationships. Due to the fact that the problems of sharing transboundary water resources affect different spheres of human activity, used as an interdisciplinary approach. Keywords: Central Asian security problems, water resources, transboundary rivers, environment;


The modeling capabilities of TURBO, an existing turbomachinery analysis code, have been extended to include the ability to solve the external and internal flow fields of a boundary-layer ingesting inlet. Flow solutions are presented and compared with experimental data for several high-Reynolds-number flows to validate the solver modifications. The upstream flowfield was coupled to a hypothetical compressor fan to present a fully developed distortion to the fan. Although the total pressure distortion upstream of the fan was symmetrical for this geometry, the pressure rise generated by the fan blades was not, because of the velocity nonuniformity of the distortion. Total pressure profiles at various axial locations are computed to identify the overall distortion pattern, how the distortion evolves through the blade passages and mixes out downstream of the blades, and where any critical performance concerns might be. Stall cells are identified that are stationary in the absolute frame and are fixed to the in...


Abstract— The cation deficient perovskite (Ba6Ti5O18) has been successfully synthesized using auto combustion technique. Thermal analysis of obtained powders is carried out to investigate the phase development and to optimize the preparation parameters. The evolution of the desired phase, its structure, lattice parameters and crystallite size variation as a function of calcinations/firing temperature have also been studied using XRD analysis.


310 We are fortunate to be literacy educators at a time when social and technological changes afford us unparalleled opportunities to communicate across global, linguistic, cultural, and semiotic boundaries. In this ever more socially networked and textually mediated world, we are increasingly conscious of our multilingual, multicultural, multinational, and multimodal uses and meanings for literacy. However, we are also increasingly conscious of tensions within and around the intersections of the local and the global in literacy studies, including efforts to implement onesize-fits-all curriculum and assessment, retreats from multiculturalism in education and policy, and debates over our rights to use and share digital media.


The goal of this book is to present the latest applications of machine learning, which mainly include: speech recognition, traffic and fault classification, surface quality prediction in laser machining, network security and bioinformatics, enterprise credit risk evaluation, and so on. This book will be of interest to industrial engineers and scientists as well as academics who wish to pursue machine learning. The book is intended for both graduate and postgraduate students in fields such as computer science, cybernetics, system sciences, engineering, statistics, and social sciences, and as a reference for software professionals and practitioners. The wide scope of the book provides them with a good introduction to many application researches of machine learning, and it is also the source of useful bibliographical information.


Abstract This research brings together two key areas, 'embodied geographies' and 'accidental ethnography'. 'Embodied geographies' involve making bodies central to geographical studies. 'Accidental ethnography' involves researchers having to (re)negotiate the initial terms of engagement in their fieldwork. By bringing together these two areas, we aim to enrich both. In order to do this, we focus on a research project that examines Bhutanese women and girl former refugees' experiences of settlement in Aotearoa New Zealand. When one of us – Sunita – visited participants in their homes for an interview, three families insisted that she stay overnight. Unexpectedly staying one or more nights meant that the researcher ended up getting closer – bodily and emotionally – to the participants than originally planned. This triggered some ethical issues, new research fieldnotes and research questions, added new layers of meaning to the project and created moments for the unspeakable to be spoken.


Objective: 4-hydroxycoumarin is a pivotal intermediate in synthesis of other 4-hydroxycoumarin derivatives.This article aims to investigate the optimal condition in synthesis of 4-hydroxycoumarin.Methods: The title compounds were synthesized from malonate and p-cresol.Orthogonal test was carried out to find out the optimal condition.Results and conclusion: The productivity under the optimal condition was improved significatly.Repeated tests showed that the optimal condition,which was found out,is perfect.


Despite their relatively low nutritive value, carbonated soft drinks remain widely consumed all over the world and their sales forecasts continue to show an upward trend. There are now several global players dominating the market; however, the segment still boasts a great potential for introducing new products.


Change can take many forms—and so can obstacles to change. And just as effective change is a creative force, so can be the ways to remove such obstacles. Obstacles to change range from bosses who disempower their employees to lack of information from the wrong performance measurement and reward systems to lack of self-confidence. But creative solutions to the problem of such obstacles are being found every day. This article presents case studies of organizations that have found some that work. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


This paper reviews the operating principle of the acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) and describes some of the recent progress. A ray tracing algorithm was derived that was used to determine the image aberration due to the AOTF. The calculated result is compared with the experimental result of the AOTF configured as an electronically tuned imaging spectrometer. Due to the recent progress of AOTF technology, a wideband (10 nm) visible AOTF with a one inch aperture is now realizable.


We investigate the effects of a statewide program designed to increase the supply of teachers in designated "hard†to†staff†areas, such as special education, math, and science. Employing a difference†in†difference estimator we find that the loan forgiveness component of the program was effective, reducing mean attrition rates for middle and high school math and science teachers by 10.4 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively. We also find that the impact of loan forgiveness varied with the generosity of payments; when fully funded, the program reduced attrition of special education teachers by 12.3 percent, but did not have a statistically significant impact when funding was substantially reduced. A triple†difference estimate indicates that a one†time bonus program also had large effects, reducing the likelihood of teachers' exit by as much as 32 percent in the short run. A back†of†the†envelope cost†benefit analysis suggests that both the loan forgiveness and the bonus program were cost effective.


Address on the Department of Energy's overall energy policy, the role of alternative energy sources within the policy framework, and expectations for geothermal energy. Commendation of the industry's decision to pursue the longer-term field effort while demand for geothermal energy is low, and thus prepare for a substantial geothermal contribution to the nation's energy security.


The experimental work of the investigation reported herein was consisted of tests on 24 Deck Pushout specimens and 2 solid Push-out specimens. And strenght of concrete(Fc=180 kg/cm)was used in the tests.From this study, we could find out the following conclusions.1. A case of deck ribs oriented perpendicular to steel beam.que-rib1=0.33/N.(w/h).(H+t)/H.que2. A case of deck ribs oriented parallel to steel beam.que-rib2=0.4(w/h).(H+t)/H.que3. A case of deck ribs oriented discontinual to steel beam.que-0.58AsFc.Ec


An exact set of equations describing deep-water irrotational surface gravity waves, originally proposed by Balk (Phys. Fluids, vol. 8 (2), 1996, pp. 416–420), and studied in the case of standing waves by Longuet-Higgins (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 423, 2000, pp. 275–291) and Longuet-Higgins (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A, vol. 457 (2006), 2001, pp. 495–510), are analytically examined and put in a form more suitable for practical applications. The utility of this approach is its simplicity. The Lagrangian is a low-order polynomial in the Fourier coefficients, leading to equations of motion that are correspondingly of low degree. The structure of these equations is examined, and the existence of solutions is considered. To gain intuition about the system of equations, a truncated model is first examined. Linear stability analysis is performed, and the evolution of the fully nonlinear system is discussed. The theory is then applied to fully resolved permanent progressive deep-water waves and a simple method for finding the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the normal modes of this system is presented. Potential applications of these results are then discussed.


A 59‐year‐old man developed a high fever, elevated white blood cell count, elevated C‐reactive protein level, and perineal pain 5 days after robot‐assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. Treatment with cefmetazole was ineffective. A urine specimen was submitted for culture on postoperative day 7, and Mycoplasma hominis (M. hominis) was detected 1 week later. Cefmetazole was therefore switched to quinolone. The clinical symptoms and laboratory data immediately showed marked improvement. M. hominis has been shown to inhabit the genitourinary tract. Although it is considered to induce urethritis, its pathogenicity in healthy male subjects has not been investigated. M. hominis is difficult to detect and is resistant to β‐lactams because it lacks a cell wall. Urine culture sometimes results in false‐negative results. In cases where empirical therapy for postoperative infection is ineffective, surgeons should recognize the possibility of M. hominis involvement and consider changing the antibiotic used.


The turbine flowmeter performance depends on the process fluid properties(mainly viscosity and density). For Gas Turbine Flowmeters, the density of the gas (which depends mainly on operating pressure) affects the performance of meter significantly. So, the calibration curve does not give correct results for pressures which are different from the calibration pressure. Hence, a method is required which can be used to get calibration curve for any operating condition if it ie known for one operating condition. Work has been done for this, for large meters but no work has been done for small flowmeters. So the present work deals with this problem for small gas turbine flowmeter. The experimental work was done to study the effect of density on the performance of a small gas turbine flowmeter and various graphs were drawn and conclusions made from them. Also, a theoretical model for giving the performance curve for meter at any operating condition, if it is known for one operating condition, is tested by comparing its predictions with the experimental results.


SUMMARY Increased skeletal muscle capillary density would be a logical adaptive mechanism to chronic hypoxic exposure. However, animal studies have yielded conflicting results, and human studies are sparse. Neoformation of capillaries is dependent on endothelial growth factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a known target gene for hypoxia inducible factor 1 (HIF-1). We hypothesised that prolonged exposure to high altitude increases muscle capillary density and that this can be explained by an enhanced HIF-1α expression inducing an increase in VEGF expression. We measured mRNA levels and capillary density in muscle biopsies from vastus lateralis obtained in sea level residents (SLR; N=8) before and after 2 and 8 weeks of exposure to 4100 m altitude and in Bolivian Aymara high-altitude natives exposed to approximately 4100 m altitude (HAN; N=7). The expression of HIF-1α or VEGF mRNA was not changed with prolonged hypoxic exposure in SLR, and both genes were similarly expressed in SLR and HAN. In SLR, whole body mass, mean muscle fibre area and capillary to muscle fibre ratio remained unchanged during acclimatization. The capillary to fibre ratio was lower in HAN than in SLR (2.4±0.1 vs 3.6±0.2; P<0.05). In conclusion, human muscle VEGF mRNA expression and capillary density are not significantly increased by 8 weeks of exposure to high altitude and are not increased in Aymara high-altitude natives compared with sea level residents.


The proliferation of information technologies has changed how Internet users around the world seek information. While information and communication technologies have transformed the structure of the Chinese economy, they have also brought challenges to the informational realms of everyday lives. However, there is a lack of empirical research exploring if users have encountered barriers in seeking online information for daily tasks. This mixed-methods study focuses on the disruptive influence of digital technologies on everyday information seeking practices, namely, the paradoxical co-existence of information overload and the lack of information sources. Results suggest that Chinese Internet users face a dilemma of receiving redundant online information and yet still experience a lack of high-quality information sources online. Findings from this research provide new perspectives of understanding the role of digital technologies in everyday life and also extend the dimensions of digital divides from internet access to disparities in information practices and experiences.


Background: Variations are more commonly seen in venous system as compared to arterial system. Varicosities are more commonly seen in the superficial veins of lower limbs. Methods: In the present study, thirty lower limbs were dissected superficially to study the course, tributaries and perforators of great saphenous vein. After exposing the vein, we took various measurements from saphenofemoral junction to the origin of various tributaries and perforators. Pattern of duplications were also reported. Results: The mean distance of tributaries and perforators were compared with the previous literature available. Patterns of duplication were also reported. Conclusions: Study of variations of great saphenous vein would be of immense help in planning varicose vein treatment and coronary artery bypass procedures where it is used as autograft. Therefore, the study will be helpful for surgeons, cardiologist and interventional radiologist.


"Abstract: While the emphasis of Gestalt therapy as a field theory was present in the earliest days, for most present day Gestaltists, the primary source of discussion on the theme is in the writings of Parlett (1991; 1997). Since these were published, there have been startling advances in our understanding of the neurological underpinning of human behaviour, which have both confirmed and added to our understanding of the field nature ofhuman consciousness and selflrood. In this article, I explore some ofthese advances and their implications for the development of a Gestalt field theory that is true to our tradition, and also in line with what we are currently discovering. Key words: field theory, neuroscience, mirror neurons, intersubjectivity, complexity, attachment."


DNA-based storage systems have been recently studied very well because the systems have ultra-high density and ultra-long endurance compared with traditional data storage media. DNA-based storage systems use a DNA strand which stores a subblock of an input data. Additionally, its infra-file location (an address or index of the subblock) is also stored to restore the input data from a set of DNA strands. In fact, the cost of the indices becomes large as input data size goes to large. Moreover, the cost of constructing DNA strands, called synthesizing, is expensive.In this paper, for reducing the cost of indices in DNA strands, we propose addressing information using data hiding (steganography) for DNA-based storage systems. The proposed algorithms embed an index to a subblock of an input data in a DNA strand, and the index block is removed from a DNA strand. We also evaluate the number of bits which can be embed to a subblock for variants of conventional DNA-based storage systems. The scheme of the proposed algorithm can be applied to embed not only addressing information but also some valuable information such as a summary and the copyright of the file to DNA strands.


This study focused on the comprehension of texts written either in Korean script (Hangul) or Chinese script (Hanja). For this purpose, we measured the reading time and the correct response in text comprehension tasks with 104 Korean-Chinese children who were either 10 or 19 years old. There was a main effect of script : The reading time of Hanja texts was shorter than that of Hangul or Hangul Hanja mixed texts. But the older subjects who spent the same reading time in both Hangul and Hanja texts showed the longer reading time in Hangul Hanja mixed texts revealing the interaction between age and script. The correct response rate on the comprehension task was the highest in Hangul text. The results were discussed in relation to the independent dual language processing systems in Korean-Chinese.


Monitoring data on gas-liquid chromatography (GCH) and chromato-mass spectrometric (HMS) qualitative and quantitative composition of organic pollutants in the snow cover of working zones and in the zones of influence of oil depots of the Republic are considered Sakha (Yakutia).However, the toxological activity of the snow cover of the working areas of the tank farms under study, determined by benzo(α)pyrene equivalent, is low and lies in the 2x10-3 area. t has been established that the content of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the snow cover of the zone of influence of enterprises does not exceed 150 micrograms/m2, the area of distribution of organic pollutants is directly related to the rose of winds in the area of the oil depot.


Now the cascaded H-bridge is widely used in the field of the static reactive power compensation and the photovoltaic grid connected inverter due to its unique topology, and its influence on power system is becoming more and more obvious. With the increase of power, the switching frequency decreases and the number of cascaded H-bridge increases, which leads to the increase of sampling delay and carrier phase shift delay in digital control. However, the delay will affect the output impedance of cascaded H-bridge, which affects the stability of cascaded H-bridge itself. Aiming at the influence of delay on the stability of cascaded H-bridge, this paper presents a modeling method of cascaded H-bridge sequence impedance considering sampling and carrier phase shift delay. This method deduces the functional relationship between the sampling, carrier phase shift delay and the output voltage of cascaded H-bridge arm side. Based on the switching model of three-phase N cascaded H-bridge circuit, the sequence impedance model of cascaded H-bridge converter is established, which can quantitatively reflect the influence of delay on the output impedance of cascaded H-bridge. Finally, the Simulink simulation platform of the three-phase cascaded H-bridge converter is constructed, and the sweep frequency verifies the theoretical analysis.


Chinese Journalism education has gone throughrapid development in terms of curriculum setting, student enrolment, as well asits cooperation with the media industry during the past decades. However it haslong been criticized for its lacking of needy knowledge required in the labormarket and unqualified teaching resources. This paper pictures the developmentof Chinese Journalism education at the tertiary level, summarizing its major achievementsand problems, and raise suggestions accordingly for its further development.


Considering the incomplete measurement information of a single satellite, a cluster-level fault diagnosis method based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed in this paper. Through the multi-information fusion of satellite formation, the relative position and satellite sensitivity of neighboring satellites are further considered to realize the in-orbit diagnosis and monitoring of the entire satellite formation. The proposed strategy can realize autonomous decision-making and increase the intelligence and generalization of fault diagnosis. What's more, there is no need to retrain the network when the number of satellites changes. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by a simulation example, and the results show that the algorithm has fast convergence speed and high fault recognition accuracy.


This paper describes the potential application of ash-free coal to direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC). DCFC can be made of typical fuel cell components and generates the electric energy by direct electrochemical oxidation of carbon, replacing hydrogen with solid carbon fuel. Carbon is mostly originated from coal, which is readily available, easily transportable, and economical. However, employing coal as a carbon source has been excluded, mainly due to its high ash content. The ash-free coal, produced by solvent extraction of combustibles from raw coal, can be applicable as carbon fuel to DCFC. The successful adaption may cut the fuel cost to one third of usual hydrogen fuel cells. In addition, 80% of power generation efficiency can be achieved and CO₂ emission from the conventional coal-fired power plant can be reduced by 90%.


Studies of the construction of social problems suggest that claims makers only relate to the issue that they are trying to place on the national agenda. However, an analysis of the Israeli public discourse about a number of social problems during the Intifada Al Aqsa indicates that this is not the case. The external threat served as an inferential structure for understanding and explaining the country's internal ones. Because of the centrality of the Intifada in the public imagination, claimants made a wide variety of analogies to the problem of Palestinian terror. All four areas of the discourse—about the severity of the problems, their causes, the rationales given for taking preventive and/or ameliorative action, and the solutions offered—were replete with references and analogies to the uprising. Clearly, the claimants believed that this was a particularly effective way of competing in the social problems marketplace, but the analogies may, in fact, have reinforced the existing hierarchy of priorities rather than lead to a significant shift in the public agenda.


As well as an important part of the excellent culture of Hani nationality--the Terrace Culture, Hani's culture of the traditional medicines is the most promising element to develop the industrialization of the terrace culture. In the essay, a practical conception concerned developing the industrialization of Hani' s medicines is proposed in detail on the basis of analyzing the feature and presence of Hani s traditional medicine, and the fundamental conditions which can promise to evolve the industrialization of Hani' s medicines in the state of Honghe.


This paper studies decentralized sequential detection systems. We formulate a simple algorithm where each local detector makes a decision based on its current inputs and past feedback information from the fusion center. From this formulation we then obtain some insight into the value of feedback information and the information lost from the decentralized system when compared to a centralized system.


This paper presents the successful adoption of a steel structure from another beam-type bridge that was previously dismantled. The task presented in the paper was to design and construct a new Danube bridge at Ada over the Tissa River using the parts of the dismantled steel structure that were removed from the piers on the former bridge. The superstructure - steel structure of the former Wilshoffen bridge had a structural system of continuous beams. The dismantled steel structure was cut in 6 large segments and transported by barges downstream Danube through the Danube-Tissa Channel and stored nearby the Tissa River. The project took into account the relevant local conditions such as profile of river bed, geotechnical profile of soil, required river flow profile, required (larger) navigation clearance, and water regime data. Other relevant circumstances such as transport, erection and adoption of steel structure, economic aspects and aesthetic appearance were also considered. The stored segments of steel structure should be incorporated in the new bridge across the Tissa River. A larger main span was needed for the bridge, which required the modifications of the steel structure stored segments. It adopted the vertical alignment of the former Wilshoffen bridge because of the undisturbed reconstruction of the orthotropic deck. The Ada bridge was preliminary designed as a steel cable-stayed bridge, with spans 2x25,8+90,3+4x25,8 m, having a steel A-pylon. The chosen design-build contractor modified the design into a steel cable-stayed bridge, with only two spans: 77,4+167,7 m, having a concrete A-pylon.


In accordance with the existing concepts the X-radiation with the energy of 10 MJ should be generated by each Z pinch for the time of <5 ns in the scheme of a double-pinch vacuum hohlraum to ignite a thermonuclear target. Such parameters of X-radiation can be provided at the implosion of Z pinch by the current of 65 MA for the time of ~ 100 ns. Realization of such currents at the facilities on the basis of the capacitor banks is still a long way in the future. The Z machine (Sandia National Laboratories, USA), being the most powerful stationary facilities, realizes the implosion of the Z pinch at the current of 25 MA. At the same time the developed explosive technologies already allow obtaining and even exceeding the currents required for ignition. The super-power disk explosive magnetic generators (DEMG) can easily produce the currents of 300 MA for the time of ~10 μs. The application of the developed technologies of the foil electrically exploded current opening switches and of the explosive closing switches allows delivering the currents to 150 MA for the time of 1-2 μs to the load. The paper will consider a possibility of application of the second cascade of current pulse peaking on the basis of a low-inductive electrically exploded current opening switch in order to produce the current with the amplitude to 75 MA for the time of ~100 ns in the Z pinch. The paper will present the program of a step-by-step realization of such current source: a small class DEMG 250 mm in diameter, a middle class DEMG of 400 mm in diameter and, finally, a super-power DEMG 1000 mm in diameter producing the currents required for ignition.


Taking impression is the first step and the key to complete denture fabrication. Accurate impressions must reflect the anatomic shape and movement of residual ridge and tissue around so that it is beneficial for increasing the retention,seal and comfort. This article describes the complete denture impression technique based on the anatomic feature of residual ridge,the request of edentulous impression,the preparation and techniques of impression taken.


We prepared MgB2∕Ni multilayer films on a polished Si (100) single crystal substrate by the growth of alternating layers of MgB2 (15nm) and Ni (∼1nm) layers. We then compared the magnetic field dependence of the critical current density Jc and the global pinning force Fp between films with and without the multilayer nanostructure. In the multilayer MgB2∕Ni film, Jc was higher in fields parallel to the substrate than in perpendicular fields, reflecting the layered nanostructure parallel to the substrate. The Jc-B curve has a plateau in parallel fields ranging between 1–5T, and Jc exceeds 1MA∕cm2, even at 6T (at 4.2K). The results indicate that the multilayer nanostructure is effective to enhance flux-pinning performance in parallel fields.


An object of the present invention is to provide an RC column / S beam mixed structure frame that can reasonably realize a structure with a relatively long span and a large load capacity, which can be built extremely economically and reasonably. To do. The column is a reinforced concrete structural member having a hollow cylindrical cross section, a precast concrete PCa column manufactured in advance in a factory, and the columns are all assembled by a fitting method. Large beams are basically S-structured, and the connection between the column and beam is a pin connection that becomes simple beam stress for long-term stress, pin-friction damper (P-FD) connection or rotational friction for short-term earthquake stress. By a combination of a vertical load frame A that is a friction pin joint that absorbs seismic energy by pin joint (W-HB pin joint) and a self-supporting brace structure B that provides horizontal rigidity and horizontal strength of the entire building It is assumed to be a base-isolated structure that constitutes the upper structure of the building and has a base isolation device placed under the lowermost support beam. [Selection] Figure 12


Nanocrystalline titanium diboride (TiB2) ceramics films were prepared on a high purity graphite substrate via chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The substrate was synthesized by a gas mixture of TiCl4, BCl3, and H2 under 1000 °C and 10 Pa. Properties and microstructures of TiB2 films were also examined. The as-deposited TiB2 films had a nano-sized grain structure and the grain size was around 60 nm, which was determined by X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. Further research found that a gas flow ratio of TiCl4/BCl3 had an influence on the film properties and microstructures. The analyzed results illustrated that the grain size of the TiB2 film obtained with a TiCl4/BCl3 gas flow ratio of 1, was larger than the grain size of the as-prepared TiB2 film prepared with a stoichiometric TiCl4/BCl3 gas flow ratio of 0.5. In addition, the films deposited faster at excessive TiCl4. However, under the condition of different TiCl4/BCl3 gas flow ratios, all of the as-prepared TiB2 films have a preferential orientation growth in the (100) direction.


The article describes the features of risk of integrated reporting audit identification and assessment. It is determined that the audit risk model should take into account the circumstances affecting the generation, evaluation and application of integrated reporting data in relation to the transformation of information users' requests, modification of the reporting interpretation of relevant data, and the extension of the audit scope as an assurance task. In this regard, the purpose of the study is to formalize methodological approaches to audit risk modeling in the context of integrated reporting audit tasks. The financial and non-financial data that could be disclosed in the integrated reporting are characterized. It is established that the circumstances of the formation of information to be identified by the auditor to assess the audit risk are determined by users' requests, organizational and methodological approaches to its processing, availability of appropriate technical facilities and personnel. It is defined that the audit risk is the auditor's ability expected to express an inappropriate opinion on the audit results, which will include the misplacement or incorrect accounting of the deviations existing in the information or their incorrect identification. The article substantiates the model of the integrated reporting audit risk assessment, and the model provides the identification and determination of the level of such elements as: information risk, the risk of information preparing, the risk of information evaluation and the risk of changes in the  influence of factors due to determination of preliminary assessment. The main advantage of the proposed audit risk assessment model is the definition of its elements, based on the main aspects of formulating and evaluating the information contained in the integrated reporting. In doing so, these aspects should be examined during the audit of the historical, forecast and hypothetical information contained in the integrated reporting.


Abstract Whilst research into the association between social media and mental health is growing, clinical interest in the field has been dominated by a lack of theoretical integration and a focus on pathological patterns of use. Here we present a trans-diagnostic cognitive behavioural conceptualisation of the positive and negative roles of social media use in adolescence, with a focus on how it interacts with common mental health difficulties. Drawing on clinical experience and an integration of relevant theory/literature, the model proposes that particular patterns of social media use be judged as helpful/unhelpful to the extent that they help/hinder the adolescent from satisfying core needs, particularly those relating to acceptance and belonging. Furthermore, it introduces several key interacting processes, including purposeful/habitual modes of engagement, approach/avoidance behaviours, as well as the potential for social media to exacerbate/ameliorate cognitive biases. The purpose of the model is to act as an aide for therapists to collaboratively formulate the role of social media in young people's lives, with a view to informing treatment, and ultimately, supporting the development of interventions to help young people use social media in the service of their needs and values. Key learning aims (1) To gain an understanding of a trans-diagnostic conceptualisation of social media use and its interaction with common mental health difficulties in adolescence. (2) To gain an understanding of relevant research and theory underpinning the conceptualisation. (3) To gain an understanding of core processes and dimensions of social media use, and their interaction with common mental health difficulties in this age group, for the purpose of assessment and formulation. (4) To stimulate ideas about how to include adolescent service users' online world(s) in treatment (where indicated), both with respect to potential risks to ameliorate and benefits to capitalise upon. (5) To stimulate and provide a framework for clinically relevant research in the field and the development of interventions to support young people to flourish online.


Middleware for wireless sensor networks and middleware for context-aware applications both provide information abstraction and programming support for gathering, pre-processing, and managing sensor data. However the former mostly concentrates on optimising the operations of the resource constrained hardware and simplifying access to the raw sensor data while the latter focuses on gathering sensor data, pre-processing it to the abstract context information required by the applications and providing reasoning on this data. In this paper, we explore the idea of enhancing middleware for context-aware applications with solutions from sensor networks middleware to allow resource efficient and context-aware management of sensing infrastructure. The decisions on which sensor data needs to be delivered to the middleware for evaluation are based on current contextual situations. The approach allows to trade the level of confidence in context information for resource efficiency in context provisioning without a detrimental effect on the functionality of context-aware applications.


Branch-and-Bound techniques have been successfully used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. One common approach to improve the effectiveness of these techniques is via parallelization. The parallelization of Branch-and-Bound computations, however, is not trivial and programmers may experiente difficulties both in terms of correctness and efficiency of the parallelized applications. In this paper we present an environment that helps programmers in developing efficient parallel Branch-and-bound applications. This environment integrates two tools: (1) Sabor, which aids in designing those applications, and (2) Carnival, which is a performance measurement and analysis tool that helps the programmer in understanding the performance of those applications. We also present the Carnival user interface and illustrate its usefulness and functionality by identifying and explaining sources of overhead in example applications.


This research aims at describing spell ( mantra ) language of Ponorogo's warok  on the aspect of language style, diction, and rhyme. This is a field research with Ponorogo's warok as the informant. It applies observing, listening and note-taking technique. The data are analyzed using descriptive qualitative approach. The results of the research show that the spells of warok have characteristics of aliteration, assonance, polysidenton, asidenton, antonomatia, metaphor, hyperbole, pararhyme, and repetition language style, including anadiplosis, simploke, mesodiplosis, epizeuksis, tautotes, epistrofa, anafora. Meanwhile, on the aspect of diction, they cover connotation, denotation, religious symbols, synonyms, antonyms, and spirits. In addition, the taste of spell rhyme is resulted from some factors, such as sound repetition and connection between lines in a couplet, all that has functions to add artistic values to the spells so that they produce harmonious and synchronous effects of sounds.


Controlling a fleet of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) is a complex problem of optimization. Many approached have been conducted for solving this problem. They range from heuristics, which usually do not find an optimum, to mathematical models, which are limited due to their high computational effort. Machine Learning (ML) methods offer another potential trajectory for solving such complex problems. The focus of this brief survey is on Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a particular type of ML. Due to the reward-based optimization, RL offers a good basis for the control of fleets of AMR. In the context of this survey, different control approaches are investigated and the aspects of fleet control of AMR with respect to RL are evaluated. As a result, six fundamental key problems should be put on the current research agenda to enable a broader application in industry: (1) overcoming the "sim-to-real gap", (2) increasing the robustness of algorithms, (3) improving data efficiency, (4) integrating different fields of application, (5) enabling heterogeneous fleets with different types of AMR and (6) handling of deadlocks.


The question of how to deal with miscarriage in all its different phases is extremely important for the practitioner. Meanwhile, the opinions of prominent obstetricians about the treatment of miscarriages are very different. Abel, on the basis of 200 abortion cases successfully used in his clinic, is trying to give a guiding thread that should be used by the practitioner. The longest he stops on the treatment of abortus imperfectus, that is, those cases where a patient, after having committed an incomplete miscarriage, comes to the doctor with complaints of bleeding, and both the external and internal pharynx are already closed for the most part.


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Modern high-fidelity aerospace analysis and design tools require watertight, analyticallysmooth representations of the configuration under consideration. Most recently created geometric models have appropriate representations; unfortunately, legacy configurations often do not have a geometric representation commensurate with the analysis task athand. Either the analytic data has been lost and the remaining configuration is in a discrete setting, or the legacy analytic information is not smooth or is not closed at the required precision. In order to utilize high-fidelity analyses on these legacy configurations, it is necessary to have a tool through which a user can easily create the required smooth watertight geometric model. Described here is a new interactive system, named SLUGS (Static Legacy Unstructured Geometry System), which starts with a cloud of points (which may be fullyor partiallyconnected through a surface tessellation) and which "fits" the cloud to a watertight set of B-spline surface patches driven by the user. The process for this conversion, as well as the key technologies that are used, are described in this paper.


The workload remained one of the major problems in the health care system. All Health professionals dealing with this issue of increased workload such as doctors, nurses, Paramedic's etc. Objective: To assess the effect of workload on patient safety and quality of care in the medical and surgical units of Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional research study design was conducted among 178 patients at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. The convenient sampling technique was used. The population that is targeted was patients of Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Results: The general finding of the study demonstrated that workload affect the patient safety and quality of care. The descriptive statistics applied, frequency and mean checked, formed for quality, cronbach alpha, bartlett's, KMO and kolmogorov-smirnov test values have been checked to insure the validity and reliability and data normality in our context. The values showed positive and significant results and tools were consider as reliable and valid for performing statistical analysis. Conclusions: The study concluded that nurse to patient ratio is not appropriate. And this inappropriate nurse to patient ratio cause lack of patient safety and decrease quality care. In addition to patient condition and staffing numbers, the structure of the nursing work system also has an impact on nursing workload. The outcomes demonstrated a significant relation between nursing workload and patient safety.


1. IntroductionTranslation course in universities is holding in the way that students translate individually and the teacher him/herself rates the translations. This paper is to investigate a different view toward teaching translation in which the number of students is more than only one student and the number of raters is more than only one teacher. There is a different view toward inter-group translation and that in such a translation one student is diversified as translator, the other one as the reviewer, the third member is the terminologist and the last one as the project manager.With the expansion of human communications through the world, translation and teaching translation has gained enormous importance around the countries and especially in academic systems. In Iranian universities teaching translation and interpretation is coming into interests as the need for communication expands. In the present curriculum each student translates individually. His/her work of translation only affects his/ her translation proficiency score and the student is responsible for his/her work. But in this study the researcher investigated how inter-group activities affect the accuracy and fluency of the translation, what positive effects group translation has on students' translation knowledge.Most of the previous studies investigated the effect of collaborative tasks through teaching all four skills of the second language, but none or hardly some of them investigated the effect of collaborative activities on translation. In this study the researcher tried to deal with more accurate and fluent translation through teaching how students work together to translate.2. Review of the LiteratureThe phenomena of translator training in universities back to the second half 20th century and raises sharply in late 1980s and early 1990s. The development in translation training from an individual class activity to a team- based activity has recently come to the translator trainers, interest. That late development is why most practitioners, and indeed most translator trainers, have probably not received formal training of this kind. The development, principles and the main scoring criterion of intergroup translation which will be the main focus of this article, must thus be understood in terms of its antecedents and alternatives.It goes without saying that teachers of translation, when elaborating their programs, must also decide what kind of knowledge and what kind of competence he is to transfer to the student. Other subjects in the curriculum should include the teaching of technical terminology and specialized jargon, text analysis, etc. The analysis of texts, reading well, especially literary texts and texts on aesthetic theory is, in my view, extremely important to translate well. The student should be taught to read carefully, to be sensitive to different styles, registers, writing techniques, etc. If he is able to read well, he will look for phrases which are repeated or which are typical of that author. He will underline the terminology used, the register, proverbs, style, grammar, intention of the text, inter-textual elements, modality of discourse, punctuation, use of toponims, titles of films or books,the intended situation of the translation itself, and many authors have since underscored The common class activity in the worlds' translation classes might be to have individual students translate a text then read out their translations and have them evaluated, either directly by the teacher or by other students, who can propose alternatives. Nord (1996) proposes diversifying this through different combinations of the translation instructions, partial/ complete translation, small group work, guided translation exercises, use of parallel texts, sight translation, simulated interpreting situations, 'gist' translation, documentation and reviewing (the list is translated in Kiraly 2000).Kiraly (2000) and more especially Gouadec (2007) recommend that these considerations be packaged into large translation projects on which students should work as small groups, often with diversified roles (translator, reviewer, terminologist, project manager). …


In this paper, we introduce a new iterative algorithm for nding a common element of the set of solutions of nite generalized Ky Fan inequalities and the set of so- lutions of more general variational inequality for nite relaxed cocoercive operators and the set of common xed points of a nonexpansive semigroup in Hilbert space. The results


This review is based on a series of consecutive cases of abortion under my care at St. Giles' and Dulwich Hospitals, London. The two hospitals are relatively closely situated in a working-class suburb, with approximately the same number of gynaecological beds, under the same consultative direction. They therefore offer excellent opportunity for comparison of different methods of treatment, for these can be carried out under fairly comparable conditions. During the past 15 years (with the exception of a wartime interval) advantage has been taken of this opportunity to assess the value of varying treatments, and it was the primary object of the present investigation to determine the relative merits of active and passive treatment in cases of incomplete abortion, and to settle, if possible, some of the issues of this perennial source of argument. A second object was to compare the potency (if any) of different chemotherapeutic agents in infected cases. For these purposes a detailed analysis was made of enough cases to reduce percentage error to a reasonable minimum-the actual number recommended by our statistical adviser was 2,500, and this has been only slightly exceeded, the cases being almost evenly divided between the two hospitals concerned. The results of this analysis are given below, and it is suggested that they are definite enough to be of therapeutic significance. During the course of this investigation various secondary factors-age, parity, morbidity, etc.-had necessarily to be considered. These proved of sufficient interest to merit analysis, and they are classified below under the appropriate headings. Age The average age of the patients was 29 years, the youngest being 17 and the oldest 49. This corresponds with the figures given by Gellert (1926), who found the average age between 20 and 30 years; only 3 % of his cases were younger than 20 years. Similarly, the report of the Children's Bureau of New York (1934) gives an average of 25 to 29 years. The age incidence seems at first sight surprisingly high, but this is explained by the fact that abortion is much commoner among married women, and that the average age of marriage is fairly high-the Registrar-General's report for 1945 gives it as 24 years. Again, however, the type of patient is important. At St. Mary Abbots Hospital, which admits a large number of " luxury trade " women-mani-


Work on the idea of built-in lubrication has been extended to methylol fatty alkyl carbamates having structural similari ties with stearoyl ester of 1,3-dichloropropanol-2. A study of the conditions of methylolation of the fatty alkyl carbamates, their isolation, and characterization by ir spectra and nitrogen and formaldehyde contents leads to the conclusion that the isolated methylol derivatives exist as mixtures of mono-and dimethylol carbamate, the greater the alkyl substituent in the carbamate moiety, the greater is the formation of the monomethylol derivative. Reactivity of these methytol carbamates with cellulose in the collapsed state is poor, but is improved in the presence of free formaldehyde or formaldehyde donors such as acetals. Cotton fabric treated with methylol derivatives of octyl, lauryl, and stearyl carbamates shows improvement in flex abrasion resistance at a wrinkle recovery level of 210-240° (Shirley), maximum improvement being shown by methylol stearyl carbamate and acetal. Although the specific attachments of these compounds with cellulose are not known, the likelihood of alkyl chain attachment is high, as observed by the effects of chain length on mechanical properties of the treated fabric. The treated cotton also shows mild water repellency as well as resistance to microbial attack due to the presence of hydrophobic and toxophoric groups.


Background: The ability to respond to any emergency before happening is a potential issue that manifests as operational readiness. This study aimed to evaluate the preparedness of prehospital emergency services of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in response to the epidemic of COVID-19. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in April 2020 using a translated standard checklist of the Pan American World Health Organization (PAHO). The list consists of four components of call management (6 items), first responders (operational codes with 3 items), medical transportation (including primary and interhospital with 16 items), and emergency medical services administration (including medical guidelines, human resources, and education with 11 items). Results: There were 168 operational logistics facilities and 555 personnel to cover organizational missions. Except for two items that scored half a point, the rest of the measures received total points (35 out of a maximum of 36 points with 97% of the total points). According to the complete scores, operational readiness was at a good level. Conclusion: The preparedness of the Center for Disaster Management and Medical Emergencies at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic has been at a good level. However, because of the continuation of the epidemic, strengthening the supply chain and empowering personnel are essential to sustainable readiness.


An active surveillance of acute diarrhea disease was conducted in a PLA unit in Guangdong province from June 1991 to May 1992. The annual incidence was 0.64~1.0 episodes/person/year. After multiple regression analysis, the incidence is shown positive correlation with the relative humidity(X_2), the atmospheric temperature(X_3) and especially the rainfall(X_1) y=1.98+0.02x_1+0.02x_2+0.07x_3, r=0.8727, P0.01. The results of case-control study suggested that diarrhea incidence is closely related to some daily habits such as not washing hands before meal or after defecation (OR=3.0~3.7, P0.01). 26.3% of patients had the inducing causes as being drenched in the rain, or having a cold. The average ratio of prescribing antimicrobic drugs for diarrhea cases reached 79%, and it was higher in smaller PLA units. According to the results, tactics and measures for diarrnea control are discussed


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UD. Arjasa constituted firm which carried out in handicraft side with wood material. UD. Arjasa is set in Rejoso of Junrejo district Batu Malang. The production result which be result by UD. Arjasa cover house, household equipment, souvenir and jewelry. The decision taking is action to decide everything from many planning and criteria, thus it is gotten best alternative. By many criteria which choiced so it may be done Proper Analytical of Project.
Because decision taking constitute is important side with Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method may determine best alternative from many criteria. Then alternative may be analyzed financially by using Discounted Cash Flow method. The goal of this study is to determine best alternative of choosing planning of product which may
be analyzed its proper. Based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is got best product criteria by high score
namely house such as window, door and window or door frame by score about 0.49. and proper analysis of product of window by NPV Rp. 182.565.854, PI 12,9%, IRR 54%, Payback Period 350,4 days and BEP Rp. 556.284. the best product of door by NPV Rp. 1.028.250.710, PI 3,8%, IRR 56,5%, Payback period 288,35 days, and BEP Rp. 820.570. the best product of window frame by NPV Rp. 1.706.210.080, PI 3,2%, IRR 53%, Payback Period 370,11 hari, and BEP Rp. 205.535. Best product of door frame by NPV Rp. 1.867.779.697, PI 3,07%, IRR 52%, Payback Period 394,2 days, and BEP Rp. 222.027.


Methods Unusually for a major study, ADNI1 acquired two identical MPRAGEs at each patient visit (referred to as M and N) making it ideal for BTB assessment of the reproducibility [1,2] and accuracy of hippocampal atrophy. For baseline and year 1, a representative subset of N=75 subjects was selected from ADNI1 with 19 healthy controls (HC), 38 mildly cognitively impaired (MCI) and 18 Alzheimer's disease (AD) [4]. The percentage volume change (PVC) between baseline and year 1 was calculated using each of the 6 algorithms for both the M and N MPRAGEs. To determine the reproducibility, the BTB difference (BTBD) was calculated for the left hippocampus for each patient and each algorithm by PVCN-PVCM. ADNI1 also selected one of M and N for additional processing generating a modified MPRAGE referred to as P.


The comonomer composition and its distribution have been investigated for poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) [P(3HB-co-3HH)], which was bacterially synthesized by Ralstonia eutropha from coconut oil as a carbon source. Using a chloroform/heptane mixed solvent, they were fractionated into several fractions with different comonomer composition. Bacterially synthesized P(3HB-co-3HH)s were found to have a wide compositional distribution. Using the fractions with a narrower comonomer composition distribution, the compositional dependence of thermal properties was investigated. The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) melting behavior of a sample of unfractionated P(3HB-co-3HH) did not reflect that of fractions with similar average 3HH content. It was concluded that each of the fractions affects the thermal properties of the original unfractionated P(3HB-co-3HH), which should therefore be considered as polymer blends.


Traditional optical temperature sensors based on the rare earth fluorescence intensity ratio of two thermally coupled energy states have intrinsic limitations such as low relative sensitivity and large detection error due to the requirement of a narrow energy gap. Herein, a strategy involving the use of rare earth and transition metal dual-emitting centers with completely different thermal-quenching behaviors has been developed to achieve high temperature sensitivity and good discrimination of signals. In particular, Eu3+/Mn4+:Y3Al5O12 with strikingly high absolute and relative sensitivities of 0.441 K−1 and 4.81% K−1 as well as a large energy gap of 2100 cm−1 was realized by taking advantage of Eu3+ luminescence as a reference signal and Mn4+ luminescence as a temperature signal. The versatility of the proposed strategy has been demonstrated by adopting other Tb3+/Mn4+, Dy3+/Mn4+, Eu3+/Cr3+ and Dy3+/Cr3+ dual-activator combinations. It is expected that this preliminary study will provide an important advance in exploring novel self-referencing optical thermometry with excellent performance.


The hydraulic project of Beni-Haroun is part of an extensive program for the mobilization and transfer of surface water to address the strong regional hydrological inequalities in Algeria,. The difficult topography of Mila basin requires every time the assessment of the sliding risk of slopes which may contain complex system of the water transportation from Beni-Haroun dam over long distances. In this paper, two and three dimension numerical analysis are investigated to assess the safety factor of AinTinn natural slope which already contain a buried pipeline with 800mm diameter. In addition, the parametric study allowed us to determine the effect of the cohesion gradient in depth on the possible failure mechanisms and on the value of the safety factor in particular.


With the development of the theory for criminal policy, especially the development of theory on criminal victims,and motivated by the theory and practice of human rights,the national duty to compensate for the criminal victims have gradually caught the attention from people of all walks of life.The institution of national compensation for the criminal victims in its modern sense started in the 1960s,however,different nations and different scholars have different view about it.Does the compensation relationship really exist between nation and criminal victims?If does,what is the foundation in terms of legal philosophy? Efforts have been made in this paper to discuss the national duty for compensation in the perspective of legal philosophy and to justify and legitimize the institution of national compensation for criminal victims.


Eurycercus (Bullatifrons) norandinus sp. nov. is described from Lago de Tota, Boyaca, Colombia. It differs from other species of subgenus Bullatifrons in the lower number of denticles on the dorsal margin of the postabdomen, the lower number of denticles on the postadominal claw, and the higher number of denticles on scrapers 2, 3 and 4 of trunk limb II. Regression statistics comparing the new species with other species of the subgenus indicate that during ontogeny, the rate of increase in teeth number of the dorsal margin of the postabdomen in relation to postabdominal length is higher than in other species. With the present record, the distribution of Eurycercus expands to the central part of the Neotropical Region and that of subgenus Bullatifrons to South America.


Is the world the site of diaphany where one encounters the 'transparency of God in the universe' in a Teilhardian fashion, or should one give credit to von Balthasar's insistence that the cosmos can never serve as the final meaning of revelation since divine revelation is best conceived as God's unsurpassable work of art, the epiphany of divine glory over against the cosmos and human history? This paper seeks to explore the contours of two different conceptions of the natural world as God's creation and as the site of revelation. While, in passing remarks throughout his treatment of the form of divine glory, von Balthasar is repeatedly dismissive of the Teilhardian vision, he seems to overlook entirely the real significance of the Teilhardian endeavour, which is directed towards seeing a different and yet essentially similar form, that of the Christiform cosmos. Far from representing a kind of naive 'new naturalism' (as von Balthasar contends), Teilhard de Chardin's theology ultimately gets very near the same via tertia heralded by his Swiss confrere.


On September 11 I was in the Middle East on my continuing quest to understand why, in the name of religion, one would kill another who did not share their beliefs. The evening before I had crossed the border to Israel from Jordan, where I had photographed the crumbling sandstone ruins of Petra.


A new cap-type permanent magnetic recloser acceptable for 10 kV lines is designed by adoption of combined digital signal processing(DSP) chip and complex programmable logic device(CPLD) and the unique hierarchy control technique.Therefore,the paper details overall design,functional modules,working principle and implementation modes and design of relevant functions of permanent magnetic recloser.Finally,the paper presents a construction mode of feeder automation system on the basis of fast sorting and practical application.The system is of high practicality.


This paper examines the effect of buffer stock intervention on smallholder farmers' food security in Ghana by means of the nutrient-content household dietary diversity index method. Buffer stock intervention is a price stabilization policy that aids farmers to hedge against price and income losses from their farming activities, especially from cereal production. The nutrient-content household dietary diversity index (NHDDI) is an improvement of the household dietary diversity index that is used to measure food security and nutrient adequacy taking into account the nutrient-content of each food item of households' diets. Based on a cross-sectional data set, we estimate the NHDDI using Coarsened Exact Matching, Weighted Least Squares, and Weighted Ordered Probit analyses. We find that marital status, gender, education, and income positively impact food security, while household size and the number of children under-five years' have a negative impact. Our results furthermore show that income and education, which have a direct impact on food security also have a mitigating effect on the negative impact of children under-five years. The most important finding is that participation in the buffer stock operations improves household food security and gives insurance against hunger and malnutrition.


The Haitian Revolution, which erupted from slave revolts in August 1791 and ended with the Declaration of Independence in January 1804, culminated in the violent eradication of the French Antillean colony Saint Domingue, the abolition of slavery in the territory, and the founding of Ayiti, the fi rst free black republic in the world: as historical event, it is arguably one of the most important moments in American hemispheric history, if not in the modern world.1 Revolutionary heroes—Boukman Dutty, Biassou,


ABSTRACT This research investigated the effects of safety climate and psychosocial safety climate factors on safety performance of employees in a process industry. Operators and supervisors of control rooms participated in this study, and the collected data were analyzed by multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches. The entropy approach was employed to prioritize safety climate and psychosocial safety climate factors. Moreover, the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) got applied to rank the alternatives. The findings obtained by the entropy approach showed that "rule breaking" (among safety climate factors) and "organizational communication" (among psychosocial safety climate factors) had the greatest influence on safety performance of employees, respectively. TOPSIS results revealed that supervisors experienced a greater degree of safety performance than operators. The findings of this study demonstrated that safety professionals should consider both safety climate and psychosocial safety climate factors to promote safety performance in high-hazard process facilities.


Abstract Background Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most frequent malignant neoplasm in the adult brain. In contrast, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are presumably congenital lesions, usually presenting with hemorrhage. Hypervascular low-grade gliomas associated with AVMs were previously called "angioglioma." An association of AVMs and GBM was also described. Study Aims We discuss the data of the largest series of locally coincident GBM with AVM in a single institution so far. All analyses were explorative only. Patients We report a series of four patients presenting at our department from 2006 to 2014. All patients underwent surgery. The cases were analyzed regarding initial presentation, clinical findings, tumor localization, and histopathologic results. Conclusions A local coincidence of cerebral AVM and GBM is rare. Only a few reports can be found in the literature. The radiologic as well as the clinical presentations are individual. Proangiogenic factors are discussed as involved in the appearance of both entities in the same location. However, the presence of pathologic vessels within malignant gliomas is well known to all neurosurgeons and proangiogenic activity has been proven. Therefore, it seems possible that tumor activity itself contributes to the pathogenesis of a vascular malformation.


Introducing the Internet into the field of condition monitoring for power equipment,makes the information shared more widely,provides a convenient tool for condition diagnosis and possibly promotes reliability of diagnosis.Based on summarizing the current research and development experience,doing some on-site experiments and analyzing relative system world widely,the Internet-based remote on-line condition monitoring and diagnosis system for power equipment is presented.The system network structure and its sub-system function are studied,and the work mechanism and key technology of network communication,remote diagnosis and consultation on network among multi-servers/experts,are also discussed.It proves effective to introduce the Internet into the field of condition monitoring.There are still some problems need to be solved,but the system shows a promising prospect in power enterprise.