A lattice BGK model based on a finite difference scheme with an internal degree of freedom is employed and it is shown that a diatomic gas such as air is successfully simulated. In a weak compressive wave problem and Coutte flow, the validity and characteristics of the applied model are examined. With the model, furthermore, we present a 2-dimensional edge tones to predict the frequency characteristics of discrete oscillations of a jet-edge feedback cycle by the FDLB model(I.D.F FDLBM) in which any specific heat ratio γ can be chosen freely. The jet is chosen long enough in order to guaranteed the parabolic velocity profile of a jet at the outlet, and the edges have of an angle of α = 23 ° and 20 °. A sinuous instability wave with real frequency resulting from periodic oscillation of the jet around the edge is propagated on the upper and lower of wedge.


The European Space Agency (ESA) defines Earth observation (EO) Level 2 information product the stack of: (i) a single-date multi-spectral (MS) image, radiometrically corrected for atmospheric, adjacency and topographic effects, with (ii) its data-derived scene classification map (SCM), whose thematic map legend includes quality layers cloud and cloud–shadow. Never accomplished to date in an operating mode by any EO data provider at the ground segment, systematic ESA EO Level 2 product generation is an inherently ill-posed computer vision (CV) problem (chicken-and-egg dilemma) in the multi-disciplinary domain of cognitive science, encompassing CV as subset-of artificial general intelligence (AI). In such a broad context, the goal of our work is the research and technological development (RTD) of a "universal" AutoCloud+ software system in operating mode, capable of systematic cloud and cloud–shadow quality layers detection in multi-sensor, multi-temporal and multi-angular EO big data cubes characterized by the five Vs, namely, volume, variety, veracity, velocity and value. For the sake of readability, this paper is divided in two. Part 1 highlights why AutoCloud+ is important in a broad context of systematic ESA EO Level 2 product generation at the ground segment. The main conclusions of Part 1 are that ESA EO Level 2 information product is regarded as: (I) necessary-but-not-sufficient pre-condition for the yet-unaccomplished dependent problems of semantic content-based image retrieval (SCBIR) and semantics-enabled information/knowledge discovery (SEIKD) in multi-source EO big data cubes, where SCBIR and SEIKD are part-of the GEO-CEOS visionary goal of a yet-unaccomplished Global EO System of Systems (GEOSS). (II) State-of-the-art definition of EO Analysis Ready Data (ARD) format. (III) Horizontal policy, the goal of which is background developments, in a "seamless chain of innovation" needed for a new era of Space Economy 4.0. In the subsequent Part 2, the AutoCloud+ software system requirements specification, information/knowledge representation, system design, algorithm, implementation and preliminary experimental results are presented and discussed.


In operating system the decisions which CPU scheduler makes regarding the sequence and length of time the task may run are not easy ones, as the scheduler has only a limited amount of information about the tasks. A good scheduler should be fair, maximizes throughput, and minimizes response time of system. A scheduler with multilevel queue scheduling partitions the ready queue into multiple queues. While assigning priorities, higher level queues always get more priorities over lower level queues. Unfortunately, sometimes lower priority tasks get starved, as the scheduler assures that the lower priority tasks may be scheduled only after the higher priority tasks. While making decisions scheduler is concerned only with one factor, that is, priority, but ignores other factors which may affect the performance of the system. With this concern, we propose a 2-layered architecture of multilevel queue scheduler based on vague set theory (VMLQ). The VMLQ scheduler handles the impreciseness of data as well as improving the starvation problem of lower priority tasks. This work also optimizes the performance metrics and improves the response time of system. The performance is evaluated through simulation using MatLab. Simulation results prove that the VMLQ scheduler performs better than the classical multilevel queue scheduler and fuzzy based multilevel queue scheduler.


Through analysis of disunity of the basic-level inspection standard and cumbersome safety data of oil production factory,the safety work standard,standard inspection way,solidification safety data,the enhancement of the objectivity of basic- level safety inspection and the countermeasures for expert' s inspection guide were clearly proposed in this paper,thus,the basic management level was ultimately increased.


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The objective was to evaluate the reproductive performance after oestrus synchronization using controlled internal drug release (CIDR) maintained into the vagina either 7 or 9 days. A controlled randomized block design was performed. Cows (n=255) were blocked by lactation number and days in milk and then randomly divided into 2 groups. In the first group, CIDR was maintained for 7 days (CIDR-7; n=127), and in the second group, CIDR was maintained for 9 days (CIDR-9; n=128). Both groups received Prostaglandin-F2α at CIDR removal. Oestrus response, oestrus onset, oestrus duration, conception rate, and pregnancy at days 28 and 45 were evaluated. Cows were oestrus detected 4 times a day for 120 h after CIDR removal, and only cows in standing oestrus were artificially inseminated between 6 and 12 h after oestrus detection. Oestrus response for both groups was 79.5% and 87.5% for CIDR-7 and CIDR-9, respectively (P=0.09). The oestrus onset (mean ± SD) for the same groups was 56.3±17.2 h and 59.4±17.9 h, respectively (P=0.19). Oestrus duration was 11.3±7.3 h and 11.7±7.8 h for groups CIDR-7 and CIDR-9, respectively (P=0.71). At day 28, the conception rates for the groups CIDR-7 and CIDR-9 days were 51.5% and 45.5% (P=0.39), and the pregnancy rates were 40.9% and 39.8% (P=0.89) for the same groups, respectively. No differences in oestrus performance and fertility in lactating cows' oestrus synchronized by using CIDR maintained in the vagina either 7 or 9 days were detected.


One way to achieve large deformations and elongation in soft material robots involves the creation of structures made of a number of inflatable elastic membranes. Physical interactions between the inflated membranes or with their environment can lead to shape changes resulting in forces being exerted to the environment. In this paper, we present an analytical model to describe the inflation of a circular elastic membrane, which is constrained by a load, based on finite deformation theory. Our model will allow to understand the deformation, volume change and the height of the membrane. Our model can predict the height-pressure trend of the deformed membrane shape. Experimental validation includes the investigation of the membrane inflation under load, open-loop force control involving an inflated membrane, and the inflation of a stack of three actuators. The height-pressure model results lay within the experimental data and predict the nonlinear trend well. The model can be used for open-loop force control within a ±15% error. Also, we present the results for a manipulator made of a series of inflated membranes under load conditions.


In the office administrative work at normal colleges,coordination is of great importance,and it should be focused on principle,assistance and integration.The ranges cover coordination inside and outside school,and it should be based on being realistic,following rules,democratic consultation,timeliness and consistency.


Preface Introduction 1. Renaissance historiography 2. Historiography and Tudor historical drama: the example of Bale's King Johan 3. Thomas Heywood and the Princess Elizabeth: disrupting diachronic history 4. Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the question of history 5. 'No meete matters to be wrytten or treated vpon': The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt 6. Perkin Warbeck and the failure of historiography Conclusion.


This article through literature retrieval, questionnaire and other method to investigate and analyze, and analyze the advantages of the application of virtual experiment in secondary vocational school experiment class. This paper systematically describes the related design theory basis. On this basis, overall to design platform performance, experimental modules, development tools and development process of the secondary vocational virtual experiment, put forward the basic principle of secondary vocational virtual experiment development, continuously revised in the secondary vocational school experiment teaching application, at last analyze the effect of teaching application.


Clear government and military structures and the ability to implement government policies and integrate minority groups into the political, economic and other spheres of government can contribute to national stability and economic development. China has addressed most of its challenges related to governance and democracy and peace and security; it has therefore developed economically and is gaining recognition by the developed world. African leaders are aware of the challenges Africa faces with regard to governance and democracy, peace and security, most of which are similar to those China has confronted. China seems to be interested in partnering with Africa and offers African leaders assistance in overcoming some of the challenges. The quality of assistance and drive towards China-Africa shared developments will depend on the seriousness of Africa in engaging China and desiring to extricate itself from the malaise of underdevelopment and exclusion in a globalising world. This paper analyses information obtained from Chinese officials and extracts what could be useful for Africa to emulate.


Variations, which appear in interior and exterior environmental conditions, have obliged management understanding in companies to be transformed from being traditional to contemporary. Employee empowerment is one of the basic elements of contemporary management understanding. In this study, the effects of applications of ISO 9001 Quality Management System called as the first step of transition to Total Quality Management on employee empowerment have been investigated. With regard to this subject, a research done in the thirty-seven private manufacturing companies, which participated among the five hundred enormous industrial companies in Turkey in 2000, has been mentioned. As a result of this research, it has been determined some findings indicating that applications of ISO 9001 Quality Management System causes some empowering effects for employees working in companies. Taking these findings into consideration, some proposals that are related to some inadequacies regarding employee empowerment have been presented.


The synthesis and characterization of palladium-grafted mesoporous MCM-41 material, designated Pd-TMS11, are described. The material is investigated for carbon−carbon coupling reactions (Heck catalysis) with activated and nonactivated aryl substrates. For the preparation of the new catalyst, a volatile organometallic precursor is reacted in the gas phase with the surface of the porous framework, generating a highly dispersed metal deposition. The ultrahigh surface area, the large pore opening, and the highly dispersed catalyst species in Pd-TMS11 material create one of the most active heterogeneous catalysts for Heck reactions.


To understand physiologic state in diseased liver e.g. non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, this study aims to analyze the acoustic impedance (Z) of hepatic cells using a scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM). Ultrasound scattering sources in cells, however, cause the multi-reflection and prevent from analyzing the precious value of Z although it provides the useful information of structure in cells (M. N. Fadhel et al. 2015). A similar effect also occurs in case of a part of cells apart from substrate. As the fundamental study, this study discusses the effect of multi-reflection on the analysis of the Z of cultured cells.


This article attempts to talk about the influence of recreation sports on sports for all from four perspectives using the methods of data analysis,logical analysis,and comparative analysis in hope of promoting the quality of sport for all with the new concept of health movement and push the movement actively,healthily and lastingly.


Diffusion of methanol and water in polyurethane and polyurethane chemically modified by grafting different acrylic monomers was carried out. The absorption of these two molecules was found to vary with the nature and percentage grafting of the monomers. The possible use of chemically modified polyurethanes as membranes having high selectivity towards the interaction of alcohol and water is highlighted.


Related entity finding is the task of returning a ranked list of homepages of relevant entities of a specified type that need to engage in a given relationship with a given source entity. We propose a framework for addressing this task and perform a detailed analysis of four core components; co-occurrence models, type filtering, context modeling and homepage finding. Our initial focus is on recall. We analyze the performance of a model that only uses co-occurrence statistics. While this method identifies the potential set of related entities, it fails to rank them effectively. Two types of error emerge: (1) entities of the wrong type pollute the ranking and (2) while somehow associated to the source entity, some retrieved entities do not engage in the right relation with it. To address (1), we add type filtering based on category information available in Wikipedia. To correct for (2), we complement our related entity finding method with contextual information, represented as language models derived from documents in which source and target entities co-occur. To complete the pipeline, we find homepages of top ranked entities by combining a language modeling approach with heuristics based on Wikipedia's external links. Our method achieves very high recall scores on the end-to-end task, providing a solid starting point for expanding our focus to improve precision. Our framework can effectively incorporate additional heuristics and these extensions lead to state-of-the-art performance.


Abstract Homeless individuals involved in the criminal justice system often have needs that translate into a significant human and financial cost to society. As a result, there has been an interest in developing intervention strategies to aid the homeless with the intent to reduce antisocial behavior. One of these strategies, the Frequent User Systems Engagement (FUSE) model, has garnered support nationwide over the last decade; however, few empirical evaluations of its efficacy exist. The current study utilizes a quasi-experimental design to compare outcomes between a sample of FUSE program participants (n = 42) with a similar group not receiving services (n = 42). Over the course of the 4-year study period, the FUSE group had fewer arrests and remained "arrest free" in the community for a longer of time, even after controlling for associated risk factors. Recommendations for improvement outcomes utilizing this model are provided.


In this paper, we propose a design method of task coordinated feedback control law for parallel link manipulators (PLMs) . In general, since it is the last purpose to control the coordinates of an End-effector by a manipulator's control, a task coofdinated feedback control suits the purpose rather than a joint coordinated one. However, control with a parallel link manipulator's work coordinates has the following two problems which should be solved. First, it is difficult for PLMs to have the information of task coordinate from joint infomation, though it is easy for serial link manipulators to do this. Second, it is necessary to calculate the Inverse Matrix of Jacobian for calculating Driving force of a joint. In this paper, we propose a novel solving method of forward kinematics problem for PLMs and construct a task coordinated feedback control which used the character of Jacobian and made calculation easy. Then we prove the stability of this control system and verify the validity by the simulation and experiment.


A new species of Rubiaceae, Rubia pianmaensis , is described and illustrated from western Yunnan, China. Morphologically, it is similar to Rubia siamensis , but differs from the latter by having larger stipules, 5-6-merous flowers, and shorter inflorescences.


Aquatic vegetation in fluvial systems is often characterized by spatial patterning of the plant patches. To investigate the conditions for the formation of vegetation patches, we explore the stability of a uniform flow over a non‐erodible bed with a uniform vegetation cover of submerged plants. The flow model consists of the two‐dimensional shallow water and continuity equations. The hydrodynamic equations are coupled firstly to the classic formulation for vegetation dynamics, and secondly to a modified version of the equation. The revised relationship for vegetation dynamics accounts for the influence of removal, transport, and resettlement of propagules on the growth rate of aquatic vegetation. Linear stability analysis of the eco‐hydrodynamic problem is performed by enforcing the quasi‐steady approximation. We obtain a dispersion relation disclosing the growth rate and the migration rate of the perturbations of vegetation density as a function of the wavenumber and the relevant flow and vegetation parameters. The present theory predicts the onset of vegetation patterns and includes an adequate wavelength selection mechanism. While uprooting initially reduces plant density, the analysis demonstrates that resettled propagules after removal are fundamental for further plant population increases and the development of vegetation patterns. The proposed framework is then validated against data available in the literature. Additionally, the presence of an upper threshold in terms of vegetation density, above which uniform vegetation cover is stable, might explain the absence of any spatial pattern and thus the extremely dense vegetation cover induced by climate change and invasive species in altered ecosystems.


This paper includes an analysis of Quevedo's poem "Exhortacion a una navenueva al entrar en el agua". The antecedents of the theme in Horace andthe Greek Anthology are looked into; and the poem is compared to poems byseveral other 17th century Spanish authors. As well as that, plentiful noteselucidate any unclear expressions in the text of the poem, and highlight thedifferent themes and images placing them in their cultural context and literarytradition. The Principe de Esquilache's song "A la nave" is printed in an appendix to show its similarities with Quevedo's poem.


Rubber tree is an economically important tropical crop. Its endophytic bacterial strain Serratia marcescens ITBB B5-1 contains intracellular a macrovesicles and red pigment. In this research, the red pigment was identified as prodigiosin by quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Prodigiosin has a wide range of potential medical values such as anti-cancer and anti-organ transplant rejection. The strain ITBB B5-1 accumulated prodigiosin up to 2000 mg/L, which is higher production compared to most known Serratia strains. The formation of the macrovesicle and prodigiosin biosynthesis were highly associated and were both temporal and temperature dependent. A mutant strain B5-1mu that failed to produce prodigiosin was obtained by ultraviolet mutagenesis. Whole genome sequencing of wild-type and mutant strains indicated that the PigC gene encoding the last-step enzyme in the prodigiosin biosynthesis pathway was mutated in B5-1mu by a 17-bp deletion. TEM analysis showed that the macrovesicle was absent in the mutant strain, indicating that formation of the macrovesicle relied on prodigiosin biosynthesis. Immunoelectron microscopy using prodigiosin-specific antiserum showed the presence of prodigiosin in the macrovesicle, the cell wall, and the extracellular vesicles, while immuno-reaction was not observed in the mutant cell. These results indicate that the macrovesicle serves as a storage organelle of prodigiosin, and secrete prodigiosin into cell envelop and culture medium as extracellular vesicles.


Some books stand out as noteworthy for their insights, relevance, and aesthetic appeal. A reader will always refer back to them as among their favorites. Daniela Augustine's, The Spirit and the Common Good, is such a book for the present author. This is a book that one will want to do more than simply read, but also think out loud in conversation with. Thus, the author would like to converse with Augustine's discussion so as to explore its theological basis and direction. Though hers is not a work in constructive theology, there is a rich theological vision that she draws upon to confront issues of public justice and compassion. Her theological explanations are usually brief, but often quite provocative. The author wishes to explore her theological vision and probe it for further insight.


In this paper, the problem of output feedback stabilization for a class of time delayed systems is considered. A constructive output feedback is designed via backstepping method, which can render the closed-loop system asymptotic stability. Finally, illustrative examples and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


In this paper, we present a low complexity code design for the 2-user Gaussian multiple access channels. In order to analyze this multiuser MAC decoder, we formulate density evolution (DE) and study the stability condition of the fixed point corresponding to zero BER.


"The Manfredi judgment of the ECJ and how it relates to the Commission's initiative on EC antitrust damages actions"* The reactions to the Green Paper On 20th December 2005, the Commission…


Abstract The promiscuous CD11b/CD18 (Mac-1) integrin has important roles in regulating many immunological functions like leukocyte adhesion and emigration from the bloodstream via interactions with the endothelial ligands ICAM-1 and ICAM-2 , iC3b-mediated phagocytosis and apoptosis. However, the mechanisms for Mac-1 inside-out activation have remained poorly understood. Phosphorylation of integrin cytoplasmic domains is emerging as an important mechanism of regulating integrin functions. Here we have studied phosphorylation of human CD11b, which takes place on the cytoplasmic Ser1126 in neutrophils. We show that mutation of the serine phosphorylation site leads to inability of Mac-1 to become activated to bind the cellular ligands ICAM-1 and ICAM-2. However, CD11b-mutant cells are fully capable of binding other studied CD11b-ligands, i.e. iC3b and denatured BSA. Activation epitopes expressed in the extracellular domain of the integrin and affinity for soluble ICAM ligands were decreased for the mutated integrin. Additionally, the mutation resulted in inhibition of chemokine-induced migration in a transendothelial assay


Electrostatic models frequently proposed to describe ion–molecule interactions have been tested on the adducts formed by Group 1 and 2 cations with H2O, NH3, H2S, PH3, their methyl analogs, and their anions. The results from the model calculations were compared with all‐electron calculations (geometry optimized, MP2, TZP basis sets) carried out on adducts formed with Li+, Na+, K+, Ca2+, and Mg2+. The electrostatic potential model was utilized in two ways: The attraction of the point charge was calculated with and without relaxation of the ligand. A third model allowed relaxation of the ligand but treated the cation as a frozen core. The final model was the crude point charge/point dipole approximation. At long range, the models satisfactorily track the effects on energy of gross changes in the ion–ligand interaction (monovalent versus divalent ions, neutral ligands versus anions, parent ligands versus methyl derivatives), but correlation at close range is poor, especially for binding by divalent cations. The hypothesis that the calculated strength of cation–dipole binding is dependent on calculated dipole moment could not be verified. © 1995 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Levetiracetam (LEV) is a broad spectrum antiseizure medication that is used in various seizure types. There is evidence that therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of LEV is of value in selected patient populations, therefore determination of LEV plasma concentrations is essential. Herein we developed and validated a simple, reproducible, and practical method for the quantification of LEV concentrations in human plasma samples using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Plasma samples (0.3 mL) deproteinization was done using acetonitrile. HPLC chromatographic separation of plasma samples was accomplished by reversed phase C18 column. The mobile phase constituted water and acetonitrile (90:10, v/v) ran at flow rate of 1 mL/min. Signal acquisition was conducted at a wavelength of 192 nm. Calibration curves showed excellent linearity (Correlation coefficient r2 > 0.99) over a concentration range of 3–80 μg/mL. Both inter and intraday assay accuracy and precision were less than 8% (except for the lowest limit of quantification was within 20%). Elution time was 15 min. The developed method excluded the use of buffers and utilized small volumes of plasma samples with simple mobile phase composition. Therefore, our method could be practically applied to routine TDM.


We read with great interest the letter by Aggarwal.1 Her case is one of early-onset autoinflammatory disease.

Her case is not directly similar to any …


This paper explores the possibility of optimizing two control strategies currently available for photovoltaic (PV) plants, namely additional reactive power and active power reduction. As the penetration of PV plants is expected to increase, controlling such plants during faults becomes increasingly important. The stability of the power system during a fault and immediately after is affected by the system capability to control the reactive and active power flows. Motivated by the fact that curtailing active and injecting reactive power during faults impacts on the system behavior, the two available controllers are tuned and optimized in such a way that the system stability during the disturbance is secured with the help of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. The optimization process uses the locally measured voltage and frequency at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC) of the PV. The study takes into account various circumstances, such as levels of PV penetration and faults.


The effect of herbicides on microbial population of soil as influenced by shaw management techniques in wheat was studied in rice-wheat system in IGP at Ludhiana. The experiment was laidout in strip plot design with shaw management techniques of wheat in horizontal plots and herbicides in vertical plots. The different shaw management techniques were zem till sowing with Happy Seeder (combine harvested), zem till sowing in standing stubbles (loose shaw removed), Zem till sowing (complete burning of rice shaw), bed sowing (Rice shaw removed), conventional tillage (partial bwning of rice straw). The weed control treatments were sulfosulfumn 25 g/ha, mesosulfuron + iodosulfuron 12 g/ha and pinoxaden 50 g/ha and unsprayed (control). Microbial counts were recorded in the soil samples taken at 0, 15, 30 and 60 days after spray. The highest population of bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi was observed under zem till sowing with Happy Seeder which was statistically at par with zero till sowing in standing stubbles followed by bed planting and significantly higher than zem till sowing after burning and conventional tillage after partial burning under all observational period. Similarly, the highest microbial population was observed in control plots as compared to those in herbicidal treatments. There was decrease in viable counts of bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi at 15 days after spray as compared to that at zem day after spray. Thereafter, the microbial population slarted to regain and an increase was observed in counts, indicating reduced toxicity, probably due to degradation of herbicidal chemicals.


The objective of this research is to enhance road deaths prediction using an ensemble learning approach. By using three machine learning algorithms, which are K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Neural Network (NN), and Bernoulli Naive Bayes (BernoulliNB). Road accident death data set from the Ministry of Transport of Thailand Data (January to April 2021), which consist of 8,560 records 46 attributes for evaluating the performance of prediction. The results of individual machine learning algorithms and ensemble learning were tested with accuracy, precision, recall, and f-measure value. After comparison of results model by KNN was efficient to prediction with an accuracy equal to 89.05%, precision equal to 0.5, recall equal to 0.01, and f-measure equal to 0.02.


of the 19th century. Placing it next to Picasso's Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard (1910), we see the latter contains an exaggeration of color and line that breaks from the more generic formalism evident in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Evaluating the visual evidence from his perspective as a painter, Robbin concludes that Picasso adopted the methods of the mathematician E. Jouffret in 1910 and essentially used the projection model to invent cubism. Also noteworthy is how well this author fleshes out Minkowski's work. Briefly, Robbin claims that Minkowski had 4D projective geometry in mind when he structured special relativity. A short course in projective geometry, the Entr'acte, separates the historical studies from the presentation of contemporary uses of the projective model (Part Two). Turning to the projection model, the latter part of the book examines creative ideas about space in contemporary mathematics such as twisters, quasicrystals and quantum topology. Given the complexity of this material, however, I am not prepared to evaluate his research in detail. Suffice it to say that the concepts would have certainly translated better to a mathematician. As a layperson, I found the scope and intelligence within this part (and the book as a whole) breathtaking as well as challenging. This author goes far beyond confronting how a 2D model can be an accurate representation of 4D reality (if there is one). He offers examples that point to ways of viewing dimensions and grapples with how our models might co-exist and intersect. He reminds the reader that a key to the projection model is building an understanding of how the tesseract is a 3D perspective projection of a 4D hypercube and reaches beyond this as well. After an initial review of the ideas, I am not certain I integrally grasped the possibilities in their entirety. The translation problem I encountered was not only within the specialized sections and the density of the material. In some cases I found myself continually re-thinking my conclusions as to how the author was defining the fourth dimension. It was clear that some things that happen in space could not be reduced to the slicing model. I also had no problem with his proposal that the projective model is not merely an alternative but often a requirement in representing the fourth dimension. to decipher, the illustrations aid the reader immensely. They also seemed to acknowledge that Robbin's eclectic audience includes many disparate communities: artists, scientists, mathematicians, art historians, etc. That said, one could argue that Robbin's addressed the range of these groups skillfully, giving all readers something to work with in ferreting out his views. In my case, when I found myself thinking I was not following the mathematical point, the drawings drew me in and offered another perspective through which I could grapple with the concepts. Given the importance of the visual element, I applaud Yale University Press for a fine design. In summary, Shadows of Reality is a book that takes the reader in and makes her welcome. It compares the slicing, or Flatland model, the God'sEye-View, with the projective spatial models that are only faulty approximations of physical events. It offers entry to the projective modality on its own terms as well. Groundbreaking and thought provoking, Robbin's insights have an appeal that is well matched by their visual examples. Although the projects presented and the book's many exciting ideas will require some time to sift through, they linger in my mind as I write. For this reason, I am sure I will return to Shadows of Reality on many occasions. I recommend it highly and think it would be a great addition to the libraries of all in our society seeking new understandings in art, science, mathematics and visualization.


The Gibbs energy of solvation of several ions in water and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solutions was obtained through the use of thermodynamic equations relating ΔGsolv* of the ion with gas phase basicity, pKa, ΔGsolv* of neutral species and the Gibbs energy of solvation of the proton. We have used the most accurate and recent values for these properties, and this report provides 56 Gibbs energy of solvation values in aqueous solution and 30 in DMSO solution. Our results support the general view that anions are much better solvated in aqueous solution than in DMSO. An important example is the hydroxide ion for which the Gibbs energy of transfer from water to DMSO is 26 kcal mol−1. The majority of anions have a Gibbs energy of transfer in the range 10 to 15 kcal mol−1. In the case of cations, DMSO has a larger solvation ability but the difference in the Gibbs
energy of solvation between water and DMSO is not greater than 5 kcal mol−1. The present data can be very useful for the development of continuum solvation models.


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In this paper, the effect of a propagation delay resulting from the use of an OFDM system with a transparent mobile multi-hop relay (MMR) is initially analyzed. Additionally, a channel estimation technique for the OFDM system with throughput enhancement (TE) MMR or cooperative MMR is proposed. Secondly, the effect of a Doppler shift caused by a mobile MS is analyzed and a compensation technique for the carrier frequency offset (CFO) in the OFDM system with TE MMR is proposed.


Three novel aminoalcohol complexes were synthesized by reaction of ferrocenylaminoalcohol and HgCl_2.The complexes are Hg(FcM)Cl_2,Hg(Fcp-MOB)Cl_2,Hg(Fcp-ClB)Cl_2,where FcM is 2-hydroxy-2-ferrocenylpropylamine,Fcp-MOB is 2-hydroxy-2-p-methoxyphenyl-2-ferrocenylethylamine and Fcp-ClB is 2-hydroxy-2-p-chlorophenyl-2-ferrocenylethylamine.They were characterized by elemental analysis,IR, 1H NMR,TGA-DTG and molar conductance measurements.The structure of the complexes were also determined.


The gradual liquidation of the western empires and the emer gence of two Power blocs led by the USA and USSR after the end of the Second World War had a significant impact on international relations during the last three decades. Many of the colonies in Asia and Africa which gained independence during this period were economically under-developed. Along with the other under-developed countries they constituted a group of 81 in 1963. This was an important factor which tended to change the balance in international politics. Equally or more significant was the existence of two power blocs. With their military and economic power, they ventured on a course of expanding their sphere of influence and authority in various parts of the world. Because of the nuclear weapons at their disposal, there were always a danger of large scale human destruction in case of a major confrontation between them. On the other hand exploi tation of the less developed nations by the advanced nations con tinued under neo-colonialism. In this situation there were direct and


1Center for Systems Biology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China 2Unit of Chemical-Physics Fundamentals in Chemical Engineering, Department of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy 3Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 4Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA


The phase correlation based microwave holography measurement on Shanghai 25 m parabolic antenna is described in this paper.At first,the development of the microwave holography and the theory are mentioned.Then the measurement system that we built is introduced.The efficient and accurate measurement based on narrow band are addressed in detail.The measure accuracy is evaluated by "self calibration" and also tested actually.We have got the accuracy 0.14 mm at present(limit error is 0.2 mm).The aspects that effect the measurement accuracy are analyzed.


In spite of interest in the cultivation of the pejerrey ¢sh Odontesthes bonariensis (Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835), there are few studies on subjects required to advance this activity. One of the problems is the synchronization of female and male maturation to provide eggs and sperm for larval production. The low volume of expressible milt, either in wild or culture ¢sh, is a major problem. The aim of this work was to study the eiectiveness of the administration of diierent hormones on sperm production in pejerrey. Milt production was enhanced by the injection of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) (16.7-fold increase, 625 IU kg 1 ), carp pituitary extracts (13.5-fold increase, 30 mg kg 1 ), salmon pituitary extracts (12.8fold increase, 30 mg kg 1 ), salmon-type gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue (GnRH) (16.7-fold increase, 10m gk g 1 ) and mammalian-type GnRH analogue (10.8-fold increase, 20m gk g 1 ). Sperm concentration, motility and the fertilization rate were not statistically diierent compared with control groups. It was also demonstrated that sperm could be obtained oi-season. Taken together, hCG is recommended to stimulate pejerrey spermiation because it is eiective in low doses is inexpensive and is widely available.


With the successive development of technology of computer hardware,various kinds of embedded equipment,mobile devices,and intellectual equipment have been widely used.Nowadays,people require the embedded equipment with well data processing;the embedded DBMS can meet this requirement.An embedded DBMS model called eDBMS which supports the mobile computing and implements it in the platform with ARM and uC/OS-Ⅱ is presented.With eDBMS,data management can be more convenient and regular.The time of designing an embedded application project will be reduced obviously using API offered by eDBMS.


A Diesel Dual Fuel (DDF) engine is an adapted diesel engine that uses natural gas and diesel fuel as the energy source at the same time. Natural gas is mixed with air at the intake manifold while diesel fuel is injected into the combustion chamber directly to initiate the combustion process. Based on the past DDF literatures, they are indicated that Carbon Monoxide (CO) emissions were more substantial at low load conditions than those when running in diesel engine modes. The Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) that is installed to this diesel engine is, therefore, not capable to reduce CO emissions abide by to the emission regulation. Literatures also indicate that the exhaust temperature, mass flow rate, Oxygen (O2) concentration, CO concentration, as well as Propane (C3H8) concentration may affect CO conversion efficiency of the catalytic converter. In the present work, Design of Experiments (DOE) is employed to explore the behavior of various factors that affect CO reductions in the catalytic converter. Once the knowledge is founded, the optimization of CO reductions in the catalytic converter at 90% is studied extensively. Using Fractional Factorial Design for screening factors on CO conversions, it is found that the exhaust temperature, mass flow rate, O2 concentration, and CO concentration affect CO conversions of the catalytic converter significantly. Optimization of these factors, by using Box-Behnken Design, for reducing CO concentration of 6200 ppm which is the maximum CO amount emitted from the tested engine shows that 90% of CO conversion can be reached at the exhaust temperature of 2000C, the mass flow rate of 25 kg/h, and the oxygen concentration of 16%.


Given that leukocytes, derived from microvasculature, are critical for cervical ripening (CR) and that VEGF, whose levels increase near term, is the key architect of microvascular remodeling, VEGF likely plays vital roles in CR. However, its definite roles in CR are unknown. Here, we use VEGF siRNA and genome‐wide DNA microarray analysis, to decipher VEGF‐related genes in pregnant rat. We used a siRNA‐generating plasmid DNAs targeting VEGF. 40 ug of siRNA, dissolved in Lipofectamine and mixed in a micellar nanocontainer polymer, pluronic block copolymer, were administered to the cervix intravaginally at days 17 and 19 of pregnancy, leading to a 50% reduction in VEGF at day 20, based on RT‐PCR densitometric analysis. Moreover, analysis of microarray data, according to the EASE score, revealed that, not only the gene expression of "hallmark" biological processes of VEGF, such as cell proliferation and motility, circulation, tissues remodeling, heat shock protein activity and cell adhesion molecule activity were altered, but, intriguingly, also of unexpected, but important candidates involved in CR, most notably oxytocin and prostaglandins. These data are novel and important, in that they shed new insights in VEGF's possible roles and mechanisms in cervical events near term, including CR.


Based on the groundwater resources situation of Hohhot City,and by using grey relation method,this paper analyzes the groundwater quality of Hohhot City.


The purpose of this paper is to apply theory and methodology developed in the study of information integration in psychology to the modeling of individual apartment decisions. In particular, two models that express the trade-off relationships among three variables hypothesized to be influential in apartment selection are examined. Although it is not claimed that the variables included in the study are the only ones relevant to apartment selection, evidence is provided that they are considered to be the three most important in a preliminary analysis. The paper also discusses potential benefits of controlled experimentation and model estimation strategies.


The purpose of this paper is to identify the main image attributes determining shopping centre selection in Lithuania. By applying Pajuodis (2005) statement that shoppers select a shopping centre by its image and the models of Sit, Merrilees & Birch (2003), Wong, Lu, Yuan (2001), Gonzalez-Hernandes & Orozco-Gomez (2012) and Singh & Sahay (2012) this paper develops suggestions of what shopping centre image attributes should be emphasized in shopping centre promotional campaigns and how to improve the perceptions of shopping centre patrons of the overall centre image. The theory part of the paper uses systemic and comparative scientific literature analysis. Based on Lithuanian and foreign authors' scientific works, the paper analyses image attributes that influence the selection of the shopping centre as a place for shopping and leisure. An empirical study was conducted applying a quantitative method for data collection – a survey. After generalising theoretical shopping centre image aspects, attributes that represented the shopping centre image was identified. A review of the retailing literature reveals several attributes in shopping centre image studies: merchandising, accessibility, service, facilities, atmosphere, amenities, ambulance, entertainment, security and other. An empirical study indicates main shopping centre image attributes in the Lithuanian market in particular. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.em.18.3.5132


Changes in the various quality characteristics of hamburg steak depending on the packaging methods were investigated during storage at 5±1°C for up to 15 days. Three packaging treatments including vacuum packaging (VAP), air-containing packaging (AC), and oxygen scavenger packaging (OS) were applied in this experiment. The initial total aerobe bacteria counts were identical at 2.3 log CFU/g in all treatments, but the growth rate of total aerobe bacteria in the AC samples was significantly faster than the VAP and OS samples during storage. The changes in the TBA and VBN values over the storage time showed that lipid oxidation and protein spoilage developed fastest in the AC sample, followed by OS and then VAP samples. The instrumental color and texture profiles were not significantly differ between treatments during storage (p>0.05). After 12 days of storage at 5°C, evaluation of the samples' sensory attributes showed that the AC samples had become unmarketable with a score of less than 5.0 points for all sensory properties, whereas the VAP and OS samples were still marketable.


Objective To explore the correlationship between variable number tandem repeats(VNTR) polymorphism in intron of the endothelia nitric oxide synthase(eNOS) gene and hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy(HDCP). Methods The VNTR polymorhism in intron 4 of the eNOS genes of all the cases were detected by PCR techniques. The genotype and allele frequency differences were compared between the two groups. The mRNA of eNOS in placenta in diverse groups was detected by RT-PCR respectively. Results The allele frequency of eNOS gene VNTR-4a is 7.50%in control group and 16.00%in patient group (χ2 =4.63 P=0.031, OR=2.35, 95%CI 4.74~23.22). The frequency of genotype 4a/4b+4a/4a is significantly higher in patient group than that in control group (13.75%vs 28.00%) (χ2=5.08 P=0.024, OR=2.69,95%CI 6.12~35.4). The level of eNOS mRNA is higher in control group than that in patient group. In patient group, eNOS mRNA (76.81±1.41 vs 62.79±0.95, t=11.629 P=0.012) in 4a/4b+4a/4a genotype group is significantly lower than that in 4b+4b genotype group, respectively. Conlusions The hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy was associated with the decreased transcription of eNOS mRNA induced by the mutation of the VNTR polymorphism in the intron 4 of the eNOS genes.


2014 We have investigated the dichroic properties and the existence of metastable excited states of several colour centres created by X-irradiation in CaF2 : Na. According to our results absorption bands peaking at 600, 385 and 322 nm are associated to the same centre which behaves optically as orthorhombic. The lack of observation of a metastable state is in favour of the F+2A model for this centre. On the other hand the band at 500 nm and another absorption at 322 nm are proved to belong to the same centre which behaves optically as tetragonal. A metastable excited state of this centre with lifetime of 0,83 s at 77 K has been detected. Two possible models are discussed for this centre. J. Physique Lett. 46 (1985) L-861 L-868 15 SEPTEMBRE 1985, Classification Physics Abstracts 61.70D 78.50


Based on the plate mills built by China, the important development of the equipment and technology and the great progress in the plate production in recent years in China are introduced. The core technology of plate production, such as manufacture of strong plate mills, controlled cooling systems, the TMCP technology of plate production, control of dimension accuracy, prediction of the microstructure and properties of hot rolled plate, and computer control system of plate mill have been used in Chinese plate production lines, which means that China has predominated the systematic technology in the plate production / equipment / automatic control with independent intellective property. China is becoming a strong country in the plate production.


The flourishing concert life in London in the Eighteenth Century was an ideal showcase for the newest woodwind instrument, the clarinet. As the Eighteenth Century progressed the appearance of clarinettists in London concerts increased significantly. Performers playing the newest woodwind instrument began to appear at a number of concert venues in the city, performing a variety of repertoire including solo concertos. A number of extant advertisements and concert reviews specify performances by named clarinettists, allowing an insight into the performers heard by contemporary audiences.
 This paper will examine references to solo clarinettists performing in London concerts drawing on a variety of extant source material. It will also seek to provide an insight into the most well known clarinettists in London at this time and the audience response to both the performers and the newest woodwind instrument.
 In order to discuss the developing role of the solo clarinettist in London concerts I will explore research questions such as:

• When did solo clarinettists first perform in London concerts?
• At which venues did solo clarinettists appear in concert?
• Which solo clarinettists performed most frequently?
• What repertoire was being performed and by which composers?
• What reviews exist of performances by solo clarinettists at this time?
• Are extant reviews of these performances favourable?

 This paper will seek to provide an insight into the developing employment of the clarinet as a solo instrument in London concert life and examine how the instrument and performers were received by contemporary audiences.


The micro/nanostructure of manganese silicide (Mn-Si) compounds with various morphologies (nanowires, films, particles, and polyhedron shape structure) has been synthesized through oxygen assisted chemical vapor deposition by changing the stacking geometry of manganese powder. Polyhedrons prepared in the Mn-Si contact area were identified to be chemical composition gradient functionally graded materials which were verified by analyzing atomic ratio of Mn/Si from top to bottom. Evolution of morphology greatly depended on the stacking shape correlated distance from precursor to the substrate, resulting in distinctive growth mechanisms. Main structures on the substrate have been verified to be Mn5Si3 and Mn4Si7 with different Mn stacking in bumps comparing to sole Mn4Si7 with flat surface.


Community health centers as the government agency responsible for performing basic health services which consist of individual health care and public health services with promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitation activities. This study was conducted to determine the extent of the application of the principle of government bureaucracy in the ministry of health centers in the city of Makassar. This study applied the qualitative methods, purposive and representative urban community health centers and community health centers choose suburbs. Sources of data obtained from informants through interview, observation and documentation of the elements of bureaucrats and the public health center. The results showed that the behavior of the rationality principle universal bureaucracy, hierarchy and discretion has taken place and applied in health care, but not optimally support the health services at the health center program, due to the behavior of less innovative and less bureaucratic coordination to empower health centers. Behavioral health center bureaucracy in the city of Makassar can be effective if stakeholders can work together in accordance.


The article presents the results of the analysis of the marriage satisfaction level of Muslims in monogamous and polygamous families in Russia. Such studies have not been conducted previously despite the fact that this problem is relevant for the institution of family and marriage as a whole. Muslims make up approximately 15 percent of the population of the Russian Federation, and their well-being in family relations is important both for each individual, and for the community and the state as a whole. The study involved 172 people between the ages 18 to 71 years: 85 men and 87 women. The satisfaction of spouses with marital relations was measured using the Russian-language version of Susan S. Hendrik's (1988) "7-point Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS)" adapted by Sychev O. A. Data analysis was performed using Microsoft Offi ce and IBM SPSS Statistics. The results obtained allow us to conclude that the level of satisfaction of spouses in monogamous marriages is higher than the level of satisfaction in polygamous marriages, and the level of satisfaction with the marriage of the fi rst wives is lower than the level of satisfaction of the second/third/fourth wives. These results make it possible to develop practical recommendations for improving the practical application of theoretical and empirical research data in counseling, therapeutic, adaptive and preventive work with Muslims who are already married and who intend to enter into it.


The detection information is the basis of fault diagnosis.The calculation of information, and the detection strategy and the solution based on Wald's Sequential Analysis, and the best detection place problem are discussed in this paper. Also, the results are given based on the simulation experiments.


This paper introduces a novel hybrid N-to-N bidirectional ConvLSTM for multi-temporal crop recognition in areas characterized by highly complex crop dynamics as in tropical regions. The proposed method seeks to explore both spatial and temporal context of the data by adding a bidirectional ConvLSTM to every skip connection in the U-Net and applying the fully connected conditional random fields (CRF) methodology as a post-processing of the predictions. We evaluated our method on a publicly available tropical region dataset, from Sentinel-1 data, obtaining an average improvement of almost 4% in the Average F1 Score and 1.7% in Overall Accuracy, when comparing with a state-of-the art method.


paper introduces a chaos based image encryption with parity based pixel value modification in the permutation stage. The encryption algorithm consists of two stages permutation- diffusion. Permutation stage original image pixels are scrambled and diffusion stage masks the original image pixel with the pseudo random binary sequence. Parity based pixel modification in permutation gives maximum security level in minimum rounds. The 1D chaotic maps logistic map, sine map and cubic map employed to permute and diffuse image pixels.


The present paper explains the conceptions, beliefs and thoughts on academic classrooms of students in teaching training. Those students understand classrooms as a space for academic work in which teachers and students establish relationships in an environment intentionally established for training. Also, they understand that classrooms are not a homogeneous constructs, since both actions that entail simplistic orientations of teaching and educational activities that promote the multicausal character implying the processes of the classroom world are developed in it.


This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive, coherent, and methodical review of the existing literature on the transient performance of extended surfaces (fins). With the exception of very few experimental studies, the work described is theoretical involving either analytical approaches or numerical computations. For both longitudinal and radial convecting fins, the shapes analyzed include fins of rectangular, trapezoidal, concave parabolic, and convex parabolic profiles. The boundary conditions considered are those of time-dependent base temperature or time-dependent base heat flow, or time-dependent temperature of the fluid on the unfinned side of the primary surface. Other studies discussed consider the transient responses of radiating and convecting-radiating fins, fins with stochastic base temperature and fins in which conduction, natural convection, and radiation are coupled. The paper also provides an in-depth consideration of two-dimensional analyses of a cylindrical spine (pin fin) and a composite longitudinal fin. All of the important results pertaining to the transient effect in extended surfaces are presented and these effects are illustrated with several examples. The paper concludes with an attempt to identify future investigative efforts.


To buildup the safety of real time operating system, after status quo of existing scheduling mechanism analyzed, brought forward a kind of novel safety scheduling mechanism based on Maximum Criticality First (MCF). MCF is a hybrid priorities real time scheduling algorithm which consisting of three parts, the first two parts are the assignment of the importance and user priority, which is done statically, the second part is the assignment of the dynamic priority based on minimum laxity first scheduling algorithm. MCF synthesizes the strongpoint of the fixed priority scheduling algorithm and the dynamic priority scheduling algorithm. By this way, MCF not only takes full advantage of resources such as CPU, also make critical task not suffer from other non critical tasks at transient overload. The safety of real time operating system is improved with MCF.


A novel latch-up immunity low voltage trigger silicon-controlled rectifier (LILVTSCR) for high -speed I/O circuit. The proposed LILVTSCR offers a reduced triggering voltage level as well as the enhanced ESD performance of the SCR devices. From the simulation results, the triggering voltage of the LILVTSCR is 2.8V~7.2V as the gate length of the LILVTSCR device is 0.5㎛~1.0㎛. And this structure reduces the latch-up phenomenon by using tum on/off character of N-channel and P-channel MOSFETs in SCR structure.


swollen, without any circumscribed lump like a hernia. The swelling gradually subsided, and later the spermatic cord could be felt as a hard ridge running down the canal, which was thought to be organizing haemorrhage which had come from a ruptured vein of the pampiniform plexus inside the infundibuliform fascia. There was very little to see a fortnight later, except slight staining, and the cord felt a little thickened. The testicle was normal from beginning to end.


Glued Laminated Timber is an engineered product that requires precision of manufacturing in all its stages. The finished product can only be tested under laboratory conditions, however it is necessary to quality control in their production to ensure that the properties of the Glulam are appropriate to the product specified requirements in accordance with specified for the product in accordance with the standards. This paper evaluates the proposed trials conducted with combinations of three Brazilian reforestation species, two adhesive and three types of treatment, used in of Research and Development CPFL/EESC "PD220-07 - Head of Series Crosshead. The combination that showed the best performance was Pine wood with any type of adhesive or treatment discussed, so it can be used in external mode. Lyptus wood for any combination of patch treatment fall into internal use class. Teak wood can be used indoors (adhesive Purbond and all kinds of treatment) or external (Cascophen adhesive and all kinds of treatment). Glued Laminated Timber (Glulam) is an engineered wood product that requires precision of manufacturing in all its stages. The finished product can only be tested under laboratory conditions, however, quality control is required in the production to ensure that the properties of Glulam are appropriate to the resistance specified for the material by standards. In this work, test methods and results for quality control of amendments in the face (shear in the glue line), creep test and delamination are presented. These tests were performed at LaMEM (Wood and Timber Structures Laboratory), Sao Carlos Engineering School, Sao Paulo University, in Brazil, in order to evaluate some combinations adhesive/wood species/treatment according to ANSI/AITC(1-3) specifications. Three reforestation species were used: Pinus, Lyptus and Teak; three treatments: CCA, CCB Ox, CCB Salt and no treatment; two adhesives: Purbond HB S309, Cascophen RS 216M. (Ox: Oxide: it is made with raw materials based on pure oxides, which guarantee the quality of a product with perfect percentages and the homogenization of the ingredients; Salt: comes down to a simple mixture of compounds in the form of salts, causing problems fixing Boron).


The Malay folklore is something that our ancestor inherits to us for so long now. Nowadays, Malaysian folklore is beginning to fade from the face of our country due to the western media that's beginning to dominate the world. Youngsters nowadays prefer to watch western movies and western related stories rather than our own folklore. Not only that, youngsters nowadays is keen towards the western culture due to the innovation of modern technology such as tablets, smartphones, and other devices. There are three important objectives in this research. First is to determine the suitable Malaysian folklore to be converted into an interactive comic. Second is to give a new experience to the audience to enjoy and attract youngsters nowadays. The third is to test the effectiveness of this interactive comic to the young generation from age 13 to 15 years old. This interactive comic is for youngsters who nowadays don't know about the Malaysian folklore and to prevent it from fading from the eyes of our country. As a conclusion, this research is to help preserve and protect our Malaysian folklore from extinction by using modern technologies.


Abstract
Over the last two years at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, a computerized Clinical Rheumatology Toolkit (the Toolkit) for medical students, postgraduate trainees, and medical faculty has been developed to run on laptop computers. The Toolkit is an integrated software package that includes case simulations, differential diagnosis of rheumatic symptoms and signs, clinical note generation, patient database, medline searching and reference management; and is designed to be employed in both clinical patient care and education of medical trainees. The system has been implemented in the last year and used predominantly by fourth year medical students.


Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) is an age-related accumulation of detectable somatic mutations in circulating leukocytes that is associated with diverse outcomes including hematologic cancer, solid tumors, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders and overall mortality. The biological mechanisms by which CH is associated with disease is poorly understood, with hypotheses suggesting CH is a potential marker of genomic maintenance capacity or a potential marker of immune system imbalance. The most common age-related chromosomal alteration observed in men with CH is mosaic loss of the Y chromosome (mLOY). The relative high frequency of mLOY makes mLOY an attractive marker for investigating disease-related mechanisms associated with CH. In particular, leukocyte counts are associated with hematologic cancer, cardiovascular disease and mortality in men and may, in part, mediate some of the observed associations between CH and disease. We investigated mLOY in a large collection of 223,182 men from the UK Biobank to study potential impacts of mLOY on blood cell count indices. We used existing UK Biobank array intensity data from the male-specific region of the Y chromosome to detect deviations in the median log2 R ratio (mLRR) that signifies the presence of mLOY. In total, 3,789 men had evidence for mLOY, and of these 596 men had evidence for mLOY affecting high cellular proportions (approximately 24% of cells). Age and smoking adjusted models indicated leukocyte count is, on average, elevated by 5.82% (95% CI=4.82-6.83, P-value=5.38×10−30) in men with mLOY and by 11.95% (95% CI=9.47-14.44, P-value=1.99×10−21) in men with high levels of mLOY. Analysis of leukocyte proportions indicated the association between mLOY and leukocyte count was restricted to myeloid progenitor cells, with significant elevations observed in neutrophil and monocyte counts (P-values=1.06×10−25 and 4.89×10−56, respectively). Neutrophil count was most highly altered with average changes in cell count of 8.69% (95% CI=7.60-9.77) in men with mLOY and 14.70% (95% CI=12.04-17.37, P-value=2.32×10−156) in men with high levels of mLOY. Sensitivity analyses in never smokers observed similar elevations in leukocyte, neutrophil and monocyte count in men with mLOY, suggesting our findings were not a result of residual confounding by smoking. Furthermore, elevations in platelet count and reductions in erythrocyte count in men with mLOY provide additional evidence myeloid progenitor cells are impacted by mLOY. We found no evidence suggesting lymphocytes are impacted by mLOY. Together, these observations indicate that men with mLOY have substantial deviations in blood cell counts, particularly in neutrophil count. In this way, alterations in leukocyte counts may be one mechanism by which CH contributes to disease. Citation Format: Mitchell J. Machiela, Weiyin Zhou, Erikka Loftfield, Meredith Yeager, Neal D. Freedman, Stephen J. Chanock. Clonal hematopoiesis alters blood cell counts in the UK Biobank [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 607.


We have experimentally studied the low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) kinetics in type II GaAs/AlAs superlattices under the influence of an electric field. We have found that the application of electric field leads to an increase in the PL intensity of free exciton line and e-hh PL line, while the PL intensity of lines of localized excitons and phonon replicas do not increase. Then the acceleration of PL kinetics of the no-phonon and phonon-assisted excitonic lines starts after some decay with respect to the appearance of the SAW electric field at the photogeneration point. We conclude that (1) the origin for the rise of the PL intensity of free exciton and e-hh lines is carriers ejected from the localized states by the electric field; (2) the PL intensity of localized excitonic line is not increases because the lateral electric field prevents localization; (3) the acceleration of PL kinetics of no-phonon and phonon-assisted lines is due to an increase of the XZ-exciton recombination probability that results from impact with the electrons transferred to the Xxy levels by electric field.


This application, for example, can be used as a NK-1 inhibitor compound in the pharmaceutical 8 - [{1- (3,5-bis - (trifluoromethyl) phenyl) - ethoxy} - methyl (Nnethyl)] - 8-phenyl-1,7-diaza - spiro [4.5] decan-2-one compounds novel process for the synthesis, intermediates useful in said process, and a process for preparing the intermediates discloses, also discloses a process for removing metals from N- heterocyclic carbene metal complex. IM = 102123.


Two models of profit-maximizing farms are developed using the duality that exists between the normalized profit function and the production function. Some production factors are fixed in the short term. The specification used is the translog form with variable intercepts. The equations are estimated with an incomplete panel using a SUR and 3SLS estimation method. The theoretical framework fits the data well. Assumptions often made about the production technology are tested. Linear homogeneity and Hicks' neutrality are rejected by both models. The production and substitution elasticities calculated by both models do not differ significantly. Therefore, using data from dairy farms in the Netherlands the dual models perform similarly. Copyright 1992 by Oxford University Press.


Objective To test the validity of filaria-specific IgG4 ELISA kit,and evaluate the applicability of this kit in Hunan province.Methods 521 blood samples in dried filter papers were examined by using the filaria-specific IgG4 antibody testing kit jointly produced by Shandong Institute of Parasitic Disease and Shenzhen Combined Biotech Co.Ltd.The tests were performed in parallel with parasitological methods.Results Of the 76 cases with previous microfilaremia,all of the samples were negative in the ELISA assay and microfilaremia was not found on the blood smears.Of the 69 adult inhabitants living in the filaria-free region,2 samples showed the positive results by the ELISA method,and the positive rate was 2.90%.Microfilaremia was not found.In the study of 143 children living in endemic areas(but now free of filaria)and 200 children from the non-endemic regions,all samples were negative for filaria.In the study of 33 patients with chronic filariasis and patients with other parasitic diseases,positive result was also not observed.The kit is specific for filaria as cross-reaction with schistosoma,paragonimus,and clonorchiasis sinensis was not observed.Conclusion The filaria-specific IgG4 testing kit is sensitivity and specificity for filaria.


Abstract The dynamism in man's public sphere, with its associated diversity in the socio-cultural and religious inclination of people, have over time resulted in variation in the personality psychological traits of people in these environments. In most developing countries, the level of integration of Social Interactive Service Robots (SISRs) in public sphere has been greatly hampered; owing to the disparity in the psychological traits of the people in this region. This to a great extent has impeded the level of acceptance of SISRs in most public places. In an effort to remediate this challenge, there is need to understand and characterize the psychological trait of the people in this region. This work therefore, seeks to review psychological development and traits of the Zulu, Xhosa and Swati tribes of South Africa in a bid to characterize the inherent psychological trait variation of the people. It was also aims at establishing in quantitative terms, the variation in pro-social traits. Findings from this work, show that Xhosa and Zulu tribe have a higher propensity to integrate SISRs more than the Swati tribe, as they have higher positive correlation value in terms of pro-social traits: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism with values of 0.45, 0.80 and 0.40 respectively. Also, result from the analysis show that the mean pro-social traits for the tribe combination: Xhosa/Zulu, Swati/Zulu and Swati/Xhosa have correlational values of 0.58, 0.54 and 0.53 respectively.


The treatment of acute cerebral infarction influences the prognosis directly,so it has attracted more and more attention.Although intravenous thrombolysis is generally acknowledged as the most effective therapy,it is limited by the time window.Other managements and therapies include stroke unit,ultrasound-enhanced thrombolysis,mechanical embolus removal,anti-platelet aggregation,anti-coagulation,fibrin-decreasing,cerebral protection,hemicraniectomy,telestroke and so on.Some of them have been proved effective by clinical practice,some still in dispute.This article reviews therapeutic progress of acute cerebral infarction in domestic and abroad recent years.


The shadow show is one of three major operas in Taiwan. With the progress of technology, TV and films become more and more popular, however, people's enthusiasm for the shadow show have been reducing year by year. Under upsurge of cultural industry, every country is making an effort to promote its own culture. At the moment when the shadow show is withering, how to keep it and make it popular again is an important issue that we must pay attention to. One of characteristics of the Grade 1~9 Curriculum Guidelines which Ministry of Education issues, focuses on student's daily life experience and has it incorporate in the learning environment. With this basis, course plan should regard life as the core center and advocate the idea of multicultural values. According to the new Arts and Humanities course plan with performing art area included by Ministry of Education, it's obvious that the government has already put more emphases on Taiwanese traditional culture and humanities accomplishment at the stage of the primary school. On the other hand, through the scholar's research for many years, drama has already been recognized as a helpful way to children studies, and the major benefit is to let children obtain knowledge and experience of life from it. Shadow show belongs to one kind of the drama. With support from Ministry of Education, I believe that if we can promote it with the idea of drama in education, there must be a positive influence to the culture of shadow show and children education. This paper reference of shadow show concludes a principle of paper shadow show design. Working together with a primary school teacher, Mr. Mai, I tried to design a set of paper shadow show and than practiced it on class to test if it's a suitable learning material for primary school learners.


In this work, we describe our method for tackling the valence-arousal estimation challenge from ABAW FG-2020 Competition. The competition organizers provide an in-the-wild Aff-Wild2 dataset for participants to analyze affective behavior in real-life settings. We use MIMAMO Net \cite{deng2020mimamo} model to achieve information about micro-motion and macro-motion for improving video emotion recognition and achieve Concordance Correlation Coefficient (CCC) of 0.415 and 0.511 for valence and arousal on the reselected validation set.


Loudspeaker dedicated to high-frequency signals may also produce significant distortion in the acoustical output. The nonlinearities in motor and suspension can be modelled by equivalent circuits and dynamically measured by system identification technique based voltage and current monitoring. The identified model is the basis for numerical prediction of the large signal performance and reveals the effect of each nonlinearity. The paper uses this technique for the diagnosis of three different drivers, compares measured and predicted distortion, investigates the thermal power compression and discusses the impact on the perceived sound quality.


Objective To discuss techniques for harvesting the radial artery in coronary artery bypass graft. Methods The anatomy and clinical experience of harvesting the radial artery in 494 patients were reviewed. Results All patients who underwent radial artery harvest had full activities and normal sensations of the upper extremity on the first postoperative day. No upper extremity ischem has been observed. Conclusion When preoperative assessment confirms adequate collateral supply to the radial aspect of the hand, the radial artery is an excellent bypass graft.


The invention provides a method for preparing a vertically aligned graphene oxide film. The method comprises the following specific steps: preparing a graphene oxide dispersion liquid, selecting two insulated electrode plates, placing in parallel, and preparing conductive electrodes on backward surfaces; connecting the conductive electrodes and external voltage by using leads; injecting the graphene oxide dispersion liquid between the electrode plates, and standing, so as to enable the solution perfectly to infiltrate the inner walls of the electrode plates; starting external voltage, controlling the field intensity which is generated by the voltage between the two insulated electrode plates to be less than the breakdown field intensity of a medium and greater than the minimal field intensity capable of enabling graphene oxide to generate alignment; carrying out reorientation on graphene oxide sheets in the graphene oxide dispersion liquid, and finishing the alignment of the graphene oxide sheets; carrying out solution volatilization under the condition that the external voltage is kept in a working station, so that the graphene oxide is dried into a film; and taking down the electrode plates, so as to obtain the self-supporting vertically aligned graphene oxide film.


With the development of scientific technologies, various quadcopter piloting modes have appeared. Depending on the application, on the required tasks of the drone, the use of one or another mode is possible. To do this, you need to know about the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle for comfortable piloting. The purpose of this article is to familiarize with quadcopter piloting modes.


To assess studies reporting reference ranges for umbilical artery (UA) and fetal middle cerebral artery (MCA) Doppler indices and cerebroplacental ratio (CPR), using a set of predefined methodological quality criteria for study design, statistical analysis and reporting methods.


A paper brings together new and existing summaries of the major results of NASA's GRACE mission, showcasing the breadth of topics the mission has illuminated.


New York City's Pre-K for All (PKA) is the nation's largest universal early childhood initiative, serving over 64,000 four-year-olds annually. Stemming from the program's choice architecture as well as the city's stark residential segregation, PKA programs are extremely segregated by child race/ethnicity. Our current study explores the complex forces that influence this segregation, including the interplay between family choices, seat availability, site-level enrollment priorities, and the PKA algorithm that weighs these and other considerations. We find that a majority of PKA segregation lies within local communities, and that areas with increased options and greater racial/ethnic diversity exhibit the most extreme segregation. We also conduct a simulation that leverages family PKA choices to maximize site-level racial/ethnic diversity and reduce between-site segregation.


In this paper, the effect of the substrate interaction is examined for the R/sub E/ flyback method which is commonly used to measure the emitter resistance of BJT devices. By considering the structure to be a combination of two devices, the measurement conditions can be understood better for different substrate configurations, giving improved confidence in the method.


A defining feature of public sector employment in the United States is the regular change in elected leadership. We describe how these changes alter policy and disrupt civil servants' influence over agency decisions, potentially shaping their career choices. Using data on careers from over three million federal employees in the United States from 1988 to 2011, we evaluate how administration changes influence turnover in a series of regression analyses. We find substantial stability in the civil service but also some pockets of responsiveness to political factors, particularly among career senior executives in agencies with views divergent from the president's. A combination of factors, including transitions, policy priorities, and ideological differences, could increase turnover propensity for these employees by nearly one-third in some agencies over an administration's first term. This has implications for understanding possible mechanisms linking politics and organizational capacity and for understanding how and for whom politics is influential in career decisions.


In accordance with the new advances in language teaching methodologies and integration of high technology tools as well as web applications, there are many scientific research published on English language teaching (ELT) and learning (ELL) in recent years. However, on the one hand, it is still a significant question to research that exactly what types of research topics are mostly studied among the researchers from different countries. What are the leading research groups on the world? Even though there are noteworthy studies to clarify mostly studied topics and trajectory of the researches on ELT by means of literature reviews, and there are very few studies to compare research tendencies of the researchers over text/content mining methodology. In fact, the papers reviewing literature are mostly limited in terms of depicting a broad understanding the scope of such studies. On the other hand, a corpus based detection methodology, which may illuminate those research tendencies and trajectory, and come up with very informative descriptive results in the field, is actually missing. In sum, the current research aims at finding out the most frequent research contexts and topics in the last five years through analyzing research papers published in leading academic journals in the field, and compare tendencies of the researchers from different institutions and countries in terms of selecting their research context and topics, and to figure out the trajectory for future studies. In this study, the researchers believe that there are different tendencies among the researchers in terms of their selecting research contexts and topics, which should be revealed for future researches. Researchers use a corpus-based detection methodology in this study, which is composed of storing variable data in .txt files and analyzing variables over the concordancer. Corpus-based detection method defines process of gathering textual data mentioned in the variables and analyzing them by means of a concordancer, named AntConc. The corpus-based data from the variables are analyzed by means of a statistical software, known as JASP in order to clear out potential differences among the researchers. A short analysis of the data indicates that the researchers still focus on the key words such as explicit learning and knowledge, implicit learning and knowledge as well as age and bilingualism. It is also observed that meta-analysis is an important topic in the studies conducted lately. Further results of the study could be beneficial for all followers including researchers and learners inside and outside the field of ELT and help people focus less frequently studied contexts and topics.


Introduction: The accurate diagnosis of thyroid nodules continues to challenge physicians managing patients with thyroid disease. The increased use of carotid and other neck ultrasound coupled with the improved technology and higher resolution of ultrasound machines leads to the detection of steadily increasing numbers of asymptomatic thyroid nodules, the socalled incidentalomas . Once discovered, these nodules are generally sampled via fine-needle aspiration (FNA) for diagnosis. The rate of thyroid Abstract:


We introduce Y' and Y2 translates for functions in Y'1(a) and Y2(1i) where y is a Gaussian measure on a Banach space. With these translates and the Fourier-Wiener transforms defined by Cameron and Martin we obtain Wiener's closure theorem in Y2(u) and in Y1(p). Using the Yj1(u) results we indicate the analogue of the Wiener-Pitt Tauberian theorems for this setup.


A total of 25,482 snails, comprising 4,258 (16.7%) Bulinusglobosus; 213 (0.8%) Bulinustruncatus; 4,040 (15.9%) Bulinusforskalii; 4,770 (18.7%) Biomphalariapfeifferi; 6,024 (23.6%) Melanoidestuberculata; 1,730 (6.8%) Potadomafreethi; and 4,447 (17.5%) Pilaovata were collected over a period of 24 months during monthly site visits to Owena Reservoir Area which comprises of three communities namely Owena, Baiken and Kajola in Ondo East Local Government Area, Ondo State, Nigeria. The abundance of each of the snail species varied significantly (p<0.05), spatially, seasonally, and annually throughout the period under study. The established intermediate snail host species were Bulinusglobosus and Bulinustruncatus for Schistosomahematobium transmission. The overall infection rate among Bulinusglobosus was 3.2% as 136 snails were found to shed cercariae out of 4,258 collected and examined for trematode infection. This occurred at site 4 located in the Kajola community. None of the Bulinustruncatus species was found to shed cercariae.


Reading with comprehension is a matter of concern in Namibian schools. To read with understanding, reading comprehension strategies should explicitly be taught to learners. Six reading comprehension strategies were identified by researchers as effective in improving reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to find out whether teachers are acquainted with a range of reading comprehension strategies, whether they are explicitly teaching them and whether they are trained in these strategies. Grade 7 learners' application of reading comprehension strategies were also observed to see what strategies they apply. Both the Social Cognitive and the Constructivist Theories formed the theoretical framework for this study. A qualitative research design was employed and respondents for the study were selected via purposive sampling from primary schools in the Khomas Region. The sample comprised of seven grade 7 English second language teachers, twelve grade 7 learners, one advisory teacher for European languages and one university lecturer for Teaching Methods of English. Semistructured interviews were used to collect data. Data analyses were done by coding and categorizing responses into themes. Results are presented based on the themes and patterns that emerged from the data. The main findings were that teachers were aware of and teaching two of the six identified strategies and learners were also acquainted with these two strategies. Most teachers were not aware of three of the identified strategies and consequently also did not teach them to learners. Clear differences were detected between top and low performing schools, for example the strategy of "summarizing" was practiced more by top performing schools than by low performing schools. ii Table of contents Abstract.........................................................................................i Table of content.........................................................................ii List of tables..............................................................................v Acknowledgements.....................................................................vi Dedication...............................................................................vii Declaration.............................................................................viii........................................................................................i Table of content.........................................................................ii List of tables..............................................................................v Acknowledgements.....................................................................vi Dedication...............................................................................vii Declaration.............................................................................viii Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Orientation of the study............................................................1 1.2 Statement of the problem..........................................................8 1.3 Objectives of the study.............................................................9 1.4 Significance of the study...........................................................9 1.5 Limitations of the study..........................................................10 Chapter 2: Literature review 2.1 Theoretical framework...........................................................12 2.2 Defining reading comprehension...............................................23 2.3 Reading comprehension strategies..............................................24 2.4 A selection of factors that restrict reading comprehension..................36 2.5 Explicit instruction in reading comprehension................................40 2.6 Reading comprehension in the Namibian context............................41


Analysis of the ms. 4 of the Biblioteca Universitaria in Padua, with a copy of Doni's poem "La guerra di Cipro", devoted to the island of Cyprus.


The paper proposed one industrial production line of mineral licking blocks,elaborated its production technic and the equipment.Meanwhile,mechanization has been carried out during its manufacture,so its technical level and formation rate were both in the highest flight in China.


This paper attempts to study the impact of supply-side structural reform on the total factor productivity of high-tech industries from the perspective of supply-side structural reform affecting potential total factor productivity. Potential total factor productivity is the optimal total factor productivity level that the economy is at an ideal level. To examine the impact of supply-side structural reform on total factor productivity, the most fundamental thing is to examine whether it can increase the potential total factor productivity of high-tech industries. The actual total factor productivity of high-tech industries also fluctuates based on potential total factor productivity. In the end, the impact of supply-side structural reform on potential total factor productivity is examined through the actual data of Liaoning province.


We calculate cross sections for electron-impact excitation of core electrons for La and Th metal within the local-density approximation (LDA), in particular, for the 4{ital d}{r arrow}4{ital f} and 3{ital d}{r arrow}4{ital f} transitions in La and for the 5{ital d}{r arrow}5{ital f} and 4{ital d}{r arrow}5{ital f} transitions in Th. The purpose is to account for the intensity variation of experimental electron-energy-loss spectra (EELS) when the incident-electron energy is lowered from high energies down to threshold, and, in particular, the appearance of structure due to exchange scattering involving capture into localized {ital f} levels. We use the distorted-wave approximation (DWA) at low incident energies and calculate direct and exchange inelastic-scattering cross sections for {ital LS}-resolved core excitations (neglecting spin-orbit interaction). In addition we have also made use of the Born approximation over the whole energy range. In general, the LDA DWA cross sections account rather well for the relative intensities of groups of spectral features connected with localized {ital d}{r arrow}{ital f} excitations in EELS for La and Th metal. In La, the 3{ital d}{r arrow}4{ital f} and 4{ital d}{r arrow}4{ital f} transitions show similar exchange to direct inelastic-scattering cross-section ratios as functions of incident electron energy on themore » scale of the excitation energy. The ratio is of the order of unity at threshold. Our calculated branching ratios for {sup 3}{ital L} to {sup 1}{ital P} and {sup 1}{ital F} to {sup 1}{ital P} in La are in reasonable agreement with experimental trends. We find a clear difference between 4{ital f} and 5{ital f} elements in what concerns low-energy and threshold behavior. In particular, the 4{ital d}{r arrow}5{ital f} transition in Th seems to be very special.« less


One of the most utilised strategic tactics by many organisations is to focus on international acquisitions in foreign markets to compete effectively in the current ever-changing dynamic competitive landscape. We suggest that the key top personnel of a previously successful target international firm is a valuable resource and needs to be retained for the local firm's continued success due to their social capital which was developed over time. This research focuses on the key top personnel (typically members of the top management team) and their value to the firm to help explain the variation in acquisition success. Thus, we argue that the key top personnel (KTP) need to be retained due to the value of their social capital.


High anthropogenic atmospheric deposition of sulphate, nitrate and ammonium lead to acidification and eutrophication of forest ecosystems, causing problems with forest health and shifts in biodiversity. The deposition reached a peak during the 1980s and a number of political conventions (e.g. Gothenburg Protocol) have been signed, agreeing to reduce industrial emissions. Due to the use of filter systems, sulphate deposition could be significantly reduced in the last decades, whereas nitrogen depositions (NH 4 , NO 3 ) are still on a high level (~ 40 kg N ha -1 yr -1 ). In this study, a soil acidification module will be implemented into the Modular Biosphere Simulation Environment (MoBilE). MoBilE is a model framework already capable to simulate N and C turnover in forest ecosystems and associated nutrient losses, e.g. N leaching and trace gas emissions (CO 2 , N 2 O, NO, N 2 , CH 4 ). The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of elevated atmospheric N deposition on forest acidification and eutrophication. This will be done retrospectively (1960-2000) and by application of future deposition and climate scenarios (2000-2030), the latter especially with respect to the evaluation of the recovery potential of forest ecosystems. The simulations will be performed for 86 Level II sites all over Germany.


In this paper, a novel microstrip antenna is designed, fabricated and experimentally verified for operation in various bands like GPS, WI MAX and WLAN bands. This microstrip patch antenna is based on a DSP antenna design with U-shaped slots and resonant strip to achieve the wideband operation required to meet the specifications. The effect of variation of dimensions and locations of the Uslots and resonant stripe are studied thoroughly to get an appropriate design. It can sever most of wireless communication applications that operate between 1 GHz to 12GHz and require wide band characteristics. The antenna is planner and will be printed on both the sides of FR4 substrate which adds compactness to it, so as to easily embed it in any portable appliances. Keywords—Microstrip antennas; Wi MAX; mobile antennas; WLAN; GSM; Bluetooth; wideband antennas. __________________________________________________*****_________________________________________________


Interoperability among systems is the main campaign mode of missile defense system in future.Applying operational research and the zero-one programming theory,this paper models the in- teroperability effect,and establishes a model of the missile defense system efficiency assessment, which alines at least leakage rates and consumed interceptors.Simulation results demonstrate that the model is feasible.Otherwise,the detailed process of modeling,practical examples,simulation results and conclusion are provided in this paper.


The current and potential along an extensive underground conductor are determined for voltage, current and conductive energisations. The general expressions for current and potential are derived, and it is shown that the approximate relations may be obtained from differential equations based on the equivalent circuit for the underground conductor. In the case of conductive energisation, the point, parallel and perpendicular earth electrodes are considered. it is shown that parallel or perpendicular earth electrodes, being sufficiently short, may be replaced by an equivalent point earth electrode


Information asymmetry is a necessary prerequisite for testing adverse selection. This paper applies this sequence of tests to Mauritian slave auctions. The theory of dynamic auctions with private and common values suggests that when an informed participant is known to be active, uninformed bidders will be more aggressive and the selling price will be higher. We conjecture that observable family links between buyer and seller entailed superior information and find a strong price premium when a related buyer purchased a slave, indicative of information asymmetry. We then test for adverse selection using sale motivation. Our results indicate large discounts on voluntary as compared to involuntary sales. Consistent with adverse selection, the market anticipated that predominantly low-productivity slaves would be brought to the market in voluntary sales. Copyright 2009, Wiley-Blackwell.