The Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority (TRSWA) operates a MSW landfill outside Jackson, South Carolina (USA) at which leachate ammonia concentrations are of concern. The landfill operates a droplet spraying/misting system (known as the Lilypad system) in their pond to enhance both leachate evaporation and, possibly, ammonia volatilization. The overall goals of this study were to determine the fate of nitrogen in the pond and to ultimately quantify the role the Lilypad system plays in enhancing ammonia removal. To accomplish the study goals, an empirical model based on collected leachate and mist samples, climatological data, and pond hydraulic data was developed to quantify the extent of ammonia volatilization, nitrification, and denitrification that occurred in the pond over the study period. Results from this work indicate that volatilization, nitrification, and denitrification were occurring in the pond, with volatilization of ammonia-nitrogen accounting for the majority of nitrogen removed from the pond. Results also indicate that the Lilypad system has the capability to significantly enhance the volatilization process.


This study deals with the development of a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based geotechnical microzonation model/map using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Shire-Endasilasie, a rapidly growing city in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. The influencing factors considered as inputs for the development of the model are (i) slope gradient, (ii) bed rock and soil type, (iii) swelling potential of soil and (iv) depth to groundwater level. The factors and the classes within each factor are assigned weight and rank values respectively. To avoid subjectivity, the assignment of weight and rank values and the analysis are done by the application of AHP method. From the weight and rank values of the layers, geotechnical suitability indices were calculated using a Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) model in GIS. These continuous numerical index values have been divided into different classes. The classification result implies that the less suitable zone represents the areas that require a detailed geotechnical investigation, the moderately suitable zone represents a provisional settlement area, and the suitable zone represents the areas that are best suitable for settlement. Keywords : GIS, Analytic Hierarchy Process; Geotechnical microzonation model; Foundation, Shire-Endasilasie,Tigray, Ethiopia.


Current research aims at comparing professional ethics, psychological empowerment and job performance of physical education teachers in Karaj. Descriptive research methods were applied and the research was conducted as field study using questionnaire. Reliability of the questionnaires was obtained as 0.80, 0.85, and 0.78 respectively for professional ethics, psychological empowerment, and job performance variables using Cronbach's alpha. Findings showed that professional ethics in female physical education teachers is higher than male. Average of truthfulness, justice and fairness is higher in female physical education teachers than male. It is suggested that education organization create such environment for employees so that they attempt to realize organizational goals by developing fair treatment.


MPEG media have been widely adopted and is very successful in promoting interoperable services that deliver video to consumers on a range of devices. However, media consumption is going beyond the mere playback of a media asset and is geared towards a richer user experience that relies on rich metadata and content description. This paper proposes a technique for extracting and analysing metadata from a video, followed by decision making related to the video content. The system uses sentiment analysis for such a classification. It is envisaged that the system when fully developed, is to be applied to determine the existence of illicit multimedia content on the Web.


BELEAGUERED astrophysicists are all too familiar with UFO theories like the one that figured in the suicides of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult in March. At Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, site of the Space Telescope Science Institute that operates the Hubble Space Telescope, Hal Weaver, PhD, found his e-mail this spring peppered with inquiries about Comet HaleBopp. Some writers accused Weaver, a research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, with conspiring to withhold Hubble images of UFOs accompanying the comet. "Most were very angry," Weaver said in an interview. Some, however, felt that he was being coerced into suppressing data and told him he would be in their prayers. Replying that he saw no evidence for UFOs or other paranormal activities associated with Hale-Bopp, Weaver said, "usually only opened the floodgates for more." Readers will find Hubble's images at http://www.stsci.edu. 'Dragons and Giants' "People


The design of a broadband amplifier without using load–pull is described. This approach relies on a coarse model of the power amplifier, in which matching networks are represented by rational polynomials and the device by its large-signal model. A simultaneous search of the impedance space and possible matching networks via particle swarm optimization (PSO) can identify the design solution. The prototype amplifier demonstrates an outstanding gain of 12.8–14.9 dB with ±1 dB gain flatness, output power greater than 40 dBm, and efficiency between 51% and 70% over a target frequency range of 2.4–4.6 GHz, the highest frequency range using the CGH40010 to date. The measured two-tone third-order intermodulation (IMD3) is lower than −20 dBc up to an average output power of 38.7 dBm for frequencies less than 4.2 GHz. The impedances obtained by our approach converge within the high-efficiency region identified by the conventional load–pull approach.


The concept of green and sustainable development is driving the convergence of transportation systems and energy technologies. New energy harvesting technology (EHT) is an important way of the development in the green intelligent transportation system. Comparing with the power supply via batteries or cables, it has the advantages of convenient, sustainable, green and low carbon to harvest mechanical energy from the traffic environment and convert it into electrical energy to power the widely distributed small electromechanical systems. There are many studies on mechanical energy harvesting in traffic environment, few of them have comprehensively discussed these studies and their applications in the intelligent transportation. This paper first outlines the principles, methods, and energy management strategies of the mechanical energy harvesting in the traffic environment. The advantages, disadvantages, and applicability of various EHTs are comprehensively and systematically analyzed from vehicle and road dimensions. The applications of EHT was discussed includes: self-powered traffic control, self-powered vehicle-road collaboration and self-powered health monitoring of traffic infrastructure. Finally, the challenges and prospects of mechanical EHT and applications in the traffic environment are discussed. Mechanical energy harvesting in traffic environment has broad application prospects in intelligent transportation, while improving the output power and reliability of the energy harvesting system is the key to its wide application in intelligent transportation systems.


A novel decoding algorithm is developed for general quantum convolutional codes. Exploiting useful ideas from classical coding theory, the new decoder introduces two innovations that drastically reduce the decoding complexity compared to the existing quantum Viterbi decoder. First, the new decoder uses an efficient linear-circuits-based mechanism to map a syndrome to a candidate vector, whereas the existing algorithm relies on a non-trivial lookup table. Second, the new algorithm is cleverly engineered such that only one run of the Viterbi algorithm suffices to locate the most-likely error pattern, whereas the existing algorithm must run the Viterbi algorithm many times. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm allows us to simulate and present the first performance curve of a general quantum convolutional code.


Purpose – The aim of this study is to examine the pedagogy courses of teacher education programs implemented in two universities in Turkey and the USA in terms of multicultural education. The teaching practices in the pedagogy courses of teacher education programs in the USA might have multicultural education principles, and they could be models for teacher educators in Turkey. In addition, this study can contribute to the cross-cultural studies on teacher education between the USA and Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – Ten teacher educators participated in the study; all of them had experience in teaching pedagogy courses in the early childhood teacher education program. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The open-ended questions were related to objectives, content, teaching methods and activities. Assessment procedures and methods were also asked from the participants to evaluate their teaching experiences in terms of multicultural education. Thematic analysis was used to examine...


The AA. discuss a special kind of Mexican healer known as Graniceros. These have the power to control the weather and the capacity to treat common illnesses. They review the initiatory process which leads him to start his healing work; his curing and weather rituals, his mythological geography, and his social role in present day Mexico. These aspects are discussed from both an historical and an anthropological perspective. This approach allows to understand the prevalence of the prehispanic beliefs and the process of acculturation with the Catholic beliefs following the conquest and into the present.


Parameter estimation of gaussian mixture model has recently seen significant activity in many areas of science and engineering, motivated by recent theoretical results for researching on global optimal convergence and interesting practical application- s. In this paper, we present novel evaluation algorithm for estimating the parameter of gaussian mixture model based on Variational Bayesian Learning (VBL) principles. Starting from a traditional VBEM algorithm and analysing the convergence of the algorithm as an initial-value constraint, we develop an approach that is very effective in estimating the parameter of gaussian mixture model while providing high astringency performance. We provide empirical results and comparison with current VBEM algorithm that illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.


With rise of cryptocurrency popularity and value, more and more cybercriminals seek to profit using that new technology. Most common ways to obtain illegitimate profit using cryptocurrencies are ransomware and cryptojacking also known as malicious mining. And while ransomware is well-known and well-studied threat which is obvious by design, cryptojacking is often neglected because it's less harmful and much harder to detect. This article considers question of cryptojacking detection. Brief history and definition of cryptojacking are described as well as reasons for designing custom detection technique. We also propose complex detection technique based on CPU load by an application, which can be applied to both browser-based and executable-type cryptojacking samples. Prototype detection program based on our technique was designed using decision tree algorithm. The program was tested in a controlled virtual machine environment and achieved 82% success rate against selected number of cryptojacking samples. Finally, we'll discuss generalization of proposed technique for future work.


Social difference codes are widely shared cultural beliefs that define the socially significant distinctions on the basis of which a society is structured and inequality is organized (e.g., race, gender, occupation). They provide cultural schemas for enacting social relations on the basis of a given difference by indicating the attributes by which people may be categorized according to the distinction and the traits and behaviors that can be expected as a result. To encourage systematic theories about the reciprocal relations between the patterns of social bonds among people and the social difference codes that prevail in society, this paper suggests basic observations. Evidence indicates that the formation of ties through interaction fosters the development and use of shared difference codes. The formation of ties concomitantly creates difference, difference itself is social connection, and the formation of a difference connection is reciprocally related to the development of resource inequalities. Mutual dependence among categories of people transforms the evaluative bias of difference codes from competing in-group preferences into shared status beliefs that characterize one category as socially better than the others. Prevailing difference codes are modified when changing structural conditions change the conditions under which people from different categories interact.


The sovereignty dispute among China and Japan over Diaoyudao/Senkaku Islands has been rekindled in connection with the geographical, geopolitical and geological circumstance of Northeast Asia. The disputed islands are a group of five small volcanic islands and rocky outcroppings at the East China Sea. The Islands are located about 120 nautical miles northeast of Taiwan, 200 nautical miles east of mainland China and 200 nautical miles southwest of Okinawa. The Chinese claim seems to be based on discovery and effective occupation in terms of territorial acquisition under international law. The position of Japanese Government on Diaoyudao/Senkaku Islands was expressed by "the Basic View of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Senkaku Islands". It argues that this incorporation act met with no Chinese protest. Both countries have different claims on the basis of sovereignty in Diaoyudao/Senkaku Islands dispute, 'occupation over terra nullius' and 'historical title'. Japan has been holding the grounds of 'occupation' on the basis of the first discovery of Diaoyudao/Senkaku Islands, the effective control, and the completion of legal prescription. China has presented not only historical evidences such as the first discovery of Diaoyudao/Senkaku Islands, the jurisdiction and the name but also a variety of evidences including nautical charts. Both countries, however, are still arguing since they have not drawn conclusions caused by other evidences and divergent opinions.


Abstract In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to make nature a subject of constitutional rights, and they did so by invoking nature as la Pachamama, the Kichwa Mother Earth deity. This is a biocentric notion which challenges the modernist vision of nature as resources subject to human use, which could imply a fundamental transition in the human-nature relationship with implications far beyond the legal system. With this point of departure, the aim of this article is to explore how Ecuador's rights of nature are understood and employed rhetorically by relevant actors, particularly in relation to the country's development model, which is based on extraction and export of natural resources, i.e. a subject understanding of nature. The rights of nature's meaning have been attempted fixed in a discursive struggle, and three different discourses regarding the rights of nature have been identified from interview data: The Anti-Capitalist Ecologist Discourse, the Transformative Discourse and the Anthropocentric Developmentalist Discourse. The latter, which conceptualizes the rights of nature as anthropocentric sustainable development has become hegemonic. This can explain why the rights of nature can co-exist alongside continued and increased resource extraction with detrimental socio-environmental effects.


A simple and sensitive kinetic spectrophotometric method was developed for the determination of ciclopirox olamine in pharmaceutical formulations (cream). The method is based on the oxidation of ciclopirox olamine with KMnO4 in alkaline medium to form K2MnO4, a bluish green color compound, at ionic strength controlled and room temperature. The reaction is monitored measuring the rate of change of absorbance at 610 nm. The absorbance-concentration plot corresponding to synthetic pharmaceutical samples (cream) was rectilinear, over the range of 0.32 – 10.0 μg mL-1, with detection and quantification limits of 0.095 μg mL-1 and 0.32 μg mL-1, respectively. Different experimental parameters affecting the development and stability of the reaction product were carefully studied via factorial screening and optimized by univariate method. The determination of ciclopirox olamine by the fixed time method is feasible and more advantageous with the calibration equation obtained at 30 min. The proposed method was validated for the application of the determination of the drug in pharmaceutical sample (cream).


Introduction: Using MOC orbital images and several image sets from MER Spirit (Pancam, Navcam and MI), it is now possible to study at substantially different scales the effects on dust drapes over soil by dust devil vortices and other surficial processes. Dust Devil Scour: MOC image R07-01606-04 covers 2.95 x 12.06 km at 1.44 m/pxl and includes the Spirit landing site atop numerous dust devil tracks. The central track cluster has too many overlapping trails to count. Windward crater rims clearly provide trigger points, producing track swarms in their lee.


The two-step sintering method was successfully applied to fabricate the lead-free alkaline niobate (K0.5Na0.5NbO3) piezoelectric ceramics, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were carried out to characterize the samples. The properties of density, piezoelectric and ferroelectric were also investigated. Under the optimal sintering process, the specimens with the relative density 95.2%, which exhibit good electrical properties (d 33 = 121pC/N, k p = 35.2%, Q m = 5, ϵ r = 815). These results show that K0.5Na0.5NbO3 ceramic is a promising lead-free piezoelectric material for the ultrasonic delay-line applications, broadband transducers and sensors. The easy-controlling sintering process can be used in the other piezoelectric ceramics system.


To obtain recombinant secretive BACE1 proteins, study its function and further look for its specific inhibitor, the ectodomain fragment of human BACE1 coding region from human fetal hippocampal tissue is amplified using RT-PCR method. Confirmed by sequencing, clone the target gene into a pFastBac donor plasmid. After the recombinant pFastBac-BACE1-454 had been determined to be correct, the pFast-Bac-BACE1-454 was transformed into DH10Bac competent cells for transposition into a baculovirus shuttle vector Bacmid. Using agarose gel electrophoresis and PCR analysis to verify successful transposition. Recombinant Bacmid-BACE1-454 was transfected into Sf9 cells with CellFECTIN(?) Reagent and harvest virus from culture medium. Recombinant baculovirus particles were infected into insect cells and express the BACE1-454 protein. These expressed BACE1-454 proteins were identified by immunoblot with anti-BACE monoclonal antibody.


The National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 repealed the national maximum speed limit. As a result, many of the states have increased posted speed limits to 105 km/h (65 mph) for select multilane highways. This study evaluates the distribution of the speed and studies the influence of site characteristics, light conditions, and type of vehicle on the field-measured free-flow speed. The suitability of the Highway Capacity Manual multilane highway rules of thumb for freeflow speed to both an 89- and a 105-km/h (55- and 65-mph) posted speed limit condition is also discussed.


The A. reviews and analyzes most of the contributions as well as the editorial work of Hermann J. Hiery in his handbook on German colonial rule in the Pacific, 1884-1914. A detailed resume discusses several critical points, e.g., the Eurocentric attitude shown by the selection of themes, the uncritical depiction of German rule in general and the academic style of writing inappropriate to attracting a broad readership of such a handbook. On the other hand, several positive things are pointed out like the multifocal attitude, the prominent position of German ethnologists as authors in this book, the uniqueness of such a handbook on German colonial rule in a specific area and the publication of many original documents.


As the market-oriented economy progresses,enterprises transform their models of salary management. Influenced by customary practices,the present salary model still has lots of defects. Under this circumstance,a new salary model termed as "Requirement Salary" inevitably comes into existence by seeking theoretical enlightenment from the design of broadband salary.


In this paper, a novel four-leaf clover-shaped coding metasurface is proposed and applied to achieve an ultra-wideband diffusion-like scattering. The proposed metasurface element has rotational symmetry; hence, it produces similar reflection characteristics for both x- and y-polarized waves. To realize a 1-bit coding metasurface, two elements are chosen that have a phase difference of 180°±37° from 15.5 to 40.5 GHz. An optimization algorithm is applied to get the best arrangement of unit cells in the array to attain the wideband RCS reduction. The four-leaf clover-shaped metasurface can attain more than 10 dB RCS reduction from 15.5 to 26.5 GHz and 30.5 to 40.5 GHz. A prototype of the proposed design is fabricated, and an experiment is carried out to validate the performance of the metasurface. The proposed concept of four-leaf clover-shaped coding metasurface is an effective solution for wideband RCS reduction applications.


Since the formalization of intercollegiate athletics within institutions of higher learning in the late 1800s/early 1900s, college presidents, legislators, alumni/nae, faculty, athletic directors, and average citizens have speculated about the relationship between the success of athletic programs and the generosity of donors. As a matter of first impression, it is easy to understand why most people assume that big time college sport has a positive influence on donation levels to institutions. Given the multi-billion dollar industry which is college sport and the degree to which the public is exposed to March Madness and the Bowl Championship Series via television, print media, and the internet, circumstantial evidence reinforces a common sense belief that big time college sport possesses the potential to generate big time revenue for colleges and universities.


In this study, we employ the homogeneous balance method to obtain an analytical solution to the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with running coupling. We utilize two distinct prescriptions of the running coupling scale, namely the saturation scale dependent running coupling and the dipole momentum dependent running coupling. By fitting the proton structure function experimental data, we determine the free parameters in the analytical solution. The resulting $\chi^{2}/d.o.f$ values are determined to be $1.07$ and $1.43$, respectively. With these definitive solutions, we are able to predict exclusive $J/\psi$ production, and demonstrate that analytical solutions with running coupling are in excellent agreement with $J/\psi$ differential and total cross section. Furthermore, our numerical results indicate that the analytical solution of the BK equation with running coupling can provide a reliable description for both the proton structure function and exclusive vector meson production.


Local interconnect (LI) as a contact scheme impacts significant the behavior of protection devices under Electro Static Discharge (ESD) stress. The narrow LI reduces the ESD robustness. At the same time, the on-resistance increases. This makes ESD protection design in future technology nodes more challenging, as the ESD design windows continuously shrinks.


The main purpose of this study was to determine the predictive value of course and instructor characteristics which have not been linked to student evaluations yet or expected to show a different pattern in Turkish higher education context for students' perception of instructors' effectiveness. These included class size, academic rank, instructors' workload and total number of students, gender and students' disciplines. According to the regression analysis, class size, instructors' total number of students, work load, year of experience and students' disciplines were predictive of students' perceptions of instructors' effectiveness. The higher workload, experience, class size or total number of students the instructors have, the lower ratings they had. However, these effects were not consistent across disciplines and instructors' gender. That is, the better understanding of the predictive value of course and instructor characteristics for student evaluations requires more detailed studies wherein teaching context is taken into consideration.


Counselor educators agree on the necessity of preparing counselors in training to work in a diverse society. Traditional training programs have no special accommodations and are characterized by unawareness of the impact of cultural factors in counseling. This paper describes how one university has been working activity to infuse multicultural counseling competencies throughout its program curriculum and analyzes how it uses a five-level pyramid model to incorporate multicultural counseling competencies into the required curricular experiences in a master's program. The base of the pyramid is grounded in training philosophy. In ascending order, the next four levels are learning objectives, instructional strategies, program designs, and evaluation. The multicultural counseling courses use such techniques as didactic instruction, participatory learning, writing assignments, role playing, interviews, catharsis, and reading assignments. Currently, the university has only anecdotal evidence for the effectiveness of its curricular changes. Teachers report that student journals reflect increased cultural self-awareness and increased understanding that differences cannot be overlooked. After taking the multicultural courses, students in their practicum experiences are more likely to consider culture in conceptualizing client problems and more wiling to talk about cultural differences between client and counselor. (Contains 17 references.) (SM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Multicultural Infusion 1


A post evaluation of a forecasting model involves comparing these outputs with real data. This is only possible as far as the forecasting horizon. This paper is to be able to ascribe a level of confidence to predicted values. The approach we have used is based on work conducted by meteorologists. The study described in this paper uses the concept of "ensemble forecasting systems" efs to conduct a pre-evaluation of traffic forecasts made one year in advance by the French National Road Information Centre, " Bison Fute" system. We describe also how to apply this evaluation approach to the output from traffic simulation models.


Introduction: Bombardment of micrometeoroids onto the satellites of the giant planets and the corresponding impact ejecta are a well known source for dust rings [1,2]. Since Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, two dust tori around the planet could have developed as many models predict [3]. These models describe a Phobos torus which lies embedded within, and has a smaller vertical extent than, the Deimos torus. Currently, the Martian Tori are still undetected and in depth insitu measurements only, seems to be the most suitable way to discover them. MATI: MATI (Mars Tori Investigator) is a dust detector customised for the Martian dust environment that can be proposed for the next Space missions to Mars. The main MATI scientific objectives concerns the detection and characterisation of Phobos and Deimos tori, the analyses of flux, mass and velocity of the tori particles in the size range (1-100 μm) and speeds (v 1~80 km s), the study of the grain spatial distributions and tri-dimensional modelling of the tori structure. Eventually these measurements will help to understand the origin and evolution of the Martian tori. Technical concept: The proposed instrument is a dust detection system, carrying out quantitative in situ measurements of particle flux and mass distribution throughout the Martian dusty environment. It consists of two major parts, i.e. a detector assembly and the electronics box. Detector Assembly and measurement technique. The detector assembly is a system composed of two stages placed in cascade, 5 cm apart. This is the piece of equipment that is mounted on the external walls of the spacecraft and is exposed to the dust particles. Each stage has a total sensitive area of 36 cm x 36 cm (Ao = 0.13 m) and is composed of an array of 9 single dust sensors. Each single dust sensor is a 12 cm x 12 cm polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polarized foil, 6-10 μm thick, equipped with electrodes. By considering a structure made in aluminium, the mass required for the Detector Assembly structure is about 2 Kg. PVDF film dust detectors have been extensively characterised in laboratory experiments and have an excellent track record in space experiments [4,5]. Their detection principle is based on the depolarisation signal a dust particle generates, when penetrating a permanently polarised PVDF thin film [6]. Dust grains penetrating the thin PVDF film remove dipoles along their trajectory, producing a fast electric charge pulse without requiring bias voltages. The produced signal is a function of the particle mass and velocity. When a particle impacts a PVDF foil on the first stage of MATI, produces a crater or a perforation according to its initial velocity. From the time of flight measurements between two stages, it is possible to determine the impact speeds and from the PVDF signal, N(e)=Amavb, where m is the particle mass, v its speed and A, a, b are parameters to be determined experimentally. Expected Results: Combining the results described in [3] with the very recent HST observations [7], which have constrained the superior limit of the Tori dust optical depth (i.e. grain density), we can evaluate the MATI expected performances. The detectable events (the torus grain impacts) will be proportional to both the grain number density and to the volume sampling rate, Sv. The Sv will be proportional to the instrument sensitive area, Ao, and to the relative speed, vo, between the instrument and the tori particles. Since the Phobos Torus is ten times denser than the Deimos one, MATI will detect ten times more events in the Phobos proximities: for a typical relative speed (few km s) an impact event every 2*10 seconds will be detected (see Table 1).


The bre{fed echelle spectrograph of Observatoire de Haute{Provence, ELODIE, is presented. This instrument has been in operation since the end of 1993 on the 1.93 m telescope. ELODIE is designed as an updated version of the cross{correlation spectrometer CORAVEL, to perform very accurate radial velocity measurements such as needed in the search, by Doppler shift, for brown{dwarfs or giant planets orbiting around nearby stars. In one single exposure a spectrum at a resolution of 42000 (=) ranging from 3906 A to 6811 Ai s recorded on a 10241024 CCD. This performance is achieved by using a tan = 4 echelle grating and a combination of a prism and a grism as cross{disperser. An automatic on{line data treatment reduces all the ELODIE echelle spectra and computes cross{correlation functions. The instrument design and the data reduction algorithms are described in this paper. The eciency and accuracy of the instrument and its long term instrumental stability allow us to measure radial velocities with an accuracy better than 15 m s 1 for stars up to 9th magnitude in less than 30 minutes exposure time. Observations of 16th magnitude stars are also possible to measure velocities at about 1 km s 1 accuracy. For classic spectroscopic studies (S=N>100) 9th magnitude stars can be observed in one hour exposure time.


By extending and optimizing the COSMIC-FFP model, a measurement method for embedded network systems is proposed, which solves the problem that the COSMIC-FFP model does not support the measurement of real-time systems. At the same time, the network fault analysis and the measurement method based on the network scale are designed to improve the accuracy of the network scale. The experimental results show that through the fault analysis and accurate measurement of the embedded network, the proposed method can find out the weak links of risk management in the process of network engineering, realize the real-time measurement of the network system, and reduce the risk of the network engineering process.


The paper reviews a method of demodulation using integrators. In order to realize this method, the receiver requires two ways to synchronize the received signals, i.e., methods for achieving optimum synchronization of the integration time position and of the integration time length. Synchronization of the integration time position is realized by comparing the value of the integrators while shifting the integration time position. However, since the output of the integrator increases as the integration time length increases, the synchronization of the integration time length cannot be realized simply through comparison. The paper devises a method of comparison to realize synchronization whereby the average value of the integrator output of three integration time lengths, that have the relationship between 1/2 fold, 1 fold and 2 fold, is multiplied by a specific coefficient.


The swirling motion of fluids that occurs irregularly in space and time is called turbulence. However, this randomness, apparent from a casual observation, is not without some order. Turbulent flows are as abundant in nature as life itself, and are pervasive in technology. They are a paradigm for spatially extended nonlinear dissipative systems in which many length scales are excited simultaneously and coupled strongly. The phenomenon has been studied extensively in engineering and in diverse fields such as astrophysics, oceanography, and meteorology. A few aspects of turbulence research in this century are briefly reviewed, and a partial assessment is made of the present directions. [S0034-6861(99)03202-X]


Remote sensing data and techniques, coupled with landscape ecology metrics, were used to investigate the fragmentation of forest patches in Sao Jose dos Campos municipality over 30 years. 1973 and 2004 Landsat sensors images were classified, generating land use/ cover maps. These maps were used to calculate landscape ecology metrics for forest patches in the Fragstats software. Results showed a landscape highly fragmented and with increasing forest degradation throughout the period of study. The number of forest patches increased, along with a decrease in mean patch size, denotes fragmentation and reduction of forest area in Sao Jose dos Campos. The remaining metrics were also indicative of forest degradation, such as increasing edge length and reduction of area core for forest patches. Additional studies are needed to refine the analysis presented here, such as to gather data on forest inventories to allow attempts on conservation planning.


Mathematical models in the form of differential equations can often not be solved analytically, but need to be simulated by means of a numerical method. Particle methods are mesh-free schemes that use independent or pairwise interacting particles to represent the physical properties of a system. This allows for natural adaptivity in complex or deforming geometries. The Lagrangian frame of reference when tracking the particles during a simulation renders particle methods particularly successful in the area of fluid mechanics. Their numerical stability in advection-dominated problems is superior to that of descriptions in an Eulerian frame of reference. The general particle strength exchange (PSE) operators [31] approximate derivatives on scattered particle locations to any desired order of accuracy. Convergence, however, is limited by the discretization error resulting from an inherent numerical quadrature. In this thesis, we introduce a consistent discretization correction framework for PSE operators. With this correction, the operators yield the desired rate of convergence for any resolution, both on uniform Cartesian and irregular particle distributions, as well as near boundaries. The discretization correction allows setting the kernel width to arbitrarily small values for constant interparticle spacing. We show that, on uniform Cartesian particle distributions, this leads to a seamless transition from discretizationcorrected (DC) PSE operators to classical finite-difference stencils. We further identify relationships between DC PSE operators and operators used in corrected smoothed particle hydrodynamics, reproducing kernel


Although maternal mortality cases in Russia have become rare, the problem of their prevention remains relevant. To enforce the preventive measures, an analysis of critical conditions and «near miss» cases in obstetrics is commonly used. As a result, the quality of medical care in obstetric institutions improves. Aim: to assess the character and incidence of critical situations in obstetrics practice over the Ryazan region in 2015-2017 and to analyze the failures in medical care that led to such situations. Materials and methods. We analyzed 46 «near miss» cases and 1 case of maternal death recorded in the Ryazan region in 2015-2017. Results. The leading cause of critical conditions in obstetrics found in the Ryazan region was hemorrhage following an emergency caesarean section delivery. In most cases, bleeding was caused by pregnancy complications, although extragenital conditions also contributed to the development of the «near miss» situations. The main indication for emergency delivery was the premature detachment of a normally located placenta; in the normal term delivery, it was an inconsistent uterine scar after cesarean section and the accompanying pathology, such as placenta accreta. Conclusion. Considering the «near miss» cases as a separate group of obstetrics conditions contributes to the prevention of maternal mortality and improves the healthcare standards in obstetric institutions.


Abstract. Educational research highlights that improved careers education is needed to increase participation in STEM. Current careers resources concerning the space sector, however, are found to perhaps not best reflect the diversity of roles present and may in fact perpetuate misconceptions about the usefulness of science. We, therefore, compile a more diverse set of space-related jobs, which will be used in the development of a new space careers resource.


In order to control blood glucose levels in TIDM patients, this paper explains the creation of a Teaching Learning Based Optimization-PID (TLBO-PID) controller that delivers appropriate insulin doses through an artificial pancreas (AP). Using the Teaching Learning Based Optimization (TLBO), that adjusts the controller gains to improve the BG control of the proposed patient model. This classic controller with TLBO is intended to increase the performance and toughness of patient's problems with glycemic management which are resulting from nonlinearities in the patient model. The nonlinearity of patient models can be effectively handled by using an AP-based TLBO, which also helps to keep blood sugar levels in the glycemic range (70–120 mg/dL). The accuracy, robustness, stability, noise reduction, and enhanced capacity to handle uncertainties are examined while using the proposed patient model with TLBO-PID. A comparison of data from different control strategies indicates the reasons for the suggested approach's superior control performance.


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Objectives: Methadone therapy is one of the most widely used methods of opiate therapy in Iran and the main concern is that of maintaining the abstinence. This study was designed to investigate the relapse rate in Methadone detoxification therapy. Material and methods: The target population consisted of one hundred opiate addicts who were enrolled according inclusion criteria in two-week Methadone Detoxification Program of the Bahman Neuropsychiatric Clinic in Yazd city, Iran, between Aprils to December 2006.The patients were followed up over a six-month period through interview and urine test on several occasions. The relapse rate was analyzed based on demographic and opiate abuse characteristics using SPSS version 14 software. Results: The mean duration of abstinence in this study was 3.03 months and 38% of participants were in abstinence after six months. But 55% of cases relapsed after 1.5 months. The mean duration of drug abuse was significantly related to the mean rate of abstinence (p<0.05).Conclusion: A high rate of relapse during the first 1.5 months of detoxification indicates a need


STEM CELLS Translational Medicine 2016;5:1644-1655;doi: 10.5966/sctm.2015-0373 Corrigendum to: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Disease Modeling and Evaluation of Therapeutics for Niemann-Pick Disease Type A Yan Long, Miao Xu, Rong Li, Sheng Dai, Jeanette Beers, Guokai Chen, Ferri Soheilian, Ulrich Baxa, Mengqiao Wang, Juan J. Marugan, Silvia Muro, Zhiyuan Li, Roscoe Brady, Wei Zheng The authors reported an error in the Results section of this article. In the first paragraph of the first heading, "Generation of iPSC Lines From NPA Patient Fibroblasts and NSC Differentiation", the first sentence showed the names of the two cell lines switched. The sentence should have read as follows: Two NPA patient fibroblast lines were reprogrammed to iPSCs, and two iPSC colonies were established for each patient line as HT138C, HT138F from GM16195 and HT139B and HT139E from GM13205 (Fig. 1A; supplemental online Table 1). The two bolded cell line names were incorrect and are now corrected. The authors regret the error and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. DOI: 10.1002/sct3.12983


Objective:To study the clinical effectiveness of combination of TCM with Western medicine in the treatment of dysphagia in stroke patients.Methods:300 stroke patients with dysphagia were averagely divided into common drugs group,function training group,electric acupuncture group,Chinese herbal medicine group and combination group,and were treated respectively.Assessment score of dysphagia by videofluoroscopic swallowing study(VFSS)was compared among 5 groups before treatment and at the 3rd,14th,28th day after treatment.Results:Compared with that before treatment,at 28th day of the course,the VFSS score in common drugs group,function training group,electric acupuncture group,Chinese herbal medicine group and combination group were markedly increased(P0.05 or 0.01),and the total effective rate was 40%,73.3%,70%,63.3% and 100% respectively.At the 14th and 28th day,the increase of VFSS score in combination group was more significant(P0.05)than the other 5 groups.Conclusion:The combined treatment of using swallowing function training,electric acupuncturing,Chinese herbal medicine on the basis of common drugs is the best strategy to stroke patients with dysphagia.


Christmas Island, in the north-eastern Indian Ocean, remained uninhabited until 1888 when British entrepreneurs established a phosphate mining operation that has continued to the present. Over the last 132 years, the island has experienced a series of impacts that typify the effects of extractivism globally. Acquired by Australia in 1958, the island has also been the site of a major immigration detention centre, set up in 2006 to process and deter Asian asylum seekers. In recent decades, tourism has also been added to the economic mix in a form primarily orientated to the island's distinct fauna, an enterprise that co-exists uneasily with established mining and internment operations. In these regards, the island has rapidly experienced a range of transnational pressures that have distorted and compromised its environment. As such, the island's recent 'biography' exemplifies the impact and scale of integrated Anthropocene factors. Drawing on recent work on the nature of human ecodynamics, this article examines the character and role of the island's eco-assets – and its crustaceans, in particular – in the emerging experience economy of eco-tourism, illustrating the tensions and instability underlying the latter and its awkward co-existence with mining and detention operations. In this manner, the article characterises the Anthropocene as the central determinant of the present and of possible futures for the island.


This study was designed to test Foa and Foa's (1974) resource exchange theory in predicting satisfaction with marriage. Data were obtained by survey using self-administered questionnaires from 224 husband-wife couples. Respondents provided information concerning feelings about perceived quality of marriage, resources received from spouse, and shared time. It was hypothesized that the order of resource classes on the particularism dimension would correspond to the order of their effectiveness in contributing to marital satisfaction. Questionnaire items chosen to represent resource classes were verified by hierarchical complete-linkage clustering. The forward method of multiple regression indicated that the theory is useful and that additional testing is needed.


The Dusty Plasma Experiment (DPX) is a new experimental plasma device at Fisk University. DPX is constructed from two, 4 in. diam ISO 100 stainless steel six-way crosses. Initial experiments have successfully produced argon dc glow discharge plasmas. Measurements of the plasma parameters using Langmuir probes, in the absence of the dust particles, give plasma densities n∼1015 m−3 and electron temperatures ranging from Te=2 to 5 eV. Dusty plasmas are made by suspending 40 μm diam silica (SiO2) particles in the argon plasma. Dust clouds in the DPX device have densities nd∼109–1010 m−3. This paper describes the hardware and initial operation of the DPX device. Measurements of the three dimensional spatial structure of dust clouds are discussed. Dust acoustic modes with frequencies in the range f=10–20 Hz in the dust clouds are also identified. Particle image velocimetry techniques are used to characterize the spatial distribution and the temporal evolution of the velocities of the dust particles in the plasma.


Objective
To evaluate the molecular evolutionary characteristics of influenza B virus hemagglutinin (HA) in Jiangsu Province.

Methods
Forty virus isolates in Jiangsu Province were selected between January 2010 and December 2012. The HA genes were amplified by two-step reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) approach, products were purified and sequenced by ABI 3730XL Genetic Analyzer. Surveillance data of influenza were extracted from China Information System for Disease Control and Prevention. Data were analyzed by SPSS, DNAStar, MEGA, BEAST softwares.

Results
During January 2010 to December 2012, a total of 4 355 cases of influenza B were reported and confirmed, and 3 420 cases were identified as Victoria lineage and 935 belonged to the Yamagata lineage. Phylogenetic analysis of the HA sequences showed that the strains had higher homology in the same area and the same year. Compared with vaccine strain, HA1 of 28 strains of Victoria lineage occured antigen sites 146I→V, 197D→N, 129N→S and receptor binding site 197D→N substitutions and 197D→N substitution introduced a potential glycosylation site; the HA1 of Yamagata lineage strains had the antigen sites 198N→T, 116N→K, 146A→S receptor binding site 198N→T substitutions, and also introduced a glycosylation site at position 196. HAl gene of influenza B viruses seemed not to have been affected by positive selection. The mean evolutionary rate of HA1 gene was 1.05×10-3 (95%HPD: 0.65×10-3-1.45×10-3 substitutions/(site·year). The results of Bayesian skyline plot model was consistence with the epidemiology data.

Conclusions
Some substitutions are found at HA1 antigen sites and receptor binding sites. Yamagata/Victoria lineage increase a potential glycosylation site at position 196/197, respectively.

Key words:
Influenza B virus; Hemagglutinins; Evolution


+ et Tm3 + dans les proprietes magnetiques et les proprietes de transport, le fait d'obtenir ces resultats aussi bien dans la limite diluee a une impurete que dans TmSe stœchio metrique, nous amene a conclure que tous les sites de thulium sont equivalents. Abstract. — TmSe exhibits both non integral valence and antiferromagnetic order in contrast to most other intermediate valence systems which are non magnetic at low temperatures. We report on measurements of lattice constant, magnetic susceptibility and resistivity made on single crystals of Tm^Se over its range of solid solubility, 0.79 ^ x ;g 1. We find direct correlations among the physical properties, valence and concentration. The fraction of divalent character in TmxSe increases with x, the most Tm deficient sample being essentially trivalent. Alloys of TmSe with YSe have also been prepared as single crystals. Lattice constants and susceptibilities indicate that these materials have non integral valence over the entire system. With increasing Tm concentration a metallic Kondo resistivity changes smoothly towards the high resistivity characteristic of stoichiometric TmSe. Although we find the properties of Tmz+ and Tm3+ configurations in magnetic and transport measurements, since these results are observed in both stoichiometric TmSe and in the dilute single impurity limit, we conclude that all TmSe sites are equivalent.


paper describes three techniques for controlling the loop filter of the PLL for high operating speed. The proposed fast- locking PLL reduces the pull-in time and enhances the switching speed, while maintaining better noise bandwidth. Extended loop bandwidth enhancement is achieved by the adaptive control on the loop filter resistances. This work differs from previously published results in that it presents a comprehensive study for modeling, circuit simulation and practical circuit implementation of a 2nd order PLL with loop filter control for speeding-up the PLL. The overall improvement in performance of the proposed PLL is evaluated and compared with the conventional PLL. An industrial CMOS IC is used to implement the PLL.


RESPECT THE INVENTION OVEN FOR HEATING PROFILES INTERMEDIATE BEFORE ROLLING. IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT INCLUDES MULTIPLE TUBE RADIANT 3 LINKED TO BURNER 2 MIXING BURNING FLOWING AND BURNING INSIDE THE ISSUE BEFORE THE TUBE COMBUSTION PRODUCTS IN THE OVEN BY END OPEN INSIDE SAID TUBE 4. APPLICATION TO THE STEEL INDUSTRY.


A new species of Remanea Klie, 1929 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Paramesochridae) is described from a brackish water habitat near Naksan beach on the east coast of Korea, representing the third species of the genus. The new species was assigned to the genus Remanea on the basis of the well-developed rostrum, the eight-segmented female antennule, the two-segmented antennary exopod and the three-segmented P1 exopod. Remanea naksanensis sp. nov. is most closely related to the type species, Remanea arenicola Klie, 1929, sharing the same armature formula of the swimming legs and the previously overlooked sexual dimorphism on the distal endopodal segment of P3. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners primarily by the morphology of the P5 in both sexes, and setal length differences in the P1 endopod and caudal rami. A brief redescription of R. arenicola is provided based on Klie's original type slide material. The distribution records of all three species are summarized and an updated identification key to species is presented. Partial sequences of the mitochondrial gene COI (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) of R. naksanensis were obtained and submitted to GenBank.


Lifestyle modifications remain the cornerstone of treatment in non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). However, they requently fail related to the inability of patients to implement lasting changes.


Infective endocarditis (IE) rarely presents with cutaneous manifestations due to earlier diagnosis and treatment. We present a case of middle‐aged male patient presenting with an erythematous papular rash in the upper extremities and left knee, further progressing into painful ulcers with crusted and necrotic center in the arms and fingers. These cutaneous lesions were further followed by shaking chills and fever, which brought the patient to our hospital. Laboratory evaluation revealed elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate) and C‐reactive protein. Blood cultures taken were negative. Biopsy of the skin lesions were consistent with cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis, and the gram smear revealed gram‐positive cocci. The patient developed dyspnea and chest pain, which raised suspicion for IE. TEE (transesophageal echocardiography) demonstrated mild LV diastolic dysfunction, 1+ tricuspid valve regurgitation, mild mitral regurgitation, and vegetation‐like lesions on the surface of mitral valve leaflets, consequently IE was confirmed. In conclusion, clinicians must look carefully for skin manifestations in cases with high likelihood of IE, even when other typical symptoms are absent.


Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles have received great attention in many applications, e.g., exploration, environmental monitoring, and search missions. These tasks need to implement a proper controller for flight path following with optimal performance, e.g., minimum energy consumption and tracking error. This work proposed a nonlinear model predictive control considering the vehicle's nonlinear dynamics and constraints such as obstacle avoidance. The proposed controller is implemented using the ACADO toolkit to achieve real-time online optimization using the onboard limited computation power. During these missions, autonomous vehicles must avoid obstacles (nonconvex constraints). For this reason, we augment the barrier function on the optimization problem. The simulation results clarify robust performance, efficient trajectory tracking, and avoiding obstacles for a quadcopter under external disturbances.


Abstract We have investigated photoisomerization and photoorientation behavior of a liquid crystalline polymethacrylate bearing p-methoxyazobenzene side groups (C6MeO) and copolymethacrylates with p-alkoxylated azobenzene side chains, (poly(AZO-1) and poly(AZO-2)). Irradiation with linearly polarized visible light generated photoinduced optical anisotropy for all polymers as a result of the reorientation of the azobenzenes toward the direction perpendicular to the electric vector of actinic light. On annealing of the photoirradiated films, the azobenzene chromophores of poly(AZO-1) and poly(AZO-2) showed out-of-plane reorientation, whereas those of C6MeO underwent a marked amplification of in-plane orientation.


Complex ceramic oxides, CeTiMO6 (M=Nb or Ta) having aeschynite type mineral structure were prepared by the conventional ceramic route. Complex impedance analysis in the frequency range 10 Hz–1 MHz over a wide temperature range (30–600 °C) indicates the presence of grain boundary effect along with the bulk contribution and also confirms the presence of non-Debye type of multiple relaxations in the material. The frequency dependent conductivity plots exhibit double power law dependence suggesting three types of conduction mechanisms: low frequency (10 Hz–1 kHz) conductivity owing to long range translational motion of electrons (frequency independent), mid-frequency conductivity (1–10 kHz) due to short-range hopping, and high frequency (10 kHz–1 MHz) conduction due to localized orientation hopping mechanism. The hopping model can explain the nature of the conduction mechanism completely. The electrical conductivity measurements with temperature suggest the negative temperature coefficient of resistance behav...


Traditional food processing approaches like cooking, freezing, refrigeration and blanching are commonly known methods and are generally used by the people in their homes. However, in the food processing industries these techniques are combined with other processing operations with the help of several contemporary process-technology plants by using different technical prospects that are not commonly practiced by consumers during household processing. Modern food technology deals with the development of conventional processing methods such as high-temperature short time heating or vacuum cooking, as well as several other approaches like high pressure treatment, extrusion, pulsed electric field technology and microwave processing. These modern technologies usually emphasize on food preservation with maximum retention of food quality attributes and nutrients. Therefore the frequently used concept of ''minimal processing'' is not absolutely apt, since actually the principle ''as little as possible, but as much as necessary'' is meant [1].


Abstract Numerous field data and experiments on the perching birds or songbirds show that the fear of predators can cause significant changes in the prey population. Fear of predatory populations increases the chances of survival of the prey population, and this can greatly reduce the reproduction of the prey population. The influence of fear has contributed a leading role in both the environmental biology and theoretical ecology. Taking into account the interaction of predator–prey with non-overlapping generations, a discrete-time model is proposed and studied. Keeping in mind the biological feasibility of species, the existence of fixed points is studied along with the local asymptotic behavior of the proposed model around these fixed points. Furthermore, taking into account the oscillatory behavior of the model, various types of bifurcations are analyzed about biologically feasible fixed points with an application of center manifold theory and bifurcation theory of normal forms. Existence of chaos is discussed, and fluctuating and chaotic behavior of the system is controlled through implementation of different chaos control procedures. The illustration of theoretical discussion is carried out via validation of observed experimental field data and appropriate numerical simulation.


This chapter presents qualitative methods for researching images, including advertising images, websites, film, and photographs. I draw on a theory of visual consumption to show how cultural codes and representational conventions inform contemporary marketing images, infusing them with visual, historical, and rhetorical presence and power. Critical visual analysis offers researchers an interdisciplinary method for understanding and contextualizing images - crucial concerns, given the cultural centrality of vision. If marketing depends upon images, including brand images, corporate images, product images, and images of identity, then research methods in marketing must be capable of addressing issues that such images signify. By connecting images to the cultural context of consumption, researchers gain a more thorough - yet never complete - understanding of how images embody and express cultural values and contradictions. To illustrate how theory informs critical visual methods, I invoke an analytical concept of consuming difference to describe a relational framework of contemporary branding campaigns. I discuss how marketing communication draws upon the ideology of the group portrait as a visual technique for representing identity. I treat advertising imagery much the way an art historian treats pictures as I analyze illustrative examples through the classic art historical techniques of formal analysis, compare and contrast, and interpretation - framed within representation understood as a cultural practice.


of a conference which would the role of the paediatrician in the management of psychosomatic and behaviour disorders in young children. This committee, consisting of leading specialists in paediatrics and child psychiatry, under the chairmanship of (France), felt that any wider conference should be devoted to considering more fully the inter-relation of somatic and psychological processes in sick children, the respective roles of paediatricians and child psychiatrists in their treatment, and the working relations between the different disciplines responsible for the care of children. In order avoid diffusion of effort, and as far as possible at practical conclusions, the study group that was sub- sequently convened in Stockholm concentrated on one important aspect of child care-the child in hospital. Competence in the care of sick children is no longer enough, although that is an assumed requisite; nor is a formal knowledge of growth and development. We have attempted to broaden the field of interest so that the paediatrician can both contribute to and learn from many other professional and lay groups which also care for children's needs. We feel that one of the obligations of an academic department of paediatrics is to synthesize and correlate the information and techniques developed in these other disciplines and to present them as a synthesis to the paediatrician in training, so that he can employ it in a helpful and practical manner. and participate in social responsibilities was also on the four-year level. Although he was very young for such a procedure he was shown the Bellak Test pictures, to see whether he would produce any phantasy or indicate areas of anxiety. The phantasy test indicated that parent figures were benign to him, and it was con-cluded from the whole of the psychological examination that there was natural subdued aggressiveness in him which he was inhibiting for fear of retribution. However, there were indications that he was not firmly arrested in his development, and was attempting to grow up. These findings confirmed and reinforced the clinical impression which had been gained. In this case there was no doubt that his mother had at first been using too much pressure in controlling Derek, reducing his natural, spontaneous activities to a minimum. Deeper and more prolonged psychotherapy would have been worth trying, but was impossible to arrange owing to the distance of the home from the hospital or any child guidance clinic. On the other hand, as a result of the work of the psychiatric team the parents, although aware that the outcome was obscure, had changed remarkably in their attitude to the doctors and were far more co-operative in doing what they could for the boy.


Research software involving stochastic behaviour often requires an enormous quantity of random numbers. In addition to the quality of the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), the speed of the algorithm and the ease of its implementation are common practical aspects. In this work we will discuss how to optimize the access speed to random numbers independently from the generation algorithm using a lookup table. This idea was exploited in the late fifties, when the Rand Corporation started to propose sets of ready to use pseudo-random numbers (PRNs). The need of larger and larger sets of PRNs cancelled the possibility of storing those sets into the memory of our past computers, even supercomputers were not able to store tables with hundreds of millions of PRNs. In this paper we propose an implementation technique in order to speedup any kind of PRNG taking into account the capacities of current computers and microcomputers. The speed of our solution stems from the classical unrolling optimization technique, it is named the URNG technique (Unrolled Random Number Generator). Random numbers are first generated in source code, then precompiled and stored inside the RAM of inexpensive computers at the executable loading time. With this technique random numbers need to be computed only once. The UNRG technique is compliant with parallel computing. Limits and effects on speed and sensitivity are explored over 4 computer generations with a simple Monte Carlo simulation. Every research field using stochastic computation can be concerned by this software optimization technique.


medical history presented with arthralgia and abdominal pain. Twodays after admission, while under investigation for multiple arthritis, he suffered hematochezia, weakness, and low blood pressure. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed no abnormalities, but colonoscopy and retrograde ileoscopy revealed clots of blood through the whole enteric lumen. No sign of active bleeding was found. Mesenteric angiography was normal. Capsule endoscopy was performed 2 days later and revealed findings compatible with enteric ischemia (necrotic areas ofmucosa, diffuse ulceration and blood in the lumen),mainly in the ileum(●" Figs. 1,2;●" Video 1). A few days later, due to severe deterioration of his condition (acute abdomen), the patient underwent surgery. Surgical exploration revealed intraluminal inflammation, ulcerations, and necrotic areas in several sites in the ileum, in agreement with the findings of capsule endoscopy. A partial enterectomy with ileostomy was performed. Histological examination of the resected ileum showed injuries to the enteric wall and the mesentery of the terminal ileum compatible with necrotic– granulomatous vasculitis of small and intermediate-sized vessels (Wegener's granulomatosis) (●" Figs. 3, 4). During the postoperative follow-up, the patient is doing well. We emphasize the role of capsule endoscopy: (i) in finding the cause of the gastrointestinal bleeding, (ii) in guiding the surgeon to surgical intervention when a serious clinical entity appeared, and (iii) in the early diagnosis of ischemic–necrotic enterocolitis even in this rare case of intestinal involvement in Wegener's granulomatosis.


5 [1] Surface winds from two scatterometers, the Advanced scatterometer (ASCAT), 6 available since 2007, and QuikSCAT, which was available through November 2009, show 7 persistent differences during their period of overlap. This study examines a set of collocated 8 observations during a 13-month period November 2008 through November 2009, to 9 evaluate the causes of these differences. A difference in the operating frequency of the 10 scatterometers leads to differences that this study argues depend on rain rate, wind velocity, 11 and SST. The impact of rainfall on the higher frequency QuikSCAT introduces biases 12 of up to 1 m s 1 in the tropical convergence zones and along the western boundary 13 currents even after rain flagging is applied. This difference fromASCAT is reduced by some 14 30% to 40% when data for which the multidimensional rain probabilities > 0.05 is also 15 removed. An additional component of the difference in wind speed seems to be the result of 16 biases in the geophysical transfer functions used in processing the two data sets and is 17 parameterized here as a function of ASCAT wind speed and direction relative to the 18 mid-beam azimuth. After applying the above two corrections, QuikSCAT wind speed 19 remains systematically lower (by 0.5 m s ) than ASCAT over regions of cold SST < 5°C. 20 This difference appears to be the result of temperature-dependence in the viscous damping 21 of surface waves which has a greater impact on shorter waves and thus preferentially 22 impacts QuikSCAT. The difference in wind retrievals also increases in the storm track 23 corridors as well as in the coastal regions where the diurnal cycle of winds is aliased by 24 the time lag between satellites.


The work is dedicated to the investigation of a hot electron generation in a shock ignition relevant experiment by means of x-ray time-resolved diagnostics. Nowadays, the shock ignition approach is one of the most promising methods to realize inertial confinement fusion and to achieve a new energetic source in the world. The mechanisms of a hot electron generation have a crucial role in this case and are insufficiently investigated due to the short temporal scales close to the laser pulse time. Here we report about the x-ray time resolved study of this phenomenon applying the imager based on spherically-bent Bragg crystals combined with an x-ray streak camera of high temporal resolution. We demonstrate the absolute timing of the registered x-ray emission caused by hot electrons as well as dynamics of the spatial and temporal characteristics varying the parameters of the laser pulse with an intensity up to 2e16 W/cm2.


Microbial alkaline protease inhibitor, S–SI, was investigated on the interaction with subtilisin BPN′ Inhibitory equivalent of S–SI to subtilisin BPN′ was determined that one molecule of S–SI (MW = 23,000) inhibited two molecules of subtilisin BPN′ (MW = 27,700). The S–SI-subtilisin BPN′ complex was isolated by gel filtration on Sephadex G–100 and rhombic crystals were obtained. DIP- and ZAGPCK-subtilisin BPN′ did not form such complex with S–SI. Homogeneity of the complex was determined by disc electrophoresis. The isoelectric point of the complex was pH 5.5. Assay of S–SI dissociated and amino acid analysis of the complex indicated that one subunit (a half molecule) of S–SI was combined with one molecule of subtilisin BPN′ From molecular weight determination, it was clarified that the complex was composed of one molecule (consist of 2 subunits) of S–SI and two molecules of subtilisin BPN′.


We describe a new implementation of the elementary transcendental functions exp, sin, cos, log and atan for variable precision up to approximately 4096 bits. Compared to the MPFR library, we achieve a maximum speedup ranging from a factor 3 for cos to 30 for atan. Our implementation uses table-based argument reduction together with rectangular splitting to evaluate Taylor series. We collect denominators to reduce the number of divisions in the Taylor series, and avoid overhead by doing all multiprecision arithmetic using the mpn layer of the GMP library. Our implementation provides rigorous error bounds.


Thyroid is a gland which is present in front of the neck, wrapped around the windpipe (trachea). Thyroid shape is like Butterfly that's smaller in the middle and 2 side wings which are around the throat. As Thyroid is a gland it is important in our body when thyroid produces too much thyroid hormones then that condition is called hyperthyroidism and if thyroid gland produces less thyroid hormones then that condition is called hypothyroidism. Machine learning is one of the most important tools to classify the diseases nowadays whether a person has a disease or not like Cancer detection, kidney disease detection or Diabetes etc. Our project is to predict whether a person has Thyroid disease or not. Whether he has hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, or he is not suffering from thyroid disease.


Objective: 1) To investigate the feasibility of performing case specific surgical rehearsal (CSSR) using a virtual reality (VR) temporal bone simulator. 2) To identify potential clinical applications in temporal bone surgery. Method: Preclinical study conducted in a London teaching hospital. Twenty-four cadaver temporal bones were CT scanned and uploaded onto the Voxelman simulator. Sixteen participants (trainer and trainee group) performed 3 dissection tasks on VR and cadaver models. CSSR was assessed for feasibility and clinical applications using a 5-point Likert scale. Results: The upload process required a semi-automated system. The average time for each upload was 15 minutes. Suboptimal reconstruction occurred (n = 4) when the mastoid process and ossicular chain were not captured. CSSR rated highly among both groups (Likert score >4) for surgical anatomy (75%), facilitating surgical planning (75%), and training (94%). Both groups reported suboptimal realism compared to cadaver models due to poor depth perception. The most relevant clinical procedures for CSSR were ossicular chain surgery, pediatric cochlear implantation, and congenital anomalies. CSSR involving the facial nerve and cholesteatoma surgery were not feasible due to suboptimal soft tissue VR representation. Conclusion: The process of uploading CT data onto a temporal bone simulator to perform CSSR is feasible using a semi-automated system. It represents a promising application for selected clinical procedures. Further clinical evaluation is warranted to assess the potential benefit.


The invention discloses an electronic parking braking system and a control method thereof. The electronic parking braking system comprises a computer, a USB (universal serial bus)-CAN (controller area network) card, an electronic parking braking system controller, an electronic parking braking system executing mechanism, a data processing unit and a parking key, wherein one end of the electronic parking braking system controller is connected with the computer through the USB-CAN card, and the other end of the electronic parking braking system controller is connected with the electronic parking braking system executing mechanism; the parking key is connected with the electronic parking braking system controller; and the other end of the electronic parking braking system executing mechanism is connected with the computer through the data processing unit. According to the electronic parking braking system and the control method thereof, the development period can be shortened, the use is simple and convenient, and the expenditure is saved.


The development of a computer module for kinematic and dynamic analysis of the lever mechanisms of light industry machines allows determining the parameters that are used in the program to assess the intensity of technological processes of the light and textile industry when determining the change in the relative tension of the thread in the filling zones of the technological equipment. Kinematic and dynamic analysis of flat mechanisms plays a significant role in the design of new mechanisms and modernization of existing ones. The results obtained during these studies can be used to calculate the strength of individual links, their inertial characteristics, optimization of structural parameters of mechanisms, and minimization of consumed energy. A sharp increase in tension leads to a violation of the normal course of the technological process of thread processing. The imperfection of the structural elements of the feed system, thread tensioning devices and thread guides on knitting, textile and sewing machines will not allow thread processing with a sudden increase in input tension. The development of new schemes of the thread feeding system requires an operational assessment of the value of the tension in front of the working zone. To do this, it is effective to use specially developed programs for performing a computational experiment. The tension of the thread increases when moving through the refueling zones of the thread feeding system on the technological equipment. This increase is due to the interaction of the thread with the guides and tension devices. The maximum tension value will be in front of the working area. The development of special computer programs for determining the tension in the working area allows you to determine the necessary technological parameters, make adjustments to both the structure itself and the components of the thread feeding system to obtain the minimum necessary tension in the working area. The objective function in the problem is the minimum necessary tension, which is the minimum sum of the angles covered by the thread of guide surfaces that have a cylindrical, elliptical shape, discrete segments of a straight line. The use of a computer program allows you to determine tensions and changes in relative tension in the filling zones of light and textile industry machines, which allows you to optimize the shape of the thread supply line even at the stage of designing the technological process. The development of application packages of computer programs allows to reduce the time for the design of technological processes in the light and textile industry as much as possible. This is due to the modernization of the thread filling line on the technological equipment, which allows to minimize thread tension in the working area. Minimization of tension is ensured by optimization of the shape of the thread filling line, in which the total angle of coverage of the guides will be minimal. Computer determination of kinematic and dynamic parameters of flat mechanisms allows to determine the parameters used in determining the intensity of technological processes.


The invention discloses a downhole and ground information transmission network system and method and belongs to the technical field of petroleum drilling. The network system comprises a downhole measuring node, a data conversion node, a data transmission node, a ground rotation node and a ground server. The downhole measuring node is used for measuring downhole information data. The data conversion node is used for converting measured information data into data signals in network transmission formats. The data transmission node is used for transmitting the data signals to a ground rotation short section through a cabled drill column. The ground rotation node is used for converting the data signals to the ground server. The ground server is used for processing the data signals to obtain command information and returning the command information to the ground rotation short section. The data signals adopt consistent network communication protocol. The downhole and ground information transmission network system has the advantages that a bidirectional high-speed communication network is achieved by transmitting downhole information to the ground through the cabled drill column, and high-speed data transmission can be achieved.


The Hindu and Buddhist monuments of Angkor in Cambodia are the legacy of highly developed Khmer empires. Well-known for their structural and surface complexity they constitute a great challenge to any attempt towards precise and detailed 3D measurements and modeling. This paper reports about a pilot project using modern techniques of analytical and digital photogrammetry to derive a photorealistic 3D model of one of the very complex towers of the famous Bayon temple of the ancient city of Angkor Thom. The project is based on the use of small format analogue touristtype photography. Described processing steps include phototriangulation on an analytical plotter, automated image matching for surface model generation and the use of novel point cloud editing and view-dependent texture mapping techniques.


M ixing in theD -D 0 system hasbeen searched for for m ore than two decades without success | until this past year. Both \B -factory" experim ents,Belle and BABAR,haverecentlypublished evidenceforthis phenom enon [1,2]. Here we review these m easurem ents and discuss their im plications. In totalfour m easurem ents are presented,involving the following decay m odes[3]:D ! K + ' ,D! K + K = + , D ! K + ,and D ! K 0 S + . M ixing in heavy avorsystem ssuch asthatofB 0 and B 0 s is governed by the short-distance box diagram .However,in theD 0 system thisdiagram isboth doubly-Cabibbo-suppressed and G IM -suppressed relative to the am plitude dom inating the decay width, and thustheshort-distancerateisvery sm all.Consequently,D -D 0 m ixing is expected to be dom inated by long-distance processesthatare di cultto calculate;theoreticalestim atesfor the m ixing param eters x m = and y =(2 ) range over two-three ordersofm agnitude [4]. Here, M and are the di erences in the m asses and decay widths, respectively,ofthe two D -D 0 m ass eigenstates,and is the m ean decay width. Allm ethodsdiscussed hereidentify the avorofthe D =D 0 when produced by reconstructing the decay D + ! D 0 + or D ! D 0 ; the charge of the accom panying pion identi es the D avor. Because M D M D 0 M + 6M eV,which isrelativelysm all, thepion hasvery low m om entum and thusisdenoted s (\ slow"). The D 0 decay tim e (t) is calculated via ('=p) M D ,where ' isthe distance between the D and D 0 decay verticesand pistheD 0 m om entum . TheD vertex position istaken to betheintersection ofthe s m om entum with thebeam spotpro le.M ost ofthe precision on tisdueto the vertical(y)com ponentof',asthespread ofthebeam spotisonly a few m icronsin thisdim ension.To rejectD ( ) decaysoriginating from B decays,one requirespD > 2:5 G eV, which isthe kinem aticendpoint.


: Vehicles selling are increasing in developing countries and it causes an increase in traffic on the road. In India, in metro cities like Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi, the issue of traffic management has become a critical issue as compared to other cities. Traffic congestion is severe problem in most of the cities across the world and it has become a nightmare for the citizens. It is caused by delay in signal, inappropriate timing of traffic signaling, etc. The delay of traffic light is hard coded and it does not depend on traffic. Therefore for optimizing traffic control, there is increasing demand in systematic quick and automatic system. The proposed system is designed to develop a density based dynamic traffic signal control. The signal timing changes automatically on sensing the traffic density at the junction. The microcontroller used in proposed system is ARDUINO .The system contains IR sensors(transmitter & receiver) which will be mounted on either side of the road on poles. It gets activated and receives the signal as the vehicles passes close by it. The traffic lights shall be changed to each side for some fixed time. Even though there are no vehicles at particular side, the traffic signals will glow for a given fixed time. Due to that there is wastage of time & vehicles on the other side have to wait for the time to complete the process. So to reduce the wastage of time, we can implement the system that controls the traffic based on the heavy flow vehicles at each side at the junction and give path to the particular side which has denser traffic and keeping the other sides stopped.


The atomic force microscope has become a standard tool to measure surface forces. Force-versus-distance curves taken with an atomic force microscope often show a hysteresis in the noncontact region between approach and retraction. The hysteresis can be caused by the discrete, stepwise motion of the sample due to digitalization. Since in the presence of liquids cantilever and sample are coupled, the cantilever oscillates after each step. Depending on when a data point is recorded during this oscillation, the amplitude of the cantilever detection measured may deviate from the equilibrium value. This might cause a hysteresis and other misleading results in force-versus-distance measurements. Especially when attractive forces are measured, cantilever oscillations can severely change the results


Examining a drastic evolution of the audit market in China, we find that auditor mergers enhance clients' innovation. This effect is more pronounced when the acquirer in a merger is an international Big 4 auditor or when a merger leads to a greater increase in auditor size, supporting the positive certification effect of large auditors. Further cross-sectional analyses show that the innovation-enhancing effect of auditor mergers takes place via alleviating financial constraints and mitigating managerial myopia. In sum, we offer first-hand evidence that large auditors stemming from audit market consolidation bring benefits to the real economy and contributes to economic growth.


Bc Jiři Vorel. Benefits sentenced in prisons to prevent crime. Master's thesis. Brno 2009, 123 pages. Thesis is bent on prevention criminality in Czech republic, in region Karlovy Vary how about in the town Nejdek. Experiential part deal with behaviour plus operation prevention criminality in school arrangements. To inquest her levels of was effected research among condemned plus among pupils plus students primary objective plus middle school in Nejdek. Like benefit for realization prevention criminality I'm carried out project, in which the high school student take part in ceilidh with condemned from environment execution of a punishment.


All 20 U.S. Army Yakima Training Center (YTC) sites evaluated were given a `low` relative risk. At Solid Waste Management Unit (SWMU) 22, a `minimum` soils contaminant hazard factor was assigned even though 6,700 mg/kg TPH-diesel was found in surface soil. SWMU 22 is physically located on top of and with the fence surrounding Area of Concern (AOC) 4. Because the diesel is most likely associated with AOC 4, and plans are to clean up AOC 4, any further actions regarding these contaminated soils should be addressed as part of the planned actions for AOC 4. Contaminant hazard factors of `moderate` were assigned to the soil pathway for SWMUs 4 and 7 because dieldrin and arsenic, respectively, were found in surface soil samples at concentrations exceeding standards. A `moderate` contaminant hazard factor was also assigned to the sediment pathway for AOC 1 because arsenic detected in sediments in `Larry`s Swimming Pool` exceeded the standard. All other contaminant hazard factors were rated as minimal. The receptor factor for all sites and pathways was rated `limited,` except for SWMU 54 in which the groundwater receptor factor was rated `potential.` A `potential` rating was assigned to the groundwater pathway at this site to be conservative. The site is located on the south side of the syncline axis where the unconfined aquifer may be present and there are no monitoring wells at the site to confirm or deny the presence of groundwater contamination.


This paper proposes a practical and effective predicting model for resource allocation and usage for server. The approach rests on virtualization technique to simulate a heterogeneous virtual machine environment. The study is confined to management of number of CPUs and memory units being allocated on three servers to serve user's requests. The objective is fast response time to attain as high user satisfaction as possible. The algorithm employs exponential smoothing technique to analyze trend of data and the relationship among them. Assessment was compared with association rules and ARIMA. The findings reveal that the proposed technique yields more accurate prediction results than other predicting models, having the least MSE and acceptable system response time. Subject Categories and Descriptors K.6.2 [Computing Installation Management]; Pricing and resource allocation General Terms: Servers, Resource Allocation


In this article, we will discuss a localization formulas of equivariant cohomology about two Killing vector fields on the set of zero points ${\rm{Zero}}(X_{M}-\sqrt{-1}Y_{M})=\{x\in M \mid |Y_{M}(x)|=|X_{M}(x)|=0 \}.$ As application, we use it to get formulas about characteristic numbers and to get a Duistermaat-Heckman type formula on symplectic manifold.


Abstract : The following is a discussion of the entomology-related activities of the 1st Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam during 1968. It is based on the author's experiences as the first medical entomologist to be assigned to the Division's Preventive Medicine Section since its deployment to Vietnam in 1964. The 1st Marine Division's area of responsibility during 1968 was in the I Corps Tactical Zone, the northernmost corps area in Vietnam. The majority of the troops were concentrated from Hue to about 25 miles south of Danang. The area was primarily coastal and foothill terrain consisting largely of rice paddies interspersed with estuaries, rivers and small farms. Units were also deployed to mountainous areas(medium elevation and rivers) near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Potential disease vectors, particularly mosquitoes, were found in abundance in certain of these areas, and malaria, dengue, encephalitis, plague, scrub typhus and filariasis represented a potential threat to combat readiness and effectiveness.


The lean-premixed technique has proven very efficient in reducing the emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NO.) from gas turbine combustors. The numerical prediction of NOD-levels in such combustors with multidimensional CFD codes has only met with limited success so far. This is at least to some extent due to the complexity of the NO formation chemistry in leanpremixed combustion, i.e. all three known NO formation routes (Zeldovich, nitrous and prompt) can contribute significantly. Furthermore, NO formation occurs almost exclusively in the flame zone, where radical concentrations significantly above equilibrium values are observed. A relatively large chemical mechanism is therefore required to predict radical concentrations and NO formation rates under such conditions. These difficulties have prompted the development of a NO., postprocessing scheme, where rate and concentration information necessary to predict NO formation is taken from one-dimensional combustion models with detailed chemistry and provided — via look-up tables — to the multi-dimensional CFD code. The look-up tables are prepared beforehand in accordance with the operating conditions and are based on CO concentrations, which are indicative of free radical chemistry. Once the reacting flow field has been computed with the main CFD code, the chemical source terms of the NO transport equation, i.e. local NO formation rates, are determined from the reacting flow field and the tabulated chemical data. Then the main code is turned on again to compute the NO concentration field. This NO, sub-model has no adjustable parameters and converges very quickly. Good agreement with experiment has been observed and interesting conclusions concerning superequilibrium O-atom concentrations and fluctuations of temperature could be drawn.


The utilization of marine and coastal natural resources is becoming increasingly important to support economic growth in Indonesia, one of which is the blue economy. The blue economy does not only need to be known by the general public, especially fishermen, but can be learned early on by junior high school students. In addition, the blue economy is important for students to learn because it has the benefit of increasing environmental awareness and global issues. This study aims to describe the results of the analysis of blue economy content in social science book for grade 7. The method used in this study is literature review. The results of the study show that in grade 7 textbooks, there is content on the potential for natural resources of fishing communities. However, there has been no in-depth discussion of this blue economy, so that another supporting book is needed in fulfilling this material.


A high gain substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) fed cavity-backed patch antenna array is demonstrated at V-band. The multilayered structure of the proposed array can be fabricated by conventional low-cost single layered printed circuit board (PCB) technology and then realized by stacking and fixing all the layers together. A gain up to 29.7 dBi with a 3-dB gain bandwidth of 16.1%, an impedance bandwidth of 15.3% from 57.5 to 67 GHz for SWR < 2, symmetrically broadside radiation patterns with −40 dB cross-polarizations are achieved.


Six sexually mature and healthy male New Zealand White rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), at the age of 18 months, with body mass 2.8 - 3.2 kg, were used in this imaging study. Using computed tomography, the pelvis was transversally cut from the transversal plane between the fi rst and the second sacral vertebra, with cut thickness of 2 mm. The prostate gland is a substantial soft tissue fi nding, situated dorsolaterally against the prostatic urethra. The prostate is located between the vesiculous (cranially) and bulbourethral glands (caudally).


Electronic signature is a quick and convenient tool, used for legal documents and payments since business practices revolutionized from traditional paper-based to computer-based systems. The growing use of electronic signature means they are used in many applications daily, both in government and private organizations such as financial services, where an electronic signature is taken from group of people at once to cash checks or perform a transaction approval. However, non-repudiation and authentication issues remain highlighted concerns for electronic signature. To overcome these obstacles, we propose a TokenSign system that uses revocable fingerprints biotokens with Secret Sharing as electronic signature. TokenSign maintains two layers of security. First, TokenSign scheme transforms and encrypts a user fingerprint data. Second, TokenSign embeds a shared secret inside the encrypted fingerprints. Then, TokenSign Scheme distributes all shares of electronic signatures over multiple clouds. During the matching/signing process, TokenSign utilizes thread-ing to do parallel matching for the fingerprints in its secure encrypted form without decrypting the data. Finally, TokenSign scheme applies Secret Sharing scheme to compute the shared secret, producing an electronic signature. As a result, our experi-ments show that TokenSign scheme achieves comparable accuracy and improves performance comparing to the two baselines.


Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a promising alternative to hepatic resection for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) located in the caudate lobe. We evaluated the therapeutic efficacy and safety of RFA for HCC located in the caudate lobe compared with HCC located elsewhere in the liver.


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Nowadays many countries had changed the pattern of original disease from infectious disease to chronic disease and degenerative disease. Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic degenerative disease with a prevalence continue to increase, there are 300 thousand patient with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in East Java with total population 33 million people and in Indonesia there are 2,5 million. The purpose of this study was Analyzing differences incidence of complications patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus based on Blood Sugar levels in Lidah Kulon Surabaya. The design of this study was study comparative with cross sectional design. Respondents in this study were 69 patients and used simple random sampling. The variables are blood sugar, age, sex and incidence of complications. The result of this study showed the proportion of patients Diabetes Mellitus was highest in the group patients without complication (73.9%), female (76.8%) and age ≥ 50 years (86.3%). According to the statistic there was no difference between incidence of complications Diabetes Mellitus with age (p = 0.67), sex (p = 0.206), blood sugar level (p = 0.989) and frequency of checking blood sugar (p = 0.85). There was no difference between incidence of complications Diabetes Mellitus and blood sugar level patient with type 2
Diabetes Mellitus in Puskesmas Lidah Kulon.

Keywords incidence of complications, blood sugar, diabetes mellitus type 2


The game industry in Sweden has received a lot of attention the last couple of years. In particular, a number of game developing companies like Mojang (Minecraft) and King (Candy Crush) have been c ...


SUBTITLE: SAA TECHNICAL (SAT), SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS' MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND OVERHAUL SUBSIDIARY, IS FEELING THE CHANGES BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE CARRIER'S MASSIVE FLEET-RENEWAL PROGRAMME. JO MURRAY ASKS RINESH RAMKISSOON, SAT'S ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, WHAT THE NEW FLEET WILL MEAN AND HOW SAT IS GEARING UP TO LOOK AFTER AIRBUS AIRCRAFT.


A model system for mimicry of the protochlorophyllide reductase enzymatic process, consisting of a zinc porphyrin covalently linked to a dihydroflavin, undergoes two successive one-electron transfer steps upon illumination, forming a zinc porphodimethene and the corresponding flavin.


The nutritive value of dried infant milk foods based on buffalo milk and containing
varying levels of protein ( I O - - Z ~ ~a~n)d fat (8-26%) has been studied in experiments on
albino rats. The mean weekly-growth-rate of rats receiving milk food I (26% protein
and 26% fat) was significantly higher than those obtained with milk foods I1 (20% protein
and 20% fat) and IV (15% protein and 26% fat). No significant differences were observed
in the mean values for weekly growth, feed efficiency ratio, or the composition of livers
and carcasses of rats fed on 'milk food I and milk food 111 (15% protein and 15% fat).
Milk food VI (22% protein and 18% fat) promoted slightly lower growth than did milk
foods I-IV. There were no significant differences, however, in the feed efficiency ratio
and the composition of livers and carcasses of animals fed on milk foods I-IV and VI.
Milk foods V (10% protein and 26% fat), VII (28% protein and 15% fat) and T'III (16%
protein and 8 yo fat) promoted significantly lower growth and possessed significantly lower
feed efficiency ratios than milk foods I-IV. The mean total serum protein albumin contents,
ribonucleic acid content and xanthine-oxidase activity of the livers and the nitrogen
and calcium contents of the carcasses of rats receiving milk food V were significantly lower
than values obtained for rats fed on milk foods 1-111 and V1. The livers of rats fed on
milk food V showed mild generalised fatty infiltration while the livers of animals fed on
the other milk foods were quite normal. Milk food I11 containing 15% protein and 15y0 fat
and possessing an overall nutritive value equal to that of whole milk powder, can be used
with advantage for feeding infants in regions where milk is in short supply.


This research provides a comparative study between Hilary Kilpatrick's English translation and Tawfiq Saleh's film adaptation ʾ Al-Makhduʿun ( The Duped) of Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun. Drawing on Narrative and Appraisal theories, this research investigates the ideological disparity between Kilpatrick and Saleh's approaches to Kanafani's text by examining their respective attitudinal stance and patterns of narrative (re)framing in relation to three dimensions: politics, religion, and culture. The research, thus, accentuates the ways in which the translator's identity, with its nexus of associated values, can reshape and reconfigure both narratives and reality by producing hegemonic or resistant translations. In doing so, the study, from a postcolonial perspective, aims to redirect the attention toward the 'vertical' power dynamics in and of translation, in addition to exposing the varying, often subtle, levels of negotiation, manipulation and intervention such politically loaded narratives, especially contested narratives, experience in translation. In fact, combining literary translation with adaptation reveals how narratives of the same objet d'art are creatively interpreted and re-negotiated differently when the translation medium involves visuals.