The demand‐side management (DSM) is one of the most important aspects in future smart grids: towards electricity generation cost by minimizing the expensive thermal peak power plants. The DSM greatly affects the individual users' cost and per unit cost. The main objective of this research article is to develop a generic demand‐side management (G‐DSM) model for residential users to reduce peak‐to‐average ratio (PAR), total energy cost, and waiting time of appliances (WTA) along with fast execution of the proposed algorithm. We propose a system architecture and mathematical formulation for total energy cost minimization, PAR reduction, and WTA. The G‐DSM model is based on genetic algorithm (GA) for appliances scheduling and considers 20 users having a combination of appliances with different operational characteristics. Simulation results show the effectiveness of G‐DSM model for both single and multiple user scenarios. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The present investigation was conducted to observe the effects of saline and alkali irrigation water on performance of six wheat cultivars and soil health. Five levels of saline (EC 0, EC 3, EC 6, EC 9 and 12 dS m -1 ) and four levels of alkali water (RSC 0, RSC 3, RSC 6.5 and RSC 10 me L -1 ) were used for irrigating six wheat cultivars (KRL 210, PBW 621, HD 2967, PBW 590, PBW 658 and Berbet ) during two years of research study. The results revealed that increasing salinity and alkalinity of irrigation water significantly increased soil pH , EC, SAR, ESP and soluble Na + , Cl and HCO3 and decreased organic carbon , available nutrients (N, P, K and S) , DTPA-Zn and soluble ions (K + , Ca+Mg 2+ , SO4 2) concentration in both years. Soil physical properties such as bulk density and dispersion ratio increased with increasing salinity and alkalinity in irrigation water whereas MWD, SHC, IR and WHC decreased under these treatments. Biological soil properties (MBC, MBN, DHA and CWEC) were significantly reduced to almost 50% at highest level of salinity (EC= 12 dS m -1 ) and alkalinity (RSC = 10 me L -1 ) of irrigation water in 2013-14 and 2014-15. In 84 days of incubation study cumulative respiration, MBC, NH4 + and NO3 N was low under saline and alkaline irrigated soil samples which improved on addition of carbon @ 1%. Plant and yield parameters were adversely impacted due to elevated salinity and alkalinity levels of irrigation water in both years. Pooled over two years, among different cultivars the maximum grain yield was produced by PBW 658 (4.23 t ha -1 ) at highest level of saline water (EC = 12 dS m -1 ) and by PBW 621 (5.19 t ha -1 ) for highest level of alkaline water (RSC = 10 me L -1 ) whereas the minimum yield in both cases was recorded for PBW 590 (3.82 and 3.79 t ha -1 ), respectively. Among all cultivars performance of HD 2967 was better at EC 9 dSm -1 and RSC 6.5 meL -1 , therefore can be grown without much significant loss in grain yield at respective levels but at highest level of salinity and alkalinity of irrigation water PBW 658 and PBW 621 should be preferred to get higher yield.


Lane detection on the road is the most essential phase of existing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). In the current road scheme, the lanes are parallel tracks which are marked based on the different speed limit for the vehicles. Lane markings are defined as driving regions for the vehicles in order to avoid a collision. In an Intelligent Vehicle System (IVS), these markings are being identified by various massive computing techniques and sensor-based mechanisms like radar, LiDAR, and GPS and have high operational costs. However, vision-based detection methods are gaining popularity due to its low cost and better understanding capability of the scene. The proposed study follows computer vision and image processing techniques to examine and learn significant lane features. The approach demonstrates the practical and effective usage of the lane detection model (LDM). The LDM has been designed with a vehicle prototype using Raspberry Pi, which reveals the intelligent behavior against the detected lane lines. The model is less expensive and power-efficient, which confirms the operational capability of the proposed system under a heterogeneous environment.


The influence of winter green manure with lupine ( Lupinus albus L.) on the response of four maize ( Zea mays L.) cultivars planted at two plant populations to crescent levels of N was studied. The lupine was planted at the fall, by direct drilling over maize residues and was incorporated at flowering period. One month after, the area was disked and the maize sowed. Grain yields were related to others obtained in the same trial, at previous harvest, when the soil was degenerated by intensive use. The winter green manure was a good alternative for soil recuperation and contributed to reduce the nitrogen fertilizer needs. This alternative increased 26% of maize yields. The variety Cateto Prolifico showed a low efficiency of response to nitrogen fertilization, but gave a good response to the green manure practice. The cultivars AG-162, C-501 and Piranao showed high response to nitrogen fertilization, but the green manure practice was sufficient to supply his nitrogen needs.


This article consists on the validation of the Relationship Rating Form -RRF (Davis, 1996) an instrument that measures friendship, romantic relationships and love for the Portuguese population. The concept of love used on this research is developed from the empirical and conceptual body of descriptive psychology. The construction of the scale is based on a prototypical or ideal case, which includes the relevant features that a real case of love should reveal. The results of the factor analysis by the KMO method, using oblimin rotation, produced a meaningful solution of seven factors (but not quite coincident to those Rua Jardim do Tabaco, no34, 1149-041 Lisboa, Portugal. Telf.: +351 218811700. e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com J. A. Afonso & I. Leal Por razões de uniformização da revista o presente artigo foi adaptado às regras do Novo Acordo Ortográfico, apesar de esta não ser a grafia usada pelos autores. www.sp-ps.pt 881 that Davis and his colleagues obtained in the US in the middle 90's): 1-Success/Global Satisfaction; 2Love disillusion; 3-Care for Partner's Well-being; 4-Commitment; 5Fascination 6-Knowledge; 7-Coercion. Factor 1 includes the following sub-scales: Respect/Esteem; Mutual Confiding/Intimacy; Sexual Desire; Satisfaction; Maintenance; Acceptance. Factor 2 includes the subscales of Distrust/Disappointment; Disrespect/Disloyalty; Tension/Ambivalence. Factor 3 includes Assistance, Championing and Give the Utmost sub-scales. In factor 4 we contemplate the Enjoyment; Trust/Confiding; Exclusiveness and Projecting in the Future sub-scales. The reliability of the factors was tested through the use of Cronbach Alpha.


The main goal of this research was to verify if some advantages could be obtained by the replacement of poly(1-vinylcarbazole), a component commonly employed for organic photorefractive materials, with various polymers containing side-chain heteroaromatic moieties. For this purpose, poly(1-vinylpyrrole), poly(1-vinylindole), and some methyl-substituted compounds of poly(1-vinylindole) were considered. The best conditions for both monomer synthesis and polymerization were found. A first possible advantage of the new polymeric substrates resided in the values of the glass-transition temperature, which, as expected, was constantly lower than that of poly(1-vinylcarbazole). This could lead to a material that requires the introduction of a lower quantity of plasticizer in the final photorefractive blend to display photorefractive behavior at room temperature. In addition, the verified higher electric dipole moments of the pyrrole and indole derivatives could improve the compatibility of the optically nonlinear component required in the system, typically an azo-molecule, by increasing its solubility inside the blend. All the synthesized vinyl monomers and polymers gave clear spectroscopic evidence of the formation of charge-transfer complexes with 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenylidenmalonitrile, an efficient sensitizer for photoconductivity. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 39: 253–262, 2001


The phrase 'war is hell' has become a common, even banal expression repeated again and again. If one may paraphrase Tolstoy, however, one should perhaps add that 'each person living through or witnessing war is visiting his/her own hell in his/her own particular way'. The two books reviewed here differ in many ways from each other, but have one thing in common: each bears witness to such hell. Their potential reader should, therefore, be warned – in Dante's words: 'lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate'. Babchenko, now a journalist of the Moscow Novaia Gazeta, fought in the first Chechen war (1994–96) as a conscript and volunteered for a tour of duty in the second war (1999–2000). An intelligent graduate of the Russian education system, he knew next to nothing about Chechnya and the Chechens. His is, therefore, internal evidence from below of a common Russian soldier. As such it is of great value as a source of information to laymen and experts alike about the war, the Russian army in general and the feelings of the soldiers. A reader who survived war and/or military service will find a great many familiar experiences and attitudes. But even such a reader will find the book difficult to read. It is true that any military service has never been a pleasure cruise even in peacetime. It is also true that the Soviet army was not known for its gentle treatment of recruits and that rookies were abused by veterans (in what was known as dedovshchina). But the hell Russian conscripts went through in the 1990s, as One Soldier's War so vividly paints, was something else. The beatings, sometimes 'with shovels' (p.84); the abuse; the indifference of the officers – 'an organized gang' of 'jackals' (p.298) – to their men and the mutual hatred are in a completely different league. And all this in a war in which 'we are in permanent state of encirclement and can expect a shot at the back at any moment' (p.273). Every ex-soldier is quite familiar with the 'army habit of commandeering anything of uncertain ownership' and of 'the difficulty in telling the truth' (Robert Graves, Good-Bye to All That, chapter XXVI). 'But Babchenko makes (perhaps exaggeratedly) an all-encompassing accusation of the entire army:


A simple and accurate expression for calculating radio frequency (RF) inductance of square, hexagonal, octagonal and circular on-chip planar spiral inductors is presented in this paper. The expression presented shows a functional relationship between RF inductance (LRF) and some certain electrical parameters of inductors, which are low frequency inductance (L0), self resonant frequency (fR), work frequency (fW) and substrate material correlation coefficient (beta). Compared with both three-dimensional field solver simulation data and experiment data, the RF inductance data obtained by the presented expression matched both of them typically within around 5%. So it is worth expecting that this expression would be very useful for designing and optimizing of inductors, especially for applying inductors to RF ICs.


In today's background of economic globalization, the trade between countries around the world is becoming more and more frequent. China, as the largest developing country, has developed rapidly in recent years. China and the United States, a relatively developed country, have had frequent trade exchanges in recent years. However, due to the different cultures of the two countries, the styles of business negotiation are also different. If negotiators cannot fully understand each other's cultures and styles of business negotiation, it will lead to a lot of embarrassing things, and more seriously, the negotiation will end in failure. Therefore, to understand the cultural differences between China and the United States and master the characteristics of the business negotiation styles of the two countries will be conducive to better business negotiations, and it will be more likely to promote the cooperation between China and the United States.


A number of runic inscriptions from the entire Germanic area from between A.D. 200 and 800 exhibit non-etymological, epenthetic vowels, such as worahto for *worhto 'did'. An analysis of all (likely ...


The reaction of [Ti(cp)2(AsF6)2]2(cp =η-C5H5) with S4N4 in liquid sulphur dioxide gives [Ti(cp)2F(AsF6)]4 and S4N4·AsF55. The new complex 4 can be prepared in quantitative yield from [Ti(cp)2F2]1 and AsF5. Proton, 14N and 19F NMR spectroscopy reveals that SO2 solutions of 2 and S4N4 or 4 and 5 contain [Ti(cp)2(S4N4)][AsF6]23. In contrast Se4N4 is oxidized by 2 and leads to [(SeNSeNSe)2][AsF6]2, N2, AsF3 and 1. Complex 1 forms a stable adduct with AsF3, [Ti(cp)2F2]·AsF3, which was characterized by 1H NMR, IR and mass spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The monocyclopentadienyl analogue [Ti(cp)F3]·AsF3 can also be prepared in quantitative yield from [Ti(cp)Cl3] and Ag[AsF6].


A delay-range-dependent robust constrained model predictive control is proposed for discrete-time system with uncertainties and unknown disturbances. The dynamic characteristic of the discrete-time system is established as a new extended state space model in which state variables and output tracking error are integrated and regulated independently. It is used as the design of control law of system, which cannot only guarantee the convergence and tracking performance but also offer more degrees of freedom for designed controller. Unlike the traditional robust model predictive control (RMPC), the novel, less conservative, and more simplified delay-range-dependent stable conditions are derived by linear matrix inequality (LMI) theory and some relaxed technologies, which make use of the information of the upper and lower bounds of the time-varying delay. Meanwhile, the H∞ performance index is introduced in the RMPC controller design, which can reject any unknown bounded disturbances. As a result, the design controller has better abilities of both tracking and disturbance rejection. The control results on the liquid level of tank system show that the proposed control method is effective and feasible.


In magnetic resonance imaging, time-varied gradient magnetic fields may stimulate nerves and muscles by inducing electric fields and currents in patients, which may potentially cause health problems. In this paper, a realistic z-gradient coil was numerically designed and the exposure level in a 3D real human man model was calculated by using the impedance method. It was found that the z-gradient coil produces a magnetic flux density (B-field) with two regions of good homogeneity along the coil length, separated by a very weak B-field in the middle of the coil. The spatially averaged B-field is 281 times greater than that of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's (ICNIRP) reference level. The 1-cm2-averaged induced current density in the central nervous system is 87 times greater than that of the ICNIRP's basic restriction. The maximum current density in all of the body tissues is above the nerve stimulation threshold.


Research has not explored the types of settings that college students prefer to volunteer for and how these settings might be influenced by personal factors (e.g., demographic, academic major, volunteering motivation, religiosity). Students from a Midwestern university (N = 406, 71.9% female) completed a survey that inquired about their volunteering history and motivation for volunteering. This study found that most students (88.2%) reported a history of volunteering, although only 22.9% were current volunteers. The most common volunteer settings for participants were organizations related to promoting health and wellness, serving children/delivering education, and reducing poverty. Students volunteering in health-related settings were more likely to be currently volunteering. The strongest motives for volunteering in this study were Values (e.g., altruistic volunteering) followed by Understanding (e.g., volunteering for the opportunity for new learning experiences). These findings are useful for determining what factors might be used to promote continuous volunteering by college students. Key words: college students, motivation, volunteer settings, religiosity ********** The community service volunteer rate of college students is declining (Marks & Robb Jones, 2004). According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (2013), 27.4% of those aged 16-19 were volunteering, compared to only 18.9% of 20-24 year olds. Gallant, Smale, and Arai (2010) found that only 54% of college students reported volunteering in the past year. Of those that volunteered in the past year, 34.2% volunteered for 1-4 hours a month, 36.5% volunteered for 5-15 hours a month, and 16.1% volunteered over 15 hours a month (Gallant et al., 2010). The decreasing rates of volunteering are unfortunate due to the numerous benefits that students receive from volunteering. Previous literature highlights that students can experience cognitive gains and moral development (Ewing, Govekar, Govekar, & Rishi, 2002; Klink & Athaide, 2004), improvement in skills related to leadership, teamwork and time management (Madsen, 2004), academic performance (Moser, 2005; Klink & Athaide, 2004), and self-confidence (Bussell & Forbes, 2002). Age, race/ethnicity, sex, personality traits, and various academic-related elements have been identified as factors related to a higher likelihood of volunteering. A national study of first-year undergraduates found that: students over age 20 were more likely to volunteer than traditional-age first year students; African American, Latino, and Asian American students were more likely to volunteer than Caucasian students; and students with higher levels of academic achievement (SAT or ACT scores) were more likely to volunteer than their lower-achieving peers. Furthermore, students who belonged to Greek organizations were almost twice as likely to volunteer; and students who live on campus are more likely to volunteer than those who live off campus (Cruce & Moore, 2007). Additionally, research has found that individuals scoring high on agreeableness (Carlo, Okun, Knight, & de Guzman, 2005; Mowen & Sujan, 2005) and extraversion (Carlo et al., 2005) were more likely to volunteer. Several studies have noted that female students were more likely to volunteer than males (Clerkin, Paynter, & Taylor, 2009; Cruce & Moore, 2007; Gallant et al., 2010; Carlo et al., 2005). Cruce and Moore (2007) observed additional differences regarding students' academic major and their likelihood of volunteering, with those majoring in education, business, biological science, and the social sciences more likely to volunteer than arts and humanities majors. While Clerkin, Paynter, and Taylor (2009) confirmed the connection between majors in the social sciences and a higher probability of volunteering, they found that humanities majors were also more likely to volunteer than peers of other majors. …


Risk management as a very rapid emerging subject has been affected by several happenings in the world. There are many studies covering risk definition, risk types, and risk management, plus there are many contemporary approaches in order to calculate the risk incurred by the companies due to their transactions. In the modern business life, since the transactions have become very fast and their risk exposure increases, the companies, especially the financial institutions, started to use new techniques to measure the probable effects of the risks that they have taken while undertaking the transactions. In this chapter, the authors show two techniques as the contemporary approaches to risk management. These are operations research and statistics. They know that these two concepts are very detailed and sophisticated tools, which require software for better results. The banks have been investing in these solutions, and they are designing new organizations to handle these issues. Thus, the authors introduce these techniques very briefly with using some banking practices for better understanding.


stones of management of patients with meningitis. Determination of protein, glucose, cells and organisms in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) facilitates the differential diagnosis of meningitis. However, quantitative determinations of CSF protein and glucose are time-consuming and in many hospitals are performed only during regular working hours. Previous studies have suggested the clinical usefulness of 'urine reagent strips' in detecting abnormal protein and glucose levels and leukocyte counts in CSF.1–3 However, the data are still scarce in pediatric clinical situations. In the present study, we used urine reagent strips to measure protein, glucose and nitrite in CSF samples from children with suspected meningitis and compared the strip readings with quantitative determinations performed in the hospital laboratory. We also examined whether the reagent strip test can be used as a diagnostic marker for the differential diagnosis of childhood meningitis.


The purpose of the article is to study the theoretical and applied foundations of fundraising as purposeful integrated marketing activities to attract supporters and resource partners of the library, as well as to identify opportunities for crowdfunding and attracting investors in certain areas of library and information activities to understand the prospects of library business. Methodology. The theoretical basis of the research was scientific theoretical developments and concepts of leading scientists. The following methods were used in the research process: theoretical method generalization and comparison, the system method, method of induction and deduction, etc. The importance and possibilities of using crowdfunding as an innovative tool for the long-term development of libraries and librarianship in Ukraine have been studied. The scientific novelty of the research is to deepen and generalize the trends of crowdfunding in the world and to determine the prospects of this innovative tool for the development of libraries in Ukraine. Conclusions. The organization of crowdfunding initiatives is a very promising business in the world in general, and in Ukraine in particular. Given current trends, crowdfunding can become an alternative form of organizing funding for library development and support for literary projects.
Key words: fundraising, crowdfunding, crowdfunding platform, investor, financing, libraries, library business.


Sir, We recently read a paper published by Hurst et al. who investigated incidence, predictors and associated outcomes of rhabdomyolysis (RM) in renal transplant recipients [1]. RM is rarely reported in this population, with most of the cases occurring in patients treated with calcineurin inhibitors in combination with statins. In a retrospective cohort of 20 366 renal transplant recipients, the incidence rate of RM was 1.4 per 1000 person-years. Factors associated with RM after renal transplantation were black race and cyclosporine [1]. Sirolimus may cause RM in liver transplant patients when used concomitantly with simvastatin [2]. Our patient developed severe RM and acute kidney injury requiring dialysis after treatment with sirolimus and fluvastatin. A 66-year-old female patient received allograft from a deceased donor in December 2006. She was treated with cyclosporine A, mycophenolate mofetil and steroids. Two years later, she was operated for meningioma and switched from cyclosporine to sirolimus. She had stable graft function with serum creatinine within the normal range. Dyslipidaemia demanded introduction of fluvastatin 80 mg/day. Two weeks later, she was admitted to hospital febrile and with severe diarrhoea. Serum creatinine was 751 μmol/l, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) was 29.2 mmol/l and creatine kinase (CK) was 15.138 IU/l. She was oliguric and required dialysis for 2days. Evaluation demonstrated Escherichia coli sepsis. Treatment with ceftriaxone and symptomatic therapy resulted in normalization of renal function and overall clinical status. Fluvastatin was immediately omitted. Sirolimus was not associated with RM on bivariate and multivariate analysis in the study published by Hurst et al. [1]. It is well known that sirolimus causes dyslipidaemia, but its interaction with statins remains unknown [3]. Our case demonstrates for the first time that a combination of sirolimus with fluvastatin may cause severe RM. It is possible that the associated sepsis contributed to the development of RM by altering cytochrome P450 enzyme metabolism [4]. Finally, strong association of myopathy with the rs4363657 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) located within SLCO1B1 on chromosome 12 was demonstrated [5]. Identification of patients with these genetic variants may help to avoid serious side effects of statin treatment.


SUBTITLE: THE FAA'S US$575 MILLION PROGRAMME TO ENHANCE SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE FOR PRECISION APPROACH AND LANDING IS PROVING AN EXTRAVAGANT EXERCISE.


Based on the characteristics of computer basic course for medical students main factors which impact the learning efficiency of medical students were analyzed, and different teaching methods to improve their learning efficiency were discussed.

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Learning efficiency;  Medical students;  Computer basic course


Based on the reduction of Fe(Ⅲ)to Fe(Ⅱ)by penicillamine due to its sulfhydryl group and on the color reaction between the Fe(Ⅱ)ion and 2,2′-bipyridine to give a reddish orange colored complex with its absorption maximum at the wavelength of 524nm,a spectrophotometric method for indirect determination of penicillamine in penicillamine tablets was proposed.The optimized conditions found were as follows:① amount of 0.2mol·L-1 HOAc-NaOAc buffer solution of pH 4.5:2.5mL;②amount of 0.2g·L-1 FeCl3solution:2mL; ③amount of 1g·L-1 2,2′-dipyridine solution:2.5mL;④time of reaction:5min.Linear relationship between values of absorbance and mass concentration of penicillamine was obtained(indirectly)in the range less than 26mg ·L-1,with detection limit(3S/N)of 0.01 mg·L-1.The proposed method was used in the analysis of penicillamine tablets,giving results of penicillamine contents in consistency with the labelled value with RSD(n=5) of 2.4%.


ideal in terms of which reality in fact is ordered . The former asks us to inquire seriously how people actually use and rework ideas in practice. The laner is not just a retreat into largely ungrounded speculation, it also continues the hegemony of a peculiarly Western vision, which is to perpetuate colonialism by other means. Constructions of 'Male' and 'Female' in Bali Constructions of female and male roles, in Bali at least, tend to be strikingly situational. This is less obvious than it might be, because it is easy to be distracted by stereotypes from the relationship between such ideological statements and contrary accounts and usage . More serious, it is still commonplace to impose alien categories upon what people say and do: underdetermination here underwrites facile explanation. Instead of perpetuating prevailing naturalist or semiotic assumptions about gender, it might be useful for a change to inquire into indigenous discourses. [shall suggest that Balinese make extensive use ofgllna, use or function, what a person can do, as a criterion of what makes a woman Or man. No single frame of reference, however, is all-embracing. As guna, however important, is not the sole aspect of being, it could not be. The most cursory glance at what Balinese say and do casts a critical light on monolithic academic theories. For a start, Balinese recognise transsexuals as a third distinct role or kind of being, which can only be


In Partly Cloudy, David L. Perry greatly expands on the themes of his 2006 essayl by focusing on a far-ranging examination of ethical theory and its practical applications to U.S. intelligence policy and practice, the law of war, and the history both of the CIA and its longtime foil, the late KGB. He unites these and other disparate topics into a persuasively argued approach to determining both individuals' and governments' ethical guidelines under the often extreme pressures of war and intelligence work. Partly Cloudy is aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at military and intelligence professionals who already possess, or at least aspire to, Perry's "ethical toolkit." Drawing on the Bible, Augustine, and Machiavelli as well as contemporary ethical philosophers such as James Rachels and Sissela Bok, Perry begins with a lucid introduction to basic elements and terms of moral philosophy, progressing to their real-world implications and potential for creating seemingly insoluble dilemmas. From the outset, and in contrast with a range of legal, medical, business, and other professional ethicists, Perry warns against attempting to reduce ethical theory to a single "checklist or model."2 He argues that at the nexus of intelligence work and ethical reasoning, the latter requires "a rich range of moral emotions, including empathy, ... a sense of fairness and outrage against injustice, ... mindfulness and self-awareness [to examine one's own subsurface biases], ... and hard intellectual work [to] convert ethical reasoning to action."3 Perry examines the ethical "gray zones" facing intelligence officers and their superiors. He illustrates the difficulties in proposing even


The FT-IR and FT-Raman vibrational spectra of selegiline were recorded. The optimized geometry and wavenumbers in the ground state were calculated using density functional (B3LYP) method with standard 6-31G(d,p) basis set. The computed B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) results show the best agreement with the experimental values over the other methods. Natural bond orbital analysis of selegiline is also carried out, which confirms the occurrence of strong intermolecular bonding, stability of the molecule arising from hyperconjugative interactions, and charge delocalization. The electric dipole moment (α), polarizability (α), and first hyperpolarizability (β0) which results also show that the selegiline might have microscopic non-linear optical behavior with non-zero values. The calculated HOMO and LUMO energies show that charge transfer occur in the molecule. The results of the calculations were applied to simulated spectra of the title compound, which show excellent agreement with observed spectra.


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As a AAAS/ Science -family journal, Science Advances is committed to publishing innovative, original research that significantly advances the frontiers of science. Our success in this mission to date is anchored in part in the commitment of our authors to adhere to the highest levels of integrity in the conduct and reporting of their studies, which in turn yield the sterling quality of the submissions we publish. Most researchers adhere to these standards because they understand that the advancement of science is predicated on the conduct of research that is grounded in ethical, transparent, and reproducible methods. Science Advances upholds and promotes excellence in research and, therefore, strives to ensure that all the work published has been conducted with the highest levels …


The effect of carrot (Daucus carota) (in form of steamed carrot) mixed in basal wet diet at 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30% and a control group without any carotenoid supplementation, on skin pigmentation of zebra Malawi cichlid (Pseudotropheus zebra) was evaluated. Totally 180 zebra Malawi cichlid (15 g mean weight) were stocked in 18 aquariums (70 L) each containing 10 fish (3 replicates for each treatment). After 35 days of treatment fish skin colour was evaluated using colour parameters L, a, b, Chroma and Hue° described by CIE. The findings of the present study showed that the optimum carrot utilization in diet is 20% and at this level all examined factors except H° are significantly different from the control group (0%).


Saturation flow rate must be determined to evaluate intersection operation. Because saturation flow rate must be used to measure the level of service for intersection. There are two way to determine the saturation flow rate. One is field observation and the other is estimation using field data. This research is to compare the saturation flow rates according to types of city and city functions through the field observation. This research presented the difference of prevailing saturation flow rates according to types of city and city functions through the comparison of three city, such as, Ulsan, Daegu, Kyongju. The Further study must be needed to be used the commonplace through the analysis using the various and massive data.


Research shows that a person's growth is strongly influenced by the presence of a father. The absence of a father will have an unfavorable influence on a person's life. The number of physical fathers who do not function as spiritual fathers (fathers who provide spiritual values) causes the church to provide spiritual fathers. But what happened was not as expected. The Church has thousands of educators but does not have many fathers. The crisis of famine gives a lot of influence in the life of the church or in society. Freezing can only occur if there is a father's heart and there is the heart of a child who meets. Therefore we need the values of a building that are built based on the Word of Christ to give birth to generations that radiate the glory of God.


A thesis submitted to the Department of Geography and Rural Development,
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi

in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree
of

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2013


The present invention discloses a system and a water guide urban ecological sponge construction method of one system is applied to the ground, the water-guiding system comprises a plurality of water guiding means consisting aqueduct for guiding the upper end of the water gutter opening closure cap the upper gutter and a lower gutter comprises a gutter, the gutter lower end is provided with a plurality of branch pipes, the lower end of each branch pipe communicating with the lower water conduit, connecting the upper end of the opening of the aqueduct water guide cover, upper and lower aqueduct aqueduct water guiding means assembled together. The construction method of water guiding flat on the ground, paving cushion natural gravel after the laying of the guiding good gravel layer disposed on the gravel layer system of water, and then casting concrete, when the concrete is dry the water-conducting systems scored cover forming a plurality of drain grooves, the grooves converge at reflux for rainwater to underground water through the guide unit can be prevented in the hardened ground water loss, and accelerating infiltration of rainwater, preventing surface water.


Mao Zedong thought on opening to the outside world is an important part with Chinese characteristics and its own unique content. It was concluded generally by Mao Zedong based on Marxist stand, viewpoint and method in the long-term practice of Chinese revolution and construction. The present paper discusses on the basic concept of Mao Zedong thought on opening in the war period and the main elements and the objective and subjective reasons of its failure to implement Mao Zedong thought in this aspect after the founding of New China. There are many flash points in Mao Zedong thought on this issue that has great practical significance for the development and implementation of China's basic national policy of opening up and promote the practice of opening-up.


News is information about facts or opinions that are interesting to know. News can be obtained from various media such as newspapers and the internet. As is well known, news has various topics, such as politics, sports and others. There is also the same story written with the addition of a little information. This causes it to take more time to get the headline of the news. Therefore we need a system for news clustering using the K-Means method and news summarizing using the Maximum Marginal Relevance (MMR) method in order to obtain information from news more easily and efficiently. News that is processed in the form of a collection of files (multi document) with the extension txt. The summarization process goes through the text preprocessing stage, which consists of sentence segmentation, case folding, tokenizing, filtering, stemming. The next step is TF-IDF calculation to calculate word weight then Cosine Similarity to calculate the similarity between documents. After that, enter the K-Means stage for clustering division and proceed with determining the summary with MMR. Based on the results testing that has been done, this application is running well, the results of clustering and summarizing news can make it easier for users to get news summaries from some similar news.


or summons of the recluse to court, as attested by poems of this title in this period. The reader, then, should not hope for a clear exposition of the monuments which provide the material for the discussion: nor do the author's suggestions always seem to be well founded: for instance in commenting on the trees, she suggests that ' Few earlier pictorial sources for these trees have been found. Their variety may reflect the introduction of new plants from the south' (p. 188, n. 32). However the reliefs are from the period when artists are beginning to depict individual species for the first time, rather than generalized tree forms as in the Han. Some, like the ginkgo and willow, appear also in versions of the Luoshenlu after Gu Kaizhi, which though much later in date may be assumed to be faithful in content to a fourth or early fifth century original. A similar variety of species are found in the engravings of the Filial Piety sarcophagus in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, from the early sixth century. Again on page 101, the author asserts that the qin held by Xi Kang across his lap ' cannot actually be played in this position, but must be placed on a firm table for performance '. A table is doubtless a requisite today, and the qin can be seen being so played in a painting by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song dynasty, now in the Gugong, Beijing, but in the period in question tables of the kind assumed did not exist: the performer (and his audience) sat on the floor, on mats or a low dais, and many Han and later depictions show the instrument being played precisely as Xi Kang and Rong Qiqi are shown in the reliefs. Brief headings are given to each subdivision of the chapters of the book: some of them, like " The most difficult painting', or ' Conveying the spirit', are clearly drawn from the critical vocabulary of the period, but the relevance of others is not always at all clear (e.g. 'Casting and cutting' for pp. 127-8), and in one where the author attempts a Latin tag, which should read ' Ars longa, vita brevis', this becomes a grating and incorrect ' Vita Breva, Ars Longa' (p. 135). The brevity of life is soon forgotten with 'Immortality' (p. 138). Ars est celare artem, the author observes, but in this book, the scholarly artifice bids fair to eclipse the art.


The utility model relates to a wet-dry evaporation-type oil cooler comprising a cooler body (1). The shell wall of the cooler body (1) is provided with an air inlet grill (1.1), and the top of the cooler body (1) is provided with an air outlet (1.2) provided with a fan (2); a water collecting tank (3) is arranged in the lower portion of the cooler body (1), is located below the air inlet grill (1.1) and is connected to a spraying pipe (4) through a pump (5); the spraying pipe (4) is located below the fan (2) and is provided with a plurality of nozzles (4.1) right facing to a condenser (6) located below the spraying pipe (4), and the condenser (6) is located above the air inlet grill (1.1). The wet-dry evaporation-type oil cooler is simple in structure and small in size and has fine cooling and energy saving effects.


A thesis submitted to the University of Bedfordshire in partial fulfilment of the Doctor of Philosophy.
Institute of Health Research


In this paper we focused on methods for offline identification of bounded autoregressive polynomials models. Firstly we used classical least square (LS) method for identification. Secondly we used total least square (TLS) method and thirdly we used gradient based method Levenberg-Marquardt for identification. Bounded AR polynomial models are basically nonlinear in parameters but the models can be modified to linear dependencies on parameters if bounding function is irreversible. Levenberg-Marquardt method was applied to unmodified bounded AR polynomial models. Input/Output data was generated from the model of isothermal continuous stirred-tank reactor with and without additive noise. Finally all methods are compared on one-step and multi-step predictions.


Interval‐censored failure time data commonly arise in epidemiological and biomedical studies where the occurrence of an event or a disease is determined via periodic examinations. Subject to interval‐censoring, available information on the failure time can be quite limited. Cost‐effective sampling designs are desirable to enhance the study power, especially when the disease rate is low and the covariates are expensive to obtain. In this work, we formulate the case‐cohort design with multiple interval‐censored disease outcomes and also generalize it to nonrare diseases where only a portion of diseased subjects are sampled. We develop a marginal sieve weighted likelihood approach, which assumes that the failure times marginally follow the proportional hazards model. We consider two types of weights to account for the sampling bias, and adopt a sieve method with Bernstein polynomials to handle the unknown baseline functions. We employ a weighted bootstrap procedure to obtain a variance estimate that is robust to the dependence structure between failure times. The proposed method is examined via simulation studies and illustrated with a dataset on incident diabetes and hypertension from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.


Mr. Ritchie has reported on the excavation of two sites in western New York State. One, the Geneva site, is characterized by a deposit of homogeneous black earth, one to two feet in thickness, through which was scattered the debris of occupation. This deposit overlaid an old sod line. The second and smaller deposit, Scottsville, is characterized by a number of fire or cooking pits which had been left on the level top of a glacial kame. There is no doubt that the artifacts found on these two sites belong to the same culture horizon and that they are practically identical with the Archaic Algonkin which was discovered by Mr. Ritchie at Lamoka Lake. With these discoveries we are presented with data which confirm Mr. Ritchie's hypothesis that there existed in New York State a people who used rough, chipped, and certain types of polished stone artifacts together with many types of bone implements. That these people did not use pottery, steatite, gouges or grooved axes appears to be fairly well established. This work which Mr. Ritchie is so ably conducting under Dr. Parker's direction is adding considerably to our knowledge of eastern archaeology. By means of this investigation the author isolates a number of diagnostic traits of the Lamoka focus of the Archaic pattern (formerly called by him the Archaic Algonkin) and traces, to some extent, their distribution. Of particular interest to those of us who are working with eastern archaeology are the three types of chipped points with narrow blades and straight or notched stems associated with other definite types of stone and bone work. As has been implied in this paper, evidence is slowly accumulating to the effect that on the Atlantic littoral a similar stone industry prevailed. With the gathering of further data, which will make possible a definition of this coastal industry, it is obvious that Mr. Ritchie's careful work will be of considerable aid in evaluating it. One of the most important aspects of this definition of the Lamoka focus is the discovery that gorgets, bannerstones, birdstones, grooved axes and gouges are missing in the Archaic pattern in New York. Since the "traditional" ideas of eastern archaeology have included particularly gouges and bannerstones, we are extremely interested to discover an early eastern horizon which does not include these types. As a matter of fact, if one is permitted to prognosticate such things, we will not be surprised if a similar situation is found to prevail along the coast as well as in New York State. Because of the technical problems involved in excavation in the East, it would have been advantageous, though not necessary, if the author had included in the paper a section-drawing or a photograph of the deposits which


Photo luminesence, electrochemical and electroluminescent properties of the chelating electrophosphorescent polymers with red light-emission were investigated in this paper. The device performances of the polymers were improved by optimizing the structure. Mixing PBD in emission layer was found to decrease the luminous efficiency,but the device performances were enhanced by inserting PVK layer because of the energy transfer from PVK to the chelating polymer. The best performance was achieved in device ITO/PEDOT/PVK/ PFBtpIrm5/Ba/Al with the maximal external quantum efficiency of 4.25 at the CIE coordinates of (0.69,0.29).


This action research study compared the ACT scores of students from an online high school and a public high school in Sioux Center, Iowa. ACT scores in Reading, Math and the Composite score were collected for both groups and then the mean was taken for each group. A t-test was performed to evaluate if there is a significant difference in student performance between online delivery and face to face educational delivery. The result shows that online students outperform public school students in the reading portion of the exam; while the public school students out-perform on the math portion showing no statistical difference in the composite. This suggests that online and public students perform similarly overall on the ACT and that further study is warranted on this topic. Document Type Thesis Degree Name Master of Education (MEd) Department Graduate Education


To decide upon the arithmetic nature of some numbers may be a non-trivial problem. Some cases are well know, for example exp(1) and W(1), where W is the Lambert function, are transcendental numbers. The Tsallis q-exponential, e_q (z), and the Lambert-Tsallis W_q (z) function, where q is a real parameter, are, respectively, generalizations of the exponential and Lambert functions. In the present work we use the Gelfond-Schneider theorem in order to show the arithmetic conditions on q and z such that W_q (z) and exp_q (z) are transcendental.


This dissertation examines issues related to the adoption of the euro by the new Central and Eastern European EU Member States. The …rst essay studies the interaction between …scal policy and the price level in di¤erent exchange rate regimes. The theoretical framework is based on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL). The results show that a credibly …xed exchange rate is inconsistent with …scal irresponsibility, which implies that …scal discipline is a prerequisite for successful participation in the exchange rate mechanism ERM II, while countries unable to commit to sound …scal policies, probably should not commit to a …xed exchange rate either. Paradoxically, adoption of the common currency enables a country to conduct irresponsible policies, with the result that a rise in the debt level of one country raises the common price level of the monetary union. In the second essay, a small open economy model is constructed, which allows the examination of the e¤ects of Balassa-Samuelson-type growth i.e. faster productivity growth in the traded goods sector than in the non-traded goods sector in an intertemporal …xed exchange rate framework with a focus on the external balance, which has gained less attention in earlier research. The numerical simulations imply that the Balassa-Samuelson e¤ect may increase the vulnerability of the economy. However, trade account de…cits would appear to be a temporary phenomenon, as the de…cits are decreased by the natural shift in the composition of consumption towards non-traded goods that is characteristic of catch-up. The focus of the third essay is the e¤ects of the EU …scal policy rules on the …scal variables, namely de…cit and debt, and the external balance in the new Member States participating in ERM II. The numerical simulations show that a …scal rule based on debt may be better at providing stability into the economy, while a de…cit rule implies a smoother response to a transitory increase in output. External imbalances appear to be a natural part of the convergence process, which cannot be eliminated through the use of …scal rules alone. Key words: ERM II, Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, Balassa-Samuelson e¤ect, small open economy, external balance, …scal rules


Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently been demonstrated to be highly promising for decoding multiple target variables from neuroimaging data. Its primary advantage is that it makes more efficient use of the data than existing decoding models, leading to improved accuracy. In this work, we propose a novel Bayesian MTL approach, motivated by problems such as clinical applications where accurate quantification of uncertainty is crucial. We present a Markov chain Monte Carlo approach to perform inference in the model and demonstrate the approach using a publicly available neuroimaging dataset. We study the conditions where MTL is likely to improve performance: we first evaluate MTL as an approach for accommodating missing data, which is an important problem that has received little attention from the neuroimaging community. We then examine whether it is beneficial to include classification and regression tasks in the same model. We relate our conclusions to results from geostatistics, where MTL methods were pioneered, and make recommendations for neuroimaging practitioners using MTL.


There were two broad objectives of the 2014 International Transportation Economic Development Conference which produced two related outcomes. First, the conference successfully brought together private sector stakeholders in transportation sectors, international representatives, state and local transportation officials, regional development agencies and transportation researchers to highlight and discuss key policy issues emerging within different transportation modes, promote cross fertilization of thinking and identify major challenges and discuss potential solutions. The conference plenary and panel sessions summarized in this report is testimony to the diverse array of stakeholders who contributed to the content and policy discussions at the conference. From these interactions the participants and rapporteurs identified many new directions of policy analysis and future research. Second, many of the panels developed well formulated new research topics that emerged from the give and take of the panel discussions and debates. The conference covered the following thematic areas: Economic development implications of alternative transportation funding and financing strategies; Economic development potential of passenger transport and freight rail infrastructure; Assessing the economic development effects and community change of transit-oriented development; International, national, and regional economic development impacts of the Panama Canal expansion; Linkages of international trade, economic development, and transportation corridors and facilities; Economic development implications of transportation disinvestment; Climate change mitigation effects on transportation investments and sustainable economic development; New perspectives on economic impact evaluation; Economic development within the context of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21); and Transportation improvements and market competitiveness.


Dennis Doolan, of King's County, and Patrick Redding, from Tipperary, were hung at the scene of their alleged crime before the largest mass of spectators ever gathered together in the West of Scotland. The people present were only part of the mass who lined the road from Glasgow Cross to the place of execution. The procession from Jail Square to the scaffold may have been witnessed by around 120,000 persons.
These numbers had turned out for the first public hanging in Glasgow carried out 'beyond the common place of execution' since 1769. In the case of Doolan and Redding, the decision to carry out the sentence publicly provoked a lively controversy in the Scottish press. It was a major issue in terms of public order, with rumours abroad of 10,000 Irish labourers ready to intervene on behalf of their countrymen.


Depression is a major mental health problem in Thailand. The depression rates have been rapidly increasing. Over 1.17 million Thai people suffer from this mental illness. It is important that a reliable depression screening tool is made available so that depression could be early detected. Given Facebook is the most popular social network platform in Thailand, it could be a large-scale resource to develop a depression detection tool. This research employs techniques to develop a depression detection algorithm for the Thai language on Facebook where people use it as a tool for sharing opinions, feelings, and life events. To establish the reliable result, Thai Mental Health Questionnaire (TMHQ), a standardized psychological inventory that measures major mental health problems including depression. Depression scale of the TMHQ comprises of 20 items, is used as the baseline for concluding the result. Furthermore, this study also aims to do factor analysis and reduce the number of depression items. Data was collected from over 600 Facebook users. Descriptive statistics, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and Internal consistency were conducted. Results provide the optimized version of the TMHQ-depression that contain 9 items. The 9 items are categorized into four factors which are suicidal ideation, sleep problems, anhedonic, and guilty feelings. Internal consistency analysis shows that this short version of the TMHQ-depression has good to excellent reliability (Cronbach's alpha > .80). The findings suggest that this optimized TMHQ-depression questionnaire holds a good psychometric property and can be used for depression detection. key words: depression detection, psychological inventory, social behavior analysis, TMHQ


In modern integrated electron devices, the layer thickness approaches the typical De Broglie length of the electron in the crystal and the quantum-mechanical nature of the particles emerges. The description of the particle motion by a full quantum approach where particle-particle interaction of phonon scattering processes are included leads to very complex models, whose application to real device is usually prohibitive. In [1], by using a non-linear minimization procedure, some quantum corrections to the particle transport in a semiconductor are derived. In this approach the classical language is preserved and the particle motion is described in term of a well-defined non-linear quantum trajectory. The corrections to the Newton motion are obtained within the Liouville formalism and are expressed by an effective nonlinear force. This effective force describes the non-local character of the quantum particles. This offers the considerable advantage that some quantum corrections can be easily included in terms of a non-linear force and integrated, for example, in a classical code. In this work, we derive new solvable quantum-corrected hydrodynamic and drift-diffusion models for the out-of-equilibrium particle dynamics in the presence of particle collisions, modeled by a BGK collision term.


In 1982 Yamnitsky and Levin gave a variant of the ellipsoid method which uses simplices instead of ellipsoids. Unlike the ellipsoid method this simplices method can be implemented in rational arithmetic. We show, however, that this results in a non-polynomial method since the storage requirement may grow exponentially with the size of the input. Nevertheless , by introducing a rounding procedure we can guarantee polynomiality for both a central-cut and a shallow-cut version. Thus in most applications the simplices method can serve as a substitute for the ellipsoid method. In particular, it performs better than the ellipsoid method if it is used to obtain bounds for the volume of a convex body. Furthermore it can be used to estimate the optimal function value of total approximation problems.


Fiber reinforced composites are bondable, biocompatible, aesthetic, translucent and easy-to-use in clinical practice. They have various applications in clinical dentistry due to their wide spectrum of intended properties. Composite is an better esthetic material which has an inherent problem of bulk fracture where cohesive failure occurs within the restorative material. When fibers are incorporated with composites they enhance the cohesive strength and thereby prevents bulk fracture.Some of the fibers which are commonly used in reconstruction procedures in operative dentistry and endodontics are polyethylene fibers, quartz glass fibers, carbon fibers and aramid fibers. This case report enumerates usage of Fiber reinforced composites as an endodontic post and cores material. It can be used as an alternative to conventional treatment in dentistry.


Time correlated optical emission spectra of argon, krypton and xenon in the wavelength range from 110 to 450 nm, and 0 to 6000 ns time interval, recorded at the Munich Tandem accelerator using heavy ion beam excitation with 2 ns beam pulses, were measured in order to clarify the origin of the so called third rare gas excimer continua. Experiments were performed at xenon and krypton pressures between 50 and 250 mbar, and argon pressures between 230 and 1500 mbar. All spectra clearly show different distinct peaks, emerging at different time delays after excitation. These spectral maxima are interpreted as arising from excimer emissions by separate radiating species, formed by gas kinetic processes. While the spectral shape of the components, forming the third continuum radiation in the heavy rare gases krypton and xenon turned out to be of complicate structure, in the case of argon all wavelength spectra could be reproduced by fitting a limited number of Gaussian functions with fixed center wavelengths and fixed widths to the data. Hereby, six distinct maxima, appearing at four different times after the excitation pulse, could be identified.


A new section, 10 CFR 74.33, has been added to the material control and accounting (MC A) requirements of 10 CFR Part 74. This new section pertains to US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)-licensed uranium enrichment facilities that are authorized to produce and to possess more than one effective kilogram of special nuclear material (SNM) of low strategic significance. The new section is patterned after 10 CFR 74.31, which pertains to NRC licensees (other than production or utilization facilities licensed pursuant to 10 CFR Part 50 and 70 and waste disposal facilities) that are authorized to possess and use more than one effective kilogram of unencapsulated SNM of low strategic significance. Because enrichment facilities have the potential capability of producing SNM of moderate strategic significance and also strategic SNM, certain performance objectives and MC A system capabilities are required in 10 CFR 74.33 that are not contained in 10 CFR 74.31. This document recommends to the NRC information that the licensee or applicant should provide in the fundamental nuclear material control (FNMC) plan. This document also describes methods that should be acceptable for compliance with the general performance objectives. While this document is intended to cover various uranium enrichment technologies, the more » primary focus at this time is gas centrifuge and gaseous diffusion. « less


:Objective To evaluatethe effectiveness of absolute alcohol in hemostasis in surgical resection of giantmeningiomas with rich blood supply. Methods Twelve patients with giant meningiomas withrich blood supply were injected with absolute alcohol (8.5-27 mL, mean 11.2 mL) in theoperations, and the tumors were resected under microscope. Results The tissues in theinjection areas turned white and the tumors became hardened after the injection. Thebleeding of the tumor surface and section was obviously decreased or even stopped. Thequantities of bleeding were 48-154 mL in the operations, with an average of 67 mL. Totaltumor resection was achieved in 11 patients (91.6%) and partial resection in 1 patient. Nocomplications associated with the surgery were found in these cases. Conclusion Injectionof absolute alcohol for hemostasis in surgical removal of giant meningiomas with richblood supply is convenient and effective and can be widely applied in clinical practice.

Key words:
Alcohol; Meningioma; Microsurgery


Metal matrix composite Aluminum alloy (Al 6061) and Magnesium (Mg) matrix are reinforced with Nano zirconia (ZrO2) nanoparticles prepared by the stir casting technique. Aluminum alloy is chosen as the matrix materials and zirconia particles is co-operated with various proportions of 0 wt%, 0. wt%, 1 wt%, 1.5 wt% and 2 wt% and all other parameters are kept stable. Stirring was performed to record uniform distribution of particulates of reinforcement and round castings were made by pouring the composite mixture into sand mould. The composite was then studied with respect to its micro structure and mechanical properties. The composite was then studied with regard to its microstructure and mechanical properties. Tensile specimens were machined to determine the mechanical properties of the composite according to ASTM standards. The comparative study for all said composites is done with regard to tensile strength, hardness. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) is used to observe the distribution of particulates to understand the nature of fractured surface.


Patients with tracheostomy are faced with a kind of surgery that will require significant physiological and psychological changes associated with alterations in the basic needs, their reintegration into the work, family and social life which influence in their quality of life. The aim was to understand the perceptions of the quality of life of the adult patient with tracheostomy discharged from a fourth-level institution of health care in Bogota. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from February to May 2013 in patients with tracheostomy discharged from a fourth-level institution of health care. The QLI instrument was applied (Quality of Life Index) which measures the overall quality of life and in four dimensions: physical, mental, social and family.


Metal-rich boron clusters are members of a rapidly growing family of metallaborane "hybrid" systems which bridges the gap between metal clusters and polyhedral boranes. Clusters such as [Cp4Ni4B4H4] [2] and [Cp4Co4B4H4] [3] (Cp = h-C5H5) can be linked with the well-studied class of tetranuclear metal complexes known as cubanes. Recently, a metal-rich metallaborane with the same geometry, namely, [(Cp*Ru)3(m3CO)Co(CO)2B3H3] (Cp* = h -C5Me5), was reported by Fehlner et al. Cubane is quite a popular shape, especially for combinations of heterometal and main group elements. These compounds are of interest not only because of their contribution to the development of organometallic chemistry, but also for their potential use as models for various industrial and biological catalytic processes. As a part of our ongoing studies on metallaboranes and their derivatives, we recently reported the synthesis of [(Cp*Mo)2B4H4E2] [11] (1: E = S; 2 : E = Se) and arachno[(Cp*RuCO)2B2H6] [12] (3) in good yields. Until now we have focused on the chemistry of metallaboranes with boranes, main group elements, and small organic molecules. We have now extended our studies to transition metal carbonyl compounds such as [Fe2(CO)9], [Mn2(CO)10], and [Co2(CO)8], since earlier work suggested their potential as versatile reagents in cluster-building reactions. Reaction with [Co2(CO)8] led to decomposition, whereas mild pyrolysis of [Fe2(CO)9] with 1–3 in hexane led to hybrid clusters [(Cp*M)2(m3-E)2B2H(m-H){Fe(CO)2}2Fe(CO)3] (4 : M = Mo, E = S; 5 : M = Mo, E = Se; 6 : M = Ru, E = CO). The identities of 5 and 6 were established by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study, which together with spectroscopic studies demonstrated the existence of novel capped-cubane cluster cores. Although X-ray quality crystals of 4 have not been obtained yet, its identity is inferred by comparison to selenium analogue 5. The overall structure of 5 is intriguing and its geometry can be viewed in a few different ways. The more obvious approach is to recognize the cubane shape made of two Mo, two Fe, two Se, and two B atoms, capped by a third Fe atom attached to one of the B-Fe-Fe faces of the cube (Figure 1). An alternative description of 5 is as a Mo2Fe2 tetrahedron face-capped by two selenium and two boron atoms. Capping one of the resulting Fe2B faces with another Fe(CO)3 group generates capped cubane 5.


The traditional approach to analyzing markets employed by industrial organization economists is the "structure-conductperformance" framework.' Empirical studies within this framework generally use seller concentration ratios as an independent variable to measure one dimension of industry structure. The theoretical justification for using seller concentration is that the ratios measure the degree to which a few firms account for most of the sales in an industry, and the more concentrated the industry is, the more likely the firms can collude.' By colluding, the firms can restrict output, raise price, and increase joint profits. Thus, a positive relationship between concentration and profits is expected, and is usually found.


The telecom industry is characterized by intense competition among industry players on every scale such that customer churn prediction and management is, by far, one of the highly ranked challenges faced by these organizations. There are, however, a variety of machine learning techniques utilized to predict a customer who will likely churn from a telecom firm to another. This paper sorts to solve a classification and prediction problem in which customers who are likely to churn and those who will not were supposed to be predicted from the Teldata data set. To achieve this, SVM (liner, RBF, polynomial, and sigmoid kernels), MLP (with Adam, SGD, and LBFGS algorithms) and Neural Networks (with Adam optimization technique) machine learning algorithms were employed and results compared to choose which technique best fits the problem. Results showed that Neural Network with Adam optimization technique outperformed the other techniques listed.


Plasma lipid and lipoprotein assays have become an integral part of national strategies to detect and treat cardiovascular disease.' High plasma concentrations of total and low density lipoproteins (LDL) increase risk, whereas those of high density lipoproteins (HDL) protect. The atherogenic potential of triglycerides is controversial, but this lipid is often used to estimate LDL cholesterol concentrations. The accuracy and precision of these assays are critical as clinical decisions are often made using nationally-defined cut-offs which do not allow for methodological error. In the case of total cholesterol these cut-offs have been lowered so that they now lie well within the normal distribution in the general population and thus their usefulness will be compromised by analytical inaccuracy. For example, a positive bias of 5OJo in a total cholesterol assay would cause misclassification of approximately 40% of patients with high or borderline-high values.? Acknowledgement of widespread inaccuracy in the measurement of total cholesterol led to the UK National Initiative on Cholesterol Accuracy, Methods and Standardization (NICAMS),3 which makes available human sera of known total cholesterol content. The accuracy of triglyceride and HDL cholesterol assays has not been systematically investigated in the UK. We have attempted to estimate the extent of analytical biases for these analytes using data derived from a large UK multicentre study of a lipid-lowering drug."


In this rejoinder, we advance the dialogue stimulated by our major contribution (Smith et al., 2012) in which we present the findings from a survey of early career professionals (ECPs) in Division 17, the Society of Counseling Psychology. We respond to the reactants' concerns and observations using the lenses of privilege and belonging to guide our response. Building from the premise that the Society needs to continue to create and sustain efforts to attract and retain burgeoning counseling psychologists—including faculty members, practitioners, and those whose careers have combined or unique foci—we offer additional suggestions toward meeting the goal of expanding the richness of membership to include a wide array of those who identify with the premises of the Society and the specialty of counseling psychology. The importance of mentoring for advanced students and ECPs with an array of career trajectories is particularly emphasized.


This paper concerns the thermo-hydraulic performance analysis of a PCSWH (parabolic concentrating solar water heater) with placing the PTT (perforated twisted tape) in the absorber tube. The experiments are performed using water as testing fluid. In this analysis, the mass flow rate changes from 0.0326 kg/s to 0.0667 kg/s and Reynolds number ranges from 2100 to 4250 respectively. The analysis is based on the effect of porosity of the PTT and mass flow rate over the pressure drop and heat transfer enhancement during the flow into the absorber tube of the PCSWH. At last to guess the increment in pressure drop and enhancement of heat transfer the empirical correlations for friction factor and the Nusselt number have been formulated considering the turbulent effect caused by PTT inside the absorber tube. The major observations of this analysis are that PTT enhances the pressure drop and heat transfer and also both enhances with increasing porosity of the PTT.


G. R. Driver—as a B.Litt. thesis, but the candidate died before the conferment of the degree. Gleave's work was seen through the Press by his supervisor, Dr. C. Rabin. The introduction describes previous editions and sets out the criteria which guided the author in the preparation of his version. Text, translation, and critical apparatus are well arranged (the Ethiopic characters are excellent), and there are only a few minor points to criticize. References in the Introduction might have been ampler; thus the reader himself has to trace Littmann's view concerning Arabic influences on Ge'ez Bible versions (quoted on p. xxv) to that author's Geschichte der sethiopischen Litteratur, p. 225. There was also no need to refer to Guidi's opinions on the Arabic versions at second hand, as he has allotted a good deal of space to that subject in his (Breve) Storia della Letteratura Etiopica, pp. 13 and 25. Closer attention to the writings of Guidi and Conti Rossini would have benefited this edition. The first translation of the Bible into Ethiopic was no doubt made from Greek (with Syriac influences) between the fourth and seventh centuries. A period of revision, for which Arabic versions were used, began in the thirteenth century and extended into the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but it would be quite wrong to overrate the degree of Arabic influence. In the present text the rendering of Talpioth as Talfeyos (the LXX has p) might, I think, conceivably point to the use ofan Arabic version. The author was right in thinking that the interest and importance of Ethiopic biblical versions lie in the " residuum of discrepancies " (p. xviii) which these texts reveal. All who use this competent work will agree with Professor Driver on the loss Semitic Studies have suffered by the untimely death of H. C. Gleave.


Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). It does offer great level of flexibility but this advantage comes with a drawback. With increase in sharing of data over web there is an increase in possibility of data being subjected to malicious attacks. Attacker/Provider can extract sensitive information by analyzing the client data over a long period of time. Hence the privacy and security of the user's data is compromised. In this paper we


Due to the increasing popularity of cloud-based architectures, it is of paramount importance to understand how to benefit from shared information for solving collaborative estimation problems and exploit the additional computational resources available. Meanwhile, it is crucial to devise solutions that allow connected devices to retain private data and to carry out the desired tasks on their own, when disconnected from the cloud.In this paper, we present a cloud-aided iterative solution for multi-class parameter estimation for a set of mass-produced devices. The method exploits the similarity between systems operating under comparable conditions and their connection to the cloud, while allowing devices to retain and process raw data privately. The effectiveness of the strategy is assessed on a numerical example, showing its potential.


Objective To investigate the modulation transfer function(MTF)and near visual quality of Array(refractive muhifocal),1CU(accommodating)and ReSTOR(diffractive multifocal)intraocular lenses (IOL).Methods From April 2005 to April 2006,42 patients(58 eyes)who underwent IOL implantation, including Array 16 patients(22 eyes),1CU 13 patients(19 eyes)and ReSTOR 13 patients(17 eyes)were included in the present study.The pupil diameter(PD),wavefront aberration and accommodative amplitude were examined with the iTrace Visual Function Analyzer(Tracy Technologies,Texas,USA)and the modulation transfer function(MTF)was simulated by using iTrace3.1 software.The contrast sensitivity(CS)with or without glare was measured with the Contrast Glaretester(GCT-1000,Takagi Seiko,Nagano,Japan).Other parameters determined included uncorrected visual acuity(UCVA),the best corrected visual acuity(BCVA) and distance corrected near VA(DCNVA).Results When the PD values were 2.0 and 2.5mm,the MTF of the three IOLs were at the same level at different spatial frequencies,except that when the spatial frequencies were at 10,15,and 30 cpd,the MIF in 1CU group was better than that of the Array group(all P0.1).When the PD value was 3.0 mm,the MTF of 1CU and ReSTOR group was better than that of the Array group(all P0.1),except when at the spatial frequency of 10 cpd.When the PD values were 3.5 and 4.0 mm pupil,the MTF of ReSTOR group was better than Array at all spatial frequencies(all P0.1).No significant difference was found between 1CU and the other two IOLs.Patients in the ReSTOR group had the best near visual acuity (P0.05)and 76.47% of them achieved a DCNVA better than J3,the number was 22.73% in the Array group and 15.79% in the 1CU group.The accommodative amplitude was(0.993±1.423)D in the 1CU group and were not detected in the other 2 groups.Conclusion The three IOLs have their own advantages and disadvantages.Patients implanted with ReSTOR IOL have the best visual performances,but there are still many problems to be solved.


Although frequently used in neuropsychological assessment, validity studies of Benton's Judgement of Line Orientation (JLO) test have been few. This study addressed validity of the JLO in terms of construct and criterion-related validity with 73 children. The sample included normal controls and clinically diagnosed children with psychiatric disorders and/or learning disabilities. The ability of the JLO to discriminate among these groups of children is explored. The correlations between the JLO and more frequently used measures, specifically the WISC-R Performance subtests, confirm that the JLO assesses some component of visual spatial ability assessed by these other measures. The JLO also was found to correlate significantly with math ability as measured by the BASIS and the WRAT-R and, to a lesser degree, with reading ability as measured by the WRMT-R. The results indicate that although there is evidence of construct and criterion-related validity, the JLO did not discriminate among normal controls, clinic-referred children with psychiatric disorders, and clinic-referred children with learning disabilities.


We have investigated proximity effects of Fe layers on the spin density waves (SDW) and the concomitant charge density waves or strain waves in thin epitaxial Cr[001] films using synchrotron and neutron scattering. Unlike in bulk Cr we observe a strong anisotropic occupation of the three possible SDWs with their wave vectors Q pointing along the {001} directions. In a pure 3000 A thick Cr[001] film, the SDW exhibits an almost complete out-of-plane orientation, whereas in a Cr film of the same thickness capped by a 20 A Fe layer the SDW becomes completely reoriented with Q now propagating in the plane. This SDW is preserved over the entire temperature range from 10 K up to the Neel temperature of about 311 K.


Disability leads to immobilisation associated with profound changes in body composition. The potential risks involved with these changes i.e. loss of lean tissue mass (LM) and bone mineral density (BMD) vs. gain in fat mass (FM) in body composition have implications for the health of the disabled individuals. Body fat has been identified as a significant predictor of mortality in humans making body composition measurement to quantify nutritional and health status an important issue for human health. Moreover, some disorders such as carbohydrate intolerance, insulin resistance, lipid abnormalities, and heart disease occur prematurely and at a higher prevalence in paraplegic populations may be related to adverse changes in body composition that result from immobilization and skeletal muscle denervation. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present imaging techniques for bone-mineral density, bone-mineral content, and bone-mineral-free lean and fat tissue mass alterations of ambulatory and non-ambulatory subjects with disabilities of the central nervous system.


Even though the importance of CuInSe; film in the field of photovoltaics is well accepted, a convenient method of preparation which can be used for large scale production has not yet been evolved. In this chapter we are presenting simple selenisation process, using chemical bath deposited amorphous selenium thin films for the preparation of CuInSe2 films. Here, we tried to avoid the usage of selenium vapour or H;Se gas, which are extremely toxic. Instead, the selenium layer is deposited using simple chemical process in which no gases are used. We developed different methods to deposit CIS films using hybrid processes. In all these processes, selenisation is done using selenium film deposited from chemical bath. Two methods are described here in detail. One method is Stacked Elemental Layer (SEL) technique of annealing the multilyer having structure Se/In/Cu. Second method is thermal diffusion of Cu into In;;Se3 film.


Playing a musical instrument demands extensive procedural, motor, and cognitive abilities, and early musical learning results in plastic reorganization of the developing brain. Even the adult brain has a considerable plasticity, and neuronal cortical connections can be remodeled by experience during one's lifetime. Current neuroimaging methods have demonstrated complex and widespread activation in many brain areas while one performs, listens, or mentally images music. The patterns of activation can vary with training, previous exposure, personal preference, emotional involvement, and many other factors. Expertise reduces age differences in performance, and the degree of skill maintenance


The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education has made feasible distance learning in the form of e-learning. To succeed in e-learning we cannot just try to replicate traditional educational methods. ICT force us to review some long-held assumptions in relation to pedagogical principles and practices. In this sense, a key issue is the evolution of the teacher roles in such new ICT environment. This is the main focus of this paper. The results are based on the author experience in both conventional and e-learning environments


The article is devoted to the study of the general and different aspects of the presentation of Chinese culture discursive elements in the literature of the Russian diaspora in China. The perception of a large number of "Chinese elements" by the emigration literature determines not only the specificity of this layer of the literary creativity, but also the production of the whole series of traditions that are receptive by their nature. Tradition markers, various signs of the Chinese culture, as well as the problems of the traditional Chinese philosophy and a special process of plot making - these are the aspects that the literature of the Russian diaspora perceives creatively. Traditional Chinese symbols (lotus, fan, etc.) play a special role in the creation of special traditions of the Russian emigration literature, which convey inspiration and depth to the works, and to the literature of the Russian diaspora as a whole, that is an appeal to the world cultural values, that are all-embracing in nature.
The purpose of the article is a multifaceted analysis of the discursive elements of Chinese culture in the literature of the Russian diaspora of China from the standpoint of the traditional foundations perception of the Chinese culture and the development of their own traditions within the literature of the Russian emigration, which makes it possible to reveal the artistic features of the works created by the Russian writers and poets outside the influence of the native culture. The relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient study of the role of the traditional Chinese culture in the formation of new imagery in the works of representatives of the Russian emigration literature in China. It is necessary to analyze the discursive elements of Chinese culture in the artistic world of the Russian emigration literature, using the capabilities of an interdisciplinary complex of research methods to identify the nationally-specific and individual-author's perception of Chinese traditional culture and develop on this basis its own traditions of Russian emigre literature.


Microbial ethanol is gaining worldwide acceptance to overcome problems associated with the depletion of fossil fuels and environmental pollution. The non-renewable energy sources have been depleting and it takes a few hundred million years for natural processes to recreate them. Therefore, the primary benefit of switching fuel source to microbial ethanol is that the biomass is renewable, and can potentially provide a sustainable supply over a long term. In addition, many estimate that the production and use of bioethanol could cause a reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions (Mabee & Saddler 2010).


An experimental investigation of the machining characteristics of compact vermicular cast iron whose matrix were formulated under two kinds of annealing conditions has been conducted. The various characteristics of the machinability of CA cast iron depending upon its matrix and cutting condition have been obtained from the experiment. The results are as follow. As depth of cut increases, the shear stress slightly decreases in order which are classified by ferrite matrix of CV cast iron. As depth of cut increases, the normal stress increases, and annealing effect in heavy cutting is smaller than that in light cutting. The cutting energy slightly decreases, as depth of cut increases and the effect of annealing on cutting energy in light cutting is higher than that in heavy cutting. The cutting equation in this study are as follow. Machining constants in this study for give Tool wear increases as depth of cut increases, and decreases as ferrit matrix increases.


A two-pass, full-tiled grating compressor with a unique feedback control system for precise alignment was realized in an XG-III petawatt-class laser facility, based on the chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) technique. Far-field images of both 0th order and −1st order diffraction light of a tiled grating assembly (TGA) were recorded using a CCD camera, by which the tiling errors of the TGA can be identified and corrected in real-time without disturbing the main beam. A final compressed pulse of 615 fs (FWHM) with a focal spot about 1.1 times the diffraction limited (DL) size was achieved.


BACKGROUND
The aim of the present meta-analysis was to compare the body fat percentage (%) between male soccer players of different competitive levels, playing positions and age groups.

EVIDENCE ACQUISITION
The systematic search was conducted using different databases and according to the Population/Intervention or Exposure/Comparison/Outcome(s) [PICO] criteria.

EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS
Higher percentage values of body fat in lower-level soccer players than higher-level counterparts (ES=0.18, 95% CI -0.86 to -0.14, P=0.006) were noted. Higher body fat % values in goalkeepers than defenders (ES=0.21, 95% CI -1.17 to -0.34, P<0.001), midfielders (ES=0.26, 95% CI -1.50 to -0.45, P<0.001) and forwards (ES=0.18, 95% CI -1.26 to -0.53, P<0.001) were observed. There was no significant association between % of body fat and age (P=0.86).

CONCLUSIONS
In conclusion, body fat percentage clearly distinguished higher- from lower-level soccer players. These findings also imply that body fat percentage differ as a function of positional role in soccer and that sports scientists, coaches, and strength and conditioning professionals need to be aware of the specific positional requirements in soccer in terms of body fat. However, due to some limitations of the present meta-analysis (high statistically significant heterogeneity and evidence of publication bias), further studies are urgently needed in the field.


Numerical finite-difference predictions are made of inert turbulent boundary-layer swirling flows. A variety of turbulence models are considered and a nonisotropic model is found to show more realistically the effects of swirl on jet development. Gross effects may be represented by an extended Prandtl mixing length model but constants appearing do not exhibit universality. This deficit is partially overcome by the use of an algebraically-modeled, nonisotropic energy-length turbulence model. The Richardson number and the local swirl number play important parts in linking the rtf-shear with the rx-viscosity and the nonisotropy of the turbulent viscosity.


Risk factor surveillance among infected blood donors provides information on the effectiveness of eligibility assessment and is critical for reducing risk of transfusion‐transmitted infection.


In what could be termed a situation typical of a developing Third World country with democratic freedoms but serious socioeconomic problems, the Indian mass media are caught between their watchdog role and the governmental insistence that the media support national plans and policies to facilitate development. The country's print media, which are privately owned, are operating from the adversary function. The broadcast media, on the other hand, owned and operated by the government, are transmitting programs and public affairs programming supportive of government policies and developmental objectives. Indeed, there are clear indications that the government has decided to maintain its control over the broadcast media to obtain national inte-


Concentration profiles of carbon tetrachloride in low-density polyethylene pellets were analyzed mathematically to estimate the concentration dependence of the diffusivity. Profiles were measured by electron microprobe analysis and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDAX) and found to be sharper than expected. However, the diffusion front position was proportional to rather than t as might have been expected if case II diffusion applied. The mathematical model assumed a constant diffusivity behind the diffusion front and zero diffusivity in advance of the front. The resulting moving boundary problem was solved by integral methods, yielding concentration profiles consistent with the essential features of the experimental profiles. The difference in shape between experimental and calculated profiles was attributed to the concentration dependence of the diffusivity, which was estimated by a curve-fitting procedure. The resulting integral average diffusivity was 1.28 × 10−6cm2/s, four times that estimated assuming standard fickian absorption from the mass uptake curves. This difference was attributed to the inapplicability of the standard relationships to this system in which a discontinuous diffusivity concentration relationship was presumed to apply.


Introduction: Evaluation for a cardiac murmur is one of the most common reasons for cardiology referral in pediatric patients. Between 30-75% of those murmurs are found to be innocent, with Still';s murmurs being the most frequently diagnosed. These murmurs can often come and go throughout childhood, either with normal growth, or during times of physiologic stress. While it is known that innocent murmurs are commonly found in patients between the ages of 0 and 18 years, the exact prevalence of each of these murmurs is unknown. Purpose: This is an …


In recent years, global environmental problems are becoming more and more prominent and serious, and non-renewable energy sources are continuously consumed with the development of society, so energy storage of renewable energy sources becomes especially important. Considering the problems of unstable, discontinuous and unfavorable use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy, appropriate energy storage equipment is urgently needed to enable efficient use of the resources. Vanadium battery is a relatively mature liquid current battery with long life, high energy storage, easy maintenance, flexible design, green and other outstanding advantages, commonly used in renewable energy storage and smart grid peak shaving, with high economic value and development prospects. China is not only the world's largest vanadium ore resource country, but also the largest producer and consumer of vanadium, occupying an important position in the international vanadium market, and the rich vanadium ore resources have played a positive role in promoting the development and application of vanadium liquid flow batteries in China. This paper highlights the development status of vanadium liquid flow batteries, the distribution of vanadium ore resources, and makes relevant suggestions for the development of vanadium liquid flow battery industry.


The results of a prototype novel planar antenna providing dual-band performance for road-vehicle applications are reported. Multilayer stacked patches provide simultaneous RHCP polarization for GPS and vertically polarized low elevation coverage for 5.9 GHz DSRC operations. The results show good correlation between measurement and theory.


An analogue of the geometrical optics for description of the modal structure of a wave field in a range-dependent waveguide is considered. In the scope of this approach the mode amplitude is expressed through solutions of the ray equations. This analytical description accounts for mode coupling and remains valid in a nonadiabatic environment. It has been used to investigate the applicability condition of the adiabatic approximation. An applicability criterion is formulated as a restriction on variations of the action variable of the ray.


In this pedagogical review, we summarize the mathematical basis and practical hints for the explicit analytical computation of spectral sums that involve the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator in simple domains such as [Formula: see text]-dimensional balls (with [Formula: see text]), an annulus, a spherical shell, right circular cylinders, rectangles and rectangular cuboids. Such sums appear as spectral expansions of heat kernels, survival probabilities, first-passage time densities, and reaction rates in many diffusion-oriented applications. As the eigenvalues are determined by zeros of an appropriate linear combination of a Bessel function and its derivative, there are powerful analytical tools for computing such spectral sums. We discuss three main strategies: representations of meromorphic functions as sums of partial fractions, Fourier–Bessel and Dini series, and direct evaluation of the Laplace-transformed heat kernels. The major emphasis is put on a pedagogic introduction, the practical aspects of these strategies, their advantages and limitations. The review gathers many summation formulas for spectral sums that are dispersed in the literature.


The Hamiltonian formulation of N-bein, Einstein-Cartan, gravity, using its first order form in any dimension higher than two, is analyzed. This Hamiltonian formulation allows to explicitly show where peculiarities of three dimensional case (A.M.Frolov et al, 0902.0856 (gr-qc)) occur and make a conjecture, based on presented in this report results, that there is one general for all dimen- sions characteristic of N-bein formulation of gravity: after elimination of second class constraints the algebra of Poisson brackets among remaining first class secondary constraints is the Poincare algebra and in all dimensions N-bein, Cartan-Einstein, gravity is the Poincare gauge theory. The gauge symmetry corresponding to the algebra of first class constraints has two parameters- rota- tional (Lorentz) and translational. Translational invariance is common to all dimensions but some terms in general expressions for gauge transformations of N-beins and connections are zero in a particular, three dimensional, case. The proof of our conjecture is outlined in detail. Some straightforward but tedious calculations remain to be completed to call our conjecture - a theorem and will be reported later.


Broken home is a condition where a family experienced a split caused by conflicts or disputes, disagreements between married couples. From the inability of married couples in maintaining the family, most couples eventually decided to have a divorce. This condition results the children to be the victims of parental divorce. It results in depression state of the child even to the frustration that is difficult to control and regulated. This study aims to find out, and describe 1) The child interaction pattern of the divorce victims with family members in Ronggomulyo Village Tuban Regency. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative research method. The data were obtained from observation, interview, and documentation. The research subjects have been selected based on certain criteria using purposive sampling technique. This study uses Symbolic Interactionism theory by George Herbert Mead. The results of this study are 1) The subject understanding of divorce is painful 2) The subject understanding of parent after divorce is parent experience a change in attitude 3) The subject's actions after the divorce is changes in behavior 4) The subject's interaction with the family members after the divorce in this research is dissociative and associative.


Study background: This study explored adolescent African American (AA) males' characterizations of healthy teen dating relationships. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted with 18 AA males recruited from schools and community youth groups around Washington DC. Recruitment methods included convenience and snowball sampling. Semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted. Analysis consisted of open coding, sorting, aggregation and synthesis of responses to two questions: "What do you value in a dating relationship?" and "What makes a relationship healthy?" Through an iterative process, emergent themes and sub-themes were generated. Results: Narratives provided multi-layered, descriptive characterizations of healthy dating dynamics. Four themes- Trustworthy Relationship, Communication, General Connection/Compatibility and Respectful Relationship and seven sub-themes emerged. Conclusion: Adolescent AA males exhibit the capacity to play a central role in the promotion of positive dating relationship dynamics. The lens of first personal narratives challenges one-dimensional stereotypes of young AA males and functionally advances the reclamation of their personal integrity and worth.


Disney has created a brand with deep cultural connotations. It insists that the world is promoting people's growth, just to let them keep their childlike innocence, experience and feel the process of happiness. Thus, they have occupied the hearts and minds of people around the world for a long time throughout the development of Disney. The goal of this paper is to provide readers with a thorough understanding of Disney's development history through an in-depth analysis of the company. It also aims to teach readers about Disney's corporate culture and explore various aspects of the company's animation production, artistic style, cultural connotations, team-building strategies, and marketing ideas to find a suitable path for the advancement of Chinese animation. Additionally, by examining Disney's corporate culture and development strategy, this paper aims to enlighten China's entertainment business and serve as a resource for the theme parks and park design and planning industries in China in the future. This report will start with the organizational culture and brand culture, to explore the reasons for the depth of Disney's popularity and the impact of its organizational culture on its strategy.


A direct comparison between the Hall effects and giant magnetoresistance of ferromagnetic multilayers of similar composition (Ni80Fe20/Au/Co/Au)N with alternating in-plane and out-of-plane magnetization direction of Co layers is presented. The characteristic features at magnetic field-dependence of giant magnetoresistance were correlated with the creation and annihilation of the stripe domains in Co layer, with perpendicular anisotropy. The nucleation field values were investigated as an Au layer thickness function. Furthermore, the in situ conductance measurement results characterised the island growth mode of the ferromagnetic layers. The percolation thicknesses were also indicated.