A robust (deterministic) filtering approach to the problem of optimal sensor selection is considered herein. For a given system with several sensors, at each time step the output of one of the sensors must be chosen in order to obtain the best state estimate. We reformulate this problem in an optimal control framework which can then be solved using dynamic programming. In order to tackle the numerical computation of the solution in an efficient manner, we exploit the preservation of the min-plus structure of the optimal cost function when acted upon by the dynamic programming operator. This technique yields a grid free numerical approach to the problem. Simulations on an example problem serve to highlight the efficacy of this generalizable approach to robust multi-sensor state estimation.


Psychotherapy for the Other: Levinas and the Face-to-Face Relationship Kevin C. Krycka, George Kunz, & George G. Sayre (Eds.). (2015). Psychotherapy for the Other: Levinas and the Face-to-Face Relationship. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. Soft Cover (269 pages). ISBN 978-0-8207-0479-1 Cost: USA £30.00Let me begin this review by introducing myself, the reader. I am a psychotherapist in private practice, based in Cape Town, South Africa. My therapeutic practice includes individual work with adolescents and adults, as well as couples and family work. As a psychotherapist, I have walked a winding road in terms of my theoretical loyalties. When I began my work as a young psychotherapist, I was strongly grounded in relational psychoanalytic theory, having come through a clinical training programme which inspired me to listen to, and speak with, the relational psychotherapist's voice. I had come through three post-graduate degrees, the first two of which were essentially phenomenological hermeneutic in orientation, while the third was grounded in the intersubjective and self-psychological thinkers.My early writings explored the anti-psychiatry literature, using Sartrean and Heideggerian theory as platforms from which to grow my thoughts concerning the impact of labelling on the minds and hearts of people living with mental illness. Moving forward along the path of my career, I embedded myself as deeply as I could in the contemporary relational psychoanalytic literature, and found my home in the writings of Philip Bromberg, Donnel Stern, Donna Orange, and the authors closely associated with them. My academic work at this time was focused on exploring the intergenerational transmission of trauma within the families of survivors of interpersonal trauma. This portion of my career, which constituted my doctoral studies and my movement into full-time psychotherapeutic work, became gradually blended with an increasing commitment to Freudian and contemporary Freudian theory. I commenced a four-times weekly Freudian analysis in 2013, along with commencing a psychoanalytic training which is strongly grounded in Freudian and Kleinian theory.As a psychotherapist, and as a human being with a mind of my own, I have explored quite a diverse range of theoretical positions. I am not certain where I will settle, but for now I know of myself that I am not as well-aligned with the thoughts and reflections offered in this book as I once would have been. I am introducing myself to this level of detail because I believe that it may assist me, and perhaps enhance the reader's experience of this review, if I am able to acknowledge the ways in which I felt affected through the reading of this work, at the level of my mind and heart. After all, it is the mind, heart and body of the clinician that is most relevant to the subject of this book. It is also relevant, I believe, to acknowledge the experience of the clinician as patient. If we are to fully know the meaning of ethical engagement as psychotherapists, it helps if we have an experience of patienthood that confirms the deep and enduring value of being related to in a manner which binds empathy and love with ethical astuteness.There is a depth of insight and understanding in this work which is, at times, extremely difficult to penetrate. As I read the ideas offered by the authors, I was aware of a growing anxiety that my review could not do the work justice. I am not a student of Levinas, and know relatively little of his writings. This book thus introduced me to the essence of Levinas's philosophy. As I moved through the various reflections of Levinas's ethics, and related this to my experience of psychotherapeutic work, as well as my experience of being a patient, I had an association to my personal therapy which seemed to capture the essence of the theory being expounded. My analyst, as I struggled through the initial phase of adjusting to being supine and motionless, said to me, "I want you to know that I take your life as sacred". …


The remarks in my paper, "Fixed Effects Vector Decomposition: A Magical Solution to the Problem of Time Invariant Variables in Fixed Effects Models?," were a comment on the econometric methods pro posed in Pliimper and Troeger, "Efficient Estimation of Time-Invariant and Rarely Changing Variables in Finite Sample Panel Analyses with Unit Fixed Effects," Political Analysis, 15, 2007, which I will refer to as PT in the following. The remarks below will respond to the authors' comments published in this issue, which I will refer to as P&T. PT's Equation (1) and the explanatory text define the model they intend to analyze:


1. Artifact-Essentialism. To many, the reality of artifact kinds is at best a dubious matter.' Artifacts are manufactured by us, according to our own needs and circumstances; they are not the products of nature. Their artifactual essence will not be supported, therefore, by physical regularities, and thus cannot be objective. Is this inference correct, however? I will sketch a certain version of essentialism concerning artifacts (henceforward "artifact-essentialism") and will explore how far such a position can be sustained. Artifact-essentialism does not have to maintain that all structures which humans apply to portions of stuff yield objects with independent conditions of identity. One should grant that many man-made things, such as statues or ornaments, are not objects over and above the portions of matter that make them up, in more than a conventional sense. Is it not true, nevertheless, that there exist artifacts thatfunction the way they do independently of the fact that we humans appreciate this? Given the prevailing laws of nature, similar circumstances, and the structures they have, would such objects not function in exactly the same way, even if no one were around to observe them? That the acquisition of some structures accords specific functions to articulated bodies is not at all a matter of convention; little is arbitrary or mind-dependent in the relation of such a structure-type with the function-type that correlates with it. The application of specific causes to any such articulated body yields certain effects of specific complexity, where, empirically speaking, there is a "deterministic" regularity, of the sort subsumable under an appropriate causal law. Indeed, it is a contingent and even an arbitrary matter that a particular piece of stuff should acquire a specific artifactual structure. Since artifacts are our own designs, the choice of the portions of matter upon which these designs are executed is again ours. But once such a design is executed, the resulting object will have the same function in every world the physical laws of which are the same as those of the actual, and it has that function


This paper entitled, 'Shattering Conventional Gender Roles: Transitivity Analysis of Disney's Zootopia' aims to examine and explore the clauses through transitivity system of ideational metafunction of language. It investigates the six processes and the percentage of highly occurring process in the dialogues. Secondly, it focuses on the stereotypical gender roles that are being shattered by the female protagonist of the movie 'Judy Hopps'. The theoretical insights for this study have been drawn from the theory of transitivity system by M.A.K Halliday in his books ''Halliday's introduction to Functional Grammar'' (2014) and its earlier third edition of (2004) revised and polished by Christian Matthiessen and other books of 1994, 1985 and 1999.  The methodology adopted for this study is qualitative descriptive approach using bar graphs and charts. The dialogues were taken from the transcript and screenplay. The results found indicated that the material process occurred the most in the movie with the percentage of 54%, mental and relational occurred with 15% and others were comparatively less. Circumstance of space with 70% dominated among all other types. To conclude, this study shows the empowered woman like Judy Hopps who despite of being small rabbit, becomes a police officer and fights off all the evils in the city of Zootopia. This study can pave the way for other researchers to analyze recent movies and dramas which are the portrayal of empowered women, amalgamating it with transitivity system of M.A.K Halliday.


Review of: Patricia Hart. The Spanish Sleuth. The Detective in Spanish Fiction., New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987, 252 pp.


The main bridge of JingYue Yangtze river bridge is a asymmetric hybrid girder cable-stayed bridge with a main span 816 m.The steel-concrete composite segment of the girder is composed of the steel box room packing concrete structure with part connected.In this paper,joint form of the steel-concrete composite segment is analysed and compared.It was analyzed and researched the proper detailed structure of steel-concrete composite segment(for example,the bearing plate,the shear connector,shear connector and prestress distribution).Finally,through the force calculation and analysis,verify the safety of the precast hybrid girder.


Abstract Precarious housing research has become increasingly relevant to previous welfare housing contexts, such as Sweden. In the 1990s, Swedish housing became gradually market-oriented, which induced a shortage of affordable rental housing and increased housing costs in all major cities. This article presents the results from interviews with individuals about their experiences of the unequal housing market in the city of Malmö, Sweden. The article furthers knowledge of the lived experience of housing precariousness in the Global North. The narratives from the housing precariat are analysed through the lens of housing inequalities, and the analysis theoretically adds to 'research on critical geography of precarity. The article aims to illustrate the consequences of the shift from a general welfare approach of housing to an individualized and neoliberal housing market. In particular, this article adds insights on the gendered and racialized aspects that affect housing precariousness.


The smart grid is developing in the direction of two-way interaction. As an important platform for two-way interaction between the user side and the power system, the social network plays an important role in the development of the smart grid. The structural parameters of the social network include the total number of users and the network density. The network density is reflected by the number of neighbor nodes of the network node and the strength of the connection. Determining the total number of users in the network is beneficial to the smart grid for power allocation. Power system load peaks, insufficient power supply, etc. Deter-mining network density helps speed up the popularization and promotion of smart grid technology and helps to understand the social influence of users in social networks. Offline social network topologies are usually selected by interviewees and then asked to list their neighbors. This paper proposes an inference technique based on so-called "fixed choice" surveys, which requires the interviewee to enumerate all the strong ties and a fixed number of weak ties(e.g.,two or ten). Then use the method of moments to infer the total number of users and the network density of the social network. Experiments using simulated data show that the proposed inference algor-ithm performs well in various network topo-logies and measurement scenarios, and the est-imates obtained are significantly more accu-rate than the estimates obtained directly using the coarse observation network.


I come from the state of Bihar in India. This is very poor compared with other states and not surprisingly the medical facilities are not as developed as they are in the main cities. When I took up a career in paediatrics I did so because I loved working with children. But the real breakthrough came when I got a place on the postgraduate MD course at Delhi University. The two years I spent as a resident at Safdarjung Hospital were the most rewarding years of my professional career.

By the end of my term there I had developed a strong dislike for the institution where I did my earlier training. I felt that it was still 25 years behind so far as the knowledge and practice of medicine was concerned. It was no wonder that I wanted to stay on in …


Polystyrene-containing polymers are converted to benzoic acid by catalytic oxidation of dissolved polystyrene under elevated temperature and pressure. The produced benzoic acid is recovered by evaporation.


Thank you very much for reading report of the annual meeting. As you may know, people have look numerous times for their chosen books like this report of the annual meeting, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they juggled with some malicious virus inside their laptop. report of the annual meeting is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly. Our books collection hosts in multiple locations, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Kindly say, the report of the annual meeting is universally compatible with any devices to read.


Purpose
The wind turbine (WT) is a complex system subjected to wind disturbances. Because the aerodynamics is nonlinear, the control is thus challenging. For the variation of wind speed when rated power is delivered at rated wind speed, the power is limited to the rate by the pitching of the blades of the turbine. This paper aims to address pitch control with the WT benchmark model. The possible use of appropriate adaptive controller design that modifies the control action automatically identifying any change in system parameters is explored.

Design/methodology/approach
To deal with pitch control problem when wind speed exceeds the rated wind speed of the WT, six digital self-tuning controller (STC) with different structures such as proportional integral (PI), proportional derivative (PD), Dahlin's, pole placement, deadbeat and Takahashi has been taken herein. The system model is identified as a second-order autoregressive exogenous (ARX) model by three techniques for comparison: recursive least square method (RLS), RLS with exponential forgetting and RLS with adaptive directional forgetting identification methods. A comparative study of three identification methods, six adaptive controllers with the conventional PI controller and sliding mode controller (SMC), are shown.

Findings
As per the results, the best improvement in control of the output power by pitching in full load region of benchmark model is achieved by self-tuning PD controller based on RLS with adaptive directional forgetting method. The adaptive control design has a future in WT control applications.

Originality/value
A comparative study of identification methods, six adaptive controllers with the conventional PI controller and SMC, are shown here. As per the results, the best improvement in control of the output power by pitching in the full load region of the benchmark model has been achieved by self-tuning PD controller. The best identification method or the system is RLS with an adaptive directional forgetting method. Instead of a step input response design for the controllers, the controller design has been carried out for the stochastic wind and the performance is adjudged by the normalized sum of square tracking error (NSSE) index. The validation of the proposed self-tuning PD controller has been shown in comparison to the conventional controller with Monte-Carlo analysis to handle model parameter alteration and erroneous measurement issues.


The paper presents application of Artificial Neural Networks for updating of a mathematical model of the structure based on dynamic parameters. Neural networks, which predict the value of selected stiffness or concentrated masses on basis of Frequency Response Function (FRF) have been built. Preceding an update, the FRF is compressed in order to reduce the number of input values necessary for updating. I PROBLEM DESCRIPTION A dynamic model of a structure (dynamic model may be built with the finite element method or discrete modelling) is verified by building physical model (usually a laboratory model is built), testing, and comparison of responses from the dynamic model (analytical) and physical model (experimental). There often are discrepancies between these results. For that reason the dynamic model must be modified until a good agreement between responses of these models is achieved. The process of modifying the dynamic model is called updating [1]. The main task in the model updating is to determine coefficient matrices M, C, K on basis of the response of the structure. In this paper a dynamic model updating technique using neural networks is developed and demonstrated. To solve this problem multi-layer feed-forward (MLFF) neural networks are used [2]. A simple model of a 12-storey frame, consisting of twelve concen trated masses coupled by springs, is considered. The model has 12 degrees of freedom (see Fig. 1).


Both time and place played pivotal roles in the conception, installation, and intended meaning of the series of silver Elvises that Andy Warhol produced in the summer of 1963 for exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. The appropriation of a banal publicity photograph indicates that Warhol's primary parodic target was the Hollywood Western, while the coupling of the series with portraits of Elizabeth Taylor echoed a similar gender binary found in the canonical work of Marcel Duchamp. As such, the silver Elvises constitute an important moment in Warhol's attempt to wed mass culture and vanguard art.


The current version serves as an introduction to the basics of the theory of real and complex smooth vector bundles with finite rank, and the general concept of a tensor field on a smooth vetor bundle.


In the current production scenario, with a globalized economic environment, companies increasingly need to become morecompetitive to face up to the global market. This means production systems are constantly changing in the direction of thereplacement of the low productivity equipment, rearranging the plant layout, the redirection of the transport stream from thesupplier to the end customer and adding new models to plan and control production. All these changes aim to improve productquality and to reduce production lead time by eliminating waste, reducing costs and increasing competitive advantage through theprocess flexibility. For these changes to happen effectively is necessary that the current employees and the future productionengineers are inserted and fit in this new reality. Currently, the Lean Manufacturing concepts are applied in an industrialenvironment to optimize production flow eliminating the waste found in the process. However, there is a challenge to put these concepts effectively in the industrial environment and in the university environment. The traditional learning process based onteacher, classroom, non-integrated theoretical and practical concepts, case studies with static production characteristic (controlledvariable) has been shown to be ineffective in the consolidation of these concepts in a dynamic production environment. Inuniversity, this same model applied in the production engineering course and fragmented into different disciplines makes productionengineers not fully prepared for the challenges of the new industrial environment, requiring an adjustment period. This adaptationwill result in low competitiveness of the company in front of global competitors. Thus, this article aims to present a laboratorymodel for integrated learning of the Lean Manufacturing concepts based in practices able to reproduce the dynamic productionenvironment, thus speeding the process of training employees of the industrial environment and the learning of future productionengineers.


Many economists have argued that the observed increase in wage inequality in developed economies over the past 30 years is due to skill-biased technical progress. In this paper we put forward a somewhat different technology-based argument, namely that the increased inequality was caused by technical change linked to the pervasive innovation wave associated with the New Economy. This technical change was not skill-biased in the usual sense, but rather raised the reward to adaptability. This alternative approach based on the notion of 'general-purpose technology' can shed light on a number of outstanding puzzles on the evolution of wage inequality both between and within educational groups. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.


Background: Despite four decades of searching, no vaccine exists yet for HIV/AIDS, and it is still a big problem in many countries of the world. Purpose: Finding a simple method which is affordable, and which could help avoid side effects which the commonly used antiretroviral drugs often show, is the need of the moment. Method: A group of HIV positive children have been performing daily sunrise/sunset Agnihotra themselves under supervision for two years. Data were collected on viral load and CD4 counts before and after that. Repeated measure ANOVA was employed to find out the effectiveness of Agnihotra on reduction of viral load and increase in CD4 count. Results: Data shows general health improved measurably as viral load went down and CD4 values increased. Conclusion: These preliminary results show good potential of Agnihotra for HIV/AIDS patients and a randomized controlled trail is suggested. doi: 10.38205/imcr.020106 KEY WORDS


Image annotation process requires time and human intervention. In this research we propose a framework to incrementally annotate images in the database based on user feedback. At the beginning users provide some annotations for images manually as a ground truth. Classifier is trained based on this ground truth. The classifier predicts annotation for new images that are not part of the ground truth. Feedback is collected from the users to increase the size of the training set and then the classifier is retrained. The system strives to capture feedback from users and retrains the classifier on the new training set. Our proposed framework facilitates semi-automatic image annotation


Abstract Thymallus brevirostris is a specific grayling species that naturally occurs in Mongolia and Russia in Asia. The complete mitochondrial genome of the Mongolian grayling T. brevirostris was determined (Accession number MH027384) with a total length of 16,653 nucleotides, of which 15,585 nucleotides are coding DNA and 1068 nucleotides are non-coding DNA. It has the common feature with those of other grayling with respect to genome structure and gene arrangement. It contained 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer tRNA genes, and 1 control region (D-loop region). The complete mitochondrial genome of Mongolian grayling T. brevirostris provides an important data set for further study on its classification.


SUMMARY Strains of chickens that differed in susceptibility to Marek's disease (MD) were vaccinated with cell-associated or cell-free preparations of turkey herpesvirus (HVT) or with attenuated MD herpesvirus (ATT MDHV). All vaccines increased the resistance of all strains of chickens to MD but the vaccinates still showed differences in genetic susceptibility between strains resembling those among unvaccinated chickens. When one-day-old chicks that had maternal antibody against MDHV were vaccinated at 1 day of age, the ATT MDHV was less effective than either preparation of HVT. By delaying vaccination to 22 days the efficacy of HVT was not changed and the ATT MDHV was as effective as HVT. In 1 of 4 strains of chickens, vaccination of parental populations with HVT influenced immunization of progeny with cell-free HVT. In that strain the incidence of MD 111 days after challenge was significantly higher in progeny from vaccinated dams than in those from unvaccinated dams. In the same strain, immunization with cell-associated HVT was not influenced by vaccination of dams.


The aims of this investigation are to determine the influence of the extraction time towards yield, to determine oil physico-chemical and composition identification of Caesalpinia pulcherrima L. seeds oil. Data were analyzed with Randomized Completely Block Design (RCBD), 6 treatments and 4 repetitions. As treatments are variations of extraction periods are 3 ; 6 ; 9 ; 12 ; 15 and 18 hours , and as the block is the time of analysis. Chemical composition of Caesalpinia pulcherrima L. seeds oil was identified by Gas ChromatographyMass Spectrometry (GC-MS). The result of this investigation shows that the optimum yield is 7,24 ± 1,11 % on 12 hours of extraction. Extraction periods did not influence the physical characteristics of Caesalpinia pulcherrima L. seeds oil, The characteristic of the seed oil showed that the oil have oil water content 0,06 ± 0,02 % ; density 0,77 ± 0,06 g / mL; acid number 19,20 ± 0,64 mg NaOH/ g; peroxide number 25,83 ± 1,26mgek/kg; lathering number 90,38 ± 0,39 mg KOH/ g. The result purification of Kembang Merak seeds oil the nature of the physio-chemical oil produced in the most optimal yield with a 12 hour extraction; loss fat ; 24,2 %; the number of acid 7,655 mg NaOH / g fat ; the number of peroxide 277,39 mgek / kg , the number of lathering 73,4564 mg KOH / g of fat. The result of GC-MS shows that Caesalpinia pulcherrima L. seeds oil contains of 6 main components are 9,12oktadekadienoic acid 60,66% (Linoleic acid), heksadekanoic acid 19,58 % (palmitic acid), oktadekanoic acid 13,11 % (stearic acid);12oktadekanoic acid 4,49% (oleic acid); eikosanoic acid 1,15 % (arachidic acid); 9-heksadekenoic acid 1,02 % (palmitoleic acid).


The implementation of 1553B bus communication is the key technology for the design of the test equipment of launch unit.The implementation of 1553B bus communication in the ATLAS is mainly presented.How to ESTABLISH PROTHCOL,DEFINE and DO EXCHANGE in ATLAS is discussed in detail with examples.The points paid attention to in debugging is also put forward in the paper.


OBJECTIVES
Vascular and bleeding complications after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) are common and lead to increased morbidity and mortality. Analysis of plaque at the arterial access site may improve prediction of complications.

METHODS
We investigated the association between demographic and procedural risk factors for Valve Academic Research Consortium (VARC-3) vascular complications in patients undergoing transfemoral TAVI with use of a vascular closure device (ProGlide® or MANTA®) in this retrospective cohort study. The ability of pre-procedure femoral CT angiography to predict complications was investigated including a novel method of quantifying plaque composition of the common femoral artery using plaque maps created with patient specific X-ray attenuation cut-offs.

RESULTS
Twenty-three vascular complications occurred in the 299 patients in the study group (7.7%). There were no demographic risk factors associated with vascular complications and no statistical difference between use of closure device (ProGlide® vs MANTA®) and vascular complications. Vascular complications after TAVI were associated with sheath size (OR 1.36, 95% CI 1.08-1.76, P 0.01) and strongly associated with CT-derived necrotic core volume in the common femoral artery of the procedural side (OR 17.49, 95% CI 1.21-226.60, P 0.03).

CONCLUSIONS
Plaque map analysis of the common femoral artery by CT angiography reveals patients with greater necrotic core are at increased risk of VARC-3 vascular complications.

ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE
The novel measurement of necrotic core volume in the common femoral artery on the procedural side-by CT analysis was associated with post-TAVI vascular complications, which can be used to highlight increased risk.


We describe the first end-to-end system, called VitalFit, for predicting the fit of close-to-body garments using soft body avatars. Soft body avatars may be constructed by registering our VitalBody template to existing rigid avatars, or directly to 3D body scans. The resulting soft avatar includes a tetrahedral mesh and soft tissue material properties that may be numerically simulated using the finite element method (FEM). Designers, fit specialists, and pattern engineers may create virtual garments and evaluate fit using VitalFit DX, a plugin for Adobe Illustrator®. Users can import existing patterns or create them anew, and modify the patterns using the familiar tools in Adobe Illustrator®. In VitalFit the garment and body are simulated together, with two-way coupling of forces and displacements. This allows us to predict how human soft tissues deform in contact with the garment. We can also predict stresses and strains in both garment and body. VitalFit can simulate the coupled dynamics of soft tissues and garment, during running and other activities of daily living. These new tools can be used to predict not only static fit, but also how a garment may function in real life.


E-learning is related to virtualised distance learning by means of electronic communication mechanisms, using its functionality as a support in the process of teaching-learning. When the learning process becomes computerised, educational data mining employs the information generated from the electronic sources to enrich the learning model for academic purposes. To provide support to e-learning systems, cloud computing is set as a natural platform, as it can be dynamically adapted by presenting a scalable system for the changing necessities of the computer resources over time. It also eases the implementation of data mining techniques to work in a distributed scenario, regarding the large databases generated from e-learning. We give an overview of the current state of the structure of cloud computing, and we provide details of the most common infrastructures that have been developed for such a system. We also present some examples of e-learning approaches for cloud computing, and finally, we discuss the suitability of this environment for educational data mining, suggesting the migration of this approach to this computational scenario.


A machine-independent FORTRAN implementation of the GSPC proposed standard is presented. DIGRAF (Device Independent GRAphics from FORTRAN) has been designed to closely parallel level-3 of the 'CORE' system. The present implementation allows portability to any computer with a FORTRAN compiler and a word length of at least 16-bits. Several CORE system design issues are discussed from the implementor's viewpoint. A breakdown of the functional modules reinforces the portability aspects. Special features of the user interface are presented. A storage structure for retained segments is presented with a review of the memory management alternatives. The device-dependent interface for two common classes of devices is discussed. Finally, the design and data structure techniques used to implement several CORE functions is presented.


Characteristics of tidal streams Patterns of tidal stream velocity variations are described in the article on variability of wave energy and tidal stream energy resources, but suffice to say here that two periodic cycles dominate: semidiurnal variations (twice per day) and the spring/neap cycle. Figure 1 shows a profile of current speed over one month and illustrates two limits of velocity often referred to: the mean spring peak velocity and mean neap peak velocity. One can see the former is the greatest velocity that can ever occur, while the latter is a restricted maximum when the spring/neap cycle is at a trough. In fact, this is a simplified illustration and at real tidal stream sites there may be some differences to the classic sinusoidal forms which are themselves time-varying.


Editor—MacDonald raises numerous important issues in her editorial about doctors with chronic illness.1 I wish to make several comments about her article and clarify the role of occupational health in helping doctors with chronic illness.

The role of occupational health services is varied; but the advice provided is impartial and given in the health interests of the person affected. A key task is to advise on rehabilitation and placement in suitable work of those temporarily or permanently disabled by sickness or injury.2 Most occupational health professionals strive to help people remain in useful work by advising on suitable modifications to their duties. Sometimes the medical condition impairs a person's function to an extent that job modifications are impractical, and in these circumstances retirement because of ill health may be advisable.

MacDonald also mentions several difficulties that doctors with a chronic illness may face in their careers; such as inflexible working patterns, poor contingency cover, and colleagues who are sympathetic until it affects them. These difficulties can be managed, and solutions can be implemented when the problems are addressed properly by a professional management structure. I have found medical directors of doctors extremely understanding and sympathetic when they receive professional advice on a doctor with chronic illness from an occupational health service. Good rehabilitation should be directed at maximising a person's contribution at work.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 defines the legal meaning of disability, but occupational physicians should not agonise over whether a person is disabled under the act or not. This decision is one made by the members of an employment tribunal.3 An occupational physician, when dealing with a doctor with long term illness, will assess the person clinically and then understand the activities of the job. After this the occupational physician will concentrate on advising on suitable adjustments to the work of the doctor to help him or her undertake the work.

Doctors with chronic illness do face some job difficulties; the best way to manage the situation is for people in a management position to address it in a professional fashion. The managers are likely to require specific advice on the individual doctor from an occupational physician to manage the situation in the best way. This process is likely to achieve best outcome for the individual doctor and also for the employing organisation.


The demand and the most standard of water vapor permeability of the fabrics were set forth briefly.The structure of the medical protective fabrics were observed,and the characteristic of the composite structure were analyzed.The water vapor permeability of the fabrics was tested respectively with the evaporation method in the condition of different air temperature and humidity.The regression analysis of the steam differential and the water vapor permeability were made.The experiments show that the multi-layered fabrics of polytetrafluoroethylene(PTFE) membrane possess a high water vapor permeability,the coated fabrics of the PU and TPU possess a low water vapor permeability and there are defect and flake on the PU and TPU,so fallibility of the fabrics of PU and TPU are expressed.With the increasing of the temperature,the water vapor permeability of multilayer fabrics increase in the humidity to a certainty.With the increasing of the humidity,the water vapor permeability of multilayer fabrics decline in the temperature to a certainty.The regressive equation of the water vapor permeability and the steam differential is cubic equation and the square of correlation coefficient is 0.719~0.973.


In one aspect of the present invention comprises a reservoir for containing medicament, having a proximal end and a distal end, the drug, the drug delivery device comprising a suspension of solid in the liquid carrier It is provided. The drug delivery device is a needle in fluid communication with reservoir, further comprising a needle having a proximal end in the distal end and a reservoir, for injection into a patient. The distal side of the proximal end of the needle, surrounding the needle at least partially, collecting surface are defined. The integrated surface defines a recess extending distally size and shape has been determined to collect while using solid came out of the suspension. Advantageously, the use of the present invention, this collecting surface to a position separated from the proximal end of the needle to possible solids accumulation, to minimize the possibility of thereby clog the needle.


Attempts to explain the limitations and constraints of government policy makers in the regulation of street vending. Looks at ways that street vendors in Mexico City create alternative forms of regulation that complement and challenge the state's attempt to impose a "one size fits all' form of regulation for the national economy. Cites two distinct forms of regulation and how these resppond to the different needs of vendors depending on their ability to negotiate their status with the state. Covers the organizations which the vendors have formed to assist them and question the "Mafia" status applied to these by the establishment.


A brief review of the literature shows marginality to be both a characteristic of certain roles which function between two or more groups and a personal orientation with respect to such roles. The variables known to be related to marginality are identified. Eysenck's (1967) personality dimensions of extraversion and neuroticism (emotionality) are related conceptually to marginality orientation. Inverse relationships are hypothesized between marginal orientation and both extraversion and neuroticism. The results support the hypothesized inverse correlation between marginal orientation and extraversion. The proposed inverse relationship between marginal orientation and neuroticism is not supported. The implications of these findings are briefly discussed.


We calculate the one-loop twist-3 gluon contribution to the flavor-singlet structure function g 2 (x, Q 2) in polarized deep-inelastic scattering and find that it is dominated by the contribution of the three-gluon operator with the lowest anomalous dimension (for each moment N). The similar property was observed earlier for the nonsinglet distributions, although the reason is in our case different. The result is encouraging and suggests a simple evolution pattern of g 2 (x, Q 2) in analogy with the conventional description of twist-2 parton distributions.


A water-cooled vacuum interrupter was designed and tested for use at 25 kA and 10 kV. This device is expected to have a lifetime approximately one order of magnitude greater than commercial dc circuit breakers. Testing showed that, although the device could successfully carry and interrupt 25 kA, interruption reliabililty was only about 95% with a 10 kV recovery voltage. In addition, a structural crack developed in one electrode from either thermal or mechanical stresses or a combination thereof. 11 refs., 4 figs., 1 tab.


The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an experiential learning social media project that was integrated into a graduate marketing class. As part of the semester-long project, students were required to work within a team and create a spoof video, which was posted on YouTube. Students' success was partially determined by the number of views made of the particular video. After reviewing the results obtained by a semistructured survey, the research indicates that the inclusion of an experiential project into the core curriculum was associated with student motivation, engagement, team management, and communication skills. Furthermore, this integration promoted learning of technical and theoretical knowledge related to consumer-generated advertisements and virtual viral marketing. Results and implications are discussed.


The regional land supporting capacity for population is a great problem,which affects the economic development and social security of a region According to the present condition of the land supporting capacity for population in Three Gorges'Project area and basing on the interaction of population,land and grain,the land production potentiality was estimated and the infield change,grain production and population development were predicted in the future 10 years Finally,the author brought forward the measures for improving the land supporting capacity for population of this region


For the time flexibility , working maneuverability and vast highway cover what be brought about postponing as with a net, the tractility , the feasible automobile become vapor luck being person short distance take a trip selections more . But Motor transport is caught in a comparatively awkward condition now , the automobile ticket is hall ability can only be in the bus station selling ticket to purchase. By that examination , system intend to think that every station and the county city station are in progress and the net interconnection from re- ality with the city in many ways, networking putting every external point into practice at the same time, the convenient passenger buys ticket and catch with a net goes ahead in assigning station to get on the bus to subscribe to a ticket. System sells ticket from having mainly on design , the invalidated ballot, switches over to tack on a ticket , to return a ticket , to buy ticket after the normal time , subscribe to , sells ticket inquiring about sum ticket money settlement waiting for a function. And sell ticket for rise speed , system provide entire key- board selling ticket operation, focus on the right hand small keyboard to the full.


The antigenic structure of Shigella alkalescens was studied, employing eight strains of different sources, and the following results were obtained: Shigella alkalescens, when injected into rabbits, may readily induce the formation of specific agglutinins.Any of the anti-Shigella alkalescens sera reacted with all eight strains of Shigella alkalescens.This agglutination of suspensions of Shigella alkalescens by means of these anti-sera was obtained after short incubation (15 minutes) at 55°C.Antisera for Shigella alkalescens may agglutinate some strains of Shigella paradysenteriae, Flexner indicating a common antigen in the two species. These anti-sera failed, however, to agglutinate Eberthella typhi, Shigella dysenteriae, Shiga or Shigella paradysenteriae, Duval-Sonne.Agglutinin absorptions showed that Shigella alkalescens contains an antigen apparently characteristic of this species and at least one more in common with Shigella paradysenteriae, Flexner.A bacteriophage for Shigella paradysenteriae, Flexner was ineffective toward six strains of Shigella alkalescens tested, but was effective toward seven out of eight strains of Shigella paradysenteriae, Flexner.Patients infected with Shigella alkalescens may develop specific agglutinins.


Objective To evaluate the validity of transurethral plasmakinetic resection of prosate for benign prostatic hyperplasia(BPH). Methods 274 cases of BPH were treated by TUPKRP and had been followed up at 3 months. Resuls The mean operative time was 54min. The mean postoperative hospital stay was 7 days. The peak flow rate of urine increased from 7.1mL/s to 20.7mL/s and the international prostate symptom score(IPSS)decreased from 26.3 to 7.0 at 3 months postoperatively(P0.05). Concluion TUPKRP is a safe and effective oprative method with less complications for the treatment of symptomatic BPH.


The continuous catalytic synthesis of triethyl citrate(TEC) plasticizer,by using bimetallic Lewis acid resin as catalyst,was introduced.To the best conditions for high yields are:mole ratio,n(ethanol) /n(citric acid)=2/1,weight hourly space velocity(WHSV) 1 m3/(m3·h),the reaction pressure is 1 MPa,reaction temperature is 80 ℃,the catalyst selected KC124 resin,the esterification yield over 90%,The mechanical properties,resistance to low temperature,and the durability of PVC samples plasticized by TEC prepared in this experiment are better than ones plasticized by the dioctyl phthalate(DOP) and dioctyl adipate(DOA).The KC124 resin catalyst has good thermal stability,and can be long-term use.


A limited number of studies have analyzed prescribing among Medicare‐enrolled adults at risk for opioid overdoses. The objectives of this study were to evaluate prescribing for naloxone and central nervous system (CNS) active medications and to determine the relationships of patient characteristics with exposure to these medications.


Objective To define the antiviral activity of Musca domestica larva homogenate.Method The chicken embryo method was used for examining the antiviral activity.Result Musca domestica larva homogenate showed antiviral activity,and the antiviral activity was more obvious in groups stimulated by needle than that in control groups.Conclusion Musca domestica larva homogenate revealed antiviral activity and the active components might be protein or peptide.


The high intensity zone within the Jameson Cell is the downcomer. It is largely external and separated from the flotation tank. This, together with operation of the downcomer under vacuum, rather than at elevated pressure and the absence of moving parts, allows ready access to the high intensity zone for measurement and analysis. Experimentation was conducted allowing measurements of recovery for residence times of between 20 milliseconds and ten seconds within the downcomer of a Jameson Cell. The affect of aeration rate on the recovery of different particle sizes was also studied.


On demand of a heat pipe air preheater design of a boiler remold project,analytic and experimental researches on working performances of Carbon steel—water heat pipes filled with different non condensable gas are conducted.The results are shown in figures in this essay.Some effecting relation of non condensable gas filling ratio and working temperature on the heat transfer and axial temperature distributions are discussed.


Combining the sol gel method and spin coating technique, yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films were obtained on silicon (Si) substrate. Four YIG films with different thicknesses were fabricated to achieve low FMR linewidth. The x-ray diffraction has shown a single phase, belonging to the cubic structure of the YIG, while the morphology of the films has presented small pores and some grains on the surface. The FMR linewidth of the YIG films decreased 110 Oe, 108 Oe, 93 Oe and 71 Oe as the film thickness increased 134 nm, 246 nm, 376 nm and 489 nm, respectively. This result indicates that high-quality YIG films can be achieved on Si substrates, controlling the thickness. The sol gel method is shown as a very economical and easy alternative to obtain YIG films with low FMR linewidth, which may be important for making microwave integrated devices.


BACKGROUND
The National Association for Mental Health adopted the 'brand name' MIND as part of its transformation into a campaigning pressure group at the turn of the 1970s. This article examines the historical antecedents to key statements made by the organisation at this time regarding the relationship of mental health with, what was then called, 'mental handicap'.

METHODS
The National Association is placed within the historical context of the movement for mental hygiene. The article traces how the movement theorised mental health as critically related to intellect and emotionality.

RESULTS
The movement relegated people deemed 'mentally deficient' from therapeutic policies based on family relationships believed to promote mental health. However, a late 1950s experiment known as the Brooklands study subverted this discrimination. This was paradoxical since it built on mental hygiene theorising.

CONCLUSIONS
Theorisations of the relationship between intellect, emotion and mental health are still potentially discriminatory.


It is unreliable that Hu Guangyong was from Jixi, Anhui affirmed by Professor Xu Mingde only according to the word of Cheng Zaonu. Hu Guangyong though participated in setting up Fuzhou Shipyard yet left immediately. He handled other foreign affairs following the instructions of Zuo Zongtang, therefore he couldn't be seen as one of the pioneers of the Modernization Movement. He did charitable deeds either pleasing the persons in power, or forced by circumstances, or fishing for political capital for himself. Some basic historical facts narrated by Professor Xu are indefinite. His high appraisement for him is hardly convinced.


Due to the lack of training labels and the difficulty of annotating, dealing with adverse driving conditions such as nighttime has posed a huge challenge to the perception system of autonomous vehicles. Therefore, adapting knowledge from a labelled daytime domain to an unlabelled nighttime domain has been widely researched. In addition to labelled daytime datasets, existing nighttime datasets usually provide nighttime images with corresponding daytime reference images captured at nearby locations for reference. The key challenge is to minimize the performance gap between the two domains. In this paper, we propose LoopDA for domain adaptive nighttime semantic segmentation. It consists of self-loops that result in reconstructing the input data using predicted semantic maps, by rendering them into the encoded features. In a warm-up training stage, the self-loops comprise of an inner-loop and an outer-loop, which are responsible for intra-domain refinement and inter-domain alignment, respectively. To reduce the impact of day-night pose shifts, in the later self-training stage, we propose a co-teaching pipeline that involves an offline pseudo-supervision signal and an online reference-guided signal 'DNA' (Day-Night Agreement), bringing substantial benefits to enhance nighttime segmentation. Our model outperforms prior methods on Dark Zurich and Nighttime Driving datasets for semantic segmentation. Code and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/fyvision/LoopDA.


Purpose – This article aims to explore how knowledge-intensive service firms design inter-firm contracts to govern the exchange of highly intangible and inseparable knowledge under varying degrees of property right protection. Design/methodology/approach – This research uses a multiple case study of management consulting firms domiciled in Serbia and Albania. Findings – Firms domiciled in relatively weak property right settings prefer more informal contracts, whereas those in settings of superior property right protection favour greater formality as a means of encouraging the creation and sharing of knowledge, whilst concurrently mitigating the threat of opportunism. Research limitations/implications – This article contributes new knowledge with regard to the design of inter-firm contracts to govern the sharing of highly intangible and inseparable knowledge. In terms of theory, it employs a transaction cost economics approach in which inter-firm contracts are decomposed into five requisite provisions, whi...


transformation of the solving the problem of water. If water is united, the human heart will be corrected. If water is pure and clean, the heart of the people will be uni-fied and desirous of cleanliness. Even when the citizenry's heart is changed, their conduct will not be depraved. So the sage's govern-ment....consists of talking to people and persuading them, family by family. The work) water.–


Objective To assess the efficacy of tirofiban in the patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome who had no-reflow phenomenon after primary percutaneous coronary intervention.Methods From January 2009 to July 2010,according to exercise with or without tirofiban,the patients with acute coronary syndrome divided into Tirofiban group(n=50) and control group(n=40).The Tirofiban group was given Tirofiban during surgery followed by 10μg/kg.The control group underwent routine PCI surgery without Tirofiban infusion.The basis of clinical records,the occurrence of no-reflow phenomenon of the two groups were observed in the patients with primary PCI.Results Compared with the control group,the incidences of no-reflow phenomenon were significantly decreased in the tirofiban group(P0.05).Conclusion Enhancing anti-blood platelet therapy can effectively decrease the no-reflow phenomenon during primary PCI.


Complicated collaborative tasks can be performed by networking satellites, and the resource cost and the scheduling risk can also be optimized by building an effective task-scheduling model. This paper describe three respects of the work. First, the goal programming model is established to describe the resource usage expectations, made by satellite experts in view of satellite service life. Second, a task scheduling model is established to optimize the task gains, the resource cost and the scheduling risk. Third, a gene algorithm and a tabu algorithm are combined to solve the model,since the scheduling problem is an NP-hard problem; furthermore, the solving algorithm is extended by neighbor greedy search to improve the convergence rate and robustness of the algorithm. Finally, a distributed parallel method is adopted to improve the effectiveness.


Calibrated ESA and stimulated emission cross section spectra of Nd:GGG are registered. Diode-pumped 3-levels laser operation at 933.6 and 937.3 nm and intracavity frequency conversion at 466.8, 468.6 and 467.7 nm are reported


The measurement of plastic-wave profiles in strong shock waves suggests a power-law dependence of the solid-phase shear stress on strain rate. The strain rates in these experiments vary from about 10 kHz to 0.1 GHz. We have carried out molecular-dynamics simulations of steady-state plastic flow in two- and three-dimensional close-packed crystals, using recently developed ''nonequilibrium'' equations of motion to maintain a constant strain rate and temperature. These calculations appear to be consistent with current experimental data and suggest that the flow of close-packed metals is described by a single physical mechanism over a range of strain rates from 10 kHz to 1 THz.


In urban distribution network, XLPE which is also known as cross-linked polyethylene has been widely used and it is one of the most famous polyethylene polymers since its first introduction to the world. There are several significant factors which contribute to its wide usage in distribution power grids. During power supply in the distribution network, XLPE possessed a high safety and reliability level and not to mention also its excellent insulating performance which contributes to its success. External condition such as environment, corrosion which caused by chemicals, mechanical stress and heat effects are some of the factors which will cause insulation failure in XLPE cables. The insulation failure in power cables can bring a serious economic loss to companies due to its vital role in power transformation and transmission. Therefore it is important to diagnose early stage of insulation failure to reduce the negative impacts.
Partial discharge is created when high insulating material breaks down, measured in units of charge known as pico-Coulombs or millivolts. Partial discharge is defined as electrical discharge occurring inside a medium and high voltage insulation. The common terms for partial discharge are called flaws, cracks, voids, and irregularities. These kind of imperfections create voltage stress gradually and after some period it will eventually cause failure of insulation. Insulation failures begin with and are characterized by small but detectable releases of energy which is partial discharge.
In this research, PD data which collected previously from real cable joint and artificial defects are created on the cable joint to imitate exact on-site situation rather than done it a noise-free environment and use lab fabricated insulator as material. In all the PD data measured, not all of them are important and significant in classifying different type of PD pattern. Thus, feature extraction namely Fisher's Ratio Feature Selection is proposed to select significant data only in classifying PD pattern. On the other hand, MATLAB built in function named Relieff is also a feature extraction, which also used to compare the result to Fisher's Ratio Feature Selection. In terms of intelligent classifiers, Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machine have been introduced in this research.
Upon completion of this research work, it was found that ANN performs better in classifying PD data as compared to SVM due to its higher capability of noise tolerance and its ability to be insensitive towards small changes in PD data. As for feature selections, both Fisher's Ratio and ReliefF both possess similar attributes which contributes to its similar performance but in an overall view, Fisher's Ratio Feature Selection perform better as its accuracy is generally higher than ReliefF. Through this findings, it was also proved that, performing feature selection techniques increase the performance of the intelligent classifier significantly and thus increasing the accuracy in PD classification.


Abstract The present paper focuses on the semiotics of historization, that is, of "narration as history" and provides a meta-analysis of the semiotic modeling of Confucius as a case in point. I argue that the personage who has come to be known as Confucius has existed and can only exist, without exception, in multiple forms of sociocultural representation and interpretation that are natural results of distinct modeling processes. These forms compose the immediate realities of Confucius for us and the very foundation upon which any further discussions about Confucius, his disciples, and their thoughts and lives are even possible in the first place. This treatment reminds us of how easily we can fall victim to the objective illusion and the confusion of understanding and axiology that Mieke Bal has rightly cautioned against. Moreover, the paper is by no means intended to be a revisionist or nihilistic denial of the historicity of Confucius, but rather an attempt to underscore the central and fundamental role that modeling systems about historical figures play in historization as human sociocultural and cognitive practice. In this sense, the case of Confucius serves as an instance, a specimen, a sign, which is extensible to any other historical figures.


Schwannomas (also known as Neurilemmomas) are benign nerve sheath tumor which can arise from any myelinated nerve. Base of tongue schwannomas are rare and manifest with vague symptoms resulting in delayed diagnosis and treatment. Histologic identification of Antoni A and B areas with strong and diffuse S-100 staining, confirm the pathological diagnosis of schwannoma.


Gigaspora polymorphira, a new arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species, has been described based on morphological and phylogenetic analyses, which was isolated from rhizosphere soil of Phyllostachys heterocycla and Cunninghamia lanceolata in Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, Guizhou province, China. Spores are white to orange yellow, irregular to rarely subglobose, 260–390×480–570 µm in diameter, and spore wall consisting of two layers (SWL1+SWL2): SWL1 hyaline to pale yellow, permanent, about 1 µm thick; SWL2 laminate and extremely rigid, yellow, 10–27 µm thick, staining dark red to red-brown in Melzer's reagent. Germinal wall is permanent, membranous, about 1 µm thick and smooth. The sporogenous cell pale yellow, ovoid to clavate of 80–120×40–75 µm in diameter and have two sporogenous cell wall layers. Phylogenetic analysis of the sequences based on the partial small subunit (SSU), internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2), and the partial large subunit (LSU) indicated that Gi. polymorphira in the genus Gigaspora, separated from other described Gigaspora species. Phylogenetically, it forms a monophyletic clade next to Gigaspora margarita, which can be distinct distinguished from Gi. polymorphira by its shape of globose to subglobose and warts projects on GW. An updated key for the Gigaspora species worldwide is provide.


The determination of serum total IgE,IgE antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and lupus band test(LBT) for IgE are reported in 136 cases of SLE.SLE patients had higher serum IgE level (1922±2195IU/ml) than those of normals (P<0.001).IgE level of SLE patients in active phase was higher than that in remission phase (P<0.05).The positive rate of IgE ANA (35%) in the IgG ANA positive cases was higher than that iu the IgG ANA negative cases (P<0.05).The titer of IgE ANA was comparable to that of IgG ANA (r=0.922).Of them 2 IgG ANA negative cases was positive for IgE ANA,and it was helpful for the diagnosis.3 cases with positive IgE LBT of normal appearing akin in exposed area had active nephritis,hepatic abnormalities,positive nDNA antibody,thrombocytopenia and low serum complement C3.Their conditions were more aevcre than those of positive IgG or IgM LBT patients.


Title: A computational study on the influence of rod coupling by electrical synapses on the scotopic dynamic range of the vertebrate retina Recent studies suggest the existence of electrical synapses (gap junctions) connecting photoreceptors in the vertebrate retina. In this work we describe a computer model of the primary and secondary rod pathways in the vertebrate retina. The model is composed of the following cell populations: rods, cones, rod bipolar cells, cone bipolar cells, AII amacrine cells and ganglion cells. Cells of the model are connected via chemical as well as electrical synapses according to realistic convergence and divergence factors. There are electrical synapses between rods, rods and cones, AII amacrine cells, and cone bipolar cells and AII amacrine cells. The model assumes that low intensity stimuli simulating scotopic conditions reach all rods in the receptor array but less than half of them are excited. The excited rods response is controlled by a photocurrent waveform whose amplitude can be manipulated to simulate stimuli of different intensities within the scotopic range. The model is used to investigate the effects of different degrees of coupling among photoreceptors and among AII amacrine cells, as well as values of rod hyperpolarization activated current Ih on the dynamic range of the retina. Results show that for realistic values of Ih conductance the dynamic range of the rod array is maximized at the critical connectivity degree for bond percolation. However, the dynamic range of the rod bipolar and ganglion cells is maximized for a photoreceptor connectivity degree below the critical value. The latter result is a consequence of the high convergence of chemical synapses from rods to rod bipolar cells.


In this paper, we consider a production scheduling problem with multi-time interval. Because of the differences of processing order and the processing time, the conflict among different jobs using the same machine and the restriction on the start time of every job, this job shop has become a very complicated problem. In order to solve this problem, a mixed integer programming scheduling model for makespan minimization is developed in the environment of multi-functional machine tools. This model can be solved by good-size optimization software ILOG Scheduler and ILOG Solver. Finally a satisfactory result is obtained.


A method of computing the ambiguity function (AF) for a circularly symmetric pupil function is presented. The AFs of a clear aperture and two shaded apertures are considered in detail and an explicit expression for the first of these AFs is given. We explain these results in the context of the well-known optical transfer function theory and show a primary application of these computations. A good analytic approximation is also introduced, providing an alternative method for calculating the AF, in a simpler way.


Today, most construction projects have been higher, bigger, and more complicated gradually. So the domestic construction companies have been trying to understand overall construction process and relationships between activities, and adopted various management techniques and tools in order to perform a systematic and effective scheduling. However numerous problems have been occurred on the practical applications because most existing scheduling softwares adapt ADM and PDM techniques. One of them, PDM, is so uneffective because it represents the overlapping relationships between two consecutive activities only by the combinations of start and finish points between two activities. In order to supplement the demerit of PDM, Beeline Diagramming Method(BDM) is proposed as a new networking technique, it can represent two-way multiple overlapping relationships between two activities directly. However there are occurring a loop phenomenon on applying two-way multiple overlapping relationships. This research proposes and verifies the schedule computation method of two-way multiple overlapping relationships on the BDM network.


Structural and bonding characteristics of simplified (Pd, Te) precipitates have been determined in a simulated nuclear French glass using extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) and x-ray diffraction. In this sample, these precipitates have a homogeneous composition, with about 10 wt.% Te. They retain a face-centered cubic structure as in pure Pd with a cell parameter which obeys Vegard's law. Pd K-edge EXAFS shows the presence of Te in the Pd coordination shell, with (Pd–Te) distances of 2.80 Å. These distances, higher by 0.05 Å than the (Pd–Pd) distances, may result in a lower packing efficiency of the CFC lattice. The comparison with the average distances derived from x-ray diffraction shows the nonmetallic character of the Pd–Te bond in these precipitates. These bonding modifications may cause the limited solubility of Te in metallic Pd.


List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements A Framework for Studying Cohesion Regional Policy and Cohesion Trans-European Networks and Cross-Border Projects State Aids and the European Union: Competition Policy or Industrial Policy? Metaphors or Cohesion Notes Bibliography Index


Japan's economic expansion into Southeast Asia which began during World War I laid the foundations for the contemporary regional order. Based mainly upon Dutch sources, this article reviews the interwar expansion of Japanese trade, shipping and investment in Indonesia, examines its corporate structure, and considers how the phenomenon should be interpreted.


Alpha‐tocopherol (α‐Toc), an antioxidant vitamin, has been widely prescribing in the treatment of infertility, in spite of its limited oral bioavailability. The present study describes the enhanced bioavailability and efficacy of a novel 'natural self‐emulsifying reversible hydrogel' (N'SERH)‐based oral delivery form of α‐Toc‐rich sunflower oil (Tα‐fen) using fenugreek galactomannan hydrogel scaffold (hybrid‐FENUMATTM). Tα‐fen was characterised by FTIR, SEM, TEM and DLS as a hybrid‐hydrogel powder. The bioavailability study on thirty (n = 30) male Sprague Dawley rats randomised into two groups indicated 4.84‐fold increase in the oral bioavailability when the formulation was provided at 15 mg/kg b. wt. of α‐Toc by oral gavage. The efficacy study on 24 animals randomised into four groups as control, ethanol treated (4 mg/kg b. wt.), ethanol+unformulated, UTα (15 mg/kg b. wt.) and ethanol+formulation, Tα‐fen (15 mg/kg b. wt.) revealed significant improvement (*p < 0.05) and reversal of alcohol‐induced reproductive toxicity as evident from the enhanced sperm count, motility and viability parameters, testosterone levels, fructose content, and SDH activity and plasma antioxidant status among Tα‐fen‐treated rats, compared with unformulated, UTα‐treated group. Histopathology further confirmed the reversal of the alterations in the testes morphology of Tα‐fen‐treated animals, indicating its promising potential in the treatment of reproductive health issues.


The issue of gender and gender studies is a topic that has its own admirers but also vehement critics. The aim of the paper is to outline a number of key stereotypes often repeated by the critics of "gender ideology" which is above all an attempt to radically separate sex and gender. This "ideology" is based on various conceptions of social constructivism, but also on poststructuralist theories. One of the most frequent targets of the above mentioned criticism is American philosopher Judith Butler. Many critics are irritated by her philosophical conception and political activity. The ambition of the text is to show that the conventional reading of Judith Butler is very often just a misunderstanding. The reason of this misconception is primarily the ignorance of her hermeneutical points of departure, which leads to the misinterpretation of her work.


Cost considerations have been a major factor in the developments which have taken place in BR's 50 Hz a.c. electrification since 1960. The first efforts towards cost reduction were directed towards the more economical application of established techniques and included the elimination of brick buildings to house ancillary equipment and the use of switchgear in a steel housing with bare overhead connections to the contact system. Subsequently, the development of the vacuum interrupter was seen to offer prospects for still greater economy in switchgear, and a design of great simplicity has been developed in which the vacuum-interrupter circuit breakers and all ancillaries are housed in one modular enclosure. 144 vacuum-interrupter 25 kV single-pole single-phase circuit breakers are now on order. Advantage has been taken of developments in solid-state devices to develop faster protection for track feeders and to apply a supervisory system of the continuously scanning type in which the wear and tear associated with electromagnetic devices is minimal. The basic principles are given. It continues to be necessary to suppress inductive interference at source and established methods are used. The harmonics generated by the rectifiers on the motive-power units are a matter affecting the power-supply network, and information is given concerning the magnitude of these. A table of costs applicable to the beginning, the middle and the end of the period shows that they have been held down in spite of inflation.


In the light of the problems in high fuel consumption,short fuel replacement period and poor lubrication effect in 4 diesel gas compressor sets in ShanWu initial station,the necessary lubrication to the motor is urgent. The author considers that the best solutions to this problem are to use gas-fired engine oil to substitute Mobil 1100 systemic lubricants. This engine oil can elongate the oil replacement period from 800 hours to 1 500 hours and decrease the consumption of lubricant, improve the property of motor and lower the operation cost. It comes to the conclusion that for the lubrication of gas compressor, Shell NGCF001 cylinder lubricant can effectively lower the lubrication cost compared to Mobil 1100 systemic lubricants.


In this chapter(publication), the purpose is to see through the Tran?Ho dynasties civil service previously the study of education after the Tran?Ho dynasty. As more, based on this study, it can provide a compare of the three dynasties (Ly?Tran?Ho) which also enforced the civil examination in the same period. Because Tran?Ho dynasties inherited the tradition of Ly dynasty`s civil service examination and national university system, the education of both dynasty was able to grow up. Since the social interest of the examination grew, the number of appliers and the opportunity increased. The form of the test also became more organized. The activation of the exam increased the demand of education. As a result, in local areas national universities were built and even private schools were found. Since the purpose of the civil service examination was to choose government officials, national universities and private school both focused on producing exam appliers. Even though the three dynasties (Ly?Tran?Ho) were influenced by the chinese examination system, the reason why the three dynasty`s education and examination system couldn`t developed has relation with the expansion of Buddhism and Taoism. This can be proved by the progress in education from Ly dynasty which it`s national religion was Confucianism. As a result, Tran?Ho dynasties laid the foundation of Vietnam`s civil service examination and education system.


Because of the increasingly complex geometries involved in flow problems of industrial relevance, numerical methods based on unstructured meshes have become popular in CFD. However, the corresponding meshing methods require a high-quality CAD description of the geometry, which is not part of the traditional workflow in fields like architecture or medicine. Many professionals also lack the expertise required to build appropriate meshes for flow problems. Nevertheless, recent progresses in meshing technology could overcome these barriers. In this talk, we propose to use anisotropic adaption to generate a nearly body-fitted mesh. The mesh is locally refined depending on a level-set function that describes the geometry without resorting to a CAD model. Dirichlet boundary conditions can then be imposed in a strong manner by node collocation, just as with classical body-fitted meshes. Unlike other treatments of embedded geometries, this technique only requires a standard finite element formulation, without basis enrichement or Lagrange multipliers that alter its numerical properties. In a first step, we apply this method to academic Poisson problems. We show that an appropriate level of local refinement around the geometry recovers the optimal grid convergence rate for the solution, whereas uniform refinement yields first-order convergence. Controlling the anisotropic character of the adaption further enables the error of the geometrical discretization to decrease at optimal rate, while there is no geometrical convergence with isotropic refinement. This affects particularly the computation of integral quantities, such as lift and drag, in practical simulations. Anisotropic adaptive refinement also slows down the growth of the number of unknowns, which limits the computational overhead. Then, we combine the embedded geometry treatment with iterative anisotropic adaption to the solution, for two incompressible flow problems involving respectively a cylinder and a NACA0012 airfoil. The methodology yields accurate flow solutions, despite very limited user interaction.


This paper presents a novel interval type-2 fuzzy logic control architecture for flocking system when the system has noisy sensor measurements. The traditional type-1 fuzzy logic controller (FLC) using precise type-1 fuzzy sets cannot fully model and handle the uncertainties of sensor data. However, type-2 FLC using type-2 fuzzy sets with a footprint of uncertainty (FOU) produces better performances under noisy environments. In this paper, therefore, we present a reactive control architecture for flocking algorithm that is based on interval type-2 FLC to implement the flocking behaviors consisting separation, obstacle avoidance, and velocity matching behaviors. The type-2 based control system could cope with the uncertainties of noisy sensor measurements and resulted in good performances that outperformed the type-1 FLC.


Market economy is a kind of regular economy, competitive economy and legal economy. The idea of monopolism we discuss here is not only the monopoly of production and market, but also all kinds of behavior excluding competition, namely behavior restraining competition. Monopolism in China mostly does not rely on the centralization of production but by right of administration force. The department monopolism and region quarantine blocked forming a large national market and worsen the market competition condition. One of the most effective methods to punish the monopoly is to establish rules of law against monopoly, strengthen the control of monopoly and encourage the orderly competition.


In field trials atrazine at 1 kg/ha pre-em. effectively controlled weeds and gave the highest d.m. yield of sorghum (6440 kg/ha compared with 3250 kg for a control). Pre-sowing and pre-em. application of atrazine at 2 kg reduced the yield by 13.4 and 28.5%, respectively, as compared with 1 kg. Atrazine at 1 kg/ha did not affect a following crop of fodder oats whereas 2 kg decreased the oat yield. The economics of the treatments are discussed.


It was brought to our attention by M. Fitting that Beth's semantic tableau system using the intuitionistic propositional rules and the classical quantifier rules produces a correct but incomplete axiomatization of the logic CD of constant domains. The formula where T is a truth constant, being an instance of a formula which is valid in all Kripke models with constant domains but which is not provable without cut. From the Fitting formula one can immediately obtain that the sequent although provable in the system GD outlined in [3], does not have a cut-free proof (in the system GD). If the only problem with GD were the sequent S0, then we could extend GD to the system GD+ by adding the following (correct) rule: Since the new rule still satisfies the subformula property a cut elimination theorem for GD+ would be a step in the right direction for a syntactical proof for the interpolation theorem for the logic of constant domains (cf. Gabbay [2]; see also §4). Unfortunately, one can show that the sequent where P is a propositional parameter (or formula without x free) has a derivation in GD+, but does not have a cut-free derivation (in GD+). Of course, we could extend GD+ to GD++ by adding the following correct (and with the subformula property) rule: But then we can find a sequent S2 which, although provable with cut in GD++, does not have a cut-free derivation in GD++.


This paper investigates turbo equalization schemes for combating intersymbol interference caused by the broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) channel. An adaptive scheme and the conventional non-adaptive scheme are compared in terms of complexity and performance. Our study reveals that the adaptive turbo equalization achieves much reduced complexity with acceptable performance degradation, which makes it suitable for high data rate BFWA applications.


In patients with a solitary kidney; residual renal volume is an important prognostic factor for kidney survival. At present, the impact of renal cysts on solitary kidney survival is not clear. The aim of this study is to examine the association of cysts on progression of renal failure in patients with a solitary kidney.


Next-generation bioanalytical approaches for protein-level measurements are advanced by the integration capacity of microfluidic design strategies, as well as the fine fluid and material control possible. Photopatterning of polymers within fluidic volumes is a key tool in the suite of technologies available for seamless integration of assay measurement modalities, as well as rapid target detection. Here, we overview recent advances in heterogeneous and homogeneous immunoassays using functional polymers, electrophoretic transport, and microdevices.


The Salt Transport Pyrochemical Process is being evaluated for coprocessing uranium and plutonium in spent LWR and LMFBR oxide fuel. The main objective is to develop a proliferation resistant process for recycle of uranium and plutonium. Diversion and proliferation resistance against weapons is enhanced by leaving part of the fission product elements with the uranium-plutonium product. The cladding (zircaloy or stainless steel) is removed from the oxide fuel by dissolution in molten zinc. The fuel oxides are then reduced by calcium metal in the presence of a Cu-Mg alloy and a CaCl2 C a F 2 salt. The subsequent fission product separations from uranium and plutonium are achieved by a series of molten salt-metal equilibrations. Vacuum distillation is used to recover the volatile solvent metals for recycle. The uranium and plutonium product with residual fission products is subsequently converted to oxide fuel. The chemistry of the Salt Transport step is described. The integration of the Salt Transport step into a conceptual flow sheet is described.


This paper examines the determinants of the formation and activities of community-based organisations (CBOs) in informal settlements in developing countries. Specifically, it argues that the incidence of sustained collective action, and the types of activities CBOs undertake, are strongly shaped by the external socio-economic and political environment in which they operate. It does so through an analysis of a survey of leaders of 80 randomly sampled informal settlements in two cities in Metro Manila, Quezon City and Manila. The results reveal that, where CBOs confront a politically hostile environment and face the immediate prospect of eviction, they engage in less collective action around community improvement, but are more likely to engage in politically oriented rallies or demonstrations. The survey further reveals the important role of professional non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in ensuring the accountability of CBOs to their residents.


Non-communicable diseases, such as coronary heart disease (CHD), are the leading cause of death globally, and their link to lifestyle behaviours has led to national and global investment in healthy-lifestyle promotion. Located within the logic of neoliberal governance, health promotion constructs healthy lifestyle as a matter of individual responsibility and choice. Critical research identifies the potential for judgement and blame through this individualistic construction, suggesting an alternative framework is needed. But there is a gap in critical health research that considers how dominant health discourses are negotiated by couples. In contrast, mainstream health psychology research identifies intimate relationships as important mediators of health benefits. But findings are inconclusive, and indicate that wider social factors may contribute to the complexity of couples' health behaviours. Drawing these two literatures together, this thesis aimed to explore couples' management of individualistic and pervasive healthy lifestyle advice. In developing a theoretical framework that accounted for the complexity of couples' health behaviours, it also aimed to provide an affirmative alternative to the logic of blame. To meet these aims, people in long-term relationships were interviewed about lifestyle and lifestyle change, both in the absence of diagnosed illness (Study 1), and after a diagnosis with CHD (Study 2). Their talk was analysed using a novel poststructuralist theoretical framework that combined Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) with Deleuzian concepts of affect, assemblages, and time. Study 1 was designed to identify key issues in participants' talk about healthy living within relationships and test the analytical framework. In individual semi-structured interviews with seven people (five women and two men), participants extended neoliberal discourses of individual health responsibility to encompass their partners. Within this joint endeavour there were three discourses: 'weight...is a relationship thing', in which participants' negotiated distinct but parallel discourses of appearance and health; 'risky relationships', in which they constructed healthy lifestyle as joint risk management; and 'drift back into comfortableness', which built an account of healthy lifestyle as fluid, effortful and short term.


The effect of wax in an acrylic urethane (AU) film on the adhesion strength between AU film and steel sheet treated with Zn-Ni and chromium was investigated by varying the amount of wax using a pull-off test. The adhesion strength decreased as the amount of wax increased. Since the wax in the AU film can react with the reactive functional groups of imine ester (hardener), the cohesive strength of the AU film can be reduced. The distribution of wax in the AU film on a polar and a nonpolar substrate, whose contact angles with water were 30° and 75°, respectively, was examined using contact angle measurements and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The distribution of wax in the AU film was greatly affected by the degree of polarity of the substrate. In the case of the nonpolar substrate, the wax in the AU film migrated towards the film/nonpolar substrate interface to form a weak boundary layer, where the failure occurred. In the case of the polar substrate, the amount of wax at the film/polar substrate ...


A method for decomposing a compound document to represent a mixture of raster content. Method of degrading An image includes decomposing an image into a plurality of stripes (220). Each stripe (310), foreground layer (120) is decomposed into a background layer (130), and the mask layer (140) (450). These layers, in order to achieve more efficient compression, are interpolated to change the value of irrelevant pixels (460). These layers can then be compressed by the coder.


Anthropometric studies are a useful and accurate method for product design. In the apparel industry, anthropometric data are an important component for producing high quality garments. Different countries update their sizing systems used for garment design. In Albania, there are more than 35 years that there have not been conducted any anthropometric study. During these years, there have been several studies but they have aimed for small target groups. Moving into the full cycle production has become a necessity for Albanian garment industry in the last years. There are few firms working with their own brand for the home market, but they use different garment sizing systems. Thus, it is essential for Albanian companies operating in garment and footwear industry to use an Albanian sizing system. Updating anthropometric data will help garment and footwear companies to ensure good quality for their products. The scope of this work is to show a methodology for body digitalization and to extract anthropometric data by the implementation of 3D technology. This is the first and biggest attempt for undertaking anthropometric measurements by using 3D technology in Albania. A target group of 115 students aged 18 – 25 years old were part of the study. All of them were female coming from different cities in Albania. Adapting of the scanning system Konica Minolta VIVID 910, for human body digitalization showed fast data captured and good quality of body digitalization. Advanced data manipulation and body dimensions extracting were done by using advanced software. This would open the way to a larger anthropometric study in the country.


MEMS components failure often happens where environment effects, such as shock, vibration, and temperature cycles. In this paper, the reliability of surfaces micro-machined polycrystalline silicon micro-cantilevers under shock loads was discussed. Using interference theory of stress and strength in the mechanical field, the reliability model was presented and it can predict the probability of the reliability of the cantilever under shock loads. It will help improve the design of MEMS


Introduction Road traffic accidents (RTA) are known to peak at certain times of the day especially early afternoons. OSAS patients are at higher risk of being involved in RTA. Recently we have established that it is possible to identify with high degree of certainty a group of OSAS sufferers who perform significantly worse than others using specific simulator parameters on our advanced office based driving simulator (miniSim). We now explore whether the time of day when the study is performed affects simulator outcomes. Methods 205 (52±10 yrs, ESS 12±5, AHI 33±22) patients performed a 90 km motorway driving scenario on the miniSim. Two events were programmed to trigger evasive actions, one subtle (Veer event) where an alert driver should not crash, while with the other (Brake event) even a fully alert driver might crash. There were three possible outcomes of the simulator runs; "fail", "indeterminate" and "pass". "Fail" was defined by any crash other than at the brake event and/or inability to complete the test. Comparisons were made between the patient populations performing the test before & after 12:00 in terms of demographics, symptoms & severity of OSAS. Outcomes on the simulator, lane position & reaction times were also compared between these groups. Results There were no differences between the patients performing at the different time slots in terms of age, BMI, ESS & AHI (Abstract P21 table 1). The number of "fails", "indeterminates" & "passes" during morning & afternoon runs were: 16/26/70 (n=112) & 22/30/41 (n=93). Patients performing in the afternoon were no more likely to fail the test than those doing it in the morning (Fisher's exact test p=0.1). There were no differences in terms of lane position or reaction times (p=0.38, 0.65).Abstract P21 Table 1 Comparing patients performing before and after 12:00 h Parameters Patients performing before 12:00 h (n=112) Patients performing after 12:00 h (n=93) p Values (t tests) Mean (SD) Age (years) 52.7 (10.5) 52.2 (10.5) 0.74 BMI (kg/m2) 34 (6.3) 35 (7) 0.25 ESS 11 (6) 12 (5) 0.15 AHI (events/hour) 32.6 (23.3) 32.7 (20) 0.96 ODI (events/hour) 32.6 (22.5) 35.4 (24) 0.41 SDLP (metres) 0.42 (0.15) 0.44 (0.13) 0.38 VeerRT (sec) 1.63 (0.54) 1.59 (0.47) 0.65 AHI, Apnoea Hypopnoea Index; BMI, Body mass index; ESS, Epworth Sleepiness Scale; ODI, Oxygen Destauration index; SDLP, Mean of SD of lane position; VeerRT, Reaction time at the Veer event. Conclusion The results indicate that the time of day the study is performed is unlikely to affect outcomes on this driving simulator. It has implications for its clinical use as the test can performed at any time of the day.


For the first time, some features of the early diagenesis of bottom sediments of glacial lakes in the Arctic zone of Russia (Pyasino and Melkoe) were studied using long drilling cores. For the first time, the chemical composition of pore waters for the entire thickness of bottom sediments was determined for the lakes of the Russian Arctic. The enrichment of pore waters with biogenic compounds NO3 –, PO4 3– and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is shown to be a consequence of microbiological destruction of organic matter (OM), as a result of which the labilest components of OM pass into the pore water, and reducing environment arises in the sediments. An increase in Fe, Mn, Al, As, B, Ba, Co, Mo, Ni, Si, Sr, V, Y concentrations in pore waters was found in comparison with supra-bottom water due to the diagenesis of bottom sediments. The role of OM in changes concerned with mineral composition of sediments and formation of authigenic minerals (pyrite, calcite) was shown. Sediments poor in OM are characterized by low concentrations of reduced forms of S (sulphur in the composition of Fe sulphides, H2S, thiosulphfates, etc.), which indicates a low intensity of bacterial sulfate reduction processes.


Islam and the West are two competitor civilizations of 21st century. West is much fear by the rapid expansion of Islam. It is imagined that very soon Islam is going to become a major religion of the Europe. Now European think tanks are constantly working to present a negative picture of Islam. Bernard Lewis is trying his best to prove that Islam is not a suitable civilization and religion for the world. As there are different classes of citizens within Islamic State and society and all the citizens are not equal in Islamic teachings and practice like women, slaves and Non-Muslims. Whereas, his presented theories are quite different than real teachings and practice of Islam. All the citizens of Islamic State are equal before law but there is difference of responsibilities according to their abilities. This article is presenting a critical and real discussion about the social inequalities blamed by Bernard Lewis, existing in Islamic state and society.


In present study, a new model for ACLD structures is introduced. The new model considers both the thickness deformation and the shear deformation of the damping layer, and permits to assume different transverse displacements in the active constrained layer and the host structure. The finite element method (FEM) is used to analyze the coupled vibration of beams fully treated with ACLD. With a typical example, the results of the new model are compared with those of the traditional model. It is found that the thickness deformation in the damping layer not only changes the dynamic characteristics of the control system, but also reduces the control effort of the active constrained layer. It seems that the thickness deformation should not be neglected.


Gono Charles S. (Writer) (Last Name) (First) (Initial) The Impact of Participatory Management on Productivity, Quality, and Employees' Morale (Title) MS-Management Technology Dr. A. Adekola 05/01 43 (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Mon/Yr.) (No. of Pages) Publication of the American Psychological Association 4t Edition 1994 (Name of Style Manual Used) The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of participatory management on productivity, quality, and employees' morale in the United States manufacturing industry. In order to accomplish this, a methodological mix was chosen so that impact could be documented quantitatively through questionnaire data. Quantitative data was collected by means of 106 questionnaires. The questionnaires were sent to manufacturing managers of various companies throughout the United States. Respondents rated the degree of impact of participatory management on productivity, quality, and employees' morale. Findings of the study showed that overwhelming majority (88.9%) of the respondents saw an increase in productivity after instituting participatory management style within their companies. On the question of quality, 81.1% of the respondents saw a significant improvement in quality after the implementation of participatory management. As it pertained to employees' morale, 88.7% of the respondents saw an increase in employees' morale after the introduction of participatory


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The citrus viroid II (CVd-II, Hop stunt viroid) variant, cachexia 909 (Ca-909) has been designated as a "cachexia" disease isolate on the basis of inducing extremely mild symptoms on the cachexia indexing host Parson's Special mandarin (PSM). However, Ca-909 lacks the six-nucleotide cluster demonstrated to control the pathogenicity of cachexia inducing agents such as CVd-IIc. Progeny populations of CVd-IIc and Ca-909 from the bioamplification host, Etrog citron, and the indexing host PSM were surveyed for clones with possible mutations in the locus of the "cachexia cluster". The intra-population diversity and the genealogical relationships among clones of CVd-IIc and Ca-909 populations were also analysed using principles of the coalescent theory. CVd-IIc progeny was found not to mutate in the "cachexia cluster" and Ca-909 did not acquire any mutations related to the nucleotide sites of the "cachexia cluster". Specific mutations of the Ca-909 progeny were found to be similar to the non-cachexia variant, CVd-IIa. Population profiles and genealogical patterns of CVd-IIc and Ca-909 in Etrog citron were not significantly different. However, although CVd-IIc progeny were more conserved in PSM, Ca-909 progeny displayed titre, population profiles, and genealogical patterns more uniform in selected tissues of Parson's Special mandarin than CVd-IIc. These experimental approaches demonstrate the genetic stability of the cachexia-agent CVd-IIc and question the inclusion of Ca-909 as a cachexia disease agent.


Market economy is an entrepreneur economy,and the emergence of entrepreneurs is a main impetus to economic growth.The contruction and optimization of harmonious environment for starting an undertaking is the source of the sustainable development and the key to the contruction of socialist harmonious society for miniority regions.


ABSTRACT Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings and continues to haunt them. Most narratives about the 'Arab Spring' begin with Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor who set himself on fire. Egyptian protesters in turn referred to Khaled Said, a young man from Alexandria whom the police had beaten to death. This special issue places death at the centre of its engagement with the Arab uprisings, counterrevolutions, and their aftermaths. It examines martyrdom and commemoration as performative acts through which death and life are infused with meaning. Conversely, it shows how, in the making, remembering, and erasing of martyrs, hierarchies are (re)produced and possible futures are foreclosed. We argue that critical anthropological engagement with death, martyrdom, and afterlife is indispensable if we want to understand the making of pasts and futures in a revolutionary present.


The layered amorphous titanium phosphorous was synthesized by using microbe as template and TiCl4 and H3PO4 as sources.XRD,FTIR,TG/DSC were employed to characterize the structure and properties of the resulting materials.It showed that the amorphous titanium phosphorous was synthesized at room temperature with the layer space d=0.99nm and some of the particle size was in nanometer scale.When calcined at 800 C,amorphous Ti3(PO4)4 could be decomposed into TiP2O7 and anatase TiO2.