The CowManager (Agis, Harmelen, the Netherlands) ear sensor technology was developed for dairy cows in confinement and has recently been adopted for pastured beef cows. The sensors fit around the '840' RFID button and houses a 3-dimensional accelerometer that registers movement of the cow's ear. Each sensor stores up to 7 d of internal data at a time and is transmitted by solar powered routers in the pasture. The objective was to determine the effectiveness of the CowManager system's estrus detection (ED) feature in beef cows during estrous synchronization (ES), AI, and during exposure to bulls for 60 d. Fifty 6-8 yr multiparous commercial Angus-crossbred cows with calves, were fitted with CowManager ear sensors for 14 d to allow for acclimation. Cows then underwent ES using a 6-d CO-Synch + controlled internal drug release (CIDR) protocol with AI at 72 h post CIDR + prostaglandin F2α with sexed female semen. Estrus detection was determined using breeding patches (Estrotect™, Rockway Inc., Spring Valley, WI), with estrus classified as greater than 50% of color rubbed off, and CowManager sensors with a notification to a smartphone and/or computer. The CowManager sensors were effective in determining estrus in 92% (46/50) of the synchronized cows, and the first service conception rate was 74% (37/50). CowManager sensors detected 100% (37/37), and ESTROTECT patches detected 91% (34/37) of the cows in estrus that conceived by AI. During bull exposure, CowManager detected 100% (13/13) of estrus and the natural breeding dates were confirmed by ultrasound fetal aging. ESTROTECT patches were not used during exposure to bulls. However, CowManager detected 5 of the AI pregnant cows as in estrus during the exposure to bulls. CowManager's ED feature was highly effective in determining estrus for beef cattle and was similar to breeding patches for ED.


ZnO, being a wide band gap semiconductor and due to its piezo-electric property, is the most promising material for application in optoelectronics, UV sensing devices, strain sensors, nanogenerators etc. The band gap of 3.37eV falls in the UV region, thus enabling ZnO to be used as an UV detector. This report emphasizes on using this property of ZnO to fabricate UV photo-detectors. ZnO nanorods (NRs) on a glass substrate were fabricated by hydrothermal method using Zinc nitrate and HMT as precursors. Precursor concentration was varied to see the effect on NRs. XRD, SEM characterization was carried out for structural and morphological studies. The length and the diameter of the NRs were determined by SEM. Polydimethylsilcoxane (PDMS) was drop casted on ZnO NRs. PDMS served as a flexible substrate and as a polymer matrix for ZnO NRs. The response of the ZnO NRs to UV light was investigated by analyzing the I-V plots and I-t plots for the behavior both with and without UV light. It was found that the current increased with UV illumination.


T-test comparisons of midwestern small business owners indicate that the decisions to change customer base or geographic scope of marketing are primarily influenced by the owner's tendency to monitor his/her relevant marketing environment, the owner's willingness to seek outside marketing assistance during the early stages of the business and by whether they initially were significantly higher or lower in their starting base than owners who did not change. Also, owners who changed their customer base and/or geographic scope were significantly more likely to change the degree of emphasis they gave to their original customers and geographic scope; however, this was not a zero-sum game for those who expanded.


Business combination over mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have become global phenomenon to achieve economies of scale and higher productivity. This study examined effect of banks' mergers and acquisitions on Nigeria's economic growth prior to and after merger sessions. The study made use of secondary data obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin covering the period 1990–2004 for Pre-M&As and 2005–2019 for Post-M&As totaling 30 years. Descriptive statistics and ordinary least square regression were employed for data analysis. The results indicated that in the Pre-M&As era, bank's capital base, credit granted to the private sector and bank spread positively enhanced economic growth howbeit; bank's gross credit adversely affected GDP. Findings also revealed that Post-M&As era contradicted Pre-M&As period, with all variables showing insignificant and unexpected relationship with economic growth, except credit granted to the private sector. This indicates that banks' M&As has not positively and adequately impacted on Nigeria's economic growth during period under consideration. As a result, the study recommends that banks' regulatory and
supervisory framework should be strengthened and healthy competition should be promoted.


The development and application of power ultrasonic transducers implies a proper characterization of their behaviour under power operation. As well known, problems such as heating, nonlinear interactions of vibrating modes, fatigue, etc., are specifically produced at high excitation levels. To study the different transducer behaviour at low and high- power conditions a specific system has been developed and tested. Such a system is based on a combination of the electrical excitation with electrical, vibrational and acoustical measurements. Special hardware and software has been developed for the excitation, control and signal recording and processing in real time. The characterization system allows the control and monitoring of the main parameters of the transducer: a) voltage and current sampled on the out-port-side of the impedance matching unit; b) vibration amplitude and phase sampled by a laser scanning vibrometer; c) temperature sampled by thermocouple and infrared probe and, d) acoustic pressure sampled by microphone or hydrophone. Results clearly show the benefits of the developed tool in the re-design and optimization of power ultrasonic transducers for industrial processing.


Many contests feature a best-of-N structure. We focus on best-of-three contests between equally-skilled players. Using a general symmetric contest success function, we determine the relationship between the players' efforts in the various rounds. These results imply that the contests are more likely to end in two rounds rather than in three. Data from professional tennis matches strongly support this prediction. Our findings generalize and reinforce the mechanism Klumpp and Polborn (forthcoming) use to explain the New Hampshire effect in US presidential primaries.


Cybercrime caused by exploited vulnerabilities bears a huge burden on societies. Most of these vulnerabilities are detectable, and the damage is preventable if software vendors and firms that deploy such software adopt right practices. Bug Bounty Programs (BBPs) by vendors and intermediaries are one of the most important creations in recent years, that helps software vendors to create marketplaces and to detect and prevent such exploits. This article develops the theory of BBPs and present a typology of BBPs using established theories of incentive compatibility and mechanism design. The authors empirically analyze the market creation function of BBPs using granular data from two different types of BBPs on a popular intermediary platform. The research findings suggest that BBPs are valuable opportunities to source vulnerabilities in software; nevertheless, the rate of disclosure and hacker participation marginally increases with vendor's rewards and other incentives. Similarly, the results show that security researchers are motivated to contribute to BBPs that offer higher remuneration and not just those programs with a higher likelihood for bug discovery. Our findings will help researchers and practitioners in information security and allied domains to develop a theoretical and empirical perspective of BBPs, and their usefulness to curb incidents of cybercrime.


Rationale: This special issue focuses on the digital and knowledge-based geographies in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The theme issue welcomes article proposals that will provide insight to spatial formations of information, communication, technologies and knowledge production from the various perspectives including analyses public and private sectors together with NGOs and other stakeholders. Potential papers may focus on theoretical developments or empirical analyses. The articles are ta...


Recycling the flood of petro-dollars which followed increases in oil prices determined by the OPEC cartel during the 1970s, large amounts of money were lent by Western banking syndicates to Third World countries in anticipation of extraordinary returns. Some of the money was used to finance development projects, which it was hoped would generate sufficient income to repay the loans. Some was used for essential current consumption, some for conspicuous consumption, capital flight and the purchase of arms. These latter uses were generally not incomegenerating and as such led, towards the end of the 1970s, to new net borrowing to pay interest on old debts. Foreign weaponry was often bought to improve the status of the military and, in many cases, to suppress political rights.


The relationship between winter road maintenance (WRM) expenditure and winter weather severity is examined for Scotland. Different approaches to calculating regional winter severity are compared (mean regional, Theissen polygon based, and kriging with external drift). Variables examined were mean winter maximum temperature, number of ground frosts, and number of days with snow lying at 09Z. These were also combined into a modified Hulme winter index (mHWI). A comparison of the regional winter severity with expenditure indicated that geostatistics produced the best estimates of regional winter severity. The geostatistical procedures are discussed and potential problems are highlighted. Cross-validation revealed that using kriging with altitude as external drift estimated maximum temperatures well, however the other variables could be better estimated. Results of the analysis of expenditure and winter severity for Scotland indicate that winter severity is a plausible secondary variable when attempting to explain temporal differences in regional expenditure. The relationship between regional expenditure and winter severity across regions is less significant, but still useful. Regional expenditure responds very differently to changes in winter severity for each region, and base levels of expenditure also vary widely.


The article considers the issues of organization and business management positions with inter-sectoral approach to managerial communication. It analyzes the results of the experiment on optimization of enterprise management system. The method of evaluating the effectiveness of production management positions, structural communication and management of text is analyzed. The recommendations for improvement of management positions with inter-sectoral approach are given The article explains that in today's world, a majority of management processes unfolds through the transfer of textual information organized and structured in a certain way. The transition to electronic document management, speeding up the staff management processes, the requirement for continuous and rapid quality control and management of the construction site leads to the formation of such texts in a continuous mode. Thus, the control building production process is carried out in continuous communicative interaction, where each element is associated with various other types of communications. On the communicative level machine control is required at all stages of organization and work to continuously maintain communicative contact with subordinates. This it is required to build up an understanding of and optimize the existing texts at every level of organization, to provide for their realtime actualization in the systems of organization and production management. In practice, this is achieved through a complex process of inclusion of the existing regulatory framework text in the texts of the adaptive optimization nature and regulating the progress of work in view of the chosen management model. The larger the organization, the more complex and heterogeneous the process of exchanging text information control and reporting nature is. The article describes a commercial organization undergoing an experiment aimed at optimizing the management of the company in terms of linguistic communication. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of ICIE 2016.


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Objective To modify the method for aortic end strengthening in acute type A aortic dissection operation,and investigate its clinical efficacy.Methods We modified the method for aortic end strengthening in acute aortic dissection operation based on 'Sandwich method' in the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery of West China Hospital.From January 2006 to December 2008,twenty-eight patients with acute type A aortic dissection underwent modified aortic end strengthening operation.We made adventitia turn over and enfold to strengthen the aortic end in 10 cases,and placed strip-shaped felt or pericardium belts between dissection(between adventitia and intima)and inner intima and strengthened the aortic end by suture in 18 cases.The hemorrhage of anastomotic stoma and the postoperative early prognosis were observed.Results No bleeding complication was found in all the cases.Two cases died,one died of severe low cardiac output syndrome and another died of multiple organ failure.No nervous system complication was found except that 2 cases had delayed revival.No sternum and surgical incision related complication was found.The rest 26 cases were cured and discharged.Conclusion The modified method for aortic end strengthening can not only strengthen the aortic end but also make people be able to find the petechia of anastomotic stoma clearly,then stitch hemostasia could be done effectively.The method is easy to implement and effective,it should be extend in clinic.


1. Circuits of the Sacred 2. Civilisation with a Capital C 3. Beyond the Frontiers 4. The World Religions 5. Mediaeval Mirrors and the Virtuous Outsider 6. Strutting on the Stage of Empires 7. Missionaries, Mystics, and the Melding of Faiths 8. Modernity's Derailments 9. Globalisation and New Landscapes of Power 10. Relearning How to Talk Across Traditions 11. Interreligious Dialogue and Its Limits 12. Homelands and Hospitality 13. World Citizens in the Making 14. Void or Cosmos?


In this paper the asymptotic behavior of penalized spline estimators is studied using bivariate splines over triangulations and an energy functional as the penalty. The rate of L2 convergence is derived, which achieves the optimal nonparametric convergence rate established by Stone (1982). The asymptotic normality of the penalized spline estimators is established, which is shown to hold uniformly over the points where the regression function is estimated. The size of the asymptotic conditional variance is also evaluated and a simple expression for the asymptotic variance is given. Simulation experiments have provided strong evidence that corroborates with the asymptotic theory.


168 cases of human infection with Francisella tularensis were registered in the Russian Federation in 2017. 80 % of the cases are accounted for by three Federal Districts: North-Western, North-Caucasian, and Siberian ones. Epizootic manifestations of the infection of varying intensity were reported in 61 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. High morbidity rates in 2017 were observed in the Stavropol Territory – 49 tularemia cases, in the Republic of Karelia – 40, Omsk Region – 20, and Saint Petersburg – 12. To assess epizootic and epidemic situation in each constituent entity of the Federation, the numbers of small mammals and their species composition, infection rates of rodents, ticks, mosquitoes, horseflies, hunting animals, nests, regurgitates of birds of prey and excrements of carnivores, surface water bodies, agent culture numbers, isolated from clinical samples, animals, ticks and water, as well as the data on incidence and vaccination of the population in the region were analyzed. The conclusion has been drawn in regard to the territories where epidemic complications are most likely to occur in 2018.


Polycrystalline 100–190 nm Cd(S,O) n-type semiconductor thin films of high transparency in the visible range are deposited by a surfactant Triton X-100 mediated chemical bath deposition process. The crystalline structure of the films revealed by X-ray diffraction data shows a cubic-CdO phase signified by (111) and (200) planes alongside the (002), (220), and (110) planes from hexagonal-CdS. The invariance of the 2θ position of the (002) CdS diffraction is interpreted in terms of the growth of the composite film essentially by the formation of a dilute interstitial alloy of CdO and CdS. This is confirmed by Raman spectra which, besides the CdS 1LO and 2LO modes at 300 and 600 cm−1, also show Raman lines from CdO at 1098 cm−1 and 952 cm−1 assigned as overtone of 2LO phonon modes and 556 cm−1 due to band crossing between LO and TO modes of CdO. Optical spectra of Cd(S,O) films show a median transmittance of >85% compared to ∼70% for CdS films in the 550–1000 nm wavelength range. The Cd(S,O) films show optica...


I N JULY 2 0 0 5 , A M E R IC A 'S O N G O IN G DEBATE OVER E M BRYO NIC STEM cell research reached a dram atic m om ent during a Senate subcom m it tee hearing.* In a conference room crow ded w ith television cam era crews, new spaper journalists, fellow legislators, and a panel o f expert w itnesses ranging from scientists to bioethicists, Senator Tom Harkin (D" Iowa), in a long and im passioned statem ent, asserted there are no m oral issues here, ju s t personal religious views parading as political principle ("Transcript Hearing," 2005). In m aking th is com m ent, Senator H arkin was jo in ing a w ider chorus o f critics labeling President George W. Bush's policy on stem cells a conflict betw een th e objectivity o f secular science and th e cultural variability of trad itional religion—w ith religion here relegated to the categoiy o f partisan ideology. The policy under attack is the p resident's August 9, 2001, execu tive order lim iting federal funding to already existing stem cell lines. At th a t tim e President Bush declared th a t during his adm inistration, no fu rth e r em bryo-destructive research w ould be supported by the A m erican taxpayers. Now, however, as Congress th rea ten s a legisla tive override o f th is policy—w hich the president, in tu rn , prom ises to veto—there is an ever m ore vocal outcry th a t this is no t m ere politics, b u t th e im position o f religious beliefs, a deeper m atte r violating the established order o f separation o f church and state. A May 26, 2005, ed ito rial in th e New York Times declared: "His actions are based on strong religious beliefs on the part o f some conser


It is usually the practice, when an anaesthetist has a significant problem with a patient, to record it on the anaesthetic sheet.' This is often accompanied by a written warning on the outside of the patient's notes. Sometimes this has been formalised by the use of a stamp on which the details can be filled in: or a warning card may be given to the patient.' These methods are admirable so far as they go, but they are limited by different local practices. We propose to introduce an 'Anaesthetic Hazard' sticker which can be attached to the outside of the patient's notes and on which details of the incident can be written by the anaesthetist. This would be accompanied by a card that can be similarly filled in and given to the patient. Janssen Pharmaceuticals Limited has generously agreed to print the stickers and cards and to distribute them to anaesthetists in the United Kingdom. An example of the text of the sticker and card is shown in Figure 1 . The effectiveness of this system will depend on how much it is used by anaesthetists. It is hoped that it will be viewed as an investment in patient safety and that the use of the system will become widespread. Any anaesthetist living and practising in the UK who does not receive the hazard stickers and cards should write to Dr E. W. Gasgoigne, Janssen Pharmaceuticals Limited, Grove, Wantage, Oxon OX12 ODQ.


discoveries, for example of the Sahidic fragment of an anaphora bearing the name of St Basil published in i960. Most of the fresh discoveries have resulted from comparative study. John Fenwick's 1985 London PhD dissertation is now at last made available to a much wider scholarly public. In it he takes much further the studies of Engberding, Capelle and others from a previous generation, and asserts, in opposition to the current continental—American view of anaphoral evolution by structure, an alternative shared by other British writers (e.g. Spinks and Bradshaw) that eucharistic prayers developed by slotting in new units of material as these gained acceptance. By a careful examination of the several extant versions of Basil and James, and their contemporary prayers and paraliturgical texts (most notably Cyril of Jerusalem's Mystagogical Catecheses 5), Fenwick suggests firstly that both Basil and James are themselves reworkings of a common original, represented by the early Egyptian version of Basil (the Sahidic text mentioned earlier in its Greek retroversion); secondly, that Basil of Caesarea himself is the principal redactor behind the main versions of the prayer, because of his international standing, and his liturgical interests; and, thirdly, that the anaphora of St James, the Jerusalem rite, is the result of a conflation of the older Jerusalem prayer (summarised and quoted in Cyril) and the early version of Basil. Many conclusions can be drawn from this excellent study, not the least the way in which reputation and a prolific liturgical output caused the name of Basil to head an anaphora used today in the Coptic, Byzantine, Syrian and (theoretically) the Armenian Churches. Interest in the Egyptian versions, shorter than the Byzantine, and therefore taken to be earlier, resulted in twentiethcentury versions appearing in, for example, the fifth (but not authorised) eucharistic prayer proposed for the 1970 Roman Missal, and the USA' Common' eucharistic prayer of 1975. It is a pity that Fenwick was not able to deal more fully with the theological implications of some of his researches, notably in the language of offering (explored in this reviewer's Eucharist and Offering [1986]) and consecration areas of doctrine not as explosive in the fourth century as in certain periods since, but of considerable comparative importance none the less. Fenwick has done liturgical scholarship a great favour in assembling such an array of material, and in showing two different ways that anaphoras can evolve by slotting in units of new material, summarised by Spinks thus: ' Whereas the redactor of St James worked by conflation, St Basil worked by expansion, using scripture and theological enrichment' (The Sanctus in the Eucharistic Prayer, p. 69). Fenwick's attention to detail of text and motivation as editor mark this study as of lasting significance in an area that is already 'bien travaille'.


Ensuring a consistent crystal structure over a wide temperature range can be desirable behaviour in organic devices. This study investigates a layered crystal system formed by hydrogen-bonded chloro-s-triazine rings functionalised with alkyl or fluoroalkyl chains between the layers. When substituted with N-propyl groups (C3), the crystal undergoes a thermally-induced phase transition where the chains are ordered and bent below 170 K and disordered and extended above 175 K. Replacement with fluorinated N-propyl chains (C3-F) produces the same layered crystal but successfully suppresses the phase transition. The hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon analogues were found to be incompatible and unable to form co-crystals from solution or with mechanical mixing. Both effects were ascribed to more attractive C-F…F-C and C-H…F-C interactions in the fluorinated analogue. Long perfluoroalkanes are well known for controlling assembly in the solid state, but this study suggests that short-chain fluoroalkanes can exert strong control over the assembly and stability of an organic crystal.


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The integration of distributed generation (DG) into distribution system has a lot of impacts on the original current protection. The influences of alternating current (AC)-connected DG on inverse time overcurrent protection are analyzed in this paper. Based on the setting and coordination principles of protection, four constraints for the allowable capacity of AC-connected DG are advised to ensure the reliability of protection. A specific example is given to show the calculation process. In order to increase the allowable capacity, some improvement methods are proposed. Two different integration points are compared, and finally the one requiring less of protection modification is chosen. The effectiveness of the measures is also verified through the example. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In this paper, the systems submitted by Mangalore University team for Indian Native Language Identification (INLI) task have been described. Native Language Identification (NLI) has different applications such as social media analysis, authorship identification, secondlanguage acquisition and forensic investigation. We submitted three systems using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model and Ensemble approach. All the three submitted systems achieved the same accuracy of 35.30% and secured second rank over all submissions for the task.


HERO (Hanyang University Electrokinetic Remediation Program) was developed in the visual FORTRAN environment using the finite difference method. The program provides a numerical analysis of the potential to electrokinetically remediate unsaturated soil. Using the results of Acar's study (1997), the program's accuracy was tested in predicting the outcome of applying electrokinetics (E/K) to pure kaolinite under both saturated and unsaturated conditions. The degree of saturation resulting from the changes in electrical efficiency did not alter the pH of the electrolyte in the reservoirs. The degree of saturation did affect the advance of the acid front, but not the base front. Below 83% saturation, which is the optimum water content, the efficacy of heavy metal removal increased with each degree of decrease in saturation. Increases in saturation over 83% had no effect.


The article is dedicated to the clinical and social analysis of problems concerning patient's and parent's compliance as well as investigation of the impact of various factors to treatment compliance in pediatric dermatology settings. For this purpose specially designed questionnaires for the participants of development of the treatment compliant behavior were used: physicians, pediatric patients of 13 to 18 years old suffering of chronic dermatoses, and their parents.
There are the following main predictors of low compliance among dermatological pediatric population: psychological problems of patients; an attitude of a patient and his/her family to the treatment of the disease; lack of confidence among patient in the provided therapy (only 20.2% of adolescents and 56.4% of their parents always accurately follow the prescribed treatment); incomplete awareness of patients and their parents regarding the disease (30.9% of parents noted that by their opinion they are adequately informed concerning the disease of their child); duration of therapy, which could be not always effective or legitimating expectations of patients; inter-individual relationship impairment within the triad of practitioner-child-parents. Taking into account the circumstances, professional and personal qualities of the attendant physician, the adherence by him/her the principles of medical ethics are of primary importance for better treatment compliance.


The article is devoted to the study of the geopolitical image of Russia, namely the structurally filling elements - constructs. The geopolitical constructs characteristic of the Russian case are considered by the authors, both from the point of view of the geographical and spatial representation of the country, and from the position of the geopolitical processes in which Russia is included. The geographical-spatial component of the geopolitical image is revealed by the authors through the analysis of the classical constructs of geopolitics represented by the theories of X.Mackinder, N.Speakman, G. Vernadsky, Z.Brzezinski. The geo-economic, cultural and civilizational, status-political and conjectural components of the geopolitical image of Russia, which determine the system of representations and the geopolitical identity of the country, are analyzed in the work. The main conclusions of the work are formed from the analysis of the geopolitical image and consideration of its internal elements. The authors indicate the integral nature of the geopolitical image, the complexity of which is analyzed on the basis of each individual component. In the spatial and geographical plane, the idea of Russia's position in the "core" of the Eurasian continent is recognized as the main geopolitical construct. The geo-economic component is revealed through the geopolitical configuration of the core and periphery, in which Russia will only have to take its stable positions, depending on the future structure of the economy. The status component defines the Russian geopolitical image through the available official and unofficial (image component) elements. At the same time, the cultural and civilizational issue is the most ambitious in the context of the multiplicity of geopolitical constructs: for example, the authors consider the idea of Eurasianism in the structure of the geopolitical image.


The Woburn Market-Garden experiment was started in 1942 to investigate the development of a market-garden type soil from an ordinary agricultural soil on light land by applying organic manures regularly. The 'organics' used were farmyard manure, sewage sludge, and composts of these with straw and farm waste. The use of sewage sludge was discontinued in 1961 and the yields of the crops up till then were published by Mann & Patterson (1963).


This book describes a profound change in business thinking. It is about business solving problems for customers, employees, suppliers, distributors, communities, environment, and societies. It requires building strong partnerships with a variety of different organizations and individuals. It necessitates expenditures and investments in human, natural, and social as well as financial and material assets, and it involves constructing metrics of performance of different types of capital. An accounting framework is required that involves reclassifying expenditures as capital rather than current costs and making appropriate provision for maintenance of relevant capitals. The book has not only set out the principles and practice of this new management innovation but also shown how companies in different sectors, parts of the world, and stages of their development have implemented them in practice. It has therefore demonstrated the practical reality as well as the conceptual theory that underpins putting purpose into practice. The reason why this matters is that shifting from profit production to problem solving is the means by which business in the future will re-establish the credibility and trust that it should command in society.


Abstract A study was undertaken to evaluate the Duroc as a terminal sire in a three-way cross compared to a two-way backcross with the Landrace and Large White breeds. It comprised an analysis of litter records from seven farms and growth and carcass measurement data collected on three farms, along with the production ofDuroc andLandracecrossbreds at a central location and their comparative evaluation in three feeding trials. On the farms, Duroc-sired litters had relatively fewer stillbirths but breed of sire did not influence the number oflive births in the litter nor litter size at weaning. Duroc crossbreds reached slaughter weight 7-10 days earlier than Landrace or Large White crosses, had higher carcass yields (0.4 kg), and lower backfat measurements (1-3mm). In the centrally conducted trials, breed of sire did not influence litter size or piglet bodyweight at birth or at 3 weeks of age. On a restricted and a fIxed feed/fixed time feeding regimen, Duroc crossbreds reached slaughter weight earlier than...


The Chernoff $\sqrt$ n-Lemma is revised. This concerns two aspects: an improvement of the Chernoff estimate in the strong operator topol-ogy and an operator-norm estimate for quasi-sectorial contractions. Applications to the Lie-Trotter product formula approximation for semigroups is presented.


Knowing the temporal change of the seabed, we can understand the nature of the undersea environment in more details. The scale of the features on the seabed varies from meters for large sandwaves, and down to less than one millimeter for the prints left by marine creatures. So far, there is not a single instrument that can cover the whole range and still preserve the resolution. For measuring small-scale roughness of seabed, laser scanning is an alternative. In this work, we report the integration of Seabed Laser Scanner (SLS), developed by Institute of Undersea Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, on the linear stage of In Situ Measurement of Porosity 2 (IMP2), developed by Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington to carry out deep sea sediment 2D roughness measurement and comparison. IMP2 consists of a 4 meter long scaffold and a linear stage. SLS is mounted on the linear stage to carry out the scanning. To simplify the integration and avoid the possible failure coming from the additional underwater connections, SLS is designed to be a self-contained system. It runs on a PC104 with Windows XP and feeds on its own battery pack. The only interaction between the two systems is achieved by the proximity of a set of magnets and a relay. As the linear stage starts, the first magnet triggers SLS to power up and standby. As the stage comes to the end of the rack, the second magnet triggers the image acquisition. The integrated system was deployed three times during the Shallow Acoustics Experiment 2006, about eighty miles off the coast of New Jersey. We successfully retrieved data from SLS for the first two trials; the third trial failed due to the aborted mission of IMP2. A 300 cm times 30 cm and a 350 cm times 25 cm seafloor were mapped at 80-meter water depth. From the reconstructed 3D surfaces, we found that the seafloor is full of shell debris and covered by mud-like sediment. The 2D spectra were estimated from the 3D surface. The results indicated that the seafloor roughness follows a power-law spectrum and isotropic. These spectra estimated provide the boundary condition for modeling the acoustic propagation and scattering.


ABSTRACT – 9 patients with Charcot‐Marie‐Tooth Disease (CMTD) of intermediate type (PMA type II, 10), all from the same family, presented with a significant increase of the interpeak N9‐N13 latency. This increase is already present in the pre‐symptomatic phase of the disease and there is no significant difference between the various patients of different ages and clinical severity, indicating that the lesions appears very early and tends to establish itself equally early. Similar behaviour is also seen in the distal conduction velocity along the sensitive fibres, while the more proximal areas seem to be relatively spared. The authors interpret these data as an expression of a distal central peripheral sensory neuropathy. In contrast, the lesion of the peripheral motor fibres, particularly in the legs, has a different and more severe pattern of evolution. Alterations in central conduction time (N13‐N20) were not seen in any of the 9 patients studied.


Volume 3 • Issue 6 • 1000e116 Pharmaceut Anal Acta ISSN: 2153-2435 PAA, an open access journal In drug delivery system, patients are often given medicines or drugs with no active ingredients and yet still report positive effects. This is called as the placebo effect. The word placebo refers to please in Latin and the medical definition of a placebo is a treatment that has no medicinal value or no pharmacological effects. Sometimes, referred to as 'sugar pills', placebos are usually used in drug trials to judge the competence and effectiveness of new medicines or drug moiety.


Objective To explore the binding capacity of LHRH-PE40 to the corresponding receptor on the surface of cancer cells.Methods Add LHRH and LHRH-PE40 into Hela cell culture,stain with crystal violet and determine the A value.Add LHRH and LHRH-PE40 onto the section of cervical carcinoma tissue,then add rabbit anti-PE40 serum and fluorescin isothiocyanate-labeled goat anti-rabbit IgG and observe the fluorescence intensity under fluorescent microscope.Results Along with the increasing ratio of molar number of LHRH to LHRH-PE40,the cytotoxicity was attenuated.When the ratio reached 500/1,the receptors on surface of cancer cells were saturated.When the ratio was 750/1,the A value of cell culture was close to that when the ratio was 500/1.The fluorescence intensity of cervical carcinoma tissue added with both LHRH and LHRH-PE40 was significantly lower than that added with LHRH-PE40 alone.Conclusion LHRH-PE40 showed binding capacity to LHRH receptor.


Cognitive radio-based wireless sensor network is the next-generation sensor network paradigm. Important to this emerging sensor network is the need to reduce energy consumption, paving way for 'green' communication among sensor nodes. Therefore, in this paper, we have proposed an energy-efficient, learning-inspired, adaptive and dynamic channel decision and access technique for cognitive radio-based wireless sensor networks. Using intelligent learning technique based on the previous experience, the cognitive radio-based wireless sensor network agent decides which available channel to access based on the energy-efficiency achievable by transmitting using the channel. From simulation results, we found that as the channel packet availability increases, the energyefficiency of the channel increase. This lends credence to the fact that the proposed learning-inspired algorithm is significantly energy-efficient for cognitive radio-based wireless sensor networks.


In order to improvethe proceduresin the IgM-captureELISA whichhas re- centlybeen introducedto the dengue serodiagnosis, positivecasedetectionrate in the assay on denguepatients' sera was comparedusing monovalentand tetravalent antigensprepared as infectedC6/36cell culture fluid. The results showedthat the serotypeof antigenwhich gave the highest positivecase detectionrate dependedon the geographicalarea where the test sera were collected,and also that there were somesera whichwere scored as positive by monovalentantigen but were negativeby the tetravalentantigen, and viceversa.There- fore, it is recommended that the test sera shouldfirst be examinedby the tetravalent anti- gen, and the negativespecimensshouldbe re-examinedwith monovalentantigensin order to obtainhighest positivecase detection.


The peculiarities of the joint creative professional training of students, formation and development of the basis of the experience of creative design, rationalization activities in creative and pedagogic interaction of educational institutions (teacher of practical training College) and an enterprise (head of practice on the base enterprise) in competitions of professional skills are discussed.


When minority shareholder laws are strong, then minority shareholders should have more power to affect board composition and structure. Therefore, countries with strong minority shareholder laws should have 'good' corporate boards of directors (i.e., one that looks out for minority shareholders' bests interests). Assuming that boards with independent directors and fewer directors are indicative of 'good' quality boards, we hypothesize that a country's law quality and the firm's board quality are compliments, and thus positively related. In empirical tests, we find that European firms in countries with stronger shareholder laws have (i) more independent directors and (ii) fewer directors. We also provide some evidence on causality; of how strong laws lead to good boards. Our overall findings imply that countries should have strong shareholder laws in order for their firms to have good firm-level governance. Law and Corporate Boards: Evidence from Europe


The economic activity and its significance that take money as key discourse is the impotant content in novels of "Nahan" and "Panghuang".In the history of Chinese modern literature,the fiction text by Lu Xun is the earliest to construct the money discourses with a lot of modernity contains,and points at realism brightly,and puts up powerful humanistic force and practical force.Lu Xun had worry and indignation about the tendency that the relations among human are influenced by money much more than before.At the same time,Lu Xun thought that money was the ensurence of the individual existence and freedom in modern times,so the ideal which is divorced from economic base is a dream.The attention and pondering over the pervasion and influence from economic structure to human spirit structure manifest the depth of Lu Xun in wisdom thinking method.


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Abstract Response distortion is an acknowledged concomitant variable in psychometric research. Although the influence of response bias on the Estimation scale of the Physical Estimation and Attraction Scales (PEAS) has previously been considered for adolescent males, experimental evidence concerning the sensitivity of the adult versions of both the Attraction and Estimation scales to "faking" has not been provided. To determine this sensitivity, adult versions of the PEAS were administered to male and female undergraduates (N = 122). Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three groups and received either "fake bad," "fake good," or standard instructional sets. Results generally supported the view that the total score on each of the Attraction and Estimation scales is relatively insensitive to attempts to "fake good." However, attempts to "fake bad" consistently resulted in a significant decrease (p < .01) in both Attraction and Estimation scores as compared to a standard control group. These findings s...


A detailed description of the research conducted at the University of Paris at Orsay and the International Meeting on High-{Tc} Superconductivity, organized by the traveler, H. Schultz from Orsay, and D. M. Newns from IBM, is presented. Particular emphasis is placed on the collaboration with F. Perrot of the Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire. In addition, descriptions of the different scientific interactions and information obtained and implications of this scientific exchange on the research conducted in the Solid State Division of ORNL are made.


The situation which traditional educational model,tutors' attenuation,the division of the scientific research theory and the scientific research practice in institutions of higher learning and so on have directly restricted innovation and all-round quality of the sports graduate student.They can not get a certain goal.This article has analyzed objectively and comprehensively this present situation.


Studies on role of honey bees as a pollinator in seed production of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.)" was conducted at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, during Rabi 2016. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with nine treatments and three replications with view to find out the effect of bee attractants on foraging activities of Indian bees in bitter gourd. The bee attractants were sprayed two times, first at 10 percent flowering and second at 50 percent flowering. The results from the foraging activity of bees noted that the intensity of Apis cereana indica was increased on 1st day after spraying and it reduced as gone towards 7th days after spray. Spraying of bee attractants i.e. honey solution 10 percent, jaggery solution 10 percent and molasses 10 percent attracted the maximum number of Apis cerena indica up to 5th day after first spray and 7th day after second spray.


Abstract The conversion of aldoximes into nitriles is a well known, straightforward and important organic operation which may be brought about by the action of common dehydrants such as acetic anhydride1 and mesyl chloride2. This paper describes a new method of effecting the reaction.


Objective To observe different effects of cyclic and continuous nutrition infusion on serum nutritional indicators, peripheral white blood cell counts (WBC), arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅲ (APACHE Ⅲ ) score in patients with mechanical ventilated respiratory failure (MVRF).Methods A cross-over and self-controlled trial was conducted in 48 patients with MVRF treated in a medical intensive care unit during December 2006 to June 2009, and continuous nutrition (group A) and cyclic nutrition (group B) were infused respectively for patients of the two groups.Serum levels of albumin (ALB), pre-albumin (PA), transferrin (TR), PaO2, PaCO2, WBC and APACHE Ⅲ score were measured for the patients with 24-hour continuous nutrition (group A) and 16-hour cyclic nutrition (group B)infusion.Effects of the two nutritional therapies were compared.Results After nutrition infusion, serum levels of ALB, PA and TR were (34±3)g/L, (196±28)mg/L and (2.1±0.3 ) g/L in group A, and (35 ±4) g/L, (198 ±25) mg/L and (2.0 ±0.4) g/L in group B, respectively; and PaO2 and PaCO2levels were (92 ± 12) mm Hg ( 1 mm Hg =0.133 kPa) and (42 ± 10) mm Hg in group A, and (91 ±9)mm Hg and (42 ± 10) mm Hg in group B, respectively.WBC and APACHE Ⅲ score were ( 11.8 ± 1.7) ×109/L and 38 ±7 in group A, and ( 12.6 ± 1.2) × 109/L and 40 ±6 in group B, respectively.Significant difference in serum levels of PA and TR was found between the two groups (PPA =0.019 and PTR =0.013),while there was no significant difference in other indictors between the two groups.Conclusions 24-hour continuous nutrition infusion for patients with MVRF can obviously improve their serum levels of PA and TR,but has no effect on serum level of ALB, PaO2, WBC and APACHE Ⅲ score in critical ill patients, as compared to those with 16-hour cyclic nutrition infusion.

Key words:
Respiratory insufficiency;  Nutrition therapy;  Evaluation studies


The present invention relates to lubricating oil purifying equipment, and is especially one kind of lubricating oil cleaning machine. The lubricating oil cleaning machine includes a DC oil-water separator, a dry DC adsorber, an oil filtering cooler, a motor, a coupling, a centrifugal pump, an oil tank with vacuum magnetic adsorber and CCD camera for monitoring oil state, an oil pipeline, a high voltage DC generator, a heater, a refrigerator and an electric controlling cabinet. The electric controlling cabinet includes power source, display and control circuit. The present invention can demulsify and depurate water lubricating oil to obtain clean lubricating oil.


Objective: Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare hematologic malignancy derived from type 2 dendritic cells. While the marrow involvement may present similarly to acute myeloid leukemia, its immunophenotype, histologic features, and systemic manifestations render it a distinct entity. Most cases present as cutaneous lesions with or without concomitant bone marrow involvement, though nervous system involvement has been rarely reported. We present a case of isolated CNS manifestations of BPDCN in a patient diagnosed with of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A 73 y/o woman with history of myelodysplastic syndrome s/p lenalidomide developed therapy-related AML treated with multiple lines of chemotherapy for relapsing disease. Three months after completing her most recent therapy, she presented with falls, confusion, and lethargy. MRI Brain revealed multiple contrast-enhancing intraparenchymal lesions. Brain biopsy was initially deferred due to thrombocytopenia. CSF was positive for blast cells, and she was treated with systemic fludarabine and systemic/intrathecal cytarabine, clearing CSF blasts. Empiric antimicrobial therapy for fungal, bacterial, and parasitic etiologies was also initiated. Despite these interventions, serial imaging demonstrated increased number of intracerebral lesions. With improved thrombocytopenia, she was amenable to surgery where a firm, dark rubbery specimen was extracted and reported as relapsed acute leukemia with mixed blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell (80–90%) and myeloid (10–20%) immunophenotype. She received palliative whole brain radiation and was dispositioned to hospice care. This unique case illustrates CNS involvement in the absence of cutaneous BPDCN manifestations. This highlights the importance of considering BPDCN in the differential of intraparenchymal brain lesions in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, in addition to other infectious, neoplastic, vascular and inflammatory etiologies of brain lesions that can arise in this population. Biopsy was needed to confirm the diagnosis and provide appropriate treatment. Background: N/A Design/Methods: N/A Results: N/A Conclusions: N/A Disclosure: Dr. Metrus has nothing to disclose. Dr. Harrison has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ferguson has nothing to disclose. Dr. Weathers has received research support from Mundipharma and Genentech.


Bis(2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7-dodecafluoroheptyl) dipropargylmalonate (DFHDPM) and 4,4-methyl[(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy]-1,6-heptadiyne (MSHDY) were polymerized by MoCl 5 - and WCl 6 -based catalysts to give new polymers. Both polymers were amorphous violet solids, disolved in common organic solvents, and their maximum molecular weights M n reached ca. 1.0×10 5 and 5.8×10 3 , respectively. The poly(DFHDPM) was film-forming, and its P O2 and P O2 /P N2 values were 80 barrer and 2.8, respectively


Extracting k-order maximal-sum principal submatrix from an n-order real matrix is a typical combinatorial optimization problem and an NP-hard problem. To improve the computational efficiency of solving this problem, we, in this paper, propose an accelerated algorithm with row-by-row updates, called the fusion row update accelerated algorithm, which works by reducing the number of addition operations for submatrix elements. The new algorithm is applied to accelerate color combination selection and maximize color difference, which improves the readability of data visualization results; it is also applied to accelerate stock investment portfolio selection and minimize correlation degree, which decreases the investment risk in the view of daily return volatility.


Extended nebular filaments are seen at optical wavelengths in NGC 1275, the central galaxy in the Perseus cluster. The agents responsible for the excitation of these filaments remain poorly understood. In this paper we investigate possible mechanisms for powering the filaments, using measurements from an extensive spectroscopic data set acquired at the Lick Observatory 3 m Shane telescope. The results show that the filaments are in an extremely low ionization and excitation state. The high signal-to-noise ratio of the spectra allows us to measure or place sensitive upper limits on weak but important diagnostic lines. We compare the observed line intensity ratios to the predictions of various ionization models, including photoionization by an active galactic nucleus, shock heating, stellar photoionization, and photoionization by the intracluster medium. We also investigate possible roles for cluster extreme-ultraviolet emission, and filtering of cluster soft X-ray emission by an ionized screen, in the energetics of the filaments. None of these mechanisms provides an entirely satisfactory explanation for the physical state of the nebulae. Heating and ionization by reconnection of the intracluster magnetic field remains a potentially viable alternative, which merits further investigation through Faraday rotation studies.


This paper attempted to prepare theoretical-legislative counter-measure for corporate crime's prevention, because the corporate crime is increasing in present age In order to prevent corporate crime effectively, we should punished not only direct actors and corporate itself but also indirect actors that deciding corporate intention(mind) substantially or actually. It is not reasonable strict liability and general negligence liability among the various punishment standards against indirect actors. The reckless negligence supervision liability is the best standard for punishment of the indirect actors(supervisor). Because this standard can most well deterrent corporate crimes and prevents excessive punishment against the indirect actors (supervisor). Despite of difficulty in the proof about existence of intent(willfulness), it is necessary that recognizes specific intent liability in supervisor's liability. In order to punish indirect actors, the supervisor's actions objectively have relation to the corporate business and must exist authority relation(power and position for crime's deterrence). Therefore, indirect actors can punish only that intent and reckless negligence(important mistake) exist, It should be replaced not punishment but other countermeasure as sanction against general negligence supervision.


The purpose of this paper is on the one hand to show the mode of action of the integrated transport-economic-environment model ASTRA that is based on the System Dynamics Modeling method and on the other hand to depict the results of transport and environmental scenarios compared with a business-as-usual scenario. As there are currently only parts of the model running, this paper presents only feasible transport and environmental policy scenarios that could be tested and preliminary results for the yet existing modules of the business-as-usual scenario. ASTRA is characterized by a composition of eight interacting modules which are described in their functions and interrelationships between each other. For the quantification of policy scenarios for long term trends in transport the model has been extended to cover the EU-15 countries and the twelve candidate countries plus Norway and Switzerland. Necessary specifications of the existing ASTRA model resulting from the enlargement are pictured.


1. A method for classification of mineral matter, characterized in that said method comprises the following steps: a) providing at least one mineral material comprising dolomite or talc, or titanium dioxide, or aluminum oxide, or kaolin, or calcium carbonate, or mixtures thereof; b) feeding at least one additive that promotes classification, (i) consisting of glycerol, in an aqueous or pure form, or (ii) consisting of glycerol with one or more of the following agents: ethylene glycol, monopropylene triethylene glycol, Neorio anicheskoy acid or a salt of an inorganic acid, formic acid or limonnnoy acid or a salt of formic acid or citric acid, an organic polyacid or salt of an organic polyacid, an alkanolamine, polyethyleneimine polymer of alkylene glycol with a molecular weight of 200 to 20,000 g / mol, preferably 600 to 6,000 g / mol , carbohydrate rms radius of rotation equal to or smaller modal radius of mineral matter, one or more polyglycerols, wherein said agent or agents are present in aqueous form, and Whether pure form, or (iii) includes one or more polyglycerols in the absence glitserina.s) contacting one or more times, the mineral matter from step a) by contributing to the classification of the addition, the step b) one or more including the steps of dry grinding and / or dry mixing; d) carrying out at least one stage of classification of mineral matter obtained in step c) in a gaseous medium to obtain at least two fractions of particles with different average particle sizes; e) possible rep


This work presents basic theoretical methods to calculate photonic crystals, photonic fibers and air core fibers. Based on those methods, realistic capillary photonic fibers with pockets, which are built up by a stack-and-draw process for a closed packed bunch of preforms are shown. The approximation of several honeycomb photonic crystal structures are analyzed where the real photonic fiber provides the largest relative bandgap of 7.07%. In opposite to hexagonal capillary fibers only the fundamental mode exists within the bandgap and no surface mode could stimulate, which would increase looses.
Omnidirectional (3D) band gaps can evolve in 2½ honeycomb and squared photonic crystal lattices and also in hexagonal crystals. This study presents a study of the according full parameter space. The calculation of omnidirectional photonic bands is based on the plane wave method for a two-dimensional photonic crystal with an off-plane wave vector kz=k0sin(?). The results are fully respecting the parameters index of refraction, the angle of incidence, as well as the structure radii. Omnidirectional band gap are found for radii between R=0.34 and R=0.5, starting with index values from 3.0 and show maximum relative band gap sizes ranging from 2.7% up to 10%.
A combination of real photonic hollow core fibers, two-dimensional band calculations with decoupled modes or omnidirectional photonic crystals which allow higher energy density provide new photonic nanotool to visualize and modify a surface beneath the tool at the same time.


A 60-year-old woman had a total hip arthroplasty for arthrosis in 1990, using a dual-bearing hip prosthesis (Omniflex, 52mm outer head, 22mm inner head; Os-teonics, Allendale, New Jersey, USA) with acetabular reaming and bone autografting from the femoral head which was fixed with ceramic screws. The femoral stem was of Ti-6A1-4V alloy with a cobalt-chrome-molybdenum femoral head (62-68% cobalt, 27-30% chromium, 5-7% molybdenum and 0-1% nickel). In 1993, radiographs showed proximal migration of the outer head, a radioopaque shadow around it and iliac bone scalloping. The shadow gradually became wider and deeper. In 1994, the patient had severe hip pain and could hardly walk (Figure 1). The hip was revised in June 1995. The blood concentration of chromium was 0.9 ug/dL (normal value < 1.0 μg/dL) and that of nickel was 1.9 ug/dL (normal value 0.2-0.8 μg/dL). Hemoglobin was low, 10.4 g/dL. Autoantibodies of unknown origin to red blood cells were detected in serum, although no antibodies to red blood cells ha...


In order to study the influence of combustion flame on the thermal boundary in cylinders, traversing fiber sensor and measuring system were developed. At the same time, the influence of combustion flame on the thermal boundary in cylinders of diesel engine was investigated. The results show that the sensor can be used to measure the flame temperature within the thermal boundary in cylinder.


Af ter being propounded, the lean thinking theory has been applied widely and developed quickly in the field of logistics, and achieved good results. Based on summarizing the related research about the lean thinking theory and its application at home and abroad, the paper expatiates and summerizes the concept, operation, suppliers, inventory and cost management and other aspects of the lean thinking theory, and emphasizes the importance of the methods of evaluation and selection of the vendor, and the necessity of JIT inventory management and cost management in the implementation of the lean thinking theory. It also proposes development trends and research prospects of lean logistics, and introduces the concept of green and E-commerce research into the research of lean logistics, which will increase its flexibility and agility further and finally achieve lean logistics.


From the viewpoint of communication networks virtualisation (NV) extends beyond pure operational issues and addresses many impasses of the current Internet. The idea of transport virtualisation (TV) progresses the capabilities of NV and enables the independence from a specific network transport resource. The independence is achieved by pooling multiple transport resources and selecting the best resources for exclusive or concurrent use. However, the application and selection of concurrent paths is rather complex and introduces inevitable packet reordering due to different stochastic delay characteristics on the used paths. Packets arriving at the destination out-of-order have to be stored in a resequencing buffer before reassembled packets are forwarded to the application. We provide a simulation framework based on discrete event simulation which allows an evaluation of the resequencing buffer occupancy. Further, we perform an analysis of the fundamental behaviours and factors for packet reordering in concurrent multipath transmissions.


Various financial literacy education programs are organized by the Financial Services Authority to improve public financial literacy. Students and university students in general are the main focus of financial education efforts aimed at educating the general public. College students are one of the priority targets of the Indonesian Financial Services Authority's (OJK) financial education programs in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to (1) assess the level of Islamic financial literacy among Serang college students and (2) investigate the factors that influence their level of Islamic financial literacy. The score of Islamic financial literacy was used as the independent variable in this study. The dependent variables are gender, university, Grade Point Average (GPA), information sources, and religiosity. The descriptive analysis and structural equation modeling partial least squares are used to analyze the data (SEM-PLS). According to the estimation results, the level of Islamic financial literacy among Muslim students in Serang is 50.2 percent, which is classified as sufficient literate. Gender and university were found to have a positive and significant influence on the level of Islamic financial literacy of Muslim students in Serang, according to the study.


Abstract We report the first crystallographic analysis, as a function of temperature, of a TMTSF derivative. Both (TMTSF)2(FSO3) and (TMTSF)2(BrO4) are isostructural (triclinic, with space group PI) with superconducting (TMTSF)2(ClO4). (TMTSF)2(FSO3) undergoes a metal-to-insulator transition at 86-90K as observed by microwave conductivity, D.C. conductivity, and magnetic susceptibility. The crystal structure contains 2-dimensional sheets of short Se-Se contacts in the molecular stacking direction and perpendicular to the stacking direction. The temperature dependent variations in these contact distances appear to be of special importance in determining the conduction properties of these materials, and are observed to change in a surprising manner when (TMTSF)2(FSO3) is cooled (298 → 123K). The homoatomic Se separations within each TMTSF molecule appear to increase slightly, but not significantly. At the same time the entire 2-dimensional sheet of intermolecular (intra- and interstack) Se-Se contacts betwe...


Coupled effects of mechanical and electronic behavior in single walled carbon nanotu besare investigated by using quantum mechanics and quantum molecular dynamics. It is found that external applied electric fields can cause charge polarization and significant geometric deformation in metallic and semi-metallic carbon nanotubes. The electric induced axial tension ratio can be up to 10% in the armchair tube and 8.5% in the zigzag tube. Pure external applied load has little effect on charge distribution,but indeed influences the energy gap. Tensile load leads to a narrower energy gap and compressive load increases the gap. When the CNT is tensioned under an external electric field, the effect of mechanical load on the electronic structures of the CNT becomes significant, and the applied electric field may reduce the critical mechanical tension load remarkably. Size effects are also discussed.


The road management is based on goals and results. In urban areas goals are defined through the transport policy set by the local government, and the most common objectives of these policies are: accessibility for all users (i.e. vehicles, pedestrian cycle, etc.), safety, environment, transport quality and mobility, asset development and improvement. Decision support system ought to be used for defining and prioritizing different maintenance/improvement activities, in order to ensure the fulfillment of the pre-defined goals. These processes are based on indicators, which measure the effectiveness of the maintenance activities respect to the pre-defined objectives. As matter of fact substantial efforts have been made to define and develop suitable and relevant performance indicators in the past decade. In this study the lessons learned from such efforts are used in order to develop a set of performance indicators for management of urban road pavement. An holistic approach is used in developing the framework of indicators, that is hierarchical (articulated in three levels), fully integrated (conversion from technical to key indicators), target oriented (fits the specific target that needs to be measured), and based on measured road attributes. The present paper illustrates the overall framework focusing on methods and criteria used in the development of environmental indicators dealing with relevant issues such as traffic induced noise and vibration.


The dilute solution behavior of a polyelectrolyte with quaternary ammonium salt groups (N,N-dimethyl-2-hydroxypropylenammonium chloride) located along the main chain, (PCA5), has been studied in order to obtain information about the effect of polymer concentration and polarity strength of the solvent onto its chain conformation in various mixtures of water/methanol. The conformational changes of polyelectrolyte chain were followed by viscometric and conductometric methods. The viscometric experimental data were plotted in the terms of Rao's equation. Straight lines were obtained in all cases, allowing the calculation of intrinsic viscosity, [η]. The intrinsic viscosity values decreased with increasing organic solvent content in the mixed solvents. Data from the conductometric studies emphasized the equivalent conductivity values, Λ, increase with decreasing concentration over the whole concentration range. At a given concentration the equivalent conductivity decreases with decreasing dielectric constant. The flocculating efficiency of this polycation on an aqueous suspension of bentonitic clay was also studied.


To improve operating efficiency of the available rail vehicles,the radio frequency identification(RFID)technology was adopted to conduct real-time monitoring for the physical position of rail vehicles. The RFID-based real-time positioning system for rail vehicles is proposed. The design scheme,constitution and operational principles of the system are introduced.RFID label placement,RFID read-write and technology communicating with the backend servers are described emphatically.The operating result of this system indicates the RFID-based real-time positioning system for rail vehicles has the advantages of high precision and strong adaptability and can improve the positioning efficiency. A conclusion that the technology has a brilliant prospect for being applied to real-time positioning of rail vehicles on subways and railways inside enterprises has been obtained.


1934; included two landscapes and an erroneously attributed Adoration of the Shepherds from Rouen), was brought about by the exhibition organized by M. Laclotte in 1958, XVIIe siècle français , Paris (as The Age of Louis XIV in London; cf. also The Splendid Century , Washington, D.C., Toledo, and New York, 1960-61), in which one could admire The Death of the Children of Bethel from Arras, undoubtedly his masterpiece. Since then La Нуге has been published by T. Augarde and J. Thuillier ("La Hyre, "L'Oei7, no. 88, Apr. 1962, pp. 16-23, 74-75) and restored tohis proper place in the development of French painting by J. Thuillier and A. Châtelet (La Peinture française : de Le Nain à Fragonard , Skira, 1964, pp. 70-74). 3We hope to pay him this homage in a work nearing completion, Laurent de La Hyre: biographie et catalogue raisonné , to be published by Flammarion early in 1972. It will include a critical study and reproductions of all known paintings, drawings, and prints. 4 Catalogue ďune intéressante collection detableaux , Hôtel des ventes mobilières, Place de la Bourse no. 2 (Paris, Wed., 6 Apr., and Thürs., 7Apr. 1836), no. 9, p. 4. No. 10 in this sale was another picture by La Hyre, The Holy Family Resting in a Landscape , but this theme was too frequently treated by the artist to identify it specifically. 5Before the painting was offered tothe Detroit Institute of Arts, Dr. Frederick J.Cummings, assistant director, had attributed it to La Hyre. In addition tothanking Dr. Cummings and Dr. and Mrs. Mopper, we would also like to thank Mr. Julius Weitzner, who kindly called this important work to our attention.


Over time, the availability of investable bond products has expanded considerably to include bonds focused on social improvements (social impact bonds), life settlement securitization (death bonds), natural disaster risk transfer (catastrophe bonds), environmental improvements (green bonds), and collateralized bonds (covered bonds). Social impact bonds are geared toward positive social change to provide financing to programs that are otherwise ignored or underfunded. Death bonds are bonds backed by the cash flows from life insurance policies. Catastrophe bonds enable spreading the risk of natural disasters or human catastrophes to a broader investor base. Green bonds are issued to raise funds to revitalize brownfield sites or underdeveloped areas and geared toward energy efficiency and pollution control, sustainable agriculture, and clean transportation. Covered bonds are issued against a pool of assets but remain on the issuer's balance sheet providing safety in the event of bankruptcy. This chapter briefly discusses each of these products.


Abstract The nyctithere genera Saturninia, Cryptotopos and members of the subfamily Amphidozotheriinae are well-represented by dental remains in the European later Eocene. Their molar occlusal relations are described in detail, demonstrating a diversity of adaptations to insectivory, including dilambdodonty, minor trends in zalambdodonty, development of a large talon shelf in upper first and second molars and a step in the trigon-trigonid shearing surface that provides an extra facet in buccal phase. Minor lingual phase wear is recognized for the first time in the family, but only in relatively worn teeth. Nyctithere molars differ from those of most insectivorous mammals today in having well-developed paraconules and metaconules on upper molars, which in most cases lack a marked bucco-lingual tilt, associated with a more transverse jaw action. Amphidozotherium, however, shows tilting and a basally shifted M1 hypocone associated with M1 talonid exodaenodonty and a minor trend in zalambdodonty. Nyctitheres primitively have three deeply notched lobate lower incisors and a large but procumbent premolariform lower canine. Amphidozotheriines have modified their I3 into a premolariform tooth, by shifting the premolarization field mesially. Amphidozotherium has also shifted this field distally, reducing P2–3 in size and their roots from two to one.


The hole-drilling method makes a little hole through the metal surface that has residual stress and measures the relieved stress with a strain gage. It is used widely in measuring the residual stress of surfaces. In this method, the inclined hole is one of the source of error. This paper presents a finite element analysis of influence of the inclined hole for the uniaxial residual stress field. The stress differences between measured and applied residual stress increase proportionally to inclined angle of the hole. The correction equations which easily obtain the residual stress taking account of the inclined angle and direction are derived. The measurement error of stress due to the inclined hole can be reduced to around I % through this study.


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 Authors report one rare case of renal tuberculosis presenting as a renal tumor. Radiologic investigations were compatible with a solid renal mass invading soft tissue. A partial nephrectomy was performed. Patient had good outcome after antituberculous therapy.


Next generation wireless networks are foreseen to be heterogeneous in nature.Wireless networks consisting of different access technologies with different bandwidth and coverage area will coexist to provide roaming users with their requirements. Handoff among heterogeneous networks, i.e. vertical handoff (VHO), has attracted enormous attention from researchers over the last couple of years. Absence of symmetry is the core distinction between homogeneous and heterogeneous networks, as one network has preference over the other network. Therefore a proficient handoff mechanism is crucial for making the experience seamless to the user, trim down the number of unnecessary handoffs, as well as to capitalize on the underlay network utilization. In this article, we propose an advanced filtering based VHO algorithm in 3G/WLAN and discuss its performance. Performance criteria are based on the number of handoffs.


Discloses an electrode plate. Electrode plate comprises a plate having an active region, the active region is fed in fluid communication with the conduit and the feeding area and a manifold region in fluid communication with the region; super lyophobic layer, at least a portion of the conduit super lyophobic coating region, at least a part of the feeding area between the manifold and the conduit region and the region of the interface on one or more. Also described methods of using a fuel cell electrode plate and a manufacturing an electrode plate.


Background: Refugees are at increased risk for Tuberculosis (TB). In 2020, more than 3.9 million refugees were hosted in refugee camps/settlements in member countries of Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), East Africa. Regional evidence,
therefore, on treatment outcome is important to improve the quality of TB care and strengthen the monitoring and evaluation system in the refugee settings.
Objective: To assess trends of pooled TB treatment outcomes at the regional level and identify factors associated with unsuccessful treatment outcome among patients with pulmonary TB (PTB), bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB (BCPTB) and clinically
diagnosed pulmonary TB (CDPTB) in refugee camps in IGAD region from 2014 to 2017.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted in 67 refugee health facilities located in four countries (Ethiopia=25, Uganda=33, Kenya=5 and Sudan=4). Demographic and clinical data of all PTB patients registered between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2017 were used. Descriptive analysis was done on the data and multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify baseline covariates associated with unsuccessful treatment.
Results: A total of 4,072 TB cases (42%, 28%, 12% and 19% were from Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda respectively) were included with more than half (62.4%) being BCPTB. 59.2% were males and 13.5% were HIV co-infected. The pooled treatment success rate (TSR) in the period under review was 80.7%. TSR was higher among the CDPTB compared to BCPTB cases in 2014 (86.5% vs. 81.3%), 2015 (87.5% vs. 84.8%) and 2016 (81.0 vs. 80.6%); but reversed in favour of BCPTB in 2017 (77.1% vs. 74.3%). Overall, 13.6% of the cases had unsuccessful treatment (treatment failed, died, or lost to follow-up). The factors significantly associated with unsuccessful treatment were positive HIV status (aOR 2.6[CI: 1.7 - 4.2]), male gender (aOR 1.7[CI: 1.4 - 3.8]), previous TB history (aOR 1.5[CI: 1.0 - 2.2]) and older age (aOR 1.7[CI: 1.1 - 2.8]).
Conclusion: TB Treatment success rate in the refugee camps remained below the global target (≥ 90). TB-HIV co-infection, Male gender, previous history of treatment and age (15-34 &old age) increased the risk for unsuccessful treatment outcomes among PTB patients in the refugee camps.


Process modeling and enacting concepts are at the center of workflow manageme nt. Support for heterogeneous processes, flexibility, reuse, and distribution are great challe nges for the design of the next generation process modeling languages and their enactment mechanisms. Furthermore , flexible and collaborative processes depend also on unpredictable changes and hence require human int ervention. Therefore, high level process modeling constructs are needed which allow for an easy, adequate, and participatory design of workflows. We present a process modeling language which covers these requirements and i s based on objectoriented modeling and enacting techniques. In particular, we outline how tasks and task nets are specified at a high level of abstraction, how flexible and user-adaptable control and dat a flow specifications are supported, and how reuse of workflow models is enhanced. The approach is charac terized by the uniform and integrated modeling of workflow schema and instance elements as obje cts. Further characteristics of our approach are the separated definition of 'what to do' and 'how t o do' in the workflow schema, the versioning of the workflow schema, and the separate definition of context-free and contextdependent behavior of tasks within a workflow. Finally, we present our object-oriented approach for the enactment of workf low models: Instead of interpreting a workflow instance by a workflow engine, a workflow is dire ctly enacted by task instance objects which may be treated as reactive components, which interact by message passing, and which correspond to the defined process steps in the workflow model. The inter action patterns between these task objects are derived from the workflow schema resulting in a scal able and distributed architecture which is realized as a distributed object system.


The period following World War II saw an increasing trend towards the removal of trade barriers among a growing number of countries. In its initial phase at least, even pre-dating the war, this trend was aimed at reversing the results of the backlash against an initial wave of "globalization" which took place in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This backlash had taken the form of almost three decades of inward-looking immigration and trade policies, contributing to the global economic devastation of the 1930s. Canadian governments were at the forefront of this post-war gradual opening up of borders. Beginning in the late 1930s, they entered into a large number of multilateral, regional and bilateral agreements that gave effect to rules of ever greater sophistication concerning the rights and obligations of states towards foreign traders, goods, services or investments. It can be said that this trend reached a pinnacle in the late 1980s and the 1990s, when three key agreements involving Canada were implemented, along with numerous smaller ones. The three were the CanadaUS Free Trade Agreement (FTA, signed in 1987, implemented in 1989), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, 1992 and 1994) and the series of documents resulting in 1994 from the Uruguay Round of multilateral negotiations which created the World Trade Organization (WTO). The question I have been asked to answer in this article is what contribution these and other recent exercises in trade liberalization have made to social progress. As is clear from the other articles in this volume, the question of what constitutes social progress is a very complex one. The number of possible indicators that can be used to gauge social progress comprise real income levels and trends, the distribution of this income, the occurrence of poverty, population health, literacy, the quality of the environment, social integration and cohesion and gender equity. As Lars Osberg notes in his article in this volume, these and other indicators of social progress can be strongly dependent on each other. The implication is that by affecting even one of these indicators, trade liberalization could affect many others. T H E R E V IE W O F E C O N O M IC P E R F O R M A N C E A N D S O C IA L P R O G R E S S | 2 0 0 1 Trade Liberalization and Inequality in Canada in the 1990s


In addition to being wickedly smart, David Green had many characteristics that contributed to his great success as a scientist, scholar, mentor, and friend. ERH and family interacted with the Greens over many decades, during sabbatical years, and in travel to exotic places. DM worked with Dave on two major projects—the acoustical reenactment of the JFK assassination, and an NRC committee studying the effects of intense sounds on marine mammals. Recollections will be shared, some true. Dave's work was marked by an unflagging determination to fully understand the problem at hand, and he was amazingly quick at comprehending new information and organizing it into his extraordinary memory. While current and future generations of scientists will remember him for the paradigm shift that his work produced in experimental psychology and neuroscience, those of us who knew him personally will remember an honest, generous, kind, and unpretentious fellow who was just as knowledgeable about sports, art, and current events as about science. We also will not forget that he was a truly fun guy who enjoyed nothing better than a good joke about the world's foibles or about his own notorious frugality.


This paper addresses the difficulty of extracting and/or verifying a watermark signal from watermarked image contained within poster. We consider a situation where an image owner tries to extract his/her embedded watermark from a camera-captured image having unauthorized image inside. This image normally contains rotation, scaling, and translation and perspective distortions from the processes of printing and camera-capturing resulting in an inaccuracy of the extracted watermark. We thus propose in this paper a new watermarking method for poster resilient to such distortions. In the embedding process, embedding technique based on pixel modification is used to embed watermark. In the extraction process, an automatic image registration technique based on projective transformation is used to diminish those distortions. The experimental results show effectiveness of our proposed method.


Classes of linguistic tautologies are introduced with examples and explanations. The general cases exposed below are modeled on the English language structure in a rigid way. In order to find nice particular examples of such tautologies one grammatically adjusts the sentences.


Tensile and plane strain compression tests as well as deep drawing tests have been used to investigate the forming behaviour of Al-Mg-Si alloys from room temperature to 250 degrees C. In addition to the expected reduction of yield strength with increasing temperature, it is found that temperature also significantly influences the plastic anisotropy of the sheets. The eating profile of drawn cups shows a four-fold symmetry after drawing at room temperature, while at higher temperature the earing profile presents a 2-fold symmetry. The analysis of the deformed microstructures shows that other slip systems than {111} can be activated at higher temperature. Crystal plasticity calculations reveal that for an adequate combination of {hkl} slip systems a good correspondence between the experimental and calculated r-value and textures at different temperatures is obtained.


In this paper we propose egocentric search methods based on the concept of "Information and Communicate Activities Navigation (ICAN)" and an authoring support system for Weblog (blog). ICAN regulates the human activities from a viewpoint of information and communication support. We introduce the idea of "Collect" and "Relate" in the ICAN table into the information retrieval and the search method which uses contents and human relationship produced by daily blogging. Our egocentric methods provide more subjective search result than the conventional engines. We apply the methods to improve the quality of the small contents made with Weblog tools.


Dyson's two-dimensional Coulomb gas on the unit circle with inverse temperature beta is investigated with the help of a Metropolis algorithm. Theoretical predictions for energy and specific heat are verified. The connection with the theory of ensembles of random unitary matrices with orthogonal, unitary or symplectic symmetry corresponding to beta =1, 2, 4 is investigated in detail. New approximation formulae for the spacing distribution and the so-called delta statistics are proposed and found to be useful, not only in the three cases mentioned but also for all beta between 0 and 4.


A rapid convergent strategy to access unsaturated analogues of peloruside A has been demonstrated. This is depicted as an original C11-C12 aldol connection between a C12-C20 ketone fragment and a C2-C11 pyran fragment bearing an aldehyde function, with high yield and a good level of diastereoselectivity. The desired unsaturated macrocycle was obtained by a late-stage ring closing metathesis reaction.


This paper describes a practical identifying method for the inertia and Coulomb's friction of a mechanical system by using steepest descent method in which the model in the inverse transfer-function quickly approaches to the true machine parameters. From the results of the simulation, it is shown that low-pass filtered M-sequence is very effective input signal for the proposed method from practical point of view.


In this paper, we propose an associative learning method in Hyper-Column Model (HCM). HCM is a model to recognize images, and consists of Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps (HSOM) and Neocognitron (NC). HCM complements disadvantages of HSOM and NC, and inherits advantages from them. There is a problem, however, that HCM does not suit general image recognition in HCM since its learning method is an unsupervised one with competitive learning which is used by Self-Organizing Map (SOM). Therefore, we extended HCM to a supervised learnable model with an associative learning of SOM. We have found that an ability of HCM with the associative learning is superior to the one with unsupervised learning.


Objective To estimate the prevalence of hypertension, defined as systolic or diastolic blood pressure or both of at least 140/90 mmHg measured on one occasion or being treated for hypertension or both, in 60-year-old men and women in groups of immigrants compared to Swedish-born. Design and method A population-based, cross-sectional study in Stockholm County including 4228 participants (77% participation rate), of whom 19% were immigrants. Outcome measures were prevalence of hypertension in immigrants compared to Swedish-born men and women with adjustments for various metabolic, lifestyle and socio-economic characteristics. Results The prevalence of hypertension among Swedish-born individuals (n = 3327) was 61% in men and 44% in women, among Finnish-born individuals (n = 327) it was 77% in men and 62% in women and among non-European immigrants (n = 123) it was 51% in men and 36% in women. The mean blood pressure in Finnish-born men was 149/90 (hypertensive). After adjustments for metabolic, lifestyle and socio-economic characteristics, the odds ratio for hypertension in immigrants from Finland was 2.02 (1.56–2.61) and the odds ratio in immigrants from non-European countries was 0.52 (0.34–0.80) using Swedish-born participants as reference. Conclusion About half of all 60-year-olds in Sweden had high blood pressure. The high prevalence of hypertension found in Finnish-born immigrants remained after adjustments for many factors and needs a genetic or environmental explanation. The high prevalence of hypertension in Sweden, especially in Finnish-born immigrants, calls for preventive actions.


This thesis is focusing on the level of awareness of Quality Control (QC) among the workers in the automotive industry. The implemented of Quality Control (QC) will different in each industry. The Quality Control (QC) plays a fundamental role in determining the performance in automotive industries. In automotive industry Quality Control (QC) is a process through industry by companies to ensure that product quality is maintained or improved and manufacturing errors are reduced or eliminated. Quality Control is one of the process inspection and auditing to maintain the quality and legal standards to achieve the level of standard. This study was mainly carried out by preparing the letter to industry and do survey by distributed questionnaire, data collection, analysis of the data, result and discussion of the analysis, and conclusion. Finally, it is hope that the results from the study could contribute to the researcher for future improvement


The aim of this article is to provide some insight into the use of the diacritic orthography in the writing of the Igala Language corpus. The aim was to use a lexical approach in identifying some of the words inherent in the language. Examples with sentences and interpretation were also provided with footnotes illustrations to better expiate some of the words and examples that could not be reflected upon in the main body of the work. The article as a matter of fact combines up to seven diacritic forms in order to better tackle the oft en-counter problem of pronouncing words in texts written in foreign language with supporting indicators provided in the work to guide users on how to pronounce the words using the diacritic forms that were adopted for the sake of this work. A total of 30 vowels were identified (5 short vowels and 25 long vowels of different variety) plus 8 diphthongs.


Few studies have assessed the particular relationships between students' emotional well-being, both positive and negative and their learning. This study followed a cohort of mature students through their first semester at university. Four dimensions of emotional well-being were captured (enthusiasm, contentment, anxiety and depression) at three points in time during the semester. In addition, at the end of the semester, assessments were made of learning behaviours, affect and academic achievement. Emotional well-being fluctuated during the semester and each of the four dimensions exhibited a unique and predictive pattern of relationships with the suite of outcome measures. The findings highlight the importance of emotional well-being in shaping active engagement in learning and in determining affective and academic outcomes. The results are interpreted and the implications for the design of learning environments and teaching practice are outlined.


The High Court in Vasanta a/l Amarasekera v PP has decided that an accused person can be supplied with statements made by witnesses to the police during the investigation process, who are not called by the prosecution and subsequently offered to the defence. The importance of this case is that the High Court has the benefit of analysing two recent conflicting decisions of the Court of Appeal on this issue. First, the Court of Appeal's decision in Siti Aisyah v PP in 2019 which ruled that the statements are not absolutely privileged. In so doing, the Court did not follow the earlier decision of the Federal Court in Husdi v PP in 1980, which declared the statements as absolutely privileged. The second is the Court of Appeal's decision in 2022 in the case of Dato' Sri Mohd Najib bin Hj Abd Razak v PP where it stated that it is bound by the decision of the Federal Court in Husdi's case. This case commentary critically analyses the rationale behind the High Court's decision in following Siti Aisyah's case, thus, making it as a new addition to the list of recent Malaysian courts which have decided that such statements are not absolutely privileged.


Sleep disturbances have been associated with cognitive impairment, but their associations with plasma Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers have been rarely explored. We sought to investigate the relationships of self‐reported and cardiopulmonary coupling (CPC)‐assessed sleep disturbances, cognitive function, and plasma AD biomarkers among rural‐dwelling older adults in China.


The Kepler satellite is providing spectacular optical photometric light-curves of unprecedented precision and duration that routinely allow detailed studies of stellar magnetic activity on late-typ ...


Mesozoic intrusive complex in central eastern North China Block (NCB) is mainly composed of two sets of rock associations such as appinite and granodiorite. The 40Ar/39Ar dating of hornblendes and biotites from eight intrusives is made. The 40Ar/39Ar plateau ages of hornblendes from syenodiorite in Taershan intrusive, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, from appinites in Xianli intrusive, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province and in Dongye intrusive, Anyang City, Henan Province, are (124.9±0.3) Ma, (127.7±0.3) Ma and (127.1±0.1) Ma, respectively. The 40Ar/39Ar plateau ages of hornblendes both from syenodiorite in Tiezhai intrusive and from granodioritic porphyry in Liujing intrusive, western Shandong Province are (124.9±0.2) Ma. The 40Ar/39Ar plateau ages of biotites from pyroxene diorite in Tietonggou intrusive and from granodioritic porphyry in Hutouya intrusive, western Shandong are (132.8±0.3) Ma and (124.4±0.3) Ma, respectively. The 40Ar/39Ar plateau age of hornblende from granodiorite in Guandian intrusive, northern Anhui Province is (126.9±0.2) Ma. The mentioned above dating results imply that Mesozoic magmatism in the NCB chiefly happened in early Cretaceous. The coexistence of the mantle derived appinites and the crust derived granodiorites suggests that early Cretaceous magmatism is characterized by bimodal igneous rock association. It is proposed that the Mesozoic lithospheric thinning in the NCB could take place in early Cretaceous.


ABSTRACT 6-RSS Stewart-Gough parallel manipulator contains six crank-rod limbs connecting the base and moving platforms to each other, forming a 6DOF manipulator. In this paper, we introduce a novel decoupled inverse dynamic model for this manipulator based on the Force Distribution Algorithm. The performance of the proposed model was evaluated in tracking a complex trajectory (of multiple segments with simultaneous translational and rotational motions) using feedback-linearization control in the joint space and compared with that of the Lagrangian inverse dynamic model. Results showed that this model leads to a better performance in feedback-linearization control, especially when the reference trajectory is quantized, and with less calculation burden in comparison with the Lagrangian model. The control system employing both models showed robustness against payload uncertainty on the moving platform (150% of the moving platform's mass). The performance assessment and the robustness approval were performed in simulation using a Simscape model specifically built for this purpose in the Simulink environment.


The Chinese educational major of higher normal schools should start from the actual situation of the Chinese teaching of middle schools;establish the scientific systematic theory on Chinese quality education of middle schools;explore the scientific and effective ways to practicing Chinese quality education in middle schools.Complying with "new criterion of class",we should take part in and push the experiment of Chinese quality education of middle schools and creative education.We will establish the theory of "Chinese major quality education of higher normal schools in new period" and carry out the new teaching plans of Chinese major quality education in higher normal schools.We also need to explore the ways to connecting with the Chinese quality education of middle schools and doing some correlative innovations.


Objective To evaluate whether the practice teaching of college Basic Nursing Operating Skills could meet the clinical employment and post needs,and to provide evidences for curriculum design and curriculum implementation.Methods A total of 184 college nursing students after nursing practice were investigated with a self-developed questionnaire.Results The importance of 30 items for nursing operating skills was significantly different.20 items included intravenous infusion were considered very important,while postmortem care was considered to be the least important.Except for enema and aspiration,the importance of other operating skills has no significantly difference with job evaluation experience and teaching hospital.Conclusions The practice teaching of college Basic Nursing Operating Skills can meet the needs of employment and jobs.But the importance of different items is different.

Key words:
Basic nursing operating skills;  Practice teaching;  Curriculum design;  Curriculum selection