This paper discussed the need and proposes a layout for an enterprise navigation tool. It discusses how organizations around the world define their direction based on strategies, but how they until now haven't used any navigation tools. Consequently, this paper focuses on the missing concepts exemplifying the need for an Enterprise Navigation ontology with a detailed Enterprise Navigation taxonomy, clearly defined layers, levels, decomposition and composition principles of object class types, stereotypes and subtypes, as well as clear semantic relationships among the objects as well as with the artefacts. It does so by firstly defining the requirements in terms of the scope, objective as well as which challenges, issues and problems should the Enterprise GPS ontology as a Task Ontology address. Secondly, we describe the integration and relationship between the Enterprise GPS ontology with domain, core and foundational enterprise ontologies. Followed by the description of the design components of the Enterprise GPS tool, this includes its layers, levels, objects, class types, descriptors, shapes i.e. notations, attributes, and relations. Benefits of using an enterprise navigation are being discussed. Which is followed by examples of artefact usage within the navigation tool 'Enterprise GPS'. A holistic usage from different angles and different levels and layers of abstraction are being illustrated. The authors describe the result of their work as a standard recognized by the enterprise standard body LEADing Practice. The paper concludes with a discussion on the world wide usage of the Enterprise GPS standard. We than conclude by discussing lessons learned by applying and thereby testing the navigation tool in practice. The need for an Enterprise Navigation System The importance of using navigation concepts are not a new phenomenon, ocean/see maps and land cards have been used for centuries. In the new digital age, navigation concepts are used nearly everywhere from the plan, ship, automobile, smartphone to libraries, museums and government buildings. They are used everywhere where manual mapping could be automated, direction-finding is needed or even triangulation and course-plotting could be applied. Even though organizations in terms of companies, societies and associations are among some of the most complex things that exist, the concept of a navigation system has not been applied yet. Many companies still believe they can navigate their direction and development without any navigation tools. With so many changing aspects, from external forces, drivers and customers, to industrial and technology changes there is now a greater need to provide a meaningful and well-described overview of the direction, provide orientation, enable direction-finding, support course-plotting and/or define the innovation and/or Copyright © 2020 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). 54 transformation route. Also, within the extended enterprise, which is the collaboration with its partners, service suppliers, the wholesalers, retailers etc., and the attendant complexity, the need for welldescribed navigation tool is apparent. Therefore, it is of critical importance for our frameworks, methods, approaches and practices to incorporate a practical enterprise navigation tool. The discussed mentioned gap of the need of an enterprise navigation system was firstly identified and recognized in 2010. The global development, which consisted of a team of practitioners and academics was led by the Prof. Dr. Hans Juergen Scheruhn (Funk et al., 2010). When the gap was identified, the team worked on various enterprise modelling, engineering and architecture concepts Requirements to the Enterprise Navigation Ontology Approaches to developing and engineering ontologies begins with defining an ontology's purpose and requirements; this is in the form of questions that an ontology must be able to answer. We call this the competency of the ontology. The competency questions are the basis for a rigorous characterization of the information that the ontology is able to provide to the task (Gruninger and Fox 1994). Tasks such as these can serve to drive the development of new ontologies and also to justify and characterize the capabilities of existing ontologies (Gruninger, 1997). After the requirements have been identified, both in terms of the scope, objective as well as which challenges, issues and problems should the ontology address. The next phase in the development of an ontology, is to outline its objects, types of objects, descriptors, shapes i.e. notations, attributes, and relations. Followed by testing the ontology in practice. This is done by applying the enterprise navigation ontology in a real-world engineering, modelling and or architecture situations. In this section, we will discuss the requirements in terms of scope & objectives, issues and views the enterprise navigation ontology should address in its completeness. In order to elaborate on the scope and focus of the enterprise navigation ontology, we will describe the various concepts of the navigation scheme in terms of layers and levels used and then specify how they are used in the context of the enterprise navigation ontology. This permits the reader to comprehend the explicit scope and focus explanation. Enterprise Navigation Scope and Objectives The idea of Prof. Dr. Scheruhn was that an Enterprise Navigator concepts, like a traditional navigation/GPS, should allow for multiple zoom factors, from the various enterprise layers to the enterprise levels i.e. the corporate level, the department levels, workplace levels to the data or document level (Scheruhn et al., 2015). An Enterprise navigation concepts should also combine different needed perspectives that are needed to run a business successfully. As an analogy to a car navigation system, a google map navigation combines more than traditional car navigation views, for example, also the train, aircraft, ship, train connections etc., and how they could interact is reflected. As in most navigation systems we need a horizontal and vertical triangulation, direction-finding course-plotting and routing system. Von Rosing and Laurier (2015), have identified that independent of size or industry organizations have a common underlying structure. And as the structures and context in the organizations should be considered as a whole (Rosing, Urquhart, Zachman, 2015) the following enterprise layers have been identified to exist:


Twenty-nine rice genotypes along with three checks were evaluated with an objective to determine the nature and magnitude of genetic variability for yield and grain quality characters. A study of the analysis of variance showed the presence of a high degree of genetic variability among the genotypes. Phenotypic coefficient of variance and Genotypic coefficient of variance were high for number of filled grains/panicle (23.99, 23.32) and moderate for flag leaf area (19.40, 18.21), grain yield (18.75, 17.82), 100-grain weight (13.47, 13.40), plant height (11.68, 11.21) and number of effective tillers/plant (13.98, 9.73). High heritability along with high genetic advance percentage over mean was observed for no. of filled grains per panicle, flag-leaf area, grain-yield, and 100-grain weight. Most of the genotypes had long-slender grain type with kernel-length ≥6 mm, L/B Ratio ≥3.0, and showed an intermediate range of amylose content, gelatinization temperature, and medium to soft gel consistency.


The application of DCS in technological transformation in the new tower was discussed.The selection of this project from the very beginning,confirmation of I/O points and control plan from establishment to software programming were mainly described.


Purpose: The change in corneal astigmatism induced by reverse geometry lenses for orthokeratology has not been described previously. This study examines the efficacy of accelerated orthokeratology for reducing astigmatism and whether this varies with the degree of pre‐existing astigmatism.


The invention relates to a method, a tomography system and a contrast agent injector for optimizing the timing of contrast agent examinations, wherein an automatically controlled text announcement system is used to instruct the behavior of a patient before or during the examination and a plurality of different announcement texts different announcement duration with the Text announcement system can be timed and announced. The invention is characterized in that, based on the duration of the announcement (D 1 , D 3 ) of an announcement text to be announced during the examination, the time behavior of this text relative to the workflow of the contrast agent. Injector (11) and / or the tomography system (1) is calculated and via an electronic connection between the tomography system (1, 10) and the contrast agent injector (11) over time of the contrast agent injector (11) a time interval (P 1 ), which leads to a synchronization of the workflow of the contrast agent injector (11) with the announcement duration of the current text announcement such that the text announcement at a predetermined trigger time of the combined workflow of tomography system (1) and contrast agent Injector (11) ends.


This practitioner's guide examines how knowledge about the specific needs of gang-involved young people and the factors relating to desistance from gang-related crime can inform effective practice with current and former gang-involved
young people during their time in custody and beyond.


Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific syndrome of unknown etiology and represents multisystem disor- der. It is characterized by the increased blood pressu- re, proteinuria, and edema. Preeclampsia is a great risk for both mother and fetus. disturbances of the ba- lance between the production of reactive oxygen spe- cies antioxidants status is considered to be one of the causes of various pathological conditions of the re- productive system, including preeclampsia. The ma- in objective of this study is to determine the activiti - es of superoxide-dismutase and catalase in periphe - ral blood erythrocytes of the pregnant women with preeclampsia and healthy pregnant women before de- livery and umbilical cord blood erythrocytes of the- ir babies immediately after the delivery. The results showed that the activity of superoxide dismutase in erythrocytes were statistically significantly lower in the group of patients with preeclampsia than in he- althy pregnant women, as in the group of their babies compared to the babies of healthy pregnant women. similarly, catalase activity was significantly lower in women with preeclampsia compared to the controls, as well as in erythrocytes of their babies compared to babies of healthy mothers. an observed differen- ce in the antioxidant enzyme activities suggests a pu- tative association between preeclampsia and decrea - sed antioxidant status. since the direct application of antioxidants did not give expected results of the data presented indicate the opportunity for the prevention of preeclampsia and alleviation of symptoms by die- tary measures and life style changes in the population of pregnant women and women of childbearing age, directy targeting the enzymatic antioxidant system.


Context: Indian medical graduate is envisioned to possess adequate knowledge on bioethics as reiterated in the code of ethics, a regulatory document for professional conduct, etiquette and ethics of doctors by Medical Council of India (MCI).
Aims: To describe the awareness on medical bioethics among trainee interns and junior residents and elicit characteristics for effective training methodologies on bioethics attertiary medical teaching hospitals across Tamil Nadu.
Settings and designs:Mixed methodology usingcross-sectional survey in combination with pile sorting, free listing exercises followed by in-depth interviews to generate rich qualitative inputs.
Methods and material: Google Forms survey was designedand link was disseminated using social affinity groups and snowballing techniques through social media.
Statistical analysis used: Data was analyzed using MS Excel for quantitative survey and Visual Anthropac4.98.1/X softwarefor pile sorting and free listing exercises and manual content analysis for interviews.
Results:Among 135 respondents for online survey from across 25 medical colleges in Tamil Nadu, 57.5%were females, 42.2%had training on bioethics and 54.4%during internship period.Experts conducted training for only 34% of participants. Cluster analysis identified communication skills, personality traits, and medico-legal interface as the major areas of focus for bioethics training and majority favoured a combination of curriculum-based and self-directed learning through online modules, and immersive-blended portals like TEDX styled talks with expertsas innovative methodologies for training on bioethics.
Conclusions:Novel and participatory training methodologies are favoured in imparting training to enhance bioethics preparedness among emerging medical professionals.


We refer to our paper, 'Ten steps to conducting health professional education research'. 1 We wrote the paper to help clinicians conduct health professional education research because our experience is that many are unfamiliar with this fi eld of research. To see whether the ten steps would be considered appropriate, we presented them at the Australia New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) conference in 2014. 2


Contradicting experimental, approximate theoretical, and numerical results have been reported in the literature by several authors on Rayleigh wave transmission coefficient past a step change in elevation. In this paper, reciprocity for wave propagation in both directions across a step is demonstrated experimentally using a new ratio technique eliminating error sources introduced from elastic wave generation, coupling, and detection. Two‐dimensional ultrasonic models were use to obtain the data. The experimental transmission coefficient measurements are compared with other published results. The ratio of step height to Rayleigh wavelength tested ranged from 0.159 to 1.33. The effect of step height on the interference of the transmitted wave components is examined. The conversion between Rayleigh and shear waves at the step plays an important role in the transmission coefficient.


Abstract In this presentation, Dr Orcutt, will outline the health system responses needed to respond effectively to the health needs of forcibly displaced populations - from initial health assessments to the longer term - and the role that research can play in ensuring evidence-informed policies and practice. She will present the main areas of the WHO's new global research agenda on migration and health and outline how translating evidence into implementation is essential to improve the health of migrants.


The treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has changed substantially in the last 2 decades, but to the authors' knowledge, the effect of age and comorbidities on chemotherapy use has not been well studied to date.


In today's increasing competitive market conditions, the companies operating in the production and service sectors should meet the demand of the customers in a timely and completely manner. Therefore, all resources (raw materials, semi-finished products, energy sources, etc.) should be planned and supplied at the right time, at the right place and at sufficient quantity based on an accurate forecast of the demand. In the literature, there have been few studies about forecasting of raw material consumption in a production sector. In this study, ANN method was employed to predict the raw material consumption of a carpet production company. The relevant variables of the actual data belonging to 2015-2016 and 2017 were used. In addition, a multiple linear regression (MLR) model was also established to compare the performance of ANN method. The results show that ANN method produces more accurate forecasts when compared to MLR method.


Self-management blood glucose (SMBG) and bolus calculations are pivotal components of evidence-based standard of care for young diabetics receiving multiple daily insulin injections. This paper aims at developing a smart bolus estimator that takes into account the amount of insulin on board (IoB), i.e. Insulin remaining in the patient's body, to reduce fear of hypoglycemia and achieve goals of glycemic control. Design of the proposed bolus estimator follows the feed-forward multi-perceptron artificial neural network (ANN) with an input represents the time shift from last injection of quick acting (QA) insulin. The network output represents the amount of IoB. Calculation of the bolus required for a meal/snack is then carried out normally deducing the estimated IoB and thus the possibility of excess insulin administration and the risk of hypoglycemia can be averted. A functional prototype of the proposed system is developed and tested successfully on various mobile devices (i.e smartphones and tablet computers).


A hospital receptionist is the first point of contact between a hospital or medical facility and patients. These receptionists play an vital role in a medical facility because they perform customer service and administrative-related duties like scheduling appointments, answering patients' questions, answering phone calls and placing calls to confirm patients' appointments. A questionnaire was designed for the expectant patients, to design the Alexa. The inputs were captured to verify the feasibility, relevance, and technology acceptance for the use case. Chatbot designs are slowly changing from voice-to-voice communication like an alexa which was tested on Echo dot, a smart speaker device supported by Amazon Voice Service (AVS). Designing a chatbot on top of a custom Alexa skill allows developers to use multiple Amazon Web Services. The design has used AWS for hosting voice server and Azure for hosting Back-end which is created in c#. After that we connect Echo device with our created system. The concept of connecting smart devices, makes the chatbot solution accessible at any time and from anywhere.


FIELD: physics. SUBSTANCE: device is proposed, which uses light emitting diodes (LED) based on InGaN with a direct modulation or lasers based on InGaN as transmitters for the underwater data transferring device. The receiver uses an automatic gain control to facilitate the device operation in a wide range of distances and water turbidity. EFFECT: improving the communication reliability. 26 cl, 12 dwg


Based on the analysis of geoelectric field, observational system and the principle of measurement of the geoelectric field, this paper puts the focus on the key techniques of the observation system (including the Pb PbCl 2 solid unpolarized electrode, ZD9A geoelectric field instrument, such as principle of operation, specification, operation mode and system connection and others. The geoelectric field is an important geophysical field. Through analysis of various observed data, we can safely say that the data obtained by the observational network can reflect the earth surface's geoelectric field and its space time variation. This will provide the technical support to the comprehensive observation and research of the geoelectromagnetism.


Rice is one of the most widely grown cereal crops in the world and is the staple food of more of the world's population. Environmental degradation, including pollution, increase in night time temperature due to global warming reductions in suitable arable land, water, labour and energy dependent fertilizer provide constraints to rice productivity. Drought stress is a major abiotic threat to rice production and its yield stability which leads to production of drought tolerant rice cultivars. Linkage analysis will help us to identify the genes contributing to drought tolerance in rice and their relative contribution to the very important trait.


It has been demonstrated that increase of milk yield by 1000 kg in highly productive dairy herd "Rabititsi" (milk yield 10030 kg per cow) leads to elongation of service-period by 18 days. Effect of sires on longevity of the service-period in daughters has been estimated to be η2 = 7,9% at P<0,0005


Today's First Monday Library Chat takes us back to England to talk with Dr. Suzanne Paul, Medieval Manuscripts Specialist at Cambridge University Library. The University Library is the central library on Cambridge's campus, used by members of all Cambridge colleges, researchers from all over the world and accessible to the public for a nominal fee. As the Medieval Manuscripts Specialist, could you tell us broadly about the medieval manuscripts held by Cambridge University Library? What are t...


The magnetic ordering of stage‐2 CoCl2‐graphite intercalation compound has been investigated by neutron diffraction. This compound is a layered structure, with ferromagnetic coupling between xy‐type spins within the same layer and a much weaker antiferromagnetic coupling between successive layers. The interplanar coupling is sufficiently weak that the ordering occurs in two steps, leaving a temperature window between Tl≊8.8 K and Tu≊9.4 K where the ordering is purely two dimensional. Below Tl the spins become weakly correlated along the c axis, but this correlation never grows beyond two magnetic layers. We have measured the static spin correlation function by neutron scattering. At all relevant temperatures the scattering is markedly two dimensional and consists of two parts: a short‐range order term with maximum correlation length and intensity at Tu, and a sharp Bragg‐like ridge of constant width, which vanishes above Tu and relates to either long‐range order or a power‐law decay of the order parameter...


At the 1990 meeting of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) in Montreal a Symposium titled "Pesticide Transport to Groundwater: Perspectives and Field Methodology" was Chaired by Thanh H. Dao. That symposium made it clear that simulation modeling is being used more and more to integrate the field test data generated by pesticide companies as part of the environmental impact assessment required for pesticide registration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At the Soil Aspects Section Business Meeting it was decided that a Symposium on the state of the art of this technology would be timely and the authors agreed to organize it.


This study aims to find out whether 3-step-writing strategy could have a significant impact on the students 'writing results in descriptive writing and also to find out whether there is an impact of the interaction between 3-step-writing strategy on students' writing interest. The population in this study were Law Faculty students in the 2017-2018 academic year with a total of 25 students. In this study, sampling using purposive techniques that took two classes as samples and divided into two groups, namely: Experimental Group and Control Group. The Experimental Group learned to Write Descriptive by using 3-step-writing strategy. Data was collected by conducting tests (pre and post-tests) and questionnaires. The data obtained were analyzed using the T Test and Two-Way Anova Test with the help of the SPSS 22 Program. It showed significant different on students` English Writing achievement from pre-test to post-test and also from experimental and control group. Students also showed great interest on English Writing of Descriptive text by applying 3-step-writing strategy. It means that 3-step-writing strategy could improve students` English writing skill and could also  empower students to learn more.


A bouncing scenario is studied in the framework of generalized Brans–Dicke theory. In order to have a dark energy (DE) driven late time cosmic acceleration, we have considered a unified dark fluid ...


The authors have measured the magnetisation of ferromagnetic pseudobinary FexCo1-xTi alloys in fields up to 150 kOe, at temperatures between 1.4 and 300K and under high pressures up to 7 kbar. They have analysed the temperature dependence of the spontaneous magnetisation. Their experimental results suggest that the alloys, weak itinerant ferromagnets for x 0.5. The results are analysed in terms of indirect coupling models.


Binary Decision Diagrams gained widespread use in the field of logic synthesis, verification and testing of Digital circuits. For PLA based design of digital circuits the number of internal nodes of Binary Decision Diagrams describe physical area on chip. The size of the Binary Decision Diagrams i.e. number of internal nodes strongly depends on the order of the variables in Binary Decision Diagrams. Many algorithm had been proposed in past decades to order variables in Binary Decision Diagrams which uses a simple random initial order and then apply different schemes to generate new order using this initial order. In this paper we have introduced a new method which generates an improved initial order which is used in different proposed ordering algorithms as a seed order and new orders are generated using this improved initial order instead of a simple random initial order.


Species of the genus Anopheles Meigen are known to exist in complexes, and taxonomic characters through Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) have proved useful to solve these. SEM conducted on egg, first instar larva, cibarial armature and female genitalia of Anopheles (Cellia) sundaicus Rodenwaldt are included and many new taxonomic characters have been brought out. These new taxonomic characters will update the diagnosis of species.


Objective
To investigate the application of intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) during thyroidectomy for external branch of superior laryngeal nerve (EBSLN) .

Methods
From Jan. 2017 to Jun. 2017, 138 patients undergoing thyroidectomy were randomly divided into monitor group (n=69) and the control group (n=69) . The monitor group were used IONM for EBSLN, while the control group were used conventional area protection.

Results
The overall incidence of EBSLN injury was 1.4% (1/69) in the monitor group, and the overall incidence of EBSLN injury was 11.6% (8/69) in the control group. There was statistical significance between the two groups.

Conclusion
The application of IONM in thyroidectomy can exactly identify EBSLN, and reduce the possibility of EBSLN injury remarkably.

Key words:
External branch of superior laryngeal nerve; Intraoperative neuromonitoring; Thyroidectomy


Background: While mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been isolated from multiple tissue sources, the differences existed between the cells from different tissues have still remained to be clarified. This study compares MSCs from murine amniotic fluid (AF) with those from bone marrow (BM) tissues. Methods: AF and BM cells were collected from 10 NMRI mice at second weeks of their pregnancy and the culture was expanded. The isolated MSCs were then compared in terms of in vitro differentiation capacity, expansion rate and the percentages of senescence-associated s-galactosidase (SA- s-gal) positive-cells in their cultures. Results: Either cell appeared to be able to differentiate into bone, cartilage and adipose cell lineage. AF-cells were observed to be more proliferative than BM-cells. The population doubling time (PDT) of AF-cells was 92.6±13.9 hours compared to 168± 40 hours that was recorded for BM-cells. The percentage of SA- s-gal positive-cells in AF-cell culture appeared to be significantly lower than that in BM-cell culture.


Barrett's esophagus (BE), characterized by a metaplastic change in the esophageal mucosa from a squamous to columnar mucosa with intestinal metaplasia, is the dominant pre-malignant lesion associated with esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), and BE confers a 30–125 folds higher risk of EAC. Although acid-suppressive medications can be used as a chemopreventive strategy for patients with BE, their effect on the incidence of EAC has been controversial.1

Recently, Singh et al2 reported a systematic review and meta-analysis of all studies that had investigated the association between acid-suppressive medications and EAC/high-grade dysplasia (HGD) in patients with BE. In a meta-analysis of 7 studies (2813 patients with BE, 317 cases of EAC/HGD), proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) were associated with a 71% risk reduction in progression to EAC/HGD among patients with BE (adjusted odds ratio, 0.29; 95% confidence interval, 0.12–0.79). This PPI effect was duration-dependent; PPI use extending beyond 2–3 years after BE diagnosis was associated with a lower risk of EAC/HGD, whereas PPI use for a shorter period was not associated with a protective effect. In addition, the PPI effect was independent of the presence of erosive esophagitis or reflux symptoms or the concomitant use of other putative chemopreventive agents such as aspirin and statins. However, histamine receptor antagonists had no significant effect on EAC risk modification in patients with BE. Therefore, the authors suggested that PPI use should be considered as a chemopreventive method in patients with BE.


ABSTRACT Skilled migration has become increasingly gendered. Situating within the context of globalization and mobility, this article examines skilled women migrants from the U.S. to China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in the Pearl River Delta Region of China, this article aims to address these questions: What are the factors that influence skilled women migrants' agency in migration decision-making? How is agency reflected in skilled women's post-migration experience, including labor market and social relationships in the Chinese context? This research revealed a paradoxical dynamic in skilled migration. First, even for skilled migrants, the capacity to exercise agency in migration decisions is not equal between men and women. Being highly skilled does not guarantee gender equality in distribution of domestic work and responsibilities. Secondly, despite their high levels of education and skills, women migrants had limited options in the labor market and may become more economically dependent on their husbands after moving to China. Thirdly, although the women migrants were not all employed in professional sectors, they all took initiatives to fulfill their talent through home-schooling, and volunteering for community building events. Through these activities, the American women managed to use their existing skills or develop new skills to cope with the post-migration realities; nevertheless, their agency is ultimately constrained by the larger structural forces, including the socially constructed definitions of skills, and conventional gender norms and practices.


Abstract Textile industry is a very diverse sector in terms of raw materials, processes, products and equipment and has a very complicated industrial chain. Wastewater treatment is one of the major problems faced by textile manufacturers. Environmental problems of the textile industry are mainly caused by discharges of wastewater. Coagulation is a widely used method for the treatment of several wastewaters industrial streams. In the present paper several types of coagulant have been used for the treatment of a certain textile effluent. Ferric chloride, lime and alum have been examined in their effectiveness of reducing chemical load of the effluent. The implementation of those coagulants decrease the COD up to 53.9% using lime, up to 65.7% using ferric chloride and up to 81.7% using alum. The results are very useful for the optimizations of several chemical treatments of waste streams from small industries.


Deqing City, in Zhejiang province, has diverse tourism resources and promising tourism marketing. In this paper, a frame of tourist traffic network planning is proposed for Xia Zhuhu area in Deqing City. The exterior traffic, interior traffic and linked traffic are intensively discussed. Therefore, the novel designed tourist lines, tourist buses, traffic facilities and some additional subjects all together are able to buildup a reliable city-wide tourist traffic network in Deqing City. Overall, this tourist traffic network planning may be appreciated by other small and medium-sized cities in China.


This paper presents the closed‐form solutions for the elastic fields in two bonded rocks induced by rectangular loadings. Each of the two bonded rocks behaves as a transversely isotropic linear elastic solid of semi‐infinite extent. They are completely bonded together at a horizontal surface. The rectangular loadings are body forces along either vertical or horizontal directions and are uniformly applied on a rectangular area. The rectangular area is embedded in the two bonded rocks and is parallel to the horizontal interface. The classical integral transforms are used in the solution formulation, and the elastic solutions are expressed in the forms of elementary harmonic functions for the rectangular loadings. The stresses and displacements in the rocks induced by both the horizontal and vertical body forces are also presented. The numerical results illustrate the important effect of the anisotropic bimaterial properties on the stress and displacement fields. The solutions can be easily implemented for numerical calculations and applied to problems encountered in rock mechanics and engineering. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The main idea of this study is to investigate the wear behavior of 3D printed part of carbon fibre reinforced ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) and compare the result with the pure ABS that will be printed the same way. The 3D printer used was a FDM (fused deposition modeling) type. The tests were performed on a pin on disk machine according
to ASTM G 99 standard under dry sliding condition. The parameters used were 5,10,15,20 and 25 N of applied load and 0.6 m/s or 286 RPM sliding speed for the duration of 3
minutes and 5 minutes. The results of the tests showed that there are two main wear mechanisms that influenced the results of the tests which are abrasive and adhesive. The
results also shown that the varied parameters chosen which are applied load and run time duration could affect the wear rate, rate of volume loss, friction force and friction
coefficient of the test samples. Carbon fibre reinforced ABS specimens showed a better wear resistance and durability properties than ABS specimens when operating with high load and long time duration. This research could be useful to the wear resistant industries in the future as it could develop a better wear resistance component for various field of applications.


This article considers the challenge of governance across national borders using the example of the shipping industry. It examines the success of different global regulatory strategies in the sector, specifically the implementation of smart regulation and enforced self-regulation. In doing so it draws upon empirical research into the enforcement of labour standards via port-State control in India, Russia and the UK, and the governance of training in Singapore, Philippines and the UK. It concludes that effective global governance faces considerable challenges. Within the relatively conducive environment of shipping it finds that smart regulation has been vitiated by perceived inconsistency in inspection practice and that enforced self-regulation has been rendered less effective by cross-national differences in resourcing and commitment, compounded by the difficulties of paper-based validation. It argues that, in relation to issues of effective global governance, the shipping industry may stand as a critical case.


What is gender-based violence (GBV)? Who does it affect? What does it look like? What role do the university and the community play in addressing this human rights issue?

This session will report on the findings of two projects funded by Status of Women Canada --CAMPUS (Community & Campus Alliance for Maintaining & Promoting University Safety) and Project PEACE (Promoting Equality & Accountability through Community Engagement)—to demonstrate how GBV presents itself in the local context of the City of Corner Brook (a regional service centre), Bay of Islands and Humber Valley regions and its local university, Memorial University – Grenfell Campus. These areas comprise 20 communities and approximately 37,500 people with university enrollment of approximately 1,300 students.
CAMPUS Project focuses on Grenfell Campus while Project PEACE assumes a regional perspective.

This session will examine how these projects arrive at their common goal of developing a community plan that reflects the concerns and lived experiences of women and girls and highlights anti-oppressive, empowerment-based approaches to working with victims of gender-based violence, including the measures adopted to address this issue. We will also highlight the strengths of our communities and what needs improvement, emphasizing community and campus engagement in the work towards safer communities.

Each project has a strong working relationship with Grenfell Campus, individual to the project. We will demonstrate that the university-community relationship plays an essential role in the facilitation of these projects through student participation, research support and guidance, steering committees, MUCEP students, meeting space, faculty and staff time, etc. This presentation will show how these partnerships can work in many forms to meet the needs of the local community and the university and engage both in achieving mutually desired goals.


tHai^^Sf^ per capita fi * CaP" P"" » a P"""1 the r̂ase tor rLSTS 5iSdT»J « Regions, Selected Yea* 1929-88 1980's. From 1929 to 1979, PCPI in^ll creased from 64 to 90 percent of the ° national average in the low-income regions (Southeast, Southwest, Plains, 12o and Rocky Mountain) and declined from 127 to 107 percent in the highincome regions (Mideast, Far West, no New England, and Great Lakes). From 1979 to 1988, the low-income regions slipped back to 88 percent of the na-100 tional average, and the high-income regions rose to 109 percent (chart 6 and tables 1 and 2). 90 This article updates and extends the analytical measures that had been used to account for regional differ80 ences in PCPI growth in the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS in 1982. It explores the variations over time in factors of 70 production, factor returns, and transfer payments and in the rates of change 60 in income and population. It concludes 140 that the percentage-point shift in the 1980's, although small, was the product of divergent regional changes that 130 were highly significant. The article first presents an overview and then analyzes the components of ° PCPI change in the three following sections. The first of these sections describes the methodology of decompos° ing PCPI change into industry mix.


OBJECTIVE To discuss the hospital infection management in infectious disease ward,to improve the ward quality of hospital infection,and to prevent and control infection inside hospital.METHODS By the plan,do,check and action(PDCA) circle method to collect information,analyze cause,establish plans,and organize to put into practice and check management.RESULTS Making the control quality of hospital infection improved obviously,various index signs attain the Hospital infection management norm and The disinfection technique norm issued by Ministry of Health and infection managment standard requirement for third class grade A hospitals.CONCLUSIONS Inducting PDCA circle method and step by step to insist on it is a good method to improve the control quality of hospital infection.


The color of lepidopteran eggs often varies by species or egg condition, and parasitoids that attack lepidopteran eggs could therefore potentially use color to obtain information about host identity or quality. The objective of our study was to determine whether females of the egg parasitoid Trichogramma ostriniae Pang & Chen (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) showed differential responses to egg color when searching for hosts over short distances and when evaluating the suitability of encountered eggs. We examined the wasps' host‐selection behavior in a Petri dish arena using white, yellow, green, and black clay beads as egg models presented against a green background (to mimic leaf color). In no‐choice tests, bead color had a significant effect on the proportion of tested wasps that accepted a bead for further examination, on the time it took wasps to find and begin examining a bead, and on the time that wasps spent examining the beads. However, bead color had only a marginally significant effect on the proportion of wasps attempting to drill into a bead with their ovipositors, and no significant effect on the amount of time they spent drilling. The wasps also showed significant color preferences when given a choice between two adjacent beads of different colors. The results of the no‐choice and choice trials taken together indicated a color preference ranking of yellow > white > green > black. The wasps' higher preference for the yellow and white egg models generally corresponds to the white or yellowish‐white egg color of T. ostriniae's target host, the European corn borer moth, Ostrinia nubilalis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). The wasps' strong rejection of black egg models is likely to be an adaptive response that reflects the fact that eggs that are wholly or partially black are often unsuitable for parasitization due to advanced caterpillar development, damage to the egg, or previous parasitization.


A similarity measure formula between Vague soft sets is presented based on Vague set concept and Vague set theory,and a celerity estimation model of an engineering project cost is constructed too.Firstly,the characteristics sets of projects are chosen,and a matrix containing typical characteristics sets is built.Next the membership matrix of Vague soft sets for an engineering project forecast is converted by the interval number theory.Then the similarity measure between typical projects and the forecast project,using our similarity measure formula for Vague soft sets,is calculated.Finally,the cost of the forecast project can be calculated based on the most similar one in all typical projects.Typical examples in the paper prove that the model is reasonable,effective and feasible.


A total of 61 specimens of Heterotis niloticus were evaluated by linear regression and correlation. The specimens had mean standard length of 27.09 plus or minus 4.73cm, total length of 33-49cm, mean weight of 2445,108.3g, mean snout length of 48 plus or minus 0.86cm, mean eye diameter of 1.30 plus or minus 0.15cm, mean head length of 6.29 plus or minus 1.75cm. There was a strong relationship between the length and the weight, the eye diameter and the standard length, snout length and the standard length, head length and the standard length, snout length and the weight, head length and the weight (P 0.05). The growth pattern analysis depicts that the growth was negatively allometric with a b value of 1.16


Background: Suicide is a prevalent form of unnatural death and a persistent social problem in Bangladesh. The act of self-poisoning is prevalent in our country, posing a significant medico-social challenge with approximately 300,000 cases and around 2,000 fatalities annually. The occurrence, causes, characteristics, affected age groups, and outcomes of self-poisoning in Bangladesh differ from those observed in Western countries. Notably, there is a concerning upward trend in the number of self-poisoning incidents among females in our nation.
Aim of the Study: This research aimed to assess the socio-demographic traits of adult females who engaged in self-poisoning.
Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study occurred at the Department of Medicine in Dhaka Medical College Hospital, located in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from January 2016 to June 2016. The study aimed to investigate self-poisoning among adult female patients, and 100 participants were included as subjects. Prior to data collection, informed consent was obtained from all the participants in accordance with ethical guidelines. The collected data were subsequently processed, analyzed, and managed using MS Excel and SPSS version 23.0 software, as required for the study.
Results: The average age of the participants in the study was 28.19±9.84 years. Most participants resided in rural areas (62%), followed by 75% who identified as Muslim. About 55% of the participants came from joint families, and the occupation most frequently reported was "housewife" (30%). Around 51% of the cases belonged to the lower economic class, while 48% of the patients had completed primary-level education. Among the participants, 51% were married. Regarding the timing of self-poisoning incidents, the majority occurred between 6 am and 12 pm (42%). Insecticide was the most commonly used poison material, accounting for 43% of the cases. Notably, a significant majority (81%) of the self-poisoning patients did not have any previous illnesses.
Conclusion: Intentional self-poisoning is higher among females in younger age groups, particularly among homemakers and students. The majority of individuals affected by this issue come from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Self-poisoning incidents are more likely to occur during the daytime, and insecticide is most commonly used for this purpose among females. The leading causes of deliberate self-poisoning in this demographic are familial conflicts and experiencing disappointment in romantic relationships.


At the present information is accepted as an important component of management by organizations. In this study there is conceptual axamination of knowledge, production of knowledge ve knowledge management. In addition to this, it is focused on the steps of developing knowledge management system.


Abstract : Coarse-grain models provide an efficient means to simulate and investigate systems in which the desired behavior, property, or response is inherently at the mesoscale those that are both inaccessible to full atomistic representations and inapplicable to continuum theory. Granted, a developed coarse-grain model can only reflect the behavior included in their governing potentials and associated parameters, and consequently, the source of such parameters typically determines the accuracy and utility of the coarse-grain model. It is our contention that a complete theoretical foundation for any system requires synergistic multiscale transitions from atomic to mesoscale to macroscale descriptions. Hierarchical handshaking at each scale is crucial to predict structure property relationships, to provide fundamental mechanistic understanding, and to enable predictive modeling and material optimization to guide synthetic design efforts. Indeed, a finer-trains-coarser approach is not limited to bridge atomistic to mesoscopic scales (which is the focus of the current discussion), but can also refer to hierarchical parameterization transcending any scale, such as mesoscopic to continuum levels. Such a multiscale modeling paradigm establishes a fundamental link between atomistic behavior and the coarse-grain representation, providing a consistent theoretical approach to develop coarse-grain models for systems of various scales, constituent materials, and intended applications.


In this letter, we introduce a novel Multicast Collision Prevention (MCP) mechanism for IEEE 802.11 WLANs. The proposed MCP mechanism has been designed following the operation principles of the IEEE 802.11 standard. Our analysis shows that the proposed MCP mechanism effectively improves the reliability and efficiency of the multicast mechanism defined by the IEEE 802.11 standard. Simulation results also show that our proposal properly interoperates with the 802.11 unicast mechanism.


The study was carried out on 28 white Wistar adult female rats from F1 generation (derived from females and males exposed for three months before mating to potassium dichromate, 25, 50 and 75 ppm CrVI). F1 generation was exposed in utero and until sexual maturity to the same Cr VI levels. The study pointed out: significant increase of sexual cycles duration comparative to control group and over the physiological limits, directly correlated to exposure level (p<0.01); changes in regularity of sexual cycles, respectively: significant (p<0.01) decrease of proestrus, estrus and diestrus percentages in physiological limits as duration and inversely correlated to exposure level, appearance of sexual cycles with absent proestrus and estrus, directly correlated with the exposure level (p<0.01) and of prolonged diestrus, directly correlated to exposure level, (p<0.01).


Conventional wisdom holds that tort awards for nonpecuniary losses are undesirable from an insurance standpoint. Professors Croley and Hanson challenge this wisdom. After providing a critique of several reform proposals predicated on that wisdom and explaining why rational consumers might well demand insurance against nonpecuniary losses, they argue that the empirical evidence upon which the conventional wisdom is largely based is more complicated than previously recognized. In particular, several market impediments seriously limit the extent to which inferences about consumer demand can be drawn from looking solely to first-party insurance markets. With those impediments in mind, however, one can see more clearly the modest market evidence of such demand. Moreover, certain nonmarket evidence further suggests that consumers may demand insurance against nonpecuniary losses, though the market's ability to answer that demand is limited. The tort system, in contrast, has several advantages that may render it a superior institution for providing nonpecuniary-loss insurance.


The main objective of this study is to propose an internet telephone interception system under PcP SIP structure and to investigate VoIP interception mechanism under PcP SIP, DHT and the conventional centralized SIP structure. The stabilization operation in Chord is utilized to acquire the Resource Key of the intercepted target and to play the role of man-in-the-middle to achieve online connection and VoIP interception. We implement the proposed interception system in PcP SIP environment to show the feasibility.


In this paper, I will explore the hegemony of the concept of hegemony, as it relates to current articulations of popular struggles. Since Marx wrote The German Ideology, it has more or less been taken for granted that the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class. With Marx and later Gramsci, the idea of hegemony began to take hold, mainly as an explanation of the ability of a social system to keep balanced and afloat despite internal conflicts and contradictions. As I will argue, there is an underlying notion of social totality at work within the concept of hegemony. Through an analysis of Laclau and Mouffe, I will argue that the concept of hegemony maintains this illusion of social totality, which can have far-reaching effects in terms of how the social sciences understand thought and practice. Through the work of the anarchist David Graeber, I will explore alternate ways of conceptualizing social practices. Hegemony is virtually equivalent with hierarchy, in terms of world power and dominant ideological practices; it has been thought to go so far as to limit the bounds of thought and language itself. So-called "counter-hegemonic" social practices merely mirror the template offered by hegemony, a concept developed to explain social domination. Is there a way to see beyond this equation of power and hegemony? With its emphasis on vision and practice, and the imagining of new possibilities, I believe that anarchist theory stands as the most likely candidate to offer an answer to this question.


Tanzania has been rightly known as one of the most successful instances of having pursued an active endoglossic language policy as well as of...


One-dimensional semiconductor materials Bi2Te 3-Te nanocomposites, with a sheet-rod nanostructure can be fabrication on a large scale using Te nanowires as the in-situ template under a simple reflux process, and the yield is high up to 90%. The product was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), en- ergy dispersive X-ray spectroscope (EDS) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). It is a promising way to fab- ricate one-dimensional nanocrystals of other metals and semiconductors. The influence of KOH, EDTA and reaction time are discussed. The formation mechanism of such a heterostructure is also proposed.


We present the details of in-plane thermoelectric properties of nano-titanium disulfide (nano-TiS2) / Carbon nanotube (CNT) / poly(3,4- ethylenedioxythiophene)–poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT–PSS) hybrid films, in which PEDOT–PSS was used as a binder with high electrical conductivity. We attempted to reduce thermal conductivity, κ, of PEDOT–PSS/CNT hybrid film by enhancing the phonon scattering at the interface between CNT and nano-TiS2 by the addition of nano-TiS2. The Seebeck coefficient (S), electrical conductivity (σ), and power factor (PF) of a nano- TiS2/CNT/PEDOT–PSS hybrid film at 50 °C for a weight ratio of 1:9:23 (CNT content 70 wt%) were S = 33.3 μV/K, σ= 406 S/cm, and PF = 45.0 µW/(mK2), respectively. The in-plane thermal conductivity (κ//) was 0.91 W/(mK) at room temperature for the hybrid film with a weight ratio of 1:9:23 (CNT content = 70 wt%). Moreover, the in-plane ZT of the hybrid film was 0.0163, which is about 4 times greater than that for PEDOT–PSS and CNT buckypaper (BP).


Persistent spectral hole burning is observed at room temperature in the excitation spectrum for the 7F0→5D0 transition of Sm2+ in KLaF4 single crystals. The hole width and depth are about 10 cm−1 and 18% of the total intensity, respectively. It is concluded that the dominant burning mechanism in this crystal is a photoionization of electron trapping at a site other than Sm3+ ions because of the absence of an antihole around the burned hole.


A graphene/silicon Schottky junction-based ion-sensor with ultrahigh sensitivity for metal ions in a liquid environment is reported. High-quality single layer graphene grown in CVD system was used for device fabrication, and the sensor chip was packaged and encapsulated on a PCB with epoxy resin to meet its aquatic operating environment. Graphene's atomically thin nature and tunable fermi level enabled the device to easily detect ion concentration variations from variation in the Schottky barrier height at the graphene/silicon heterojunction interface. The junction current was observed to change exponentially with the Schottky barrier height, which offers huge advantage over commonly used field effect transistor for sensing applications.


Objective To investigate the curative effects of Xiaoaiping combined with octreotide on the immune function in patients with primary hepatic cancer(PHC).Methods Fifty-eight patients with PHC were randomly divided into the treatment group on Xiaoaiping plus octreotide and the control group on optimal supportive care.The immune parameters,including CD3+,CD4+,CD8+ and CD4+/CD8+ in the peripheral blood samples from these patients,were measured before and at one week,one month and two months after treatment.Results In the treatment group,the blood levels of T cell subgroups(CD3+,CD4+,CD8+,CD4+/CD8+) did not show obvious change from baseline at one week after treatment(P0.05),while a significant improvement in these parameters were achieved in one month(P0.01).Conclusion Treatment with Xiaoaiping plus octreotide may enhance the cellular immune function in patients with PHC.


According to our previous results porphyrin can interact not only with visible light but with ionizing radiation also. This phenomenon gives us new possibility to combine photosensitization with radiosensitization. Data obtained on BALB/c mice with 7-day Ehrlich ascites tumors pretreated with 30 mg/kg HP dimethylether (not toxic and not mutagenic concentration) and irradiated with 60Co source (2 Gy) and visible light source (5 J/cm2) showed remarkable inhibition of tumor growth. Two Gy alone inhibited Ehrlich ascites tumor growth by 17%, whereas combination of 30 mg/kg HPde and 2 Gy (radiosensitization) -- by 38%. Photosensitization (30 mg/kg HPde plus 5 J/cm2) showed 37% tumor growth inhibition. Combination of photosensitization with radiosensitization inhibited tumor growth by 87%. It is important to note, that sequence of treatments (radiosensitization - 1 h - photosensitization or photosensitization - 1 h - radiosensitization) had no influence on tumor growth inhibition.


We monitored numbers of Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) in Washington from fall 1980 through spring 1992 at Willapa Bay, and from fall 1986 through spring 1993 in the Dungeness area. We estimated brant use by converting the counts into use days. Coincidentally we also monitored variations in the extent of eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds by remote sensing techniques. At Willapa, brant use was positively correlated with the total extent of eelgrass beds and negatively correlated with the extent of oyster beds that were located within eelgrass beds, and where eelgrass had been removed by mechanical means. A 52% decline in brant use was associated with a 22% decline in eelgrass. At Dungeness there was a significant negative trend in spring-staging brant use. Overall a 63% decline in brant use coincided with a 31% decline in eelgrass. The Dungeness eelgrass beds may have declined because of natural factors. In both areas, brant use during the spring-staging period was more related to eelgrass extent than brant use during the winter months. These results suggest that Black Brant use in coastal Washington is limited by eelgrass availability. Immatures averaged 10.4% of the population at Willapa and 9.9% at Dungeness and are amongst the lowest reported. A shortage of eelgrass during the critical spring-staging period may have led to reduced endogenous reserves and associated low reproductive success of Black Brant that staged in coastal Washington. The shortage of eelgrass may have contributed to the observed southward shift to Mexico by wintering brant


Giant strides in information technology at the turn of the century may have unleashed unreachable goals. With the invention of groupware, people expect to communicate easily with each other and accomplish difficult work even though they are remotely located or rarely overlap in time. Major corporations launch global teams, expecting that technology will make "virtual collocation" possible. Federal research money encourages global science through the establishment of "collaboratories. " We review over 10 years of field and laboratory investigations of collocated and noncollocated synchronous group collaborations. In particular, we compare collocated work with remote work as it is possible today and comment on the promise of remote work tomorrow. We focus on the sociotechnical conditions required for effective distance work and bring together the results with four key concepts: common ground, coupling of work, collaboration readiness, and collaboration technology readiness. Groups with high common ground and loosely coupled work, with readiness both for collaboration and collaboration technology, have a chance at succeeding with remote work. Deviations from each of these create strain on the relationships among teammates and require changes in the work or processes of collaboration to succeed. Often they do not succeed because distance still matters.


Aimed at many weaknesses in the LIN bus testing system like weak compatibility,absent malfunction definitions,difficulties in designing the test equipment and low degree of automation,a new LIN bus automatic test system was proposed based on the LIN description file.The system hardware design consists of upper PC and PIC18F6520 mircocotroller.The upper test software analyses and transforms the LIN description file and the data configured by users which can incarnate the action of the LIN bus application layer's into the test sets of the system,realizes the automatic test of the vehicle LIN bus ECU and definitions of the malfunction's frames ID.The system can realize automatical test and malfunction's definitions for different LIN bus systems according to different LIN description file and data configured by users,so it was significant for upgrading the automation design's lever of the vehicle LIN bus system.The system has been applied in LIN bus ECU test process of the Great Wall motor's Harvard models,and has got a good results.


In this paper we speculate about what will likely happen in the next 12 months (time of writing this is March 2020). Here we will simply articulate our predictions, some of which might be accompanied with our own rationale for making them, but others will not.


This chapter is about coordination, or the behaviors that underlie effective teamwork. It is what people often think of when they use the term teamwork. As expected, research shows that whenever team members must rely on one another in any way, coordination matters. This chapter identified four key coordination behaviors that consistently influence team performance: (a) monitoring (maintaining situation awareness), (b) providing back-up/support, (c) adapting; and (d) managing team emotions and conflict. Tips are provided to help team members effectively monitor one another, the team's performance, and the conditions in which they operate; to enable smoother backup such as assisting or filling in for one another; to encourage constructive adaptation, including how to use team debriefs to make periodic adjustments; and to promote collaborative rather than competitive conflict.


Abstracts - Technological developments are progressing rapidly. Systems continue to emerge with various new innovations that are needed by the wider community. Many agencies and companies are competing to digitize their systems. The availability of sufficient information systems can support fast and simple performance so as to achieve efficiency. One of them is developing in the world of marketing, from a conventional system to a modern one. This change follows sophisticated applications that continue to appear, one of which is Instagram. Content on Instagram is now a marketing place that can reach all circles. The purpose of this research is to design a social media content creation system that can be used to facilitate the work of staff every day and facilitate monitoring of staff work and the achievements of projects being worked on. Methods of observation, interviews and literature study were used to obtain the necessary data. By using a web information system, recording client data, processing content ideas and captions, and managing designs more organized and easily accessible and with a web information system, it is easier for staff at PT. Make Creative Digital Agency (Social Media Admin, Content Writer and Graphic Designer) at work.


In order to reduce the effe ¢ t of ambient noise, some speech pickup systems (oxygenmasks, throat, cheek and skull microphones, etc.) have been developed, but none is satisfactory with regard to intelligibility ana naturalness ef the speech. It is believed that a bone-conduction transdueer could be appllied in order to obtain a high signal-to-noise ratio in the field of very high ambient noise which tends to mask speech through a normal microphone for following reasons : (1) The vibration of each part of the head accompanies that of the speech organs (F{g. 1). (2) The mechanical impedance of each part of the head is so high that it is easy to match with vlbration transducers. C3) The impedance of the vibration transducer made of a piezo-electric element is so high that the transducer is insensitive to air-coupled noise (Fig.7). Accordingly, an acceleration-type vibration transducer was specially selected in order to reproduce high-frequency components as well as possible, with reference to the fact that the


Frontal and side impacts are both important aspects in designing of a crashworthy high-speed train nose. Therefore a proper design should be considered both conditions and, compatibility should be made among the features that improve train nose crashworthiness under different accident situations at the same time. In order to achieve this goal according to aerodynamic rules there is not many options for changing the external shape of high-speed train nose therefore, a systematic study has been conducted to examine possible strategies to design crashworthy internal structure for the high-speed train nose that provide the best features under both frontal and side impact conditions. For this purpose, various multi-layer noses are studied and the best internal layer geometry is proposed. At the last step effects of foam usage in different spaces between internal and external layers of nose is shown.


A 40-year-old male with a history of Tumoral calcinosis presented in our clinic on November 2011 complaining of decreased visual acuity in his right eye for the past 2 weeks. His past Medical history included arthritis in his large joints primarily his knees, iron deficiency anemia and hyperphosphatemia. He was on multiple medications including: Cholecalciferol, Ferrous Sulphate, Folic Acid, Omeprazole and Multivitamins. His past Surgical history was unremarkable.


Panoptic segmentation aims to address semantic and instance segmentation simultaneously in a unified framework. However, an efficient solution of panoptic segmentation in applications like autonomous driving is still an open research problem. In this work, we propose a novel LiDAR-based panoptic system, called SMAC-Seg. We present a learnable sparse multi-directional attention clustering to segment multi-scale foreground instances. SMAC-Seg is a real-time clustering-based approach, which removes the complex proposal network to segment instances. Most existing clustering-based methods use the difference of the predicted and ground truth center offset as the only loss to supervise the instance centroid regression. However, this loss function only considers the centroid of the current object, but its relative position with respect to the neighbouring objects is not considered when learning to cluster. Thus, we propose to use a novel centroid-aware repel loss as an additional term to effectively supervise the network in order to differentiate each object cluster with its neighbours. Our experimental results show that SMAC-Seg achieves state-of-the-art performance among all real-time deployable networks on both large-scale public SemanticKITTI and nuScenes panoptic segmentation datasets.


We demonstrate resonantly enhanced transmission of terahertz (THz) wave radiation (λ∼200 µm) through a bull's eye structure (a single subwavelength aperture surrounded by concentric periodic grooves in a metal plate). The phenomenon is caused by the resonant excitation of surface waves, which are known as surface plasmon polaritons in the optical region, generated by the concentric periodic grooves. Strongly enhanced transmission of THz-wave radiation is observed through the single subwavelength circular aperture (diameter d = 100 µm). We also show that introducing the Bragg reflector to the bull's eye structure results in the further increase of the enhanced transmission.


Building consensus is a process in which participants start with various opinions and reach an agreement as far as possible. During a discussion, participants exhibit different stances such as agree or disagree at other's utterances. In this paper, a stance analysis of participants by combining BBS tree structure and participant relation graph is proposed. The stance change is measured by an approach of information theory. Finally, simulations are provided to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method.


Based on the comparison of different types of enterprises in the United States, such as the sole proprietorship, GP, LLP, LP, LLLP, LLC and corporation, the writer states the rational choice should be in consideration of its legal liability, taxation and management performance, etc. Some western countries have much experience in the organization of corporates. Chinese entrepreneurs could learn from this practice.


I limit myself to comments on the Sami living in Finland: According to the most recent statistics the Sami in Finland are a minority of about 5,800 people.' About two-thirds of the Sami population live in four communities in Lapland, i.e., Enontekio, Inari, Sodankyla and Utsjoki. Professor Grahl-Madsen has only last month published a very interesting and well-documented book (103 pages) entitled "The People of the Twilight Zone Towards Sami Self-Government A Sovereign Sami An Autonomous Samieana". According to the preface the author has endeavoured to shape a model for Sami self-government. The basic idea is that Sapmi the Sami nation should be recognized as such, "as a sovereign entity of a special kind, and that Sapmi could then conclude a convention with the Nordic States, thus creating an autonomous territory Samieana under the suzerainty of the three States" .2 For anyone interested in the legal problems of the Sami this book includes a wealth of useful material. Needless to say even if one could not subscribe to all the ideas at any rate in all details one has to admire the ingenuity of the author when he pictures a model for the Sami self-government and an autonomous territory of about 500 kilometres by 150 kilometres across the territories of Finland, Norway and Sweden.3 In so far as the identity of the Finnish Sami is concerned I should like to point out that they form a relatively small minority. In the community of Utsjoki there are about 1,100 Sami in a total population of 1,500. In Inari there are about 2,000 Sami in a community of 7,000 people. In Enontekio the corresponding figures are 400 out of 2,400 and in Sodankyla 350 out of 10,500. In the light of these figures the establishment of a Sami autonomy covering these communities and combining them with the corresponding communities in Sweden and Norway does not seem to be easily implemented. One has to realize that the Sami with the exception of Utsjoki do not form even a majority of the population in the four communities in question. How would the majority population react if they one day found themselves living in an autonomous Sami territory ? To mention one practical difficulty, the proposed new court system with an Appellate Court and a Sami Supreme Court would of necessity overlap the existing court system. Also, how could the administrative officials share their tasks concerning the Sami and the other inhabitants? What, then, is the situation of the Sami living in these four communities today ? On the whole it seems as if the Sami are treated in exactly the same way as other Finnish citizens. They do not live in reservations but exactly in the same way as their neighbours. In the field of education the Sami now have the opportunity to receive obligatory school teaching in their own language. Since


Rendering of the Reeves County Courthouse. It has a tall center with staggered wings moving downward left and right. The entrances have archway shapes.


Induction tool measurements can be affected up to thirty feet from high conductivity beds. A deconvolution filter was designed to improve the vertical response. The filter, which is described in the text, was tested successfully on synthetic induction logs derived from formations of known resistivity. Several examples of deconvolved induction field logs are provided.


The International Research E-Journal on Business and Economics is a partnership between the Yangon Institute of Economics and the Graduate School of Business, Assumption University, Thailand.  It is another contribution to the building up of a hub for sharing our ASEAN capabilities towards the ASEAN Economic Integration, AEC 2015. The ABAC Graduate of Business celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and this publication in collaboration with Yangon Institute of Economics is a step forward in establishing the development and sharing of expertise in Business and Economics the ASEAN region. The journal features contributions from experts and scholars who teach in the various graduate programs, and the graduate students of various academic programs.  The Graduate School of Business, Assumption University is ready and proud to collaborate with its Myanmar partner in its agenda for new development - a partnership that moves towards honing greater talents and initiatives towards business and economic thought development. I congratulate the editorial team and all contributors for the substantial efforts in making this inaugural issue of the journal.  I wish that this publication further lead to success as we all strive to share our perspectives towards greater economic, social and academic integration.


Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story of Women and Economics Katrine Marcal New York: Pegasus Books, 2016, 230 pp. John Maynard Keynes once wrote of Hayek that one of his arguments was "an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam." Katrine Marcal's Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story of Women and Economics is a nice example of how an author can actually start with a correct observation, yet also end up in intellectual bedlam. The correct observation at the heart of Marcal's book is that economics has, historically, paid far less attention to the household and family than it has to the market, and that, when it has examined the family, it has frequently done so through a framework that is too narrow to really capture how the institution works. From that truth, she begins her path toward bedlam by laving blame on economics for constructing itself around the hyperrational, self-interested, and very masculine, "economic man," which she thinks has blinded the discipline to women's concerns and other forms of behavior more associated with women. As a result, economics fails at understanding a world containing men and women with a wider range of motivations and personalities, which, in turn, she believes, undermines the case for the market. Her title gets at the core of her argument: Adam Smith invented modern economics by creating the idea of "economic man"--who is, in Veblen's terms, "a lightning calculator" of his self-interest--and the idea of the invisible hand, by which greed and self-interest are always good in leading to economic growth. Furthermore, she argues that this vision of the economy, which came from Smith and has been mathematically refined by generations of thinkers, was an attempt to create a kind of Newtonian mechanics of the social world. Armed with this view of humans, which was masculine to its core, economists have been blind to the household and family, as well as ignoring all the ways other than self-interest in which humans interact. At one point, she describes economics as all about "conserving love." Economists believe love is scarce, but self-interest is not, so it makes more sense to run an economy on the latter rather than the former. Thus, Smith never discusses the question of who cooks his dinner (his mother), nor why such issues might be important. Marcal then argues that once one understands that this is how economists see the world, we can understand the origins of the financial crisis and Great Recession that began in 2008. By focusing on and overestimating human rationality, by giving full license to greed, and by thinking that unhampered markets will always produce good outcomes, economists could not see the crisis coming and have not been able to offer meaningful regulatory and other government policies to prevent another one. This same logic also explains why the United States refuses to adopt "family friendly" policies like subsidized day care and stronger parental leave mandates, which, she believes, would help women. There are numerous problems with this argument, despite it proceeding from a largely correct observation. The fundamental problem is that Marcal has created a straw economic man out of Adam Smith. At times, she suggests that her depiction of the humans that populate economic models--self-interested, greedy, and utterly unconnected to others and incapable of emotional reaction--is more the product of later economists. However, by continually returning to Smith as the source, she invites the question of whether her characterization of Smith is fair. It is not. From all the evidence in her book, Marcal seems completely unfamiliar with Smith's book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). (To be honest, I'm not so sure that she's really read The Wealth of Nations either.) In TMS, Smith offers his vision of moral philosophy, and his focus is on the faculty of sympathy. …


To understand the change of water surface profile and discharge in the canal lock, this study investigated the influence of hydraulic effects. This included factors, such as the water surface slope, discharge coefficient, gate opening speed, sluice gate height, and increasing time for sluice gate open, using one-dimensional simple model with GUI for the analysis of three-dimensional flow in the rising sector gate. The results confirmed that the discharge coefficient of 0.50 to 0.65 did affect the water surface and discharge in the canal lock, but the water level increased as the water surface slope increased from 0.015 % to 0.04 %. When increasing the sluice gate height of 1 m to 5 m, the water surface in the canal lock also increased. Also, the results showed that the change of discharge and water surface was strongly dependent on the time of sluice gate open. The optimal hydraulic factor in the rising sector gate with 190 m long, 12.5 m width and water surface distance of 8 m is the water surface of 0.04 %, the gate height of 3 m and the opening velocity of 6 mm/s. The application of the calculated data to experimental data shows a similar distribution.


Based on the pilot experiences of both the"bottom-to-up"and"up-to-bottom"institutional innovation of pollution liability insurance(PLI),it is shown that it's necessary to investigate the willingness to insure(WTI) from the combined angel of supply and demand. In the late period of 20thcentury,the PLI was introduced in China. The regions like Wuhan,Dalian,Jiangsu and so on tried to carry out PLI. The experiences are concluded as follows: regional,industrial and political conditions could be expressed as the supply side of WTI according to the different rules of PLI in different regions,industries and policies; the different fees between regions and among firms are the core concern of the demand side of WTI and the rate has a significant impact on WTI. The willingness to insure PLI depends on environmental risk,preservation and knowledge,the impacts of which are significantly different. Based on the probit and ordered probit model,this paper empirically studied the WTI of enterprises in Zhejiang province based on the variables of environmental risk,awareness,environmental knowledge,environmental legislation,policies and their enforcement efficiency. The results show that there are notable regional differences of WTI; the enterprises which have higher environmental risk have stronger WTI; the enterprises with stronger awareness have stronger WTI; the enterprises owning higher level of environmental knowledge have stronger WTI. However,such variables as environmental legislation,policy or their enforcement efficiency do not have significant impacts on WTI in the pilot period. As a result,in the next deepening process of PLI,more attention needs be paid to firm's heterogeneity,which is to master the extent of environmental risk,to improve the understanding of environmental preservation and to make it much more popular for the pollutants,besides to care more about the environmental legislation,policies and their enforcement efficiency.


We present the results of optical long-slit spectral observations of interacting system Arp305 carried out at the 6m telescope BTA at the SAO RAS: the radial variation of gas kinematics and oxygen abundance. This study continues the series of spectral observations of tidal debris in the interacting galaxies. Here we pay special attention to the star-forming region between the interacting galaxies - a tidal dwarf galaxy (TDG) candidate. This star-forming system appears to be gravitationally bound or close to this condition. We show that TDG is metal poor in comparison to the parental galaxy. It can indicate that either the origin of star-forming gas of TDG was very far from the centre of parent galaxy or its gas has been diluted by the accretion of metal poor intergalactic gas. Nevertheless the region of the brightest emission clump in TDG where a current star formation takes place reveals a noticeable colour excess evidencing a local gas concentration. We pay attention that TDG is situated in the region of intersection of two gas flows and is in a process of formation probably caused by the collision of these flows. Low velocity difference between TDG, NGC 4017 and the gaseous bridge between them evidences that the lifetime of TDG is restricted by the time of its fall back onto the parent galaxy.


After the occlusion of a nutritive blood vessel, muscle undergoes a continuum of molecular, cellular, and extracellular responses that determine the fate of the ischemic tissue. During the latter phase of tissue healing, the different processes involved in new vessel formation, including angiogenesis, take place and represent an integral component of tissue remodeling, which controls the extent of ischemic injury. Angiogenesis is a complex process requiring the coordinated regulation of many activating and inhibitory pathways in which vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)–mediated endothelial cell (EC) migration and proliferation play an important role. VEGF acts, at least in part, through interaction with its VEGF receptor 2, also known as kinase insert domain receptor (KDR) in human or fetal liver kinase 1 (Flk1) in murine. Although the signaling pathways downstream of VEGF-mediated KDR/Flk1 activation have been analyzed in detail, the precise complex biology of this receptor has yet to be defined.

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The X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1) exists as unspliced (XBP1u) and spliced (XBP1s) forms via the action of inositol-requiring enzyme 1α (IRE1α)–mediated unconventional splicing, in which XBP1u facilitates the recruitment of XBP1 mRNA cotranslationally.1 In addition, XBP1s protein level is downregulated by XBP1u through proteasome-mediated degradation.2 XBP1, a stress-inducible transcription factor, constitutes a key signal transducer in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response. The ER has emerged as a major site of cellular homeostasis, particularly for the unfolded protein response, which has been shown to play a major role in cancer and many other diseases. XBP1 has been identified as a target of ATF6, a major sensor and transducer protein on the ER membrane, …


In the plateau,the blended fuel of biodiesel and diesel in different proportions was fueled on a 4100QB—2 diesel engine.The nature of blended fuel was analyzed,and the equivalent fuel consumption rate was calculated according to its nature and mixing ratio.At the same time,the effective thermal efficiency,the mechanical efficiency and the load characteristics of diesel engine were compared and analyzed when different blended fuels was fueled.The results show that diesel engine has better economy when it is fueled with diesel mixed with 10 percent to 30 percent of biodiesel.


Dry biomass and leaf area growth data were collected every decennial from three potato varieties developed under field conditions at the experimental areas of the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, with the aim of evaluating the behaviour of different growth indexes: Leaf Area Index (LAI), Net Assimilation Rate (NAR), Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Crop Growth Rate (CGR), as well as Source Power (SP) and Demand Power (DP). Thus, seed tubers imported from Call White, Santana and Spunta varieties were planted in three plots following a sample design during 2010 and 2011. Cultural farming was performed according to the Technical Instructions for potato crop. Samplings to gather primary data started 30 days after planting until harvesting. Every time, 10 plants were randomly sampled per each variety, in order to know by oven drying the amount of dry biomass produced in different organs and to estimate leaf area from linear measurements of leaves as well as using previously obtained regression equations. Mean, maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded along crop cycle. Differences on the indexes evaluated were detected between varieties. Likewise, the influence of temperatures on growth is discussed in general, due to its importance in dry mass production.


ABSTRACT
 Cryptodont dicynodonts are some of the most abundant therapsid taxa in the upper Permian fossil record. Despite extensive taxonomic study of these families, the species diversity of geikiid cryptodonts remains problematic, particularly for the set of edentulous taxa in the genera Pelanomodon, Propelanomodon, and Geikia. Here, all known specimens of tuskless geikiid dicynodonts from the upper Permian Karoo Basin of South Africa are reevaluated. The genus Pelanomodon is redescribed based on a series of skulls representing a range of sizes. All tuskless geikiids from the Karoo Basin are considered to represent a single species (Pelanomodon moschops) that exhibited cranial dimorphism as adults. The nominal species Pe. moschops and Pe. rubidgei differ only in degree of facial boss development and are most parsimoniously interpreted as sexual dimorphs. Propelanomodon is considered to represent the juvenile morphotype of Pelanomodon moschops, as indicated by the geographic and stratigraphic overlap of the two taxa, the lack of any small skulls of the Pelanomodon morphotype in well-sampled localities, and the presence of specimens of intermediate size and morphology. 'Propelanomodon' specimens are distinctive among juvenile dicynodonts in having a significantly narrower intertemporal region than adults. Analysis of intertemporal width relative to total skull size in Pelanomodon and the abundant cryptodont taxa Aulacephalodon, Oudenodon, and Tropidostoma suggests that Pelanomodon had a unique growth trajectory. Based on available stratigraphic data, Pelanomodon was restricted to the uppermost Permian Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone of the South African Beaufort Group and was a victim of the end-Permian mass extinction. SUPPLEMENTAL DATA—Supplemental materials are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVP


In sociological research it is often assumed that if we want quantitative information on e. g. an attitude, the data collected for the study must be quantitative. In psychology, where this assumption is also widely held, a contrasting view point has gathered weight lately: that observational data are in most cases essentially non-quantitative, and quantitative concepts must be introduced as variables, parameters, in a model which seeks to explain the structure of the qualitative data. In such a model the structure will often be described by means of quantitative measures derived from the qualitative data, measures which in some sense contain information on the numerical values of the parameters of the model. In a recent


The paper describes the current state of national and international tourism in the Karelian Republic. The authors outline the possible ways of further development of tourism in this region, as well as the ways of attracting both national and international tourists to the region, which is important for the national image. The analysis of the current situation shows that at present there is no adequate infrastructure in Karelia that could satisfy the tourists' needs. The paper discusses the infrastructure of this Arctic region and highlights the main indicators and factors characterizing the touristic field. The authors propose an algorithm and a model for tourism development in Karelia - the subarctic region of the Russian Federation.


In this paper, method of damage identification in structures based on continuous wavelet transform is presented for Composite Wind Turbine Blade Spar model. A three dimensional plot of wavelet coefficients is plotted in scale-translation plane provide necessary detection and localization of structural damage by showing high wavelet coefficients at the damage location. Damage is defined as the reduction in real constants by reducing the layer thickness, numerically simulated by reducing the stiffness of the assumed element. The proposed method is numerically modelled using finite element Composite Wind Turbine Blade Spar model. The results of analysis indicate that the proposed continuous wavelet transform based damage identification method effectively identify single and multiple damage using only the fundamental mode shape. Hence, it is shown that proposed method has the potential to identify damage in structures.


The 2D TI edge states are considered within the Volkov-Pankratov (VP) Hamiltonian. A smooth transition between TI and OI is assumed. The edge states are formed in the total gap of homogeneous 2D material. A pair of these states are of linear dispersion, others have gapped Dirac spectra. The optical selection rules are found. The optical transitions between the neighboring edge states appear in the global 2D gap for the in-plane light electric field directed across the edge. The electrons in linear edge states have no backscattering, that is indicative of the fact of topological protection. However, when linear edge states get to the energy domain of Dirac edge states, the backscattering becomes permitted. The elastic backscattering rate is found. The Drude-like conductivity is found when the Fermi level gets into the energy domain of the coexistence of linear and Dirac edge states. The localization edge conductance of a finite sample at zero temperature is determined.


We propose a new algorithm, called Growing Multi-Expert Structure (GMES) for unsupervised learning of discrete state spaces in open-ended reinforcement learning tasks. The proposed incremental algorithm is suitable for on-line state space learning on small-scale adaptive systems due to its low computational requirements. It directly processes sequential, raw sensory data, can follow its non-stationarity, and needs only a few parameters to be tuned. The development of the state space is demonstrated in a set of RL experiments using a physically simulated pendulum with varying learning goals started from a tabula-rasa-situation. Furthermore, we show that the system benefits from intrinsic motivation by feeding back the measured learning progress as a separate source of reward to improve the system's capabilities of self-exploration.


Objective To evaluate the clinical value of electrocardiogram(ECG)limb lead in predicting coronary artery cyclotron branch lesion. Methods Coronary angiography was conducted for a total of 615 patients diagnosed as coronary heart disease,unstable angina pectoris including 300 cyclotron branch lesion patients,recording their electrocardiogram of the resting and angina attack,and predicting the cyclotron branch lesion through analysis of results of coronary angiography and the characteristic of ECG limb lead.Results The sensitivity,specificity and accuracy of limb lead ECG of the resting were 36.00%,84.76% and 60.98%respectively for cyclotron branch lesion.ST segment depression in lead Ⅰ was the most prevalent in the change of limb lead ECG,accounting for about 90.22% of ECG episodes;ST segment depression in lead Ⅱ and lead aVF were about 67.39% and 67.39% of ECG episodes respectively;ST segment depression in lead Ⅲ occurred rarely,mostly normal or slightly elevated,accounting for about 90.22% of ECG episodes;lead aVR had no abnormal change mostly,accounting for about 70.65%in angina attack.Conclusion The specificity of limb lead ECG of the resting is high,but the sensitivity is low for cyclotron branch lesion.It is valuable for predicting cyclotron branch lesion by lead Ⅰ,Ⅲ of limb lead ECG mainly in angina attack.


The petroleum ether extract of Macaranga peltata Roxb. was evaluated for anti-inflammatory activity at the doses of 200 and 400 mg/kg body weight. Carrageenan induced paw edema in rats, which is an acute model used to assess antiinflammatory activity. The extract has inhibited paw edema in dose related manner. Further the acute toxicity study of the extract had shown no sign of toxicity up to a dose level of 2000mg/kg body weight and thus the extract of Macaranga peltata Roxb. possess significant anti-inflammatory activities.


Kimbanguism, a religious movement which stemmed from a non-violent African reaction to European colonialism, has become an important mainstream church in Central Africa since 1959. After the classic studies made by Georges Balandier, which provided an analysis of the movement in its colonial context, the two reference books on Kimbanguism were written by Swiss theologian Marie-Louise Martin and American sociologist Susan Asch. Since Balandier's analyses and twenty years after the publication of Martin's and Asch's works, the Kimbanguist church has not remained enclosed in the conceptual patterns displayed by these authors, and has not limited itself to Africa either. It has become a liberated religious space, where Kimbangu's successors have not only set up essential elements for a reconstruction of Black identity, but also given their church a universal dimension. The thesis statement informing this dissertation is precisely to analyze the elements contributing in the construction of a new Black identity among the Kimbanguists, while giving a complete account of this religion from its cradle-the Congo-to its settlement in Europe, and noticeably in France. How is the Kimbanguist community inscribed in the French host society? How do Kimbanguist immigrants live their faith in a non-Kimbanguist environment? How does the Kimbanguist believer perceive him/herself vis-a-vis the native French? These are the main questions this dissertation is attempting to answer.


The free-radical copolymerizability of 3(2-methyl)6-methylpyridazinone (I) with styrene (St)(M1) has been reinvestigated at varying reaction conditions (solvent, monomer concentration, and reaction temperature). The copolymerization rates in protic solvents were not proportional to the monomer concentration. The overall activation energies in protic solvents were much affected by the monomer concentration. The results might be ascribed to the viscosity effect on the termination reaction, because the protic solvent was found to interact with I through hydrogen bonding to form a 1:1 complex which changed the viscosity of the reaction mixture. The monomer reactivity ratios were strongly affected by the reaction conditions. This might be explained by taking account of the solvation to the carbonyl group of I in the transition state, because clear relationships were not obtained by plots of log 1/r1 against the values of both vCO and vCC stretching frequencies of I, but the values of both ΔΔH‡(ΔH‡11 − ΔH‡12) and ΔΔS‡(ΔS‡11 − ΔS‡12) decreased linearly with a decrease of the monomer concentration in order of benzene ∼ dimethylformamide < ethanol < phenol < acetic acid systems.


Summary
 White-sand vegetation (WSV) enclaves occur throughout Amazonia. WSV, known in Brazil as campina or campinarana, possesses peculiar floral and faunal communities, different from those in adjacent forests but with biogeographic affinities to those in similar ecosystems far distant. Recent ornithological studies of these 'islands' have yielded new taxa for science and enabled a better understanding of the zoogeography of many poorly known species in Amazonia. Here we report the results of an ornithological survey of a campinarana enclave in north-west Rondônia, southern Amazonian Brazil. The area was inventoried three times in 2010–12, totalling 899 net / hours and 110 hours of observations. A total of 171 bird species was identified, belonging to 44 families. Among them, at least nine species are closely associated with WSV: Green-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus theresiae, White-fringed Antwren Formicivora grisea, Natterer's Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus stictocephalus, Black Manakin Xenopipo atronitens, Plain-crested Elaenia Elaenia cristata, Pale-bellied Mourner Rhytipterna immunda, Campina Flycatcher Cnemotriccus fuscatus duidae, Plush-crested Jay Cyanocorax chrysops diesingii and Red-shouldered Tanager Tachyphonus phoenicius. Approximately 8% of the species recorded are migratory, most of them austral migrants. In addition, body mass and morphometrics of 136 individuals from 55 species are presented. Our results augment ornithological knowledge in Rondônia, aid our understanding of regional zoogeography, and serve as an alert to the need to preserve a region that has suffered severe anthropogenic impacts for >100 years.


Equipment is described which is used to produce colour centres electrolytically in alkali-halide crystals and to measure their spectra simultaneously using a high-speed spectroradiometer. The colouration process takes place in an inert atmosphere and its progress can be easily followed. A rapid and gentle quenching of the crystal after the colouration is executed by a flow of inert gas. A high-speed spectroradiometer, combined with the furnace, records transmittance spectra of the crystal within a few seconds during the colouration.


Business process model repositories are crucial in the architecture of business process management systems. These repositories facilitate the reuse of process models in the enterprise engineering projects, by offering the advanced functionalities of storage and management. This article aims to discuss strengths and weaknesses of these repositories from the perspective of the requirements in the context of a B2B process integration solution as well as their contextual and semantic interoperability. Business process models repositories should enhance the exchange of information and support more reuse of business process models, inter-organizational processes and the process fragments reuse that allow the mediation.