In the earliest writings of C.G. Jung we do not yet find the basic concept of the self, which he only introduced after a long period of analytical experience1). Moreover, by choosing this term he was largely inspired by Eastern religions, where he even discovered a variety of symbols bearing an intrinsic affinity with those spontaneously produced by a number of his patientssymbols representing the:' diverse phases of the "process of individuation", i.e. the path leading to the wholeness of the psyche, to the self. He was, however, aware of the differences between his own conception of the self and its manyfold Eastern acceptations. In this paper we shall therefore attempt (1) to present a brief definition of the Jungian meaning of the self, (2) to point out some of its fundamental symbols, also met with in the East, especially the mandalas, (3) to confront the Jungian import and scope of this term with that of Oriental thought. This will enable us to suggest, by way of conclusion, the specific tenet and original contribution of analytical psychology to this outstanding problem.


___________________________________________________________________ Quality education is the basic thing that must be addressed by the Indonesian government. Among the causes of the slow pace of education progress in Indonesia are geographical problems and the lack of a permanent curriculum to be conducted continuously throughout Indonesia. The district of Aceh Besar has assigned some high schools to become model schools. The model schools have the best-selected teachers as a result of a competition in Aceh Besar and each school has two physical education teachers. In order to know the high or low level of the students' physical fitness, it needs proper and accurate assessment. In order to know the exact level of the students' physical fitness, physical education teachers require appropriate measuring instruments. The standard measuring instrument already used by physical education teachers today is the Indonesia Physical Fitness Test. The purpose of this study is to describe the level of physical fitness among the students of the Ali Hasyimi Public High School in the District of Aceh Besar in the 2014/2015 school year. To obtain data in this study, the researcher used a descriptive type of research that seeks to describe, record, and technique. a simple formula and The average value of physical fitness the and the year was the Physical Fitness the the as


The topic of incarcerated mothers hit popular media when Orange is the New Black was released as a new, controversial Netflix series. In the middle of the first season, supporting character Maria Ruiz goes into labor while incarcerated, is sent to a hospital for the birth, and returns with empty arms to receive much sympathy from her fellow inmates. Orange is the New Black did not explicitly critique the prison policy, but it seems evident from Maria Ruiz's outward depression and the other women's conduct that both viewers and incarcerated women alike view this as a painful process. This scene was not just for our entertainment—it is a reality for over one thousand female inmates in the United States annually. Specifically, 4.1 percent of state prison inmates and 2.9 percent of federal prison inmates are pregnant at the time of admission. Commonly, "women in the U.S. who have babies while in prison are separated from them within a few days."


Objective To observe the distribution of protein kinase Cγ subunit(PKCγ) in the rat nervous system. Methods Immunocytochemical staining for PKCγ by using specific antibody against PKCγ was performed. Results Intensely and densely stained PKCγ immunoreactive neurons were mainly observed in the cerebral cortex,hippocampus,amygdaloid complex,cerebellar cortex, ventral and dorsal cochlear nuclei, caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus and the superficial layers of the spinal dorsal horn.Conclusion\ PKCγ\|containing neurons are widely located in the rat nervous system.These results provide morphological evidence for the functional roles of PKCγ in the signaling transduction of the nervous system.\;[


Generally, the variable force system and associated method includes a valve spring for controlling the movement of the engine valve is disclosed. The force exerted by the valve spring, by changing the aggregation surface area or to change the volume of the fluid chamber, and / or fluid pressure is coupled to the engine valve by varying the pressure at which fluid is supplied to the fluid chamber It can be adjusted. Associated fluid control system also engine speed, engine load, and / or based on various engine parameters such as the combination thereof, as are various methods for adjusting the force of the valve spring, the specification which is incorporated herein by reference.


increasing the likelihood of apyrexial presentation. Theydiscussed possible mechanismsbutstate that carbamazepine isnotknown toaffect dopaminergic systems. The hypodopaminergic state thought to be responsible for NMS may arise: from direct inter ference with dopamine (DA) transmission by neuro leptics or withdrawal of anti-parkinsonian drugs (Toru et a!, 1981); by imbalance of serotonin (5-HT) and DA, as has been suggested for a case induced by fluoxetine (Halman& Goldbloom,1990); orby acetylcholine:DA imbalance (Corrigan & Coulter, 1987). As the hyperthermia of NMS may be attributable to DA receptor blockade in the hypothalamus, it may be relevant that carbamazepine has been shown to enhance the growth hormone response to apomor phine in humans (Elphick et a!, 1990). Although studies in rats suggest that carbamazepine has no affinity forDA receptors (Marangoseta!,1983), the growth-hormone response to apomorphine in humans may be modified by a direct action on dopamine receptors, perhaps supersensitivity of post-synaptic receptors secondary to reduced DA transmission. A selective increase in dopamine ac tivity in the hypothalamus but not in the nitrostriatal pathways would account for the absence of pyrexia in the case described.


The paper considers the professional competences of the students of «Pedagogical education» & «Oriental and African studies» linguistic departments as the result of education in the framework of the competence approach in education at the University. The lack of certain types of competencies in the normative documents that should be formed in educational process had become the reason of our research – to select and to describe professional competences of the students for whom studying foreign languages is the basis of professional activity. As a result of our research we have identified teaching and research, pedagogical, intercultural and foreign language professional competences, each of which is formed in the educational process at the University, is the basis of professional language training and has its substantive content, the specifics of which are defined by the peculiarities of learning a foreign language as the main one. The use of certain items of professional competences in the learning process allows lecturers and graduates studying a foreign language at a professional level to clearly understand the learning outcomes at the University.


Context. The Lyα emitter (LAE) fraction, XLAE, is a potentially powerful probe of the evolution of the intergalactic neutral hydrogen gas fraction. However, uncertainties in the measurement of XLAE are still under debate.
Aims. Thanks to deep data obtained with the integral field spectrograph Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), we can measure the evolution of the LAE fraction homogeneously over a wide redshift range of z ≈ 3–6 for UV-faint galaxies (down to UV magnitudes of M1500 ≈ −17.75). This is a significantly fainter range than in former studies (M1500 ≤ −18.75) and it allows us to probe the bulk of the population of high-redshift star-forming galaxies.
Methods. We constructed a UV-complete photometric-redshift sample following UV luminosity functions and measured the Lyα emission with MUSE using the latest (second) data release from the MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey.
Results. We derived the redshift evolution of XLAE for M1500 ∈ [ − 21.75; −17.75] for the first time with a equivalent width range EW(Lyα) ≥ 65 Å and found low values of XLAE ≲ 30% at z ≲ 6. The best-fit linear relation is XLAE = 0.07+0.06−0.03z − 0.22+0.12−0.24. For M1500 ∈ [ − 20.25; −18.75] and EW(Lyα) ≥ 25 Å, our XLAE values are consistent with those in the literature within 1σ at z ≲ 5, but our median values are systematically lower than reported values over the whole redshift range. In addition, we do not find a significant dependence of XLAE on M1500 for EW(Lyα) ≥ 50 Å at z ≈ 3–4, in contrast with previous work. The differences in XLAE mainly arise from selection biases for Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) in the literature: UV-faint LBGs are more easily selected if they have strong Lyα emission, hence XLAE is biased towards higher values when those samples are used.
Conclusions. Our results suggest either a lower increase of XLAE towards z ≈ 6 than previously suggested, or even a turnover of XLAE at z ≈ 5.5, which may be the signature of a late or patchy reionization process. We compared our results with predictions from a cosmological galaxy evolution model. We find that a model with a bursty star formation (SF) can reproduce our observed LAE fractions much better than models where SF is a smooth function of time.


Emergency care is one of the most important areas of veterinary medicine, which is why we have chosen to highlight the topic during National Pet Month this April.


The objective of the paper is to analyze and assess the institutional conditions of the exhibition entitled Side by Side. Poland – Germany. 1000 years of Art and History, organized in Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin between September 23, 2011 and January 9, 2012. In terms of the number of works of art presented this undertaking was unprecedented in the history of Polish- German relations. The exhibition, and the catalogue that accompanied it, were a part of the Cultural Program of the Polish Presidency in the EU Council in 2011, becoming an exemplification of the issue of the politicization of exhibition discourse, where works of art are utilized for political purposes. The theoretical inspiration for considering this topic was provided by Peter Vergo's concept presented in his text The reticent object of 1987. In Vergo's opinion, exhibitions are a cultural fact which is relatively rarely investigated in terms of the means, efforts, conditions and reasons that are necessary for their execution. And yet these institutional conditions, including their financing, the procedures for selecting the entities in charge of the project, the mechanisms for appoint the program board and honorary patronage have a considerable influence on the nature of the exhibition. Concentrating on institutional contexts serves the purpose of answering the question of how the realms of politics and art exhibitions permeate one another. The decisions made by the authorities to become involved in certain exhibition projects constitute the instruments for creating and executing selected public policies, primarily cultural policy. It is therefore impossible to assess the success of a given initiative without considering the political objectives set and achieved by the organizers of the exhibition Side by Side.


Biodiversity conservation is not only a biological issue but also an economic one of increasing importance; Yemen LNG views it as a significant advancement both socially and environmentally. Implementing a verified conservation area can lead to many positive outcomes such the promotion of environmental friendly fishing with both the local community and the economic development, it also helps in the initiation of the Company's involvement in livelihood improvement and sustainable development, as well as the encouragement of youth into more sustainable intellect and reinforcement in Yemen.


Background: The management of posterior urethral valves (PUV) and its sequelae is still a challenge to most pediatric surgeons in our environment due to late presentation and inadequate facilities for long-term evaluation and treatment. Despite initial successful treatment about 40% would develop chronic renal failure. The aim is to describe the presentation, management and outcome of the initial treatment in boys with PUV. Materials and Methods: It is a retrospective analysis of PUV in boys 8 years and below over a 17 years period. Demographic characteristics, clinical features, investigations, and treatment outcome were reviewed. Results: Thirty-seven cases were analyzed. The median age was 5 months (range from birth to 8 years). Three (8.1%) patients had prenatal ultrasound diagnosis. The most common presentation was voiding dysfunction 37 (100%). Part of the preoperative investigation included micturating cystourethrogram (n = 31: 83.8%) and abdomino-pelvic ultrasonography (n = 37:(100%). The mean serum creatinine value of those who presented within thefirst 30 days of life and those who presented afterwards were 325 (±251) µmol/L and 141 (±100) µmol/L respectively, P = 0.003. Surgical interventions included trans-vesical excision of valves (n = 9: 28.1%), valvotomy (n = 10: 31.3%), balloon avulsion (n = 8: 25.0%), vesicostomy (n = 4: 12.5%) and endoscopic valve avulsion (n = 1: 3.1%). Seventeen (56.7%) patients had serum creatinine >70.4 µmol/L after 1-month of valve excision. Five (13.5%) patients had postrelief complications and 5 (13.5%) died on admission. Ninety percentage (27/30) of patients had poor prognostic indices. Conclusions: The initial treatment outcome was good but most had poor prognostic factors.


Graphics processing units and video cards have seen a surge of usage in domains other than graphics computers, due to advances in hardware and software technologies; however, little uptake has been in the domain of systems engineering and real time control. This research article will demonstrate the use of video cards in multimodel adaptive robust control, using openGL and compute shaders. A software simulation will show the behavior of the adaptive robust multimodel control scheme as the target process is exposed to both parametric and structural disturbances and will show the viability of using graphics processing units in real time systems control.


Salmonella is a large genus of Gram-negative bacilli within the family Enterobacteriaceae. It commonly causes infection involving the intestine as well as extraintestinal organs such as meninges, lungs, urinary tract, bones, and vessels, however, it rarely involves the genitalia. Review of literature shows only a few case reports of bacteriologically proven testicular abscess, most commonly due to nontyphoidal Salmonella. We report a case of a 68-year-old gentleman with testicular abscess due to Salmonella typhi with no systemic signs and symptoms.


Pressure-induced transformations in the atomic and electronic structure of amorphous germanium $(a\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{Ge})$ have been investigated by using x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) combined with energy-scanning x-ray diffraction. Our data show that an abrupt change in the local structure and in the electron states near the Fermi level occurs in evaporated $a\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{Ge}$ at a pressure of about 8 GPa. The transformation is clearly detectable by a change in the shape and energy shift in the near-edge structures and by an increase of the average first-neighbor distance measured by XAS. The occurrence of this polyamorphic transition is discussed in light of the recent advances in the study of multiple dense fluid phases.


Cloud computing provides a distributed environment where data are stored in separated disks and processed in multiple servers in parallel. To witness a quick increase in the variety of data processed there is a rapid growth of applications such as social network analysis, semantic web analysis, and bioinformatics network analysis. Analysis of large-scale data and effective management are interesting but it's a critical challenge. In recent days the big data gets a lot of attention from academia, industry as well as the government. This paper introduces several big data processing techniques from the aspect of system and application. From the view of cloud data management and big data processing mechanisms, this paper presents the key issues of big data processing, including cloud computing platform, cloud architecture, cloud database, and data storage scheme. The MapReduce parallel processing framework introduces Map Reduce optimization strategies and applications that are in the literature. This paper tells about issues and challenges and explores research on big data processing in cloud computing environments.


Constructivism and problem-based learning are two concepts that have recently been embraced by the educational community as teachers and professors are trained to meet the needs and demands of their students and the community at large. We discuss the assumptions and premises of constructivism and problem-based learning, and the findings of a study implementing these concepts with international relations as the content in a high-tech problem-based simulation called ICONS. The findings are discussed in terms of the constructivist problem-based learning model and the application to various content fields in education.


AbstractElectric vehicles play a key role in strategic development plans of urban regions in Europe because they are seen as a promising technology to promote environmental quality, livability, and...


In Bilaterians, commissural neurons project their axons across the midline of the nervous system to target neurons on the opposite side. In mammals, midline crossing at the level of the hindbrain and spinal cord requires the Robo3 receptor which is transiently expressed by all commissural neurons. Unlike other Robo receptors, mammalian Robo3 receptors do not bind Slit ligands and promote midline crossing. Surprisingly, not much is known about Robo3 distribution and mechanism of action in other vertebrate species.


Dielectric coefficient of carbonate rock,limestone and dolomite rock,is measured by using coaxial-line open-end reflectometry test system.From test results it is shown that the phenomenon of frequency dispersion of carbonate rock is obvious between 25MHz and 100 MHz.At the same frequency,the dielectric coefficient of limestone is influenced obviously by the degree of decency.The dielectric coefficient of breccia dolomite rock is much more than that of unweathered dolomite rock,and the discreteness of dielectric coefficient of limestone is more obvious than that of dolomite rock.


Records of 11 elasmobranch species previously unreported from, or uncommon in, Omani waters are presented. Records new to Oman include Carcharhinus altimus, C. leiodon, Centrophorus isodon, Ctenacis fehlmanni, Himantura fai, Mobula eregoodootenke and Sphyrna zygaena, whereas noteworthy records of uncommon species include Himantura imbricata, Paragaleus randalii, Rhinobatos salalah and Taeniura meyeni – some of which are confirmed from the Gulf of Oman for the first time. These records bring to 57, the number of elasmobranch species confirmed in Omani waters.


The development of wearable computer systems and smart clothing has been rapid. They are coming more and more lightweight and quite soon we will see a wide range of unobtrusive wearable and ubiquitous computing equipment integrated to into our everyday wear. Rapid progress in wireless communication promises to replace wired-communication networks in the near future in which antennas are in more important role. This paper presents an antenna design for wearable applications. Due to wearable system demands this paper discusses mainly on physically small antennas. A design example is given in which a flexible IFA (FlexIFA) structure for single and dual-band operation is introduced to smart clothing in Bluetooth and UMTS neighborhood. To our knowledge this is first time when a thin and flexible antenna is designed to commercial smart clothing. Measured results are compared with simulations and good agreement was observed. In addition the effect of human body on antenna performance is discussed. INTRODUCTION During the recent years wireless communication has become in more important role. Convergence of wireless and wired networks is an essential part of this development. Also the development of wearable computer systems has been rapid. They are coming more and more lightweight and quite soon we will see a wide range of unobtrusive wearable and ubiquitous computing equipment integrated to into our everyday wear. Reaching this featherweight level requires optimization of every single part and subpart of wearable system. The main parts of a typical wearable system are presented in [l]. Both the short range and long range wireless communication plays an important role in mobile wearable system. However these communication systems contain several subparts and antennas are an essential subpart of wireless communication systems. In wearable systems different subparts may be connected to each other via a wireless link e.g. headset usually needs a wire connection which could be replaced by a wireless link. Wearable and whole body antennas have received much interest recently due to the introduction of personal communication technology. This has resulted in a widespread awareness of the critical role wireless services play in today's communication-centered marketplace. Antennas play a paramount role in an optimal design of the wearable or hand-held units used in these services. Clearly in designing these antennas the electromagnetic interaction among the antenna, wearable or hand-held unit, and the human operator is an important factor to be considered. This paper will present an improved antenna design for smart clothing in which a thin and flexible substrate material was used. To our best knowledge this is the first time when thin and flexible antenna is designed for commercial smart clothing [2]. Design examples are given for future wireless systems i.e. Bluetooth and UMTS operated system. The antenna is designed to be attached to a human arm. Measured results are discussed in details and compared with simulations which were carried out with IE3D from Zeland software. IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTH OF SMALL ANTENNAS The usual goal of antenna design is to produce an antenna system which has high efficiency and large bandwidth. However, these parameters are interrelated and one does not have complete freedom to independently set these parameters. The stored energy in a cavity region may be calculated and then compared with the various losses to compute quality factor Q associated with 6 @7803-7330-8/02 $17.0002002 IEEE each. The behavior of an electrically small resonant antennas can be analyzed in this way with resonant frequency fc and quality factor Q. The total losses of the antenna can be divided into intemal and external ones, represented by unloaded quality factor Qu and the external quality factor Q;. The loaded quality factor Q,, representing the total losses of the antenna can be calculated by [3] c where Bhp is the half-power bandwidth. The unloaded quality factor can be calculated by [4] where p(fJ is the reflection coefficient at resonant frequency. In Eq. (2) the plus or minus sign refers to under or overcoupled antenna, respectively. Instead with critical coupling F,q. (2) reduces to The unloaded quality factor is a physical constant and specific to each antenna structure. Thereby it is not affected by coupling and the impedance bandwidth for matching criterion VSWR S Scan then be given by [5]


To derive more business value from existing organizational knowledge, many organizations seek to rely on strategically aligned knowledge management systems (KMS). However, as documented in prior studies, they often underestimate the challenges about social interactions and users' perceptions in response to new information systems. Based on an interpretive case study, this paper examines the implementation of a KMS to show how social representations of four groups of users resulted in the misalignment of the KMS with the organizational strategy. The social representation lens allows us to interpret strategic alignment in terms of dynamic processes of anchoring and objectification that aid individuals and groups to make sense of KMS initiatives. The groups studied developed different cognitive views of the KMS that ultimately led to a strategic misalignment. The key implication is that social interactions within and among groups shape KMS alignment with organizational strategy, thus elucidating the nature of system use.


The data table is a basic but versatile representation to communicate data. From government reports to bank statements, tables effectively carry essential data-driven information by visually organizing data using rows, columns, and other arrangements (e.g., merged cells). However, many tables online neglect the accessibility requirements for people who rely on screen readers, such as people who are blind or have low vision (BLV). First, we consolidated guidelines to understand what makes a table inaccessible for BLV people. We conducted an interview study to understand the importance of tables and identify further design requirements for an accessible table. We built a tool that automatically detects HTML formatted tables online and transforms them into accessible tables. Our evaluative study demonstrates how our tool can help participants understand the table's structure and layout and support smooth navigation when the table is large and complex.


In this paper, we briefly review the basic scheme of the pseudoinverse learning (PIL) algorithm and present some discussions on the PIL, as well as its variants. The PIL algorithm, first presented in 1995, is a non-gradient descent and non-iterative learning algorithm for multi-layer neural networks and has several advantages compared with gradient descent based algorithms. Some new viewpoints to PIL algorithm are presented, and several common pitfalls in practical implementation of the neural network learning task are also addressed. In addition, we show that so called extreme learning machine is a Variant crEated by Simple name alTernation (VEST) of the PIL algorithm for single hidden layer feedforward neural networks.


The object of the research is elastic plates located across the movement of the solution on the vibrosieve. The problem of uniform distribution of material on the surface of the sieve is considered, which is solved with the help of the design proposed in the work.
Tensometry was used as a research method with subsequent processing of the results on an elector computer. In the course of the research, an analog-to-digital converter developed and manufactured at the Department of Mechanization of Construction Processes of the National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic» (Ukraine) was used. As well as a computer with a free COM-1 port, «PROGRAM.EXE» software and a spreadsheet editor, strain gauges in the form of strain gauges with two pasted tensor resistors connected by a half-bridge circuit.
The paper proposes a fundamentally new scheme of a vibrosieve with additional working bodies in the form of elastic plates located across the movement of the solution on the sieve. The elasticity and mass of the plates are selected in such a way that their oscillations during the operation of the vibrosieve exciter are close to resonance. At the same time, the mode of vibration of the vibrosieve itself is far beyond resonance. As a result, a higher-quality and energy-efficient cleaning of the washing liquid will be obtained. This is due to the fact that the proposed cleaning method has a number of features, in particular, dispersion of drilling fluid over the entire surface of the vibrosieve and maximum loading of the entire working surface of the sieve to avoid dead zones. Thanks to this, it is possible to obtain resonant oscillations. In comparison with known analogs that work in a resonant mode, this provides advantages in the cleaning of drilling mud. The amplitude of oscillations of elastic plates reaches 1.2–1.5 mm, which is significantly greater than the amplitude of oscillations of a vibrating table.
In practice, it will be possible to use the proposed fundamentally new scheme of a vibrosieve with additional working bodies in the form of elastic plates that work in a resonant mode, as a way of supplementing vibrosieves that are in use or new when manufactured at manufacturers' factories.


A significant advantage of the new Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is the possibility to make cross-country comparisons. "I am not just thinking of the assessment of specific portfolios here, but also of the early identification of risks, which only become visible, or are at least easier to identify, in horizontal analysis", she said. The asset quality review has already given us a deeper insight into the banks' procedures, thereby making it possible for us to check "which differences between banks are justified and to ascertain where we need to probe critically".


Objective:To study the effects of Quzhi Chinese medicine on the level of serum iron of NAFL patients.Methods:65 patients were divided into two groups,group 1,including 32 patients,were given intravenous injection for 4 weeks using tiopronin;Group 2,including 33 patients,were taken orally for 12 weeks using Quzhi Chinese medicine.Before and after treatment,the levels of TBil,DBil,ALT,Tch,TG,HDL-C,SI,SF,TRF were detected,and the fat depositing in the liver was observed Results Quzhi Chinese medicine could reduce the level of FAT,ALT,SI,SF,TRF,and improve the fat deposition(P0.05 or P0.01)and were more effective than tiopronin(P0.05).Conclusion: The Quzhi Chinese medicine could effectively decrease the SI and SF,the cause may be that the medicine could correct disturbance of lipid metabolism and protect organ.


There are positive signs today that conditions may be changing for the better offshore California. The prospects for exploratory drilling and resumption of long-delayed development of existing fields have improved. Some of the favorable happenings offshore include (1) the Interior Department may actually hold the offshore S. California lease sale before the year is out; (2) the Interior Department has issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement for the Santa Barbara Channel (this will help clear the way to drilling virtually all federal leases); (3) Exxon most certainly will start development of Hondo field in the billion-barrel Santa Unit (it has won a vote of confidence of Santa Barbara County citizens); and (4) the new California State Lands Commission, while much tougher than its predecessors, has gradually been approving some drilling programs on state leases. The moratorium definitely is over. While activity is increasing on existing leases along the California coast, the real push will come when--or if--Interior holds its planned S. California lease sale later this year.


Ricoeur placed a great deal of importance upon text and the interpretation of text. Bell accepts this by virtue of his extended analysis of the story of Babel, and I hope to offer ways of extending and developing Bell's arguments to incorporate the ethical demands that Ricoeur placed upon text, upon our interpretation of text and upon action as a form of readable text. This will not include a commentary on discourse analysis, which I am not qualified to give. Ricoeur differed from the structuralist tradition in that he saw the relationship between language and life as taking a dialectical form: debate that presumes the possibility of altering one's position by grappling with different views, and often taking inspiration from Hegelian dialectics, with their contrasting polarized views and the eventual attempt at affirmative common ground. The term λoƔoσ (logos) was first used in a philosophical way by Heraclitus to give us the principle of order and knowledge, and yet for Heraclitus the world was dominated by conflict and change. Ricoeur studied this tension within logos between order and disorder, partly by his writing about language and his work on signs and symbols, partly through metaphor and narrative and also through his insights on translation. For him, all these are facets of the need for both Explaining and Understanding as forms of interpretation of language, ethics and action. Ricoeur's work on logos provides us with an approach that asks whether ethics controls language or vice versa or both and how this fits in with structuralism and later movements. For Ricoeur, signs (words, texts) are not the centres of our perceptual experience. At the heart of our perception are our motivations and our actions, for which we must take responsibility in a sort of provisional affirmation that we will keep trying. In so doing we must doubt (be suspicious of) our own motives just as much as those of others, and see action as a form of readable text.


COTS system is increasingly seen as one of the main jobs of reuse development. It involves reliability of COTS that might affect the project schedule or the quality of the software being developed and taking action to avoid these risks. The results of the COTS analysis should be documented in the project plan along with an analysis of the attribute and operation. Effective risk management makes it easier to cope with problems and to ensure that these do not lead to unacceptable budget or schedule slippage. This research provides criteria of analysis of risk items to the estimation of process milestone on COTS development.


The Air Cherenkov telescope may be triggered by light produced by charged particles in the single electromagnetic sub-cascade, which is a part of hadron induced shower. When image contains photons from only a single electromagnetic sub-cascade, it has similar shape to the gamma images. This effect results in the lowering of the gamma/hadron separation efficiency. The Monte Carlo simulations shown that the fraction of events containing Cherenkov light from one gamma sub-cascade in the total hadronic background depends on the trigger threshold and the observation mode


In this Letter, we investigate the variation of endohedral A@CN potential due to addition at the center of it a positive charge, for example, in the process of atom A photoionization. Using a reasonable model to describe the fullerenes shell, we managed to calculate the variation that is a consequence of the monopole polarization of CN shell. We analyze model potentials with flat and non-flat bottoms and demonstrate that the phenomenological potentials that properly simulates the C60 shell potential should belong to a family of potentials with a non-flat bottom. As concrete example, we use the Lorentz-bubble model potential. By varying the thickness of this potential, we describe the various degrees of the monopole polarization of the C60 shell by positive electric charge in the center of the shell. We calculated the photoionization cross-sections of He, Ar and Xe atoms located at the center of C60 shell with and without taking into account accompanying this process monopole polarization of the fullerenes shell. Unexpectedly, we found that the monopole polarization do not affect the photoionization cross sections of these endohedral atoms.


An uncomplicated algebraic inequality is derived from Wolstenholme inequality. Thereupon a number of quadratic inequalities are demonstrated, and a conjecture is inferred to be proven.


Obesity is a risk factor for many adverse health outcomes. However for some cardiac conditions and cancers, evidence of an "obesity paradox" seems to exist where an elevated body mass index (BMI) is linked to protective effects in mortality and functional outcomes. Within the stroke rehabilitation literature, there are conflicting findings on this phenomenon possibly due to unaccounted for variables, such as comorbid medical conditions.


In this article we derive new time discretizations for the numerical simulation of Maxwell‐Bloch equations. These discretizations decouple the equations, thus leading to improved efficiency. This approach may be combined with the fulfilment of physical properties, such as positiveness properties, which are not accounted for by classical schemes. Our time discretizations are moreover proved to be nonlinearly stable. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 19: 284–300, 2003.


In this paper we deal with the decomposition of some classes of ordered semigroups into archimedean components. In particular, we prove that in ordered semigroups the concepts of semilattices of archimedean semigroups and of complete semilattices of archimedean semigroups are the same. In addition, we discuss similarities and differences between semigroups (without order) and ordered semigroups.


Michelia skinneriana is a rare plant.The study on the feature of M.skinneriana community showed that:There are various plants in the community of M.skinneriana,and its family and genus are of scattered compositions.Their floral composition is complicated.In terms of genus geographical elements,many of them are distributed in tropical zones.According to Raunkiaer's statistics of life-form,the life-form phaenerophyte of this community numbers first,and the hemicryptophyte second.The features of the community leaf is mainly microphyll,simple,leathery and unentire.The vertical structure of community is relatively complicated which can be divided into tree layer,shrub layer and herb layer as well as a definite number of interstratum plants.The species diversity decreases from shrub,tree to herb layer.The age structure of M.skinneriana is stationary.


Aluminum hypophosphite can be used to flame retard glass fiber reinforced polyamide 6 (GFPA6). TGIC microcapsulated AlHP (T-AlHP) and epoxy resin microcapsulated AlHP (E-AlHP) were made and put into GFPA6. The vertical burning tests and mechanical tests were taken to study the flame retardant performance and mechanical properties of the corresponding composites. Addition of either T-AlHP or E-AlHP resulted in an increased UL-94 rating and a decreased comprehensive mechanical performance. T-AlHP endowed GFPA6 a better flame retardancy than E-AlHP did. TG showed the decomposition behaviors of T-AlHP, E-AlHP, and the corresponding composites. From Py-GC/MS, the detailed pyrolysis products of flame retardants and the flame-retardant composites were identified. Finally, the properties and mechanism of flame retarded GFPA6 with these two kinds of microcapsulated Aluminum Phosphate were summarized.


A trial currently under way may help urologists to separate responders from nonresponders early and tailor BCG therapy for optimal results in those bladder cancer patients who respond to the drug.


Two compounds La1/3MO3 (M = Nb, Ta) with A-site deficient perovskite-type structure were synthesized by the solid state reaction method. The photocatalytic properties of these compounds were characterized by H2 evolution with Pt cocatalyst from CH3OH/H2O solution and by O2 evolution from AgNO3 aqueous solution under UV light irradiation. The results showed that the average rate of H2 evolution was about 61.07 μmol h-1 for La1/3NbO3 and 95.79 μmol h-1 for La1/3TaO3 after 24 hours of reaction time, while the initial rate of O2 evolution was 26.31 μmol h-1 for La1/3NbO3 and 16.21 μmol h-1 for La1/3TaO3, respectively. H2 evolution was also observed over La1/3MO3 (M = Nb, Ta) with NiO cocatalyst from pure water under UV light irradiation.


Since ancient times, the globe artichoke [ Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus (L.) Fiori] has been greatly valued due to its culinary and medicinal qualities. Concerns have been raised both the environment and the economy as a result of the worsening effects of global climate change in recent years. Considered on a global scale, abiotic stresses, especially salinity, affect the growth and development of plants, limit crop production and meeting food demand


We present a summary for non-specialists of the special issue of the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity on 'Milestones of general relativity', commemorating the 100th anniversary of the theory.


Abstract : Effective missile defense requires computer systems with extraordinary real time computing capacity. Parallel architectures are necessary to provide these levels of performance. Alternative architectures can be developed by integrating the design of the numerical algorithm with the computing hardware. One such emerging technology is reconfigurable computing based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). ISL has developed nonlinear operators that are easily implemented on FPGAs and can be used to implement correlators, matched filters, adaptive filters, and neural networks. In Phase 1 of this SBIR, ISL has implemented the nonlinear correlation estimators in FPGA processors and compared their performance in a standard application: DOA estimation. We have also considered the interconnection on multiple FPGA's and potential applications of such a reconfigurable computer. Based on this investigation, we propose recommendations for future development in a Phase 2 continuation of the present work.


Spur gears of 10 diametral pitch were induction hardened with various heating conditions, and distortions, generated by thermal changes only, were shown in the 1st report. In the 2nd report, results of measurements of distortions, caused by quenching transformations as well as by thermal changes, were described, Materials of gears were 0.45%C steel. Items of measurements were as follows : outer diameter, inner diameter, width, whole depth, radius of root circle, thickness of tooth, undulation of tooth trace, undulation of end surface of gear, tooth profile, eccentricity, out of roundness, normal pitch and error measured with Carl Mahr type meshing test machine. Further, the influences of key way on eccentricity, out of roundness and normal pitch were also measured.


Measures directed at improving the skin barrier function are thought to be effective in preventing reexacerbation of atopic dermatitis, but direct proof of a prophylactic effect of emollients has been elusive. In the present study, the atopic patch test has been employed as a model for the initiation phase of atopic dermatitis in order to asses whether pretreatment of non-lesional skin with a lipid-rich emollient (Eucerin® Tri-Lipid-Creme) has a prophylactic effect in patients with atopic dermatitis. Pretreatment of test sites with this cream either prevented or diminished the development of eczema, as compared with untreated control test sites in the same patients (n = 40). These studies demonstrate for the first time in a controlled, hemilateral comparison study that the use of a lipid rich emollient prevents the development of atopic eczema. They also indicate that the atopy patch test can be used to asses the capacity of a given regimen to exert prophylactic effects in this disease.


This letter investigates the mechanism of the phase characteristics versus frequency of the conventional and modified switched T-type attenuator cells in detail. According to the analysis, the optimal phase compensation interval for different topologies is revealed for the first time, which has important guiding significance for the design of ultralow phase error digital step attenuator (DSA) operating in different frequency bands. Furthermore, to verify the correctness and validity of the analysis, a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$W$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-band 3-bit DSA was implemented in a standard 65-nm CMOS process. It achieves a measured dynamic attenuation range of 7- with 1-dB tuning step. With the help of the parallel-type capacitive phase compensation technique, the DSA exhibits a measured root-mean-square (rms) phase error of 1.1° at 90.5 GHz and phase fluctuation of only 1.6° across 85–105 GHz. Besides, the tested rms amplitude error is less than 0.6 dB. The core chip area of the designed DSA is 0.082 mm2. To the best of our knowledge, the effectiveness of parallel-type phase compensation technique based on switched T-type is first verified in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$W$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-band.


In this paper,the author analyzes the overall plan of sharing system of document information in Hainan Province,and presents a conception of the construction of inter-library information exchanging platform for higher institutions in Hainan Province.


The 67 Ga and 68 Ge grain boundary diffusion in polycrystalli ne nickel has been investigated by the radiotracer serial sectioning method. 67 Ga GB diffusion measurement was carried out in temperature interval 773-1123 K with two sorts of nickel, which differed in purity (4N and 3N7). It was found that the 67 Ga diffusivity was slightly lower and activation enthalpy higher in 3N7 Ni than respective values measured in the case of 4N nickel. 68 Ge bulk diffusion coefficients in poly crystalline Ni (3N7purity) were measured in the temperature interval 1248-1448 K and their values needed for the grain boundary diffusivity evaluation were extrapolated down to 873 to 1173 K where the temperature dependence of the 68 Ge grain boundary diffusion was studied. Measured values were higher than for 67 Ga diffusion in the whole temperature region studied. The higher Ge grain boundary segregation can be a reason for this behavior, while higher segregation factor increases grain boundary diffusivity.


The organic chromophore 2,2′-(benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole-4,7-diyl)bis(thiophene-3-carboxylic acid), T2-BTD, was prepared and investigated along with metal complex [Ru(bda)(pyP)2] (bda = 2,2′-bipyridine-6,6′-dicarboxylate; pyP = 3-(pyridine-4-yloxy)propyl)phosphonic acid), RuC, for light-driven water splitting in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells. The resulting co-loaded organic chromophore plus catalyst surface assembly was evaluated by photocurrent transient measurement and direct O2 detection using a collector–generator cell. The complete SnO2/TiO2 core–shell-based photoanode exhibited an enhanced photocurrent (∼38 μA cm–2) compared to that with only the chromophore (∼24 μA cm–2). A modest Faradaic efficiency of 12% was recorded for O2 generation under 1 sun illumination in pH 3.9, 0.1 M acetate buffer solutions.


A nuclear scattering function which fits WHB potential very well is used to calculatethe projected range distribution moments up to the third order for ion species Al~+, P~+,S~+, Zu~+, Ga~+, As~+ and Sb~+, implanted into Cd_xHg_(1-x)Te substrate. By using the calculatedmoments, projected range distribution parameters, i. e. the mean projected range Rp, thestandard deviation of the mean projected range ΔRp and the skewness of range distri-bution are obtained. The energy range selected in the calculations is 50 keV to 1 MeVfor Al~+ projectile and 5 keV to 500 keV for other ion species. The results indicate thatour calculations agree well with that obtained recently by Russel et al. with LSS reducedenergy e≥0.5. However, our Rp values are remarkably larger than theirs when e=0.5.Finally, the method to construct depth profiles of implanted ions by use of the projectedrange parameters is briefly discussed.


Abstract The world is a place containing various racial and lingual groups. So that as far as this issue is concerned there is no difference between developed and developing countries. Iran is not an exception, because it can be called a multi-national or multi-racial community. The name of Azarbaijan has been one of the most renowned geographical names of Iran since 2000 years ago. Azar is the same as "Ashur" which means fire. In Pahlavi inscriptions, Azarbaijan has been mentioned as 'Oturpatekan', while it has been mentioned Azarbayegan and Azarpadegan in Persian writings. In this paper, attempt is made to study the race and people living there from the perspective of anthropology and ethnology. In fact, it is based on this question that whether or not, the people resided in Atropatgan have an Aryan race as other Iranians? According to anthropological and ethnical criteria of people in Atropatgan, we came to this conclusion that they have the same race (i.e. Aryan) similar as other Iranians who are the reminders and grandchildren of Aryan and Parse Medes. Therefore, the opposite is completely rejected on the view of the racial characteristics and all documents accounts for their Aryan race. Key Words: Iranian people; Atropatgan; Azaris; Anthropology; Genetic origin Resume Le monde est un endroit contenant divers groupes raciaux et linguales. Alors que dans la mesure ou cette question est concerne il n'ya aucune difference entre les pays developpes et en developpement. L'Iran n'est pas une exception, car il peut etre appele une communaute multinational ou multi-raciale. Le nom de Azerbaidjan a ete l'un des plus grands noms geographiques de l'Iran depuis 2000 ans. Azar est le meme que "Ashur", qui signifie feu. En Pahlavi inscriptions, Azerbaidjan a ete mentionnee comme «Oturpatekan', alors qu'il a ete mentionne Azarbayegan et Azarpadegan dans les ecrits persans. Dans cet article, la tentative est faite pour etudier la course et les gens qui y vivent dans la perspective de l'anthropologie et l'ethnologie. En fait, il est base sur cette question que si oui ou non, les gens ont reside dans Atropatgan une race aryenne comme les autres Iraniens? Selon les criteres anthropologiques et ethniques de personnes dans Atropatgan, nous sommes arrives a cette conclusion qu'ils ont la meme race (c.-a-aryenne) similaire a celle d'autres Iraniens qui sont les rappels et les petitsenfants de aryenne et Parse Medes. Par consequent, le contraire est completement rejete sur le point de vue des caracteristiques raciales et tous les comptes des documents pour leur race aryenne. Mots Cles: Peuple iranien; Atropatgan; Les Azeris; Anthropologie; Origine genetique (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) INTRODUCTION The primitive anthropologists tried to determine the multi types of mankind's nature by classification under the title of race based on geographical areas and physical apparent characteristics like color and others. Race is applied to a group of people who have kept the common physical or biological characteristics in successive generations (Hunter, 1976, p. 198). Or a group of natural people inherited a common physical feature; they have the same race even with different languages and customs (Saidiyan, 1991, p. 231). According to this definition what makes difference between two races is physical inherent characteristics and nothing else. In 1350 B.C., scientists found the present physical differences among human populations and classified them into three groups regarding to the color: black, white and yellow. Experts of heredity and biologists do not have a common idea about the reasons of variety in races. It means that some of them know this difference resulted from heredity and others believe in environmental effects (Fakuhi, 2006, p.287). The people of different places in the world are so mixed and it seems unlikely to determine the exact racial location. But it is not out of ambiguity, because the most anthropologists and scientists believe that human has always exposed to immigration and racial integration. …


The author outlines of the features of the various ethnic groups' representation in the new street names that were adopted in 2015–2017. He analyzes the peculiarities of the street names' selection in several Ukrainian cities (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Mariupol, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Kremenchuk, and Poltava) among the representatives of various ethnic minorities. Since the names of local Jews are relatively frequently chosen as the new names of the renamed streets, the author has paid a special attention to the names of the representatives of the Jewish communities. He has made a conclusion on the somewhat larger significance of the contemporary state of the ethnic community in the city for its memorialization in the new street names compared with their significance in the past.


Abstract: "We show that the Gaussian random fields and harmonic energy minimizing function framework for semi-supervised learning can be viewed in terms of Gaussian processes, with covariance matrices derived from the graph Laplacian. We derive hyperparameter learning with evidence maximization, and give an empirical study of various ways to parameterize the graph weights."


liquid composition with a viscosity between 1 and 100 mPa.s comprising a. at least one source of vegetable oil; b. at least 0.5 g fat per 100 ml; c. at least 0.6% by weight of fatty acyl chains based on short chain fatty acyl chains total; d. at least 7% by weight of fatty acyl chains based on polyunsaturated fatty acyl chains total; and e. at least 60 mg non-digestible saccharides with a degree of polymerization of 2 to 200 per 100 ml selected from the group consisting of fructooligosaccharides, galactooligosaccharides, galactans and fructopolysaccharide for use in a method for providing nutrition to an infant, said method comprising administering oral nutritional composition baby, where the baby is aged between 0 and 48 months.


A new approach to senior-level fiber optics and photonics curricula is presented. The approach shifts the education goals' focus from device construction and physics to system level integration and performance. A revised curriculum is presented, and feedback from students in the initial offering is provided.


Proficiency elements of criminal activity of mercenaries are inextricably linked to the comparative study regarding various criminal legislation, especially those which have common elements with national criminal law. Given the historical context of criminal law common development of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in this article we deal with a comparative analysis aimed at legislation which concerns the offense of mercenary activity. Such an objective is natural, since comparative criminal law is an area of science of criminal law, which is intended to study rules and legal institutions belonging to different national systems in order to know the meaning and content, and the differences between these rules and institutions.


This article make a research about HTTP proxy protocol's implementation. and it also makes a discussion about proxies' user authorization and data cache mechanism.


Purpose The mediating role of depressive symptoms and hopelessness on the relationship between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and internet gaming disorder (IGD) symptoms has not yet been elucidated. This study assessed this mediating effect in college students. Participants and Methods Participants consisted of 1236 freshmen recruited at a local university. Symptoms of ADHD, IGD, depression and hopelessness were measured using self-report scales. The effect of ADHD on IGD mediated by depression and hopelessness was analyzed by Haye's PROCESS macro for SPSS (Model 6) using the bias-corrected percentile bootstrap method with 5000 bootstrapped samples. Results Symptoms of ADHD, depression and hopelessness were common in college students and were strongly associated with the appearance of IGD symptoms. ADHD symptoms of college students impacted their IGD symptoms directly and indirectly via depressive symptoms and hopelessness. The total effect of ADHD symptoms on IGD symptoms was 0.075 (standard error [SE]: 0.009, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.057, 0.093), with a direct effect of 0.037 (SE: 0.010, 95% CI 0.018, 0.056, effect ratio: 49.3%), and total indirect effect was 0.038 (SE: 0.005, 95% CI 0.029, 0.050, effect ratio: 50.7%). Conclusion Depressive symptoms and hopelessness can mediate the relationship between ADHD and IGD symptoms among college students. These findings point to the importance of evaluating ADHD, depressive and hopelessness symptoms for the prevention and treatment of adult IGD.


Certain attributes of information and communication technology have many
potentially useful applications for qualitative research. With reference to an
exploratory study, in this paper we consider how online discussion boards
can facilitate the collection of qualitative data from focus group interviews.
We also evaluate the advantages and limitations of conducting these
interviews through online discussion.


Introduction Neural stem/progenitor cells derived from olfactory neuroepithelium (hereafter OE-NS/PCs) are emerging as a viable proxy and a valuable tool for translational studies on severe mental illnesses (SMI). In this respect, the use of OE-NS/PCs as a surrogate cellular model of schizophrenia (SZ) has enabled insights into cell signaling and cell cycle dynamics in this disease. Objectives We explored whether mitochondrial dysfunction, which has been already associated with SZ, may have a role in the altered proliferation pattern previously observed in OE-NS/PCs of SZ patients. Methods OE-NS/PCs were collected from 20 patients and 20 healthy controls (Hcs) by nasal brushing, cultured in proper medium and expanded. Fresh OE-NS/PCs at passage 3 of both groups underwent BrdU proliferation assays or were frozen for later use. Mitochondrial ATP production was measured in both fresh and thawed OE-NS/PCs by using the ATPlite Luminescence Assay kit. Results Fresh OE-NS/PCs of patients grew at a higher rate than those of HCs (M-W U=0; p<0.001), whereas the proliferation of thawed OE-NS/PCs of both groups exhibited an opposed pattern (at passage 6, p=0.002). Mitochondrial ATP production was significantly lower in OE-NS/PCs of patients than in those of HCs (M-W U=0; p=0.02), regardless of freeze-thaw conditions (M-W U=6; p=0.77). Conclusions Mitochondrial ATP production is negatively affected in OE-NS/PCs of SZ patients as compared to those of HCs. This evidence does not differ in fresh OE-NS/PCs and OE-NS/PCs undergoing freeze-thaw cycles, which instead perturb the proliferation pattern of SZ OE-NS/PCs.


The influence of humidity on the breakdown mechanism of small rod-plane gaps (25 cm) is studied when positive impulse voltages with long wavetails and with front durations of 2 μs, 80 μs and 250 μs are applied. It is seen that humidity influences the general pattern of the discharge and it has been found that the humidity correction factor depends on the front duration


The reinforcement technology combining Zylon/epoxy composite and Kevlar/epoxy composite has been proposed to design the 100 T Pulsed Magnet at the Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center (WHMFC). The reinforcement layers in the preliminary 100 T pulsed magnet consisted of Zylon/epoxy composite, which is replaced with Zylon-Kevlar-Zylon hybrid fiber in the layers where the von Mises stress in Zylon/epoxy composite exceeds 3.5 GPa. Kevlar fabric has better wet impregnation properties with epoxy due to its rougher surface than Zylon fiber, which can effectively prevent shear movement of the conductor layer and the reinforcement layer. The simulation shows that the maximum von Mises stress in the Zylon-Kevlar-Zylon hybrid fiber is 3.68 GPa. The measured ultimate tensile strength (UTS) is 4.97 GPa via the explosion test with small pulsed magnet, which shows that the new reinforcement technology meets the stress requirements for 100 T.


We investigate quench dynamics of spin ice after removal of a strong magnetic field along the [100] crystal direction, using Monte Carlo simulations and theoretical arguments. We show how the early-time relaxation of the magnetization can be understood in terms of nucleation and growth of strings of flipped spins, in agreement with an effective stochastic model that we introduce and solve analytically. We demonstrate a crossover at longer times to a regime dominated by approximately isotropic clusters, which we characterize in terms of their morphology, and present evidence for a percolation transition as a function of magnetization.


Purpose of review Breast cancer survival has improved motivating the need for better understanding of the sequelae of the disease and its treatments. Lab studies suggest opioids modify cancer cell growth but the association of opioids with cancer progression in humans is not clear. This review aims to summarize recent findings related to opioid use and breast cancer progression. Recent findings Opioid-sparing analgesia may be associated with better survival in cancer patients. In-vitro research suggests that treatment with &mgr;-opioid receptor antagonists inhibits cancer proliferation, and shows some promise for attenuating tumor growth in humans, thereby enhancing survival. Prescription use of opioids does not appear to influence the risk of recurrence in patients, though the evidence comes from a single large registry-based observational study. Ongoing clinical trials are comparing opioid-sparing regional anesthesia with general anesthesia for the risk of breast cancer recurrence. Summary The association of opioids with breast cancer progression is controversial. Further observational studies are needed. There is currently no clear evidence to suggest that opioid use should be avoided in breast cancer patients because of concerns regarding the risk of breast cancer recurrence.


One of Susan Kent's greatest legacies was her commitment to make archaeologists and their field relevant to the modern world. This chapter briefly examines the importance of a discipline that is concerned as much with the present and the future as it is with the past and examines the role Susan Kent's work played in advancing such a vision.


It analyses the main reasons of the crack in large bulk concrete,puts forward the attentions in the selection of raw material for large bulk concrete,discusses the methods used in the pouring,viberating,and maintenance of large bulk concrete,and points out that the construction technology and measures of large bulk concrete construction structure is closely related to the using property of concrete structure.


Within the past decade, the achievement goal approach has begun to be used to study teacher achievement motivation. In recent research with students, a 3 × 2 model of achievement goals has been proffered that separates mastery-based goals in terms of a task/self distinction. The purpose of the present study was to extend this 3 × 2 model to teachers in order to provide important insights into teachers' individual differences. We devised items for the questionnaire and showed that data obtained with the 3 × 2 Achievement Goal Questionnaire for Teachers fit the 3 × 2 model (in absolute terms and relative to 10 alternative models) and that each goal of the model exhibited good internal consistency. In addition, we linked the 3 × 2 goals to other key constructs relevant to achievement goals, namely, implicit theories of ability, instructional practices and intrinsic interest.


Data association is an essential part of track maintenance in multiple target tracking, which can be solved by multidimensional assignment methods. When there is a need to solve the multidimensional assignment problem, the ant colony optimisation ACO algorithm stands out as it can solve combinatorial optimisation problem with excellent performance in acceptable CPU time. Here, each measurement is modelled as an ant, each track is modelled as a city, and the problem of data association is modelled as the food locating by ants. Thus, a novel data association based on an improved ant colony optimisation algorithm ACODA is proposed in this paper. The detailed corresponding relationship and theoretical analysis between basic ACO algorithm and the ACODA algorithm are given. Simulation results show that as the number of targets increases, the ACODA algorithm performs better than JPDA and NN, with superior performance both in computational time and accuracy.


3D deformable distinct element method (3D DEM) is an efficient numerical tool for simulation of mechanical behaviors of discontinuous media. It is suitable to use this method to analyze problems of elasto-plastic, large deformation and dynamic systems because of the use of the explicit finite-difference scheme and the automatic contact detection method for discretized joints. Herein, the principles and features of the 3D deformable distinct element method were described and the failure process of Meihua Arch Dam in 1981 was simulated. It is evident that abutment thrust due to the reservoir load leads to the upward sliding of the dam along the peripheral joints due to the weak shear resistance of peripheral joints, thus causing the rapid collapse of the dam.


The effect of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) on film formation was evaluated by analyzing both drying stress and pore size distribution. We discovered that the SBR in a graphite/SBR slurry filled the voids among the graphite particles with the increase in SBR concentration. In addition, the CMC in the graphite/CMC slurry was adsorbed onto the graphite surface, which caused the graphite particles to coalesce. In the graphite/CMC/SBR slurry, a large amount of SBR was needed to increase the mechanical strength of the film in the low concentration region of CMC. However, in high concentration region of CMC, the SBR did not affect the mechanical strength of the film any longer. On the basis of the drying stress measurements, we could draw a processing window map that clearly shows the effect of CMC and SBR on the mechanical strength of the film, which will be useful in the design of anode slurries.


Design A 3-year pseudo-randomised controlled trial was conducted. Intervention Subjects were randomly assigned by coin toss to either endodontic treatment and restoration with adhesive techniques and composite, or endodontic treatment and restoration with adhesive techniques and composite with final restoration with full-coverage metal-ceramic crown. Outcome measure Restoration survival or failure was recorded. Causes of failure were categorised as root fracture, post fracture, post decementation, clinical and/or radiographic evidence of marginal gap between tooth and restoration, and clinical and/or radiographic evidence of secondary caries contiguous with restoration margins. Results At 3 years there was no difference in the failure frequencies between the two groups. Conclusions Clinical success rates of endodontically treated premolars restored with fibre posts and direct composite restorations after 3 years of service were equivalent to a similar treatment of full coverage with metal-ceramic crowns. Commentary The decreased strength seen in endodontically treated teeth is primarily because of the loss of coronal tooth structure. 1 Thus, coronal restoration in these teeth is an essential step in the evaluation of long-term success. Tooth structure loss can range from minimal access preparation in intact teeth to extensive damage that endangers the longevity of the tooth itself. 2 Little documentation exists regarding the description and outcome of endodontically treated teeth restored with posts that have been covered with metal-ceramic crowns or left uncovered. This finding is surprising given the clinical prevalence of this procedure. In this study, Mannocci et al. performed a randomised controlled clinical study to evaluate the clinical success rate of endodontically treated premolars. The question the authors addressed was whether teeth with limited loss of tooth structure that had endodontic treatment and core buildup with adhesive techniques, fibre posts, and composites, would demonstrate equivalent failure rates and failure modes to teeth restored in a similar manner with full crown coverage. The investigators enrolled 117 subjects for their study. Although, the setting (university, hospital, private practice) was not specified in the paper, the description of the population in terms of inclusion and exclusion criteria and patients' characteristics were clearly described. The patients were assigned in a randomised manner but the allocation method was not concealed. The description of the intervention was described clearly and so as to be reproducible. One operator carried out the complete procedure. The treatment performed was the same in all the patients in the group. Co-interventions (concomitant treatments) were not mentioned. The outcomes were measured before restoration, immediately after restoration and at recall after 1, 2 and 3 years. Success or failure was evaluated using clinical, radiographic and photographic examination. Two examiners, neither the operator, carried out the assessments. The results showed no significant differences between the groups. There were 30 withdrawals (a 26% loss to follow-up). The causes of the withdrawals and dropouts were not explained. The majority of these withdrawals (27 individuals) were from the same group. This was an important point that should have been discussed — this loss to follow-up virtually negates the results. On other hand, using a worst-case scenario analysis (the withdrawals are considered 'failures'), the results show 30% failures after the second year for group 1 and 11% in group 2. After the third year, 20% failures were found in group 1 and 5.2% in group 2. The study highlights the importance of degree of tooth structure loss when planning the final restoration of endodontically treated teeth. The results here may help with decision-making in clinical practice regarding differences in time and cost of the treatments. The research was relatively well designed but there were some deficiencies. The study should have been designed to include matched pairs of teeth in the same patients; the follow up-time may have been insufficient; and no sample size or power calculation means that there may not have been enough subjects/teeth to find a difference if there really was one. The authors did, however, identify some of these limitations in their discussion.


Abstract The interaction of a surface wave of angular frequency ω with a deeply submerged, vertical open-mouthed, circular duct of radius a is considered. The resulting boundary- value problem is solved by the Wiener-Hopf technique. The pressure-amplification factor (the ratio of the complex amplitude of the pressure in the depths of the duct to that of the incident wave in the plane of the mouth) is determined in closed form as a function of the dimensionless wave number K = ω2a/g.


Electro-hydraulic valve actuators capable of variable valve timing, duration and lift offer potential benefits for significantly improving engine performance. A model-based adaptive feedforward control strategy was developed to improve the accuracy of valve opening timing control with the presence of time-varying valve delay. A discrete-time adaptive estimation algorithm was employed to estimate the system supply pressure, which is the leading factor of the valve opening delay. To make the online estimation feasible, a linear time-invariant model was obtained based on previously developed mathematical model. The valve opening delay determined by the estimated supply pressure was further used for the feedforward control to track the desired valve opening timing. Both the open-loop and closed-loop control schemes with adaptive feedforward were studied in this paper. The discrete-time adaptive parameter estimation algorithm along with the developed control strategies were verified on the test bench under transient operational conditions. The parameter estimation converges in 6 engine cycles with a steady-state mean relative estimation error of 7.1% and the tracking error of valve opening timing is kept within 1 crank angle degree using combined feedforward and feedback control.


For the first time the possibility of using purified pectins to stabilize ascorbic acid (AA) in fresh juices was considered and proved. The purpose of the study was to analyze the possibility of using purified pectins to stabilize AA in fresh juices with a concentration of 1⋅10-6-1⋅10-4g/ml. The work used AA, oxalic acid (OA), as well as beet (BP), citrus (CP) and apple (AP) pectins. There was no interfering effect of pectins on AA determination by differential UV spectroscopy. The specific absorption rate of AA (727) was determined, according to which the AA content in model solutions with auxiliary substances during storage was estimated. The optimal weight ratio AA:AP 1:16 used for blending fresh juices, in which the AA concentration was previously determined by titration with 2.6-dichlorophenolindophenolate sodium, was established. It was revealed that AP contributes to the pH shift to the optimal pH area for AA 4.5-8.0; increase of juice viscosity by 5-148% and storage life by 3.3-59 times. The relative error of definitions did not exceed ±5.6%.


Objective: To establish the optimal extraction technology for moluo tablets.Methods: The orthogonal test was employed for selecting the optimum of extraction technology.The investigation factors were the consumption of water,the time and times of extraction.The extraction technology of moluo tablets was screened by the transfer rate of paeoniflorin in radix paeoniae alba and yield of extraction.Results: The best extraction condition was as follow: 8 times of water,extracted for 2 times and each time was 2 hours.Conclusion: The above mentioned extraction technology is feasible,stable,reasonable and replicable,and the optimized extraction process of moluo tablets is obtained.


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will allow a private reminiscence) a certain play of mine went into production. Opening night came to a satisfying conclusion. Admiring crowds, or crowds feigning admiration, shook my hand in the lobby. The actors and I embraced in the dressing rooms. The talk afterward over coffee turned coffee to champagne. A couple of days later, a newspaper compared me not unfavorably with, inevitably, the Bard himself. As my evil star would have it, this was a paper read only by the unlettered masses. The second newspaper, the one "everybody" was in the habit of consulting, reported that my play was no better than police-blotter trivia done up in fancy costume. I was annihilated. The actors sulked to my face. I dared not leave the house or answer the telephone. Surely the whole city must be laughing at me. But it turned out that only four or five of my friends, relations, and acquaintances had so much as glanced at the fatal review. The tens of thousands who constitute the "everybody" in town had read only the film columns. A few, interested in drama, had failed to retain my unknown name and had quickly confused this particular review with a dozen others read that week. Thank God and alas, it was safe for me to go in and out of my barbershop all day long. There was a knife in my back, but no one to notice it.


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Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1863, p. 635.
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This paper expounds the basic principle and usable range of SHDSL,introduces the chip GS2237 and VxWorks operation system,probes into the concrete process of implementing the SHDSL protocol link,and analyzes the application prospects.


The superconducting magnets of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) distributed over eight sectors of 3.3‐km long are cooled at 1.9 K in pressurized superfluid helium. During the commissioning campaign of the sectors in 2008, cold standby periods at nominal operating temperature have allowed to measure the overall static heat inleaks reaching the magnet cold masses at 1.9 K by enthalpy balance in steady‐state operation. In addition, during electrical powering of the different magnet circuits, helium II calorimetry based on precision thermometry has been implemented to assess with an accuracy of 100 mW/m the additional heat loads due to resistive heating and to detect possible abnormal heat dissipation during powering.This paper describes the method applied to perform these measurements, compares the results with the expected specified values and discusses the impact of the measured values on cryo‐plant tuning and operational margins.


The purpose of this paper is to provide a link between entrepreneurial activity on the one hand, and industry evolution and economic growth on the other. The role that entrepreneurship plays in innovative activity is explained. The link between entrepreneurship and industry evolution through the spillover of knowledge in generating entrepreneurial activity is analyzed. This implies that the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth is identified. In particular, this paper finds that entrepreneurship generates a positive pulse in the evolution of industries in such a way that fosters economic growth.


A dot target with N × N array of circular dots was used to erect a world coordinate system and M calibration point with known positions in the system. Using the M calibration points in the space and their corresponding image points in the image plane, the stereo vision was calibrated to extract the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters. In the paper the centers of the circular dots are taken as the calibration points. The projections of the circular dots onto the image plane will become circles or ellipses. A subpixel localization technique was developed to accurately find the positions of the edge points for the circular or elliptical dots. Fitting a conical section to the obtained edge points to locate the centers of the circular and elliptical dots, the calibration points in the space and their corresponding image points in the image plane were acquired. After camera calibration, a rigid body translation test was performed to evaluate the baseline measurement errors of the stereo vision in each of the directions x, y, and z.


Magnesium is an extreme vivacious metal material, and its alloys which have excellent properties obtain application greatly. However, magnesium alloys without corrosion resistance in different mediums is restricted. According to masses of documents, many methods were used on alloys, but not very obvious. The technology of electroless plating nickel which develops quickly recently is a surface treatment method.The method of electroless plating nickel on AZ91D is studied during consulting relative data: optimal pretreatment conditions of electroless nickel plating for magnesium alloy are decided by many experiments. A set of procedure of direct electroless Ni-P under the acid condition is studied, avoiding bother of pre- plating medium layer.Thickness, hardness, quality by heat shock and scratch experiments of the plating layer are measured, excellent adhesive force of the plating layers have been obtained.


This paper in order to efficiently operate zero energy buildings developed a methodology for optimal operation of PV + ESS active systems. This program consists of three steps. First step is PV optimal operation and second step is PV + ESS optimal operation. Third step is the analysis of the results by PV + ESS optimal operation. The optimal operation of PV + ESS was calculated by using Dynamic Programming (DP). Therefore, the optimal capacity and operating plan of PV + ESS in this study are calculated for electric load at building. This paper conducted case study to verify the validity of the developed algorithm. Also, the sensitivity analysis analyzed the effect of each variable on the optimal operation.


On postmodern background,ideological and political education on college students needs an improvement of educational system,taking advantages of mass media,promoting students' cognition and awareness through conversations and communications.Furthermore,students should be encouraged to innovate so as to realize educational objectives.


E-Science Grid is designed to cope with computation-intensive tasks and to manage a huge volume of science data efficiently. However, certain tasks may involve more than one grid can offer in computation capability or incur a long wait time on other tasks. Resource sharing among Grids can solve this problem with proper processing-integrity check via audit. Due to their computing-intensive nature, the processing time of e-Science tasks tends to be long. This potential long wait before an audit failure encourages earlier audit mechanism during execution in order both to prevent resource waste and to detect any problem fast. In this paper, we propose a Light-weight, Adaptive and Reliable Audit, LARA, of processing Integrity for e-Science applications. With the LARA scheme, researchers can verify their processing earlier and fast.


A Look Back When I was appointed the Software Spotlight column editor by Editor-in-Chief Mary Anderson in May 2002, our goal for Software Spotlight was to help readers identify well-written, intuitive, and useful software. Independent reviewers from government, industry, and academia were asked to try out full working versions of software packages and provide readers with a concise summary of their experiences and opinions regarding the capability, stability, and ease-of-use of these packages. In addition, Software Spotlight occasionally published short feature articles reviewing a software-related topic such as the internet data sources for groundwater modeling or commenting on the future directions of development for a particular software program. Over the past 9 years, a total of 34 columns were published in this space, featuring a wide range of software packages and software-related topics (Table 1). The published columns may be broadly divided into six catogories: (1) evaluation of numerical groundwater flow/transport/geochemical models, either freely available in the public domain or from commercial vendors, such as PHREEQC, ChemFlux, SEAWAT, FEFLOW, MIKE SHE, PHT3D, HYDRUS, and several recently developed packages for MODFLOW; (2) evaluation of graphical user interfaces for numerical modeling, calibration, sensitivity, and/or uncertainty analysis, such as PetraSim for the TOUGH2 family of multiphase models and Groundwater Vistas for the MODFLOW/MT3DMS family of flow and transport models; (3) evaluation of analytical and semi-analytical modeling programs and utilities, such as GFLOW, STANMOD, MAROS, and NAPLANAL; (4) evaluation of GIS, database management, visualization, and geostatistical packages, as well as general-purpose partial differential equation (PDE) solvers, such as Model Viewer, Environmental Insite,


Thanks to the internal and external drives,the development of low-carbon economy in the world and the industrial structure transformation and upgrading in China determined by the development level of productive forces,Zhejiang Province has to develop export industries and commodities in low-carbon ways.In this way,the traditional export commodity structure must be adjusted,upgraded or optimized,in other words,exporting low-carbon,high-tech,high value-added commodities and increasing the export proportion of the tertiary industry.In responding to the new trade barrier that might be set up by import countries in terms of carbon footprint,carbon labeling and carbon tariffs,Zhejiang should make use of the opportunity of industrial structural transformation and upgrading in the province;actively introduce and apply widely energy-saving,clean and low-carbon technologies;enhance the technological content and added value of export commodities;increase the export proportion of environmental protection and green service products on the basis of maintaining the export of traditional featured products in an effort to optimize the export commodity structure continuously.


This Special Issue gathers papers reporting research on various aspects of the use of low-cost photogrammetric and lidar sensors for indoor building reconstruction. It includes contributions presenting improvements in the alignment of mobile mapping systems with and without a prior 3D BIM model, the interpretation of both imagery and lidar data of indoor scenery and finally the reconstruction and enrichment of existing 3D point clouds and meshes with BIM information. Concretely, the publications showcase methods and experiments for the Reconstruction of Indoor Navigation Elements for Point Cloud of Buildings with Occlusions and Openings by Wall Segment Restoration from Indoor Context Labeling, Two-Step Alignment of Mixed Reality Devices to Existing Building Data, Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World Assumption, A Robust Rigid Registration Framework of 3D Indoor Scene Point Clouds Based on RGB-D Information, 3D Point Cloud Semantic Augmentation for Instance Segmentation of 360° Panoramas by Deep Learning Techniques and the Symmetry-Based Coarse Registration of Smartphone's Colorful Point Clouds with CAD Drawings (RegARD) for Low-Cost Digital Twin Buildings.


Older adults are at greater risk for foodborne illness due to age and weakened immune function. Despite higher susceptibility to foodborne illness, older adults have low knowledge of food safety risk. It is essential to identify unsafe food handling behaviors among older adults so that interventions can be developed to decrease the likelihood of foodborne illness. Targeted, needs‐driven education materials and programs are the best methods to increase risk awareness among older adults and to provide the necessary prevention steps. The study purpose was to assess food handling behaviors that are increasing community‐residing older adults' risk for foodborne illness. A convenience sample of 720 older adults from 67 congregate meal sites in a Midwest state completed a 10‐item food safety knowledge questionnaire that asked about the frequency of performing food safety behaviors. Participants were primarily widowed (54.3%), white (95.9%), females (75.4%), with a mean age of 78.6 years, who had a high school education (46.6%), and reported being in "average" health (31.9%). Review of descriptive statistics identified safety practices; chi‐square tests evaluated the associations between frequency of food safety practices, age, and gender. The majority of participants reported regularly practicing these specific safe food handling practices: refrigerating cold food immediately (97.6%), washing cutting boards after contact with meats (93.6%), discarding suspicious leftovers (93.6%), keeping sponges and towels clean (92.3%), and washing hands before food prep (91.4%). Conversely, a number of safety behaviors were not observed including: (1) thaw meat in refrigerator (50.0%), (2) pick up refrigerated/ frozen food just before checking out (38.5%), (3) check "sell‐by" and "use by" dates on packages (35.8%), or (4) use separate cutting boards for meat (21.0%). Age category was associated with picking up refrigerated / frozen food just before checking out (χ2[3] = 8.45, p = .038) and refrigerating leftovers immediately (χ2 [3] = 8.18, p = .043); participants aged 71–80 years reported a higher frequency of responding "no" than other age groups. Gender was associated with washing cutting boards after contact with meat (χ2 [1] = 12.25, p < .001) and keeping towels and sponges clean (χ2 [1] = 9.86, p = .002); a higher percentage of males reported "no" to these behaviors. Future food safety education for older adults should target these aforementioned food safety practices to reduce the risk of foodborne illness. Specific education should be targeted to older adults age 71–80 related to refrigeration safety and to older males regarding cleaning of food prep materials.


We demonstrate that carrier scattering induced by the thickness fluctuation of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) film reduces electron mobility in ultrathin-body metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors with SOI thickness, TSOI, of less than 4 nm at room temperature and is the dominant scattering mechanism at low temperatures. The thickness fluctuation of a nanoscaled SOI film induces large potential variations due to the difference of quantum-confinement effects from one part to another, and thus carrier scattering potentials are formed in the channel. It is shown that experimental electron mobility follows the theoretical TSOI dependence and the expected temperature dependence of the scattering induced by SOI thickness fluctuation.


As a result of the Chernobyl accident, reactivity coefficients for the graphite-moderated N reactor loadings were carefully reevaluated. The calculations confirmed that the N reactor had a very pronounced negative void coefficient for all past and potential loadings and operating conditions. However, significant differences in the graphite moderator temperature coefficient were computed for a core loaded with low-enriched uranium (LEU) metal fuel elements and one charged with high-enriched uranium (HEU)-zirconium alloy fuel. The fuel temperature and coolant temperature coefficients changed according to expectations between the different core loadings. Production reactor designers should be considering the impacts of core design features on reactivity coefficients for a broad spectrum of core loadings.


Sorghum forms one of the important food grains of the Madras state. It is grown over an area of 18 lakhs of acres. Several diseases are known to affect this crop. Of these the smuts are the most damaging. There are four kinds of smuts recorded on this crop in the Madras state. These are the grain smut, the loose smut, the long smut, and the head smut. The head smut is common in several districts in the state and in some years it has been observed to infect about five per cent of the crop in parts of Coimbatore and Salem districts. The entire ear head is trans- formed into a sorus which is covered by a thin whitish membrane in the early stage. Sooner or later the membrane is ruptured and a black mass of spores mixed with numerous fibres is exposed. The occurrence of this smut has been found to be greater in rainfed crops than in irrigated crop.


The present invention relates to a multi-channel data receiving apparatus and method for a digital multimedia broadcasting, the apparatus of the present invention, receives input frames indicating a compressed image of a sub-channel, of the frames of the sub channel, before and after the image and and a key frame extractor for extracting the key frames containing compressed video information unrelated store, receive input frames indicating a compressed image of a main channel, a key frame for detecting the key frame of the main channel identifying portion, said main and by-pass the frame of the primary channel when the key-frame may not have been detected in the channel, a key-frame transfer of the primary channel when is the key frame of the main channel by the keyframe identification unit detects a moment stopping and outputting a key frame of the sub-channel is stored, since the key frame of the sub channel the output of the main To decode the channel frames and the channel selector key and outputting the subsequent frames, the frame of the main channel or sub-channel output from the channel selector consists of a group of video decoding and outputting picture signals. VIDEO DECODER, MULTIPLE CHANNEL, PiP, EPG, MPEG-4, H.264, IDR


Chinese named entity recognition (NER) is more difficult than it in English because of the lack of nature delimiters. First, Chinese NER requires word segmentation, but word-based segmentation will generate errors due to the different granularity of the word segmentation tools. Second, most NER models heavily rely on local linguistic features, but the scope of influence provided by local linguistic features is limited, so sometimes the model will give different results to the same entity in different sentences. To address the above problems, we propose the Entity Storage Network Model called ESN Model for Chinese NER, which is a character-based model to avoid word segmentation errors. Specifically, we design an entity storage layer in this model to extract and store the entity information as a local linguistic feature, and design a position feature which is generated by four flags to enhance the learning of boundary. Then we incorporate the attention mechanism to extend the scope of the local linguistic features. The experimental results on two real-world datasets demonstrate that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art models in Chinese NER task.


Students in vocational schools tend to have mental disorders and even mental decline.After two-year analysis of a grade 08 student counseling case with interpersonal barrier,the paper points out that absence of childhood family education have had impact on formation of character and personality,causing vocational students to have more psychological problems in adolescent than common young people and appeals to concern of the whole society for mental health of student.


Cordierite (2MgO2.2Al2O3.5SiO2) had many excellent properties such as low thermal expansion, good thermal shock resistance, sufficient mechanical strength, high refractoriness and others. Therefore, it had been widely used in many fields such as packaging materials for substrate in electronic packaging, special refractory and containers for high temperature application, potential sealing materials for high temperature devices such as high intensity discharge lamps and others. In this study, high purity Cordierite was successfully synthesized via sol‐gel method using TEOS, Al(NO3)3.9H2O, Mg(NO3)2.6H2O as starting materials and sintered at 1300° C. Powders obtained were characterized using XRD, FTIR and CTE analysis. XRD result showed that high purity of α‐cordierite was obtained with Spinel phase as a minor impurity. FTIR spectroscopy result showed the band characteristics for α‐cordierite which supported the XRD result. The CTE value for synthetic α‐cordierite is 2×10−6 which proved that high purity α‐cor...


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Objectives: Many luting agents are available for cementation of fibre posts into the root canal. The aim of the present study is to investigate the push-out bond strengths of fibre posts to root dentin by using two types of resin cements total-etch and self-adhesive resin cement. Materials and methods : Forty maxillary central incisors were endodontically treated and standardized postspaces were prepared. Fibre posts were cemented with two types of luting agents: total-etch (Panavia F) and self-adhesive resin cements (RelyX Unicem). The post/dentin sections were obtained from each specimen, and push-out bond strength test was performed in each section at a cross-head speed of 1 mm/min. Data was analyzed with two-factor and one-way analysis of variance and a post-hoc Tukey test at a significance level of p < 0.05. Conclusions: The bond strength was significantly influenced by the type of the cement used for luting the post. Significantly higher bond strength values were observed with self-adhesive cement (Rely X Unicem) compared to total-etch (Panavia F). Conclusions: Cementation of fibre posts using self-adhesive cement provided higher push-out bond strengths than the total-etch cements.


Objective To determine the utilisation of maternal health care services and its determinants among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) residing in selected village of district Ajitgarh, Punjab Design A descriptive, exploratory design was used. Research setting: Rural area of district Ajitgarh, Punjab Participants/subjects All the women of reproductive age (15-49 years) who had delivered baby between 1st Jan to 31st Dec, 2013 in selected rural settings of district Ajitgarh, Punjab Results The findings of this study confirmed that utilisation of maternal health care services is higher in district Ajitgarh. Also, different factors affect utilisation of maternal health care services. Mother's age, educational status, occupation, birth order, socio-economic status was found to be strong predictors of utilisation of maternal health care services. Conclusion It is evident that programs aimed at improving utilisation of maternal health care services will be beneficial for women with low levels of education and those from poor backgrounds. It is also necessary to explore ways of improving availability and accessibility to maternal health care services to women living in rural areas. Mothers and pregnant women's queries and doubts should be judiciously addressed during antenatal check-up days, in immunisation clinics, mothers group meeting in Anganwadi and during the home visits by health workers. Dedicated joint effort, both by the community as well as health staffs is essential for the achievement of MDG-5.