The explosion of new technology in the information age may have substantial impact on the study of argumentation and the practice of academic debate. On-line databases offer both academic scholars and debaters immediate access to public discourse on a wide variety of issues. As our ability to access greater volumes of information in ever quicker ways continues to evolve, it is important that the effects of technology on argumentation practice be monitored so that we are able to control the process of innovation rather than allowing it to control us. Robert Tucker's essay on ideology and databases is significant because it invites contemplation of the choices we make in the application of new technologies to argumentation practice. Tucker's basic premise - that the diffusion of innovations can impact on the formation of ideology - is an important point to reflect upon as we confront and choose among new technologies. This essay argues, however, that Tucker's specific concern about the impact of database research on academic debate is largely misplaced. Tucker argues that the use of corporate sponsored databases such as Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw are promoting the political homogenization of arguments available to debaters. He offers an apocalyptic vision of a world in which the only information used by debaters is controlled by a mega-corporation whose sole purpose is the perpetuation of a capitalist system. He maintains that reliance on databases is driving radical argumentation out of the world of academic debate and that without radical arguments debaters will be incapable of contributing to a democratic way of life. As with many generic disadvantages, the internal links to his impacts seem a bit strained. There are four significant problems with the argument that make the apocalypse unlikely. FLAWED VIEW OF RESEARCH The first problem with Tucker's argument is that it relies on a flawed view of the practice of research. The argument rests on the supposition that debaters rely exclusively on Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw as sources of information; but, no intelligent debater relies exclusively on Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw for research. As Tucker correctly points out, there is limited access to radical literature through corporate sponsored databases. Radical literature is not the only information missing from these databases. They offer very limited access to journals in any academic discipline and no access to books. Even within its area of concentration Nexis fails to provide access to a large number of law reviews. Debaters who only obtain evidence from on-line sources will lose a lot of debates to debaters who spend time in the library. No debater I know believes that Lexis-Nexis replaces the need to research in the library. While Tucker discusses public libraries in the past tense, as if they no longer exist, they continue to be a vital part of the activity. Good teams don't limit their research to the library. Many debaters subscribe to radical literature or call organizations to get access to information unavailable in the library. Tucker offers no empirical evidence to support the proposition that since the use of corporate databases has increased there has been a corresponding reduction in radical argumentation or in the critical thinking skills exhibited by debaters. Not only is Tucker's view of how debaters research limited, but his view of how arguments are conceived is limited as well. His perspective suggests that arguments which are not found on a corporate database will not be thought of by debaters. This assumes that all research proceeds deductively with debaters reading articles and using the arguments contained within. In fact, much debate research proceeds inductively. Debaters and coaches think of potential arguments and then seek to discover literature which supports those arguments. The process involves debaters in the consideration of alternative perspectives even when they cannot find the evidence on Lexis-Nexis. …


This work presents a training system for upper limb amputees, based on holographic computation. The training system aims to help and accelerate the process of rehabilitation of future prosthesis users. Traditionally, in these cases, rehabilitation periods can take up to 12 months. As a result, patients who have direct access to a prosthesis usually become frustrated due to their difficulty in use, coupled with an emotional state caused by a recent amputation. In addition, some amputee training initiatives through Virtual Reality (VR) have appeared in the literature. However, studies show that an enhanced training environment can provide a more realistic experience for your users. This is the motivation of this work: to evaluate how an increased environment, supported by holographic computation techniques, can contribute to the reduction in the time of adaptation of amputees to their prostheses. To this end, new tracking techniques in environments of this nature need to be designed, being also a proposal of this article.


Restrictions are given on the possible marked Dynkin diagrams of isoparametric submanifolds, and their homology and cohomology are computed by an extension of the techniques used by Bott and Samelson [Bott, R. & Samelson, H. (1958) Am. J. Math. 80, 964-1029] and by Borel [Borel, A. (1953) Ann. Math. 57 (2), 115-207] for G/T.


This article reports on a temporal tagger for Korean based on a Korean extension of the TIDES TIMEX2 guidelines. The extension, which primarily addresses the idiosyncrasies of Korean morphology, shows high inter-annotator reliability (0.893 F-measure for tag extent) when applied to a corpus of Korean newspaper articles. A machine-learning approach based on rote learning from a human-edited, automatically-derived dictionary of temporal expressions is compared with a second approach that adds manual patterns, and a third onethat tries to learn the patterns. Results for the first two are promising (0.87 F-measure for tag extent). Overall, the article shows that rote learning approaches can be very useful when language-specific features such as morphology are taken into account.


The SIGIR'21 Women in IR event 1, co-organized by SIGIR WIR co-chairs, Nazli Goharian (US East Coast) and Hannah Bast (Central Europe), took place on July 13-14 and was attended by ~70 participants. Due to Covid-19, SIGIR'21 was held online. To accommodate all the time zones, we organized two sessions (A and B) on the same topics. Session A, which was scheduled at a good time for the US and Europe, was well attended by around 52 participants. Session B, which was aimed for Asia-Pacific, had only around 15 participants, where several already attended the earlier session. The low attendance of Session B caused a significant delay in the start of the session which impacted negatively the session due to the very late / middle of night of the organizers physical location. This year's theme was "Community Engagement & Influence" covering two topics: 1. Gender pay disparity and the community feedback and input which were captured via a survey and presented during the session, and 2. A presentation and discussion on the notion of hero culture. Date: 13--14 July, 2021.


The present invention relates to a resin combination, an optical film and a liquid display apparatus both using the resin combination, wherein the resin combination contains a mixture and transparent particles, the mixture contains a transparent resin or a resin component forming the resin and a solvent, the surface tension of the mixture under a temperature of 25 Deg C is 18 mN/m-35 mN/m, and the lower limiting value of the methyl alcohol concentration of a methyl alcohol aqueous solution in which the transparent particles can suspend under the temperature of 25 DEG C is higher than 1.0 wt.% and lower than 15.0 wt.%.


This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the current leading architectural and urban trends. It examines how a locality and community-specific considerations can influence the development of national mega projects to highlight distinctive social and communal realities, making it easier for beneficiaries to interact with, safeguard and maintain the product. The study is based on a presentation of selected design concepts applied in the New Administrative Capital. It observes the existing discordance between the intended purposes of the design concepts (to serve a community sharing a common culture, a like-minded vision and a similar cultural background) and the actual implementation of these designs in a specific locale and identifies the difficulties encountered in understanding design substance and content and the values they purport to deliver to beneficiaries. The paper then addresses the use of expressive symbols and how they can alter the design environment entirely. It explains how project user awareness can be increased by explaining the elements that add value to local architectural products while using a suitable mechanism to measure their success. The importance of this research paper lies in the fact that it sheds light on one of the economic and social development projects in Egypt, the part it plays in influencing the behavior of project users and beneficiaries and the future results this will have in safeguarding the architectural product. Specialists have differed lately on how best to produce substantive architecture that serves society and seeks to achieve integrated urban development as a means for advancement and that has local content and form. One possible solution revolves around developing an understanding of the concept of locality and enhancing local architectural products by focusing on the interaction with non-specialized project users and their sense of belonging to the surrounding environment while strengthening users' perception of this environment as one that complements their day-to-day interactions.


This is a study into the impact of domestic violence as experienced by women in the Grater Accra region. The main purpose of this study was to assess the emotional, health and economic impact of domestic violence on women. This study used the feminist and victim logical theories to explain gender inequity and patriarchy which enable gender violations to thrive. Descriptive survey design was used to guide the study. Data were gathered using questionnaire. Purposive sampling procedure was employed to identify 11 women's groups for the study with a sample of 110 respondents. Descriptive statistics and the Independent t test were used in analysing the data. The, main finding of the study was that domestic violence negatively impact on women's emotional, health and economic wellbeing and that women with higher level of education were less likely to experience or report domestic violence. The study recommended that programmes on domestic violence should be tailored to meet the needs of all women irrespective of their educational levels. In addition, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection should work with all District Assemblies to create safe shelters for women across the country.


Diffusion involving atom transport from one location to another governs many important processes and behaviors such as precipitation and phase nucleation. Local chemical complexity in compositionally complex alloys poses challenges for modeling atomic diffusion and the resulting formation of chemically ordered structures. Here, we introduce a neural network kinetics (NNK) scheme that predicts and simulates diffusion-induced chemical and structural evolution in complex concentrated chemical environments. The framework is grounded on efficient on-lattice structure and chemistry representation combined with neural networks, enabling precise prediction of all path-dependent migration barriers and individual atom jumps. Using this method, we study the temperature-dependent local chemical ordering in a refractory Nb-Mo-Ta alloy and reveal a critical temperature at which the B2 order reaches a maximum. Our atomic jump randomness map exhibits the highest diffusion heterogeneity (multiplicity) in the vicinity of this characteristic temperature, which is closely related to chemical ordering and B2 structure formation. The scalable NNK framework provides a promising new avenue to exploring diffusion-related properties in the vast compositional space within which extraordinary properties are hidden.


Leaching of ilmenite concentrate using waste hydrochloric acid has been researched.The influence of temperature,acid concentration,reaction time on leaching of titanium and ferrum are examined.The results show that at the conditions of acid concentration of 15%,liquid-solid ratio of 4∶1,reaction time of 24 h,the leaching rate of titanium and ferrum are 93% and over 90%,respectively.


Nowadays 3D printing has been widely used for producing geometrically complex 3D structures from a broad range of materials such as ceramics, metals, polymers and semiconductors. Although it has been demonstrated that a fabrication resolution as high as ≈100 nm can be achieved in 3D printing based on two‐photon polymerization (TPP), the end product height of TPP is typically on millimeter scale limited by the short working distance of high‐numerical‐aperture focal lens. Herein, a method based on simultaneous spatiotemporal focusing of the femtosecond laser pulses is presented, which enables fabricating centimeter‐height 3D structures of fine features with TPP. An isotropic spatial resolution is also demonstrated, which can be continuously tuned in the range of ≈10–40 µm by only varying the power of femtosecond laser, making this technique extremely flexible and easy to implement. Several Chinese guardian lions of a maximum height of 0.6 cm and a Terra Cotta Warrior of a height of 1.3 cm are fabricated using this method.


Introduction: In number 30 facial cleft patients, the deformities vary in their presentation, ranging from minor clefting of the lower lip (2) to complete clefts of the mandible with absence of the hyoid bone, thyroid cartilage, and manibrium. Materials and Methods: A case of Tessier number 30 facial cleft with only lower lip deformity is reported in this paper. Results: The pathognomonic features of the facial clefts were reviewed in terms of the related literature. Conclusion: We aimed to remind the pathology and review the literature in this report.


The European Investment Bank and healthcare Globalisation and public health risks Housing – the front line in public health Health in the " New Scotand " Measuring the burden of disease eurohealth I am very pleased to report that there has already been a tremendous response to the readers' questionnaire included with the last issue of eurohealth. I would urge those of you who have not responded to send your replies in the near future as your views will be taken into account. Although the survey is not yet complete, we have received extremely positive comments and expressions of support for our goal of creating a bridge between the various players involved in developing health policy. Such a resounding endorsement from our readers is a fitting tribute to the excellent work of Robert Wood who has now stepped down as Editor of eurohealth. On behalf of LSE Health, I would like to take this opportunity to thank him for the significant contribution he has made to ensure the jour-nal's continued success. A notable symbol of Robert's achievement is the substantial increase in the readership that has taken place since he joined the Editorial Team and the positive reactions received to the changes introduced with the last issue. Robert will be leaving eurohealth to diversify and further his journalistic career by taking up a senior position to launch a major national publication for the British music industry. While we are sorry to lose him, we are confident that he will bring the same success to his new publication that he has brought to eurohealth. I would also like to express my considerable gratitude and thanks to Govin Permanand who will step down shortly as Editorial Assistant and EU News Editor to concentrate on his PhD studies at LSE Health. Over the last three years, Govin has provided invaluable support to eurohealth and has established himself as an experienced and skilled editor in his own right through his central role in producing the special issue of eurohealth on Central and Eastern Europe. This has proved to be a resounding success and I know from the many comments received that my personal thanks and respect for his work are shared by readers and the rest of the editorial team. I wish him well with his studies. eurohealth is a quarterly publication which provides a forum for policy-makers and experts to express their views …


Objective To develop health supervision information system. Methods The operation needs for health supervision department are analyzed; the object-oriented method is used to build the structure based on C/S mode, the client software is programmed by Delphi languages and Oracle is adopted as the database for its server. Results The functions of the health supervision system are realized including permission, inspection, punishment, statistical analysis and instruments print and so on. Conclusion The information system can be fulfilled the business needs of the health supervision department and enhanced inspection efficiency.


This is an enthnographic study of an e‐mail list devoted to fans of the television show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The central question is whether e‐mail groups can function as "communities," and if so, how. I examine the practices of the list members, including the establishment of rules, nurturing of community, and communal fantasy activities. I conclude that although virtual communities are not the same as face‐to‐face communities, they may indeed function as communities for members, although they do not necessarily do so. I call for closer examination of different kinds of on‐line activities, rather than taking extreme positions on the Internet as either the panacea for lost community or the harbinger of the destruction of close, personal affiliations.


This research aims at accompanying farmers in building a durable collective management of their subsidence cereals varietal diversity. Varietal diversity dynamics are driven by farmers' individual choices and strategies on the one hand, and by the seed system functioning on the other hand. We think that the mutual understanding of the interactions arising in this complex system is a prerequisite to work together on the construction of durable collective management rules. We follow a dynamic research process that uses models building and simulation through Agent-Based Models and Role-Playing Games. We have used these tools to collect, synthesize, formalize and exchange researchers and stakeholders knowledge. As a result, we have a model of the system built with the active input of Malian farmers. This model will next be used in simulations for collective prospecting on management scenarios. (Resume d'auteur)


Chromosomes on which genes are located can be viewed under the microscope during cell division. Unfortunately, even during the mitotic metaphase stage when the chromosomes are most distinctly identifiable, the chromatin fibre that forms the chromosome is so highly condensed that individual genes cannot be seen even with the highest possible resolution and magnification of the electron microscope (see Vani Brahmachari in Suggested Reading). Moreover at this stage of the cell division cycle, the genes are completely inactive and therefore, the process of gene activity cannot be visualized. On the other hand, in the interphase period when the genes are active, the chromatin fibre is so highly dispersed that individual chromatin fibres remain unresolvable. It is in this context that the ability to see genes in reality, rather than dream of them only as a conceptual entity (see S C Lakhotia in Suggested Reading), becomes very exciting. This article discusses some of the experimental paradigms that can be used to see genes.


In April of 1939 an unusual event occurred on a Los Angeles rooftop: nineteen people gathered to hear an all-Bartok program of chamber music. Thus was launched the now-famous Evenings on the Roof. The concert series later became the Monday Evening Concerts, whose popularity continues to this day. This is the story of that adventurous series, and Dorothy Crawford's graceful telling reveals the changing world of twentieth-century art music. It is also a story of idealism and determination, and of a unique synthesis of talent that could happen only in Los Angeles.Evenings on the Roof were the inspiration of writer Peter Yates and his wife, pianist Frances Mullen. To the Yates' rooftop studio came local and emigre musicians and composers. Though performers received little financial compensation, composers offered their latest works, and the growing audiences welcomed the challenging new music. Music critic Lawrence Morton joined this endeavor and helped forge an innovative musical community. The series introduced works of Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Lukas Foss, Pierre Boulez, and John Cage and provided an early venue for Robert Craft, Marilyn Horne, Marni Nixon, and Michael Tilson Thomas, among others. The fascinating contradictions that are part of Los Angeles emerge in this book as well: the city known as both 'Lotusland' and 'Tinseltown' could also embrace the most challenging music of the Western heritage. Through the vision of Yates and Morton and the devotion of extraordinary artists, music in Los Angeles achieved a rich maturity.


This paper aims to make the super-resolution of a high-resolution image from a sequence of low-resolution frames containing non-stationary objects. The challenges of making super-resolution image, like unavoidable smoothing effects, introduction of artifacts, computational efficiency in time and computational efficiency in memory requirements, are considered and a novel method is proposed to solve these problems. The proposed method handles the super-resolution process by using wavelet based projection-onto-convex-set with adaptive edge zoom algorithm. Adaptive edge zoom algorithm address the problem of producing enlarged picture from the given digital image. Wavelet based projection-onto-convex-set method is used to enhance spatial resolution of MRI brain images from a temporal sequence. This method produces more clarity with high peak signal-to-noise ratio. Keywords-Super-resolution, Image, POCS, Wavelet, Adaptive Edge Zoom


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We review current knowledge of the evolutionary relationships among species of Leporidae drawing on molecular, cytogenetic and morphological data. We highlight problems associated with retrieving phylogenetic information under conditions of a rapid radiation and the lack of phylogenetically informative cytogenetic and mitochondrial DNA characters. Most morphological features underpinning generic distinctions are subtle and prone to reversal and convergence and as a consequence, they generally provide little basis for assessing phylogenetic affinity.

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We report the results of a supermatrix analysis that combines published nucleotide sequence data, unique insertion/deletion events, morphological characters and presumed geographical centres of origin of each genus. This represents the most comprehensive intergeneric comparison of the Leporidae thus far undertaken.

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The monophyly of the 11 leporid genera is unambiguously supported. There is support for an Afroasian assemblage that comprises Poelagus, Pronolagus and Nesolagus, a primitive Lepus, with the problematic Bunolagus, Oryctolagus, Caprolagus and Pentalagus as derived species in a clade that also includes the closely related Brachylagus and Sylvilagus as sister taxa.

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There is no support for the Palaeolaginae, although Romerolagus is an ancient lineage within the extant Leporidae.

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We hold that of the polytypic genera Lepus remains the most problematic, and provide a working hypothesis that will hopefully encourage future research on the various hare species.


This is the first chapter of Ways of Seeing co-authored with Marc Jeannerod. We ague for a representational approach to the puzzles of both visual perception and visually-guided actions.


The resistivity of Ag-electroceramics(LaFe_(0.25)Ni_(0.75)O_3) Composite Electrode was simulated using resistor-net-model.The structure of this material was analysized through its SEM photographs,based on which resistor-net-model was established.Then the model was solved by computer program,and the simulation results were compared with our experiment results to evaluate this approach.


Baseball pitching is one of the most dynamic movements in sports. Due to the violent nature of the pitching motion, baseball pitchers experience an extremely high rate of injury, particularly to the shoulder. One factor thought to be related to overuse injury at the shoulder is the high magnitude of shoulder external rotation. Because the pitching motion can be viewed as a kinematic chain in which the actions of individual segments have a direct impact on the actions of other segments, angles of internal/external rotation observed for the hip may be related to internal/external rotation observed at the shoulder. Thus, the purpose of the current project is to analyze internal/external rotation for both the shoulder and the hip in an attempt to identify a relationship between these two parameters. It is hypothesized that hip rotation will positively correlate with shoulder rotation.


Two-path relay networks can be deployed to achieve full-rate transmissions. In this paper, we introduce stable throughput analysis into decode-and-forward (DF) two-path relay networks. We establish the queueing model and take outage probabilities into consideration to characterize the packet-level cooperation and derive the closed-form stable throughput region. Based on the stable throughput region, we also propose a power-allocation scheme between the source node and relays to maximize the achievable packet rate. The maximal achievable packet rate determines the admission control of certain cooperation (i.e., when to cooperate) under a specific interrelay interference (IRI) cancellation technique. The power allocation is utilized to illustrate how to cooperate between the source node and relays. Three IRI responses are considered, and the system behaviors under various circumstances are presented through simulations.


In this paper, we investigate the gain switching performance of the software-defined radio (SDR) universal software radio peripheral (USRP) X310 with the TwinRX daughterboard and propose a method to optimize it for fast transitions. This receiver uses a complex structure of two switchable amplifiers and two digital step attenuators to realize the wide gain setting range of up to 92 dB. Our measurements of the settling time show that the bulk of transitions between two gain settings take below $1.5\ \mu\mathrm{s}$, but some require more than 50 µs, caused by the power-up of the switchable amplifiers. Based on this knowledge, we propose a modified switching regime, in which the amplifiers are not toggled in time-critical phases, e.g., during a running measurement, so that a transition time of $1.5\ \mu\mathrm{s}$ can be reliably realized. Thus, a gain switching range of 62 dB is achieved, within which, for example, a fast automatic gain control can be realized.


Introduction In Brazil, we have had various models of Christian conversion and evangelism, the first significant one being the acultural model. Extremely violent, it characterized the whole colonial period with its underlying motif: the Indians have to be like us. Indigenous culture was not regarded as having any human value of its own because it was considered to be the fruit of the devil. A second model brings us to the twentieth century; the protectionist model, the best example of which is the Indian Protection Service (SPI), based in part on the missionary work of the Jesuits. Protectionism allowed the indigenous people to live as they wished and on their own demarcated land, but it implied the need for "parental" control - first the missionaries and later government officials as well. The weakness in this model was that it did not recognize the identity and the maturity of the indigenous people, a fact that resulted in the creation of a judicial figure, a "guardian" - the Brazilian government - to oversee the indigenous communities. Nearer to us is the third model, which recognizes that the indigenous societies have their own rights and their own culture, that these peoples are not simply a blank page. At times this was characterized by the Old Testament Indian, i.e., that the indigenous communities would have their tradition, their own Old Testament, but it would be up to us to take the New Testament to them. This model sees pastoral work as evangelism, a preparation for an opportune moment when Christ's message can be heard and accepted by the indigenous community. It is primarily a model that criticizes the earlier models, accepts the indigenous values and allows time for the indigenous communities to assimilate or accept the proposal of the gospel, the New Testament. The problem with this last model, of the Indian Old Testament, is that it depends exclusively upon us - we are the ones bringing the New Testament. Not having direct access to the good news, the indigenous community must pass through an intermediary - the missionary or the church - to gain access to the new ideas. In other words, the truth is with us, we continue to be the holders of the truth to give to the other. Is there an alternative to these models? The Indigenous Missionary Council The Indigenous Missionary Council (CMI) started in the Catholic Church in Brazil in 1972, having its roots in the modernization process encouraged by the Second Vatican Council, and its application in Latin America. It grew up also making use of the new ideas of liberation theology and the accumulated experiences of indigenous missionary work, such as, for example, in OPAN (Operation Anchieta), which was founded in February 1969 and which brings together clerics and lay people, as well as anthropologists, CMI is neither a congregation, an order, nor a missionary institute. It is a compilation of all the missionaries - bishops, priests, nuns, monks, lay people - who work in the indigenous field. CMI proposes forms of action that have been elaborated and discussed in its assemblies; it provides help requested by the missionary bases but does not intervene in the pastoral policies of the respective dioceses, which remain under the responsibility of the local bishops. CMI contributes greatly to other Christians and to the indigenous peoples in acting to defend indigenous rights and in the rethinking of the theology of mission and evangelism. In this latter connection we could perhaps study the doctrine of the Trinity, which is extremely interesting for dialogue because it starts from the principle of diversity in unity - the different experience of the identities and not the abolition of the differences. In the doctrine of the Trinity, the differences between God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit continue, they are not abolished, but God is still one. Thus, this diversity in unity, which is a Christian doctrine, may serve as a starting point. …


Rojas avoids mentioning the word melancholy because they want to incur the contradiction of that temperament relate to the disease of love that has decided to allocate its protagonist. Was aware of the ideas that had been made about the most important doctors of the Middle Ages. Of all communes with those that had sustained Gordonia Bernardo in his work entitled Lilio of medicine . Montpellier professor had believed that sex therapy was not very effective against disease caused love because the temperament, the melancholic, unsuitable for practice. In the Celestina , not just to be clear why Callisto has not been cured of their disease: if you have practiced little or a lot of sex therapy.


tality Weekly Report (29 August 1986, 35:540-542, 547-549) as an addendum to the 1984 CDC/NIH Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories. An important reason for endorsement of the CDC Recommendations by the Association of State and Terr i tor ia l Publ ic Heal th Laboratory Directors is our belief that uniform and consistent guidelines are necessary for protecting health care workers. As a professional organization, the association has a responsibility to p r o m o t e a c c e p t a b l e , u n i f o r m , national recommendations concerned with the potential of HIV infection, as well as other infections, in the work place . The associat ion encourages other professional organizations to join in the endorsement of the CDC recommendations for Prevention of HIV Transmiss ion in Heal th-Care SettinEs. A d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n regarding the content of these important b iosafety guidel ines may be obtained by contacting the state public health laboratory director in a particular state.


Several years ago, as I was beginning to breed exotic foreign birds, my oldest daughter came home from school begging me to bring some birds to her Kingergarten class and talk to the children about the birds. They were doing a little study of our area's wild birds and this hobby of mine seemed to fit in. Little did I know this would become a tradition and each year I would bring more birds, books, slides, charts, posters, etc. to the classroom. I really enjoyed preparing and presenting the material. Well, as time went on, more teachers and schools heard about The Bird Lady! So, every spring I would travel around and share my "hobby" with hundreds of boys and girls in pre-school, elementary, junior and senior high schools and convalescent hospitals. This was very enjoyable for me and always very challenging. Besides, I was getting paid for something that was fun for me! I basically had two programs: a short, twenty-minute slide talk or a fortyminute slide presentation with time for questions, stories from the class and comments or answers from yours truly. The presentations were designed to give the novice bird owner or potential bird owner an overview of bird types, cage selection, general care, good nutrition, and breeding of exotics in captivity, all of which most pet bird owners know very little about. Last August, when we moved from our native California to Pennsylvania, after birds set up and house in order, I began to think of ways to do my talks here on the east coast, but in a more concentrated effort. I wanted a chance to go into depth with a group of people who had a desire to learn more about exotic bird care. As I was having these thoughts, we received a very impressive community education program brochure in the mail from our North Penn School District office located in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. We discovered a huge variety of interesting classes to take in the evening or Saturdays. I promptly signed myself up for a landscaping class, the kids for swimming, and my husband for vegetable gardening. All the classes turned out to be a positive experience for all of us and it gave me a chance to see that this could be a way for me to do a series on exotic bird care. After applying to teach and upon being enthusiastically accepted (the school had never been approached with such a class) I began to beef up my quality and selection of slides. The classes were to be six weekly sessions one and a half hours long. I also began to write to several bird related companies I do business with or have heard good things about for free literature or supplies. I put together a portfolio of articles dealing with the appropriate class for each session and categorized my books to take to each session. All of these things took time and I could not wait until the last minute to do any of them. I had to plan ahead, even though there was a chance my class may not make it. I had to reach a minimum of 15 students in order for the class not to be cancelled, so I took one more precaution in assuring bird people would hear about the classes. I put together my own flyer to advertise the classes and mailed multiple copies to pet shops and veterinarians in our area. The flyer stated the six classes as follows: • Choosing a Bird - how to decide what's best for you, selecting a cage and play area, nutrition, hygiene, general taming and training. • Aviary Construction - a look at many types of aviaries and making the right decisions for the number and kinds of birds. • Breeding, Incubation and Hatching - of Budgies, Cockatiels, Cockatoos, Conures, Doves, Finches, Lovebirds, Ringnecks or Rosellas. Any combination or overview of all species is possible. • Hookbill Care, Taming and Training - teaching a bird to talk and do tricks. • Handfeeding of Psittacines - a look at various formulas and techniques in the handrearing of parrots. Preparation, problems and solutions and weaning will also be covered. • The Sick Bird - how to spot a sick bird, emergency care and finding a veterinarian. Nearly two thirds of the class registered because of these flyers. In one week's time I exceeded my minimum and a total of thirty signed up for the class. Wow, was I excited and so was the school district office. From the very beginning, the attendance, enthusiasm and interest of each session was very high. When the classes began, one fourth of the students were beginner breeders, three fourths being pet bird owners. By the end of the class about half of the students were breeders. There was one lady who attended all six sessions out of pure interest. She was pet bird and cage hunting by the end of the sessions! I began and ended most sessions on time, with class permission we went over on the breeding class; however, that doesn't mean we all left or wanted to leave, there was always much bird talk after each session. In fact, I plan on extending the sessions to two hours next time I teach the series which will be in the fall of 1986, to, I hope, even more than thirty people. Already people are wondering when and how to register for the next series. It is my feeling that a class of this nature could be taught in every state and in every community education program by people who enjoy speaking and have had years of experience in the keeping and rearing of exotic birds. Some folks are reluctant to share their failures and triumphs or their secrets. This is very sad and really inexcusable. We need to hear and learn from each other, our communities need to hear from us and so does our government. We all need to do more in order that we may keep our birds and continue to raise babies for future generations of people to enjoy. Educating the public through classes is just one of dozens of ways to reach this goal. How about giving it a try? •


The relevance of the study is conditioned by the role of relations between Kazakhstan and China within the framework of the SCO. To a large extent, the SCO contributed to the development of relations between China and Central Asia. Currently, China enjoys good relations with the countries of Central Asia, often cooperates in various fields, and also often exchanges top-level leaders and promotes each other's development. Gradually formed a new concept of security, based on a common win-win cooperation and win-win results and contributed to the achievement of common interests. Understanding the international strategic status of Central Asia and the relations between China and Central Asia will help us understand the current strategic intentions of the Central Asian countries and adjust the strategic relations between China and Central Asia. Kazakhstan as an important country in Central Asia and as a regional power, plays an important role in the political and economic structure of Central Asia and even in the international arena. Therefore, China is actively developing close relations and cooperation with Kazakhstan.


"Bayrak Centro de Retiro Recreacional para adultos mayores", it's a company that offers different tourist services and activities, with the purpose of healing the residents so they can continue living a healthy life, not only physical but mental too. "Bayrak" address is Km 4.5 on the way to Playas Data. Lotizacion San Agustin. Mz B – Solar 7 and thanks to the location and ideal weather, will make this place a great choice for the tourists.
The Centro de Retiro Recreacional para adultos mayores Bayrak, it's the only one in the market that provides this type of services and don't have any direct competition, the companies in the area have focus just on the care of elder people but not on healing them, or help them to keep living a healthy life. "Bayrak's philosophy it's that once the resident or the elder have rest and heal, they are ready to go back to their families, to their life, and keep sharing the best they can.
All these philosophy for Bayrak it's based on a theoretical-conceptual investigation that allowed us to know how these centers were born, under which concept they opened these, their trajectory and services, and they gave the first steps so these project can have a different conception and ideal.
At the end of this project, it demonstrates that the "Centro de Retiro Recreacional para adultos mayores Bayrak" it's a very good choice to invest, because you will not only be helping with the development and grow of Via Data – Playas, but also helping the Elders have a service that can help them improve their life style and also their health.
With the "PORTER ANALYSIS" the "Centro de Retiro Bayrak" was able to analyze very carefully the possible competition in the area, be prepared for the future negotations with the costumers and the way to grab the attention of all of them, determine the needs of the different areas and which providers are going to suppley this needs.


The oil and gas industry remains an innovative industry, constantly improving its access to resources and attracting investors. States have sent mixed and dissembling signals about their preparedness to act swiftly in the face of a climate emergency, which has enabled Saudi Arabia to slow down climate action. The global oil and gas industry is more confident than might be expected about its future. Of the large fossil fuel producers in the world, the most potent resistance to rapid action on climate change comes from the United States. Smaller oil states such as Norway also play an important role in slowing action on climate change. China with its large cities offers the best hope for radical and swift action on addressing climate policy.


1.1 Introduction To place ParPar 1. in context, we must rst review the diierent modes of operation common on clusters. Probably the most common approach is to view the cluster as a Network Of Workstations (NOW). With this approach, each node is owned by a certain individual, and is usually also physically located in his work area. The owner uses his workstation for administrative work, such as e-mail, and also for processing, e.g. text processing or engineering applications. But such work typically consumes only a fraction of the workstation's resources. The remaining resources are therefore available for general use by others, who need more resources than their local workstations can provide. Examples of projects based on this approach are the Berkeley NOW, Condor, and MOSIX 3]. At the other extreme are clusters dedicated to a single user at a time, with the explicit goal of executing parallel programs. The motivation is to provide resources for the solution of very demanding problems, and use them as eeciently as possible. Clusters, due to their use of commodity components, are cheap enough to make this possible. The best know system of this type is the Beowulf project. ParPar is related to this approach, but attempts to provide an inexpensive approximation of 1 \Parpar" means \butterry" in Hebrew, which is irrelevant; the name was chosen for its sound, because \par" is short for \parallel", and because two is better than one.


As a complement to the teaching of university students, the use of web based tools enhances students' autonomy, helps in dealing with different learning rhythms and allows reaching students in different locations. Moreover, the web can also be used to attract youngsters (basic and secondary school students) to science subjects. All these functions have been combined in a single web platform "Labvirtual", based in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra. Although the Portal had chiefly been developed for the Teaching of Chemical Processes, a specific section directed to the secondary school students has been created as well, grounded on the basic concepts they acquire at the secondary level. With one single portal we will then be reaching simultaneously two different publics: Chemical Engineering students and Secondary School students, both Portuguese speakers. In addition, the portal possesses an area dedicated to the understanding of Chemical Engineering. Guiding the secondary school students to the use of these tools, they are led to understand the connection between Engineering (Chemical Engineering) and the basic phenomena they are studying. Moreover, the proximity factor can contribute to rouse the curiosity of the users from that target public to search for more advanced information about Chemical Engineering science and applications. This approach, we believe, can motivate them to engineering subjects, on the one hand, and also to raise their interest in the study of basic science subjects for which they start finding a practical application. This paper describes briefly the whole platform and presents in more detail the contents of the "Secondary Schools" section, describing also the strategy that is being followed to make the portal known to students and teachers of the secondary level education.


The perception of English vowels by experienced and inexperienced Japanese learners of English in different consonantal context were compared. Experienced Japanese learners of English were recruited in Gainesville, FL and inexperienced Japanese learners of English were recruited in Kobe, Japan and vicinity. In one experiment, subjects' ability was tested to discriminate English vowels in different consonantal contexts. What was expected to affect the discriminability was (1) voicing of the preceding and the following stops, (2) places of articulation of the preceding and the following stops, and (3) nasality of the following consonant. In another experiment, the subjects identified English vowels in terms of Japanese vowel categories. Generally, English vowels identified with the same Japanese vowels were more difficult to discriminate than those identified with different vowels. In both experiments, the inexperienced learners were more susceptible to talker and consonantal context differences. [Work supp...


Improving policy deliberation is a central objective for the European Union's institutions. Focusing on the European Parliament's committee hearings as an understudied area of European governance, we aim to understand their role, and their capacity to improve its procedural legitimacy. Building on theoretical work on interest group access and deliberation we argue that hearings can serve three purposes: (i) coordinative; (ii) epistemic; (iii) enhancing public participation. We construct a set of measures and assess an entire population of participants in hearings (2009–14), concentrating on three committees. Our analyses show that hearings serve a hybrid purpose between coordinative and epistemic. At the top end, we observe a core group of gatekeepers representing the dominant constituencies. Simultaneously, research organizations are granted unique access as experts that de‐politicize debates. Theoretically, we contribute to discussions on interest group access while providing an innovative set of tools for its measurement, and the first dataset of its kind.


The letter describes 1.3 µm InGaAsP edge-emitting LEDs which couple 40 to 60 µW into a single-mode fibre. The 1.0 ns rise times and 30 to 45 nm spectral widths of these LEDs make suitable for optical communication systems operating at data rates as high as 400 Mbit/s.


When the bit duration-bandpass filter bandwidth product b 0 T takes any positive integer, the exact expression of the error probability of the noncoherent multiple frequency shift keyed scheme, PCM/MFS, is derived. When b 0 T ≫ 1, an asymptotic error probability results. The error probability is plotted for a 5-bit code word for various b 0 T.


The present theoretical study investigates the load capacity and friction coefficient in a three-layered journal bearing lubricated with nanoparticle additive couple stress fluids. The couple stresses effects are analyzed based on Stokes micro-continuum theory. The nondimensional pressure and shear stress expressions are derived using modified Reynolds equation. The nondimensional load capacity increases and the coefficient of friction decreases using nanoparticle additive lubricants with couple stress effects. The three-layered journal bearing performance characteristics are improved with increase in both (i) surface adsorbent fluid film layer thickness and (ii) dynamic viscosity ratio of surface to core layer.


A prospective random comparison of halothane and morphine for open-heart anesthesia. CONAHAN, T.J., OMINSKV, A.J. et a/. (1973) Anesthesiology, 38, 528 (June). (Morphine increases peripheral vascular resistance.) A comparison of venturi and side-arm ventilation in anaesthesia for bronchoscopy. CARDEN, E., BURNS, W.W. et a/. (1973) Canadian Anaesthetists Society Journal, 20, 569 (July). Anaesthesia for intracranial aneurysms with hypotension and spontaneous respiration. SFL.LERV, G. R. , AITKEN, R.R. o/ a/. (1973) Can[idiun Anaesthrtists Society Journal, 20, 468 (July). (It is believed that the prcservation of spontaneous respiration reduces the incidence of the development of arterial spasm.) Anesthetic considerations in mastocytosis. ROSLNBAUM, K.J. & STROBEL, G.E. (1973) Anesthesiolo~y, 38, 398 (April). The effects of high-dose morphine on fluid and blood requirements in open-heart operations. STANLEY, T.H., GRAY, N.H. ot al. (1973) A ~ i e ~ t h ~ . s i ~ ~ I ~ ~ ~ ~ , 38, 536.


A perfect two-way shape memory effect (TWSME) with reversible strain of about 9% has been found in the high-temperature Ni57.5Mn22.5Ga20.0 single crystal transforming into 2M non-modulated martensitic phase. Two thermal/mechanical treatment routes were utilized in the experimental procedures. The outstanding high-temperature TWSME is observed as a result of tensile stress-strain cycling along <100> axis involving huge superelastic strains due to stress-induced martensitic transformation. It is argued that the TWSME is related to the anisotropic internal stresses produced by a network of lattice defects. The defects are generated in the course of oriented growth/shrinkage of the dominating martensitic variant in the tensile sample. PACS: 75.20.En; 75.30.Gw; 62.20.fg; 81.30.Kf


Abstract We present recent results for galactic WNL stars, obtained with the new Potsdam Wolf-Rayet (PoWR) hydrodynamic model atmospheres. Based on a combination of stellar wind modeling and spectral analysis we identify the galactic WNL subtypes as a group of extremely luminous stars close to the Eddington limit. Their luminosities imply progenitor masses around 120 M⊙ or even above, making them the direct descendants of the most massive stars in the galaxy. Because of the proximity to the Eddington limit our models are very sensitive to the L/M ratio, thus allowing for a direct estimate of the present masses of these objects.


May 2005. President Art Gilman opened the meeting by thanking the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS) for allowing the NEBC to hold its May meeting at Garden-in-the-Woods for the third year in a row. The garden was at its peak spring bloom, and members and guests enjoyed walking the paths before settling down for the evening presentation. The new Executive Director of NEWFS, Gwen Stauffer, welcomed the Club to the Garden. Vice President Karen Searcy then introduced the evening's speakers: Dr. Nancy Eyster-Smith, the Club's Corresponding Secretary and a professor in the Department of Natural Sciences at Bentley College, and Dr. Janet Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief of Rhodora and an adjunct faculty member in Plant Biology at the University of New Hampshire. Their talk, ''Journey of Discovery: 200 Years After Lewis & Clark,'' was the second of two presentations on the Lewis & Clark Expedition hosted by the Club this spring. The speakers began by explaining that they have both traveled parts of the Lewis & Clark Trail in recent years, and wanted to share some of their experiences in celebration of the bicentennial. Nancy currently teaches a science elective on the Lewis & Clark Expedition and has done sections of the Trail as part of her course preparation; Janet traveled the Trail from St. Louis to the Oregon coast last summer as part of a Humanities Program summer course. Nancy and Janet structured their talk as a ''tag team'' presentation, moving the group from east to west and incorporating images and anecdotes on the landscape, plants, animals, monuments, and the experiences of the Corps of Discovery. The first images gave a geographic overview of the Trail with presentday cities and state boundaries, as well as the physiographic provinces the Trail passes through. The evening's journey began in the Eastern Deciduous Forest with a visit to Cahokia, Illinois, where Janet visited an interpretive center depicting the culture of prehistoric Mississippian people. They were mound-builders, and the group was offered contrasting images of two types of monuments: the huge plateau mound constructed by the prehistoric Indians and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, completed in 1965. Nancy's inclusion of aerial photos (from a text) were a further reminder of how the landscape has changed since 1805. The speakers moved the group up the Missouri River through Tallgrass Prairie and river bottoms, with images of the monuments at Council Bluffs, Iowa (where the Expedition first encountered members of the Oto and Missouri tribes), Sioux City, Iowa (where Sargent Floyd, the only casualty, was buried), and Pierre, South Dakota (where the


ABSTRACT Scholars have argued that history provides ample evidence of the eager embrace of new communication technologies by Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals in the United States. However, closer examination of the first Christian fundamentalist venture into the technology of radio in the US reveals the ambivalence and anxieties of key leaders as they considered and adopted use of the new medium. This study, based on careful analysis of archival and press materials from the 1920s, reveals a "restless" adoption of radio that articulated the "menace" as well as the promise of the technology. While wondering aloud about radio's shortcomings and dangers, faith leaders justified their uncertain investment in the new medium by employing discourses of conversion alongside an evangelistic entrepreneurism connected to the growing consumerism of the time.


Objective To review our experience with fluoroscopic evaluation and manipulation of malpositioned, malfunctioning, peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheters. Materials and Methods Thirty-one patients, over a 5-year period (1 May 1992 to 30 April 1997) with malfunctioning PD catheters, who had fluoroscopically-guided manipulation were reviewed. Catheters were manipulated using a malleable aluminum bar and, if necessary, guide wires or other stiffeners. Technical success was assessed on the basis of adequate, fluoroscopically verified, catheter placement at the time of the procedure and improved flows. A functional PD catheter at 30 days post manipulation was considered to be a clinically successful manipulation. Results There were 41 manipulations [33 initial (IM) and 8 remanipulations (RM)] for malpositioned or kinked catheters. In 31 (19 male, 12 female) patients ranging in age from 31 to 76 years (mean age 60 years), the initial technical success rate was 85% for IM (n = 28/33) and 63% (n = 5/8) for RM. The overall clinical success rate, or 30-day primary patency, was 55% for IM (n = 18/33) and 63% for RM. Catheter function (combined IM and RM) continued for a median 869 days (95% CI: 118, 1620). No early complications were noted. Conclusions Fluoroscopic manipulation, including attempts at remanipulation, of PD catheters is a safe procedure. The technique is a simple, inexpensive, and effective way of prolonging PD catheter life, thereby reducing the number of surgical interventions.


This study investigates Green Economic, Education and Poverty. This study investigates data at the start point year of 2000 to 2020 to generate "autoregressive vectors" that can be utilize for determine relationship among the variables. This model is to analyze between Green Economic, Education and Poverty expenditure in Indonesia. We found that the Green Economy is very important in life, just like education, weak education is stated to increase the number of poverty, just as education has a positive impact on the green economy, from here we can see the importance of education for life, the better the education, the better also a green economy and education can reduce poverty.


Erosion process and mechanism of human tooth enamel in citric acid(pH=3.2)were investigated using in vitro study.Surface microhardness,structure and chemical composition of enamel were examined by means of Vickers microhardness tester,profilometry,SEM and EDX.The results showed that no obvious erosive lesion occurred on the surface of enamel after 1 min.Erosive lesion on the surface of enamel was found after 3 min accompanied by the reductions of the surface microhardness and the content of calcium and phosphate ions.The erosive lesion of enamel aggravated as the time of erosion increased.SEM micrographs of human tooth enamel showed that the erosion of enamel rods occurred before the erosion of inter-rod enamel.The loss of enamel rods could accelerate the erosion of the surrounding inter-rod enamel,and finally caused substantial erosive loss of human tooth enamel.


The digital reconstruction of neuronal morphology from single neurons, also called neuron tracing, is a crucial process to gain a better understanding of the relationship and connections in neuronal networks. However, the fully automation of neuron tracing remains a big challenge due to the biological diversity of the neuronal morphology, varying image qualities captured by different microscopes and large-scale nature of neuron image datasets. A common phenomenon in the low quality neuron images is the broken structures. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel automatic 3D neuron reconstruction framework named exhaustive tracing including distance transform, optimally oriented flux filter, fast-marching and hierarchical pruning. The proposed exhaustive tracing algorithm shows a robust capability of striding over large gaps in the low quality neuron images. It outperforms state-of-the-art neuron tracing algorithms by evaluating the tracing results on the large-scale First-2000 dataset and Gold dataset.


By some accounts, students are departing from their environmental history courses with greater senses of gloom and despair. After all, decline, not progress, prevails in the stories told about humans changing the land. Alan Taylor describes classic environmental histories as three-step sequences of 1) initial abundance, 2) transforming settlers, and 3) a legacy of diminished nature., But such histories do not tell the entire tale. Perhaps the most glaring absence to this narrative is the sequel of residents seeking to repair and restore former natures. The wolves in Yellowstone, the waters of Lake Erie, the air above London are today more healthy or more abundant than in decades past. While historians have made progress in understanding how and why people degraded the environment, it seems imperative that they pay more attention to how people sought to restore it. E. 0. Wilson declares that our twenty-first century will become "the era of restoration in ecology." Yet centuries past have long seen people struggling to rejuvenate, rebuild, and recreate previous environments. Seemingly something new, the endeavor of restoration has a rich and complicated past.2 In the late nineteenth century, few places displayed a greater legacy of diminished nature than the mountains of Utah. Although alpine areas across the American West showed the effects of too much grazing, logging, and mining, Utah's mountains may have been hit hardest. A i888 forestry survey of the Rocky Mountains warned that "the forest interests of Utah are in a more precarious condition than those of the other parts of the region." In 1904, wildlife expert Henry Fairfield Osborn told the Boone and Crockett Club that northeastern Utah's Uinta Mountains are "the most thoroughly devastated country I know of." When Osborn first visited this area in 1877, he saw "a wild natural region ... a perfect flower garden." But since then, he witnessed a land that "has felt the full force of the sheep curse." Conditions in central Utah may have been even worse. There, the alpine meadows of the Wasatch Plateau were so heavily grazed that local townsfolk counted sheep herds from the mountain foot ten miles away by the plumes of dust trailing each herd. In describing the Wasatch Plateau's pastures, a 19i2 U.S. Forest Service report declared tiat "range more extensively abused by bad management ... probably did not occur." Modern analysts Jeanne Kay and Craig Brown believe that Utah's newcomers mosty eastern Americans and northern


Many neonates with pulmonary hypertension die from right‐to‐left shunt and hypoxemia soon after birth. Intrapulmonary bronchopulmonary anastomotic pathways (IBAPs) have been observed in the lungs of these infants. We indirectly characterized right‐to‐left shunt recruitment by hypoxia (12% O2) in healthy humans and animals that can be reversed by 100% O2. We hypothesized that IBAPs are a normal lung feature whose recruitment is induced by hypoxia. Anesthetized rats were ventilated with 21% or 12% O2 for 20 minutes. Lungs were then immediately removed, airway fixed with 10% formalin, sectioned, and stained for the histological evaluation of IBAPs. The direction of blood flow through these pathways was evaluated by injecting red and green fluorescent microspheres into the right (RV) and left (LV) ventricles of rats ventilated with 12% or 100% O2 and determining their abundance in the lung. Histological sections demonstrated abundant IBAPs in 12% O2‐ventilated lungs, connecting the pulmonary and bronchial arterial trees, but not 21% O2‐ventilated lungs. Consistent with right‐to‐left shunt through these pathways, microspheres injected into the right ventricle were found in the pleural and bronchial vascular beds, but LV‐injected spheres were not found in the pleura. In 100% O2‐ventilated lungs, both RV‐ and LV‐injected microspheres were found coincidentally in pleural vessels, suggesting a possible left‐to‐right shunt. Future studies will aim to anatomically determine the vessel type containing co‐localized red and green microspheres and further characterize IBAPs, including describing their receptor expression.


The article is devoted to the process of abbreviation creating as one of the most productive ways of word formation in a contemporary Russian language. The author pays his attention to the pronunciation of initial abbreviations by Slovak students, specialists of Russian philology, in the process of translation or interpretation into Slovak language.


ABSTRACT When we discuss skepticism, we generally mean a certain philosophical movement with a fundamental basis in doubt. At the same time, the history of philosophy gives us another highly productive, methodologically oriented interpretation of skepticism as a psychological state of mind that forces the author to draw a veil over his thoughts. That said, we consider it important that epistemological skepticism, both in its traditional versions and in its modern epistemological conceptions, is not a self-sufficient position. Doubt acquires methodological effectiveness only when, through verbal-conceptual mediation, it brings with it a semiotic-symbolic interpretation of the reality directly given to us. This philosophical-methodological idea, which our article attempts to substantiate, is by no means a universally accepted one. Nevertheless, it was the center of attention for the philosopher Gustav Shpet, who argued for the semiotic-symbolic nature of humanitarian reality, and for the poet Boris Pasternak, who embodied this method of "indirect exposition" in his work. Pasternak attended Shpet's seminar on Hume, where he emphasized the idea that the forward momentum of cognition is ensured by the skeptical position of the cognizing subject who subjectivizes knowledge. This idea remains relevant today. We believe this is the situation in science as a whole, including even those areas of natural science most divorced from directly accessible experience. These dynamics of methodological standpoints associated with doubt reveal, in an obvious way, their effectiveness in the field of humanitarian knowledge and creativity. To support this argument, our article uses historical-philosophical argumentation based on archival materials.


This article highlights the foremost landmarks in the life and work of a prominent expert in the field of physical education and sport, an active participant of the Olympic Games revival and one of the members of the 1st International Olympic Committee Alexey Butovsky. His military career from a cadet and non-commissioned officer to lieutenant-general is outlined, and his activities in the field of theory and practice of physical education both in Russia and on his trips abroad, which was aimed at study, generalization and further application of the best experience accumulated in that area in different countries, are presented, as well. A. Butovsky's acquaintance with P. de Coubertin and their closer relations resulted in Alexey Butovsky's involvement in the preparation and participation of the founding congress in 1894 in Paris is particularly noted, as well as the Congress that adopted important decisions on the revival of the Olympic Games and creation of the International Olympic Committee, in which General Butovsky was introduced among its first members. There has been studied his activity not only as a member of the IOC, but his doings after his retirement from the membership of this international organization, as well.


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The onset of puberty was assessed from plasma progesterone profiles for Mouflon (n = 8) and Manchega (n = 7) female lambs born in April. Four Mouflons exhibited their first ovulation at a mean date of 27 November ± 1.4 days, the mean age being 248.5 ± 3.9 days and the mean body weight 23.8 ± 0.6 kg. The remaining four Mouflons, which had a slower growth rate, attained puberty during the autumn of the following year. Five of seven Manchega lambs attained puberty in their first year at a mean date of 5 Oct ± 3.3, the mean age being 185.6 ± 2.6 days and the mean body weight 41.8 ± 2.0 kg. The mean live-weight at the onset of puberty was 65.1 and 82% (p < 0.05) of adult body weights for Manchega and Mouflons, respectively. Overall, the results indicate that there is a threshold of body-weight necessary for the attainment of puberty in the first breeding season for spring-born lambs, which is very different between both Mouflon and Manchega. When body weight was below 23.8 ±0.6 and 41.8 ± 2.0 kg for Mouflon and Manchega lambs, respectively, first ovulation did not occur until the beginning of the next breeding season. The onset of puberty during the second year of life occurred within the specific reproductive seasons for Mouflon (October–April) and Manchega (July–March) ewes, despite minimal further growth.


Aim– to elucidate the role of antiepileptic pharmacotherapy in pathomorphosis of focal epilepsy in adult patients.Materials and methods. We examined 91 patients with focal epilepsy (main group, G); among them, 37 (41%) men (M) and 54 (59%) women (W). At the time of the first visit, 82 (90%) of  them [33 (89%) M and 49 (91%) W] were under antiepileptic therapy. The age of patients ranged  from 18 to 78 years (average 37.5 years). The debut of epilepsy was observed at the ages from 4  to 71 years. The duration of the disease ranged from 1 to 52 years, with the average of 16.1 years. All patients were then followed up for 1 to 2.5 years. Clinical and neurological examinations were  conducted in all patients; laboratory and instrumental diagnostic tests were used if indicated. The  medical history of patients was analyzed from the onset of epilepsy; if needed, new therapies were  prescribed or the existing therapies were modified. The therapeutic efficacy was assessed  using the data from the daily-seizures diary. The differences between the groups were tested for  their significance using the Chi-square test or the exact Fisher test if there were less than five  observations in the group. Results.Only 47 (52%) patients of group G [21 (57%) M and 26 (48%) W] received an antiepileptic therapy from the debut of the disease; the therapy was then adjusted in 41 (45%)  cases [19 (51%) M and 22 (41%) W (р>0.05)]. Of the 82 patients receiving therapy at the time of  examination, 37 (45%) received the basic, 20 (24%) – the updated, and 24 (29%) – a  combination of the basic and updated AED; in about 2% of cases, a combination with the 1st  generation drugs was prescribed. Monotherapy was used in 45 (55%), and polytherapy – in 37  (45%) patients. Of the 19 patients taking KBZ as the starting monotherapy, 10 (52%) received the drug in the non-prolonged form, twice a day. Relapse after long-term remission (12 months or  more) in 80% of cases was associated with changes in the AED regimen. Side effects were  observed in 43 (52%) patients under the treatment [15 (45%) M and 28 (57%) W]. Among those,  who underwent MRI examination, structural epileptogenic changes were detected in 37 (54%)  patients [21 (72%) M and 16 (40%) W (p<0.05)]. Comorbidity and the associated co-therapy were detected in 88% M and 90% W who were >50 years old.Conclusion. Antiepileptic pharmacotherapy is a leading factor that induces evolutionary changes in the clinical and neurophysiological picture of epilepsy. With a timely and rational approach, the  use of AED allows for creating favorable development of pathomorphosis of the disease. Full  patients awareness of the AED therapeutic regimens and the associated risks may increases the  compliance, reduce the risk of decompensation and improve the prognosis of epilepsy.


A program of kaon electroproduction from protons is presently underway with the CLAS spectrometer in Hall B at Jefferson Laboratory. A significant amount of data at beam energies from 2.4 to 4.8 GeV has been acquired during separate run periods in 1998, 1999, and 2000. This talk will provide an overview of the individual experiments and the overall goals of our strangeness-physics program. Preliminary results of our corrected yields and hyperon polarization data are discussed.


This paper addresses the gyroscopic and centrifugal effects on vibrations of rotating Bernoulli–Euler beams. The gyroscopically coupled system is established as a complex eigenvalue problem. It is concluded that there exist three types of velocity-dependent terms that contribute to the natural frequencies with different effects. In particular, the contribution of gyroscopic terms and static and dynamic centrifugal terms to the natural frequencies are discussed for free vibrations of rotating beams with constant angular velocity. On the other hand, the vibrations in different directions coupled through the gyroscopic terms are investigated. Some numerical examples for the elliptic vibration modes in the rotating plane are presented and the results reveal the actual vibration contour of the rotating beams.


E-commerce, which has been a very prominent issue with the help of current developments in information and communication technologies and worldwide prevalence of the internet, has been intensively used considering the benefits for both customers and businesses. Tourism businesses, which demand to be successful in such rapidly changing competitive business environments, attempt to develop e-commerce applications in order that they can compete with their competitors and make use of new opportunities. It is emphasized that despite the various benefits of e-commerce, it might also bring the end of some sectors, which have not developed essential arrangements and infrastructures for this virtual environment. It is estimated that the need for package tours, tour operators and travel agencies will decrease in the future depending on the growing interest in the independent travel, the number of searches that people make on the internet search engines and tendency to act in accordance with the travel programs. The primary aim of this study is to figure out how much travel agencies in EskiĢehir use the e-commerce, the positive and negative effects of e-commerce on travel agencies and how e-commerce is perceived by agency administrators and employees. Besides, this study aims at determining the relationship among the perceptions of these employees and their performance. Within the scope of this research, 61travel agencies operating in EskiĢehir were selected and a survey consisting of close-ended questions applied to these business administrators and employees. The results revealed that almost all travel businesses have a web site, and the most important reason why they use the internet is easy accessibility and getting new customers. Employees think that use of e-commerce will not have any negative effect on the future of their businesses. According to results of correlation analysis, there was significant relationship found between employees' perceptions about the effects of e-commerce use on businesses and their performance in which they are employed.


Abstract : This paper presents the results of an effort to reengineer several manufacturing processes at a small microwave printed circuit board production facility. Emphasis was placed on improving the cleaning, developing, etching, and stripping manufacturing processes. This work was performed at Modular Components National (MCN), located in Bel Air, Maryland. The author studied the industry in which MCN participates in order to ensure that any changes made would improve the company's competitive posture within the industry. Company operations as a whole were then evaluated to uncover system-wide problems. Once the most promising improvement area was found, each process within that area was analyzed in detail to determine the critical process parameters. A literature search was conducted and equipment requirements were define. Emphasis was placed on environmentally-conscious manufacturing and on minimizing the amount of manual material handling. Once set in place, the machines had to be modified and fine-tuned to the company products and processes. The author worked extensively to test out the new equipment and to determine the optimal speeds and feeds for different input materials. Cost data were gathered and a cost-benefit analysis was performed on a part critical to the company's long-term relationship with Westinghouse, a major purchaser.


Abstract : One situation confronting a military officer is that at some point he must retire either voluntarily or involuntarily. Under certain conditions he may have to make a transition to a second career. Given this transition, substantial advance planning should be undertaken to determine, from the range of retirement opportunities available, the optimum time at which to retire in order to achieve his personal goals. Particular factors that the potential retiree should consider prior to electing voluntary retirement were developed. A present value analysis was used to present various financial options related to the officer's marketability in the civilian sector, his military career, and personal goals. No decision on the most opportune retirement point was reached or intended. It was concluded that the voluntary retirement decision is completely individual and not clear cut and that extensive planning is required prior to retirement.


ABSTRACT Consolidation of the FTSE Actuaries Share Indices in real time; internationalisation of the industry classification system; end of 'gross' yields.


Background. The article highlights the precedent of complex improvisational modeling of semantics in a prose work. The functionality and practice of its implemen-tation in popular intermediate forms with paratextual involvement, in particular, the phe-nomena of visual discourse are considered. Purpose. The figurative solution corresponding to a separate – complementary – model is contained in the concept of publishing M. Prodanovich's novel "Red handker-chief made of pure silk", where in a complementary configuration a combination of in-termediate photographic reproduction of the fresco by Fra Angelico is presented. Results. In the figurative experience, formed in the work of M. Prodanovich's novel "Red handkerchief of pure silk", improvisation is distinguished, commensurate with the complementary combination of manifestations of intermedia strategy with forms of intertextual relations: in its design, conceptual and purposeful paratextual-intermediate combination, which achieves special significance in empirical terms. A clear precedent testifies to the borderline functionality of paratextuality in its systematic connection with different intermediate variants produced by samples of different types of fine arts. From this definitive position, the nonmonoform system of figurative equiv-alents of different types of comparative strategies, inherent in M. Prodanovich's novel, undoubtedly justifies special attention, where the construction and valence of diverse, commensurate sign systems. The diversity of meaning-making focuses on the modes of supporting humanistic postulates and universal values, which becomes the quintessence for the figurative equivalents of paratextual-intermediate configurations combined in the intermedia-intertextual figurative formula of complementary unity. Key words: paratextuality, intermediality, meaning-making, M. Prodanovich, Fra Angelico. Aidachich, D., 2010. Cruel theater for a cruel reality (about violence in the novel "Elisha in the Land of the Holy Carp" by Mileta Prodanovich). In: Aidachych D. Slavic Studies: Folklore, Literary, Linguistic. Kyiv: VPC "Kyiv University".(In Ukrainian) Argan, J. K., 1990. History of Italian art, 1. Moscow: Raduga. (In Russian) Bilyk, N. L., 2018. Strategies of comparative studies in the Serbian novel at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. Kyiv: Osvita Ukrajiny. (In Ukrainian) Božović, G. Literature is the best product of Serbian society. (e-resource). Available: http://www.plastelin.com/content/view/16/89/ [Accessed July 15, 2021] (In Croatian) Conversation with Mileta Prodanovich, 2008. In: Decoration: history, culture, art. Ukrainian-Serbian collection, 1 (3). (In Ukrainian) Genette, G., 1982. Palimpsests: Literature in the second degree. Moscow: Nauchnyj mir. (In Russian) Merenik, L., 2008. Mileta Prodanovych – self-consciousness of a postmodern artist in a time of crisis. In: Decoration: history, culture, art. Ukrainian-Serbian collection, 1 (3). (In Ukrainian) Merenik, L., 2011. Mileta Prodanović: to be in a place, to be, to be everywhere. Belgrade: Fund Vujčić collection. (In Croatian) Mileta Prodanovich: I am "trained" to notice the smallest details: Interview (electronic resource). In: Litakcent. 2009. April 13. Available: http://litakcent.com/2009/04/13/mileta-prodanovych-ja-natrenovanyj-pomichaty-najdribnishi-detali/ [Accessed July 15, 2021] (In Ukrainian) Prodanovic, M., 2008. Red handkerchief made of pure silk. Belgrade: Pillar culture. (In Serbian) Prodanovich, M., 2009. Garden in Venice. The Universe, 5–6. (In Ukrainian) Prodanovich, M., 2013. Ultramarine: Novel. Kyiv: Tempora. (In Ukrainian) Prodanovich, M., 2015. Arcadia. Kyiv: Tempora. (In Ukrainian) Rudnev, V. P., 1999. Dictionary of culture of the twentieth century. Moscow: AGRAF. (In Russian) Shaitanov, I., 2011. Triad of modern comparative studies: globalization – intertext – dialogue of cultures. In: Problems of modern comparative studies. Moscow: Journal "Vo-prosy literatury". (In Russian) Sivachenko, G. M., 1993. Paradoxes of the Slovak novel. Kyiv: Naukova dumka. (In Ukrainian) Tatarenko, A., 2010. Poetics of form in the prose of postmodernism (the experience of Serbian literature). Lviv: PAIS. (In Ukrainian) Yarmak, V. I, 2010. Stylistic features of the use of preterite verb forms in Mileta Prodanovich's novel "Garden in Venice" and in its translation into Ukrainian. In: Comparative Studies of Slavic Languages and Literatures: In Memory of Academician Leonid Bulakhovsky, 12. (In Ukrainian)


Introduction Affordable, ef®cacious and easy-to-deliver vaccines are needed to combat leading arthropod-borne virus killers Japanese encephalitis and dengue. Even now, throughout Asia, Japanese encephalitis annually results in at least 20 000 cases of viral encephalitis, with mortality rates at 20±30% and severe life-long neurological or psychological sequelae among up to 50% of survivors. Japanese encephalitis is a zoonosis and can be prevented only by vaccination. While Japanese encephalitis formalin-inactivated mouse-brain-derived vaccines have long been available, they are incompletely protective, require multiple initial and booster doses, and have unacceptable rates of side-reactions. Many new Japanese encephalitis vaccines are in various stages of development [1]. Major new developments are reviewed here.


Objective To explore the role of ATP-sensitive K+ channels in the apoptosis induced by extrogenous hydrogen sulfide(H2S) in human uterine leiomyoma cells.Methods The human uterine leiomyoma cells were treated with a H2S donor sodium bisulfide(NaHS).The inhibitor of ATP-sensitive K+ channels glybenclamide(Gly) was used.The cells were divided into control,the different concentration NaHS,Gly and NaHS + Gly groups.The rates of apoptosis of cells were measured by flow cytometry.The mRNA and protein expressions of p53 and bcl-2 in human leimyoma cells were measured by Real-time PCR and Western-Blot.Results Compared with the control,the rates of apoptosis were significantly increased in human uterine leiomyoma cells by treatment with NaHS(10-4 and 10-3mol/L) for 24 and 48 h in a dose-dependent and time-dependent manner.Compared with the control,the expression of p53 was significantly up-regulated and expression of bcl-2 was significantly down-regulated by treatment with NaHS(10-4mol/L) for 24 h.Gly did not affect the rates of apoptosis,expression of p53 and bcl-2 in human uterine leiomyoma cells.Gly partly blocked the effect of H2S which induced the apoptosis,up-regulated the expression of p53 and down-regulated the expression of bcl-2.Conclusions Extrogenous H2S promotes the apoptosis in human uterine leiomyoma cells,which is related with the activation of ATP-sensitive K + channels by H2S.


The article aims to assess the quality of public spaces of the Third Campus of the Jagiellonian University and to determine to what extent the mobile crowdsensing survey method is useful in this respect. Public spaces are nowadays considered the key elements of the university campus structure. Their appropriate shaping and management fosters social interactions between different user groups, which should consequently strengthen creativity and interdisciplinarity within the university milieu. Our paper presents contemporary trends in the campus planning and organisation. In the empirical part, the quality of selected public spaces (main avenue, squares and courtyards, and green areas) was determined based on the behaviour of campus users as observed by participants of the crowdsensing study. These results were confronted with the visual material and comments of the study participants, as well as with the expert assessment of the authors. In the final part, activities aimed at improving the quality of public spaces of the campus were proposed.


In order to improve the driving performance of existing robot,an artificial-muscle-based method is proposed to design novel driving joints.Firstly,the Cartesian coordinate system of the joint mechanism is defined,and a mathematical model is constructed to express the relationships among the structure parameters,workspace,structure intensity,and dynamical features of the driving joints.Based on these analyses,a multi-objective programming algorithm is then utilized to optimize the design of the driving joints,and such relevant factors as the design variables,objective function,constraint conditions and solution method are presented in detail.Finally,the proposed method is applied to the sciatic joint design of a quadruped robot,and the simulation results prove the advantages of the artificial-muscle-based driving joint in terms of strength,dexterity, and carrying capacity.


79-year-old woman presented with 10 kg unintentional weight loss, anorexia, fatigue and Acough over 3 months on a background of 50 pack-years smoking history. Physical examination revealed digital clubbing and velvety thickened palms with accentuated skin markings consistent with tripe palms (Figure, A and B). A whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan revealed a 6.4 cm left upper lobe lung mass intensely fludeoxyglucose avid. Subsequent computed tomography scan-guided biopsy revealed KRAS-mutant adenocarcinoma. Tripe palms or acanthosis palmaris is a rare manifestation of internal malignancy, most notably lung or gastric cancer. The patient declined further treatment and opted for palliative care.


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Xenophobia is one of significant challenges to social and national security of Russia. In some regions of the country the crimes pertaining to xenophobia show a persistent upward trend. However, the lack of official information on statistics, geography and dynamics of xenophobic crimes blocks the elaboration of regional measures designed to cope with the challenge of xenophobia. The results of the investigations of the survey papers of the Moscow Office for Human Rights over the period of 2005-2007 conducted to analyze the statistics, geography and dynamics of xenophobic aggression in federal districts of Russia are presented in the article.


Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid perovskites exhibiting broadband light emission are attractive as down-converting phosphors in white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs). Despite active exploration of new members of this family of materials, fine-tuning of their emission through structural variation for realizing high color-rendering white light remains largely untapped. Here we report a series of (100)-oriented 2D perovskites whose structures are templated by the organic cations. By controlling the tilting of the inorganic octahedra, we were able to shift the broadband emission from blue to white. A photophysical study further suggests that the coexistence of self-trapped excitons and free excitons contributes to a double-peak broad emission, covering the entire visible spectrum. Using the broad-emitting perovskites as down-converting phosphors, we fabricated WLEDs with white-light emission having a correlated color temperature (CCT) of 6600 K and a high color rendering index (CRI, Ra) of 86.


In the present article the study of electron transfer in three electron donor-acceptor complexes is reported. These architectures consist of a zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) as excited state electron donor and a fullerene (C60) as ground state electron acceptor. These complexes are brought together by axial coordination at ZnPc. The key variable in our design is the length of the molecular spacer, namely oligo-p-phenylenevinylenes. Lack of appreciable ground state interactions is in accordance with strong excited state interactions as inferred from the quenching of ZnPc centered fluorescence and the presence of a short-lived fluorescence component. Full-fledged femtosecond and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy assays corroborated that the ZnPc•+-C60•- charge-separated state formation comes at the expense of excited state interactions following ZnPc photoexcitation. At first glance, the ZnPc•+-C60•- charge-separated state lifetime increased from 0.4 to 86.6 ns as the electron donor-acceptor separation increased from 8.8 to 29.1 Å. A closer look at the kinetics revealed that the changes in charge-separated state lifetime are tied to a decrease in the electronic coupling element from 132 to 1.2 cm-1, an increase in the reorganization energy of charge transfer from 0.43 to 0.63 eV, and a large attenuation factor of 0.27 Å-1.


Background Since the first outbreak caused by the pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza in Mexico, the virus has spread widely across the world with meaningful morbidity and mortality. However, there are few data on the comparative investigations to assess the clinical and radiological features between the H1N1 patient and non-H1N1 patients. Purpose To assess the clinical and radiological features of patients infected by the pandemic H1N1 2009 flu virus at their initial presentation and to compare them with contemporaneous non-H1N1 patients with acute febrile respiratory illness. Material and Methods This retrospective study was approved by the ethics committee of the Armed Forces Medical Command, South Korea. From August to September 2009, 337 consecutive patients presented with an acute febrile respiratory illness in a tertiary military hospital. Reverse-transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction tests were performed in 62 of these patients under the impression of H1N1 infection. Clinical and radiological features at their initial presentation were described for the H1N1 group (n = 35) and non-H1N1 group (n = 27) and compared between the two groups. Results Increased C-reactive protein level (97%) without leukocytosis (9%) or increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate (0%) was common in the H1N1 group at their initial presentation. On chest radiographs, 12 of 35 (34%) H1N1 patients had abnormal findings; nodules in 10 patients (83%) and consolidations in two (17%). Of the 28 H1N1 patients who underwent thin-section CT 16 patients (57%) showed abnormal findings; ground-glass opacities (GGOs) in 15 (94%), and nodules in 13 (81%). However, there were no significant differences between the H1N1 group and non-H1N1 group in terms of symptoms, laboratory results, or radiological findings (P > 0.05). Conclusion Patients with H1N1 infection show consistent clinical and radiological features at their initial presentation, however, clinical and radiological features of the H1N1 group are not significantly different from those of the non-H1N1 group.


The pulverized coal burner is widely used in industry, especially in electricity industry. Stable combustion of the burner is very important to conserve energy and minimize environmental impact. Generally, most of gas or oil will be consumed when the burner is ignited. Meanwhile, the operation of the dust catcher will be affected when oil is burned in the furnace which leads to more emission of solid particle into the air. Tiny-oil ignition burner can be a solution to the above problems. The structure of burner should be different for fuel and each different application. It is a challenge to optimize the structure of burner. Three-dimensional CFD simulations were performed to optimize the design of a tiny-oil ignition burner. The temperature distributions along the central line of the tiny-oil ignition burner show that the structure of the oil combustion chamber and the first combustion chamber are worthy of optimization based on the type of Chinese coal.© 2009 ASME


Studying hot nuclei provide information on fundamental properties of nuclear matter (level density, viscosity, symmetry energy, phase diagram, characteristic times ...). Hot nuclei were produced in proton-nucleus or nucleus-nucleus reactions, from the Coulomb barrier up to 1 GeV/u, at the GANIL and SIS facilities. In central U+Ni collisions at the barrier, it was demonstrated that a superheavy compound nucleus (Z=120) was formed, with a fission life-time larger than 10 s. Around the Fermi energy, an estimate of the isospin diffusion time around 5×10 s was determined. Topology of multifragmentation events when the nuclear interaction becomes negligible (freeze-out) was precised through fragment-fragment velocity correlations and a simulation based on experimental partitions. The special role played by the heaviest fragment of each partition was evidenced. Freeze-out volume for a system comprising around 200 nucleons is around 4 times the nuclear volume. Finally at 1 GeV/u a complete set of cross sections and velocity distributions of all the fission fragments produced in U+p reactions was determined. The study of spallation reactions was deepened by exclusive measurements of neutrons and charged products in coincidence with the spallation residues; this should allow to better characterize the different stages of the reaction intranuclear cascade and secondary decay.


Hydrocarbon reservoir engineering has a top priority to achieve the highest possible value of the cost-effective oilrecovery factor. Structural deterioration of residual oil reserves and inevitable development of hard-to-recover reservesrequire new effective technologies and engineering solutions. Today, there is a tendency to replace the standard sizewell drilling technologies (including vertical, directional, horizontal, multilateral wells) and standard size dualcompletion equipment usage by slim-hole drilling technologies. In Perm Krai fields, more than 385 horizontal wellshave been drilled, while 3.4 % of them, i.e. 13 wells, have a small diameter. The conducted well operation analysisshows that the effectiveness of the horizontal well operations in a number of instances is significantly lower than thepotential one. This leads to a deteriorated economic performance of reservoir developments, and, eventually, to assetvalue reductions. Perhaps, the main reason of low effectiveness of the horizontal well operations lies is an insufficientunderstanding of geological and physical conditions of their successful operations. It has become obvious that drillinghorizontal wells in reservoirs with high compartmentalization, low net oil thickness, and decreased hydrodynamicconnectivity to the edge water zone offer a low level of performance. Productivity tends to decrease to average outputvalues of directional wells. Therefore, the problem of choosing a well design and its direction in specific geological andphysical conditions is highly relevant.


The absorption properties of three kinds of oriented collagen sheet were measured in a terahertz band. We verified that the absorbance spectra of the three kinds of collagen agreed well, even though the amino acid composition differed. When salt was added to the collagen sheets, a new absorption peak appeared at 168 cm−1.


The method of production line optimization,which is based on computer aided work study softeware(Double-E)and Flexsim simulation software,is presented.And a case of some product line is studied.Procedure,standard time and output of production line is analyzed by Double-E,and based on data from Double-E,the Bottle-neck problem is identified by simulation with Flexsim.Then,the improved project is proposed.Finally,the project is estimated by Simulation.It proves that the line balance ration is improved by 20.2% and the output per day is raised by 10.The product line is optimized.


Since then l have kept tabs on new developments. I may be wrong but in the past 18 months l detect a waning of interest. The rather hysterical noises proclaiming the end of universities as we know them have quietened down somewhat. For the most part MOOCs have settled into becoming the marketing/ branding devices they were always intended to be. Like many other web based services, there is a lot of anxiety about how you make money from them.


With the development of nanotechnology and the graphene-based nano materials,terahertz communication,the preferred communication technology of nano netw ork is becoming the new hotspot for w ireless communication.How ever,the performance of M ultiple Input M ultiple Output( M IM O) channel in terahertz band is still unknow n. A novel M IM O channel model in terahertz communications is proposed by using a discrete mathematical method. Combining the molecular absorption and the path loss in terahertz band,a model of channel capacity is presented based on the channel state information at the receiver. M IM O channel model in terahertz communications is verified in the simulation. Result show s that the M IM O channel in terahertz communication can support higher capacity and transmission bit-rates than the single terahertz channel.


Fifteen females cooking in front of 'Chulha' developed erythema ab igne on the legs and hands. the patients were exposed to the heat for variable periods. Clinical and histo-pathological regression was seen after protective covering with clothes in two patients.