O n one level, Lily Koppel's new book is a breezy, entertaining account of the experiences of the wives of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts of the 1960s. The public persona of these women was always "proud," "thrilled," and "happy"—their watchwords. Their private well-being, however, was always something less. Read at this level, The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story is a restatement of the lives of many wives of the 1960s whose husbands were in the public eye. They spent their time caring for their families, each other, and supporting the efforts of NASA in reaching for theMoon. Lily Koppel is to be commended for persuading many of the astronauts' wives, widows, and exes to speak at length with her. This book is largely the result of interviews with a sizable number of thosewomen. Although the book seeks to introduce readers to the lives of these women and raise awareness about their contributions to the space program, the one-dimensional focus on gossip, fashion, and family ends up too often leaving these women in the kitchen, even if Koppel does show Rene Carpenter and Annie Glenn as more political, liberated, public figures. Koppel describes how thewives of the astronauts formed their own little clique in Houston in the early 1960s. Originally, it was just the wives of the firstMercury Seven astronauts, led by "Mother"Marge Slayton,wife ofDeke, who commanded the group with an authority that even her husband must have envied. The author does not make this point explicitly—perhaps she is R E V I E W


Abstract Radioactive waste handling and disposal are a major topic in radiation protection. The comparative survey of gamma radiation exposure in the vicinity of some ordinary, general waste dumpsites in this study indicates that they could also pose radiation health hazards. The mean Absorbed Dose Rate (ADR) from all the dumpsites was 309 ± 2.12 nGy h−1. The ADR near the landfills was higher than those of e-waste, metal scraps and municipal solid waste dumpsites. The results also show that the waste dumps contribute to the gamma ADR in their vicinity. ANOVA revealed that ADR at different distances from each of the dumpsites had a statistical variation at the 0.05 significance level. The scavengers and occupants of shanties near the dumpsites receive annual effective doses above the value accepted worldwide average of 0.07 mSv.


ABSTRACT When people are shown a pair of images and asked to identify which one is more attractive, their gaze shifts to the image they will eventually choose, prior to making the decision. Many researchers have examined the relationship between this gaze bias and decision processes, but not the relationships between other sensory modalities and decision processes. This study examined behaviour in relation to olfactory decision tasks. In accordance with the concept of gaze bias, the likelihood of participants smelling the item they eventually chose immediately before the decision was greater when they were instructed to identify an item that was more, versus less, favoured. The likelihood of smelling the item that was eventually chosen last was also greater than chance when participants were instructed to identify the more masculine item. These results suggest that a bias to sample a chosen item last is a common phenomenon regardless of sensory modality.


The article highlights the necessity of inclusive growth and development concept implementation in times of economic and social instability as it is widely recognized as the one that can and should tackle the common long existing problems like poverty, inequality, and insecurity. Thus, the subject of this research is to compare the patterns of inclusive growth and development across economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); and to investigate the driving policies and institutions to countries' inclusive growth and development. The research objective is to highlight policies that would increase equality, economic well-being, and as a result, the competitiveness of CEE countries. Methods. For this purpose, the comparative analysis of CEE countries' inclusive growth and development patterns was done; and the empirical evaluation was done to observe relationship between the Inclusive Development Index and indicators that described economic policies and institutional factors relevant to inclusiveness. In a comparative analysis and a cross-country regression model (for both dependent and independent variables), a recently developed by World Economic Forum performance metric was used. Results. The main findings suggest that the Czech and Slovak Republics are the best performing among CEE countries in inclusive growth and development patterns. On the contrary, Ukraine, Moldova, and Russian Federation are the worst. Economic growth of these countries has not transformed well into social inclusion. Still, there is a great potential for all CEE economies to improve their social inclusiveness in comparison with EU-28 and Norway (the most inclusive economy in 2018). Results of the empirical research indicate that redistributive fiscal policy has little influence on inclusive growth and development. Nevertheless, it should create a public social protection system that is engaged in decreasing poverty, vulnerability, and marginalization without hampering economic growth. Besides, an effective and inclusive redistributive state system of CEE economies should accentuate on supporting human economic opportunities. According to the results of the regression model, positive strong influence on inclusive growth and development is associated with the employment and labour compensation policy that allows people to directly increase their incomes and feel active and productive members of society; the basic services and infrastructure policy which is a necessary ground for present and future human and economic development; the asset building and entrepreneurship policy provides diminishing inequality and rising economic opportunities by fostering medium and small business creation and enlarging possibilities of home and other asset ownership. Altogether these policies would increase broad-based human economic opportunities and consequently both equality, economic well-being, and CEE economies' competitiveness in the long run. The counter-intuitive effect observed in the regression model between education and skills development policy and country's inclusive growth and development needs further investigations, as education is important for social mobility and decrease in income and wealth inequality.


In the West, of the body`s five senses sight is considered the most important but Ocular-centralistic thinking contains many issues. Privileging the subject and inhibiting interaction with the other senses, Ocular-centrism limits the experience of the world to the visual area. However, experiences can be understood as `touching` various forms and are related to touch. With the heightened interest in the multi-sensuous side of the body contrary to Ocular-centrism, the intervention of the body in the external space has become an important issue in modern landscape architecture. This study explores the possibility of the haptic perception system that causes the active experience of a subject. Haptic perception plays a catalytic role leading an active experience of the subject and the subject experiences a sense of place through such haptic perception. By revealing what was known through the sense of touch through the concurrency and interaction of the various senses, haptic perception draws active participation The haptic perception system has been studied in various fields but has not been studied in the field of landscape architecture. Thus, this study discusses the aspect of haptic perception limited to landscape architecture shown before modernism. In a discussion on haptic perception, the concept of haptic perception is clarified through previous study reviews and literature and the characteristics of haptic perception are derived. Then, the problems of the Ocular-centrism system and the need for haptic perception are discussed. In the historical development process of haptic perception, the change process of the scopic regime is examined chronologically and the ways in which Ocular-centralistic thinking and anti-Ocular-centralistic thinking have been projected on the architecture and landscape architecture of each age are studied via literature and cases studies. The impact of the scopic regime on the landscape architecture field in the historical change process is examined.


The German Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area has re-evaluated the maximum concentration at the work place (MAK value) of ethanethiol [75-08-1]. No new studies are available for ethanethiol itself. Therefore, the MAK value is derived by read-across with the structurally similar methyl mercaptan for which the MAK value of 0.5 ml/m 3 is based on slight behavioural changes at 2 ml/m 3 in a 90-day inhalation study in rats. The MAK value of 0.5 ml/m 3 for ethanethiol is supported by a limited inhalation study with 3 volunteers,


This paper firstly analyzes the development of radar stealth composites and the important position in stealth technology. Then it gives a detailed introduction to the components, structures and performance of present coating and structural type stealth composites. Finally, the application prospects and the trends of developing stealth materials are put forward with the emergence of new technology and materials.


Turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV) is a spherical plant virus that has a single 6.3 kb positive strand RNA as a genome. Previously, we have made the recombinant TYMV construct containing a 0.7 kb eGFP gene or a 1.8 kb GUS gene. The genomic RNAs from these constructs were efficiently encapsidated. To examine in more detail whether size constraint exists for replication and packaging of TYMV, we have inserted into the TY-GUS an extra sequence derived from either eGFP or GUS. We also made a recombinant containing RNA1 sequence of Flock house virus. These TYMV recombinants were introduced into Nicotiana benthamiana leaves by agroinfiltration. Northern blot analysis of the viral RNAs in the agroinfiltrated leaves showed that the genomic RNA band from the recombinant TYMV became weaker as longer sequence was inserted. The result also showed that the efficiency of genomic RNA encapsidation decreased sharply when an extra sequence of 2.2 kb or more was inserted. In contrast, the recombinant subgenomic RNA containing an extra sequence of up to 3.2 kb was efficiently encapsidated. Overall, these results show that size constraint exists for replication and encapsidation of TYMV RNA.


We present the expansion to the expectation value coupled cluster theory (XCC) to the wavefunctions that include the inter electronic distances $r_{12}$ explicitly. We have extended our algebraic manipulation code \paldus to deal with the rems arising in the CC-F12 theory. We present the full working expressions for the one-electron density matrix (1RDM) and cumulant of the two-electron density matrix ($\lambda$-2RDM) in the framework of XCC-F12 theory. We discuss the possible approximations the expressions.


ABSTRACT Adipogenesis is known to be controlled by the concerted actions of transcription factors and co-regulators. However, little is known about the mechanism of regulation of the transcription factors that control adipogenesis. In addition, the adipogenic roles of translational factors remain unclear. Here, we show that aminoacyl tRNA synthetase-interacting multifunctional protein 1 (AIMP1, also known as p43), an auxiliary factor that is associated with a macromolecular tRNA synthetase complex, negatively regulates adipogenesis through a direct interaction with the DNA-binding domain of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor &ggr; (PPAR&ggr;). We found that AIMP1 expression increases during adipocyte differentiation. Adipogenesis is augmented in AIMP1-deficient cells, as compared with control cells. AIMP1 exhibits high affinity for active PPAR&ggr; and interacts with the DNA-binding domain of PPAR&ggr;, thereby inhibiting its transcriptional activity. Thus, AIMP1 appears to function as a novel inhibitor of PPAR&ggr; that regulates adipocyte differentiation by preventing the transcriptional activation of PPAR&ggr;.


Abstract 5022 Background: The extremely long development time and low success rate for new drug development programs has translated into limited clinical options in the treatment of cancer. The challenge is further compounded by drug resistance seen in clinical settings for approved standard of care therapeutic options like chemotherapy and targeted drugs like Bortezomib in Multiple Myeloma (MM). This has accelerated the need for initiatives and strategies which promote innovation but drastically reduce drug development failures through prediction of clinical outcomes. We present here a methodology and rationally designed therapeutic program for MM. This program has novel first-in-class mechanism of action and has been developed using a strategy of re-purposing and combinations based on National Center for Advanced Translational Sciences (NCATS) library of industry-provided drugs. Methods: The therapy design and development was completed using validated proprietary technology from Cellworks which enables simulation of cancer disease physiology computationally for predicting clinical outcomes. The comprehensive integrated representation of signaling and metabolic networks across all disease phenotypes and functional proteomics abstraction facilitated a large number of predictive studies in weeks with quantitative transparency into the network. The predictive cancer technology was customized to four MM profiles: OPM2, RPM1, SKMM2 and U266. Ten of the molecularly targeted drugs from the NCATS library were digitally screened alone and in combinations of two across the four MM profiles at four concentrations (C, C/2, C/4, and C/8). Based on screening of over six thousand predictive studies, three designed therapeutics hits were intelligently shortlisted based on synergistic impact on viability and proliferation. Results: The focused therapeutic candidate hit was selected based on synergy using viability endpoints and apoptosis markers such as caspase 3, PARP1 at sub-therapeutic doses. The proposed therapeutic regimen is a sub-therapeutic combination of AT101 and AVE0847. AT101 is a BCL2 inhibitor and AVE0847 is a PPAR alpha and gamma agonist agent. The concentration of each drug used in the designed therapy was close to IC30. The predictive results showed a synergistic increase in apoptotic markers caspase 3 and PARP1 cleaved form. This hit candidate is being pre-clinically validated experimentally across four MM profiles and results will be presented. Conclusion: The design of first in class mechanism of action based therapeutic strategies of drug rescue/repurposing has been used to identify AT101 and AVE0847 as a promising drug combination for use in MM which predicatively results in a synergistic increase in apoptosis. These results are currently being validated in vitro. The inherent multi target mechanism of action predicted by this combination could potentially eliminate the drug resistance challenges of single target therapeutics. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Biopharmaceutical industries have advanced significantly after the millennium. Novel biopharmaceuticals have been developed one after another, and blockbuster drugs have been produced. Accompanying the increase in the demand for biopharmaceuticals, a business model called "contract development manufacturing organization (CDMO)" has emerged. A CDMO is entrusted with the development and manufacturing of production processes from pharmaceutical companies. In this review, we identify the success factors of the biopharmaceutical CDMO by analyzing the foundry business for the semiconductor industry. Furthermore, we also review monoclonal antibody production platforms and new technologies that are critical aspects of differentiation strategies in the biopharmaceutical CDMO.


In this paper, we present the lithic study of the Neolithic level of Guenfouda cave, localised in Jebel Metssila in the Jerada/Oujda mountains, in the Oriental Region of Morocco. This study focuses on the technology and typology of the worked lithic remains, but also on the lithic raw materials. We also analyse the other archaeological remains from this Neolithic level and we place them in a regional framework to apprehend the nature of the site.


The Internet is often hyped as an excellent tool for facilitating collaboration between geographically distant people. Such collaboration occurs in a wide variety of areas including scientific research, software development, conference planning, political activism, and creative writing. Examples of projects made possible through Internet communication abound. Indeed it is unlikely that students from around the world would have gotten together to produce this magazine had it not been for the Internet. But lost in all the excitement are the stories of the trials and tribulations of Internet collaboration.


In this paper we establish the decay of the homogeneous H norms for solutions to the Navier Stokes equations in two dimensions. The rates of decay are obtained by means of the Fourier splitting method. The rate obtained is optimal in the sense that it coincides with the rates for solutions to the heat system.


Sometime a problem that occurs in organizations is when there is no current DBA function in the organization. For some organizations, the ERP application is their introduction to database management systems and relational technology. In this case, a DBA function should be created before the ERP system is selected to ensure that the right decisions are made. Failure to do so can result in bad decisions, which in turn can cause the ERP implementation to fail. If the implementation does not fail completely, other problems can occur afterward that are difficult to fix and could have been avoided with proper up-front planning. Examples of the problems that can occur include performance degradation, unmet service levels, and improper or non-existent backup and recovery plans. Organizations implementing packaged applications should plan and budget for ongoing database administration as a key component of supporting the packaged application. The database administration function will ensure the acceptable, consistent performance for the packaged application, as well as ensuring an effective backup and recovery procedure, a workable database change management process, release management and data


Abstract:In building highways leading to county seats in Enshi prefecture in the past few years,the road surface structure with water permeability has been adopted.Some applicable achievements have been made in terms of improvement of road surface structure and construction technique as well as analysis of adaptability of road surface structure.These achievements are concerned with the following aspects;cement road surface with steel fibre,road surface with Elestex,anti-slippery layer,stalility of foundation with lime,stablity of foundation with cement and soil solidification technology.


We propose a new fixed point theorem that completely characterizes the existence of fixed points for multivalued maps on finite sets. Our result can be seen as a generalization of Abian's fixed point theorem. In the context of finite games, our result can be used to characterize the existence of a Nash equilibrium in pure strategies and can therefore distinguish pure strategy equilibria from mixed strategy equilibria in the celebrated Nash theorem.


We would like to thank you for your comments and helpful suggestions. We revised our manuscript accordingly. General Comments: The current study explores the seasonal source of PM2.5 pollution in Beijing by quantifying the transport flux based on measurements of mixing layer height and wind profile. In particular, this study raises two questions that are rarely addressed in previous studies: (1) effects of ventilation coefficient on PM2.5, and (2) observational quantification of transport fluxes. This topic is of broad interest to both the scientific community and policy-makers. The datasets analyzed in the study is valuable. However, the current analyses do not clearly address the questions raised in the beginning. In addition, the data and method section require some clarification. Therefore, I recommend major revision. Specific Comments: Comment 1:


Labelling maximization (F-max) is an unbiased metric for estimation of the quality of non-supervised classification (clustering) that promotes the clusters with a maximum value of feature F-measure. In this paper, we show that an adaptation of this metric within the supervised classification allows to perform a selection of features and to calculate for each of them a function of contrast. The method is tested on the famous, difficult deemed and ill-balanced Mitterrand-Chirac talk's dataset of DEFT 2005 challenge. We show that it produces extremely important classification performance improvements on this dataset while allowing to clearly isolate the discriminating characteristics of the different classes (i.e. Chirac and Mitterrand profiles).


A sales manager for a large high- tech company was in search of a top-class representative to add to his sale force. The best person interviewed had an outstanding sales record and knew the industry backwards. He had just resigned from a top job with a major competitor after six successful years with that company. At the end of the interview, the applicant offered a disk containing a wealth of confidential information about his former employer, including profiles of all their customers and other sensitive data. The applicant promised that, if hired, he would share this disk and more of the same with the sales manager. What would you have done if you were the sales manager?


Two patients with debilitating reflux after esophagectomy are reported. Complete relief of symptoms after creation of a Roux-en-Y limb to the gastric conduit is described.


The invention relates to an inorganic cement foam insulation board, which comprises the following materials by weight percentage: 56-63% of cement, 35-42% of coal ash, 0.6-% of foaming agent, 0.4-0.6% of stabilizing agent, and 0.6-1.2% of polypropylene fiber. The invention also provides a preparation method of the inorganic cement foam insulation board. The inorganic cement foam insulation board is good in heat-conduction performance, light in weight, high in strength and simple in construction, and particularly can not burn when meeting fire, so the security of the building can be enhanced. Moreover, the inorganic cement foam insulation board is mainly manufactured by cement and coal ash, is low in cost and is very conducive to marketing.


New undergraduate college is transformation period of specialist education to undergraduate education,this paper starting with new undergraduate college features,base on new undergraduate college student management,it raises four constructive suggestions of strengthening exchange learning,and promoting II level teaching management mode,and strengthening information construction,and moderate project research on student management related problem.


course. Virginia's founders remained patriarchs, but independence altered understandings about family obligations. As hierarchy weakened, they accepted society as a "new civic family" of equal "American brothers" (49). Successful men made their mark on the public stage, so character became more important for preferment than family connection. Education stressed that worthy offspring had to choose to act virtuously. When sons and nephews proved irresponsible— as often happened—patriarchs found more deserving men to support, such as the young army officers who surrounded Washington. Continuing presumptions about "natural" differences limited women's contributions to their duties as republican wives and mothers. Likewise, none of the founders freed their slaves, because emancipation "would have destroyed their power as planter-patriarchs and devastated their family wealth" (54). Disturbed by the next generation's failure to act virtuously, Glover's subjects were obsessed with preserving their legacy for future generations. Their descendants subsequently assumed responsibility for protecting their reputations and portrayed them as ideal fathers while shaping their idealized image as founders. Founders as Fathers presents a fascinating new perspective on Virginia's Revolutionary leaders and on the private and public impact of the Revolution. Throughout the story, Glover offers perceptive insight on her subjects' private lives, such as Jefferson's relationships with his white and black families, Madison's and Washington's frustrations with their stepsons, and the disappointment of talented women like Martha Jefferson Randolph. Useful for scholars, this book's clear writing also makes it suitable for undergraduate courses.


Sixty patients, recognized as chronic alcoholics on the grounds of the case history and with a score above 11 of the Munich Alcoholism Test (MALT) have been treated with metadoxine or placebo for thirty days according to a double blind randomized design. In the group treated with active drug there has been a significant reduction higher than in the controls of the scores relating to the abstinence symptomatology, in particular regarding the neuropsychic residual symptomatology (anxiety, depression, insomnia) after the first week of treatment, a reduced requirement of benzodiazepines and/or neuroleptics, and a significant decrement higher than in the controls of the score of MALT at the end of treatment. Furthermore, metadoxine seems to make easy the maintenance of abstinence, at least at short term.


In this paper a new a approach for a three-phase instantaneous active and reactive power measurements is presented. This method principle is based on the line currents and tensions measurements with the Hall leads, transformation them in the orthogonal components employing two AD2S100 vector processors and the instantaneous active and reactive calculus in real time. The validity of these measurements types is confirmed by experiments and numerical simulation results.


Demands for higher-voltage MOSFET application are increasing, for which a Super-Junction MOSFET, sustaining the voltages in the range of 500V, has been developed based on the trench-type structure. Due to the huge bias applied, a new leakage-current type is induced during switching, which causes a switching-power-loss increase. Creating a compact model for circuit design, which includes this additional leakage current, is the purpose of the present development. The model describes the depletion-width variation, caused during the switching-on of the device, with the use of the internal node potential, determined accurately by iteration. It is verified, that the new compact model can accurately predict the device performances for different device structures. This capability can be used for device optimization to realize low-power circuitry.


Pests are inevitable in agricultural production. In recent years, China has lost 40.0 million tons of grain annually due to various pests, accounting for 8.8% of the total. In the nature, there are more than 1 million known insect species, which are complex and diverse. It is inefficient and wasteful to identify pests manually. Using the deep learning network of computer vision to identify pests can effectively solve this problem. This paper mainly introduces the network structure of YOLOv5s algorithm, and designs a multimodal pest identification system based on YOLOv5s algorithm, which can carry out real-time video monitoring and picture recognition. In the training model stage, a variety of data enhancement algorithms are used to train the optimal model, and the average identification accuracy of the optimal pest model can reach 97%.


Hollow cathode plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition (HCPA-ALD) is a promising technique for obtaining III-nitride thin films with low impurity concentrations at low temperatures. Here we report our previous and current efforts on the development of HCPA-ALD processes for III-nitrides together with the properties of resulting thin films and nanostructures. The content further includes nylon 6,6-GaN core-shell nanofibers, proof-of-concept thin film transistors and UV photodetectors fabricated using HCPA-ALD-grown GaN layers, as well as InN thin films deposited by HCPA-ALD using cyclopentadienyl indium and trimethylindium precursors. (© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Recently, there has been increased interest in using Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) in virtual reality (VR) applications [Friedman et al. 2010]. We describe an ongoing research in BCI-enabled immersive VR systems and the development of a VR-based intervention tool based on X3D for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) [Bellani et al. 2011; Munson and Pasqual 2012].


Abstract Ensuring effective and fair determination of executive compensation is complex, though equally essential for protecting the interests of shareholders and in creating long-term corporate value. The present study attempts to unravel the perceptions of executives and investors in terms of the determinants on which executive compensation ought to be based in the context of corporate India. The main research instrument is a quantitative questionnaire through which the responses of 74 top executives and 55 investors have been examined. Results highlight statistically significant mean differences in the perception of executives and investors with regards to the determinants of executive compensation. Further, the underlying dimensions representing pay determinants vary for executives and investors with the former regarding corporate governance and human capital as important, while the latter emphasising on the primacy of ownership and leverage. The article offers valuable insight as it proposes a comprehensive set of determinants of executive compensation by integrating multiple theoretical perspectives.


The aim of this study was; to define the anxiety and anxiety-related factors experienced by children/adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic on a global scale. Study data were collected between 15.04.2021 and 30.04.2021 by using keywords (child, children, adolescents, adolescents, mental health, anxiety, anxiety and stress) in Turkish and English. The data sources of this study are PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar t. As a result of the evaluations, a total of n=6185 articles were reached from all databases. After the evaluation of the full texts, the study was completed with n=31 articles. Eleven of the articles evaluated in this study were published in China. The anxiety prevalence of children and adolescents varies between 1.84-45.0%. As a result of the evaluated studies; It has been observed that women, those with chronic-psychiatric diseases, those who are older, separated from family members, migrant children and adolescents are more likely to experience anxiety. Some of the anxiety symptoms of children and adolescents are nervousness, irritability, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. In conclusion, anxiety levels and anxiety-related factors of children and adolescents living in various countries of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic were determined.


Deformation, fracture and effective mechanical properties of sintered ceramics composite under uniaxial compression were studied. To perform this investigation the plain numerical model of ceramics composites based on oxides of zirconium and aluminum with different structural parameters was developed. The model construction was carried out within the frame of particle based method, namely the movable cellular automaton method (MCA). The implementation of the phase transition in the MCA-model composite was carried out on the basis of the phenomenological approach, the main point of which was the formulation of the principle of irreversible mechanical behavior of the material. Increase the fracture toughness of ceramics after (T-M) transition in its structure was realized in the model by introducing transition kinetics of the automata pair from "bound" to an "unbound" state. The structure of model composite was generated on the basis of scanning electron microscope images of micro-sections of real composite. The influence of such structural parameters as geometrical dimensions of layers, inclusions, and their spatial distribution in the sample, volume content of the composite components and their mechanical properties, as well as the amount of zirconium dioxide undergone the phase transformation on the mechanical response were investigated


A new method for d.c. or r.f. pulse shaping by laser-excited solid-state plasmas in a silicon microstrip device is described. An analysis is given to precalculate the output pulse shape for special parameter settings. Theoretical and experimental results were found to agree fairly well.


The new bioengineered human collagen products and the various hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers are all safe and effective agents for soft tissue augmentation. There is no one best filler for all purposes and optimal results are achieved by using these products in various combinations. In my opinion, HA‐containing products provide volume while collagen products are better suited to provide structural support. Less downtime is associated with the collagen products, due to the platelet‐aggregating effects of collagen and the eosinophil‐stabilizing effects of lidocaine. Using collagen in combination with HA, during the same office visit, may help reduce some of the bruising and swelling seen with HA alone.


The synthesis and characterization of new iridium β-diketonate Lewis base adducts, [(β-diketonate)IrIL] and their use as precursors for CVD of Ir were reported. These monomeric species exhibit excellent volatility and stability. Iridium films were formed by CVD from (hfac)IrI(1,5-COD) in hydrogen onto various substrates at temperatures over the range 250−350 °C. These complexes represent a novel class of precursors for CVD of Ir and IrO2 films and for the formation of electrodes for ferroelectric memories.


The resonant plasmonic properties of small dual rounded nano-scatterers are numerically investigated. A set of Drude-like, silver hexahedral and octahedral structures are studied and compared with a reference spherical particle through a numerical surface integral equation technique. Surface, near field, Poynting field and streamline distributions are presented illustrating novel plasmonic features arising from the complex shapes of the nanoparticles, while several designing rules are described. These qualitative observations can be used appropriately towards sensing, sorting, harvesting, and radiation control applications. © 2016 Optical Society of America


This study develops an accounting-based valuation model in a setting where firms have the flexibility to expand or discontinue operations (real options). The model is used to examine the role of accounting earnings and book value in equity valuation and to explore cross-sectional differences in the behavior of the valuation function. Unlike prior studies (such as Ohlson 1995 and Feltham and Ohlson 1995) where capital investments are either unspecified or exogenously given, capital investment decisions in this model are made contingent on the firm's operating profitability and growth opportunities. Valuation requires first forming beliefs about future capital investments, and then valuing cash flows to be generated from invested assets. Current earnings and book value provide vital information both for forming beliefs about future investments and for forecasting cash flows. With real options, the valuation function emerges as convex, not linear. Specifically, equity value is an increasing and convex function of earnings, for any given book value, but it can be either increasing in, insensitive to, or decreasing in book value, depending on the firm's profitability and growth opportunity. The model leads to predictions regarding the relative importance of earnings versus book value in value determination and how this relative importance varies across firms. It also rationalizes the "anomalous" association between stock prices and negative earnings found in empirical studies (which is due to regression model misspecification). The study further shows how conservative accounting affects the characteristics of earnings and book value, and provides hypotheses regarding how accounting conservatism influences the properties of the valuation function. The predictions of the model are generally consistent with the evidence reported in empirical studies. Implications for empirical research are discussed.


The emphasis of this study focuses on uncovering
the epistemological foundations of humanism
that are present in the curriculum of the career
Educacion Integral (Integral Education) of the
Universidad de Los Andes ULA-Trujillo and the
Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela (UBV).
It emerges as a way to check how far toward or
away this present curriculum is from the principles
of humanism. This study uses the Curriculum
Redesign of the School of Integral Education of
ULA-Trujillo (2006) and the National Program
for Educators Training UBV (2007). To do this,
fi ve (5) postulates of humanism are considered,
resulting that the ULA-Trujillo approaches to three
(3) of the principles of humanistic education and
the UBV approaches to fi ve (5) of them.


LGV was previously con-fined to endemic areas in tropical regions — principally Africa,India and northern South America. However, since 2003, LGV hasemerged as an increasingly important infection worldwide, withoutbreaks occurring in communities of men who have sex withmen (MSM) in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany,Sweden, the United Kingdom and North America.


of the book, Wiseman very carefully explains how the two major parties essentially "traded places" (99) on a number of key issues over the course of the twentieth century. On free trade with the United States, for instance, Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government ultimately negotiated a comprehensive trade deal with the Americans in the late 1980s that was stridently opposed by the Liberals, essentially reversing the two parties' positions from earlier in the century. In Wiseman's telling, these policy reversals—which also occurred in the area of provincial rights (101–2), state enterprise (102) and, to a certain extent, the Quebec question (103)—were not so much the product of electoral opportunism as a natural outgrowth of the party elites' efforts to reshape their competitive partisan environments. Political parties, Wiseman reminds us, are both transmission belts between state and society and organizations that shape the polity, economy and culture in general. In other words, the "causal arrow" between party and society "points both ways" (ix). In his concluding chapter, Wiseman focuses on the manifold ways in which "the nimble and enterprising modern party" has reinvented itself as an institution (xiv). Here he engages directly, albeit in a rather compressed fashion, with the current social science literature on Canadian political parties as organizations, examining in turn party leadership selection mechanisms, the role of party members, party finance, the role of the media and party identification. His main takeaway is that tropes of party decline are entirely unwarranted in the Canadian case: "To be sure, there is more disillusionment with Canada's parties today than in the past but they continue to dominate the political landscape" (158). This may well be true, but one of the shortcomings of this otherwise perceptive analysis is that the author fails to devote adequate attention to recent large-scale changes in representative democracy—not just in Canada but in most of the so-called advanced democracies—many of them enabled by social media and other new technologies of communication. Wiseman is thus not in a position to rule out more pessimistic theses about the condition of the outwardly strong parties of today, such as Peter Mair's (2013) argument that these organizations are now ruling over a democratic void—that they have become, in effect, the main players in what is mostly a "spectator democracy." Wiseman aims his book at "non-specialist students of Canadian politics . . . general readers . . . politically engaged citizens, journalists, and anyone else who wants to know more about the history of Canada's political parties" (vii–viii). This intended audience, along with specialists in the field of party politics, will find in each chapter historically rich descriptions of the different eras of partisan competition, along with occasionally surprising (or overlooked) nuggets of information, in a narrative that is written with considerable verve.


The authors propose a parameter identification method for sequential identification of electrical and mechanical parameters of surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motors (SPMSMs). Two normalised least mean square (NLMS) adaptive filters (AFs) are designed for identifying the electrical parameters, where the first AF identifies the stator inductance and the second AF identifies the stator resistance and rotor flux linkage. The NLMS AFs achieve faster transient responses than recursive least squares (RLS) AFs owing to lower computing load and smaller memory size. Regarding mechanical parameters, an extended sliding-mode mechanical parameter observer (ESMMPO) is employed to estimate the system disturbance and angular velocity, from which the rotational inertia, viscous damping coefficient, and load torque are identified. The rotor flux linkage identified from the second NLMS AF is used for estimating the real-time system disturbance of the ESMMPO, which enables the identification of mechanical parameters with higher accuracy. The proposed method effectively integrates the NLMS AFs and ESMMPO into a single framework to identify both electrical and mechanical parameters of the SPMSMs. The experimental results of the proposed method are compared with those of RLS AFs and the conventional ESMMPO, which demonstrates the faster response and less steady-state parameter errors of the proposed method.


The friction behaviors of steel sheets at the corners of die and punch, under different conditions of surface textures (laser beam texture, shot blast texture), steel sheet rolling directions and lubricants, are studied by both SEM micro surface observations and friction coefficients measurement. The results show the friction coefficient at the corner of die is smaller than that at the corner of punch during stamping. The friction coefficient along rolling direction is lower than that along transverse direction, especially at the corner of punch. Differential initial surface texture has different sensitivity of friction coefficient to the lubricants. The sheet surface with laser beam texture (LBT) has shown a stronger adaptation to various lubricants than that with shot blast texture (SBT). After stamping, the surface with laser beam texture is still clear, the shot blast texture is indistinct.


Spontaneously perforated pyometra is rare, but the condition must be born in mind in women with acute abdomen. Two cases are reported, one resembling perforated peptic ulcer, the other was mistaken for acute appendicitis.


In this paper, we obtain global small solutions and decay estimates for the MHD boundary layer in Gevrey space without any structural assumptions, generalizing the results of \cite{NL} in analytic space. The proof method is mainly inspired by \cite{WXLY} and \cite{CW}, using new auxiliary functions and finer structural analysis to overcome the difficulty of the loss of derivatives and then we obtain the global well-posedness of the MHD boundary layer in the Gevrey $\frac{3}{2}$ space.


In 2008, a monument to the gay victims of the Holocaust was erected that paid tribute only to its male victims, reigniting a long-running debate regarding the fate of lesbians in the Third Reich. Using four previously unanalyzed police investigation files at the Landesarchiv Berlin, this article opens a window into the lives of lesbians living in Nazi Berlin. The four case studies below highlight the capricious nature of Nazi rule and the surprising ways in which discourses of homosexuality appeared in the everyday lives of prostitutes and factory workers. At the same time, they demonstrate a surprisingly robust and open world in which lesbianism was not only not persecuted, but even tolerated in limited ways. While these materials suggest a chasm that separated the experiences of gay men and lesbians under the Nazi regime, they also highlight not only the limits of tolerance but the ways in which it can reinforce persecution itself.


In this paper we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the strong convergence of thecomposite iteration process with errors to a common fixed point of the finite family of asymptoticallynonexpansive mappings in the intermediate sense in a arbitrary real Banach space. We also proveseveral strong and weak convergence results of this implicit iterative scheme in a uniformly convexBanach space. Further we also prove that in a uniformly convex Banach space with the dual havingKadec-Klee property, the composite implicit iteration process converges weakly to a common fixedpoint of a finite family of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in the intermediate sense. Ourresults extend several existing results.


The article focuses on the issue of data governance in connected vehicles through a novel analysis of current legal frameworks in the European Union. The analysis of relevant legislation, judicial decisions, and doctrines is supplemented by discussions relating to associated sustainability issues. Relevant notions of autonomous vehicles are analyzed, and a respective legal framework is introduced. Although fully automated vehicles are a matter for the future, the time to regulate is now. The European Union aims to create cooperative, connected, and automated mobility based on cooperation between different interconnected types of machinery. The essence of the system is data flow, as data governance in connected vehicles is one of the most intensively discussed themes nowadays. This triggers a need to analyze relevant legal frameworks in connection with fundamental rights and freedoms. Replacing human decision-making with artificial intelligence has the capacity to erode long-held and protected social and cultural values, such as the autonomy of individuals as has already been in evidence in legislation. Finally, the article deals with the issue of responsibility and liability of different actors involved in processing personal data according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applied to the environment of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) smart infrastructure. Based on a definition and analysis of three model situations, we point out that in several cases of processing personal data within the CAV, it proves extremely demanding to determine the liable entity, due to the functional and relatively broad interpretation of the concept of joint controllers, in terms of the possibility of converging decisions on the purposes and means of processing within the vehicles discussed.


The in vivo effect of some derivatives of aliphatic 2-ketone, undecan –2-one, on humoral immunity in mice were studied. Stimulatory effect on anti-SRBC antibody production was presented by undecan-2-ol, undecan-2-olR(-) enantiomer, undecan-2-ol acetate and undecan-2-one acetals. No effect of S(+) enantiomer of undecan-2-ol was observed. Serum lysozyme level increased in mice inhaled with undecan-2-ol.


The stagecoach problem is a special type of network analysis problem in which the cities (nodes) are arranged in stages. By such human or natural arrangement, a journey from City 1 in stage 1 to City n in stage n involves visiting only one city in each intermediate stage. The stagecoach problem involves the determination of the minimum cost flow in which basically two methods have been in use. One of the methods is by listing all possible routes, computing their corresponding costs and selecting the minimum cost route. This procedure entails much computational effort. The second procedure is to determine the suboptimal cost of routes between any two consecutive stages. Though this second approach has less computational effort, its overall optimal policy could be wrong because the choice of a least expensive route at one stage may result in our adopting a more expensive route at a later stage. In this paper we present a recursive dynamic programming algorithm for solving the stagecoach problem. The algorithm is computationally more efficient than the first method as it obtains its minimum total cost using the suboptimal policies of the different stages without computing the cost of all the routes. By the dynamic programming algorithm of this paper, the possibility of missing the minimum cost route is ruled out as could happen in the second approach. The dynamic programming algorithm for obtaining the minimum cost path in a stagecoach problem is numerically illustrated Keywords : Network analysis, stagecoach, dynamic programming algorithm Global Journal of Mathematical Sciences Vol. 7 (1) 2008: pp. 15-20


The optimizing treatment of wastes is the important content in urban sustainable development. This paper discusses the significance of involving waste treatment into urban recycling economy system in theory and practice based on human and nature,puts forward ways and means to promote the recycling of municipal solid waste and also explores the environmental quality assessment of solid waste treatment.


In phallogocentrism,meaning is produced by exclusion.The production of meaning,based on the dichotomy between subject and object in binary epistemology,is the foundation of the abject status of women and other minorities.Therefore,it is questioned by feminism,which constructs the idea of "the sacred".Promoted by the challenge that virtual reality has aroused in epistemology,the ideal will come true soon.


Aiming at the deficiency of the experiment of melting and solidification of naphthalene,the method of mixing brass wires into naphthalene is adopted,and the experiment temperature is controlled by using thermoelectric sensor.The experimental curve of temperature vs.time can preferably show the law of crystal melting and solidification.


In readiness for utilization as material for the first wall of fusion reactors that will simul-taneously generate high heat flux and a high magnetic field, the heat transfer and melting behavior of stainless steel has been numerically analyzed applying the finite difference method. Envisaging the application of a heat flux of 2.34 kW/cm2 axially on an 8 mm thick, 60 mm diameter stainless steel disk under an axial magnetic field of intensity varied parametrically, the analysis clarifies the effect of differences in applied magnetic field intensity on the configu-ration of the melted metal zone boundary, on the flow pattern of convective circulation generated within the same zone, and on the radial temperature distribution across the zone. The analysis is performed both for the cases of natural convection alone taken into account and of combina-tion with Marangoni convection. As a result, it is shown that, assuming steady state, the surface flow velocity at the point of interest varies with the applied magnetic field intensity approximately in inverse proportion to the square of Hartmann number in the case of natural convection alone, and that the same applies to the case of combination with Marangoni con-vection, though with greater deviation from the foregoing analytical result toward higher magnetic field intensities. It is also shown that the assumption of steady state (adopted in deriving the above relation between surface flow velocity and Hartmann number) becomes valid after the lapse of a short time after the start of heat flux application.


Abstract An expression for the Flory constant ϕ is derived according to which ϕ should depend on the polymer-solvent pair and the temperature. The variations of ϕ, [η], and k, the latter two being fundamental terms in the equation, C/ηSP=1/[η] - kC, are utilized for the determination of the unperturbed dimension of polymer molecules in solution. The importance of k, and the alternative expression which has been derived for k, are discussed.


A 3-year trial (1996‐1998) was conducted to determine the most suitable method of handharvesting Paspalum atratum seed in north-east Thailand. The trial was arranged in a randomised complete block design with 4 replications, comparing 6 methods of seed harvesting: T1 — Seed heads shaken every 3 days into a large seednet receptacle; T2 — Seed heads covered with a nylon net bag , with an outlet to collect the seed; T3 — A nylon net receptacle placed under the seed heads for 3 weeks after 50% seed head emergence; T4, T5 and T6 — Seed heads cut 10, 15 and 20 days after 50% seed head emergence, respectively. Highest seed yields were obtained from T2 and T3 in all years, and these treatments also gave the highest seed quality. This was due to high levels of seed recovery on these treatments, despite serious adverse effects of flooding in the second year, and drought in the third year. Of the less intensive methods, T5 gave the highest seed yields, but required a high level of precision in determining optimum harvest date. Early harvesting resulted in immature, low quality seed, whereas when harvesting was delayed, a high proportion of seed had already been shed.


The utility model relates to a LCR tester which is characterized by comprising a DSP processor, a real-time clock, a source program memory, a random access memory, a CPLD logic device, a signal input and output interface, a communication circuit, a program-controlled I/V converting circuit, an ADC analog-to-digital converter, a program-controlled signal generator, a program-controlled signal processing circuit, an output program-controlled amplifying circuit, and a program-controlled differential amplifying circuit. The real-time clock, the source program memory, the random access memory, the CPLD logic device, the signal input and output interface, the communication circuit, the program-controlled I/V converting circuit, the ADC analog-to-digital converter, the program-controlled signal generator, the program-controlled signal processing circuit, the output program-controlled amplifying circuit, and the program-controlled differential amplifying circuit are connected with the DSP processor. The output end of the program-controlled signal generator is connected with the input end of the output program-controlled amplifying circuit and the input end of the program-controlled signal processing circuit by signals. A sinusoidal signal is inputted into a tested object. The program-controlled differential amplifying circuit and the program-controlled I/V converting circuit convert current signals into voltage signals. And then an analog signal acquired by a low-pass filtering circuit is converted into a digital signal by the ADC analog-to-digital converter. Therefore, after the digital signal passes the DSP processor, a display acquires high accurate impedance, inductance value, and capacitance value. The LCR tester has high efficient and fast testing and the display result is easy to read out, measure, and analyze subsequently.


Three-dimensional exact angular momentum projection is used to investigate the shape of transitional nuclei. It is found that in cases in which the unprojected energy surfaces are almost $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ unstable, angular-momentum-projected energy surfaces show pronounced minima having triaxial shapes, in which a large fraction of the wave function localizes in the region ${20}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}l~\ensuremath{\gamma}l~{40}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$.


The main task of secondary agricultural schools, which have the character of vocational schools, is to give students theoretical information and information for current and future practice needs. The main educational document of the Czech Republic, the Strategy of the Education Policy of the Czech Republic 2030 + with its emphasis on environmental issues, innovation and education, confirms this task, especially for secondary schools focused on agricultural education. Circular economy, as a relatively new and innovative discipline, can be an example of whether secondary agricultural schools are willing and able to implement progressive disciplines in their teaching programs. The aim of this article is to assess whether secondary agricultural schools provide space in their educational programs for the inclusion of innovative topics in vocational education, with an emphasis on the circular economy. The investigation included qualitative research in the form of in-depth individual interviews with management representatives of selected secondary agricultural schools. The survey shows that schools are trying to use all available ways to increase their attractiveness and consider introducing innovations and new teaching topics as very important. On the other hand, they are bound by many obstacles that do not favour innovation or other attractive activities of schools.


This article investigates the performative role of accountancy in embedding market mechanisms in public services. Drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi, it argues that marketisation can be understood as a work of calculative modelling in which the fiction of a self-regulating market is propagated through the concealment of the social and political practices on which it depends. Exploring this thesis in the marketisation of housing land supply, the article provides a forensic study of an accountancy procedure called the Housing Delivery Test that modelled an ideal housing market in the English land-use planning system. The study points to the importance of Polanyi's analysis in theorising the performativity of calculative practices in the project of marketisation, not as creating the economy they describe but in fashioning a fictional market.


A convective mass (heat) transfer measurement technique based on the reflective properties of drying surfaces has been established and validated. The convection surface is covered with an absorbent paper and wetted with a volatile liquid. The drying rate is determined from measurements of changes in the intensity of reflected or transmitted portion of a light beam using a light emitter detector system. The paper needs to be calibrated before using it in mass transfer measurements. Various convective flow systems have been tested for calibration of the paper. In the view of the present findings and the analysis of results of previous studies using this technique, a better way of carrying out the technique has been proposed. The technique has been validated by circumferential mass transfer measurements around circular cylinders in a uniform crossflow. The close agreement of the present data with those from the literature prove that the present technique could offer an alternative to existing heat and mass t...


Background: Medical management, a main asset in strategic decision-making, must be based on the use of information and communication technology, till provides strategic services. However, it is not clear how much information technology is helpful in hospitals for their strategies; this is a gap in health care organizations. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the impact of information technology (IT) on organizational strategy in hospitals. Patients and Methods: This study was performed on 325 administrative and medical staff in hospitals affiliated to Semnan university of medical sciences in Iran in 2014. Data were collected by anonymous self-administered, valid, and reliable questionnaires and analyzed by Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Results: About 44.4% of participants reported that IT has been somewhat effective in management decisions, 43.7% reported that information technology has somewhat improved provided services and efficiency of departments. Also, 24.5% of them reported that IT has been very much helpful in costs reduction of departments. Significant relationship was found between education level of the study subjects and their attitudes (P = 0.03). Conclusions: The results showed that the use of information technology in hospitals had several effects on some aspects of organizational strategy such as organizational knowledge, medical economics, and organizational decisions. In order to set up the governance of information technology in health system, it is necessary to involve managers and personnel alike in redesigning information systems and revising operational processes in hospitals.


External ultrasound has achieved an important niche in the spectrum of diagnostic imaging modalities. Its real-time capability, ease of use, and relative low cost have brought it to prominence as an important diagnostic tool. Medical ultrasound imaging, driven by advances in technology and by clinical needs, continues to improve its diagnostic capabilities. Key technologies for ultrasound development are new transducers, advances in signal processing algorithms, and increased computer power. Although external ultrasound image quality continues to steadily improve, certain clinical limitations such as organ access and tissue attenuation have spurred the development of more invasive scanning techniques. Endorectal, endovaginal, and transesophageal probes provide better access to--and provide superior images for--the prostate, uterus and heart. Intraluminal ultrasound is an emerging field of imaging, employing miniature, high-frequency probes which can be inserted into arteries to monitor interventional procedures. To put these developments into perspective, this manuscript reviews the capabilities and limitations of existing ultrasound technology and discusses the impetus for future developments.


The invention discloses a liver-protecting combination, which belongs to a health-care product. The combination consists of the following extracts in part by weight: 14 to 22 parts of astragalus Root, 8 to 16 parts of lucid ganoderma, 4 to 8 parts of dandelion, 8 to 10 of kudzu-vine root, 6 to 10 parts of turmeric, 6 to 10 parts of oriental waterplantain rhizome and 8 to 16 parts of propolis powder; and the combination has an adjuvant treatment effect on chemical liver injuries, and can quickly improve the immunity of the body. The components of the combination are simple and have tiny toxic and side effects and an obvious health-care effect. The invention provides an ideal health-care product for patients with liver injuries and subhealthy people.


Mary Margaret Simpson qualified in her native Aberdeen, with early medical jobs including a captivating spell in Shetland. After meeting her future husband, Alex, and marrying in 1964, she developed …


The Coifman wavelets are employed to perform Galerkin's procedure in the method of moments (MoM). The Coiflets are continuous, smooth, overlapping, yet orthogonal, which permit significant reduction of the sampling rate and dramatic compression of the matrix size with respect to the pulse based MoM. In addition, the wavelet based impedance matrix is sparse. More importantly, the vanishing moments of the Coiflets of order L=4 provide us with high precision O(h/sup 5/) one-point quadrature, which knocks down the computational effort in filling the matrix entries from O(n/sup 2/) to O(n). Our approach is different from the conventional wavelet technique, which employs wavelets to sparsify an existing impedance matrix under similarity transformation with computational cost in O(n/sup 2/). Excellent agreement between this Coifman wavelet method and the previous publications is observed.


Arnaud's insight that early modern physicians were not just citing, but rewriting, classical texts is novel, and her book provides numerous examples of the interplay of discourses whose meanings changed in the rewriting. She believes that it is the job of the historian of science to track how misinterpretations affect the zigzag course of knowledge, and she does so effectively. The book makes important contributions to the history of women, science, rhetoric, and literature. Arnaud is particularly successful when she takes readers into the archives of the Société Royale de Médicine and notes how physicians became story-tellers, blurring the frontiers between medical narrative and fiction along the way. The bibliography and footnotes constitute an impressive resource, and the text incorporates engaging quotes that are meticulously analyzed. Reading this book, translated from French, can be slow going. Arnaud deploys a vast repertoire of multi-syllabic words and creates special meanings for certain words like "enunciation" that are key to her presentation but sometimes make comprehension difficult.


The paper assess the Appraisal of Mega-Accounting and Reporting on manufacturing companies in Nigeria. Data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. The questionnaires were distributed to environmental officials and the residence that has embarked on environmental issues and data were analyzed with five point likert's scale and tested with ANOVA statistical tool. It found out that lack of awareness on environmental issues contribute to the poor response to environmental matters by both the organizations and the communities at large. Policies have been made including fines or penalties to ensure compliance of manufacturing sector in preserving the environment as they are embarking on their operation. The paper recommends that the financial Reporting Counsel of Nigeria (FRCN) and the institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Association of National Accountant of Nigeria (ANAN) should accommodate the growing awareness in environmental cost management and formulated disclosure requirements.


The standard independent component analysis (ICA) algorithm is difficult to extract signals in noise condition, a blind separation algorithm based on denoising pretreatment was proposed. Mixed signals firstly were decomposed into several stationary intrinsic mode components (IMF) using complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD), and high frequency IMF components were filtered with Savitzky-Golay filtering, then using the whole components reconstructed the mixed signals, finally applying the fast independent component analysis(FastICA) to separate the reconstructed signals. Simulation results showed that the proposed method improved the effect of blind signal separation under low signal-to-noise ratio.


The good governance seems to be presented today as the main global project for societies. It is measured in terms of economic performances as much as morals qualities. This concept is analyzed here under 3 directions: the market moreover increasingly sovereign market; the total interdependence and risk management which it imposes; finally moral community supposed at the same time subject and object of the good governance. This moral community which replaces the various societies under the dominant standards of good governance is in the grip of security terror as with the violence of the market.


In this paper, we apply nonlinear techniques (Self-Organizing Maps, k-nearest neighbors and the k-means algorithm) to evaluate the official Spanish mutual funds classification. The methodology that we propose allows us to identify which mutual funds are misclassified in the sense that they have historical performances which does not conform with the investment objectives established in their official category. According to this, we conclude that, on average, over 40% of mutual funds are misclassified. Then, we propose an alternative classification, based in a double-step methodology, and we find that it achieves a significantly lower rate of misclassifications. The portfolios obtained from this alternative classification, in three to four cases, also attain better performances in terms of return/risk and include a smaller number of assets. Finally, we analyze whether the errors in the legal classification could be due to a gaming process of the smallest mutual funds and an inverse relation between mutual fund's size and the rate of misclassifications is found.


This paper demonstrates the feasibility of implementing wide tuning band low phase noise oscillators in low cost Sibased integration technologies. For that, it is necessary to use radio-frequency switched capacitors arrays (RFSCA) and differentially tuned anti-parallel varactors. To corroborate this idea, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), designed in a low cost 0.35 μm CMOS technology, is presented and described. This oscillator presents a continuous tuning range from 2.05 to 3.55 GHz and a phase noise closer to -117.5 dBc/Hz for an offset frequency of 1 MHz. The circuit works with a voltage supply of 2 V and has a current consumption of 7 mA.


The flow in a reverse flow cyclone is studied. The influence ofthe flow rate through the cyclone and the differences in the axial and tangential velocity field between a cyclone with one inlet and one with two inlets are examined. The profiles are measured with Laser Doppler Velocimetry. There is a remarkable difference between the axial velocity profiles in cyclones fed by one or by two inlets. Recirulation occurs in a ring shaped area at the centre when one inlet is used. The use of two inlets results in a single local minimum at the axis. In this case there is no recirculation. Visualisation of the core of the flow with fluorescent dye shows a strong suppression of the radial turbulent fluctuations in the part of the flow that is in solid body rotation. There is no suppression outside the core of the vortex. In spite of the use of a constant flow rate there are low frequent oscillations present in the cyclone. The vortex in the core is performing a precessing motion. The frequency of the precession is determined by means of Fourier analysis of the instantaneous velocity. The frequency is linear dependent on the flow rate. A 62% lower frequency is found in the case of a cyclone equipped with two inlets when compared to a cyclone with one inlet operating at the same flow rate. The amplitude and frequency of the precessing vortex core is computed from the video images of the visualized flow. This frequency is in agreement with the frequency found in the oscillation in the velocity. A procedure is developed to correct the velocity profiles for the deformation caused by the precession. The results show that a recirculation zone near the vortex is present in the cyclone fed through a single inlet. The size of the recirculation zone is computed from the video images.


The aim of the present study was the examination of the impact of -sitosterol andgentisic acid on the characteristics of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine(DPPC) liposomal particles: (a) bilayer permeability (fluorescence spectroscopy),(b) particle size, polydispersity index (PDI) and zeta potential (photon correlationspectroscopy) and (c) thermal properties (differential scanning calorimetry). -sitosterol induced the increase of liposomal bilayer rigidity, due to rearranging ofthe phospholipid chains, while gentisic acid enhanced the membrane fluidity, dueto the reduced orderliness and the increase of phospholipid dynamics. The inclusionof -sitosterol in liposomes caused a significant increase in particle diameterand PDI, while the encapsulation of gentisic acid did not have influence on particlesize distribution. Apart from that, the presence of -sitosterol resulted in thesignificant zeta potential increase, and thus a better stability of liposomal spheres(in the absence and in the presence of gentisic acid). -sitosterol decreased maintransition temperature (Tm) and phase transition enthalpy (H), and caused thedisappearance of the pre-transition peak as well, whereas the presence of gentisicacid produced a slight decrease in Tm and increase of H. Therefore, gentisic acidhad more favourable, stabilizing interactions with phospholipids than -sitosterol.Thus, it can be concluded that -sitosterol is located in the bilayer interior betweenphospholipids acyl chains, and gentisic acid is incorporated near the outer leaflet ofthe phospholipid membrane, next to the polar head groups. -sitosterol and gentisicacid loaded DPPC liposomal particles have a potential to be used in food andpharmaceutical products, due to the important individual and possible synergisticbeneficial health properties of -sitosterol and gentisic acid.


To solve the problems of variousness and irregular quantity of Cut Order Planning(COP)sizes in apparel mass customization,the mathematical model was built and two stage optimization method based on probability search and genetic algorithm was proposed.In the first stage,several initial cut table layout plans which satified the production constriction were generated randomly.Combined searching algorithm with probability,the optimal sizes combination plan as well as initial cut table layout plan were obtained according to the principle of minimum number of cut table.In the second stage,the plans obtained from first stage were optimized again by using genetic algorithm,and the optimal cut table layout plan was received according to the principle that the producting proportion of redundant apparel not exceeding the allowable maximum value.A practical production case was given and computed separately by two stage method and manual empirical method.The results and comparison showed that the two stage optimization method could rapidly get the apparel cutting plan,decrease the number of cut table,save fabric and reduce cutting costs in the same production condition.


Density Peak Clustering (DPC) is one of the most effective density-based clustering algorithms due to its ability to detect arbitrary clusters while being robust to noise. Since the first introduction in 2014, it has been cited a thousand times. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the DPC algorithm's performance on some UCI and Gaussian data sets. These used data sets have different properties such as intersecting clusters, unbalanced data, or different densities, such that not many clustering algorithms can perform well. From the obtained results, we aim to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of the algorithm and propose some open research directions.


This article studies multinational firms'location strategies. Through an analysis of the automotive industry, the authors try to understand whether the conceptual frameworks developed in the literature can explain multinational firms'actual location choices. The analysis sheds light on the recent changes in the automobile industry, namely the growing importance of emerging markets in location strategies of multinational firms


4,5-Dichloro-1,2-dithiole-3-thione 2 undergoes a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with DMAD to give stable aliphatic thioacyl chloride 3, which is highly reactive towards nucleophiles such as o-substituted amines to give benzimidazole, benzoxazole and benzothiazole derivatives of 1,3-dithioles 9.


In this paper we obtain refinements of the discrete Hölder's and Minkowski's inequalities for finite and infinite sequences by using cyclic refinements of the discrete Jensen's inequality. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 26A51; 26D15


In a series of parallel tests the ageing characteristics of CF/sub 4/ isobutane (80:20), argon ethane (50:50), and argon ethane/CF/sub 4/ (48:48:4), have been investigated. Parameters such as flow rate, gas gain, anode wire current density and materials in contact with the gas stream have been varied. Some tests have been extended beyond 8 Coulomb/cm of wire. The Ar/Et chambers have shown a high incidence of pulse height degradation, dark currents, cathode foil etching, and deposits on the electrodes. A strong correlation between anode wire current density and rate of damage (%/C/cm) is indicated for Ar/Et chambers. The CF/sub 4//Iso chambers have shown effectively zero pulse height degradation and few other problems to accumulated charges exceeding 5 C/cm, except for one low-flow chamber with some cathode etching and cathode related pulse height degradation. The addition of 4% CF/sub 4/ to the Ar/Et mixture has dramatically improved the ageing performance of the Ar/Et/CF/sub 4/ cells. >


Functional understanding of the carbon cycle from the molecular to the global level is a high scientific priority requiring explanation of the relationship between fluxes at different spatial and temporal scales. We describe methods used to convert an open top chamber into both closed and open flow gas exchange systems utilized to measure such fluxes. The systems described consist of temporary modifications to an open top chamber, and are put in place for several days on one or several open top chambers. In the closed system approach, a chamber is quickly sealed for a short, predetermined time interval, the change in gas concentrations is measured, then the chamber is unsealed and ventilated. In the open flow system approach, airflow into the open top chamber is measured by trace gas injection, and the air stream concentration of CO{sub 2} and water vapor is measured before and after injection into the chamber. The closed chamber approach can resolve smaller fluxes, but causes transient increases in chamber air temperature, and has a high labor requirement. The open flow approach reduces the deviation of measuring conditions from ambient, may be semi-automated (requiring less labor), allows a more frequent sampling interval, but cannot resolve low fluxes well. Data demonstrating the capabilities of these systems show that, in open canopies of ponderosa pine, scaling fluxes from leaves to whole canopies is well approximated from summation of leaf P{sub s} rates. Flux measurements obtained from these systems can be a valuable contribution to our understanding whole system material fluxes, and challenge our understanding of ecosystem carbon budgets.


With the massive launching of spacecraft, more and more space debris are making the low Earth orbit (LEO) much more crowded which seriously affects the normal flight of other spacecrafts. Space debris removal has become a very urgent issue concerned by numerous countries. In this paper, using SwissCube as a target, the capturing of space debris with a spaceborne four-fingered gripper was studied in order to obtain the key factors that affect the capturing effect. The contact state between the gripper fingers and SwissCube was described using a defined contact matrix. The law of momentum conservation was used to model the motion variations of the gripper and SwissCube before and after the capturing process. A zero-gravity simulation environment was built using ADAMS software. Two typical kinds of capturing processes were simulated considering different stiffness of fingers and different friction conditions between fingers and SwissCube. Comparisons between results obtained with the law of momentum conservation and those from ADAMS simulation show that the theoretical calculations and simulation results are consistent. In addition, through analyzing the capturing process, a valuable finding was obtained that the contact friction and finger flexibility are two very important factors that affect the capturing result.


Energy-efficiency and location accuracy are two important performance metrics for indoor localization systems. However, typical indoor localization schemes based on WLAN cut gravely down smart device's usage life cycle due to large energy consumption of scanning wireless access points. In this paper, for the purpose of decreasing the amount of energy consumption while guaranteeing the location accuracy, a novel indoor localization framework based on heterogeneous network (HetNet) by fusing WLAN and WPAN under group-based mobility mode is proposed, whose localization method is relied on the fusion of fingerprint matching and trilateration. Moreover, we develop a novel energy-accuracy tradeoff scheme by electing an optimal communication policy through solving a Constrained Markov Decision Process optimization problem in the proposed HetNet-based indoor localization framework. Simulation results indicate that the proposed policy is distinctly effective to maintain the tradeoff between the energy consumption and localization accuracy of smart device by improving the location accuracy with 12.1% and decreasing the amount of energy consumption with 15.4% with respect to uniform communication policy under the same localization situation.


This is an intelligent essay on Childhood in Society, which explores contemporary aspects of childhood through a sociological lens. The many issues addressed here, some of which are ignored in other Early Years texts, include the over regulation of childhood in the twenty-first century, the effect of global inequalities, children in the context of the family and childhood in a risk aversive society. It is well written and easily engages the reader in the construction and deconstruction of a number of complex arguments and issues. For example, on page seven the author invites the reader to consider the meaning of the term 'childhood'; she notes the limitations of several definitions before exploring current thinking on the concept of childhood. Acknowledging that the sociological terminology employed in the book for example, social construct and social constructivism may be unfamiliar to her readers, McDowall Clark clearly defines the key terms employed using a box format. Each chapter follows a similar format with the aims established at the beginning of the chapter, and an introduction, conclusion, summary and reference section included. Providing a useful learning tool, several boxed activities pepper each chapter. Unusually the author includes a three-page time line to illustrate changes across time. This section is followed by the reference and index section. The organisation of the book shows progression. Chapter 1 serves to contextualise the issues discussed in the body of the text by examining the social construction of childhood. Concepts identified here are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 2. The latter seeks to consider the extent to which childhood may be understood as a modern phenomenon; to examine the experience of childhood in its historical perspective; recognise the influences of various discourses in shaping ideas about the nature of childhood; examine the historical process by which children moved out of the workforce and into schooling and to explore the development of modern concepts of childhood. The final chapter brings the reader full circle to a discussion of the issues that affect the development of the twenty-first-century child. The discourse is premised on Bronfenbrenner's (1979) sociocultural model of development. According to Bronfenbrenner's seminal theory, human development is shaped by a range of interrelated systems which impact on child: from the chronosystem the long-term context of historical change which impact on social factors at all levels through to the microsystem the setting where most children spend the majority of their time and which forms a major site of socialisation (McDowall Clark 2010, 13). Although these systems inform the content of the International Journal of Early Years Education Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2010, 269 272


The increasing interest in the use of gold salts as chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of certain diseases (Hartfall, et al., 1937) has made apparent the necessity of an accurate, specific, and sensitive method for the determination of gold in various biological materials.


This research examines the foraging energetics and diving behavior of the Australian sea lion, Neophoca cinerea. We examine whether the foraging ecology of the Australian sea lion is typical for an animal that has evolved to exploit benthic habitats. Such a strategy is in marked contrast to those utilized by some seabirds and other pinnipeds that feed in the midwater, where travel and search components of the time at sea become more important. Onshore and at-sea field metabolic rates (FMR) were measured using doubly labeled water in lactating sea lions at Kangaroo Island, South Australia, during the winter of 1988 (early lactation, breeding season 1) and the summer of 1990 (early lactation, breeding season 2). Dive behavior was also measured with dataloggers during these seasons, as well as in the summer of 1991 (late lactation, breeding season 2). The foraging behavior of Neophoca cinerea indicated that it works hard to exploit benthic habitats in the waters around its breeding site. Sea lions maximized ...


This paper provides a method to get a noetherian equicharacteristic local UFD with an isolated singularity from a given noetherian complete equicharacteristic local ring, preserving certain properties. This is applied to invesitgate the (non)vanishing of Ext modules. It is proved that there exist a Gorenstein local UFD $A$ having an isolated singularity such that $\operatorname{Ext}_A^{\gg0}(M,N)=0$ does not imply $\operatorname{Ext}_A^{\gg0}(N,M)=0$, a Gorenstein local UFD $B$ having an isolated singularity such that $\operatorname{Tor}_{>0}^B(M,N)=0$ does not imply $\operatorname{depth}(M\otimes_B N)=\operatorname{depth} M+\operatorname{depth} N-\operatorname{depth} B$, and a Cohen-Macaulay local UFD $C$ having an isolated singularity such that $\operatorname{Ext}_C^{>0}(M,C)=0$ does not imply the total reflexivity of $M$.


The objective of this study was to predict the energetics values by using the data set from the metabolism assay and proximal analyses of 16 feeds (sunflower seed, oat, egg yolk, integral egg, egg white, wheat germen, wheat bran, triturated corn, jellied corn, sunflower bran, yeast, citric pulp, papaya, banana, soybean meal, extruded soybean). The prediction equations of the apparent metabolizable energy (AME), apparent nitrogen corrected (AMEn), true (TME) and true nitrogen corrected (TMEn) for blue fronted parrots (Amazon aestiva) adults in the maintenance. Based on the chemical analyses of 16 feeds and in the of metabolizable energy values (AME, TME, AMEn and TMEn) obtained from the assays with parrots, the prediction equations were determined. The parameters used for the calculations of the equations were Organic Matter (OM), Crude Protein (CP), Crude Energy (CE), Crude Fiber (CF), Ethereal Extract (EE), Ashes (As) and Free Nitrogen Extractive (FNE), analyzed in the feds. The equations to predict the metabolizable energy of the groups of feeds were determined through simple and multiple linear regressions, by using the method of stepwise of the SAS statistical package (SAS INSTITUTE, 1995). Accord to the equation it was concluded that : 1 - EE was the variable that was better correlated with the metabolizable energy (AME, AMEn, TME and TMEn) with high positive correlation; 2 - although many equations showed the R2 above 0,90, none of them was able to predict the metabolizable energy for all feeds evaluated, probably due to the heterogeneous nature of the nutrients in the feeds.


The report describes changes in the magnitude and characteristics of the problem of road crashes involving young people, identifies its causes, including the role of alcohol, and discusses promising and proven solutions


The hospitality and tourism industry has become one of the fastest growing and largest industries. The demand for skilled professionals and researchers in this field has also been consistently increasing. To meet these demands, higher education institutions endeavor to offer high-quality hospitality and tourism graduate programs as well as undergraduate programs. Prospective students, recruiters, administrators, and other academic researchers have found ranking systems to be a tool for peer evaluation, resource allocation, and recruitment. This study examined both master's- and doctoral degree–granting programs in hospitality and tourism management in the United States and provides a longitudinal view of the graduate programs' quality assessment rankings over the past decade. The results are compared in light of previous studies conducted in 2002 and 2006. Graduate programs were evaluated by using tested and objective criteria based on their strengths and resources. Rankings of the programs, which were based strictly on the programs' strengths and resources as reported by the surveyed institutions, are reported in this article.


The purpose of this paper is to question and reflect on the spatial metaphors that inform Mats Alvesson's (2009) conception of an organizational home in his description of at-home ethnography. (Cultural) hybridity is proposed as an alternative metaphor because the concept of hybridity can be used to highlight the complex nature of the relationships between an at-home ethnographer and the people she or he studies as they are produced during ethnographic work in an era where multiple (organizational) cultural sites are increasingly connected; where (organizational) cultural boundaries are uncertain; and where the notion of (organizational) culture itself is opaque, rather than transparent. Thus, this paper suggests that it may be more appropriate to speak of "hybrid home ethnography," rather than "at-home ethnography.",This paper explicates the concept of (cultural) hybridity and shows that this concept provides a useful metaphor for understanding and studying one's own organizational home in these times of globalization where complex societies and the social collectivities of which they are composed are increasingly dispersed and mediated. Subsequently, the value of this metaphor is briefly illustrated through a hypothetical study of an academic department.,The metaphor of (cultural) hybridity reveals how studying one's own organizational home (or homes) entails investigating a web of relationships between other organizational members, nonmembers, and oneself (the ethnographer) that are blends of diverse cultures and traditions constituted in the course of everyday communication. In addition, this metaphor shows that liminality is a key feature of this web and invites at-home ethnographers to combine first-, second-, and third-person perspectives in their fieldwork, deskwork, and textwork. Moreover, this metaphor highlights the importance of practicing "radical-reflexivity" in this kind of ethnography.,This paper provides a relational, communicative view of at-home ethnography based on a critical reflection on what it means to examine one's own organizational home.


The results of an examination of the concept of Sanseon-siwi(繖扇侍衛), the size of Sanseon-siwi in ordinary days and the costume types of Sanseon-siwi in in 1829 are as follows. First, the king's Sanseon in ordinary days included Cheongseon(靑扇), Hongyangsan(紅陽傘), Gyoryonggi(交龍旗) and Duk(纛), and was the minimum Uijang(儀仗) that symbolized the authority of the king. As for Sanseon(繖扇), Yungbok(戎服) was worn as the Duk, military uniform was worn as the Gyoryonggi, and the remainder was worn the Heukdallyeong(黑團領). Second, Siwi(侍衛) refers to bodyguards for the king, the queen, the grand royal queen and the queen mother, and the scale varied depending on the status and the characteristics of events. Third, the positions related to the king's Siwi on ordinary days included Byeolgunjik(別軍職), Siwibyeolgam(侍衛別監), Owidochongbu Dangsang(五衛都摠府堂上), Byeongjo Dangsang(兵曹堂上), Owijang(五衛將), Owidochongbu Nangcheong(五衛都摠府郎廳), Byeongjo Nangcheong(兵曹郎廳), Seonjeongwan(宣傳官), Mugyeom(武兼) and Muyebyeolgam(武藝別監). Fourth, Byeorungeom(別雲劍) was added to the interior of Jeongjeon(正殿), and Hyeopryeongun(挾輦軍) was further added to a royal carriage procession. Fifth, the costume types of Sanseon-siwi are classified into Heukdallyeong, Yungbok and military uniform. Each costume was divided into Dangsanggwan(堂上官) and Danghagwan(堂下官) according to position, and soldiers wore Yungbok and a military uniform. Sixth, Sugi(手旗) refers to a small flag planted in Donggae(筒箇) worn by Byeongjopanseo(兵曹判書), Byeolgunjik Dangsang(別軍職堂上) and Geumgunbyeoljang(禁軍別將).


The Zhou-Zhou math table for calculating wall thickness of tube is used very simply and its error of calculating is so less as to be in keeping with request for producing application. The relative average error δof 36 examples in the paper is 3.19%(the relative average error of pass δ' is 0.87%). By using Zhou-Zhou math table, the wall thickness of tube may be controlled efficiently, so that the condition for producing the tube with negative allowance orhigh precision wall thickness is created. More economic efficacy and social benefit may be got by factory. Zhou-Zhou math table can also be applied to the calculation of the wall thickness of other metal tube.


Investigative Journalism as a genre within the UK's local press has always faced challenges and pressures. This chapter assesses where this mode of reporting currently stands in the local sector in 2013 and analyses whether new funding streams need to be identified in the wake of a recent February 2012 House of Lords Select Committee on Communications report.


Past 20 years there has been a rapid growth in virtualization. With the help of Internet of Things [IOT] we can achieve so many things in Virtual Reality [VR]. IOT is the source of connecting devices together by using an address called as IP (Internet Protocol). This will help us operate devices remotely. To simply put VR is the future world. In this paper we would like to show some improvements that can be made to the present VR devices and how can it change the standards of living of people and helps us grow in all the possible ways.


The main focus of implementing ECG tracking
sensor alarms in street lights using sustainably produced
light is to mainframe the idea of using ecofriendly ways to
produce electricity as well as enhancing the road security.
The idea is to motivate people to enhance physical activities
of all ages and using their work force to produce electric
power which eventually will contribute to better AI-assisted
pedestrian safety system.


The article presents a review of the problem about the security and human rights in the Balkans, Russia and Ukraine. The moderndemocratic countries have adopted the French model which has been historically imposed. In this model, personal security has been regarded as supreme value guaranteed by the state. The legal defi nition adopted in Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine deviates from that line and goes another direction where "national security" is regarded as alternative to the "human rights" category.


This paper introduces a methodology for constructing pen and ink style landscape illustrations using B-spline surface models. Following a brief discussion of manual methods and recent developments in automated non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) techniques, the paper discusses polynomial models for surface rendering and their implementation in the OpenGL graphics interface. It then discusses the generation of silhouettes and form lines for topographic surfaces from a set of triangulated vertices obtained from polygonal tessellations. An implementation of the methodology outlined in the paper is described and tested. The results are analyzed and suggestions for further research are presented.


Hungary's road construction industry before 1989 and changes that have occurred since 1989 are described. After the first round of privatisation ownership stood at 50% foreign ownwership, 44% State Property Agency, 4% municipalities and 2% employees. The reasons for privatisation and for foreign decisions to invest are outlined. Some of the effects of privatisation are discussed including a) investment and equipment, b) organisational structure, c) accounting, d) reporting to the owner, e)contract handling, f) technical improvements, g) profitability and incentive schemes, h) training, i) subcontracting, j) competition and k) professional organisation. The views of some contractors and clients are reported. For the covering abstract see IRRD 869153.


A superhetrodyne receiver operating in the frequenCY range 350 - 400 GHz has been constructed. The mixer consists of a low capacitance GaAs Schottky barrier diode, contacted by means of an ultra small inductance spring, mounted across a reduced height waveguide which is fed by a corrugated horn. The quasi-optical diplexer consists of a modified polarization rotating Michelson interferometer and the local oscillator is a Carcinatron. The overall receiver design is discussed and results of measured performance will be presented.


Credit card use is rapidly increasing as a result of the widespread availability of these cards, the ease of making electronic transfers, and the ubiquity of online shopping. But credit card debt poses a serious risk to businesses and governments alike, not to mention individual savers and investors. Consequently, the need for efficient, timely, and reliable ways to anticipate credit card risk has grown. In this study, we offer a framework that combines three classifiers, namely, support vector machines, multilayer perceptron and decision trees, to improve the network's accuracy. The proposed strategy is shown to be very competitive with others through simulation.


Now a day the traditional method of recruitment has been revolutionized by the influence of the Internet. E-Recruitment is the latest trend in the recruitment process and it has been adopted in   many organizations from large to small-sized companies.


Continual improvement of technologies for the safe use of power resources is a key to sustainable development of a human society. In particular, high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) should be used to meet the growing needs of the electric-power industry. It is known that HTS power cables allow us to increase the level of transmitted energy to several GW at voltage of 66-110 kV. HTS power cables of a coaxial design are almost ideal non-polluting system shielding electromagnetic field. In the present work we have tried to analyze various configurations of HTS power transmission systems, estimate the cable transmission capacitance depending on distance, and characterize reliability and efficiency of the systems.


Must we accept unemployment rates of 5 and 6 percent? The author thinks the concept that such rates are natural has weakened our possible responses. He discusses other ways to share the burden of unemployment. We all have a right to work, he argues.