includes fluid housing for use with a fluid, the particulate material comprising: a group of wells that are formed by ribs on the inside of the housing bottom, forming a grid, said grid flow weak spots is to deposit particulate matter in the fluid therein and a magnet (46, 50) to attract ferromagnetic particulate material, the is disposed on the ribs (44) where it is superposed on the grille and covering a surface area of the grating.


Cultivating innovative talents is the implementation of an important part of the strategy of strengthening the country through science,education,and talented people.Modern universities rely on industry to adapt to society,to establish the mechanism of cooperative education,through mobilizing the government,industry,institute and bank,etc.This thesis takes the industry background universities for example to explore avenues of cooperation,in order to bring forth the talent training mode.


The self‐consistent field molecular orbital method is applied to the calculation of the ground states of the CH2 and CH3 molecules. All electrons are explicitly considered but the three‐ and four‐center electron repulsion integrals were approximated. Results are reported for the dissociation energies, excitation energies, ionization potentials, and the hyperfine splitting constants for the Fermi or ``contact'' term. The values reported for the dissociation energies are in poor agreement with experiment but some qualitative insight into the bonding of these molecules is obtained by an electron population analysis.


Abstract Small ledges in grain boundaries have been postulated to play an important role in the nucleation of cavities in high temperature creep (Gifkins 1956, McLean 1963), in grain boundary sliding (Gifkins 1963) and in the yielding of metals (Li 1963). Direct experimental evidence of small grain boundary ledges is limited and comes mainly from electron micrographs, but since the dimensions of the postulated ledges are of the order of the limit of resolution of the electron microscope such evidence is not entirely convincing. However, the field ion microscope (Muller 1960) with its better resolution could be expected to provide unambiguous information concerning the existence or otherwise of ledges a few atoms in height and this note describes some observations made with such a microscope.


Abstract The semichannel focusing energy in the case of Ar ions and ⟨110⟩ semichannel on the (100) Cu face has been found from the ion reflection data to be 0.59±0.14 keV.


The design and completion of FPGA based on low cost strapdown inertial navigation system MEMS is presented.Navigation system takes FPGA as the main controller of real-time data acquisition and communication,NIOSII soft core processor for navigation calculation and data fusion algorithm.The overall system architecture and the six position method and experimental inertia device for compensation algorithm are discribed.Through the six position method and experimental testing,the prototype measured data and the result are verified after compensation,inertial navigation system,device error compensation scheme feasibility.


Frontline Demonstrations were conducted at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Wyra, Khammam district, Telangana, India during kharif (June–December) from 2019, 2020 and 2021 in different villages of Khammam district. Total 30 demonstrations were laid out on farmers' fields in the district. The main objective was management of PBW with various technological interventions. The study revealed that 70.00% of the respondents had high school or above education, 46.67% of the respondents had more than 10 years of experience in farming, 100.00% gap was observed on use of pheromone traps and Trichogamma cards. The average yield recorded was 2207 kg ha-1 in demonstration plot, a 22.75% increase over farmer's practice (1808 kg ha-1). The technology gap under 3 year FLD programme was 1043 kg ha-1,extension gapwas 399 kg ha-1 with a technology index of 32.09%. The demonstrated plots gave higher gross returns, net return with higher benefit cost ratio when compared to farmer's practice. In present study efforts were also made to study the impact of FLDs on horizontal spread which increased by 221.42%, adoption levels by 130.60%. The study also revealed that there was significant increase in knowledge level of the farmers due to frontline demonstrations, a significant and positive relationship existed between age of the respondent, education, farm size, farming experience, trainings received and extension contacts with yield of cotton.


Objective To investigate endocrine differentiation and its significance in endometrioid adenocarcinoma. Methods Endocrine cells(EC) were identified by immunohistochemical staining of chromogranin A in 50 cases of endometrioid adenocarcinoma, 20 of normal endometrium and 12 of endometrial hyperplasia. The number of EC was assessed by micro image analyzing system. Results Scanty ECs were present in normal endometrium. The quantity and staining intensity of EC in endometrioid adenocarcinoma were greater than those in normal and hyperplastic endometrium. The positive rate of CgA in endometrioid adenocarcinoma was 44.0%, significantly higher than that in normal endometrium (15.0%) ( P 0.05). The positive rate of CgA and the density of EC in G 1 were higher than those in G 2 and G 3. Conclusions The presence of endocrine cells in endometrioid adenocarcinoma shows atypia of tumors. Endocrine cells of endometrioid adenocarcinoma may regulate tumor growth and differentiation in endocrine, paracrine or lumenocrine fashion.


The president's National Bioethics Advisory Commission recommended this week that "Federal legislation should be enacted to prohibit anyone from attempting, whether in a research or clinical setting, to create a child through somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning." Such a ban apparently would not limit biomedical research now under way. President Clinton immediately adopted this recommendation, announcing that he is sending legislation to Congress that "prohibits anyone in either public or private sectors from using these techniques to create a child."


This paper, of a theoretical nature, analyzes the main characteristics that the theoretical field of education policy has taken in the reality of the studies developed in Latin America during the last sixty years, analyzing its epistemic constitution under the Epistemology of Education Policy Approach and describing the main theoretical outlines of the scientific production development in education policy since 1950. From this theoretical thread, a number of theoretical analyses which allow for reflection upon the mutation of the field and the various knowledge production modes that took place during the last twenty years in the Latin American region are displayed and some reflective notes are introduced in order to discuss several knowledge production modes in education policy developed from the connection that had notably began in the nineties between academic researchers and decision- makers.


The study investigates the impact of micorfinancing in alleviation of poverty among rural dwellers. Employing both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis on retrieved data from rural sample, we found that at most 50 percent of our sampled respondent, live relative poverty; absent access to drinkable water, good drainage and waste disposal system, and feed twice a day on a diet dominated by carbohydrate. Investigating for impact, our multiple OLS regression analysis, shows that credit obtained from corporative societies are more significant in the alleviation of poverty than those gotten from microfinance banks, as their effect on poverty was found to have an insignificant effect in the improvement of the welfare/ alleviation of poverty. Which we adduce to the high interest rate charges which the respondent customers report to be on the high side. It was discovered that government provision of infrastructure and sound education are vibrant tools for the alleviation of rural poverty, as both were found to have significant positive effects on welfare. The same was noted for improvement in age. However, that increase in family size (number of children) and prolonged years in a particular occupation (absent innovation and expansion, leading to motononicity) will aggravate the level of poverty. The study therefore recommends, the need to encourage corporative societies; organize workshops for training and innovation, encourage improvement of educational learning and family planning.


Overall survival (OS) is considered the optimal end point for clinical trials in oncology, but the emergence of several postprogression therapies has delayed maturation and confounded the interpretation of OS data. Despite the consensus that OS is an unambiguous and clinically relevant end point, the incremental statistical power required to demonstrate an OS benefit in oncology trials translates into unacceptable compromises: slowing drug development, increasing medical expenditures, and using valuable patient resources that might be better allocated to investigating newer therapies. With the advent of ever more effective secondand thirdline cancer treatments and the growing use of crossover designs, detecting an improvement in survival in confirmatory phase 3 trials has been recognized as an increasingly difficult goal. The scientific and moral charge to identify impactful therapeutic options in a timely fashion along with the rising cost of conducting clinical trials necessitates valid surrogate end points for OS. The objective response rate (ORR) and progressionfree survival (PFS)— indicators of therapeutic efficacy— are often used as surrogate end points for OS in phase 2 and 3 oncology clinical trials, respectively. PFS improvement has been leveraged as the benchmark to seek Food and Drug Administration approval for several drugs; however, this approach is not without its pitfalls because initial regulatory approval based on PFS improvement has had to be reversed in some instances with subsequent maturation of data. On the other hand, any statistical benefit in PFS will likely be lost in OS when the median survival post progression (SPP) is longer than the median control PFS, and this makes it very difficult to power trials to show a benefit in OS in diseases with a long median SPP. There is an urgent need to identify and validate surrogate end points for OS, and in this context, the effort by Woodford et al is timely. The authors used a metaanalytic approach to ascertain the correlation between OS and second progressionfree survival (PFS2) and compared that with first progressionfree survival (PFS1) as well as ORR in contemporary randomized controlled trials of advanced solid malignancies that used PFS2 as a prespecified end point. PFS2, defined as the time from randomization to progression on first subsequent therapy, has been proposed as a method of negating the confounding effect of subsequent lines of therapy. On the basis of an electronic literature search, 38 trials comprising 19,031 patients across 8 tumor types were included in the analysis. PFS2 displayed a moderate correlation with OS (r = 0.67; 95% CI, 0.080.69), whereas the correlations of ORR (r = 0.12; 95% CI, 0.000.13) and PFS1 (r = 0.21; 95% CI, 0.000.33) with OS were poor. The correlation between PFS2 and OS was preserved across the subgroups analyzed: treatment type (immunotherapy vs nonimmunotherapy: r = 0.67 vs 0.67), SPP (<12 vs ≥12 months: r = 0.86 vs 0.79), and percentage not receiving subsequent treatment (<50% vs ≥50%: r = 0.70 vs 0.63). Hence, the authors concluded that PFS2 correlated moderately with the treatment effect on OS and performed better than PFS1 and ORR as a surrogate end point for OS. The study performed by Woodford et al must be lauded for its comprehensive analyses of 38 highquality randomized controlled trials (>19,000 patients) that prospectively defined PFS2 as an end point (facilitating robust subgroup analyses) and for the inclusion of studies that reported both statistically significant and nonsignificant OS results. Notable limitations include the following:


This paper exposes problems of the commonly used technique of splitting the available data in neural spatial interaction modelling into training, validation, and test sets that are held fixed and warns about drawing too strong conclusions from such static splits. Using a bootstrapping procedure, we compare the uncertainty in the solution stemming from the data splitting with model specific uncertainties such as parameter initialization. Utilizing the Austrian interregional telecommunication traffic data and the differential evolution method for solving the parameter estimation task for a fixed topology of the network model [ i.e. J = 9] this paper illustrates that the variation due to different resamplings is significantly larger than the variation due to different parameter initializations. This result implies that it is important to not over-interpret a model, estimated on one specific static split of the data.


A 46-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with acute shortness of breath and pre-syncope. She had known massive uterine fibroids with a history of menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea, and had been awaiting total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. She had no past or family history of venous thromboembolism (VTE). She was an ex-smoker with a 16-pack/year smoking history. On examination, she looked unwell, was sweaty and clammy, but apyrexial. Her heart rate was 130 per minute and her blood pressure was 140/95 mmHg. She was tachypnoeic with a respiratory rate of 28 breaths per minute; however, her chest was clear. Abdominal examination revealed an enormous uterus, equivalent to the size of a 30-week pregnancy. There was no clinical evidence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). She was hypoxic: oxygen saturation on air was 88%; arterial blood gas measurement on 100% oxygen—pH 7.4, PO2 29.0mmHg, PCO2 3.5mmHg, bicarbonate 18.5mmol/L, base excess of 7.5 mol/L. Her full blood count revealed a microcytic anaemia with a mean cellular volume of 67.9 fl (normal: 81–99 fl) and haemoglobin of 9.4 g/dL (normal: 12.0–15.0 g/L). Her D-dimer was significantly elevated at 1.7 Ag/mL (normal: <0.5 Ag/mL). Other blood tests including renal profile, liver function, thyroid function, C-reactive protein and clotting profile were all within normal limits. Her 12 lead electrocardiogram demonstrated sinus rhythm with right bundle branch block and T wave inversion in V1-3 with classic 'S1QIIITIII' changes. Her Chest X-ray showed blunting of the basal pulmonary arteries particularly on the right. Transthoracic echocardiography findings were consistent with submassive pulmonary embolism: the left ventricular size and function was normal; the right ventricle was dilated with moderately impaired systolic function; the right atrium was also dilated; the inferior vena cava was distended and failed to collapsewith inspiration; the estimated right ventricular systolic pressure was 50 mmHg. A contrast CT pulmonary angiogram revealed occlusive thrombus in the proximal basal left and mid and basal right pulmonary arteries. She was initially managed with aggressive fluid resuscitation and was commenced on intravenous unfractionated heparin (target APTT ratio of 2.0–3.0). On day 3 she began to heavily menstruate and required a total of nine units of blood over the ensuing 10 days. She was given subcutaneous Zoladex and 30 mg TDS provera to reduce her menstrual blood loss. On day 13 she underwent iliac venography and inferior cavography with insertion of a temporary IVC filter. No free intravascular thrombus was seen in either common iliac vein or within the IVC. There was however significant compression on all three of these veins. Immediately following this, she underwent uterine artery embolisation (UAE). At the time of UAE, her uterus and dominant fibroid measured 3800 and 3220 mL, respectively. Two weeks post-UAE her caval filter was removed, via a jugular route, without complication. A follow up pelvic MRI, one month later, confirmed complete fibroid degeneration with migration of the fibroid into the endometrial cavity (Fig. 1). The uterus measured 2200 mL and the fibroid 1000 mL, correlating with a 42% and 69% respective relative reduction in size. At six weeks she passed a large 'steak-sized' degenerate fibroid. At three months pelvic ultrasound showed that the uterus had reduced to 315 mL and the fibroid volume was 1.5 mL. The patient has made a complete recovery and has been given life-long warfarin.


The present study was designed to characterize an Arcanobacterium pluranimalium strain isolated from a muskox ( Ovibos moschatus ) phenotypically, by MALDI-TOF MS analysis and genotypically using various molecular targets. The phenotypic properties, the MALDI-TOF MS analysis and sequencing the 16S rRNA gene, the β subunit of bacterial RNA polymerase encoding gene rpoB , the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase encoding gene gap , the elongation factor tu encoding gene tuf and the pluranimaliumlysin encoding gene pla allowed a successful identification of the isolated strain as A. pluranimalium . Gene pla could also be detected by a previously described loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay. This is first report on the isolation and characterization of A. pluranimalium originated from a Muskox.


We utilized a plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) process to deposit an AlN passivation layer on AlGaN/GaN surface to enhance the polarization effects, which enabled the fabrication of an enhancement-mode (E-mode) AlGaN/GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor heterojunction field-effect transistor (MIS-HFET) without the need for a gate recess process. The AlN film deposited by PEALD exhibited a crystalline structure, not an amorphous one. The enhanced polarization effect of introducing the PEALD AlN film on a thin AlGaN barrier was confirmed through electrical analysis. To fabricate the E-mode AlGaN/GaN MIS-HFET, the PEALD AlN film was deposited on a 4.5 nm AlGaN barrier layer and then a damage-free wet etching process was used to open the gate region. The MIS-gate structure was formed by depositing a 15 nm plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) silicon dioxide (SiO2) film. The fabricated thin-AlGaN/GaN MIS-HFET demonstrated successful E-mode operation, with a threshold voltage of 0.45 V, an on/off ratio of approximately 109, a specific on-resistance of 7.1 mΩ·cm2, and an off-state breakdown voltage exceeding 1100 V.


ABSTRACT This research describes a chrono-stratigraphic framework for alluvium within the lower Nueces River valley. The alluvial stratigraphy is then correlated to a eustatic curve, and the relationship between glacio-eustasy and valley-fill architecture is discussed. Six informal allostratigraphic units were identified. Three older units incorporate the "Deweyville" terraces and the related alluvium (High, Middle, and Low Deweyville units). In addition there are at least two younger units. Deweyville units exhibit large amplitude and long wavelength meander scars (as compared to modern stream channel), and the underlying alluvium consists primarily of laterally accreted, coarse-grained sediments. The younger alluvium consists of vertically accreted, fine-grained sediments. Thermoluminescence age-dates were obtained for the following strata: 1) Beaumont Fm- 91.7 ± 7.9 and 71.9 ± 6.1 ky (isotope Stages 5a and 5b); 2) High Deweyville unit- 52.6 ± 5.3 ky; 3) Middle Deweyville unit- 40.3 ± 3.2 and 41.3 ± 4.1 ky; and 4) Low Deweyville unit- 35.6 ± 2.1 and 31.4 ± 2.2 ky. Deposition of the Deweyville units occurred during isotope Stage 3. The younger alluvial units are pending age-dating, but are presumed Holocene in age based on examination of soil profiles. Terrace gradient profiles trace to positions below modern sea level, at roughly - 30 m. Eustatic curves indicate that deposition of Deweyville units occurred when sea-level was 35 and 60 m lower than present, suggesting the lowered base level influenced the valley-fill architecture by controlling the paleofloodplain gradients. All three "Deweyville" units formed during a longer-term, complex glacio-eustatic fall, contrary to models that envision valley incision and sediment bypass during a eustatic fall and valley filling during eustatic rises and stillstands. The differences in sediment grain-size, stratigraphic architecture, and the morphology exposed on the surface of the allostratigraphic units, when coupled with the timing of deposition suggest other factors may have influenced the stratigraphy as well.


Dialogue Acts (DAs) which explicitly ensure mutual understanding are frequent in dialogues between cancer patients and health professionals. We present examples, and argue that this arises from the health-critical nature of these dialogues.


Objective: To study the difference of two model induced experimental glaucoma including the elevation of IOP and the damage of optic nerve. Method: Elevation IOP to 100 cmH2O for 60 minutes induced by perfusing 0.9 %sodium choride into anterior chamberof eyes; The optic nerve were damaged by transecting the nerve underthe eye globe of the rats. The rat's eyes were enucleated at the seventh day after operation. The thickness of every retinal layer and the cell density of retinal ganglion cell layer were observed by light microscope. Result: The two models of glaucoma all induced the reduction of the density in retinal ganglion cells; Elevation of IOP by sodium injury the inner retina, however transection optic nerve induced the damage of the whole retinal layer. Conclusion: Elevation IOP by sodium injuced the innerretina only, and be betterthan transaction optic nerve.


The carbonyl iron/polystyrene composites were prepared by the hot pressing method.The structural characteristics,morphology and electromagnetic properties of the composites were analyzed by X-ray diffraction(XRD),scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and HP8510 network analyzer.The results indicated that the complex permittivity and complex permeability values of the carbonyl iron/polystyrene composite showed an increasing trend with the increase of the carbonyl iron.The composite with 75wt% carbonyl iron content showed better electromagnetic wave absorbing property,with a minimum reflection loss of-15dB at 14 GHz and a bandwidth of-10dB over the extended frequency range of 4.1GHz.


Oxaliplatin is increasingly the standard agent to combine with 5-fluorouracil to treat a broad range of gastrointestinal cancers, including colorectal, pancreaticobiliary, and esophagogastric cancers. However, both acute and chronic sensory neurotoxicity are problematic with this agent, and chronic neurotoxicity is dose limiting in oxaliplatin therapy.

To determine whether prophylactic administration of calcium and magnesium reduces oxaliplatin neurotoxicity, investigators conducted …


Abstract In this research methanolic extracts of three Phlomis species, (P. aucheri L., P. caucasica L. and P. lanceolata L.) were examined for their antioxidant properties. Two biochemical assays, namely 1, 1-Diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging and metal-chelating activity, systems were used to evaluate antioxidant activity. Total phenol and flavonoid contents of the species were determined by Folin-Ciocalteu and AlCl assays, respectively. The essential oils were obtained by water-distillation using a Clevenger-type apparatus and analyzed by GC-MS method. Results indicated that the extracts are not significantly different (P < 0.05) in total phenol content. Results from antioxidant activity assays showed that the extracts are more active in DPPH radical scavenging assay, but lower active in metal-chelating assay than ascorbic acid as a synthetic antioxidant. In addition, results from GC-MS analysis showed that the essential oil of P. aucheri was characterized with cyclopentane (77.2 %) as major constituent, cyclopentane (35.4 %) and germacrene-D (28.2 %) as major components in the essential oil of P. caucasica, and octacosane (50.9 %) described as major component in the essential oil of P. lanceolata. All extracts represented strong antioxidant activity and suggest their potential to apply as antioxidant agents.


Some of the following propositions are to be read as suggestions or hypotheses, supported by circumstantial or direct evidence, but not yet rigorously demonstrated. An estimate of the significance to be attached to each should be gathered from the body of the paper rather than from the following brief statements.


This is a report of the calculation of the probability of brittle fracture and crack arrest for a series of X42 A-series and B-series pipelines. This paper provides the probabilistic analysis to determine the probability distribution of crack propagation velocities using the material resistance developed from Charpy and Drop Weight Tear Tests (DWTT).© 2014 ASME


When isotactic polypropylene is quenched at 0°C from the molten state, a biphasic material, amorphous-smectic, is obtained. The smectic phase has an intermediate order between the amorphous and the crystalline. In this study the intrinsic birefringence of the smectic phase was determined. Tapes with different draw ratio were prepared at room temperature, at which the smectic phase does not transform into the crystalline phase. The amount of the smectic phase was determined with measurements of density and sorption of vapors of dichloromethane. The value of the intrinsic birefringence for the smectic phase is : Δ°n am = 40.10 -3 . This value is in good agreement with the values proposed by Samuels for the intrinsic birefringence of the amorphous and the crystalline phases.


In this study, field measurements of soil resistivity using the 4-point Wenner test method were conducted in several parts of Gauteng, a province in South Africa. The data obtained were used to determine soil resistance values, and therefore to estimate zero-sequence current for a DigSilent™ simulated ground fault. A significant decay of zero-sequence current was observed with the increase in soil resistance.


The acoustic impedance of a loudspeaker enclosure is usually oversimplified in loudspeaker models. Acoustical methods have been proposed to measure the impedance directly and improve representations of the loading, but they require the driver to be removed from the enclosure. The sound transmission through and around the rear elements of a mounted driver (e.g., the frame, magnet, voice‐coil former, spider, pole‐piece vent, etc.) can significantly affect the impedance actually seen by the driver diaphragm. This paper introduces and compares measurement techniques to assess the effective acoustic impedance of an enclosure when the driver is in place.


We propose CeVRicale, a cervical rehabilitation application based on the use of virtual reality (VR). CeVRicale is smartphone-based, thus it may be available to larger shares of population when compared to those applications that are implemented for head mounted displays such as HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. The app exploits a smartphone's sensor to track head movements in five exergames inspired by rehabilitation exercises. This project is the first step in a study to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of a low cost VR application in the treatment of cervical musculoskeletal disorders.


In soft sensing, relationship variation of process variables and quality indicators may cause the model trained from the training datasets unsuitable for the prediction on the testing datasets. As the model-agnostic meta-learning can utilize the supporting datasets to strengthen the prediction performance of the query samples, it can maintain reliable prediction performance in relationship variation. However, the traditional model-agnostic meta-learning contains inconsistencies between the parameters evaluated in the training stage and those adapted in the predicting stage. The phenomenon is inferred as the dilemma of getting valuable evaluated parameters related to the initial parameters and accurate parameters representing the parameters adapted in the predicting stage. In this article, we propose the stage-related adaption block to use the model-agnostic meta-learning modularly. Finally, the model-agnostic meta-learning method based on the optimal alternative scaling value is proposed and verified in a numerical example and an industrial application.


Sn-based alloys are promising novel anodes for high capacity lithium-ion batteries.Sn-Co alloy is one of the most extensively researched Sn-based anode materials.However,its practical use is limited by the high initial irreversible capacity and unsatisfactory cyclic stability.The electrochemical properties of Sn-Co alloy are mainly dependent on Sn/Co ratio,the crystalline state,particle size of active material and the electrode structure.Nano-materials can improve markedly the cyclic stability,but can easily lead to high initial capacity loss.The porous active material and porous electrode current collector are favorable for the improvement of the overall performance of Sn-Co electrode.The addition of carbon into Sn-Co alloy can enhance significantly the specific capacity and the cyclic stability of electrode.This paper also reviews the preparation methods of Sn-Co anode materials and analyzes their advantages and disadvantages.The development trend of Sn-based alloy anodes is also prospected.


A neural network is developed to model the rainfall-runoff behaviour of the Tiber River basin. Performances of the neural network are then compared with the ones gained through an autoregressive model with exogenus input (ARX) and via the persistence hypothesis. The comparison shows that the neural scheme is able to provide very accurate discharge forecasts and performances quite superior to the other two approaches.


in both passages, with Weymouth and the Twentieth Century. But the more difficult part still remains: "What have I to do with thee?" There can be no doubt that Jesus is here repelling any dictation. even from his mother. He needed no prompting; his moment has not arrived. But does the Greek disclaim her so completely as the traditional translation declares? Campbell (1826) read, "What have you to do with me?" Norton (1855), "Why do you trouble me?" Anderson (1864). "What have I to do with you?" Noyes (1869), "What have I to do with thee?" Rotherham (1878), "What to me and to thee?" Ballentine (1902). "What do you want me to do. mother?" Weymouth (1903), "Leave the matter in my hands"; the Twentieth Century (1904) "What do you want with me?" Worrell (1904), "What is it to me and to you?" Ferrar Fenton (1905). "What is that to you and Me?" Moffatt (1913) and Montgomery (1924), "What have you to do with me?" Ballantine (1923). "What have you to do with my work?" Spencer (1937). "What is there to Me and to thee?"; the Catholic revision (1941). "What wouldst thou have me do?" and the Basic (1941). "Mother. this is not your business", It seems clear that in the Greek any abruptness in the question was softened. not heightened. by the use of the word gunai with it. as a term of affection or respect. as the Lexicon puts it, It seems to mean more than just "What can we do about it?" and taken in connection with Jesus' own self-directive attitude in John. to repel her co-operation, not to encourage it. And yet she goes right on to instruct the servants to look to him for directions. which he immediately gives. The expression seems to me to suggest his independence of action rather than to encourage any direction from her. and I would translate: "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act".


In the hilly area,vegetation poor,deposit is loose,in case of abnormal rainstorm process,easy to form debris flow,the natural disasters,causing property damage. This paper,analyzed the latest achievements in the domestic and foreign relevant construction,study on the construction of Flush Flood and Debris Flow Disaster warning system in the hilly areas,analysis of the early warning work methods,steps,processes and results,to provide the scientific and reasonable construction model for the construction of flood control system in Hilly Areas.


We demonstrate the common physical origin, lying in $f$-electron-band-electron hybridization, of the anomalous crystal-field-splitting reduction and of the two-ion interaction giving magnetic ordering, for cerium systems with moderately delocalized $f$ electrons.


The extreme complexity of national problems coexist in the unified multi nationality in china.Facing the complex national situation,Xi Zhongxun advocate politics during the northwest,make full use of the United Front work method,in the people,ethnic and religious upper unity to quell the rebellion,respect for religious beliefs,promoting the land reform has carried out a large number of concrete and practical work of National United front.These works not only to stabilize the situation,ethnic minority areas and consolidate the new regime,but also for the all-round construction of the patriotic united front has a profound practical significance.


The responsibility of second‐order harmonics to the SV incidence was investigated in an isotropic solid such as aluminum, and each sample to be measured was designed as a semicircular disk of which the cross section is a semicircular polygon in order to provide many incidental angles for measuring. The displacements of both the linear and second‐order waves were observed in the area near the center of the semicircle, where the surface is stress free. According to the theory proposed by one of the authors (Qian), the third‐order elastic constants can be obtained acoustically by the inverse techniques.


Abond pad structure that is equipped with a heat dissipating ring Surrounding the pad and a method for forming the Structure are disclosed. The bond pad structure includes a bond pad that is Substantially Surrounded and insulated by a layer of inter-metal-dielectric (IMD) material and is formed of two metal layerS and a plurality of metal via plugs connected thereinbetween, and a heat dissipating ring Sur rounding and Spaced-apart from the bond pad formed of an upper conductive ring and a lower conductive ring of Substantially the same configuration connected thereinbe tween by a plurality of dummy via plugs formed of a thermally conductive material. A method for forming the bond pad structure that is equipped with the heat dissipating ring is further disclosed in which three separate IMD layers are provided for forming photolithographically the bond pad Structure and the heat dissipating ring Simultaneously.


The in-surface crystallography of the family of three-periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) consisting of the Primitive, Diamond, and Gyroid surfaces has been explored in detail in recent decades [1, 2]. We begin by reviewing the underlying group theory and geometry as well as the relationship between the TPMS and their universal covering space, hyperbolic two-space, the fundamentals of which are shown in Figure 1(a). We describe how these methods can be used to tailor the topology and geometry of three-periodic nets realised as embeddings commensurate with the symmetries of these surfaces as shown in Figure 1(b). Using these ideas, we demonstrate how a number of nets with pre-specified topological properties are readily produced in this manner and assess their relevance for further study in the context of reticular chemistry and soft matter materials science. Finally, we present preliminary results on visualisation methods for understanding how these patterns and nets are realised in simulations of liquid crystals in bulk [6] and confined polymer systems. Using an array of methods from computational geometry, we visualise these simulations in hyperbolic two-space to facilitate easy comparisons and further analysis as in Figure 1(c). a bulk polymer system yielding a Gyroid-like film for the minority polymer components and a representation of this pattern in hyperbolic two-space by way of numerical (quasi-)conformal mapping.


A method of fabricating an integrated circuit having shallow junctions is provided. A SOG layer containing impurities is formed on a semiconductor substrate. Impurity ions are additionally implanted into the SOG layer by a plasma ion implantation method to increase the concentration of impurities in the SOG layer. The impurity ions contained in the SOG layer having the increased concentration of impurities are rapidly heat-treated and diffused into the semiconductor substrate by a solid phase diffusion method to form shallow junctions. As a result, the concentration of impurities is precisely controlled by the plasma ion implantation method, and impurity ions are not directly implanted into the semiconductor substrate. Thus, the crystal structure of the semiconductor substrate is not damaged. Moreover, if the method of fabricating the integration circuit having the shallow junctions is applied after a gate electrode is formed, a LDD region and a highly doped source/drain region can be formed by a self-aligned method.


ABSTRACT Energy efficiency policies can help to reduce energy use and mitigate the effects of climate change. This paper examines the U.S. and Chinese economies by applying HEM to both. Key sectors absorbing more energy from other sectors by purchasing intermediate products from them and, simultaneously, transferring more energy by selling products to the rest of the sectors are identified. This provides insights for decision-making on appropriate energy efficiency policies. It appears that the U.S. economy should focus on the service sector, and the Chinese should focus on the industrial sector.


In vehicles, both electric motors and internal combustion engines are often used as traction motors. The drive torque of the traction motors is passed through a drivetrain to driven wheels of the vehicle. In the drive train transmission structures are integrated, which allow to selectively drive the vehicle only with the electric motor only with the engine or by using the traction torques of the two motors. It is an object of the present invention is to propose a hybrid transmission for a vehicle having a plurality of modes, and at the same time requires only a limited number of components. The invention relates to a hybrid transmission for a vehicle for coupling an internal combustion engine and an electric motor and a vehicle having this hybrid transmission.


For physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) where multi‐contacts play a key role, both robustness to achieve robot‐intended motion and adaptability to follow human‐intended motion are fundamental. However, there are tradeoffs during pHRI when their intentions do not match. This paper focuses on bipedal walking control during pHRI, which handles such tradeoff when a human and a humanoid robot having different footsteps locations and durations. To resolve this, a force‐reactive walking controller is proposed by adequately combining ankle and stepping strategies. The ankle strategy maintains the robot's intention based on an analytically‐optimal center of pressure, leading the robot to oppose resistance to multiple contacts from the human. Based on the robot's kinodynamic constraints and/or the confidence of the robot's intention, the stepping strategy updates the robot's footsteps based on the human's intention implied by the multiple contact forces. Consequently, the proposed walking control on pHRI mutually exchanges human–robot intentions in real‐time, thereby achieving coordinated steps. With a full‐sized humanoid robot that is able to detect multi‐contacts in real‐time, we succeeded in performing a long‐term "box‐step" with multi‐contacts pHRI, demonstrating the robustness of our approach.


Today's knowledge workers have access to practically endless amounts of information resources. However, this information alone is of no use if it cannot be reasonably retrieved and organized. Today's software solutions are a collection of heterogeneous, inconsistent, separate environments that are not optimized for efficiency in the higher workflows typical of knowledge work.visuos™ is a concept for an operating software for knowledge work. It covers various forms of access to knowledge spaces, including knowledge management, information retrieval, research and refinement, monitoring of knowledge resources, and automation and scheduling of tasks. It is a system designed for a broad target group --from novice to expert. Its modular structure allows users to adapt the system to their particular degree of experience and the individual form of access to knowledge spaces desired. The modules are integrated by a holistic conceptual model. This model was designed in order to allow effective workflows with minimum friction.The benefits of the system include improved functionality, new workflows, a maximized target group, higher efficiency and productivity, and a higher degree of user confidence.


This article presents the theory behind modern evaluative bibliometric techniques at three levels. Policy applications, which characterizes the scientific and technological output of nations or regions; strategic analyses, which deals with articles and patents at the level of a university or company; and tactical analyses, which addresses questions concerning a single subject. The article explains the newer techniques that have been developed at each level, as well as the more important limitations.


EDITOR—The increasing global gap between rich and poor countries leads to inequalities in access to drugs and to the knowledge and skills needed for their rational use. It also leads to qualitatively different information needs.

Therapeutic information on the management of HIV infection and AIDS flows at two separate levels: although some doctors debate about the potential benefits of new viral transmembrane protein blockers, others are wondering how to manage a patient with pneumocystis pneumonia because of insufficient financial resources to purchase co-trimoxazole. These people …


Leader development practices associated with expert leadership effectiveness is under-researched, particularly within the natural sciences such as medicine and engineering. Yet, increasingly these scientists are taking on leadership roles in their organisations, considering that they are the most technically qualified. Mintz and Stoller (2014) observe that the nature of health organisations and how physicians develop primarily emphasises the physician as a lone leader, compounding the individual characteristics common to such scientists—self-directed, confident and independent—making collaboration with others an even greater challenge. Some studies suggest that scientists, in general, struggle with social skills. Given the social phenomena that is leadership, how such leaders develop, and the influence of context was the subject of this study. Using social identity theory and the theory of planned behaviour, we apply a constructionist lens to the question, "how do contextual influences affect leader development among natural scientists?" The research presented here emanates from the qualitative phase of a broader mixed-methods comparative study that examined perceptions and experiences of natural scientists on leader development in comparison with their non-scientist colleagues. Through thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted among ten senior medical professionals currently holding leadership positions in health organisations, this article presents findings on the contextual factors that affect leader development. It then suggests approaches that leaders and policy elites in the medical field can advance to create an environment that engenders the learning of leadership. We found that leader-identity, self-efficacy, structural limitations and subjective norms, meaningfully attenuate the appetite for leader development activities.


Electromagnetic stirrer (Al-EMS) is a well-established technology for stirring in aluminium furnaces. Until now, more than 150 systems have been installed worldwide. Al-EMS gives reduced furnace cycle time and thereby a potential for higher production, decreased dross formation and improved dissolution and homogenization of alloys. Considerable cost savings have been achieved, contributing to a payback of less than one year in many cases.


In this project, a prototype of a mobile application connected to a Business Services Bus was developed using Microsoft Azure technology. The archetype aims to unite small and medium-sized credit unions to enable monetary transactions to be carried out, and the services offered can be enhanced. The application is connected to the service bus through a service published in the same platform of Azure, which is in charge of orchestrating all the transactions so that they are carried out correctly The mobile application was developed using Xamarin Forms. It has as main functionalities transactions between cooperatives, payments of basic services, payment of credit cards and supports having multiple accounts of different cooperatives associated to the same user. Also, small credit union simulators were created that are connected to the mobile application by the business services bus. They served to make fictitious transactions, to test the prototype. Finally, to create the data used in the simulator, a management site was created that allows the creation of clients, accounts and services in the simulators and can be used.


This thesis has elaborated the origin and definition of industrial engineering, and introduced the theories of industrial engineering applied to enterprises at home and abroad that have been successful in their operation and competition on domestic and international markets. It has further proved with examples the importance of training industrial engineering personnel. Moreover, some beneficial suggestions and advice have ben Put forward on the subject of how to train and develop industrial engineering personnel in the light of the market demand for such professionals in our country.


The principal facts recorded in the following memoir were incidentally observed during the researches which formed the subject of my last communication. (The measurements in this paper, as in former ones, are stated in fractions of a Paris line, and thus expressed ("')).


The macrophytes may be problems in many water bodies, being necessary to employ control technique. The use of grass carp fish (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is an established biological control technique in many countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of food preference and control of diploid grass carp exposed the macrophytes Ceratophyllum demersum, Egeria densa, Egeria najas and Hydrilla verticillata isolated and combined condition micro and mesocosms. To this, three experiments were conducted. The first experiment was the supply and planting of macrophytes C. demersum, E. densa and E. najas in microcosms of 250 liters with five repetitions in completely randomized design (CRD). In the second and third experiment plants were offered in isolated and combinated condition mesocosms 2000 L. In the second experiment the plant C. demersum, E. densa and E. najas was used, in the third experiment the macrophyte C. demersum, E. densa, E, najas and H. verticillata in a randomized block design (RBD) in triplicate. In the first experiment the treatment with lower quantity of fish were what to show the bigger consumption and to get in weight in conditions of microcosms. In the second experiment the plant more predated by grass carp was E. najas and C. demersum when offered alone, and when offered together the order of food preference was C. demersum > E. najas > E. densa. In the third experiment the plant most consumed either alone or in combination was the H. verticillata and the least consumed was E. densa. Thus, it is concluded that use of grass carp (C. idella) as a biological control agent has advantages for having high rates of consumption and in greater preference for H. verticillata, followed by E. najas and C. demersum and lower intensity in the E. densa in mesocosms condition, which makes the grass carp one great tool for biological control.


A combined wide angle X‐ray diffraction (WAXD)/small‐angle X‐ray scattering (SAXS)/scanning electron microscopy (SEM)/density study of structure and morphology was carried out for a large series of pyromellitic dianhydride‐oxydianiline (PMDA‐ODA) polyimide (PI) samples processed using different powder metallurgy techniques. Using a combined DSC/creep rate spectroscopy (CRS)/long‐term creep resistance (LTCR) approach, their molecular dynamics, thermal and elastic properties, and creep resistance in the temperature range from 20 to 470°C were also studied. Both a choice of the method of formation of fine PI particles and the order of applying high pressure relative to high temperature to form the monolithic samples led to the observation of significant property differences. Relationships between the processing conditions, structure, and properties were determined. As a result, the conditions for optimizing certain PMDA‐ODA polyimide properties, especially creep resistance and elastic properties at extreme t...


Based on the policy objectives,using key performance indicator method,an evaluation system including four indexes of financial subsidy achievement rates,insurance capital adequacy ratio,independent participating insurance rate,protected degree was established.With Hunan Province as example,the performance of the pilot in recent five years was evaluated.Its performance was affirmed and several problems were pointed out,such as farmer's independency,insurance company's profit,government's financial support,and then some corresponding policy proposals were put forward.Thus the results can be used as the basis for practical assessment and choice of future policies.


ABSTRACT The colony of Sierra Leone was characterized by an unusually heterogeneous population made up of immigrants. The diverse population and the dynamics that led to its creation constitute a valuable case study for mating theories. This article examines the determinants of marriage patterns in early nineteenth-century urban Sierra Leone relying on census data. The degree to which marriage-market constraints and preferences influenced marriage patterns is studied. The results of this study suggest that marriage-market constraints contributed to explaining marriage patterns. However, even in a newly founded and multicultural context as that of urban Sierra Leone, social homogamy based on ascribed characteristics was the most prevalent marriage arrangement, in spite of the disruption of kin relations caused by slavery and migration.


A discussion of the changing face of Manufacturing Industry and its need for trained technological personnel is presented. Observations of teaching approaches and the importance of real case Engineering projects is followed by brief insights from 3 different countries.


Background Polymorphisms of IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 and environmental factors may work together to influence insulin-like growth factor (IGF) levels and thus breast cancer (BC) risk. However, very few studies have investigated high-order interactions among these variables. Methods A total of 277 newly diagnosed BC cases and 277 controls were recruited between October 2010 and July 2012. We collected each participant's demographic characteristics, dietary intake, and blood sample. IGF-1 rs1520220 and IGFBP-3 rs2854744 were then genotyped. A multi-analytic strategy combining unconditional logistic regression (ULR), generalized multifactor dimensionality reduction (GMDR), and classification and regression tree (CART) approaches was applied to systematically identify the interactions of the two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), body mass index (BMI), and daily intake of soy isoflavone (DISI) on BC susceptibility. Results In GMDR analyses, high-order interactions among BMI, DISI, and SNP rs2854744 were identified among overall and postmenopausal women. We also found significant dosage effects on BC risk with an increasing number of exposure factors, namely carrying the rs2854744 AA genotype, DISI <9.85 mg/day, and BMI ≥24 kg/m2 (P trend<0.05). Similarly, in CART analyses, compared with individuals having BMI<24kg/m2, DISI<9.85 mg/day, and the rs2854744 CC+CA genotype, BC risk increased significantly for those carrying the rs2854744 AA genotype, with BMI<24 kg/m2 and DISI<9.85 mg/day (OR = 1.95, 95%CI: 1.03–3.69), and also for those with BMI≥24kg/m2 and DISI<9.85 mg/day (OR = 2.13, 95%CI: 1.00–4.51). Similar interaction effects were observed among postmenopausal women. Conclusions This study suggests high-order interactions of the IGFBP-3 rs2854744 AA genotype, BMI≥24kg/m2, and DISI<9.85 mg/day on increased BC risk, particularly among postmenopausal women.


In-band full duplex offers a new approach of meeting the ever-increasing data rate demands by operating the transmitter and receiver at the same frequency at the same time, potentially doubling the spectral efficiency. However, self-interference is the fundamental bottleneck of such systems. In contrast to non-planar or sub 6 GHz microstrip designs reported so-far, this paper presents an all SIW based antenna system for in-band full duplex systems. The proposed design integrates a dual linear polarized three port differential antenna, three port SIW common-mode power combiner and a 180°phase shifter at 28 GHz. Operating the antenna in TE201 mode provides inherent isolation between the differential receive and single-ended transmit port. The residual coupling is further reduced through use of TE101 based power combiner and a 180°phase shifter. Implemented on a 0.508 mm thick RT Duroid 5880 substrate, the antenna occupies a foot-print of 48 × 80 mm2. Demonstrating a measured gain of 6.95 dBi and 3.42 dBi for Tx and Rx mode of operation, respectively, the proposed design offers a self-interference cancellation (SiC) of better than 36 dB over a 177 MHz bandwidth.


Abstract The seismic response of structures is very complex owing to the behaviour of soils during an earthquake. Traditional seismic designs rely on the assumption that the base of the foundation is fixed. However, the foundation tends to displace owing to the flexible nature of the soil. Indian seismic code and other codes though incorporate the effect of soil-structure-interaction (SSI), but in a very broad sense, and thus are inadequate. This study aims to understand the seismic performance of reinforced concrete (RC) framed buildings designed according to the Indian code, considering soil flexibility. The seismic vulnerability of buildings is investigated through pushover and fragility analysis. Six RC framed buildings with different heights, encompassing low-, mid- and high-rise buildings, covering a wide range of lateral periods (short-, medium- and long-periods), are considered. These buildings are considered to be resting on raft foundations. The soil flexibility for four types of soft clay soil is computed based on shear velocity, shear modulus and density. A variational study for a range of soft soils in combination with short-, medium- and long-period structures is carried out. Fragility curves and damage probability matrices are developed using push over analysis incorporating SSI. The overall conclusions from the fragility curves are that the soil flexibility may significantly increase the seismic vulnerability of low-rise RC framed buildings, and the performance of high-rise buildings may be improved by taking this into consideration.


The purpose of this chapter is to explain why so many experts were surprised by the politics that surrounded Europe's economic and monetary union (EMU) both during and after the financial crisis that dominated the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This question is important because it has changed fundamentally the relationship between the euro as a single currency and the European Union (EU) as a larger project. Before the crisis, it was fair to say that the euro existed to serve the EU, as one of the many important building blocks in the wider project of European integration. During and after the crisis, it became more common to assert that an end of the euro would entail the end of the European project. That inversion of priorities was unexpected–and it explains, more than anything else, why the politics of economic and monetary union can no longer be ignored.


A thermal vapor compression(TVC)based desalination system for oilfield wastewater is proposed to solve the difficulties resulted from complex and highly polluting substances in the wastewater,since commonly used membrane methods are inapplicable.A mathematical model for process simulation and design is developed and the influence of evaporation temperature on the system performance is analyzed.The results show that the performance ratio increases as the evaporation temperature decreases.Lowering evaporation temperature may significantly reduce the steam consumption,but may greatly increase the heat transfer area and cooling water flow rate.


In this paper, a method for the role construction and recognition of five soccer robots in robot soccer game is proposed. First, five round-shape labels that compose of black and white colors are proposed to recognize the roles of five robots. Then, an angle recognition algorithm is proposed to recognize these five round-shape labels. This round-shape label that composes of black and white color is proposed so that only three kinds of color models (yellow, blue, and orange) to find the positions of enemies, friends, and ball from the captured fields image. In this way, this proposed method could solve the problems that robots cannot be found or the role cannot be recognized correctly when many kinds of color labels are used to recognize the roles of robots. From the real application, we can see that these five soccer robots can be recognized fast and precisely by this proposed method.


This research aims to discuss the influence of Celebrity Instagram Credibility Endorsement (Attractiveness, Trustworthiness, Expertise), Brand Image and Price on Purchase Intention to a cosmetics product. Celebrity endorsement become one of the marketing communication tools to promote a product and direclty influence the customer's purchase intention. The sample is 140 Samples and using Accidental Technique sampling with the Population of Female Andalas University who still attend lecture class, have an instagram account and have seen a Celebrity Instagram reviewing a cosmetcics product in Instagram. Questionnaire was utilized in gathering information from the respondent and were analyzed using the SPSS 17.0 version. Result of this Research showed that Brand Image has a significant influence on purchase intention, Price has a Significant influence on Purchase Intention, and only dimension of Expertise has a significant influence on purchase intention, while the Attractiveness and Trustworthiness dimension has no Significant Influence on Purchase Intention.

Keywords: Instagram, Credibility Endorsement, Attractiveness, Trustworthiness, Expertise, Brand Image, Price, Consumer Behavior, Purchae Intention


The mass of the tau is found to be three times that of a preon described in precedent articles. From this we make an hypothesis about its internal structure.


SUPPORT AND CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED: BASIS FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL Joey M. Berja Laguna College of Business and Arts ABSTRACT Despite the widespread laws and programs, the discontinuance rate of MSMEs in the Philippines was high. The main thrust of the study was determining the significance of the level of awareness on government support to the level of challenges encountered by MBE of Calamba City. "The Y-Model of MBE" was the output of the study. Descriptive-correlational method using a survey questionnaire was utilized and 134 respondents from Barangays of Seven (7), Bucal, and Paciano Rizal had participated. Regression Analysis revealed that there was a significant impact between the awareness level on technology transfer and marketing with the level of challenges encountered on product or product mix. Awareness of taxation and management also significantly influenced the challenges encountered in management and finance respectively. The challenges on government compliance were affected by the government support about technology transfer and marketing while challenges on marketing were not affected by any support.


Cyber authoritarianism is on the rise globally. Governments around the world are seeking innovative ways to monitor, surveil, censor and persecute government critics, activists and journalists. Southeast Asia is an especially hostile environment for journalism online: its governments have regularly investigated, arrested and convicted ordinary citizens for their online activities. The region also remains one of the most dangerous places for journalists in the world. This raises the question of if and how news organisations survive and thrive in this increasingly repressive environment. The study draws on original survey and interview datasets of 52 digital news organisations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand conducted as part of the 2021 Inflection Point International project on digital media entrepreneurship in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. We argue that digital news organisations in Southeast Asia continue to report and investigate politically and socially sensitive issues despite the high risks for state repression. They are motivated by their belief in providing public good and supporting civic engagement. The findings in this study provide concrete empirical evidence that digital authoritarianism does not exert downward pressure on critical journalism.


The illegal dumping infl uence on the soil in Astrakhan was analyzed. Physicochemical, microbiological researches and phytotest were used for the analysis. As a result, it was determined in the soil of lead, cadmium, copper, nickel, arsenic, and mercury in the gross form, the content of the bacteria such as colon bacillus, enterococci, pathogenic bacteria, helminth eggs. Phytotest results were determined by the germination and root length of watercress in the soil extracts. The results were analyzed and the infl uence of illegal dumping on the ecosystem of the urban environment was determined.


The article analyses digital surveillance companies and the possibilities that technology makes available to oppressive regimes: from monitoring centres facilitating mass surveillance on all telecommunications, to firewalls that filter what users can access, and spyware that tap into the information stored in any personal device connected to the internet. This grim picture of new technologies becomes significantly darker when taking into account the volume of this 'international repression trade' and the market value of surveillance companies operating in states self-identified as democracies.


This paper deals with the modelling of the coolant (water) in a nuclear reactor core. This study is based on a monophasic low Mach number model (LMNC model) coupled to the stiffened gas law for a single-phase flow. Some analytical steady and unsteady solutions are presented for the 1D case. We then introduce a numerical scheme to simulate the 1D model in order to assess its relevance. Finally, we carry out a normal mode perturbation analysis in order to approximate 2D solutions around the 1D steady solutions.


A contact stationary Legendrian submanifold of $S^{2n+1}$ is a Legendrian submanifold whose volume is stationary under contact deformations. The simplest contact stationary Legendrian submanifold (actually minimal and Legendrian) is the real, equatorial $n$-sphere $S_0$. This paper develops a method for constructing contact stationary (but not minimal) Legendrian submanifolds of $S^{2n+1}$ by gluing together configurations of sufficiently many $U(n+1)$-rotated copies of $S_0$ at isolated points of suitably transverse intersection. The resulting submanifolds are very symmetric; are geometrically akin to a `necklace' of copies of $S_0$ attached to each other by narrow necks and winding a large number of times around $S^{2n + 1}$ before closing up on itself; and are topologically equivalent to $S^1 \times S^{n-1}$. Moreover, they represent wholly new examples of contact stationary embedded submanifolds of $S^{2n + 1}$ and thus give rise to wholly new examples of embedded Hamiltonian stationary cones in $C^{n+1}$.


This study aimed to analyze the effect of corporate governance, dispersion ownership, cost ownership on financial performance. Corporate governance measured by CGPI (Corporate Governance Perception Index) based on the rating that has been prepared by IICG (Indonesian Institute of Corporate Governance), dispersion ownership measured  by adding up the shares owned by the public and the number of shares outstanding. Cost ownership is measured by dividends per share and earnings per share. As well as the financial performance measured by the value of Return On Equity and Tobin's Q .Sampling technique used is purposive sampling. Data analysis techniques for banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in the period 2012-2017. It was found that corporate governance has a negative and significant effect on the bank financial performance ( Return On Equity, Tobin's q). Dispersion ownership has a negatif and significant effect on the bank financial performance. Cost ownership has  a negatif and significant effect on the bank financial performance.


Wood is increasingly replacing concrete to reduce CO2 emissions in buildings, but fossil-based adhesives are still being used in wood panels. Epoxidized lignin adhesives could be a potential replacement, but...


Abstract Background β-lactam antibiotics with dissimilar R-group side chains are associated with low cross-reactivity. Despite this, patients with β-lactam allergies are too often treated with alternative antibiotic therapy. An institutional β-lactam side-chain-based cross-reactivity chart was developed and implemented to guide in antibiotic selection for β-lactam allergies patients. Methods This single center, retrospective, cohort study analyzed the impact of the implementation of the cross-reactivity chart for patients with documented β-lactam allergies with pneumonia. Study time periods were defined as January 2013 to October 2014 prior to implementation of the chart (historical cohort) and January 2017 to October 2018 (intervention cohort) following institutional implementation and adoption. The primary outcome was the incidence of β-lactam utilization between time periods. Propensity-weighted scoring and interrupted time-series analyses compared outcomes across time periods. Results A total of 341 and 623 patient encounters were included in the historical and intervention cohorts, respectively. There was a significant increase in the use of β-lactams for treatment of pneumonia (70.4% vs 89.3%; p < 0.001) and the use of any alternative therapy decreased between cohorts (58.1% vs. 36%; p < 0.001) (Figure 1). β-lactam use per patient significantly improved between cohorts in patients with mild, Type 1 IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs) and in patients with unknown reactions. There was no difference in overall HSRs between cohorts (2.4% vs. 1.45; p = 0.628), or in patients who received β-lactam antibiotics (1.3% historical group vs 1.1% intervention group; p = 0.467). Median alternative antibiotic days of therapy (3 vs. 2; p = 0.027) and duration of therapy per patient (3 days vs. 2 days; p = 0.023) decreased between cohorts. There was a significant increase in mortality while healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infections decreased between cohorts. β-Lactam vs. Alternative Therapy Use per Patients by Calendar Quarter Conclusion Implementation of a β-lactam side-chain-based cross-reactivity chart significantly increased the utilization of β-lactams in patients with pneumonia without increasing HSRs. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures


Article history: Received 28 October 2016 Received in revised form 2 September 2016 Accepted 15 September 2016 The prime aim of the study is to measure the degree of closure of one form of clinical language (specifically nursing textbooks and journals) in order, first, to determine whether these two restricted forms of clinical language can be rightly categorized as a sublanguage; second, to understand better the linguistic features of the language of the nursing domain; and finally, to better understand the nature of sublanguage. In this study, nursing textbook and journal corpora are compared to weather reports and the BNC Sampler. The findings show that none of the linguistic inventories of these corpora approach closure. Investigations conducted on the weather reports show that the corpus approaches closure at many levels. The BNC Sampler, however, behaves exactly as unconstrained language is expected to. The findings show that the nursing textbooks and journals seem to belong in a middle area between highly constrained language and highly unconstrained language. The findings of the study reveal that the idea of a sublanguage is problematic. The original definition of a sublanguage seems to clearly divide sublanguage or constrained language from unconstrained language and placing both as a dichotomy between two discrete categories. However, the findings regarding the nursing textbooks and journals seem to show that there is no explicit or clear-cut boundary that divides constrained language from unconstrained language.


Apathy is a common condition that transcends psychiatric diagnoses. Its treatment is not well studied. The authors present four cases of apathy treated with a regimen of methylphenidate. Significant improvement in apathy and its sub-domains (motivation, novelty, and persistence) were noted.


he meaning of the term 'community service obligation' (CSO) has been a point of conjecture in recent years. This paper highlights the importance of CSOs within the context of the accountability of public sector organisations. In particular the paper advocates the need to formulate an agreed definition of a CSO. The paper seeks to distil such a definition by using academics and GBE representatives as authoritative opinions.


The aim of this study is to presented a simple and didactic experiment to demonstrate the calculation of displacement in the steel bar. Analyzing some physical concepts, such as, stress, strain and displacement, combined with the knowledge of differential and integral calculus, it was possible to demonstrate the steps that precede the final presentation of the elastic line equation. The mathematical development exposed in more detail offer the students of the Mechanics of Materials a understand clearer about the elastic behavior of materials submitted to vertical loads.


In the current health care environment, outpatient diagnostic imaging centers face intense competition for the declining health care dollar. One approach to providing health care services at low cost is to provide as many services as possible in the outpatient environment. Quality control and patient satisfaction are issues of major importance. The "vertical integration" model is becoming more prevalent, and the author contends that cooperative networking among outpatient centers may be a key to successful survival. The role of the sonographer in the changing health care environment is described. The increasing importance of accreditation and the emergence of a growing number of accrediting bodies, as well as the potential impact of the new ultrasound contrast agents, are discussed.


Introduction: How an Effective Employee Handbook Can Improve Your Organization STARTING YOUR HANDBOOK OFF RIGHT Policies for a Good First Impression PRESENTING CLEAR EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES Employment and Hiring Policies Employee Development CREATING WELL-CRAFTED BENEFITS POLICIES Health, Wellness, and Employee Assistance Paid Time Off Unpaid Time Off and Leaves of Absence DEVELOPING FAIR, STRAIGHTFORWARD POLICIES FOR WORKPLACE STANDARDS AND PRACTICES Work Hours and Pay Workplace Health and Safety Work Practices and Environment Information and Communication Standards of Conduct CLARIFYING END OF EMPLOYMENT POLICIES Ending Employment Resources Appendix A. List of Legally Required Policies Appendix B. State by State Provisions for Selected Policies Appendix C. Sample Forms Employee Acknowledgement Written Warning Document Job Description Position Description Form Performance Evaluation Form Appendix D. The Management Center Human Resources Assistance.


This article appears at the top of the government agenda. In this framework, decisions have been taken and policies that shape significant progress, but still not enough to counter the centralized production pro - file of both platform and the administrative political apparatus. While this mismatch occurs, the chances of meeting goals of equitable and sustainable deve- lopment for the country as a whole will move away. The reform and modernization of the state in general and the executive in particular should consider the inclusion in the government's organic architecture and mechanisms for management that ensure the best care of citizens' demands structures. In this regard, they have to be specified more rigorously shared at each level of government (national, regional, provincial, district) and exclusive features, considering that the "regional" designation is a transitional spaces fiction whose coverage alluded finally to departmental or provincial conglomerate united by common expecta - tions and potential. There has been a breakthrough in the transfer of functions or powers from the national government (ministries, decentralized public agencies, special programs) to regional and municipal governments. Decentralization is generally a model of territorial development that meets the legitimate expectations of inclusion, prosperity and access to better opportunities to exercise rights.


WASP-12 is a hot Jupiter system with an orbital period of P = 1.1 days, making it one of the shortest-period giant planets known. Recent transit timing observations by Maciejewski et al. and Patra et al. found a decreasing period with = 3.2 Myr. This has been interpreted as evidence of either orbital decay due to tidal dissipation or a long-term oscillation of the apparent period due to apsidal precession. Here, we consider the possibility that it is orbital decay. We show that the parameters of the host star are consistent with either a M* ≃ 1.3 M⊙ main sequence star or a M* ≃ 1.2 M⊙ subgiant. We find that if the star is on the main sequence, the tidal dissipation is too inefficient to explain the observed . However, if it is a subgiant, the tidal dissipation is significantly enhanced due to nonlinear wave-breaking of the dynamical tide near the star's center. The subgiant models have a tidal quality factor and an orbital decay rate that agrees well with the observed . It would also explain why the planet survived for ≃3 Gyr while the star was on the main sequence and yet is now inspiraling on a 3 Myr timescale. Although this suggests that we are witnessing the last ∼0.1% of the planet's life, the probability of such a detection is a few percent given the observed sample of ≃30 hot Jupiters in P < 3-day orbits around M* > 1.2 M⊙ hosts.


ABSTRACT This paper traces the Australian capital city of Canberra's representation through official, government-sponsored, Australian documentary films made between 1900 and 1945. Through a small sample of selected films, that are well preserved and held in the national film archives, we discuss their filmic intention, form, technical production and reception. In these forty plus years which end prior to the advent of technicolour, there was a progression in technical sophistication of the genre from silent to sound, and from newsreel-style reportage of pomp and ceremony towards more informal, aspirational pictures that attempt to conjure how everyday lives could be lived in the fledgling city of Canberra. We suggest that these kinds of films, that might be dismissed as mere propaganda, are useful in adding to our understanding of how documentaries became a tool in the representation and communication of a rapidly shifting national identity, that was advanced concurrently through the planning and building of a new capital city and the evolution of documentary films.


Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1 From the Founding Party to the Putsch 1919-23 (i) The founding of the Party (ii) Hitler takes over the Party leadership, August 1921 (iii) The Development of the Party, 1921-23 (iv) The Hitler-Putsch 8-9 November 1923 2 The Creation of a Nationwide Party Organisation 1924-28 (i) The Refounding of the Party 27 February 1925 (ii) The assertion of the Primacy of the 'Fuhrer' (iii) The creation of the Party Cadre 3 The Emergence of Nazism as a Mass Movement 1928-1933 (i) The Breakthrough 1928-30 (ii) Propaganda 1930-32 (iii) Statistics and the Social and Geographical Bases of Nazism 4 The Struggle for Power 1930-33 (i) The Path of Legality and the problem of the SA (ii) Relations between Nazis and Nationalists in 1931-32 (iii) From Bruning to Papen (iv) The Crisis Months, August-December 1932 The Appointment of Hitler as Chancellor, 30 January 1933 5 The 'Seizure of Power' 1933-34 (i) The 'National Uprising'-The Election Campaign of February-March 1933 (ii) The Seizure of Power in the States and the SA/Party 'Revolution from Below' of March 1933 (iii) The 'Coordination' of the Reichstag and of the Political Parties, March-June 1933 (iv) The Revolution Stabilised: Conflict with the SA List of Sources A Selective Bibliography Index


Pakistan is in phase of increasing economic growth which is also giving people to raise their standard of living which is growing in building construction. This is further rising the demand of electricity which is a big challenge for Pakistan. The energy savings made at load sites are nowadays regarded as energy generation. Taking all this parameter into account, there is an urge for alternative way to minimize the energy consumption in order to overcome the electricity shortfall in Pakistan. A detailed analysis has been conducted to lower the annual energy requirements of the test site. The optimization strategy mainly involves (i) energy audit, (ii) retrofitting technique .An important finding is that the payback period of all technique is less than seven years. The results indicate that when 3 inch polystyrene insulation is internally employed along with the energy efficient appliances, an electricity saving up to 22% with a payback period of 4.96 years can be achieved. Keywords— Green technologies, Retrofitting, Energy Efficiency, LEB.


Managers often face difficulties when making project decisions that involve large number of interrelated activities --the planning and scheduling of which is project management. Most problems often arise in areas such as product development, production planning and control and setting up the production facilities. One important aspect of project management is activity crashing, i.e. reducing the activity time by adding more resources such as workers, overtime and so on. It is important to decide the optimal crash plan to complete the project within the desired time period. A fuzzy simulated annealing crashing method is introduced in this paper to evaluate project networks and determine the optimum crashing configuration that minimizes the average project cost, due to lateness penalties and crashing costs in the presence of vagueness and uncertainty. Through a real project example the proposed approach is shown effective and efficient in conducting time-cost tradeoff analysis.


This is the first issue of our journal in 2003. Looking over our publications up to the papers in this issue, practically all forms of microlithography have been covered, including extreme UV lithography (EUV), electron projection lithography (EPL), maskless lithography (ML2), electron-beam and ion-beam systems, and of course, the mainstream reduction dioptric systems using KrF, ArF, and F2 excimer lasers. The number of choices does not necessarily imply optimism. On the contrary, this is just the result of lacking a clear winner on which to focus our development efforts. Take EUV as an example. It has, by far, generated much enthusiasm, gathered high momentum, and collected many strong advocates, including equipment vendors committed to fabricate prototype and manufacturing tools. To a respectable degree, there are activities on the mask infrastructure including mask blank supply and inspection. Of course, these could not have happened without consortia of potential users who contributed no less than a few hundred million dollars to take the initial risks of such an ambitious technology. However, what is the current confidence level on EUV lithography? A EUV scanner is projected to cost almost $50M for a prototype that has a wafer-per-hour throughput in the single digits. A light source to support double-digit wafers per hour has yet to be developed. The usable depth of focus at the 32-nm node is taxing the mechanical and optical limits of scanners, not to mention the unusually shallow image in the resist because of high resist absorption. Then, there is the contrast-robbing stray light due to roughness of optical surfaces at the EUV wavelengths, the aberrations due to insufficient surface precision, lack of mask pellicle coupled with extraordinarily expensive masks, possibilities of damaging the optical system beyond repair from resist out gassing, on and on. Now, electron source technology is relatively mature, and electro-optics are easier to build than EUV optics. There is a long history and plenty of experience gathered in making stencil or membrane masks. Hence, we may even be able to recover some of the multi-hundredmillion-dollar investment in proximity x-ray lithography. However, one should not forget that the field size in electro-optics is small. To attain a 26-Ã33-mm field, pattern stitching is inevitable. Stitching error follows. Moreover, achieving this standard scanner field calls for making a stencil mask out of a 300-mm wafer substrate. Currently, even the 200-mm stencil mask technology and infrastructure have barely started. The list of difficulties is not exhausted. Electron imaging suffers from space-charge effect, reducing resolution and common depth of focus.To combat space charge, the beam current has to be reduced, trading off the already meager throughput. Increasing the resist sensitivity to compensate for the lost throughput only raises the concern on shot noise just as with EUV lithography. Of course, a mask pellicle is still not possible just as with EUV lithography. F2 lithography using 157-nm light is closer and is expected to be the vehicle to deliver the 65-nm node. Similarly, many millions of dollars have been spent. Is it closer to reality? Take the CaF2 lens material. It is a crystalline material. Thus, in addition to stress-induced birefringence, there is also intrinsic birefringence. The former has to be annealed and the latter compensated, both to a high degree of perfection. The crystal growth time is still in terms of months and the yield of CaF2 for high-NA 157-nm lenses is still in the single digits. This not only makes lenses very expensive for F2 lithography, but will also become a bottleneck for tool ramp-up. CaF2 is by no means the only problem with F2 lithography. F2 resists have yet to show acceptable transmission and etch resistance. Nitrogen purging to get rid of light-absorbing oxygen and to prevent lens contamination from trace chemical vapors is not only a logistic concern but also a safety nightmare. Are we better off in mask pellicle compared with EUV and EPL? Somewhat! No polymertype soft pellicle is available despite funded development efforts. One can at least use hard quartz pellicles at a much higher cost and compromised imaging performance. Maskless lithography offers some hope, not simply for lack of competition but also due to cost. A set of masks commands approximately $500K at the 130-nm node. It is expected to cost upwards of $1.5M for the 90-nm node. Continuing the same rate of increase, the escalating mask cost is going to suffocate development in the future nodes. In addition, the mask error factor is running on the order of 4 or more due to strong resolution enhancement techniques (RET). Optical proximity correction (OPC) complicates the pattern to be written to the mask and increases pattern count and file size. All these are eliminated with ML2. However, there are several things to keep in mind. The existing pattern generation technology barely suffices to write 4X masks. With ML2, it is required to write 1X patterns directly. Even though it is no longer required to generate the jigs and jugs from OPC and subresolution assist features from RET, meeting the critical-dimension uniformity target and placement accuracy at 1X still needs much more development work. Increasing the throughput from 10 hours per wafer to 10 wafers per hour demands a rate increase of at least 8000 fold in writing speed and in data transmission, for 300-mm wafers. Where does that leave microlithography for the 65-, 45-, and 32-nm nodes? Did I hear a whisper on 22 nm? Recently, in a 157-nm workshop, I presented the difficulties of F2 lithography and showed strong evidence that 193-nm light combined with water immersion is equivaEDITORIAL


A 34-year old female patient presented at the Oral Medicine Clinic complaining of a swelling in the right side of her mouth. The mass had been present for approximately four months and was initially asymptomatic but recently she started experiencing a "pins-and-needles" sensation in the area, which had caused her to seek professional help. She also reported an enlarged lymph node in the right submandibular area which, on palpation, was found to be slightly enlarged, tender and mobile.


The different tested biomaterials as potential bone grafts which include: ceramics, polymers, metals, composites and hybrid materials. The low bonding strength of plasma sprayed hydroxyapatite (HA) coating has been a point of potential weakness in its application as biomedical prosthesis. There is a continuous interest on controlling the mechanical properties [1]. Zirconia is a good biomaterial, has good mechanical properties and can be used as coating on alloys and titanium for production of apatite.


Avisual data-mining approach to unsupervised clustering analysis can be an effective tool for visualizing and understanding patterns inherent in seismic data i.e., seismic facies.The unsupervised clustering analysis is completely data-driven, requiring no external information e.g., well logs to guide the seismic-trace classification. We demonstrate the application of the visual data-mining approach to seismic faciesanalysisonareal3Dseismicdatavolume.Weselecttwo stratigraphic intervals, the first including a Devonian pinnacle reef system and the second containing a Jurassic siliciclastic channel system. Both analyses show major stratigraphic features that can be defined in horizon slices or other types of visualization. However, the visual data-mining approach creates seismic facies maps with improved visual detail,distinguishingseismictrace-shapevariabilityinthedata. We also compare the facies maps with those obtained from a commercial package for seismic facies classification. Both approaches created similar facies maps, but the visual strategy better depicts subtle stratigraphic changes in the bodies being imaged, offering insight into the nature of these features.


The present invention relates to a component having a radar transparent, including a plastic body, in this component, at least part of the surface, a thickness of 10 nm to 100 nm, and having a layer containing a semiconductor. This coating, the plastic body, without losing the characteristics of the radar permeable component, with the desired metallic appearance.


We report on the formation of a lateral comb drive on poly-methyl-meth-acrylate (PMMA) using the hot embossing technique. A hot embossing mold insert is fabricated on a silicon wafer by means of lithography and inductive coupled plasma dry etching. The comb drive microstructure is hot embossed under a molding force of 35000 N at 130 °C. We demonstrate the comb drive, 80 units of interdigitated parallel capacitors with the finger gap and width both being 10 μm. The minimum feature size is 5 μm and the thickness of the structure is 60 μm, which makes the aspect ratio 12:1. The comb drive strokes 5 μm under an actuation potential of 180 V. We also present a brief description of the design and simulation with ANSYS.


FIELD: pharmaceutics. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to chemical-pharmaceutical industry and represents method of encapsulating preparation via a non-solvent addition differing by fact that cores of nano capsules is L-arginine or norvaline, envelope is sodium alginate at ratio shell:nucleus 3:1 or 1:5. At that, L-arginine or norvaline slowly added in portions to sodium alginate suspension in butanol in presence of preparation E472c as surfactant, with mixing 1,000 rpm; then hexane is added and obtained suspension is filtered and dried at room temperature. EFFECT: invention provides simplifying and accelerating process of producing nano capsules and increases mass output. 1 cl, 1 dwg, 5 ex


Context. Planet traps are necessary to prevent forming planets from falling onto their host star by type I inward migration. Surface mass density and temperature gradient irregularities favor the apparition of traps (planet accumulation region) and deserts (planet depletion zone). These features are found at the dust sublimation lines and heat transition barriers.

Aims. We study how planets may remain trapped or escape these traps as they grow and as the disk evolves viscously with time.

Methods. We numerically model the temporal viscous evolution of a protoplanetary disk by coupling its dynamics, thermodynamics, geometry, and composition. The resulting midplane density and temperature profiles allow the modeling of the interactions of this type of evolving disk with potential planets, even before the steady state is reached.

Results. We follow the viscous evolution of a minimum mass solar nebula and compute the Lindblad and corotation torques that this type of disk would exert on potential planets of various masses that are located within the planetary formation region. We determine the position of planet traps and deserts in relationship with the sublimation lines, shadowed regions, and heat transition barriers. We notice that the planet mass affects the trapping potential of the mentioned structures through the saturation of the corotation torque. Planets that are a few tens of Earth masses can be trapped at the sublimation lines until they reach a certain mass while planets that are more massive than 100 M⊕ can only be trapped permanently at the heat transition barriers. They may also open gaps beyond 5 au and enter type II migration.

Conclusions. Coupling a bimodal planetary migration model with a self-consistent evolved disk, we were able to distinguish several potential planet populations after five million years of evolution: two populations of giant planets that could stay trapped around 5.5 and 9 au and possibly open gaps, some super-Earths trapped around 5 and 7.5 au, and a population of close-in super-Earths, which are trapped inside 1 au. The traps that correspond to the last group could help to validate the in situ formation scenarios of the observed close-in super-Earths.


Though studies have explained the alliance issues at macro or meso level, the mechanism inside alliances is still not quite clear. Drawing on the theories of social capital and social network?s role in individual knowledge sharing, learning , creating and related work performance, this study investigates the relation between individual social network position and individual work performance, as well as the relation between social interaction, network position and work performance. We found that in the formal network or advice network, the network position has positive effect on work performance, of which the relation is moderated by social interaction frequency in the formal network, but not in the advice network; in the multiplexity which means both of the two networks are involved, the relations between network position, interaction frequency, and work performance are still significant, but positive in the formal network and negative in the advice network.


It is important to recognize the axial direction of ReS2 single crystals, with considerable anisotropy in electrical and optical properties, which are expected to have a wide application in photoelectric devices. Here, we successfully synthesize ReS2 single crystals with triangle and parallelogram shapes on SiO2 substrate by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method and propose a simple approach to recognize the axial direction of ReS2 single crystals just by comparing the ratio of the edge lengths, which are confirmed by transmission electron microscopy images. In addition, the mobility of a prepared ReS2 field effect transistor is 8.16 cm2 V−1 s−1 and the on/off ratio is up to 105.


A wheel assembly (10) includes an applique (40) of sheet material adhered to a molded insert member (50) of structural rigidity. The insert member (50) is molded to change the depth and contour of the wheel face from the original steel wheel (12). The insert member (50) is adhered and/or locked to the steel wheel.


Abstract This is an interim report which briefly describes landscape modification and how people were affected by the Gediz, Turkey, earthquake of March 28, 1970. Initially, the earthquake areas and resultant damage are located, with emphasis on die destruction caused by the earthquake. Data gathered by the senior author from visiting numerous affected villages is analyzed to show government reconstruction programs for the damaged areas. These settlements are identified by name along with a description of the types of homes that are being built to replace those that were destroyed. Reasons for some villagers' reluctance to be resettled are discussed. Comparative tables of Turkish earthquake data are included to illustrate significant points.


This work is based on examples that emphasize the complexity of the proteins ultrafiltration process, pointing out the first 10-15 minutes of ultrafiltration. The knowledgement of the factors that influence the separation through ultrafiltration of proteins will allow to choose the right type of membrane, the frequent use of the same membrane and the operation in mechanical and chemical conditions adequate to the ultrafiltration system, when it is separated a protein with certain molecular weight.


In attempting to analyze recent reforms to identify the direction of change and the probable nature of reparations systems in the future, this paper focuses on principles competing for dominance. One clash of principles concerns the choice between public and private-enterprise insurance; a second, between federal and state sponsorship and regulation; a third, between fault and no-fault systems. The author predicts that reforms emerging during the 1970's will establish systems that accommodate these competing sets of principles, with substantial assurance of compensation for economic losses on a no-fault basis and a corresponding reduction in the role of tort law and liability insurance. In the long range, the author suggests, the key issue in doubt is not the ascendancy of fault or no-fault but instead the ascendancy of government-operated or privateenterprise systems. Proponents of reform of human institutions tend almost inevitably, it seems, to engage in microscopic examination of current and recent ways of doing things. From this perspective, they soon discover that human institutions are remarkably resistant to change. The point was expressed dramatically by the President of the American Insurance Association, T. Lawrence Jones, on June 15, 1972.1 He observed that between October, 1968, when the American Insurance Association first announced its support of "complete no-fault reform,"2 and June, 1972, only four states (Massachusetts, Florida, ConRobert E. Keeton, S.J.D., has held the rank of Professor in the Law School of Harvard University since 1956. This paper was presented at the 1972 Annual Meeting of A.R.I.A. 1 T. Lawrence Jones, Remarks, Insurance Information Institute Seminar, Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, June 15, 1972. 2 American Insurance Association, Report of Special Committee to Study and Evaluate the Keeton-O'Connell Basic Protection Plan and Automobile Accident Reparations (October 1968). necticut and New Jersey) enacted what could be called genuine no-fault statutes. Meanwhile, American astronauts made five landings on the moon. Yet we know that from a perspective of longer range, the only constant is change. In relation more particularly to the subject of this symposium, even one of those quick glances into the past that is tolerable to the least history-minded among us is enough to discover that in the long perspective of political, social and economic development, the duration of any reparations system without change is short. In looking beyond current reforms,. then, perhaps we can focus attention most usefully on principles. That is, we can gain a better understanding of thedirection of change and where it may lead us by trying to identify and understand, first, the principles underlyingcurrent developments and, second, theprinciples competing for dominance in the future. Though issues of implementation are of tremendous practical signifi-


A manufacturing method was developed to create a piezoelectric 3-layer stacked, macro fiber composite generator operating in d33 mode to promote bone growth in spinal fusion surgeries. A specimen of 9 × 17 × 9 mm thick was constructed from 800 μm diameter PZT fibers and medical grade epoxy. Electromechanical testing was performed at three stages of manufacturing to determine the influence of these processes on power generation. An average peak power of over 335 μW was generated in the heat-treated specimen during simulated human body loads. The work provides insights into manufacturing methods for lowered source impedance power generation for a variety of applications.


Ocean engineering standardized system determines the development of ocean engineering construction standards in the next period of time.The standardized system factors analysis is used to establish the factors affecting index system of ocean engineering standardized system.AHP analysis is used to calculate the weight factors and then the impact of factors of marine engineering standardized system is evaluated with the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method.At last,the major factors of ocean engineering standard system is concluded.