Low-rank decomposition model has been widely used in fabric defect detection, where a matrix is decomposed into a low-rank matrix representing the defect-free region (background) of the image and a sparse matrix identifying the defective region (foreground). Two shortcomings, however, still exist. First, the traditional low-rank decomposition model can only deal with Laplacian noise, ignoring Gaussian noise in the image region. Second, when textiles have periodic complex patterns, it is difficult for traditional models to separate the defective regions from the background. To address these problems, we propose a low-rank decomposition model with noise regularization and gradient information (G-NLR): 1) noise regularization, which characterizes the image noise part and enlarges the gaps between defective objects and background in the feature space. 2) The gradient information constrains the noise term adaptively according to the mutation degree of the current pixel point, so as to guide the matrix decomposition and reduce the noise misjudgment. This ensures the accuracy of detection results. We evaluate our model for fabric defect detection on the standard database including box-, star- and dot-patterns, and compare with four recent detection methods. Experimental results show that our method has good results in terms of recall rate and precision.


The relationships between freezing temperature (or supercooling) and length, weight, and water content of Pinus and Cedrus needles were investigated. Freezing temperature was an increasing function of each of these three variables. When Pinus needles were cut proximally to uniform length (50 mm), supercooling was unaffected by either weight or water content. Thus, ice nucleation temperature was an increasing function of the length of needles, or, more precisely, of the length of the stele, or, still more precisely, of the number of water-conducting capillary units contributing to that length, but ultimately of the number and quality of favorable nucleation sites contained therein. It is suggested that nucleation takes place at sites associated with the cell walls and not on nucleators suspended in the water.


A low concentration of rare earths (R) plays an important role in magnetic materials because of their large anisotropy. However, the Curie temperature (T{sub C}) has a decreasing trend with increasing Fe concentration in R-Fe compounds. In order to understand the variation of T{sub C} as a function of iron concentration we carry out self-consistent spin-polarized electronic structure calculations for the sequence YFe{sub 2}{r_arrow}YFe{sub 3}{r_arrow}Y{sub 2}Fe{sub 17}{r_arrow}YFe{sub 12} where yttrium is a prototype R element. The exchange interaction parameters are derived using the infinitesimal angle approach. The Monte Carlo simulations based on the Heisenberg Hamiltonian are carried out to derive T{sub C} of Y-Fe compounds and results are in very good agreement with experimental data. The changes in the magnetic properties with Fe concentration are analyzed in terms of the local environment and magnetovolume effects. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}


The analysis of the radiation from dipoles as given hy Sommerfeld and by von Hoerschelmann is deficient in one respect: it does not give the true1 asymptotic expressions for the radiation leaving at a considerable angle from the horizontal. The correct asymptotic formulas have already heen easily supplied by an appeal to the Reciprocal Theorem; lately M. J. O. Strutt2 has got them directly from the boundary conditions and H. Weyl3 has derived the correct asymptotic formula for a vertical dipole at the surface of the earth by a method quite different from Sommerfeld's. In the present paper it is shown how they can be got by merely improving the rigor of Sommerfeld's analysis.


Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effects of metformin hydrochloride and rosiglitazone maleate tablets on insulin resistance and androgen concentration in obese and nonobese women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).Methods Seventy women with PCOS were enrolled into this study according to the diagnostic criteria of Rotterdam conference (2003).The women with PCOS were divided into the over weight/obese group (body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m2,n =34) and the nonobese group (body mass index<25 kg/m2,n =36).All women with PCOS took metformin hydrochloride and rosiglitazone maleate tablets twice daily for 3 months.The following indexes were measured before and after the treatment:height,weight,waist circumference,hip circumference,fasting plasma glucose,fasting plasma insulin,luteinizing hormone (LH),follicle stimulating hormone (FSH),total testosterone,free testosterone,follicular number and ovarian area,body mass index,waist to hip ratio,and homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) were calculated.Results (1) Compared with the nonobese group,dramatic increases in HOMA-IR and follicle number were observed in over weight/obese group(P<0.05),while LH,LH/FSH,total testosterone,free testosterone showed no significant difference between two groups.(2) After the treatment with metformin hydrochloride and rosiglitazone maleate tablets,weight,body mass index,fasting plasma glucose,fasting plasma insulin,HOMA-IR significantly decreased in two groups (P < 0.05).There were also significant declines of LH,LH/FSH,free testosterone,ovarian area,follicular number,especially in the over weight/ obese women with PCOS (P<0.05),while total testosterone and FSH did not change significantly.(3) The incidence of gastrointestinal adverse reactions in nonobese and over weight/obese group was 9.3% and 6.3% respectively,and no liver toxicity,edema,hypoglycemia and other adverse reactions was observed during treatment.Conclusion Compared with the nonobese group,there were severer insulin resistance and more marked polycystic change of ovary in over weight/obese women with PCOS,while total testosterone and free testosterone showed no significant difference between two gruops.Metformin hydrochloride and rosiglitazone maleate tablets can ameliorate insulin resistance and polycystic ovary,and also reduce body mass index and free testosterone in women with PCOS particularly in the over weight/obese individuals.

Key words:
Polycystic ovary syndrome;  Obesity;  Metformin ;  Rosiglitazone


In this contribution the Finite Element Model Updating (FEMU) approach is utilized to determine the material parameters of sheet‐steel. From experimental testing it is observed that the considered cold‐rolled steel exhibits orthotropic behaviour. To regard this in the simulation, a user‐implemented material model based on a quadratic yield function is used. Via the method of digital image correlation (DIC), the displacement field of a biaxially loaded specimen is measured from images taken at different stages of loading. Comparing the experimentally determined displacements to those obtained by simulation an error measure is defined which can be minimized by optimization algorithms. Starting with initial values for the orthotropic elasto‐plastic material parameters, the FEM model is thus updated consecutively until a specified error margin is reached. (© 2015 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


The present invention relates to a novel phosphinine oxide derivative and a preparing method thereof. More specifically, the phosphinine oxide derivative of the present invention comprises oxaphosphinine oxide and azaphosphinine oxide derivatives. The phosphinine oxide derivative according to the present invention has pharmacological activity and bioactivity, and can be used in novel drug development and synthesis of various pharmaceuticals as well as used as a basic structure of natural materials. In addition, the method for preparing the phosphinine oxide derivative according to the present invention has strong points of preparing various phosphinine oxide derivatives having high yield through a simple synthesizing process by conducting intermolecular cyclicizing reaction of a phosphinine derivative and an alkyne derivative with a rhodium (Rh) catalyst or a ruthenium (Ru) catalyst and an oxidizing agent.


Optimal design of electric machines, having complex 3-D magnetic flux path, such as transverse flux or axial flux motors, is computationally demanding owing to the unavailability of a fast 2-D finite-element method (FEM), which leads to the indispensable use of costly 3-D FEM models. With multiobjectives and large design parameter vector, this task is further exacerbated. To accelerate the design procedure, unlike conventional methods, this article proposes the use of two information sources, an expensive but accurate high-fidelity 3-D-FEM model and a fast but inaccurate low-fidelity 2-D-equivalent FEM model to exploit corresponding opposite merits of each and construct a multifidelity surrogate model (response surface) with minimum number of expensive 3-D-FEM simulations. The low-fidelity 2-D model, which intrinsically does not exist for such machines, is generated by ensuring equal magnetic reluctance along main magnetic path despite deformation of model's geometry. The proposed methodology is applied to optimize a novel magnetically levitated transverse flux permanent magnet linear synchronous motor, considering suspension characteristics (lateral and normal stiffnesses) along with thrust as objectives and a seven parameter design vector. Results show significant design time-saving without compromising surrogate accuracy. The optimized design is fabricated and relevant experimental measurements are taken.


This note deals with a new observer synthesis method for a class of nonlinear discretetime systems. Thanks to the use of the Differential Mean Value Theorem (DMVT), we have obtained easily an extension of the work established in Zemouche et al. (2006) and Fan and Arcak (2003) to the discrete-time case. Based on the Lyapunov stability, a new sufficient synthesis condition is proposed. This condition is expressed in term of Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) and then it is easily tractable using standard convex optimization algorithms. An extension to observer-based control is also presented. The design of the observer-controller gains is given in two manners. Firstly, the gains are computed by solving a LMI condition under an equality constraint. Since this latter induce a conservatism for the approach, then a systematic algorithm, that avoids the equality constraint, is proposed to solve the problem of observer-based control in two steps.


A quick histopathological technique was developed to detect clamidospores (aleuroconidia) of Ceratocystis fimbriata in infected xylem vessels and medulla of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus spp.) wood using light microscopy, and tangential hand prepared cross sections made with razor blade under a stereoscopic microscope. The average time necessary to detect the pathogen, including sample preparation and microscope observations, was 3.5 min and less when longitudinal sections passing by the medulla were made. Therefore, this method was significantly quicker than other traditional techniques such as pathogen isolation on potato-dextrose-agar medium, deposition of infected wood fragments between slices of carrot bait, or placing the infected pieces of wood in a moist chamber. This technique also was viable to detect C. fimbriata colonizing other woody hosts such as cocoa (Theobroma cacao), mango (Mangifera indica), and hyphae of Lasiodiplodia theobromae even when both organisms were in the same tissue as investigated in the mango blight disease in the Sultanate of Oman.


The present fMRI study used a spelling task to investigate the hypothesis that the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) hosts neuronal representations of whole written words. Such an orthographic word lexicon is posited by cognitive dual‐route theories of reading and spelling. In the scanner, participants performed a spelling task in which they had to indicate if a visually presented letter is present in the written form of an auditorily presented word. The main experimental manipulation distinguished between an orthographic word spelling condition in which correct spelling decisions had to be based on orthographic whole‐word representations, a word spelling condition in which reliance on orthographic whole‐word representations was optional and a phonological pseudoword spelling condition in which no reliance on such representations was possible. To evaluate spelling‐specific activations the spelling conditions were contrasted with control conditions that also presented auditory words and pseudowords, but participants had to indicate if a visually presented letter corresponded to the gender of the speaker. We identified a left vOT cluster activated for the critical orthographic word spelling condition relative to both the control condition and the phonological pseudoword spelling condition. Our results suggest that activation of left vOT during spelling can be attributed to the retrieval of orthographic whole‐word representations and, thus, support the position that the left vOT potentially represents the neuronal equivalent of the cognitive orthographic word lexicon. Hum Brain Mapp, 36:1393–1406, 2015. © 2014 The Authors Human Brain Mapping Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


iv Introduction 1 Testosterone and Social-emotional Behavior 5 Testosterone reactivity to competition and stress 12 Testosterone and Skydiving 14 Testosterone Reactivity and sex of individual 16 Testosterone reactivity and sensation-seeking trait 17 Methods 19 Samples 19 Procedures 19 Measures 19 Results 22 1. Testosterone Reactivity in response to skydiving 22 2. Sex differences in testosterone reactivity 26 3. Testosterone reactivity to sensation-seeking trait in response to skydiving 27 Discussion 29 Conclusion 35 Reference 37


Presently, the control to master the English language has become prominent in academia, research and commercial attention. Therefore, many non-English speaking countries, including Arab countries such as Iraq, are striving to develop their education systems in teaching pragmatic aspects as speech act of request in classroom, and speech act of request is an essential aspect to boost English communication among Arab learners. Furthermore, in Arab countries as in Iraq, there is a lack of usage of speech act of request among students of English as a foreign language which affects the learning process of students. As such, teaching pragmatic aspect, particularly teaching speech act of requests, are emerging as the best way to create enthusiasm in learning new languages. Therefore, the paper was presented by a public syllabus lead that prioritizes the need for English learners to improve their ability to utilize speech act of request positively in social and cultural communications. Moreover, Many English learners fail to present pragmatic ability on how to understand speech act of request by relating utterances to their meanings, knowing the intention of language users, and how speech act of request is utilized in definite contexts. There is growing material of researches on usage of speech act of request for EFL schoolroom teaching. However, researchers have pointed to concentrate on the traditional approaches rather than how English learners require or understand how make speech act of request for developing the students' production of request in the EFL schoolroom. The usage of speech act of request and methods of teaching English to these Iraqi learners have been discussed in details of the current paper. Keywords: Usage of Speech Act of Request, Iraqi Learners' Problems. DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-4-07


Echinococcus granulosus with primary muscular involvement is difficult to diagnose and treat, as it is rarely observed. It may lead to an acute clinical presentation that is occasionally confused with peripheral circulatory disorder findings due to pressure impacts. A 48-year-old male patient has applied to our clinic with severe pain of the right cruris and circulatory disorder that is caused by the compressive effect of the extensive intermuscular cystic lesion surrounded by the septa between the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles. The cyst was carefully drained with needle aspiration, under the guidance of ultrasonography both for histopathological diagnosis and to reduce the compressive impact of the mass. Echinococcus granulosus was identified by histological and pathological inspection. Albendazole was administered daily 400 mg (2×1). After four weeks of treatment, the cyst, together with its capsule, was surgically removed and the patients recovered clinically. Prior to mass excision of the cyst, percutaneous needle aspiration increases the efficacy of medical and surgical treatment, and may be recommended in suitable cases in order to mitigate the risk of recurrence.


Besides seeking to limit the costs associated with the development and retention of the Reich's overseas possessions, the German Center Party was equally concerned with ensuring that the Roman Catholic missionaries in the colonies enjoyed the same degree of respect, accommodation, and protection from the imperial authorities as their Protestant counterparts. As long as the annual colonial budgets remained manageable, the attitude of the Catholic party toward such government requests was then largely driven by the missionaries' relative satisfaction or discontent with the various individual colonial regimes. Thus, the confessional underpinning of the Center and the lack of Catholic economic interests in the colonies rendered religious, cultural, and ethical concerns of exceptional importance in party discussions of colonial issues. Precisely in this religious and cultural arena, however, government-Center relations were burdened with the legacy of the Kulturkampf and the traditions of popular and state-sanctioned anticlericalism. Indeed, the bitter struggle of the Kulturkampf discussed in this chapter left poorly healed scars on both sides that would re-open after 1903 under the strain of reverberations from African civil and military resistance.


There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease (AD) yet. The best treatment available is early detection and early intervention. However, most patients have not been detected in time, let alone timely intervention. So, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for an increase in the screening rate of AD. Cognitive scores (CS) have great potential in the detection of AD and are easy to obtain, but there are fewer researches based only on CS for classification for screening. Current machine learning models often have good performance but are non-transparent, which makes them difficult to be accepted by physicians. To address the above problems, we propose a solution (RN-SSAS) for data sets with small sample size, multi-category and category-imbalanced, and prove that it is more robust than Cross-Validation (CV), more importantly, it can still achieve classifications under extreme data dilemmas. Then, based on the solution and CS, a multi-class classification model for AD is established, supplemented by single and global instance interpretations based on SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP). Finally, our model achieves an F-measure of 0.878 based on four different cognitive scores. In conclusion, our model is convenient, reliable and trustworthy, thus it can contribute to improving the screening rate of AD.


Rims of bordered pits form on the primary walls of radially enlarged cambial derivatives prior to the onset of general secondary-wall formation. A recent report (Botany, 2014, 92(7): 495–511) raised the possibility that the chemical composition of the rim might be different from that of the secondary wall. To investigate this, early-stage nonfluorescent and late-stage autofluorescent rims were separated from cambial derivatives of Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. and purified to homogeneity by density-gradient centrifugation. Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Raman microspectroscopy, combined gas chromatography – mass spectroscopy, enzyme digestion, and chemical resilience data support the interpretation that cellulose alone is the microfibrillar polysaccharide of nonfluorescent early-stage rims. A lignin is additionally present in late-stage rims, and it evidently bonds with cellulose because rims are extraordinarily resistant to hydrolysis by either enzymes or strong acid.


The paper presents spatially and temporally resolved laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) measurements of the xenon ion and neutral velocity distribution functions in a 400 W Hall thruster during natural ionization oscillations at 23 kHz, the so-called "breathing mode." Strong fluctuations in measured axial ion velocity throughout the discharge current cycle are observed at five spatial locations and the velocity maxima appear in the low current interval. The spatio-temporal evolution of the ion velocity distribution function suggests a propagating acceleration front undergoing periodic motion between the thruster exit plane and ∼1 cm downstream into the plume. The ion LIF signal intensity oscillates almost in phase with the discharge current, while the neutral fluorescence signal appears out of phase, indicating alternating intervals of strong and weak ionization.


The leadership shown by UK cardiac surgeons through the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland offers the best way to ensure good clinical practice for all patients in the future.1 To understand why, it is worth highlighting the essentials of their achievement.


With accelerated development of road transport and construction of road infrastructure in the Republic of Croatia, road users are enabled to develop higher speed and shorter travel time. However, a consequence of this development is the increasing number of traffic accidents. In order to influence the reduction of traffic accidents an attempt was made to influence the drivers with the introduction of restrictive legislation, especially for younger drivers, and national programs for traffic safety were periodically brought up. However, it was not enough to decrease the number of deaths in traffic accidents to the level of the European Union. In order to reach the level of European Union countries for traffic safety in the Republic of Croatia it is necessary to introduce new models to monitor drivers. In this paper we analyzed the possibility of the use of Event Data Recorder device and its application in developed countries. Based on these data and statistical indicators of traffic safety in the Republic of Croatia, an analysis was made on developmental potential of such devices in the Republic of Croatia and how would implementation of such device impact on traffic safety in Croatia.


In recent years, we have become aware of a relatively high incidence of ohotoallergic dermatitis due to ingested and externally applied drugs at our OPD. These skin diseases have called our attention to the investigation on their basic mechanisms. These drugs are sulfonamides, benzothiadiazines, sulforylurea hypoglycemics, antibiotics, phenothiazines, and sodium cyclohexylsuilfamate, which is nowadays used very popularly as an artificial sweetening agent.


The working situation of the front lay takes an important play on the registering precision.Through an in-depth study on the working principle of the front lay and the deep analysis of the front lay mechanism,design method is offered concerning the method of designg general front lays.At the speed of 16000 rph,the front lay with the stop must use the conjugate cams mechanism.At the same time,elastic offseted node should be closed to the front lay.If a front lay without the stop is used,an eccentric roll can be used instead of traditional cam driving mechanism.


Based on the works of ActorGames which introduce game semantics into actors, we remove the assumption of an immediate acknowledgement to a received message for an actor in ActorGames. This makes ActorGames play without alternation and a new kind of game semantics called Non-Alternating ActorGames are introduced. Through an example of classical cluster computing called CCC and implemented by actors, we analyze the concurrent messages among actors and introduce the Non-Alternating ActorGame strategy, composition of Non-Alternating ActorGames, the Non-Alternating ActorGame category and relation to concurrent games. Both the Non-Alternating ActorGame strategy, composition of Non-Alternating ActorGames, the Non-Alternating ActorGame category and relation to concurrent games have good properties.


Abstract: Based on the characteristics of box girder with corrugated steel webs, the existing prestressing force, the effect of shear deformation of composite girder on the deflection, "folding effect" in longitudinal direction of corrugate steel webs and the arrangement of external tendons were considered comprehensively. With the experiment results of five literatures integrated, N/fcA (the axial compression ratio) was selected as regression parameter to develop a regression equation for the effective cross-section stiffness of the girder. Then a formula for natural frequency of the externally prestressed box girder with corrugated steel webs was proposed. Finally, the in-situ measurement on an actual bridge and a laboratory dynamic test on the model box girder with seven prestressing levels were conducted. The test results showed that the natural frequency of box girders with corrugated steel webs increased along with the growing external force. In contrast to other related formulas, the calculated results of the formula proposed in this paper showed the same tendency with measured results and the maximum error is 1%.


There has been an emphasis on the importance of nutrition during the last third of pregnancy and the first two years of life when the brain develops rapidly, with various suggestions that inadequate nutrition at this stage can have long-term consequences. It is generally accepted that during brain development a shortage of iodine or iron can have long-term negative effects (Benton, 2008). More generally higher body weight at birth, thought to reflect the mother's nutrition, has been related to intelligence in later life (Richards et al., 2001). Some of the best data have been obtained from premature infants who randomly were allocated to a standard cows-milk based formula or one enriched with protein, vitamins and minerals. The enriched formula resulted in higher intelligence scores in boys (Lucas et al., 1998) who at fifteen years boys had a larger caudate nucleus, as measured using MRI (Isaacs et al., 2008). Such data strongly suggest that the nature of early nutrition can have long-term consequences. In this context we are only beginning to consider the optimal nature of diet, although recent epidemiological data have associated a higher consumption of fish during pregnancy by the mother, with higher intelligence in children at eight years (Hibbeln et al., 2007). Food intolerance is another way in which behaviour can be adversely influenced over a long period. Benton (2007) used meta-analysis to review the use of an oligoantigenic diet (few foods) in children with a history of hyperactive symptoms. In five well controlled studies the standardized mean difference was 0.80 of a standard deviation (95% CI 0.41 to 1.19); there were significantly fewer symptoms of hyperactivity when the children consumed a placebo meal than when they ate what for them was a problem food. The responses were idiosyncratic with several dozen foods proving to be a problem. The findings should not be uncritically generalized to other groups as these were studies of children whose parents prior to the study suspected that food may be a problem.


Materials and/or moulded parts based on thermomechanically hydrolyzed starch at high pressures and temperatures, with the admixture of water and/or low-molecular plastifiers, contain thermoplastic synthetic polymer compounds intimately blended with starch. These materials and/or moulded parts are characterized by the fact that their content of synthetic thermoplastic polymer compounds is derived from aqueous polymer dispersions that contain a polymer phase dispersed in an aqueous phase and that are worked into the starch together with the aqueous phase, whereas the aqueous phase of the polymer dispersions is used for the starch disintegration. Preferably, these materials and/or moulded parts are produced according to a process during which the disintegration of the starch into a thermoplastic material is carried out together with the homogeneous blending of the aqueous polymer dispersions with the starch, in a single step of the process. A process is disclosed for producing such polymer modified materials or moulded parts. Preferably true starch is blended with the aqueous polymer dispersions and if necessary the other low-molecular plastifier, the mixture of several substances is subjected to starch disintegration, to form the thermoplastically processable starch, at high temperatures and pressures, at the same time as the blend is intensively mixed and/or kneaded, and if necessary the homogenized polymer mixture is shaped.


The crystal structure of the title compound, {[Co(N3)2(C7H6N2)2]·2H2O}n, consists of a di-μ-azido-bridged [Co(N3)2]n chain that propagates along the c axis of the orthorhombic unit cell, together with uncoordinated water molecules. Adjacent Co—N—Co—N rhombi are coplanar; the metal atom lies on a special position of 2/m site symmetry and the azide groups on special positions of site symmetry 2. The heterocycle lies on a mirror plane. The heterocycles are positioned above and below the rhombi so that the geometry of Co is an all-trans octahedral. The chain motif is consolidated by hydrogen bonding with the uncoordinated water molecules, which lie on mirror planes.


Health-care generates a large amount of data, the task is to collect this data and effectively use it for analysis, prediction, and treatment. A better approach to health-care is to prevent a disease with early intervention rather than taking a treatment after it is diagnosed. There are systems that give information on treatment for diseases but not a lot of systems predict the possibility of having a disease. The aim of this research is to predict whether a person might have diabetes or not. The data set will contain the patient ID, gender, age, symptoms, glucose level, blood pressure, BMI etc. The outcome will be either 1 or 0, where, 1 meaning the patient is diabetic and 0 meaning the patient is not. There are 4 types of diabetes: Gestational Diabetes, Pre-diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes. The system will predict the type 2 diabetes the person might have based on the data provided. The main goal of the project is to try to increase the accuracy of the prediction. This can be done using machine learning prediction algorithms. It works well in handling multidimensional and multi-variety data in dynamic environments. One of the limitations is machine learning needs a lot of training data which might be cumbersome to work with. The outcome of this research depends on how accurate the data set is. This paper also focuses on a comparison of 5 prediction algorithms which are Artificial Neural Networks, Logistic Regression, KNearest Neighbors, Decision Tree and Random Forest algorithm. According to the results, neural networks produce the highest accuracy after model evaluation.


In the paper we propose a method for assessment of hand motion which is based on optical tracking system and parametric model of a hand. The model was scaled according to hand external dimensions of each individual. Optical tracking device was used for model validation which was made for middle and index finger. The algorithms for calculation of hinge joint axis of rotation and ball joint center of rotation were employed. The joint angles were obtained in two ways, from known centers of joint rotation and by solving inverse kinematics for finger from given positions of fingertips. The lengths of finger segments, calculated by using data from statistical anthropometry, do not differ notably from the lengths obtained from calculated centers of rotation of joints. The angles obtained by inverse kinematics are comparable to the angles obtained from estimated centers of rotation. Minimalistic approach makes the method suitable for calibration of a sensor glove


In this paper we present an approach for the design of a virtual world using a toolkit metaphor, and we show a virtual training environment (SAVE), which makes use of the presented methods. The main idea of the system is a mechanism, which is responsible for the component communication network.


Review(s) of: Anthropology: Frontiers: discourses of development in Tennant Creek, by M. Edmunds, Report Series, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, 1995, pp viii + 172, ISSN 1038-2372.


The real time observation of interfacial properties of nanoparticles in high resolution has attracted considerable attention, as it can provide the fundamental understanding that is crucial to fabricate rationally designed materials with more suitable interfaces. In this aspect, graphene liquid cell has been sought after by a number of researchers, due to its easy fabrication and high resolution imaging readily available [1]


Objective: To determine whether polymorphisms in the genes for coagulation factor. II, V, VII could predispose an individual to increase risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) and/or myocardial infarction (MI) in Chinese. Methods: We screened coagulation factor II(G20210A), V(G1691A), VII (R353Q and HVR4) genotype in 374 patients undergoing coronary angiography by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) assay. Results: The R353Q and HVR4 gemotype of the factor VII distribution was in accordance with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The frequencies of FVII genotype or allele did not show statistically significant differences between CAD group and controls or between male and female. The frequencies of the Q allele and (RQ+QQ) genotype were significantly higher among the CAD patients without myocardial infarction (MI) history than among those with MI history (P<0.05). However, HVR4 polymorphism was not significantly different within groups. We only find one normal control of factorII (G20210A) mutation. No coagulation factor V(G1691A) mutation was found in the CAD patients and controls. Conclusion: The factor II(G20210A), V(G1691A) mutation is absent and may not be a major genetic factor for CAD and/or MI; the Q allele of the R353 Q polymorphism of the factor VII gene may be a protective genetic factor against myocardial infarction in Chinese.


Taking the deep excavation support project of Xining railway station as an example,made a specific analysis on the regional geological conditions and surrounding environment,considering factors such as safety and cost etc,can effectively control the excavation process distortion,and saving a lot of construction fund and can provide the reference for the subsequent design and construction of the same types foundation pit support project.


Image fusion based on the sparse representation (SR) has become the primary research direction of the transform domain method. However, the SR-based image fusion algorithm has the characteristics of high computational complexity and neglecting the local features of an image, resulting in limited image detail retention and a high registration misalignment sensitivity. In order to overcome these shortcomings and the noise existing in the image of the fusion process, this paper proposes a new signal decomposition model, namely the multi-source image fusion algorithm of the gradient regularization convolution SR (CSR). The main innovation of this work is using the sparse optimization function to perform two-scale decomposition of the source image to obtain high-frequency components and low-frequency components. The sparse coefficient is obtained by the gradient regularization CSR model, and the sparse coefficient is taken as the maximum value to get the optimal high frequency component of the fused image. The best low frequency component is obtained by using the fusion strategy of the extreme or the average value. The final fused image is obtained by adding two optimal components. Experimental results demonstrate that this method greatly improves the ability to maintain image details and reduces image registration sensitivity.


I left Nandi Airport in December 1987. It was to be the longest journey of my life: I was leaving my country. No journey is ever longer, and behind me lay my childhood landscape of little ruins. As I showed my passport to a pugnacious-looking official, I was asked to step aside. He had to check with the military regime to find out if I was allowed to leave the country – my country, that is. The country where I was born, had been an MP for five years, had fought and won two exhilarating elections and had become Minister for Health and Social Welfare in Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra's genuinely multi-racial cabinet – the first in the history of Fiji. That one hour at the airport was a long wait. My wife and two daughters sat anxiously in the departure lounge. The official had deliberately forgotten me. When the departure of the Air Pacific flight was finally announced, I joined the eager queue of passengers of cheated hopes. As I fastened the seat belt, I wondered if someone would come and take me off the plane. It had happened before, to my political colleagues. The Air Pacific flight was airborne at last. People used to call it "Air Pathetic" for its service and yet this morning, for me and many others, this much maligned airline was our flight to freedom from a country's Royal Military Forces which had abducted and detained a whole government. For five treacherous nights, with all lights blazing, we had glimpsed the heart of darkness. In the bright sunlight the plane circled over my childhood village. I once grazed cattle on that stony patch of land before it became a tourist tarmac. I felt as though I was leaving a cremation ground just as the embers were dying and the ashes took over. I looked across at my wife, Jyoti, and at my two daughters, Gitanjali and Kavita, and the vast, alive ocean below, marbled in the sunlight.


Signal-to-noise ration and amount frequent subrange a partition spectrum of speech signal vocoders of system is analyzed with the purpose deriving a minimum transfer of rate signal.


The effect of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was studied in vitro on cultures of blood Ieukocytes from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), from patients with other neurological diseases, and from healthy persons. In CSF‐treated cultures from MS patients,. blast‐like cells developed as described repeatedly in the literature. Quantitative studies with liquid scintillation technique after incorporation of tritiated thymidine showed that no DNA synthesis took place despite cells from MS patients showing a normal reaction to phytohemagglutinin stimulation or in mixed leukocyte reaction. Incorporation studies with tritiated uridine did not support an increased RNA synthesis in cells from MS patients in the presence of CSF compared with controls. Determination of DNA content of the cultures at the end of the culture period (7 days) demonstrated an increased cell death in cultures from MS patients in the presence of CSF compared with controls. Among 8 patients with other neurological diseases, one showed a similar phenomenon — a patient with a polyneuritis of unknown aetiology. The increased cell death is apparently associated with a macrophagal reaction which has previously been mistaken for a blast transformation.


Triggerfish (Canthidermis maculata) is one of the fish types which can be used in opak crackers for the additional nutrition. This research aims to determine (1) the consumer acceptability and (2) the nutritional value of the triggerfish opak crackers. The method used in this study is an experimental study using a completely randomized design with two treatments and three repetitions. The experiment using 3 levels of triggerfish addition; 0%, 20%, and 40% respectively. The result of experiments that have been conducted on 30 respondents who are the students at Faculty of Teacher Training and Education by using 5 levels of hedonic scale shows that the opak crackers with the addition of triggerfish is the most preferable and the experiment proves that the nutritional level increased as well. The result of the acceptance showed that almost all consumers like opak Crackers in the (AI) treatment with the addition of 20% triggerfish because it had triggerfish characteristics such as aroma, crunchy texture, and the taste. However, when it comes for the color, respondents preferred the A0 formula, which is the crackers without the addition of triggerfish. The proximate test result reveals that the triggerfish opak crackers contains 83.32% carbohydrate, 8.42% protein, 1.99% fat, 0.47% ash, and 3% water.


A frequency grouping approach for multi-channel instantaneous blind source separation (I-BSS) of convolutive mixtures is proposed for a lower net residual inter-symbol interference (ISI) and inter-channel interference (ICI) than the conventional short-time Fourier transform (STFT) approach. Starting in the time domain, STFTs are taken with overlapping windows to convert the convolutive mixing problem into frequency domain instantaneous mixing. Mixture samples at the same frequency but from different STFT windows are grouped together forming unique frequency groups. The individual frequency group vectors are input to the I-BSS algorithm of choice, from which the output samples are dispersed back to their respective STFT windows. After applying the inverse STFT, the resulting time domain signals are used to construct the complete source estimates via the weighted overlap-add method (WOLA). The proposed algorithm is tested for source deconvolution given two mixtures, and simulated along with the STFT approach to illustrate its superiority for fairly motionless sources. Keywords—Blind source separation, short-time Fourier transform, weighted overlap-add method


Crystals of the title compound, C14H10BrNO2, contain N—H⋯O hydrogen bond interactions that generate C(6) chains; these chains are linked by C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, generating an R43(21) ring motif.


Knowledge is a system of rule on human's behaviors. Special knowledge and systematic knowledge will impact the proportion of decision in firms. Affected by the rival rule of "the survival of the fittest", systematic knowledge is becoming more important in firm's decision-making and the evolution of organization's configuration took on the trend that underwent functionization firstly and flatization secondly, since knowledge is non-linearly growing. Based on the theory of evolutionary economics, this paper, by modeling mathematic analyses, has disclosed that the evolution process of the firm's configuration depends on these characters of knowledge's specialization, systemization and distribution.


TiO2 nano-film with homogeneous surface was prepared on the glass substrate by the sol-gel method.The film was characterized by SEM and XRD.The adsorption of trace Cu(Ⅱ) was carried out taking TiO2 nano-film as an adsorbent.The effects of pH values,adsorption time,initial concentrations of Cu(Ⅱ) and coexistent ions on the adsorption rates were studied systematically.The results showed that the film is composed of anatase TiO2 nanoparticles with the grain diameter about 50 nm.The adsorption isotherm of Cu(Ⅱ) on TiO2 nano-film shows "L" type,which is explained by the monolayer adsorption.The Cu(Ⅱ) adsorbed on TiO2 nano-film is eluted by 1.0 mol/L nitric acid efficiently.The optimum adsorption conditions are determined.


Excrement is normally regarded as the most disgusting among the things issued from one's body. This essay aims at discussing how the imagery of excrement came to be a topic discussed in contemporary Taiwanese poetry, its novelty as a trend and its wonderful transfiguration. After a sizable corpus of works were inspected and analyzed, three main patterns of poetic production were apparent: First, the blocked-up excrement type, stemming from a gloomy outlook, uses excrement as a metaphor for the devil or evil. The desire to rid oneself of the foulness is unrealized, resulting in pent-up emotion and thoughts. Second, the splashing excrement type challenges the notion of "curbing desires and avoiding filth." It uses excrement as a weapon for antisocial action, as a way to rethink what it means to be human. Third, the amusing excrement type advocates freedom and liberation, by viewing excrement as a magical and whimsical game. This is used to deconstruct things noble and to destroy the grand narrative. Finally, the possibility of establishing an "excrement poetics" is discussed.


Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been drawing significant attention with the power of representation learning on graphs. Recent works developed frameworks to train deep GCNs. Such works show impressive results in tasks like point cloud classification and segmentation, and protein interaction prediction. In this work, we study the performance of such deep models in large scale graph datasets from the Open Graph Benchmark (OGB). In particular, we look at the effect of adequately choosing an aggregation function, and its effect on final performance. Common choices of aggregation are mean, max, and sum. It has shown that GCNs are sensitive to such aggregations when applied to different datasets. We further validate this point and propose to alleviate it by introducing a novel Generalized Aggregation Function. Our new aggregation not only covers all commonly used ones, but also can be tuned to learn customized functions for different tasks. Our generalized aggregation is fully differentiable, and thus its parameters can be learned in an end-to-end fashion. We add our generalized aggregation into a deep GCN framework and show it achieves state-of-the-art results in six benchmarks from OGB.


A control apparatus of an automatic transmission having first and second frictional engagement elements that achieve lower and higher speed gear stages respectively, includes a target value determination section setting a rotation speed difference between input and output sides of the frictional engagement element, a total torque capacity calculation section calculating a total torque capacity, a distribution ratio determination section setting a distribution ratio of the total torque capacity to the first and second frictional engagement elements, an individual torque capacity calculation section calculating individual torque capacities respectively required of the first and second frictional engagement elements, and an engagement control section controlling engagement conditions of the first and second frictional engagement elements in accordance with the individual torque capacity. The automatic transmission realizes an up-shift by changeover between first and second frictional engagement elements based on the individual torque capacity during a vehicle power-on travel.


Barns Hotel Wedding. It was lovely to return for the Barns Hotel Wedding of Tina and Steve. Steve had arranged a surprise for Tina to have a suite at the local Swan Hotel in which to spend her last evening as a single gal and to get ready with her lovely...


Abstract:This article examines the aesthetic use of sound in Satyajit Ray's films to retrace his position in Indian cinema as a reference point in the practices of synchronised monaural sound. Ray is traditionally considered to be an auteur and a cultural icon–his legacy being on the fringes of popular mainstream Indian cinema. The specifics of sound practice and the nature of sonic experience in his films, however, remain largely under-explored. In this context, I argue that Ray's treatment of sound in his films highlights a recognition of listening to place by means of a keen observation and recording of the site in monaural synchronised sound practice, which has created a precedence for realistic auditory settings later championed by Indian filmmakers in the contemporary digital era. Investigating how Ray's use of ambient sounds contributes to establishing an auditory setting and to constructing a sense of reality in his films, this article suggests that Ray initiated a tradition of audiographic realism in Indian cinema, which had hitherto been predominantly vococentric since the coming of sound in the 1930s. By situating Ray's sound work within the longer trajectories of sound practice in Indian cinema, this article contributes more widely to the global histories of film sound, and illustrates the diverse threads and traditions that comprise monaural sound practices beyond the more commonly mapped territories of European and American film history.


Ice clouds are considered to be major contributors to radiative forcing in the climate system. However, describing their microphysical properties in climate models remains challenging. Among all the properties, the ice crystal number concentration (ICNC) is particularly worthy of mention, since it can be directly related to some key radiative parameters like cloud optical depth and effective radius of ice crystals. In this thesis details of parameterizations of nucleation processes in the global atmospheric model ECHAM6.3-HAM2.3 are summarized and described. Several sensitivity simulations are carried out and the geographical distribution, the probability distribution function (PDF) and temperature dependence of the simulated ice crystal number concentration are investigated and compared to both satellite and airborne observations: Globally, the simulated ICNC are not evenly distributed with higher values around midlatitude storm tracks and mountain regions, which implies a high sensitivity of ICNC to the updraft velocity. In many of the sensitivity simulations, very unusual decreases of ICNC are observed over southeast Asia compared to the reference run, but the cause of it remains unknown. The spread of the simulated ICNC are much broader than the observations, although with the hard upper and lower limits the simulated ICNC are already manually restricted. The bimodal structure of the PDFs of ICNC discussed in Luebke et al. (2013) are somehow reproduced by the model, but this result must be treated with special caution, since it may simply caused by the hard boundaries of ICNC. It's also found that the simulated global mean ICNCs are generally higher at the temperatures where the mixed-phase clouds exist compared to colder temperatures, this positive temperature dependence of ICNC are shown to be in contrast to the satellite retrieved data and SPARTICUS campaign, but matches quite well with ACRIDICON2014, COALESC2011 and MLCIRRUS2014. In general, the variation of the simulated global mean ICNC are restricted within half an order of magnitude and fallen well in the range of observation.


Scant research has examined health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in family members of patients with severe brain injury, even less has been done in Scandinavian countries, and none has examined this construct longitudinally. The current study therefore used multilevel modelling to investigate the trajectories of HRQoL in 94 Danish family members of patients with severe brain injury at five time points, beginning at the patient's stay in a neuro intensive care unit through one year after injury. The family members' HRQoL scores significantly and strongly increased over time, and Role Limitations – Emotional scores were higher when patients had high Rancho Los Amigos Scale scores at admission to early intensive rehabilitation in hospital. These results suggest that the acute and sub-acute periods after brain injury are an extremely difficult time psychologically for many families, and family-based mental health interventions during the acute and sub-acute phases are critical, especially for families who have a patient with severe deficits.


Let me begin with some personal reflections. My choice of academic dentistry grew from an opportunity to participate as a scholar, from 1985 through 1987, in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Dental Health Services Program. Many thoughtful and generous dental academic leaders worked together in


We study maximal almost disjoint (MAD) families of functions in ω that satisfy certain strong combinatorial properties. In particular, we study the notions of strongly and very MAD families of functions. We introduce and study a hierarchy of combinatorial properties lying between strong MADness and very MADness. Proving a conjecture of Brendle, we show that if cov(M) < ae, then there no very MAD families. We answer a question of Kastermans by constructing a strongly MAD family from b = c. Next, we study the indestructibility properties of strongly MAD families, and prove that the strong MADness of strongly MAD families is preserved by a large class of posets that do not make the ground model reals meager. We solve a well-known problem of Kellner and Shelah by showing that a countable support iteration of proper posets of limit length does not make the ground model reals meager if no initial segment does. Finally, we prove that the weak Freese–Nation property of P(ω) implies that all strongly MAD families have size at most א1.


What is a reliable system and how is reliability defined? This depends on the actual situation and in which environment the system is operated. If you can rely on a scheduled downtime of the controlled system every week, reliability is defined in hours or weeks. In this case the system must run just longer than the scheduled downtime. If the system has to continuously operate for months and even years, your requirements are rising. In cases where continuous operations must be guaranteed even during software or hardware updates, redundant systems come into play. The hardware selection process is driven by basic requirements like 'no moving parts' or 'redundant power supplies'. This implies the selection of possible (fan-less) CPU boards with passive cooling. It also implies no hard discs and reduces therefore the selection of possible operating systems. Continuous operation during updates requires redundant controllers/ CPUs also in addition to redundant power supplies. The latter has a lot of impact on the software running inside the controllers. We will describe the selection process of the components we have chosen and summarize our experience of several years of operations.


The present paper revises the grasshopper genus Parepistaurus Karsch 1896. The established species are re-examined, and their internal genitalic morphology is described. A substantial amount of new material has been examined, leading to the description of 10 new species: Parepistaurus browni, P. eburlineatus, P. intermedius, P. jagoi, P. johnseni, P. mupundui, P. pseudofelix, P. pugui, P. robertsoni, and P. tenuicercus, and 5 new subspecies: P. deses manyara, P. d. nairobii, P. johnseni johnseni, P. j. rectus, and P. j. aduncus. Internal genitalic characters are described for all new taxa. P. vansomereni and P. rufijianus are reduced to subspecies status. The genus Hintzia Ramme 1929 is revived from synonymy and P. squamipterus redesignated to that genus. A genitalic mechanism s hypothesised for the genus in which the basal inner faces of the male cerci interact directly with the sides of the epiphallus during copulation.


: Four different bottom-placed artificial substrates were compared with the Ponar grab for collecting benthic invertebrates. Artificial substrate samples of organisms were larger and more diverse than those of the grab. Barbeque Basket samplers caught the most taxa and individuals and Beak Trays caught the least. Chironomids and crustaceans were dominant in artificial substrate samples. Exposure habitat (left or right bank) determined taxa availability, whereas sampler design determined suitability for colonization by the taxa. Diversity for Beak Tray samples was lower than that for other artificial substrates but higher than for Ponar samples. The Barbeque Basket, Bull Basket, and Multiple Plate samples were taxonomically similar. Ponar samples were different, and Beak Trays were of intermediate similarity. As qualitative samplers, Barbeque Baskets were 63 percent efficient, followed by Bull Baskets (55 percent), Multiple Plates (48 percent), Beak Trays (38 percent), and Ponar Grabs (6–10 percent). Bull Baskets required the least and Beak Trays the most replicates to be within a preselected percentage error of the mean at the 95 percent probability level for numbers of taxa and individuals, and for diversity. Under conditions of the study, Bull Baskets ranked highest, followed by Barbeque Baskets and Multiple Plates, in selected performance criteria. Differences between grab and artificial substrate samples are explainable in terms of major riverine habitats and characteristics of the collection methods.


As a result of the reform of the Ukrainian civil procedural law in 2017, civil justice has undergone significant changes – in courts of first instance may consider civil cases in a general procedure or in a simplified order. At the same time, the simplified procedure provides for two options: ordinary proceedings with court hearings or written proceedings, in which case proceedings are conducted without summoning of parties and without a court hearings. A generalization of the court practice of the courts of first instance, as a result of the analysis of 258 court decisions of first instance courts, approved during 2018 and available for research on the Single court decisions system website, provides an opportunity to highlight the most pressing issues arising in judicial practice and to suggest ways of their solution. Consequently, the problem of differentiation and the determination by courts of grounds for the consideration of civil cases is the subject of our attention in this article. To summarize, it was noted that court decisions mentioned in this part lack references to Part 1 of Art. 11 and Part 3 of Art. 274 CPC 2017 and, therefore, have no explanation as to why the case is being considered under simplified procedure and is classified as small claim or as a case which priority is a quick resolution of the case. In particular, these are cases concerning housing rights of citizens, recovery of alimony payments for the maintenance of young children, and the determination of the place of residence of young children. Authors concluded that in the legislation of other states, cases which are considered under simplified procedure are differentiated according to the value of claim, as well as to the specific category (Civil Procedures Rules 26.6 and 27.1, any claims with a value not exceeding 10,000 pounds, with special conditions concerning claims for damages revocation and claims of a tenant of a residential property to a lessor). At the same time, when deciding on the procedure for consideration of a case, the provisions of Part 1 of Art. 11 and part 3 of Article 274 should be used based on the principle of proportionality of civil proceedings and para 2 of Part 4 of Art 19 CPC 2017. In view of this, it is considered appropriate to draw attention to motivating the courts` decisions, as well as wider application of the provisions of the principles of proportionality of civil judicial proceedings and cooperation between the parties and the court to ensure the realization of the main task - effective protection of violated claimant`s rights.


In November 2003 Islamist extremists attacked various sites in Istanbul. The fact that the terrorists were Turkish citizens posed a threat to the identity of Turkish Muslims, who firmly reject terrorism. Using a Turkish student sample, this study examines how the categorization of Turkish terrorists as Muslims, or as members of their specific religious sect, impacts Turkish religious identity. Changes in the categorization of terrorists increased or decreased the religious identification depending on whether Turks focused on their identity as Muslims or as members of a specific Muslim denomination. However, regardless of the strength of their identification, an association with Islamist terrorism increased the ambivalence that Turks felt toward their religious identities. The discussion focuses on the benefits and potential hazards of various identity management strategies that a Muslim society may employ in the face of Muslim extremists proclaiming to act in the name of Islam. (146 words)


OBJECTIVE:To investigate the drug use situation in secondary hospitals in Nantong area since the enforcement of "Prescription Management Method".METHODS:A total of 2 520 common outpatient prescriptions(30 prescriptions were collected within one day monthly) collected from 12 secondary hospitals in Nantong area were analyzed retrospectively.RESULTS:In Nantong area,an average of 2.1 kinds of drugs were prescribed in each prescription;the rates of antibacterials,injection,essential drugs,and the drugs prescribed in their common names accounted for 37.0%,21.2%,78.6%,and 80.0%respectively.An average consumption sum of 101.3 Yuan was involved in each prescription.CONCLUSION:The evaluation of prescription is conducive to the rational use of drugs in hospitals.


Polypropylene Co-polymer (PPCP) Prosthetic Foot Model, Indigenously designed at All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AIIPMR), Mumbai. More commonly, this design is known as Modified Flex foot. Various researcher's contributed towards its design modification, material optimization, patient trial & clinical implications and further improvements. As such, this study was conducted to observe & understand the stress analysis of this modified flexfoot under loading conditions at various orientation of gait. Finite element analysis (FEA) method was used with Ansys 12.0 software. Study objectives was to construct and analyze the finite element model, to find out & understand failure prone areas in the present design of PPCP prosthetic foot.
This study was conducted into five phases. At initial phase, actual foot design was constructed and input parameters like geometrical parameters were calculated considering the standard length transtibial amputee. Similarly Material properties, loading conditions & boundary conditions were determined. AutCAD model was constructed using input parametrs & imported into Ansys 12.0 software. Finite element model were constructed and analyzed. Results were noted, which were displyed in the form of several contour plots & through colours that correspond to different stress values. FEA results obtained for various stress values like, Elemental stress, shearing stress & Von Mises stresses (Combination stresses).
Peak Von Mises stress value of 28112 Mpa, observed at lower ankle fillet region during heel strike orientation of the gait. Study concluded that lower ankle fillet region & Midfoot spring region will be subjected to maximum stress during heel strike, Mid stance & push off.
It was concluded that lower ankle fillet region & Midfoot spring region will be subjected to maximum stress during heel strike, Mid stance & push off.


AbstractA series of specially shaped punches, operated in pairs, made possible the manufacture of 37 different, but related, shapes. Four iron powders with four levels of zinc stearate (0·5, 1·0, 1·5, and 2·0 wt-%) were compacted into these shapes to densities in the range 5·3–7·05 Mg m−3, using an instrumented industrial press. The effects of the following variables on the density distribution within each component were examined: iron powder type and characteristics, lubricant type and content, size (height to diameter ratio), shape, density, and compaction pressure. The information obtained for the series of shapes enabled conclusions to be made on the way that material characteristics, pressing conditions, and restrictions on shape control the density distribution within the final component. These data gave clear indications that will be useful in designing a component for efficient production. PM/0314


ABSTRACT Locomotor performance is closely related to fitness. However, in many ecological contexts, animals do not move at their maximal locomotor capacity, but adopt a voluntary speed that is lower than maximal. It is important to understand the mechanisms that underlie voluntary speed, because these determine movement patterns of animals across natural environments. We show that voluntary speed is a stable trait in zebrafish (Danio rerio), but there were pronounced differences between individuals in maximal sustained speed, voluntary speed and metabolic cost of locomotion. We accept the hypothesis that voluntary speed scales positively with maximal sustained swimming performance (Ucrit), but only in unfamiliar environments (1st minute in an open-field arena versus 10th minute) at high temperature (30°C). There was no significant effect of metabolic scope on Ucrit. Contrary to expectation, we rejected the hypothesis that voluntary speed decreases with increasing metabolic cost of movement, except in familiar spatial (after 10 min of exploration) and thermal (24°C but not 18 or 30°C) environments. The implications of these data are that the energetic costs of exploration and dispersal in novel environments are higher than those for movement within familiar home ranges. Highlighted Article: Metabolic investment into movement of animals changes with environmental novelty, thereby altering the metabolic dimension of ecological function.


Applying methods similar to those used for classical Lie superalgebras (Z2 graded algebras), we construct sequences of Z2⊕Z2 graded Lie superalgebras. In this way one obtains the spl(m,n,r,s), osp(m,n,r,s), P1(m,r), P3(m,n), ospP3(m,n), P1,2(m), and Q (m) series. We also give series of Z2⊕Z2 graded Lie algebras. Closed forms for superdeterminants and determinants of Z2⊕Z2 graded matrices are presented.


The writer interprets the innovative narrative of Adam and Eve reflected in the Genesis sculptural cycle at the pilgrimage church Saint-Theobald (1324–1400) in Thann, Alsace, as an imprint of the dual, ecclesiastical and lay, patronage of the church. Local clergy may have seen the sculptural cycle of a counterpart expression of the comfort literature that appeared in response to the Black Death, whereas the local nobility may have seen it as an imprint of their own identity and moral stance.


This paper analyses the industry that produces the goods and services required to protect citizens from insecurity. It presents a definition of this economic sector useful in setting its boundaries, and it briefly describes the main types of industries operating within the sector. The paper introduces some ideas for a research agenda that could assist in unveiling the main features of this industry, as well as its strengths and weaknesses, to solve the security needs of society in an efficient and effective manner. It analyses methods for gathering information regarding suppliers, customers, and other market agents. Finally, it outlines ways for assessing market performance. The rational behind the agenda, the various approaches and the potential difficulties to be faced, should the agenda be implemented, are shortly outlined.


The solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is one of the most promising devices for getting electrical energy. There are a lot of advantages in the use of SOFCs such as their efficiency, higher electrical and thermal power production and reduction of the emission of polluting gases. Modeling the SOFC at downscale is one of the most important challenges in fuel cell (FC) research. Knowing the behavior of materials to this scale is a helpful tool to predict the physical and chemical phenomena within the FCs, improve their efficiency and reduce material costs. At micro- and mesoscale, Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) appears as a powerful tool for modeling fuel cells. LBM has been proven suitable for solving several physical phenomena in complex geometries such as porous media. Using the D2Q9 LBM scheme, the velocity field for a selected section of an SOFC cathode is determined. This velocity field is shown in 2D and 3D graphics. The porosity and tortuosity for this selected region are calculated and compared with previous results.


Socio-economic wellbeing of women can be realized through the provision of informal hospitality, which is on the increase globally and in Kenya. The sector's growth is attributed to increasing life demands which requires intensification and divesofication of income generating opportunities hence the emergence of hospitality services. The extent to which informal hospitality services improve women's socio-economic wellbeing is not explicit. This study set to investigate how the provision of informal hospitality services contributes to the socio-economic wellbeing of women entrepreneurs in Kenya. Mixed methods approach using sequential exploratory design was used. A sample size of 265 was used for the quantitative survey, while eight women from 4 counties and eight members for 1 FGD from Nakuru County were used for qualitative. Framework and multiple regression analysis were used for qualitative and quantitative, respectively. This study provided information on how informal hospitality services have contributed to the socio-economic wellbeing of women.


By using the method of documentary ,culture and logical analysis, this paper discusses the inhesion particularity for Chinese traditional sports culture and development for the value of humanities return. As a result,it describes that some of the cultural foundations of the Chinese tradition of characteristic and craft on one hand and the western tradition of sports and exchanges on the other hand;Finally the author proposes the countermeasures for sustainable development in the exploitation of traditional sports.


The third in a series of articles dealing with the effect of energy prices and supplies during the recession covers the Midwest, where industrial demand has fallen sharply. Some gas and electric utilities have responded to the loss of large customers with an effort to lower rates, although this is still in the hearing stage. Most utilities, however, report an increase in user costs, with gas prices rising more rapidly than electricity prices. Although the price of No. 6 fuel oil will probably remain stable, suppliers have not seen major fuel switching by industries. Steam coal prices rose slightly, but demand has softened. (DCK)


In this article, we consider the design of a tracking controller for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with external disturbances and actuator failures and achieve predesignated performance results on the tracking error. First, since the existing prescribed performance strategies are unable to specify performance bounds in an arbitrary way, we propose a new tool to address the prescribed performance issue by constructing chained first‐order filters and an input switching method. With the aid of the new and flexible prescribed performance tool, any predesignated continuous bounds can be formed by setting the reference coordinate values, sufficiently small coordinate value intervals and the gain parameters of the filters. Second, a full state feedback controller design scheme based on the prescribed performance bounds, which describe the convergence rate and maximum overshoot of the tracking error, is proposed. It is proven that the tracking error always satisfies the prescribed performance bounds. Finally, simulation studies are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed tool and the correctness of the established theoretical results.


Since the inception of the special period and the loss of its traditional export markets for sugar and other goods, Cuba has turned towards services as new sources of foreign exchange. Tourism has been reactivated and its performance has been broadly satisfactory, yet its long term growth potential should not be overstated. Since the mid-2000s, a new sector - professional services - has become the island's largest foreign exchange earner. Cuba's comparative advantage in this sector is the product of decades of human capital investment in social services. Yet, the sustainability of Cuba's present trade structure cannot be taken for granted. In the future, export-oriented professional services, and the health cluster in particular, might not only contribute to release the balance of payments constrain, but also play a pivotal role in steering the evolution Cuba's economy towards a knowledge-based development path. To this purpose, however, major changes in the area of industrial and macroeconomic policies are required.


Abstract Study Objectives Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a neurological sleep disorder. Postmortem studies have shown 75%–90% loss of the 50 000–70 000 hypocretin-producing neurons and 64%–94% increase in the 64 000–120 000 histaminergic neurons and conflicting indications of gliosis in the hypothalamus of NT1 patients. The aim of this study was to compare MRI-based volumes of the hypothalamus in patients with NT1 and controls in vivo. Methods We used a segmentation tool based on deep learning included in Freesurfer and computed the volume of the whole hypothalamus, left/right part of the hypothalamus, and 10 hypothalamic subregions. We included 54 patients with post-H1N1 NT1 (39 females, mean age 21.8 ± 11.0 years) and 114 controls (77 females, mean age 23.2 ± 9.0 years). Group differences were tested with general linear models using permutation testing in Permutation Analysis of Linear Models and evaluated after 10 000 permutations, yielding two-tailed P-values. Furthermore, a stepwise Bonferroni correction was performed after dividing hypothalamus into smaller regions. Results The analysis revealed larger volume for patients compared to controls for the whole hypothalamus (Cohen's d = 0.71, p = 0.0028) and for the left (d = 0.70, p = 0.0037) and right part of the hypothalamus (d = 0.65, p = 0.0075) and left (d = 0.72, p = 0.0036) and right tubular-inferior (d = 0.71, p = 0.0037) hypothalamic subregions. Conclusions In conclusion, patients with post-H1N1 NT1 showed significantly larger hypothalamic volume than controls, in particular in the tubular-inferior subregions which could reflect several processes as previous studies have indicated neuroinflammation, gliosis, and changes in the numbers of different cell types.


The content of this poster article sheds light on an important aspect of the sciences of Hadith, that is, textual criticism . It has dealt with this topic by showing the historical roots of Hadith textual criticism and its origination with the Companions since the early decades of Islam. It has also demonstrated the critical attitude that characterized the bearers and narrators of Hadith from the time of the Prophet until later times. To illustrate this trend, a number of Hadith instances showing the Companions' emending and correcting one another's narrations, especially A'isha may God Almighty be pleased with her, have been studied. Special attention has been paid to uncover and elucidate the methods used in the textual criticism of Hadith, to highlight the points of criticism and to assess the scholars' views in this respect. The study has combined analytical and critical methods to treat the different aspects of the subject.


This paper considers videogames as meaningful media in interactive and everyday contexts. In order to show our theoretical and methodological perspective for approaching media as practice, we analyze how a commercial video game, Tomb Raider: Cronicles, could be present in several scenarios. The research focuses on how to understand media in context by combining two modes of thought: the narrative, or the use of stories, and the conceptual, or the use of categorical concepts. We have adopted an ethnographical and action research perspective inspired by sociocultural psychology. Our starting point is the concept of narrative considered as an object and method of research. On the one hand, we analyze the way in which a cultural narrative, Lara Croft's story as presented in a game, is introduced in the classroom. On the other hand, we show how narratives, complemented by conceptual analysis, turn into a methodological instrument that helps to analyze the meanings that the participants attribute to the game. Our data comes from a workshop where the research team, acting as participant observers, collaborated with a teacher and her primary school students in Spain. The paper examines two levels of analysis in some detail in order to show how narrative and conceptual thinking can be combined, from a dialectical point of view, in order to understand media as tools that take part in situated activities.


Despite noticeable efforts to include women in different facets of public life, rural women's participation is low compared to their metropolitan counterparts, and to men in general. This paper argues that rural young women face double discrimination: first, through disempowerment in regards to basic economic, social, and cultural rights which facilitate participation in public life, and second, that their challenges are not fully captured by most research. Utilising constructivist ethnographic qualitative research conducted in three rural villages in Egypt, this study navigates through disadvantaged young women's realities and captures the unique and unrecognised challenges they encounter in regards to participating in public life. In addition to sharing challenges common to most women, the findings reveal challenges specific to rural young women. Some of these challenges directly impede women's participation in the public sphere; such as lack of ID, early marriage, and limited mobility while others indirectly limit their public participation, such as social norms, migration of husband, and marriage cost.


Although it is generally accepted that pr ofessional genres are better understood and analyze d in terms of the professional practices that they in variably co-construct in specific contexts, in genr e literature, they are often analyzed in isolation, tundervaluing the role and function of interdisc ursivity in professional genres. This paper will draw on a n umber of professional contexts and argue for a clos er study of interdiscursivity to facilitate a more com prehensive and critical understanding of discursive and professional practices. Text and context have been assigned varying importance in the analysis of professional genres. In the early conceptualization s of genre the focus was more centrally on text, and context played a relatively less impor tant background role. However, in more recent versions of genre analysis context has been assigned a more important role, redefining genre as a configuration of text-interna l and text-external resources, thus highlighting two kinds of relationships involving t exts and contexts. Interrelationships within and across texts focusing primarily on text- internal properties are viewed as intertextual in nature, whereas interactions within and across genres involving primarily text-external resources may be viewed as interdiscu rsive in nature. Intertextuality has been given considerable attention in discourse and genre theory; interdiscursivity however has attracted relatively little attention. This paper explores the nature and function of interdiscursivity in genre theory, clai ming that it is central to the understanding of professional genres, thus arguing for a move towards Critical Genre Analysis. In doing so, the paper also identifies an d explores a number of relevant implications for discursive as well as professional practices in professional, corporate, and institutional contexts. 2. Interdiscursivity Bhatia (2004), in proposing a three space multidime nsional and multi-perspective model for analysing written discourse, underpins th e importance of context in genre theory. The three overlapping concepts of space, wh ich include textual, socio-pragmatic (incorporating both generic as well as professional practice), and more generally, social, help a discourse analyst to focus more appropriatel y on one or more of these three dimensions of space analysing and interpreting prof essional discourse. However when we focus on professional discourse, we find that most forms of professional discourse appropriate semiotic and contextual resources withi n and across four main dimensions of space in order to construct and interpret meanings in typical professional contexts. Drawing on the framework mentioned above (Bhatia: 2004), these dimensions can be


Islamic banking in Indonesia is facing a number of challenges in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and impacting Sharia Micro Finance Institutions will face several potential risks to financial performance. For this reason, research is needed to analyze the impact of Covid-19 on sharia microfinance performance. In this case, BTM Kaliwungu analyzes financial statements using financial ratios, namely Return On Asset (ROA), Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Non-Performing Finance (NPF) and Financing Deposit to Ratio (FDR). This is a quantitative study with trend analysis in Microsoft Excel. The data were collected three years (December 31, 2017-December 31, 2019) before and one year (December 31, 2020) after the announcement of the first case of Covid-19 on March 2, 2020. The financial statements demonstrate the overall impact of Covid-19 on sharia microfinance performance (BTM Kaliwungu). During the existence of covid-19, the CAR ratio has no effect. ROA displays the results of criterion calculation quite well before or during the Covid-19 pandemic. The NPF calculation results show that the poor standard is still within the acceptable standardized range. Furthermore, in the case of FDR, it necessitates a greater reliance on third-party funding.


Annona squamosa, commonly known as custard apple, possesses various medicinal properties such as antimicrobial, insecticidal, cardiotonic, etc. Leaves of A. squamosa are known to contain various types of flavonoids which are responsible for these activities. The aim of this article was to develop and validate a high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) method for the determination of rutin and isoquercitrin in the extracts of A. squamosa and in an in-house developed herbal pharmaceutical formulation. Analysis was performed on TLC aluminum plates precoated with silica gel 60 F254 as the stationary phase. Linear ascending development was carried out in a twin-trough glass chamber saturated with a mobile phase consisting of ethyl acetate-formic acid-glacial acetic acid-ethyl methyl ketone-water 50:7:3:30:10 (v/v/v/v/v) at room temperature (25 ± 2°C). A CAMAG TLC scanner III was used for the spectrodensitometric scanning at 366 nm. The system was found to give compact bands for rutin and isoquercitrin (RF values of 0.32 ± 0.05 and 0.59 ± 0.03, respectively). The detector response was linear for concentrations ranging between 200 and 1600 ng per band (r2 = 0.9885 ± 0.0041 for rutin and 0.9828 ± 0.0013 for isoquercitrin). The limits of detection and quantitation were 75 and 100 ng per band for rutin, and 40 and 80 ng per band for isoquercitrin, respectively. The recovery study was carried out by the standard addition method and was found to be 96–107%. The present method was found to be simple, specific, sensitive, and accurate and was used successfully to quantitate rutin and isoquercitrin in the leaf extracts of A. squamosa collected from five different locations of India and in a pellet formulation of the extract.


BACKGROUND
Paternalistic leadership style has progressively intrigued organisational behaviour study in the last two decades. An abundance of research is integrating the existing literature on leadership and positive organizational culture to better understand the processes through which leadership leads to life satisfaction.

OBJECTIVE
One such mechanism through which specific leaders influence life satisfaction is work to family conflict (WFC) and family to work conflict (FWC). Paternalistic leadership is a significant antecedent to develop subordinates' life satisfaction because it integrates discipline with fatherly support. However, no research exists to date on the effect of paternalistic leaders on subordinate' WFC and FWC, which in turn affects their life satisfaction.

METHOD
The current study examines the impact of paternalistic leadership on employee life satisfaction using a sample of 198 nurses from public sector hospitals of Sindh province in Pakistan. The data was collected through survey questionnaires, and Smart- PLS-SEM was used to test the proposed hypotheses.

RESULTS
The primary goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between paternalistic leadership and life satisfaction. At the same time, there were significant mediation effects on life satisfaction.

CONCLUSION
The findings indicate that paternalistic leadership positively impacted life happiness through decreasing followers' WFC. However, it has a detrimental influence on FWC, which mediates the effect on subordinates' life satisfaction.


Sibolangit Recreational Park is an areal that has many tourism potency so that suitable as an ecotourism destination, in spite of actually this location is rarely visited of tourist. The purpose of this research is to estimate tourism potency which there are over there and to find the strategy could be done related to its development. The estimation of ecotourism in this place used guidance of ADO-ODTWA by Dirjen PHKA 2003 that had been modified. Development strategy was got by identification of strength, weakness, opportunity, and threatment at ecotourism area and then analyzed by using SWOT matriks. Result of this research showed that Sibolangit Recreational Park has ecotourism potency proper to develop with properness 69,23 % and present in the first quadran SWOT analyze. It  means that Sibolangit Recreational Park exist in favorable condition because of having internal strength and external opportunity. Keywords: Ecotourism valuation and development, tourism pull factor, Tourism Potency, Sibolangit Recreational Park


"Floor sitting" is part of the culture of several countries in Asia. Utilizing the waste pine needles to become biocomposites floor mats could make something unique and perhaps it could stimulate human sensory during sitting on the floor while eating at a restaurant. The purpose of this research is to measure the quality of the tactile perception to feel comfort by sitting on the floor while eating using the pine needles biocomposites mats. Then the experiment was held to examine the pine needles biocomposites to the reaction of the respondents. There were six types of sitting mats, four types of them were the pine needles biocomposites were made based on different surface textures (smooth – rough) and also density levels (loose – dense), the rest types were the existing mats as the control variable. For the result of the experiment, it was noted that the pine needles biocomposites mats can affect the floor sitting comfort of the consumer while they are eating at the restaurant these days by its texture and looks. The pine needles biocomposites mats are predominant to tactile comfort and visual aspect compared to the existing mats. For the result of the examined comfort, the respondents feel more comfortable when they sat on the pine needles biocomposites mats with the smooth surface and loose density type than other types. Most respondents feel safe and convenient with the texture because the net covers its


The use of frailty models to account for unobserved individual he terogeneity and other random effects in survival analysis are discussed. After a description of proportional hazards models including random effects, the bio logical meaning of frailty and the res ulting problems for analys is are pointed out. The Survival Kit, a set of Fortran programs fo r the analysis of univariate frailty models has been developed by V. Ducrocq (Fr) and the author. Features of the Survival Kit are presented.


A wholly aromatic polyester amide liquid crystal resin including repeating units of: (I) a 6-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid residue: 1 to 15 mol %, (II) a 4-hydroxybenzoic acid residue: 40 to 70 mol %, (III) an aromatic diol residue: 5 to 28.5 mol %, (IV) a 4-aminophenol residue: 1 to 20 mol %, and (V) an aromatic dicarboxylic acid residue: 6 to 29.5 mol %, and having a melting point of 270 °C to 370 °C, and having a melt viscosity of 60 Pa·s to 200 Pa·s at a shear rate of 1000/sec at a temperature higher by 10 °C to 20 °C than this melting point is molten at a temperature of the melting point + 40 °C, and extruded at a rate of 0.3 kg/min or more and less than 5 kg/min to form a parison (P). A pair of molds (30) arranged with the parison (P) interposed therebetween are closed under a prescribed mold closing pressure, so that air is blown into the interior of the parison (P).


Abstract The artist's 35 mm slide consists of a photographic image framed by a slide mount she inscribes with writing and symbols that direct the slide's future use. In this article, I consider how these artists' writings that are held, suspended, in the WAL slide collection are a vibrant reading material that performs the slides as a feminist text. In my joint role as curator and researcher, I explore how I used photography to initiate a performative reading of the slide collection that politicizes the work of image reproductions.


Every day, human being increasingly depends on using robots in the life. Where, they are capable of replacing human beings to perform dangerous and tedious operations with a high efficiency and a low cost for the terrestrial and space applications. During the past decades, the need for robots capable for climbing vertical wall has been increased. In this paper, the mathematical model for wall climbing robot (WCR) based on the dynamics of robot has been derived. MATLAB/SIMULINK has been used to simulate the model. Trajectory tracking problem of WCR has also been discussed. Where, the fuzzy-backstepping controller has been adopted. A propeller type wall climbing robot, which has designed by authors in previous work, is used for an experiment of the trajectories tracking control. Some developing steps have been achieved to develop the robots in order to meet the test requirements. In addition to the wall tests, the robot was tested in Kangaroo mode to track inclined line with initial error in pose on the ground. The vision system was suggested to provide information about robot pose (position and orienting). The experimental result confirms the validity of the proposed method.


SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven J. Lynn, and Jeffrey M. Lohr. Guilford Press, 2003, 474 pp. , by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven J. Lynn, and Jeffrey M. Lohr The chapters in this book vary from excellent to substandard. Often, the analysis and discussion are accurate, instructive and comprehensive: for instance, in chapters devoted to the methodology of psychotherapy outcome studies; assessment techniques; herbal remedies and antidepressant medications; and treatments for alcoholism, autism and attention deficit disorder. All of these chapters involve analysis of data and methodology. The reviews in these chapters are balanced and free of overt bias. Four chapters are of particular relevance to readers of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation: ones on dissociative identity disorder (DID), New Age therapies, memory recovery techniques and treatments for trauma-related stress disorders. The chapter on New Age therapies by Margaret Singer and Abraham Nievod provides a cartoon account of DID. Indeed, the chapter is an excellent example of the pseudoscience analyzed in the rest of the book. The chapter on New Age therapies includes 51 references to authors such as Ofshe, Loftus, Pendergrast, Piper, McHugh, Barden, Acocella, Crewes and Dawes but not a single reference from the DID literature. No data, research or methodology are discussed and the authors operate purely at an anecdotal and ideological level. For example, they describe


Sound-driven design is an emerging, human-centered design practice informed by technology and listening in the multisensory dimension of interaction. In this paper we present a discourse analysis approach aimed at qualitatively understanding the constituent concepts of such a practice, by means of semi-structured interviews with sound designers, design researchers, engineers and expert users in the context of critical care. Preliminary results show that sound-driven design is inherently embodied, situated, and participatory, that the four categories of interviewees equally contribute to the definition of the design problem, and yet that a clear, shared arena is still missing.


Summary: The effects of glutamate and aspartate antagonists were studied on limb‐jerk frequency and EEG patterns in rats made epileptic by cobalt implantation in the sensorimotor cerebral cortex. The results of this study were as follows: (1) a‐Amino‐4‐phosphonobutyric acid (0.055‐1.10 mM) decreased or complétély prevented the epileptic manifestations. The effect was reversible 30 min after washing with artificial CSF solution. (2) DL‐Pyroglutamic acid complétély abolished the myoclonic jerks and EEG spikes. (3) α‐Amino‐5‐phos‐phonovaleric acid and a‐D‐amino‐adipic acid significantly reduced the frequency of epileptic spikes and myoclonic jerks. (4) Other analogs, a‐amino‐3‐phosphonopropionic acid (0.6 mM), α‐amino phosphonocaproic acid (0.95), and hydroxy‐3‐amino pyrrolidone‐2 were without effect. (5) Glutamate itself did not decrease the epileptic manifestations.


Sentence insertion is a delicate but fundamental NLP problem. Current approaches in sentence ordering, text coherence, and question answering (QA) are neither suitable nor good at solving it. In this paper, We propose InsertGNN, a simple yet effective model that represents the problem as a graph and adopts the Graph Neural Network (GNN) to learn the connection between sentences. It is also supervised by both the local and global information so that the local interactions of neighboring sentences can be considered. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first recorded attempt to apply a supervised graph-structured model in sentence insertion. We evaluate our method in our newly collected TOEFL dataset and further verify its effectiveness on the larger arXiv dataset using cross-domain learning. The experiments show that InsertGNN outperforms the unsupervised text coherence method, the topological sentence ordering approach, and the QA architecture. Specifically, It achieves an accuracy of 70%, rivaling the average human test scores.


Numerical algorithm, based on linear matrix inequalities, is presented for state-feedback synthesis of discrete-time linear positive systems using H2 norm principle. Two policies are formulated to obtain control matrix parameters respecting strictly positivity or non-negativity of the system matrix. It is reiterated that proposed approach leads to upper bound of H2 norm estimation of the closed-loop system transform matrix.


Glycothiohexide alpha was recovered from the fermentation broth of a "Sebekia" sp. by mixed solvent extraction, selective precipitation and adsorption chromatography on Diaion HP-20. The amount of glycothiohexide alpha present in the crude preparation was enriched by photolysis. Purification of glycothiohexide alpha was accomplished by repetitive countercurrent chromatography.


Mathematical model of the catalytic reaction of the ternery complex as M_(m)L_(l)S was proposed in this paper.The thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of the catalytic reaction can be obtained bythis method.The hydrolysis of PNPP catalyzed by La~(3+)complex was studied kinetically at pH 7.10,T=30±0.1℃.The effect of Brij35 and CTAB surfactants on the hydrolysis of PNPP catalyzed by La~(3+)complex was also studied.The thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of the above mentioned catalytic reactions were obtained by the mathematical model presented in the paper.The results indicated that the activated hydroxyl group of the ligand is effective nucleophilic species in the hydrolytic reactions.The results showed that the rate for the hydrolysis of PNPPwereincreased,which was caused by metal complex and the concentration effect of surfactant micelle is smaller catalyst for the hydrohytic cleavage of PNPP.


The contribution provides a basic overview and introduction to
the issue of voluntary reporting of small and medium-sized
enterprises and also presents new trends in this area due to
the current economic crisis in the world. At the beginning of
the project is mentioned SP/4i2/26/07 (Proposal for new
indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of environmental
management systems by industry (NACE) and system of
environmental reporting in the evaluation of the linkages
between environment, economy and society), which focuses on
issues voluntary reporting. In the next section are listed the
results of the project from its first stage solution and a case
study for small and medium-sized enterprises in the chemical
industry.


Application, system, or various methods for providing a text information service is disclosed. Specifically, various embodiments, allows the user to capture an image by the portable computing device of the camera. Computing device, to transfer the text to an application or function captures the image, and recognizes the processing to text this, specific, and / or capable of separation. Application or function can then be performed action substantially in real time by utilizing the text. Text may include E-mail, phone number, URL, the address and the like, application or function, dialing the telephone number, to be directed to the URL, to save the contact information to open the address book, and the like to show the address to display the map. .FIELD 3A


Presents a new implementation of the radial search algorithm for the detection of left ventricle boundaries in short axis mid-papillary muscle echocardiographic images, using two cascaded artificial neural networks and a snake energy minimising function to create the final contour. The neural networks are used as statistical classifiers to give a probability measure of their classifications.<<ETX>>