The damage-tolerant design philosophy as used by aircraft industries enables aircraft components and aircraft structures to operate safely with minor damage, small cracks, and flaws. Maintenance and inspection procedures insure that damages developed during service remain below design values. When damage is found, repairs or design modifications are implemented and flight is resumed. Design and redesign guidelines, such as military specifications MIL-A-83444, have successfully reduced the incidence of damage and cracks. However, fatigue cracks continue to appear in aircraft well before the design life has expired. The F16 airplane, for instance, developed small cracks in the engine mount, wing support, bulk heads, the fuselage upper skin, the fuel shelf joints, and along the upper wings. Some cracks were found after 600 hours of the 8000 hour design service life and design modifications were required. Tests on the F16 plane showed that the design loading conditions were close to the predicted loading conditions. Improvements to analytic methods for predicting fatigue crack growth adjacent to holes, when multiple damage sites are present, and in corrosive environments would result in more cost-effective designs, fewer repairs, and fewer redesigns. The overall objective of the research described in this paper is to develop, verify, and extend the computational efficiency of analysis procedures necessary for damage tolerant design. This paper describes an elastic/plastic fracture method and an associated fatigue analysis method for damage tolerant design. Both methods are unique in that material parameters such as fracture toughness, R-curve data, and fatigue constants are not required. The methods are implemented with a general-purpose finite element package. Several proof-of-concept examples are given. With further development, the methods could be extended for analysis of multi-site damage, creep-fatigue, and corrosion fatigue problems.


The occurrence of virulent streptococci in milk and the relation of infected milk to epidemics of "septic sore throat" are now generally recognized. The object of this paper is not so much to report an epidemic of this character, which was recognized as such from a study of the cultural and other characteristics of the streptococci isolated from the patients' throats and sputum, as to detail the peculiar pathogenic powers of the streptococci from the infected milk. The epidemic occurred during February, 1914, in Elmhurst, Illinois, a city of 3,800 people. The infections, as compared with the usual epidemics of sore throat, were less severe, and the organisms isolated were of a moderate grade of virulence, being distinctly less virulent than the strains of streptococci isolated from the throats in cases of the milk-borne epidemic of sore throat occurring in Chicago in the winter of 1911-12, and studied by Capps and Miller,1 Davis,2 and Rosenow.3 In some cases, the initial infection of "sore throat" was followed by bronchopneumonia, and attacks of "rheumatic" myositis and arthritis. Investigation showed that some thirty cases had occurred in families using milk from one dairy. Dr. Langhorst, of the board of health in Elmhurst, co-operated with us in securing cultures from the cases, and the owners of the dairy supplied us with samples of milk from the various farms, eight in all. The streptococci isolated from the throats produced on blood agar plates rather large, moist colonies, surrounded by narrow, ill-defined, hazy zones of hemolysis, corresponding closely in these characteristics with the organisms isolated from the milk, and indistinguishable from the milk organisms after animal passage. The method of isolating the organisms from the milk was as follows: Seven-ounce samples of


In 1963, the late planner and urbanist Peter Hall imagined London's future in the year 2000 and identified some of the implications of the city's growth. One of his key recommendations was to replace the system of government for London with "a completely new type of regional government, as yet unknown in this country, and analogous to the status of an American state or German Land." This, of course, never happened and London instead went through a cycle of implementing, abolishing and re-introducing a far less ambitious city-wide government.


5548Background: The aim of this international multicenter retrospective analysis was to identify prognostic markers for the clinical outcome in late-stage mCRPC patients treated with 177Lutetium-pr...


An important prerequisite for the success of any online service is ensuring that customers' experience - via the interface - satisfies both sensory and functional needs. Developing interfaces that are responsive to customers' needs requires a perspective on interface design as well as a deep understanding of the customers themselves. Drawing upon research in consumer behavior concerning consumer beliefs about technology, we deploy an alternative way to describe customers based on psychographic characteristics. Technology readiness (TR), a multidimensional psychographic construct, offers a way to segment online customers based upon underlying positive and negative technology beliefs. The core premise of this study is that the beliefs form the foundation for expectations of how things should work and how specific online service interfaces are evaluated by customers. At the same time, usability evaluations of specific online services might be contingent on contextual factors, specifically the type of site (hedonic vs. utilitarian) and access method (Web vs. wirelessWeb). The aspects of usability examined here are those incorporated into the usability metric and instrument based on the Microsoft Usability Guidelines (MUG). The results of an empirical study with 160 participants indicate that (i) TR customer segments vary in usability requirements and (ii) usability evaluations of specific online service interfaces are influenced by complex interactions among site type, access method, and TR segment membership. As organizations continue to expand their online service offerings, managers must recognize that the interface exists to serve the customers, so their design must be matched to market needs and TR.


Multiple equilibrium states arise in many physical systems, including various types of liquid crystal structures. Having the ability to reliably compute such states enables more accurate physical analysis and understanding of experimental behavior. This paper adapts and extends a deflation technique for the computation of multiple distinct solutions arising in the context of modeling equilibrium configurations of nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals. The deflation method is applied as part of an overall free-energy variational approach and is modified to fit the framework of optimization of a functional with pointwise constraints. It is shown that multigrid methods designed for the undeflated systems may be applied to efficiently solve the linear systems arising in the application of deflation. For the numerical algorithm, the deflation approach is interwoven with nested iteration, creating a dynamic and efficient method that further enables the discovery of distinct solutions. Finally, four numerical experiments are performed demonstrating the efficacy and accuracy of the algorithm in detecting important physical phenomena, including bifurcation and disclination behaviors. The final numerical experiment expands the algorithm to model cholesteric liquid crystals and illustrates the full discovery power of the deflation process.


The purpose of the present study is to investigate the causal relationship between the government tax revenues and government expenditures in Malaysia. We employ the Granger long run noncausality test as proposed by Toda and Yamamoto (1995) to test the causal relationships between government spending and tax revenues for the period 1960 to 1997. The evidence generally supports the existence of bi-directional casuality between government spending and tax revenues.


Known vulgarly like the Corominas, it is at the present time the etymological dictionary of the Spanish. On this dictionary it has been written much from a philologic point of view, it see as a small example the bibliography that accompanies this review; in this occasion, nevertheless, we try to give some instructionses on its daily use nonspecialistic and thus to offer a useful approach from a point of view librarian.


An 8450-MHz (X-band) maser system utilizing a commercial Gifford–McMahon (GM) closed-cycle cryocooler (CCR) was designed, fabricated, and demonstrated. The CCR system was used to cool a maser operating at 8450 MHz. The prototype GM CCR system meets or exceeds all Deep Space Network requirements for maser performance. The two-stage GM CCR operates at 4.2 K; for comparison, the DSN's current three-stage cryocooler, which uses a Joule–Thompson cooling stage in addition to GM cooling, operates at 4.5 K. The new CCR withstands heat loads of 1.5 W at 4.2 K as compared to 1 W at 4.5 K for the existing DSN cryocooler used for cooling masers. The measured noise temperature, Te, of the maser used for these tests is defined at the ambient connection to the antenna feed system. The Te measured 5.0 K at a CCR temperature of 4.5 K, about 1.5 K higher than the noise temperature of a typical DSN Block II-A X-band traveling-wave maser (TWM). Reducing the temperature of the CCR significantly lowers the maser noise temperature and increases maser gain and bandwidth. The new GM CCR gives future maser systems significant operational advantages, including reduced maintenance time and logistics requirements. The results of a demonstration of this new system are presented. Advantages of using a GM-cooled maser and the effects of the reduced CCR temperature on maser performance are discussed.


We consider the Schrodinger operator H=−Δ2+q in a bounded domain D in Rd, d ≥ 3, with q in the Kato class Kd(D) and finite gauge g(x) = Ex[exp ∫τ0q(Xs) ds], where (Xt) is a Brownian motion and τ is the first exit time of the Brownian motion (Xt) from the domain D. Let K and G denote the Green operators in D for H and Δ2, respectively. We prove that there is a positive constant α such that1αGf,f≤Kf,f≤αGf,f,where f is a real, measurable function for which (G|f|, |f|) is finite. As a direct consequence of this double inequality, we have that the potential Gf is in the Sobolev space H10(D) if and only if Kf ∈ H10(D).


A diode-pumped mode-locked Yb:CALGO laser operating at 26.9 MHz repetition rate was demonstrated using a telescopic configuration. Without any external pulse compression, a pulse width of 91 fs was obtained directly at the oscillator output with 750 mW of output power. The corresponding pulse energy was 27.9 nJ and the peak power reached 306 kW.


IntroductionChapter 1: Post-Communist Transition: An OverviewChapter 2: How it all went Wrong: Systemic Failures and Other Factors behind the Fall of the Soviet SystemChapter 3: Washington Consensus and the Stages of ReformChapter 4: Winners and Losers of ReformsChapter 5: StabilisationChapter 6: Liberalisations, Partial liberalisations and RecessionsChapter 7: Privatisation: Speed, Efficiency, DistributionChapter 8: Unemployment and Labour MarketsChapter 9: Financial LiberalisationChapter 10: Public Finance : Collecting Taxes and RedistributingChapter 11: Institution BuildingChapter 12: A Unique Region? How Unique?Appendix: Measuring progress in reforms


In the present fourth industrial revolution, the degree of automation is growing significantly and enormous amount of time-series data are collected from industrial systems for analysis. The demand for robust and resilient performance has led to the use of signal validation and on-line monitoring schemes to monitor sensors and equipment conditions using data-drivenbased models built by those time-series data. However, most data-driven models are developed and applied under steady-state or time-invariant conditions since this belongs to most of system's uptime, but it is vital to have condition monitoring during transient operations as well, which has been less concerned. In this study, transient operations are any non-steady state but timevarying within normal operating conditions, such as start-up, shutdown, and load following modes of the system [1,2]. Recently, Ahmed et al [3] proposed a novel data-driven method, weighted distance Auto Associative Bilateral Kernel Regression (AABKR), for on-line monitoring during transient operation which has been successfully applied to the start-up transient of a nuclear power plant (NPP). However considering the availability of massive industrial time-series data or big data, in this work, the authors seek to explore the possibility and applicability of the deep learning techniques for signal validation and condition monitoring of safety parameters and sensors in NPPs during transient operations. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning algorithms that uses a cascade of many layers of non-linear processing units for feature extraction and transformation. There are various deep learning architectures, which include Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) based deep belief network (DBN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), deep Auto-encoders, and deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Since sensor data is a time-series data, this work chose to use a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture based on deep learning technique, long short-term memory (LSTM) to capture the timevarying dependencies of transient data for the purpose of sensors' signal validation and condition monitoring. The deep LSTM model is developed in form of autoencoder: the encoder-decoder network, such that the multi-dimensional sensors signals can be effectively reconstructed on-line for the purpose of condition monitoring. 2. Methods and Results


A method is provided for operating a static transfer switch to eliminate transformer inrush current in the presence of residual flux. The method includes: detecting an interrupt of electric power at an output terminal of the static transfer switch; controlling amplitude of voltage at the output terminal using phase fired control of one or more silicon controlled rectifiers interposed between a voltage source and the output terminal, where the amplitude of voltage is set at a value less than a peak value of the sinusoidal waveform; and increasing the amplitude of voltage at the output terminal incrementally until the amplitude reaches a peak value.


AbstractIn recent years, several Brazilian firms have conducted their R&D activities globally to be closer to the market and to gain access to know-how. This paper aims at understanding the internationalization process of R&D activities at Petrobras and its technological alliances. The study is qualitative and seeks to throw some light upon the reasons and results of decisions related to the internationalization of R&D. We hope that the findings will be useful to other companies, Brazilian or otherwise, that are undergoing similar R&D internationalization processes.


Photolysis of the monoanil 2a, the N-cyclohexylimine (2b) and the N-n-propylimine (2c) of tetramethylcyclobutane-1,3-dione (1) in furan gave the corresponding isocyanides (4a,b,c) and tetramethylcyclopropanone, isolated as its adduct (5) with furan when using (2a,b).


We propose to constrain the locations of the first diffractive minima in the electric and magnetic form factors of 3He using polarization observables. Significant discrepancies in the locations of the diffractive minima exist between theoretical predictions and experimental data from Rosenbluth separations and global fits of the world data. Thus far, all experimental data on the 3He form factor minima come from unpolarized electron scattering results. However, double-polarization experiments have found large disagreement, particularly at high Q2, between the proton form factors extracted via polarization observables and unpolarized Rosenbluth separations. The double-polarization asymmetry, using a polarized electron beam and a polarized 3He target, is proportional to the product of the electric and magnetic form factors. Unlike a Rosenbluth separation, this measurement is sensitive to the signs of the form factors. Thus, the zeros of the asymmetry correspond to the diffractive minima of the form factors. By measuring this asymmetry as a function of Q2 we will constrain the locations of the first diffractive minima for the 3He electric and magnetic form factors. Another benefit of using polarization observables is that the ratio in the asymmetry leads to many of the systematic uncertainties cancelling one another. This measurement of 3He will determine whether the form factors extracted via Rosenbluth separations and polarization observables differ at high Q2. It will also determine whether theoretical predictions or current experimental results are more accurately predicting the location of the diffractive minima while ruling out numerous models. ∗ Contact person firstname.lastname@example.com.


The routing of drivers based on anticipated as well as instantaneous link travel times has presented route guidance system developers with an opportunity to achieve additional IVHS benefits beyond those that can be accrued by routing vehicles based strictly on current link travel times. This paper presents an analytical solution to this anticipatory routing problem for a simple 2 route traffic network and illustrates how this analytical solution can also be replicated and derived using the Integration simulation model.


Various species of Streptomyces possess aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes. Streptomyces kanamyceticus contains an enzyme that acetylates the 6'-amino group of kanamycin A and B, gentamicin C(1a), and neomycin. Streptomyces spectabilis produces an enzyme that acetylates the 2'-amino group of the hexose ring of gentamicin C(1a). These enzymes catalyze reactions identical to those catalyzed by enzymes found in gram-negative bacteria containing R(antibiotic resistance)-factors. The discovery of these enzymes suggests the possibility of an evolutionary relationship between the aminoglycosideinactivating enzymes (produced by resistance determinants) in bacteria containing R-factors and similar enzymes found in the actinomycetes.


Abstract In the two decades after the end of the second world war the UK pharmaceutical industry failed to match its international competitors in innovation, as measured by the number of patented new drag introductions. This paper explores, through a perspective on two companies in the UK, Glaxo Laboratories and May 8c Baker, the failure to innovate significantly. It examines the research and development facilities in the companies, the resources they (and other UK companies) were able to dedicate to research, the constraints, both external and internal, under which they operated, and the licensing arrangements that gave them access to innovations made by others, particularly those of the US pharmaceutical corporations.


This paper proposes a new technique to smooth out fluctuating power generated by photovoltaics (PV). It is named "enhanced linear exponential smoothing" or ELES. Compared among other smoothing methods, ELES requires a minimum energy storage capacity to alleviate the same level of power variation. ELES has been derived from a well-known financial forecasting method so-called "linear exponential smoothing (LES)". This paper presents how LES can overcome disadvantages of the existing techniques. However, in case of PV power generation, a phase delay introduced in LES yet leads to an increment of required storage capacity. To further improve the system performance, ELES has been proposed to shorten LES surplus phase delay. Importantly, this paper presents how the positive factor of LES can be optimized and how an appropriated weighted averaging constant can be chosen. To verify the performance of the proposed technique, a battery energy storage system with ELES technique is simulated under a set of measured PV generated power profiles. The key results indicate that ELES effectively performs, when compared to others, especially the energy storage capacity reduction feature.


Periodically poled lithium niobate is a widely used material for nonlinear optical frequency conversion by means of quasi-phase matching. Herein, the poling process with the temperature varying from 140 °C to 190 °C is studied. The required polarization voltage to inverse spontaneous polarization and domain distribution are highly related to the temperature variation, which is assigned to the coercive field change. The obtained domain duty cycle shows that the reduction of the coercive field benefits the control of the domain motion in both the horizontal and vertical directions. The finite element analysis of the applied electric field reveals that nucleation plays a crucial role in the periodic poling process. This work provides a strategy for the control of the domain duty cycle by reducing the coercive field of LiNbO3 crystals.


BACKGROUND
Pre-operative pulpal status may influence the outcomes of root canal treatment (RCTx) according to various measures used.

OBJECTIVES
To compare effectiveness of RCTx of teeth with a vital pulp versus a necrotic pulp using a range of clinical and patient-related outcomes, for the development of S3-Level clinical practice guidelines.

METHODS
A search was conducted in the PubMed-MEDLINE, Scopus, EMBASE, Google scholar databases and available repositories, followed by hand searches, until 29 March 2022. Clinical studies published in English language comparing the stipulated outcomes of RCTx of teeth with vital versus necrotic pulp were included. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was adapted to assess study quality. Effects of pulpal status were estimated and expressed as risk ratio (RR) using fixed- and random-effect meta-analyses. The quality of evidence was assessed through the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation tool.

RESULTS
Twenty-eight studies published between 1961 and 2021 were included. Five studies have investigated the 'tooth survival' outcome, four reported pulpal status was not a significant predictor, consistent with meta-analysis finding (RR: 1.00; 95% CI: 1.00, 1.00; n=3). Seven studies reported pulpal status had no significant influence on post-operative pain, regardless of duration after treatment. Sixteen studies have analysed 'periapical health', eleven revealed pulpal status had no significant influence. Meta-analyses revealed the influence was not significant if pre-operative periapical radiolucency was absent (RR: 0.95; 95% CI: 0.90, 1.00; n=9) but significant if it was present (RR: 1.12; 95% CI: 1.05, 1.19; n=11). Most studies were classified as 'some concerns' (n=16) to 'low' (n=10) risk of bias (RoB).

DISCUSSION
Evidence is limited and only available for three outcomes when comparing the effectiveness of RCTx in permanent teeth with vital pulp versus pulp necrosis. Nevertheless, the quality of available evidence was moderate to high. The 'periapical health' data heterogeneity could be explained by pre-operative radiolucency, thus RCTx was found more effective for prevention than resolution of apical periodontitis.

CONCLUSIONS
There was no significant difference in the 'tooth survival', 'post-operative pain' and 'evidence of apical radiolucency' outcomes of RCTx in teeth with vital or necrotic pulps.


Introduction
 Prior studies report multiple factors, including insurance status, as significant barriers to healthcare access in the United States. Barriers to healthcare access may lead to worse outcomes in APL, which requires timely diagnosis and prompt treatment. We performed a large database analysis to examine the effects of insurance type and other factors on one-month mortality and overall survival (OS) in patients ≥65 years of age with APL.
 Methods
 We aimed to compare one-month mortality and OS of patients on private insurance with patients on non-private insurance, which included Medicare, Medicaid, and other government insurance. Patients ≥65 years of age who were diagnosed with APL between 2004-2015 were identified from the National Cancer Database (NCDB). Multiple regression analysis was used to evaluate the effects of insurance type on the probability of one-month mortality. The Kaplan-Meier method estimated overall survival (OS), which was defined as the time from APL diagnosis to last contact or death from any cause. We used Cox regression model to determine the effects of insurance type on mortality risk adjusting for the other covariates of interest.
 Results
 We analyzed a total of 1520 patients- either private (12%) or non-private (88%), which included Medicare (85%), Medicaid (2%), and other government insurance (1%). Among total patients, 60% were 65-74 years of age, 46% were female, 87% were white, 84% had Charlson-Deyo comorbidity index (CCI) of 0 or 1, and 52% were treated at academic centers.
 One-month mortality was 18% for patients with private insurance and 23% for patients with non-private insurance. In a multivariate regression analysis, insurance type did not affect one-month mortality (Table 1). One-month mortality was higher for older patients; patients ≥75 years of age were more likely to die at one month compared to patients 65-74 years (Odds ratio [OR] 1.98, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.53-2.57, p<0.0001). Compared to patients with CCI of 0, patients with CCI of 1 (OR 1.91, 95% CI 1.43-2.55, p<0.0001), CCI 2 (OR 1.68, 95% CI 1.10-2.56, p=0.01), and CCI ≥3 (OR 2.88, 95% CI 1.75-4.73, p<0.0001) had worse one-month mortality. One-month mortality was higher for patients treated at comprehensive community cancer center compared to those treated at academic cancer center.
 Median follow-up for surviving patients was 4.5 years (0.03-13.72). Three-year OS was 56% for private insurance and 50% for non-private insurance (Table 2, Figure 1). In Cox proportional hazard model, there was no statistically significant difference in OS based on insurance type. (Table 3). OS did decrease with increasing age. Compared to patients 65-74 years of age, the likelihood of death was higher for patients ≥75 years (Hazard ratio [HR] 1.80, 95% CI 1.57-2.07, p><0.001). OS decreased with increasing comorbidities: HR 1.31 (95% CI 1.12-1.54, p=0.0007) for CCI 1, HR 1.60 (95% CI 1.28-1.99, p<0.0001) for CCI 2, and HR 1.80 (95% CI 1.37-2.37, p<0.0001) for CCI ≥3 compared to patients with CCI of 0. OS was lower for patients treated at comprehensive community cancer center compared to those treated at academic cancer center. Higher income status and diagnosis after 2009 were associated with improved OS.
 Conclusion
 In our large database analysis, while insurance types were not associated with mortality in patients ≥65 years of age with APL, one-month mortality (about 20%) still remains high and only half of older adults are alive at 3 years. Our study highlights a significant effect of increasing age on mortality even among older adults, with approximately 2-fold higher risk of mortality among patients ≥75 years versus those 65-74 years. Other factors associated with higher mortality included treatment outside of academic centers and lower income status. Unlike younger adults, APL in older adults still has significant unmet need.
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An ingredient release spout. The ingredient release spout includes a cup (110), an ingredient capsule (120), a capsule nest (160) with the ingredient capsule (120) therein, and a base (130).


W e are acquiring undreamt-of powers for science is enabling us to act God-like upon the world and events. Yet our new abilities are an unmixed blessing for a host of new problems and difficulties are being created. At the very time when the idea is spreading that all people have equal rights to health care, our programs in nursing are generating the most glaring inequalities. How can we keep informed on new developments in our field? Today there are over 150 antibiotics, 100,000 poisons listed at anti poison centers, thousands of articles written annually just in the field of occupational health. How do we decide whose life to save? Our age pyramid is getting topheavy; people are living longer; people with genetic defects, such as diabetes and phenylketonuria, are living normal life spans; there are fewer kidney dialysis machines than there are people who need them. We cannot forget what we have learned; "we cannot escape our destiny shaped as it is by the desire for knowledge and the power to acquire It," We know how to keep more people living longer. We must take charge of our future and not accept Lenin's idea of determinism: a deterministic railroad running down a deterministic track. If we do not, we may become an Irish elk. "I rish elk ism" has been


Oncolytic adenoviruses (Ad) constitute a promising alternative for patients with solid tumors. Unfortunately, clinical trials have shown limited efficacy due to insufficient viral delivery to tumor and the ability of Ad to trigger antiviral immune response. We have previously documented enhanced Ad delivery in vivo using human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). However, a major limitation in the field is the lack of immune- and replication-competent models. In this study, we used syngeneic CMT64 cells as an immunocompetent model to analyze the antitumoral response followed by treatment with MSCs and oncolytic Ad ICOVIR5. First, we demonstrated that ICOVIR5 replicates and has cytopatic effect in CMT64 cells. To evaluate the in vivo efficacy of ICOVIR5 using MSCs as carriers, CMT64 cells were grown in mouse flanks. Once the tumors were established, mice were divided into 4 groups (n=5/group). Groups 1/2 were treated with saline and groups 3/4 with MSCs. Given the fact that mouse MSCs do not support the replication of human Ad, tumors were injected with saline (groups 1/2) or ICOVIR5 (groups 3/4) to mimic the carrier role of human MSCs. This therapy was performed weekly for 3 weeks and the tumor volumes were measured. A significant decrease in the tumor volume (p<0.05) was found in the group treated with MSCs and ICOVIR5. These results establish a potential permissive model to study immune mechanisms involved in the antitumoral effects of MSCs as carriers for oncolytic Ad.


Twenty-four 8-week old rabbits of average initial weight of 900 g were used to determine the performance, nutrient digestibility and carcass characteristics of rabbits fed graded dietary levels of boiled pigeon pea seed (Cajanus cajan) meal (PSM) diets. The experiment was in a completely randomized design (CRD) with 4 treatment diets. Treatments 1 (control), 2, 3 and 4 diets contained 0, 10, 20, and 30% boiled PSM, respectively replacing part of maize and soybean meal. There were no significant differences among the treatment diets in all the performance parameters measured. There were no significant difference among the treatments in all carcass and organ characteristics measured. It is concluded that boiled PSM could replace 20 and 43.9% of maize and soybean meal, respectively in rabbit diets constituting up to 20% of the whole ration.


The age variation of the Pinus massoniana wood tracheid was studied by analyzing 29 half-sib families of this tree species in primary seed orchard.The results showed that there were significant or extremely significant differences in the 7 indexes including tracheid width,length,length/width ratio,tracheid wall thickness,tracheid wall thickness / lumen ratio,tenderness coefficient,and rigidity coefficient of the tracheid between the early wood and the late wood at the same age.There was no significant difference in the tracheid lumen diameter among the different aged wood,but there were significant difference in the same index between the early wood and late wood.According to the tracheid morphology,it was showed the law that the wood quality of the juvenile trees was superior to that of the middle-aged trees,and the early wood was better than the late wood.The evaluation on the pulp making properties by 3 indexes i.e.,the length/width ratio,tracheid wall thickness / lumen ratio,and tenderness coefficient indicated that P.massoniana wood was excellent raw material for pulp making and paper manufacture.The fact that there was significant or extremely significant correlation between annual DBH growth rate and tracheid morphology might be taken as the indirect selection index to evaluate the paper making properties of P.massoniana wood.It might be especially suitable for the selection and improvement of P.massoniana families with plenty of genetic test material for paper making property performances.It was proposed that the qualified paper making properties requested greater annual DBH growth rate,smaller tracheid wall thickness / lumen ratio and greater tenderness coefficient.Taking pulp quality and wood production as the preconditions,15-year was determined as the reasonable felling age for P.massoniana families for pulp making plantations.


Methods of precipitation with NaOH or Na_2S and micro-electrolysis flocculation to remove Cu~(2+) and Zn~(2+) from the pesticide wastewater were studied. The factors affecting the removal efficiency were discussed. In the precipitation method the pH of the wastewater was adjusted to 8, and 0.59 g (0.48 g) the wastewater containing Cu~(2+)(Zn~(2+)). The treated filtrates containing 6 mg/L of Cu~(2+) and 1 mg/L of Zn~(2+) colud be discharged after being diluted 10 times. The effluent has no harm to microbiologic degradation.


Died.—On the 7th Sept., of phthisis, Jno. Butterfield, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, and one of the Editors of the Ohio Med. and Surg. Journal, one of the most able Medical Periodicals in the country. In the face of ob stacles presented by a feeble constitution. Prof. Butterfield at tained an honorable eminence in the Profession, and we deep ly deplore his removal from among us, in the prime of his years and usefulness.


This paper presents analysis of saliency and reluctance torque in fractional slot concentrated winding interior permanent magnet synchronous machines. First, the background of torque production in IPM machines is illustrated. The inductance characteristics of fractional slot concentrated winding IPM machines are analyzed by winding function theory. The influence of rotor topology, key parameter and rotor flux barrier on reluctance torque are investigates by finite element analysis. Finally, a design example is provided to analyze the reluctance torque contribution in fractional slot concentrated winding IPM machines.


A qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, which aimed to know the meanings attributed to the leader in the nurses' view. It was carried out in a large hospital in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul, during the months of February and March 2008, with the participation of eleven nurses. As a tool of research, a semi-structured interviews conducted in the place of study was used. The collected data were submitted to analysis of the content from which four categories emerged: Leader as agent of changes; Visionary leader; Motivational leader and Leader as a builder of friendship ties. It was possible to obtain a multiplicity of meanings, which can be considered as characteristics that facilitate the exercise of leadership, including: motivation, vision, friendship, and adaptability to situations that provide changes. Thus, we highlight the importance of nurses using the leadership as a tool to assist in the management, decision making, in interpersonal relations and in solving disputes that may arise at work.


In the this talk we outline how to bound the atomic and molecular ground state density at the nucleus by a certain explicitly given positive constant times the third power of the nuclear charge. We discuss the relation of this result with a conjecture of Lieb, the "The Strong Scott Conjecture^. We will indicate how the proof generalizes to proof this conjecture in a weak sense.


In this study, we analyzed th Cheonggyecheon watershed for urban flood risk index. SWMM model configuration based on each watershed data. And it was set as the final index calculated indicators related to the humanities, social and environmental. Each indicator was standardized and weighted using the Delphi method. Finally, select the danger area through urban flood risk index. Determined 12 indices according to the hazard and vulnerability. Vulnerability is selected the index divided by three factors. 21 watersheds were analyzed through urban flood risk index. The top of three areas of index is Jeongneung 1, Majang, Pil-dong, each index is 0.533, 0.494, 0.381. The lowest index is soongin 0.216. Urban flood risk index developed in this study can be applied to other regions in Korea for establishing national water resources management plan.


Association theory has been extensively applied to equations of state such as statistical associating fluid theory and cubic plus association. This work presents an integration of association theory with the nonrandom two-liquid segment activity coefficient (NRTL-SAC) model. Replacing the four conceptual segments (hydrophobic, hydrophilic, polar attractive, and polar repulsive) in the original NRTL-SAC model, the association NRTL-SAC model represents interacting molecules with two conceptual segments (nonpolar and polar) and two association site types (hydrogen bond acceptor and donor). Given the molecule-specific parameters, the model shows much improved predictive capability than the original NRTL-SAC model for phase equilibria of chemical mixtures in which associations take place.


Through building a taxonomy of drawing, and a set of four drawing
research studies aimed at generating innovative cross-disciplinary practices, an argument will be developed that systematised drawings such as the music notation are hybrid representational environments, sufficiently different from other inscriptive practices as to merit a separate classification. The taxonomical model will decentralise specific modes of drawing, in favour of a multi-disciplinary view appropriate to the persistence of its subject as a deeply rooted strategic and executive practice, and the four studies will engage the time-factoring of notation systems as transductive environments, setting the conditions for innovative practices both in and outside of the frame of the inscription.


A technique for intraoral radiography of the maxillary cheek teeth in large animals using strips of nonscreen and commercial dental x-ray film is described. The method was initially tested using horse cadaver heads and subsequently on three large animal patients with signs of dental disease. Limitations of the described technique include necessity for general anesthesia, special x-ray film and manual developing. Additionally, the need for very accurate adjustment of incident beam angle, beam centering point and depth in the oral cavity provide a major technical challenge. After becoming famillar with the technique, the major limitation was increased time for manual film developing. The images provided by nonscreen technique were subjectively superior. The anatomic detail of the apical and periodontal regions of the teeth was better than on survey radiographs. Nonscreen intraoral technique should be considered for anesthetized large animal patients with signs of dental disease.


Spaceborne L-band radars have the ability to penetrate vegetation canopies over forested areas, suggesting a potential for regular and frequent global monitoring of both the vegetation state and the subcanopy soil moisture. However, L-band radar's sensitivity to both vegetation and ground also complicates the relationship between the radar observations and the ecological and geophysical parameters. Accurate yet parsimonious forward models of the radar backscatter are valuable to building an understanding of these relationships. In the first part of this thesis, a model of L-band multi-polarization radar backscatter from forests, intended for use at regional to global spatial scales, is presented. Novel developments in the model include the consideration of multiple scattering within the dense vegetation canopy, and the application of a general model of plant allometry to mitigate the need for much intensive field data for training or over-tuning towards specific sites and tree species. Aided by our model, in the remainder and majority of the thesis, a detailed analysis and interpretation of L-band backscatter over global forests is performed, using data from the Aquarius and SMAP missions. Quantitative differences in backscatter predicted by our model due to freeze/thaw states, branch orientation, and flooding are partially verified against the data, and fitted values of aboveground-biomass and microwave vegetation optical depths are comparable to independent estimates in the literature. Polarization information is used to help distinguish vegetation and ground effects on spatial and temporal variations. We show that neither vegetation nor ground effects alone can explain spatial variations within the same land cover class. For temporal variations during unfrozen periods, soil moisture is found to often be an important factor at timescales of a week to several months, although vegetation changes remain a non-negligible factor. We report the observation of significant differences in backscatter depending on beam azimuthal angle, possibly due to plant phototropism. We also investigated diurnal variations, which have the potential to reveal signals related to plant transpiration. SMAP data from May-July 2015 showed that globally, co-polarized backscatter was generally higher at 6PM compared to 6AM over boreal forests, which is not what one might expect based on previous studies. Based on our modelling, increased canopy extinction at 6AM is a possible cause, but this is unproven and its true underlying physical cause undetermined. Finally, by making simplifying approximations on our forward model, we propose and explore algorithms for soil moisture retrieval under forest canopies using L-band scatterometry, with preliminary evaluations suggesting improved performance over existing algorithms.


Connective Tissue Diseases. Edited by JJF Belch and RB Zurier. (Pp 392; £79.00.) Andover: Chapman and Hall, 1995. ISBN 0 412 48620 2.

A potential problem in bringing connective tissue diseases under one heading is what we mean by the term and what to include. The editors have steered a safe route and included almost everything, although one could argue that osteoarthritis (which is not included) belongs as much as rheumatoid arthritis. In fact the latter is given a small chapter that seems rather incongruous in terms of its relative importance, and the management of important systemic manifestations such as Felty syndrome and rheumatoid vasculitis is barely …


Objective To describe the cardiac catheterization complications types and its managements in congenital heart diseases in PICU.Methods We retrospectively analyzed the cardiac catheterization complication types,incidence,death causes and managements of the 69 congenital heart drseases cases.Results The cardiac catheterization complications included respiratory depression and increased respiratory secretion,pulmonary venous stasis,heart rate dropping during operation,severe cardiac dysfunction and/or hypotension or pulmonary edema,severe arrhythmia,pericardial effusion after interventional catheterization,anoxia,hypotension after anaesthesia,allergy to angiography agent.The incidence was 1.5%.The mean interval was 30.5 hours in PICU,26.9 hours in mechanical ventilation.Four cases died of heart failure and pericardial effusion.Conclusion The incidence of cardiac catheterization complications in children congenital heart diseases in PICU is very low.The first three complications were respiratory disease,heart disease and anoxia.We should deal with the complications according to the types and severity.


Artificial oviposition substrates with various perforation diameters were used to study changes in aculeus anatomy of Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann). A laboratory strain, selected to oviposit into a small-mesh substrate with mean perforation diameter (MPD) of 0.19 mm, was compared with parental stock (line 1) which was adapted to oviposit into perforated plastic containers with 0.31 mm MPD. The aculeus widths of the laboratory strain were significantly narrower than those of the parental stock in the 12th and 22nd generations. To confirm these results, two additional strains were established from the parental stock by using different MPD substrates (0.19 and 0.27 mm). Aculeus widths were studied for each of 10 generations in these strains. Aculei were significantly narrower in both additional lines than in the parental stock. When laboratory strains were compared with wild flies, the aculei of wild strains were significantly narrower than those of laboratory flies. The significance of directional selection for the narrowed aculei in laboratory flies is discussed with reference to the aculeus widths of wild flies.


The purpose of this study is to develop a convenient skin temperature measuring method which can predict the elderly person's thermal sensation. It is meaningful as a basic research to show the new guideline about thermal environment when planning in an experiment. ASHRAE 7 point thermal sensation scale and 4 point thermal comfort scale were used to measure subjects' thermal sensation. The experiment on chamber was conducted, Temperature was controlled to one of those three temperature levels(20℃, 25℃, and 30℃ in 50% level of relative humidity). Chamber was controlled to one of those three temperature levels. Each subject participated in all three conditions. They answered to the paper about thermal sensation with measuring the skin temperature in each condition. All subjects waited in pre-chamber for 30 minutes before they enter the chamber. Subject's skin temperature was measured in every 10 seconds and thermal sensation was marked in every 15minutes. they are exposed to the thermal environment of chamber for 100 minutes.


Aim: In this study, it was aimed to investigate the malignancy rates of nondiagnostic (ND) thyroid fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) material by evaluating either the result of the second FNAC or resection/biopsy materials.Method: Among the 1165 thyroid FNAC cases evaluated in the Pathology Department of Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital within 9 months (October 2020-June 2021), 102 cases (8,7%) diagnosed with ND were included in the study. At the end of the 6-15 months follow-up period after the diagnosis of ND, the results of the second FNAC or resection (thyroidectomy, lobectomy)/biopsy of the cases were evaluated. Diameter and sonographic features of thyroid nodules (solid, cystic, mixed) were also noted.Results: 49% of the cases (n:50) had a second FNAC. Resection/biopsy was performed in only 12 (11,8%) cases. Of these 62 cases, 39 were diagnosed by second FNAC and 7 by resection/biopsy as benign (74,1%), and 5 cases were diagnosed as malignant by resection/biopsy. 7 cases were diagnosed as nondiagnostic again after the second FNAC. Final diagnosis (by resection) of the case whose second FNAC result was reported as suspicious for malignancy was papillary microcarcinoma. This case was included in the group 'diagnosed as malignant only by resection/biopsy. In other words, malignancy was detected in 5 of 62 patients who underwent a second FNAC or resection/biopsy. The risk of malignancy was found to be 8% in the patient population included in the study with the diagnosis of ND.Conclusion: A low rate of NE results were found in this ultrasound-guided thyroid series (8,7%). After the second FNAC or resection, malignancy rates was found to be 8%. Although this result is compatible with the results of some studies, it is considerably lower than others. It would be appropriate to follow up on ND nodules with their clinical/sonographic features. Additional studies with large series will be more helpful in determining the malignancy rates of the ND group.


Vehicular communications are expected to enable the development of Intelligent Cooperative Systems for solving crucial problems related to mobility: road safety, traffic management etc. Information and Communication Technologies could also play an important role in order to optimise the energy management of conventional, hybrid and electrical vehicles and, thus, to reduce their environment impact. In particular, vehicular communications could be used to predict driving conditions with the objective to determine future load power demand. An adaptive energy management strategy for series Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) based on genetic algorithm optimised maps and the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) predictor is presented here.


Refractive index sensing is attracting extensive interest in sensing fields using terahertz technology. For improving the performance of terahertz sensors, a sensing scheme based on high-density polyethylene sunflower-type circular photonic crystal structure is proposed. The designed sensor in this paper contains two symmetrical sample cells surrounding a cavity in a circular photonic crystal. The sensor characteristics depending on the structure parameters are numerically investigated. Finally, a sensitivity of 7828 nm RIU−1, Q-factor of 185.91 and figure of merit of 1.89 are realized. This work is expected to lay the foundation of realization of high-performance terahertz wave sensors and may find potential applications in biological and chemical sensing.


Students' low or poor academic achievement in mathematics at all levels in Nigerian educational system is very worrisome. This study, therefore, investigated, using pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research design, the extent which Guided and Unguided Multiple Choice Objective Questions Tests (GMCOQT and UMCOQT) improved the academic achievement of students in Senior School Mathematics in Delta State Capital Territory, Nigeria. The sample comprised 640 Students from four co-education secondary schools, randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. Four research questions and four null hypotheses guided this study. Three instruments, Comparative Achievement Test (CAT) 1, 2, and 3 were used to collect data. Difference in Mean Academic Achievement was subjected to z-test statistic and was significant in favor of the experimental group. Implications and recommendations for future research were advanced. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2016.v6n2p193


Value management (VM) studies often face pressure caused by limited time and resources. The identification of key factors for value management success enables appropriate allocation of the limited time and resources in order to achieve better output. Most of the related past work only identified critical success factors for value management studies in general. This paper seeks to distinguish these factors according to their degrees of importance in relation to success. A questionnaire survey was conducted to gather views from experts with experience in value management practice. The findings of the survey reveal the relative importance of the nominated success factors. Two factors that had not been highlighted by previous research are identified as having a significant influence on the success of VM studies. In order to explore the underlying construction among the identified critical success factors (CSFs), factor analysis was adopted to investigate the cluster of the relationship. The results indicate that the success of VM studies requires a combined effort from all parties involved.


Objective: To establish a RP-HPLC method for the simultaneous determination of eight hydrophilic and four lipophilic compounds including sodium danshensu, caffeic acid, isoferulic acid, salvianolic acid D,rosmarinic acid, lithospermic acid, salvianolic acid B, salvianolic acid A, 1,2-dihydrotanshinquinone, cryptotanshinone, tanshinone Ⅰ, tanshinone ⅡA in Salvia przewalskii Maxim.Methods: The HPLC separation was performed on a Shim-pack XR-ODS Ⅱ(75 mm×2.0 mm, 2.2 μm) column at 30 ℃.The mobile phases consisted of acetonitrile-0.12% formic acid solution with gradient elution at a flow rate of 0.2 m L·min-1.The UV detection wavelength was 270 nm, the injection volume was 4 μL.Results: The complete separation was obtained within 50 minutes for the 12 compounds.The linear ranges of sodium danshensu, caffeic acid, isoferulic acid, salvianolic acid D, rosmarinic acid, lithospermic acid, salvianolic acid B, salvianolic acid A, 1,2-dihydrotanshinquinone, cryptotanshinone, tanshinone Ⅰ, tanshinone Ⅱ A were 0.22-22.3 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 8,n=6), 0.05-4.91 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 8,n=6), 0.18-18.25 μg·mL -1 (r=1.000,n=6), 0.28-28.40 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 9,n=6), 13.50-1 349.89 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 9,n=6), 0.23-23.22 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 7,n=6), 9.93-993.16 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 8,n=6), 0.04-3.87 μg·mL -1 (r=1.000,n=6), 0.81-81.33 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 8,n=6), 0.87-86.85 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 9,n=6), 0.67-67.47 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 4,n=6) and 1.01-101.12 μg·mL -1 (r=0.999 8,n=6), respectively.The average recoveries(n=6) of sodium danshensu, caffeic acid, isoferulic acid, salvianolic acid D, rosmarinic acid, lithospermic acid, salvianolic acid B, salvianolic acid A, 1,2-dihydrotanshinquinone, cryptotanshinone, tanshinone Ⅰ, tanshinone ⅡA were 99.2%(RSD=1.7%), 99.7%(RSD=1.4%), 101.0%(RSD=2.0%), 99.7%(RSD=2.1%), 99.5%(RSD=1.9%), 101.2%(RSD=1.9%), 100.8%(RSD=1.7%), 100.7%(RSD=1.8%), 101.6%(RSD=1.5%), 100.7%(RSD=1.6%), 100.5%(RSD=1.4%) and 100.0%(RSD=1.7%), respectively.Conclusion: The method was validated to be simple, accurate, selective, and sensitive, which can be used for simultaneous determination of eight hydrophilic and four lipophilic components in Salvia przewalskii Maxim.and the quality control of Salvia przewalskii Maxim.and as the reference of the quality control of Salvia przewalskii Maxim.preparations.


When the transmission line is very long or the generator is operated at a power factor nearly equal to 1.0, the machine regulated by an automatic voltage regulator (AVR) cannot be operated stably due to poor dynamic stability. To overcome this difficulty, the so called power system stabilizer (PSS) is very useful, in that output power or rotor speed of the generator is used as a feedback signal. The primary obective of the PSS is to damp the swing of the generator as quickly as possible. A method is proposed for designing PSS which yields a given eigenvalue. In the second method, the use of a Heffron-Phillips model is discussed. Next, a detailed procedure for the proposed design method is presented. A generalized method of a PSS design based on Park's equation and matrix operation is proposed.


Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland WorldFish, Abbassa Research Center, Sharkia, Egypt National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Cairo, Egypt International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya WorldFish, Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


Abstract Objective The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS) is widely used to measure the construct of perfectionism. Previous studies evaluating the factor structure of the FMPS have reported inconsistent findings. The study objective was to examine the psychometric properties of proposed four, five, and six factor solutions of the FMPS using Rasch analysis. Method Using the responses from a sample of New Zealand athletes and exercisers (n = 425) from a variety of sports, we subjected the dataset to Rasch analysis. The overall and individual item fit, unidimensionality, local independence, and person separation reliability were evaluated by treating factors of each model as subtests. Results After disordered thresholds were uniformly rescored, the factor Organisation displayed significant misfit to the model across all three solutions tested. Removal of Organisation and combining two parental facets into one resulted in adequate model fit and good item discrimination ability for all three solutions. The modified six‐factor model was the best in terms of reliability, with no differential item functioning and the highest person separation index. Conclusion The present results support the psychometric properties and internal structural validity of the rescored FMPS with the parental factors combined and without the Organisation facet. Psychometric properties of the instrument can be further enhanced by using the ordinal‐to‐interval conversion table presented here, which does not require modification of the original response format. These findings will be of interest in different areas where accurate assessment of the overall perfectionism trait is important and open new avenues for perfectionism research.


This article discusses the intellectual migration of Kazakhstanis who completed their studies at foreign universities. Based on the results of in-depth interviews with 22 Kazakh graduates of foreign universities living abroad, the motives and reasons for their moving to other countries are analyzed, the process of transforming educational migration into intellectual migration is studied, and the factors affecting the willingness of Kazakhstanis to return to their homeland are considered. The results of the study showed that the main reasons for migrating abroad are: family circumstances, the possibility of fully applying competencies and acquired knowledge, gaining professional experience, as well as a high level of economic development, comfort and security, transparency in employment process and satisfactory wages in recipient countries. Meanwhile, according to the study, the factors that push out highly qualified specialists from Kazakhstan are: lack of career prospects, low wages, disagreement with the current political system and climatic conditions.


This report describes the legacy sample disposition project at the Idaho Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), which assessed Site-wide facilities/areas to locate legacy samples and owner organizations and then characterized and dispositioned these samples. This project resulted from an Idaho Department of Environmental Quality inspection of selected areas of the INEEL in January 1996, which identified some samples at the Test Reactor Area and Idaho Chemical Processing Plant that had not been characterized and dispositioned according to Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requirements. The objective of the project was to manage legacy samples in accordance with all applicable environmental and safety requirements. A systems engineering approach was used throughout the project, which included collecting the legacy sample information and developing a system for amending and retrieving the information. All legacy samples were dispositioned by the end of 1997. Closure of the legacy sample issue was achieved through these actions.


The influences of impeller types, baffle configurations and gas sparger on critical suspension speed for settling particle with aeration in an agitated vessel of 386 mm diameter equipped with a multideck impeller (such as three-blade back-curve impeller, pitched-blade turbine and simple axial-flow impeller) and different types of baffles (finger baffle, curved tube baffle) and spargers (ring sparger and tube baffle-sparger) were tested. Experimental observation and data on critical suspension speed provide useful reference for scale-up and design of agitated vessels for solid suspension.


Molecular dynamics studies of concentrated aqueous urea solutions, with urea mole fraction ranging from 0.04 to 0.25, have been performed, essentially focussed on the study of the tendency of urea to self-aggregate. Four of the existing urea models have been studied herein, with number of particles of N = 256 and N = 864. It was generally found that unusually long MD runs were required in order to reach proper thermodynamic equilibrium, and particularly so for the N = 256 systems. This slow convergence of the trajectories is related here to the urea self-aggregation tendency that appears in our calculation not to be limited to pairing processes only. Moreover, no evidence for urea dimerization has been found in the present calculations. Evidence for urea self-aggregation is the most visible in the structural properties, particularly in the way density–density correlations decay to their unit asymptotic limit. Densities, energies, diffusion constants, and structural data have been calculated for all models, and compared with corresponding experimental data. This comparison allows a classification of the different models in terms of their relative agreements with experimental data. Urea aggregation appears to be quite different for different models. ©2002 American Institute of Physics.


The Genetic Studies of Genius study, begun by Lewis Terman in 1921, is the longest running continuous psychological investigation. Recruitment through 1928 yielded a final sample of 1,528 Californian children of high intelligence. The participants have been studied and surveyed about their personalities, education, careers, successes, marriages, families, and well-being every 5–10 years throughout life. The results reveal that, even within an intelligent sample, psychological and social characteristics interact with the environment to set individuals on lifelong pathways toward health and thriving, or toward illness and stagnation throughout the lifespan.

Keywords:

giftedness;
health;
lifespan and development psychology;
personality;
Terman, Lewis


Employing discrete B-splines instead of the Gaussian distribution, we construct an algorithm for the analysis of ionmobility spectrometry profiles. The algorithm is suitable for hardware implementation because the discrete B-splines are supported by a simple digital filter to compute their weighted sum and their correlations with a given signal. Minutely shifted discrete B-splines are deployed of which weighted sum is to approximate a given profile with non-negative weights. Closely neighboring discrete B-splines are almost linearly dependent so that they may cause numerical instability in the approximation process. But numerical experiments deny this anxiety at least for the final results. Varying the width of discrete B-splines, we obtain a number of different approximations. Out of sufficiently precise approximations, we choose the sparse one in the sense that it comprises few discrete B-splines with large weights.


Abstract : Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq have been largely successful but there have been substantial growing pains. The United States went through similar growing pains during the Vietnam War and after multiple reorganizations the pacification efforts were consolidated under a civilian deputy who reported directly to General Westmoreland. Ambassador Komer was the individual selected to run the pacification effort also known as the Civil Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS) program. Regardless of how the Vietnam War ended there is substantial evidence that the CORDS program was working. This project looks to examine the CORDS experience and compare those efforts with the PRT experience in Iraq. The research reveals that many of the lessons learned in Vietnam were relearned in Iraq, particularly those dealing with unity of effort. The findings conclude that a careful review of the past operations is critical before new initiatives are tried in a combat zone and that in the future we can and should do better.


Software crowdsourcing is an emerging approach to software engineering with great potential for the subdivision and assignment of large-scale tasks. However, because of the centralization of the traditional crowdsourcing platform, information disclosure and nontransparent accounting may be difficult to avoid. To address this issue, we first introduce a novel blockchain-enabled crowdsourcing platform that integrates the functions of task assignment and resource lending via two dedicated smart contracts. Second, to ensure financial stability in the blockchain-enabled market and to match the difficulty of the received tasks with the ability of the workers, we design a dynamic, hierarchical pricing mechanism based on economic modeling methods and heterogeneous agent theory. With this mechanism, the market is divided dynamically into multiple levels according to the remuneration of the customers' offer and the market value of the workers' resources. Additional constraints are proposed to avoid possible malicious trading behavior from workers in the resource lending process. We prove theoretically the rationality of our model and demonstrate the dynamics of the model. We show that the market price and demand can be convergent and test the cost of executing the two smart contracts. Finally, extensive experimental results demonstrate the correctness and feasibility of the platform and confirm that the hierarchical pricing mechanism can maintain the stability of the market.


Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of changing the foot progression angle (FPA) on muscular activity of the lower extremity in 21 healthy male and female subjects in their 20s.
Methods/Statistical analysis: After electromyographic (EMG) electrodes were positioned over the tibialis anterior (TA) and gastrocnemius (GCM) muscles, subjects underwent gait evaluation under three PFA magnitudes ( -10°, 10°, 30°) to measure the root mean square (RMS). Multivariate Analysis of Variance was used for statistical analysis along with Tukey's post-hoc test. An alpha of 0.5 is considered to be statistically significant.
Findings: Comparison of changes in muscle activity of the TA and GCM during walking under different FPA magnitudes revealed no significant difference during –10° toe-in and 30° toe-out gaits. However, during 10° normal gait, the total activity of the two muscles was significantly lower on both sides in comparison with those found during –10° toe-in and 30° toe-out gaits.
Improvements/Applications: It will be necessary to conduct further study with subjects who actually walk with either toe-in gait pattern or toe-out gait pattern to ensure the impact of their gait patterns.


Today, mankind has realized that his existence depends on the preservation of the environment and animals that the most important of which are water resources such as rivers and oceans. Therefore, we constantly need to ensure their protection. One of the best possible ways to observe the underwater world is through robotic fish. So far, many researchers have been conducted on how tooptimize the function of the robotic fish. In this project, only the mechanism of the fish body movements is considered. In fish swimming, there are mainly two types of propulsion, i.e., the Body and/or Caudal Fin (BCF) propulsion [1,2] and the Medium and/or Paired Fin (MPF) propulsion [3,4].Most of the fast swimmers adopt BCF, such as sailfish, tuna, pike, etc. In fact, around 85 % of fish species swim in BCF form. Examples for MPF swimmers are manta ray and box fish. In robot fish development, high speed and high efficiency are the main pursuits. As a result, most of existing robot fish adopts BCF as the way to generate thrust.


The present text outlines the school reforms carried out in the first half of the nineteenth century. As the timeframe suggests, these reforms were launched and implemented by the then authorities of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Russian authorities administering the Russian part of partitioned Poland. The author attempts to indicate the most important goals and assumptions of thereforms as well as their immediate educational and social consequences. The text is far from being a comprehensive description of the problem but rather serves as an introduction to the substance of the issue under investigation and its political and economic conditioning.


In this paper, we predict a maximum electric field strength of WCDMA base station using a pilot channel in a code domain. In order to verify the feasibility of our method, we compare our predicted value on a self-designed test base station with a general electric field strength measurement value at a full-traffic load condition and with a calculated value by a ray-tracing technique. Predicted results show above 90 % agreement with the general measurement and calculation values. We also show that our prediction method can be applied to electric field measurement on a real operating base station. Therefore, it is concluded that our prediction method be an effective method to measure a maximum electric field strength in a base station inspection test.


PART ONE: DISCOURSES OF RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND THE NATURE OF MAN I. Rick Kennedy The Alliance Between Puritanism and Cartesian Logic at Harvard, 1687-1735 II. Wallace E. Anderson Immaterialism in Jonathan Edwards' Early Philosophical Notes III. Stephen R. Yarbrough Jonathan Edwards on Rhetorical Authority IV. Jeffrey Jeske Cotton Mather Physico-Theologian V. Norman S. Fiering Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism VI. David Bidney The Idea of the Savage in North American Ethnohistory VII. John C. Greene The American Debate on the Negro's Place in Nature, 1780-1815 VIII. Donald J. D'Elia Dr. Benjamin Rush and the Negro IX. S. Gerald Sandler Lockean Ideas in Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom X. Ralph L Ketcham James Madison and the Nature of Man XI. Constance B. Schulz John Adams on "The Best of All Possible Worlds" XII. Joseph L Blau Joel Barlow, Enlightened Religionist PART TWO: DISCOURSES OF POLITICS AND NATION XIII. Michael J. Kammen XIV. Lester H. Cohen XV. Gilbert Chinard XVI. William H. Riker XVII. Roy Branson XVIII. J. W. Cooke XIX. David M. Post XX Marcello Maestro XXI. Gary Kates XXII. Edwin A. Miles XXIII. V. P. Bynack XXIV. Richard Hofstadter XV. J. G. A. Pocock The Meaning of Colonization in American Revolutionary Thought The American Revolution and Natural Law Theory Polybius and the American Constitution Dutch and American Federalism James Madison and the Scottish Enlightenment Jefferson on Liberty Jeffersonian Revisions of Locke: Education, Property-Rights, and Liberty Benjamin Franklin and the Penal Laws From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man The Young American Nation and the Classical World Noah Webster's Linguistic Thought and the Idea of an American National Culture Parrington and the Jeffersonian Tradition Between Gog and Magog: The Republican Thesis and the Ideologia Americana.


Key Points Question What is the availability and comprehensiveness of family history information in electronic health records (EHRs) and how are these associated with clinical decision support algorithms? Findings In this EHR quality improvement study that included 522 105 primary care patients, significant differences were found in family history availability and comprehensiveness based on sex, race and ethnicity, and language preference. Meaning These findings suggest inadvertent exclusion of patients in historically medically underserved groups from identification by clinical decision support tools that depend on family history input, potentially further exacerbating or creating new health care disparities.


What are the implications of living in a gender system that recognizes "two and only two" genders? For those individuals whose "gender displays" are inappropriate, there can be a variety of consequences, many of them negative. In this article, the author provides an analysis of her experiences as a woman whose appearance often leads to gender misattribution. She discusses the consequences of the gender system for her identity and her interactions. The author also examines Lorber's assertion that "gender bending" actually serves to perpetuate gender categories rather than to break them down, and she suggests how her experiences might contradict Lorber's argument. Using her biography to examine the social construction of gender, she both illustrates and extends theoretical work in this area.


The effects of sonic boom propagation through nonstandard atmospheres have been studied. Variations in atmospheric temperature, pressure, humidity, and winds can have significant impact on the structure of the shock waves in the boom signal, as well as the propagation path of the boom. In the study, a hybrid time‐frequency domain code was used to calculate finely resolved sonic boom signals for a variety of atmospheric conditions. Idealized near–field signals for low amplitude ''N‐wave'' and ''shaped'' booms were used to calculate ground level signals. The perceived level metric of Stevens [''Perceived level of noise by Mark VII and decibels (E),'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 51, 575–601 (1972)] was used to quantify the loudness of the calculated booms. Results of the study will be used to determine the impact of atmospheric variations on the acceptability of sonic booms from future supersonic cruise aircraft.


Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is the main cause of mortality worldwide and despite the adherence to guidelines it is still burdened by an unacceptable risk for cardiovascular (CV) events recurrence, highlighting the need to identify other than traditional cardiovascular risk factors (CVrF) implicated in atherosclerotic plaque instability. In this regard, psychosocial stress appears to be a crucial player in the development of CV disease. Nevertheless, stress is not easy to standardize and the mechanisms by which it promotes coronary artery disease (CAD) are poorly understood.

 We therefore prospectively enrolled patients with ACS, stable coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and subjects presenting traditional CVrF but without established CV disease. Multimodality cortisol assessment, expression of acute and chronic stress, through blood, urine and hair samples collection was ascertained at baseline. A regression analysis was performed to assess the relationships between significant variables at univariate analysis.

 Fifty patients were enrolled in the present study. Cortisol levels in blood and urine were numerically higher in patients with ACS compared to CAD patients and subjects with traditional CVrF only. Hair cortisol levels did not differ between the three groups. The regression analysis showed an inverse correlation (R= -,532, p<0.001 and R=-,615, p<0.001 respectively) between urinary cortisol (UC) and UC/creatinine ratio and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).

 The preliminary results of our study showed that patients with ACS did not have significantly higher levels of hair cortisol compared to stable patients. The finding of an inverse relationship between higher UC, UC/C ratio levels and lower LVEF values support a link between a hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and a worse ACS presentation. These preliminary data will be implemented with serial multimodality assessment of cortisol that allow potential implications in diagnosis and outcome.


[Objective]To explore the related factors of the emergent events,provide basis and strategies for effective control and prevention of the occurrence of the disease.[Methods]Epidemic and emergent event data of hand-foot-disease in Zhongshan district in Dalian in 2009 were analyzed.[Results]Altogether 7 events of public health emergency of hand-foot-mouth disease were reported in Dalian in 2009,and 91 cases were reported in 6 kindergartens,no death case was reported.The cases reported in kindergartens accounted for 33.70% of the total cases(270) reported in the district at the same time.Of the 7 events,1 event was reported in June,evolving 15 patients,3 and 3 events in July and August involving 43 and 33 patients respectively,4 and 3 events were reported in public and private kindergartens,involving 51 and 40 patients.The incidence rate was 8.40% and 17.94% respectively(P0.01).Stool examination was conducted for 91 child cases,8 of them were positive for EV71.[Conclusion]The events of public health emergency of hand-foot-mouth disease were reported in kindergartens and it may be transmitted by close contacts.


The climate impacts of future urbanization in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region in China were simulated with the Dynamics of Land Systems (DLS) model and the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model in this study. The land use and land cover data in 2000 and 2020 were simulated with the DLS model based on the regional development planning. Then the spatial and temporal changes of surface air temperature, ground heat flux, and regional precipitation in 2020 were quantified and analyzed through comparing simulation results by WRF. Results show that the built-up land will become the dominant land use type in the PRD in 2020. Besides, the near-surface air temperature shows an increasing trend on the whole region in both summer and winter, but with some seasonal variation. The urban temperature rise is more apparent in summer than it is in winter. In addition, there is some difference between the spatial pattern of precipitation in summer and winter in 2020; the spatial variation of precipitation is a bit greater in summer than it is in winter. Results can provide significant reference for the land use management to alleviate the climate change.


Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm has shown great potential in civilian and military applications. Consequently, there is a high demand for accurate UAV swarm detection and information estimation. In this paper, a detection and information extraction approach for UAV swarm is proposed. First of all, in response to resolving the closely spaced UAVs, we use the pulse compression technique in range dimension and super-resolution technique in azimuth dimension, and we can get a super-resolution result. Subsequently, a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection-clustering algorithm is used in the super-resolution result to detect the targets in the UAV swarm and estimate the number of targets. Lastly, the contour estimation of the UAV swarm is obtained by a convex hull algorithm used in the CFAR detection-clustering result. In addition, simulation results are given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


The present paper develops a theoretical sociological analysis that
approaches the Web as an entity situated within the logics of the
contemporary societies. Among the traits of the today's Western
civilizations, the visibility of the self and the struggle for
recognition inherent to the current stage of capitalism are
regarded as important analytical tools in order to understand
emerging uses of the Web.


Objective To compare two different methods of fibrinogen detection and explore its clinical application. Methods To detect different level fibrinogen by Von Clauss method and PT-derived method with ACL-7000 Coagulation system. Results There is no significantly statistical difference(P0.05) when the level of fibrinogen is lower than 2g/L or between 2g/L and 4g/L. There is significantly statistical defference(P0.02) when the level of fibrinogen is higher than 4g/L. Result of PT-derived method is significantly higher than it of Von Clauss method. Conclusion PT-derived method may replace Von Clauss in the fibrinogen detection when the level of fibrinogen is lower than 2g/L or between 2g/L and 4g/L. Fibrinogen is detected with Von Clauss method when the level of fibrinogen is higher than 4g/L.


The development of murine endochondral bone and bone marrow as a result of demineralized bone matrix implantation is preceded by the accumulation and proliferation of colony forming cell fibroblasts. These cells appear first at 24 hours post-implantation, after which they increase in 2 swells, achieving peak number between days 10-14. The observed differences in developmental kinetics of colony forming cell fibroblasts in culture were not found to be related to qualitative differences in the synthesis of collagens, fibronectin, laminin or proteoglycans. The colony forming cell fibroblasts were shown to be radiosensitive, with the Do = 339 +/- 63.


Takatani, S., T. Nakatani, H. Takano, T. Tanaka, M. Umezu , S. Adachi, H. Noda, S.F ukuda, T. Matsuda, H. Iwata, T. Nakamura, and T. Akutsu. Problems and progress of TAH study with goats and calves. Since 1984, the feasibility study of circulatory maintenance with a pair of pneumatically operated pusher-plate type TAH was carried out in 16 goats and 6 calves. Although both goats and calves could stand up on themselves after the pump implantation, the longest survival time was 48 hours . The motor problems common to both goats and calves include poor lung function, acidosis , volume loss, and peripheral circulatory failure. The blood lactate data revealed that acidosis could be caused either by inadequate pump flow or obstruction of blood flow in the capillary level by WBCs or micro-emboli.


There were a lot of advantages that we could obtain through the use of thermostable microorganism for ethanol production. Ethanol concentration and temperature were two important factors affecting yeast fermentation. While the two factors were interactional and increasing, fatty acid composition and heat shock proteins in the cells would change and yeast tolerance would decrease.


Global climatic changes during the last glacial and deglacial have been related to variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Here, we present new and refined 231Pa/230Th down‐core profiles extending back to 30 ka BP from the northwestern Atlantic along the Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current, which is the main component of the southward deep backflow of the AMOC. Besides the well‐known Bermuda Rise records, available high‐resolution 231Pa/230Th data in the northwestern Atlantic are still sparse. Our new records along with reconstructions of deep water provenance from Nd isotopes constrain the timing and magnitude of past changes in AMOC from an additional northwestern Atlantic region forming a depth transect between 3,000‐ and 4,760‐m water depth. Our extended and improved data set confirms the weakening of the AMOC during deglacial cold spells such as Heinrich Event 1 and the Younger Dryas interrupted by a reinvigoration during the Bølling‐Allerød interstadial as seen in the prominent 231Pa/230Th records from the Bermuda Rise. However, in contrast to the Bermuda Rise records, we find a clearly reduced circulation strength during the Last Glacial Maximum in the deep Atlantic.


Specialty Offering can reflect character and social function of higher vocational colleges.Higher vocational education must stress own peculiarity and principle,not copy the pattern of common higher education.


Objective:To explore the main points of nursing for severe craniocerebral injury patients with hibernation hypothermia therapy.Methods:To analyze and summarize nursing ways for severe craniocerebral injury patients with hibernation hypothermia therapy respectantly and their effects.Result:The 17 cases can spend hibernation hypothermia therapy stage successfully.Conclusion:To conduct perfect nursing measure can make severe craniocerebral injury patients pass successfully the critical period,reduce complication,drop the disability rate during hibernation hypothermia stage.


4040 Introduction: Oxaliplatin (OXA) significantly enhances the efficacy of 5-Fluorouracil (FU)-based chemotherapy (CT) in metastatic and radically resected, early stage colon cancer. Weekly OXA, a...


Thank you very much for reading geometry in architecture texas buildings yesterday and today. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search numerous times for their chosen readings like this geometry in architecture texas buildings yesterday and today, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some harmful virus inside their computer.


This study was conducted to determine the effect of work motivation and job satisfaction on organizational commitment. The population amounted to 214 employees and the samples were 145 people. The sampling method was judgment sampling. The analytical method was multiple linear regression. The results indicated that work motivation variable had a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment. Job satisfaction also had a positive and significant influence on organizational commitment. Work motivation and job satisfaction had the same influence on organizational commitment and job satisfaction dominated. The increase in employee motivation was expected to help the company in increasing employee's job satisfaction that directly affected the commitment of employees.


Simulation and Analysis of smoke obscuring the millimeter-wave guided weapons is given,through analyzing the attenuation and obscured characteristics of smoke and the characteristics of millimeter-wave radar based on battlefield environment analysis.The surface density of millimeter-wave radar model is established under both of a continuous point source and the instantaneous point source of covered smoke.Finally,simulation models and analysis are built.


The growing concern of government agencies for safe shipment of radioactive materials, both in this country and in Europe, has resulted in a number of proposed regulations governing every phase of shipment including the design of the cask or container, There have been requests during the last year for increased shipments of irradiated bismuth from Hanford. This radioactive material has been shipped in the B-cask to the off-site processing plant for several years. These two factors, proposed regulations and increased demand for the product, have created a need for an engineering evaluation of the cask currently being used. While it is evident on casual inspection that the B-cask design would not meet certain requirements of the proposed regulations, it is necessary that a detailed study of the design be made to determine if modifications to the cask are practical for continued use under new regulations and whether additional casks should be of a new design as required by increased shipments of the product. The purpose of this design evaluation study is to: (a) Evaluate the integrity of the B-cask design in accordance with criteria published in document HW-76476, which is based primarily upon proposed regulations of the Atomic Energy Commissionmore » and the Interstate Commerce Commission; and (b) Determine whether the B-cask can be modified for continued use if the proposed regulations are formally issued in essentially the same form as proposed.« less


Objective:To study the relationship.of angiogenesis and malignant degree of clinical pathology of meningioma.Methods:Forty-two meningioma tissues were examined for CD34 endothelial antigen by using SP immunohistochemical method to label new growth microvessel,the microvessel density(MVD) of tumors were calculated;the relationship of angiogenesis and malignant degree of clinical pathology of meningioma was analyzed by statistics.Results:The MVD of gradeⅠmeningioma was(20.05±2.02).The MVD of grade-Ⅱmeningioma was(31.45±4.02).The MVD of grade-Ⅲ meningioma was(39.23±5.7).Analysis of variance revealed that three sets of data have statistcal significance of differences.(F=39.63,P0.01).Conclusion:With the Pathological grade of meningioma higher,the MVD was greater.The MVD may be an important indicator for biological behavior,predicting the prognosis and Guiding treatment of meningiomas.


Williams Dennis Masamitsu:
Postgraduate Thesis
Factors That Influence Prospective Buyer's Decisions to Buy Luxury Apartment in Surabaya

This research aims to find out factors that influence prospective buyer's decision to buy luxury apartment in Surabaya. Data which were collected through online survey from 68 respondent from various city in Indonesia who have the desire to buy luxury apartments in Surabaya. Research gap in this study is that researchers add 2 new variables that have not been studied before. These variables are the another apartments costs and property management.
This type of research is quantitative causal.  This research used regression models to analyze the effect of price and scheme, another apartment costs, motivation, lifestyle, environment and relation, location, facility, building design and structure, property management, and promotion on prospective buyers to buying decision to luxury apartment in Surabaya. The result showed that simultaneously all the variable have positive and significant influence on consumer buying decision. Partially, the result showed that environment and relation, building design and structure, and property management has the most dominant effect on prospective buying


Four-year universities exhibit very low two-year retention within engineering fields. Community colleges represent an attractive source to replace those cohort losses with upper division transfer students. The community college system, however, is often used inefficiently by those students, who often find that they have much longer courses of study remaining after they arrive at a university to study engineering. Summer internships that expose community college students to the university environment and to engineering design processes are a valuable tool to ease student transition. Distance education offerings of introductory engineering courses improve curriculum efficiency. Increased student awareness and communication with university faculty and specialized advisors will improve student recruiting and retention through this valuable state resource.


This chapter addresses the impact of uncertainty and learning for the success international climate agreements. The analysis is based on a simple a stylized coalition formation model, considering three learning scenarios and three types of uncertainty. We show, different from previous studies, that the "veil of uncertainty" is generally not conducive to the success of international agreements, even in a setting of strategic interaction. That is, we find that, usually "the more we learn the better it is". Moreover, for those cases where more information leads to less successful agreements, we propose a mechanism to mitigate the negative impact of learning.


This experiment was conducted to compare the agronomic characteristics and productivity of introduced crimson clover cultivars at paddy field of Naju(Jeollanam-Do Agricultural Research and Extension) from 2004 to 2006. The crimson clover cultivars used in this study were 4 varieties(`Oregon com.` `Tibbee`, `Contea`, `Linkarus`) The fastest flowering variety was chinese milk vetch, while `Linkarus` was the latest one as of as 5th May. The average dry matter(DM) content was 24.3% and crude protein(CP) content was 14.9%. `Oregon com.` showed the highest CP content of 18.3% among crimson clover and Chinese milk vetch showed the highest CP content by 19.3%. Average acid detergent fiber(ADF), neutral detergent fiber(NDF) and total digestible nutrient(TDN) content were 35.1%, 45.3% and 58.9%, respectively. With by the winter hardness the productivity of crimson clover cultivars were severely various. Linkarus showed the highest DM yield with 6,986kg/ha but the DM yield of `Tibbee` and `Oregon com.` was low by 3,639 kg/ha and 1,980kg/ha, respectively. The results of this experiments indicated that the productivity of crimson clover cultivar varied from winter hardness, therefore we will consider the winter hardness as major factor when introducing crimson clover cultivars into Korea. According to the results obtained from this study, it is suggested that `Linkarus` would be recommendable for fall sown crimson clover for dry matter production.


Metalworking fluids from palm oils are desirable as the alternative to mineral oil that possesses negative effects on humans and environment. The aim of this study is to evaluate the tribological and machining performances of the modified refined, bleached and deodorized (RBD) palm olein-based lubricants (MRPOs) containing low number of additives during the tapping torque and orthogonal cutting processes. The additives that were mixed in the neat MRPO were 0.05 wt. % of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) particles and 1 wt. % of phosphonium-based ionic liquid (PIL). The rheological properties of these MRPOs are also analyzed. Results showed that high synergistic effects of the additives being blended in the MRPOs have exhibited excellent rheological properties and machining performances with high tapping torque efficiency and low cutting force and temperature in comparison with the commercial synthetic ester-based cutting fluid. They prove to have a great potential to substitute the mineral oil-based metalworking fluids in regard to the increasing demands of environment and health concerns for a sustainable manufacturing activity.


I discuss some aspects of the Disc Instability Model applied to outbursts in various types of binary systems. I lament the general lack of interest in the subject.


In Section 1 we describe a large—and expanding—set of linguistically annotated video data collected from native ASL signers. This corpus is accessible for use by the linguistics and computer science research communities and for educational purposes through a new Web-based Data Access Interface (DAI) that we have been developing to facilitate viewing, searching, and downloading relevant subsets of the data. The annotations, also available in XML format, have been carried out using SignStream®, for which a Java reimplementation with many new features (especially for efficient input of phonological information) is now underway.


We use star, galaxy and quasar spectra taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to map out the distribution of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) induced by the Milky Way. We show that, after carefully removing the intrinsic spectral energy distribution of each source, it is possible to measure statistical flux fluctuations at the 1e-3 level, detect more than 20 DIBs and measure their strength as a function of position on the sky. We create a map of DIB absorption covering about 5000 square degrees and measure correlations with various tracers of the interstellar medium: atomic and molecular hydrogen, dust and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). After recovering known correlations, we show that each DIB has a different dependence on atomic and molecular hydrogen: while they are all positively correlated with N(HI), they exhibit a range of behaviours with N(H2) showing positive, negative or no correlation. We show that a simple parametrization involving only N(HI) and N(H2) applied to all the DIBs is sufficient to reproduce a large collection of observational results reported in the literature: it allows us to naturally describe the relations between DIB strength and dust reddening (including the so-called skin effect), the related scatter, DIB pair-wise correlations & families, the affinity for $\sigma/\zeta$-type environments and other correlations related to molecules. Our approach allows us to characterize DIB dependencies in a simple manner and provides us with a metric to characterize the similarity between different DIBs.


_The panicked call came in. "I think my wife is dying! Can you come out and check?" On arrival, Grace was minimally responsive, gaunt with hollowed eyes, distended belly, and jaundiced. Her husband, Gary, was desperately trying to get her to take a bite of food. Because her oncologist had instructed him to 'keep her nutrition up' in preparation for a new trial of chemotherapy just 2 days away, he believed that forcing her to eat would keep her alive. I had to deliver the jarring news – she was dying. It was bad enough that the husband was feeling the pain of only just understanding that his beloved wife was imminently dying of cancer. His pain was further exacerbated by learning too late that his best intentions of pushing food had only created more discomfort and conflict for the love of his life. "If I had only known," was his lament, one that is too often shared by patient and family alike. His wife died just hours later._


Two dimensional dopant concentrations of the side walls of trench capacitor cells of dynamic random access memory devices were profiled using the scanning capacitance microscopy technique. This technique permits the first direct study and semi-quantification of the dopant profiles in the silicon substrate as a function of trench depth. The SCM results indicate that for a fixed trench depth, the dopant profiles in any radial direction of the trench are consistent. However, difference in dopant distribution is clearly revealed between areas that are very close to the top of the trench and those situated deep in the silicon substrate. Variation in the SCM signal at the n+ doped bit-line contacts of the transfer gate transistor is attributed to possibly dopant redistribution during contact formation process.


A blend of evidences is on hand regarding the existence of January/November/December Effects on Indian stock market. The arguments in favor of January Effect claim highest average returns in the month of January in comparison with the expected returns in rest of the months of the year, individually. More than a few elucidations are provided by researchers for the existence of January Effect on various stock exchanges. The present study has spotlighted the existence of January/December/November/April effect anomalies in Indian stock market. It is based upon the empirical findings of the two major benchmarks of Bombay Stock Exchange for a period of more than ten years. The empirical results obtained in the study have discarded the possibility of January Effect on Indian Capital Market. But, in an attempt to examine the January Effect a few captivating information is discerned through which the investors may be able to strategize their trading activities in a way that may result in to abnormal returns to them. The overall findings stated that November and December months can be important for the investors to attain abnormal returns, instead of January and April. Further research can be made on the seasonality of the financial and commodity derivative market for these months to identify the more factual position of the seasonality over the Indian stock market.