Each of the five Regional Seismic Test Network sites (RSTN) are characterized in terms of their geological and geophysical setting. The geology section includes a description of the regional geology and a detailed account of the geology in the immediate station vicinity. Stratigraphic columns and geophysical well-logs of the seismometer hole are also presented when available. The geophysics section for each site is divided into velocity structure and Q, regional seismicity and tectonics, and noise characteristics. Much of the information is derived from a literature review. However, when available, data have been analyzed from seismic stations at or near the sites and from preliminary analysis of actual RSTN data.


Introduction. Healthcare workers are more vulnerable to negative influences of the Covid-19 pandemic than cross-border travelers as they experience greater occupational stress, exacerbated by the possibility of self-contamination or contamination of their relatives through direct contact with patients, reduced social communication, deterioration in self-care and quality of life due to lack of energy and time.
The aim of the study was to assess the level of stress and quality of life in healthcare workers of non-COVID-19-designated hospitals in Ukraine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Materials and Methods. There was carried out a case-control study that included 150 respondents divided into three groups: experimental groups (EG) 1 and 2 comprised 50 physicians and 50 nurses of non-COVID-19-designated hospitals, respectively; the control group (CG) included 50 healthy individuals not working in the healthcare field. The data were collected using paper questionnaires involving sociodemographic questions, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey.
Results. EG 1 and EG 2 had significantly increased stress levels as compared to the CG. Physical functioning criterion in EG 2 was significantly lower than those in EG 1 and the CG. Vitality and social functioning indicators were significantly lower in EG 1 and EG 2 as compared to the CG. Quality of mental health was worse in EG 1 than in the CG.
Conclusions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers of non-COVID-19-designated hospitals experienced a significant reorganization of their work environment, which required them to adjust rapidly to new conditions and psychological difficulties. The medical staff was found to have an increased level of perceived stress and decreased quality of life, which could affect the quality of medical care. Our findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates the development and implementation of stress coping measures to improve mental and physical health of healthcare workers, which can be used to achieve proper work and rest routines, create a microclimate within the team, and restore the work-life balance.


Good governance has become a prominent topic on the development agendas of national governments, regional institutions and international organisations. There is common understanding that it is an imperative for development. This article discusses two success stories, those of Finland and Singapore, and their road to good governance. The analysis shows that historical, cultural and structural contexts have a major effect on the success of anti-corruption policy. Finland is clearly an evolutionary case with a low-profile good governance policy, whereas Singapore is a revolutionary case with an array of institutionalised anticorruption measures. This implies that there is no universal recipe for success in curbing corruption, but rather processes which may vary considerably and yet be equally successful. The cases of Finland and Singapore may be an important source of inspiration and policy-relevant information, but anti-corruption policy and measures as such must be created taking due account of local history and culture.


ABSTRACT A new family of distortion risk measures—GlueVaR—is proposed in Belles-Sampera et al. (2014) to procure a risk assessment lying between those provided by common quantile-based risk measures. GlueVaR measures may be expressed as a combination of these standard risk measures. We show here that this relationship may be used to obtain approximations of GlueVaR measures for general skewed distribution functions using the Cornish–Fisher expansion. A subfamily of GlueVaR measures satisfies the tail-subadditivity property. An example of risk measurement based on real insurance claim data is presented, where implications of tail-subadditivity in the aggregation of risks are illustrated.


The experiment was performed to elucidate the effect of simulated acid rain on growth of the seven crops(Daucus carota var. saliva DC., Fagopyrum esculentum Moench, Brassica campestris subsp. napus var. pekinensis Makino, Raphanus sativus var. hortensis for. acanthiformis Makino, Brassica alboglabra Bailey, Caphsicum annum L., and Perilla frutescens Britton). The pH levels of simulated acid rain ranged pH 3.1, 3.6, 4.1, 4.6, 5.1 and 5.6. The germination with each crop was influenced from simulated acid rain except buckwheat and kale. A general decrease of growth in crops was observed with increasing pH concentrations. The pattern of soluble protein was observed a tendency to decrease from acidic pH gradients. According to acidity, total DNA contents of each crop was showed a definite reduction. In conclusion, plant growth was stimulated decreasingly and the changes of total protein patterns and DNA contents extracted from leaves trended with simulated acid rain was showed seriously.


This paper describes the most significant sources of errors and disturbance when measuring temperature and humidity with a glider. Measurement flights have been started from different airports in Germany, between April and August of 2018, resulting in a collection of over 90 hours of flight data logs. We show how error correction can be applied to the measurement data. Analysis of the data indicates that core assumptions of the theories of thermals, which have been published for decades cannot be backed up by our measurement data. In contrast we present a revised view of temperature and humidity inside thermals. As a result traditional understanding of temperature distribution and entrainment processes must be revised.


In this study we investigated the effects of late leaf removal on the berry and wine composition and on wine sensory characteristics of Uva Longanesi, a late maturing red Italian grape variety, which wines are characterized by high levels of alcohol and excessive astringency, the latter apparently intensified by late defoliation practices. During 2008 season, spur-pruned trained vines were submitted to manual defoliation (4 basal leaves) at the onset (DEF I, 210 DOY) or at the end (DEF II, 231 DOY) of veraison and compared with non-defoliated plants (CON). On every DEF II vine, since defoliation until harvest, a cluster was shaded (DEF II + shading). A decrease of the berry soluble solids and skin anthocyanins was found in DEF I vines. Defoliation modified composition and sensory characteristics of wine with DEF II having higher alcohol strength and astringency compared to DEF I, whereas CON wines displayed intermediate values. The practice and timing of partial late defoliation greatly affected the chemical and sensory attributes of wine.


In this note,we will show a new proof of the classical Calderon-Zygmund estimates established in [7] 1952.The estimates are among the fundamental estimates for elliptic equations.Parabolic equations are also considered.


Carbon‐climate feedback has been identified as one of the key areas of synthesis for the next Inter‐governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); however, most of the models on which the IPCC will rely are yet to consider vital interactions between nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) cycles. A major impediment to including N limitation in model predictions has been the lack of constraint to rates of N fixation worldwide. Here we use a theoretical framework that considers interactions of C and nutrients to estimate rates of terrestrial N fixation, and thereby examining how the constraints of N on land C uptake and global warming. We show that most global models without nutrient limitations significantly overestimated land C uptake, thus underestimating both the pace and magnitude of the predicted global warming. We suggest that the next IPCC assessment should consider nutrient constraints on carbon‐climate feedback and the pace of global warming.


General corrosion was observed on high strength low alloy carbon steel after electrochemical impedance spectroscopy experiments (EIS) performed in H{sub 2}O saturated with CO{sub 2} at 50 C and 15.2 MPa. However, general and localized were observed on the same material surfaces after the EIS experiments performed in supercritical CO{sub 2} containing approximately 6100 ppmv H{sub 2}O at 50 C and 15.2 MPa. The general corrosion areas were uniformly covered by the FeCO{sub 3}-like phase identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD). In the area of localized corrosion, XRD also revealed FeCO{sub 3}-rich islands embedded in {alpha}-iron. The energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis revealed high concentrations of iron, carbon, and oxygen in the area affected by general corrosion and in the islands formed in the area of localized corrosion. The real and imaginary impedances were lower in H{sub 2}O saturated with CO{sub 2} than those in the supercritical CO{sub 2} containing the aqueous phase indicating faster corrosion kinetics in the former.


The principle,flow sheet ,automatic control and application results of the production of steam from waste heat in waste gases out of sintering circular-cooler are discussed.


1Lecturer, Marine resources department, Faculty of Natural Resources and environmental sciences, Omar Al-Mokhtar University, El-Beda, Libya. 2Associate professour in aquaculture division, National Institute of oceanography and fisheries, Qait Bay, Alexandria, Egypt. 3Head of Animal and Fish production department, Professour of fish husbandary faculty of Agriculture (El-Shatby), Alexandria University, egypt. 4Professour of Animal and fish Nutrition, department of Animal and Fish production, faculty of Agriculture (El-Shatby), Alexandria University, egypt. *Corresponding Author: email@example.com


We present a symmetry analysis of electronic bandstructure including spin-orbit interaction close to the insulating gap edge in monolayer black phosphorus ('phosphorene'). Expressions for energy dispersion relation and spin-dependent eigenstates for electrons and holes are found via simplification of a perturbative expansion in wavevector $k$ away from the zone center using elementary group theory. Importantly, we expose the underlying symmetries giving rise to substantial anisotropy in optical absorption, charge and spin transport properties, and reveal the mechanism responsible for valence band distortion and possible lack of a true direct gap.


Investment and innovation activity is one of the factors in the development of the region, and also contributes to the increase of economic and social potential. To maintain the competitiveness, adapt to changing conditions of the external and internal environment, as well as for the sustainable development of the region, it is necessary to form new achievements of science and technology. In this regard, the innovation activity and innovation policy of the region have the decisive importance. The actual problem is the transition of the country's economy to the innovative development. To solve this problem, it is necessary to develop methods that will restructure all spheres of social relations. The innovative model of economic development requires the formation of the effective transformation of new scientific achievements into new technologies, goods, services in the country and in the regions. They will have their real consumers in the market through the cluster approach.


This research was conducted to investigate the effects of silver ion, leaf stage and
number of sprayings on sex expression and some traits related to fruit in greenhouse
cucumber. Different concentrations of silver nitrate (AgNO3) (100, 200 and 300 ppm) and
nano particle of silver (50, 150 and 200 ppm) were applied at 5, 10 and 15-leaf stages with
single and double sprays. The experiment was conducted as a factorial based on a
completely randomized block design with three replications. Analysis of variance showed
silver application caused significant difference on all of the studied traits, except for the
fruit length, fruit weight and fruit number per pickling. The number of sprayings and leaf
stage showed significant difference on the number of male flower, node number of male
flower, diameter of male flower, number of female node, number of male node, number of
male and female node, period of male flowering and fruit weight per pickling. The highest
values for the number of male flower, male node, period of male flowering and the number
of male and female flower were obtained at 15-leaf stage. The highest mean for male flower
number, male flower diameter, normal fruit, days to male flower initiation, the number of
male node and the number of fruit per pickling were achieved at 300 ppm of AgNO3. This
study showed that male flower induction was influenced more by AgNO3 than nano-silver
particles. The highest number of male node achieved at 200 ppm of nano-silver. The
interaction effect of dose of 200 ppm of nano-silver at 15-leaf stage produced the highest
number of male flower. So, use of nano-silver may be preferred to AgNO3 in organic
agriculture.


Trusted base computing is a technical reality. The mathematical problem of trusted computing has been solved in a satisfactory and cost-effective manner, and solutions are in mass deployment. However, adoption and usage by the target population is still limited. This article explores the current state of trusted base computing, describes the forces and parties at work, and concludes that the standard now broadly accepted by the industry will be adopted more widely by the user population in the near future, as the need for a standard solution becomes clearer and the software that controls trusted computing becomes more usable.

Keywords:

authentication;
trusted;
platform;
tpm;
tnc;
fingerprint;
encryption;
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This study aims to determine the effect of turmeric extract addition on the water, protein and fat levels of broiler chicken meat. The study was conducted from the month of November - December 2011 Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Agriculture, Laboratory of Livestock Technology Faculty of Animal Husbandry in the and Agriculture University of Diponegoro. The design of the study is a completely randomized design (CRD) consisting of 5 treatments that is without turmeric extract (T0), 100 mg/kg (T1), 200 mg/kg (T2), 300 mg/kg (T3) and 400 mg/kg (T4) body weight per day, each one 4 replications and consist 3 chickens. The parameters observed were water, protein and fat levels. Treatment T0, T1, T2, T3, and T4 each having average for water level 74.75 %, 75.48 %, 75.98 %, 74.98 % and


Using the data from libsys and access control system,this article makes a statistical analysis of the Zero-to-borrow Readers.The paper points out libraries should provide targeted services and guidance for different types of readers,and should strengthen library information resources construction and improve service deliveries,which aim to reduce the number of zero-to-borrow Reader as much as possible and makes the library as backbone as the information resources center of col-lege.


As some analysts expected, the anniversary of the Iranian elections passed with neither huge protests in the streets nor any prominent events taking place. Except for some student arrests and an individual attack against the former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, the Iranian regime proved that it is the master of the situation. This reality was made clear when leaders of the opposing green movement backed down from organizing protests days before the anniversary and instead apologized out of fear of security measures taken by the Iranian regime. Perceived as a serious weakness by their supporters, members of the opposition have decreased in number.


A technique which controls the spacing of grid points in algebraically defined coordinate transformations is described. The technique is based on the generation of control functions which map a uniformly distributed computational grid onto parametric variables defining the physical grid. The control functions are smoothed cubic splines. Sets of control points are input for each coordinate directions to outline the control functions. Smoothed cubic spline functions are then generated to approximate the input data. The technique works best in an interactive graphics environment where control inputs and grid displays are nearly instantaneous. The technique is illustrated with the two-boundary grid generation algorithm.


htmlabstractMultirate schemes for conservation laws or convection-dominated problems
seem to come in two flavors: schemes that are locally inconsistent, and schemes
that lack mass-conservation. In this paper these two defects are discussed for onedimensional
conservation laws. Particular attention will be given to monotonicity
properties of the multirate schemes, such as maximum principles and the total
variation diminishing (TVD) property. The study of these properties will be done
within the framework of partitioned Runge-Kutta methods. It will also be seen
that the incompatibility of consistency and mass-conservation holds for 'genuine'
multirate schemes, but not for general partitioned methods.


━━ Background. Although the pattern of lung cancer progression varies, reports of lung cancer le-sions invading the retroperitoneal space through the diaphragm are rare. We herein report an extremely rare case of lung cancer that directly invaded the retroperitoneal space. Case. A 64-year-old male presented to his local physician for an evaluation of night sweats and a body weight loss of 5 kg. An examination revealed a 90-mm tumor extending from the upper pole of the right kidney to the dorsal side of the right liver lobe. After excluding the possibility of pheochromocytoma and adrenal carcinoma, the patient was diagnosed with a retroperitoneal tumor and underwent laparotomy for tumor resection. Intraoperatively, the border between the peritoneum-covered tumor and the adrenal gland was clear. However, the tumor had invaded the diaphragm, and combined resection of the diaphragm was thus performed. Furthermore, a portion of the tumor appeared to have infiltrated the lung within the thoracic cavity; therefore, partial resection of the right lower lung lobe was also performed. An immunohistochemical examination of the resected specimen revealed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma. We concluded that the primary lung tumor had directly invaded the retroperitoneal space through the diaphragm. Vertebral body infiltration and local recurrence in the retroperitoneal space were detected two months after sur-gery, and radiation and chemotherapy were subsequently administered. Despite treatment with this multimodal therapy, the patient died 257 days after surgery. Conclusions. Lung cancer that directly invades the retroperitoneal space is rare, although it can occur. F igu re 3. Magnet i c resonance i mag i ng of shows a mass i n the upper r i ght k i dne y w i th low s i gnal i ntens i t y on T1-we i ghted i mag i ng and low s i gnal i ntens i t y w i th part i al h i gh s i gnal i ntens i t y on T2-we i ghted i mag i ng. An encapsulated structure w i th a part i al tear i s observed.


This paper deals with two factors cross-linguistically known to play a role in the use of the possessive dative constructions: the semantic properties of the verb (patient-affecting vs. non-patient-affecting), and the nature of the possessive relationship (inalienable vs. alienable). Specifically, we look at how these two factors are relevant for Serbian, a language with a relatively free use of the possessive dative. We report an empirical study consisting of an offline Likert scale acceptability judgement task and an online binary acceptability judgement task, whose results indicate that the acceptance rates for the possessive dative in Serbian are dependent on both of the studied factors and are best explained through their interaction.


Apatite fission‐track (AFT) ages of 178 to 70 Ma for 108 samples from the Adirondack Mountains and eastern New York State, Vermont, western Massachusetts and Connecticut, and western New Hampshire indicate that widespread unroofing occurred throughout the region during the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. Additionally, (U‐Th)/He ages of 167 to 85 Ma were determined on nine of those samples and support cooling rates of 1.8°–2.2°C/m.yr. from 100° to 65°C during the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. Assuming a geothermal gradient of 25°C/km, unroofing rates for the region were estimated to be, on average, ∼0.07–0.08 km/m.yr. The AFT age discontinuities between the High Peaks region and the fault dissected southeastern Adirondack Mountains and along the Ammonoosuc fault in the Connecticut River valley between Vermont and New Hampshire suggest differential unroofing that may have been accommodated by fault reactivation syn‐/post‐Late Cretaceous time after the youngest AFT ages, 82 and 70 Ma, respectively. A preliminary trend of increasing AFT age from west to east across New Hampshire is consistent with previously published AFT age data from the Bronson Hill terrane south of the study area in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and it may indicate a similar down‐to‐the‐east rotation in the region. Areas of Early to Late Cretaceous AFT and (U‐Th)/He ages determined in this study correspond to areas of currently thin lithosphere overlying low‐velocity mantle that may be a remnant of lithospheric heating associated with the Great Meteor hotspot, which was active during that time. The regional unroofing observed during the Early to Late Cretaceous is inferred to have occurred during a time of change in the local stress field from one of extension pre‐/syn‐hotspot heating to one of horizontal compression as shown by mid‐Cretaceous fault activity.


In this paper, topological model of the planar geared-linkage kinematic chain is introduced at firstly. Then, node voltage sequence be obtained by corresponding equivalent circuit model; An algorithm to identify isomorphic kinematic is obtained by the solved node voltage sequence. Examples are carried out to show the planar multiple joint kinematic chains identification algorithm by circuit analysis method. (Abstract)


1 General Introduction The fossil resources shortage and climate change both encourage an evolution of our energy supplying  system. For more than a decade, hydrogen as an alternative to traditional energy sources has been focus of research and development efforts. Hydrogen, combined with efficient converters such as fuel cells, represents a very promising way to realize a more sustainable energy system. Nowadays, for automotive applications, even if several interesting prototypes have been displayed,  no storage system meets every international standards and car manufacturers' requirements. However, developments on 700 bar type IV vessels with Thermoplastic PA6 liner [1][2] have demonstrated very encouraging results (cycling resistance, burst pressure, H 2 tightness, gravimetric and volumetric storage capacities, H 2 barrier properties). Over the last decade, the CEA (French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission) has developed, with several industrial  and academic partners, valuable knowledge and competences focused on reactive rotational molding of high performances polymeric liners. The CEA has improved design, calculation, manufacturing and testing of structural composite vessel shells too. This paper reviews the most recent technical and scientific achievements in comparison with the stat eof-the-art of CGH2 storage systems, especially results from the French collaborative research Hype  project. Vessel composite shells are manufactured by filament winding using Carbosatmp TM (Toray T700 fiber, PA6 thermoplastic matrix). This paper presents the material used, its properties, composi te and vessel design and calculation, manufacturing aspects, testing and automotive application. 2 Material Considering gravimetric and volumetric densities, a s well as safety requirements, type-IV vessels are th e most promising solutions for on-board hydrogen storage. They display no fatigue issues, the H 2 leakage is far below standards, and they show decen t weight performances. CEA PA6 liner technology [3][4] has demonstrated abilities to withstand 15,0 00 cycles from 20 to 875 bar, as required by European or ISO standards for a nominal operating pressure o f 700 bar. Moreover, the CEA is involved in the development of innovative materials such as materials for composite filament winding (thermoplastic and thermoset matrices) and material s for different types of liner (based either on thermoplastics and thermosets). In the scope of Hype project, the composite shell material, Carbostamp TM 'Fig.1' , is a polyamide matrix (polyamide 6) reinforced with T700 Carbon Fibers. Its fiber volume fraction is about 50 %. The materi al used for the liner is a PA6 thermoplastic material made by reactive rotomolding process so that the vessel is a PA6 monopolymer vessel with a very good consolidation between the liner wall and the composite shell. Thermoplastic matrix composites can be considered as relevant solutions since they present many advantages. They show numerous potential interests in term of storage, shell fiber  volume fraction quality, impact resistance, durabil ity and recyclability. Indeed, recyclability of CF/PA6 composite is easier than CF/Epoxy composite, which is very attractive for automotive industry. CF and PA6 can be separated by considering PA6 fusion temperature and re-used to make short carbon fibers  for example. Moreover, CF/PA6 process could be less expensive and faster. Compared to epoxy prepreg which has to be stored at -20°C and used APPLICATION OF FULL THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE FOR TYPE IV 70MPA HIGH PRESSURE VESSELS


Dinas Kehutanan Provinsi Kalimantan Timur city of Samarinda as public sector organizations in terms of the achievement of performance declines especially Performance prosentasenya Forest and land Rehabilitation Program. The research aims to know the performance of forest and land Rehabilitation Programs based on Value For Money in the Forestry town of Samarinda, East Kalimantan province. This research is a descriptive qualitative research with the object examined was the  Realization  of  financial  data  of  Forestry  of  East  Kalimantan  province  city  of Samarinda on government agency performance accountability Reports (LAKIP) Forestry Samarinda city of East Kalimantan province period in 2014. The data collection method used is the documentation and field research. Based on the results of the analysis are obtained, namely the economic value of the Forest Program activity Rehabilitation and land conducted Forestry province of East Kalimantan can be measured by comparing the primary inputs (funds realized) and t he secondary form of input (human resources / Procurement Advice Team and infrastructure). Calculation analysis of the results of performance assessment working paper Department of Forestry of East Kalimantan province obtain economic value of 89%. The economic performance of the value 85% up to 100% is the value entered on the performance categories are quite economical. Based on the results of the measurement of the efficiency of data analysis on Forest Rehabilitation activity programme and noted that for the period 2014 program activities can be efficiently. In the period 2014 Forestry Samarinda city of East Kalimantan province in carrying out the programme of activities can generate maximum output reaches 100% of the input with the use of only 89%. From the results of the calculation of the working paper analyses the performance assessment Value For Money Forestry Province of East Kalimantan obtained a value of 130% efficiency. The resulting effectiveness ratio of these activities during the year 2014 according to the working paper the assessment Value For Money that is 96,55%. By comparing the description value performance divided by the value of the performance output then the revenue percentage.


Definition 1.1 A probability distribution P on (Ω,F) is a function P : F → [0, 1] which is (i) normalized, i.e. P[∅] = 0 and P[Ω] = 1 (ii) additive, i.e. P [ ∪i Ai ] = ∑ i P[Ai] , where A1,A2, . . . is a collection of disjoint events, i.e. Ai ∩ Aj = ∅ for all i, j. The triple (Ω,F ,P) is called a probability space. For discrete Ω: F = P(Ω) and P[A] = ∑ω∈A P[ω] e.g. P[even number on a die] = P[2] + P[4] + P[6] = 1/2 For continuous Ω (e.g. [0, 1]): F ( P(Ω)


Maintenance cost estimate is the important part of military aircraft LCC cost estimate. Predigesting maintenance system from level three to two level maintenance (TLM) could save maintenance cost, and improve readiness. Based on gray system GM(1,1) model theory, the cost forecast model was established for transforming maintenance system, and forecasting according to the practice save financial data of the USAAF. It was proved by multi-precision verification that the creditability of the forecast model was higher.


In the reported studies of optical inter-satellite communications, the transmitter sways in the azimuth and elevation axes are always assumed being uncorrelated. In the present work, the analysis is extended to the correlated case. Theoretically, this study shows that the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio follows the log-square-Hoyt distribution. Based on this model, it is further shown that the outage probability can be minimised, subject to a specified transmitter power, by appropriately adjusting some system parameters such as the transmitter gain.


The word "virtue" was used for 52 times in the book "Laozi" but commentators and subcommen-tators have been neglecting the special meaning. Through the study of the source meaning of "virtue" in the bookas a verb and its unity with the whole book, the author may re -- comment on the realations between "virtue"and"the Way" and "goodness", tus revealing the misunderstanding of the repeated "virtue" in the book has affectedthe understanding of the book "Laozi" and its Way.


In the VERDI covenant, it is agreed that central and local government in the Netherlands will jointly establish a system of monitors following the affects of policy. Especially for public transportation the OV monitor has been developed. Important issues for this monitor are: (1) to follow developments on a national and regional level; and (2) availability of data for analyses. The unique part of the OV monitor is that it deals with all the different aspects of public transportation: demand, supply, appreciation by customers and the financial part. Regional government cannot only follow the developments in their own region but can also compare their region with other regions (benchmarking). Public transportation is taking place in a dynamic environment. Borders of communities change, definitions in used databases change, etcetera. To maintain comparability all the input for the OV monitor will be transformed to the most recent definition. This is the only way to monitor without hiccups. (A) For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E206647.


In this paper we investigate theoretically the ground state NiAs-type structure of MnAs and we compare the magnetic and structural properties with an hypothetical zincblende structure. A zincblende structure can be obtained, in principle, from the diluted magnetic semiconductor Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$As in the limit $x=1$. Using density functional calculations within the local spin-density approximation (LSDA), we show that the zincblende structure, although showing half metallic behavior which is very attractive for spintronics, can not be stabilized at equilibrium. We perform a tight-binding analysis of the Mn-As bond in the tetrahedral coordination to investigate the nature of the bonding in diluted magnetic semiconductors.


Carbon emissions are in the focus of environmental politics. Galapagos is an archipelago of Ecuador, which is considered as a protected area. For this reason, energy resources are changing for avoiding environmental impacts. The aim of this paper is to propose an Electric Vehicle Tariff System in order to increase use o Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The methodology consists of taxing CO2 emissions with a high tariff value for the use of fuel electricity generation. A Smart Charging is also proposed for EV in order to optimize costs. Three scenarios with different ratio of RES are evaluated.


Teams from around the globe will compete April 13-14 in NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.


Increases in application of some types of pesticides and registration of new products leads to an increasing concern held by producers of sensitive crops that pesticide drift and overspray problems may increase. This project seeks to allow producers of sensitive crops an avenue of communication to pesticide applicators. This tool was built on the familiar GoogleTM Maps interface. The online map was created where pesticide applicators would easily view the location of sensitive crops such as grapes, melons, and tomatoes and other vegetables, endangered species, and pesticide sensitive watersheds including those used for drinking water. The website has two components; one component will inform pesticide applicators and the other will allow growers of sensitive crops to register their locations. The location of sensitive areas is identified and registered by producers or producer organizations on high resolution aerial photos and then verified. The spatial database generated includes crop types and coordinates of the sensitive areas. Functionality includes the ability to pan and zoom in and out enabling on screen digitization or information retrieval at any scale. The tool also allows users to toggle through the satellite view, map view and hybrid view. When queried by the pesticide applicator, the site provides details of all potentially sensitive areas near the location of interest in Indiana.


The UGV system is composed of navigation system, obstacle detecting system, vision system, vehicle control system, and arbiter system. This paper verifies the information about the design and control of the UGV using SUV of commercial vehicles. The experimental vehicle was mounted Smart motor and Linear motor. Also, we were equipped with a lot of sensors to view the status of vehicle. Based on this, we have accomplished the research about control over longitudinal and lateral direction. The control of the vehicle system can be divided into two: longitudinal control, lateral control. The longitudinal control is composed of acceleration and braking system. The motor used for acceleration and braking was the BLDC motor. The acceleration & brake (pedal) control is associated with each pedal through the wire and done by the motor itself. For the lateral control, the same motor used in the longitudinal control. Also we used Compact RIO real-time controller for designing the control system.


The present work proposes an extrapolation methodology that allows the local duplication of a hypersonic boundary layer at off-stagnation locations around a generic flying body, to a flat plate mod...


This paper discusses the weld deformation low of joints for column-column and beam -column,the influence and control on weld deformation of joint restraint The experiment formula is derived and proved.


Introduction: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used in recent years to identify new information on genetic variants which are associated with complex trait in many diseases. Advances in identifying the Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) facilitate the study of etiologies of common disorders including cancers, inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and colorectal cancer. Variations in gene expression demonstrate that transcript levels of many RNAs behave as heritable quantitative traits. Studying the genetics of gene expression can provide additional power to the roles of GWAS variants. Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping links the genome-wide SNPs with RNA expression. Methods: In this study, we performed expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis using the Matrix eQTL R package. This technique implements matrix covariance calculation and efficiently runs ANOVA and linear regression analysis for eQTL studies. The statistical test determines the association between SNP and gene expression, where the null hypothesis is no association between genotype and phenotypes. False Discovery Rate (FDR) is used to identify significant cis and trans eQTL and adjust for multiple hypothesis testing. Results: We applied matrix eQTL to a real data set consisting of 730,256 SNP and 33,298 RNA for 173 samples. SNPs with minor allele frequency (MAF) less than 0.05 and those violating the Hardy_Weinberg equilibrium (HWE), were excluded from the study. In this study, 15,408 cis eQTL and 27,562 trans eQTL are identified at a FDR less than 0.05, corresponding to p value thresholds of 8e-5 and 1e-8, respectively. Conclusion: We found out that matrix eQTL is a computationally efficient and user friendly method for analysis of eQTL studies. Our application provides insight into the genomic architecture of gene regulation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).


In this article examines the economic and management reasons for the low profitability of most Ukrainian agricultural enterprises. Due to the low level of salaries, there is a shortage of qualified service personnel. Approximately 90% of agricultural machinery in the fields is obsolete or worn out. The younger generation tends to go to work in the city. Increasing labor productivity will reduce the costs of agricultural enterprises and contribute to the successful functioning of the labor market. Professional development, training and retraining of personnel are essential for agricultural enterprises. Enterprises without government support are experiencing difficulties in solving this problem. In our opinion, an active role of the state in training workers in the agricultural sector of the economy will help to reduce the level of migration of labor resources from rural areas to cities. An increase in the level of responsibility of employees, in our opinion, can be achieved through training and subsequent state certification, with the aim of using their professional knowledge and skills in the future.


It is very interesting to realize that some fundamental concepts in mathematics, are discovered not only by mathematicians but also by physicists.


In this paper, we present a new algorithm for open-set microphone classification, which is based on a pre-existing blind channel estimation approach. The proposed method achieves a Rand index above 93% for AAC, MP3 and PCM-encoded recordings from eight different mobile devices.


Automatic categorization is a way to combat the information overflow many companies face every day. For such an automatic categorization to be useful, the categorization model must correctly represent the intended 'meaning' of the categories. An important factor is the categorization model used which is created in a training step based on representative sets of training documents for each category. The quality of the categorization model critically depends on the quality of the 'training base', which is the set of categories that make up the taxonomy together with the sets of training documents associated with each categories of the taxonomy. While a number of categorization systems are commercially available, assessing the categorization quality is a costly and labor-intensive task when performed manually on the basis of separate validation data. In this article, we describe an evaluation component that automatically evaluates the quality of a training base independent from the categorization system used. Furthermore, we show how this component can be used to propose changes to the training base that can help to reduce the number of problematic areas thereby improving the quality of the categorization system. We illustrate our approach using a sample taxonomy with 10 categories and approx. 400 training documents.


The influence of soil fauna on turnover processes and nutrient cycling in terrestrial habitats is fairly well studied. By contrast, the impact of the burrowing, feeding and excreting activity of soil animals on the physical characteristics of soils is far from being understood, even less if we consider anthropogenically shaped environments like urban habitats. Urbanization, though, is a major ongoing land use change worldwide and it is of particular interest to understand the functioning of urban ecosystems and the provision of ecosystem services useful to man in urban areas (e.g. provision of clean drinking water, reduction of flood risk, mitigation of climate change consequences) all linked to the capacity of urban soils to infiltrate, conduct, filter and store water from the soil surface. Aim of the subproject FAUNA within the research group was to characterize the functional impact of soil animals on turnover processes and on the water distribution dynamics in urban soils.

In a series of experiments with mesocosms in field and lab, we studied how the burrowing activity of endogeic earthworms and the mixing of soil particles with excretion products may modify the structure of the soil horizons, the water distribution patterns and the processes of nutrient release in urban soils. The set up of mesocosms equipped with electrodes for the measurements of Electical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) and Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) probes allowed to trace in situ and noninvasively subsequent desiccation, infiltration and rewetting processes in the soils. The soil animals greatly modified the infiltration and the storage of water in the soils. This occurred interestingly not in reducing the specific actual hydrophobicity of the soils, but by changing the pore size distribution, increasing the saturated water conducitivity and enhancing clearly the water contents in the urban soil horizonts.


persist? Why was Copernicus spurned, electricity neglected, but " The Man of Signs " demanded? If the almanacs were such important influences towards independence, why was so much of New York State neutral or collaborationist for most of the war? If, then, we must question the unsubstantiated and contradictory assumptions of this study, we should nonetheless welcome this glimpse through dusty windows at old mores.


The invention discloses a flash memory technology high pressure gate oxide and tunneling oxide formation method, which comprise the steps of firstly retaining a floating boom gate oxide after floatingboom etching, with the thickness of 50-70 and eroding the floating boom gate oxide by the wet method and retaining the thickness of 20-30; then utilizing high temperature pressure reducing chemical vapor deposition method to form the tunneling oxide and the high pressure gate oxide simultaneously; at last forming the tunneling oxide with the thickness of 160-180 and the gate oxide with the high pressure of 180-210. The invention can improve electric field intensity in erasing, reduce oxide trap number and is good for the erasing capability improvement of storage unit, by reducing the thickness of the tunneling oxide.


AbstractThis study investigated the feasibility of using pressure assisted forward osmosis (PAFO) for shale gas wastewater treatment. PAFO combines osmotic gradient across a membrane with external pressure together, which was expected to obtain higher flux than forward osmosis (FO). Experiments were performed in a laboratory-scale PAFO system, which allows the application of external pressure up to 10 bar on the feed solution side. Deionized water and three kind of synthetic shale gas wastewater, including low range, medium range, and high range wastewaters, were used as feed solutions and NaCl was used as a draw solution. The water flux was improved up to 10–15% by applying external pressure to FO when low range and medium range wastewaters were treated. However, the effect of the external pressure was significantly reduced when the high-range wastewater was treated. After FO treatment, air gap membrane distillation was successfully applied to re-concentrate the draw solutes.


We present online boosting algorithms for multilabel ranking with top-k feedback,where the learner only receives information about the top-k items from the ranking it provides. We propose a novel surrogate loss function and unbiased estimator, allowing weak learners to update themselves with limited information. Using these techniques we adapt full information multilabel ranking algorithms (Jung and Tewari, 2018) to the top-k feedback setting and provide theoretical performance bounds which closely match the bounds of their full information counter parts, with the cost of increased sample complexity. The experimental results also verify these claims.


The flow and fracture mechanisms of well characterized hot-pressed polycrystalline BeO were studied. Modulus of rupture tests were made from-196O to 1800°C on specimens of constant density and varying grain size. The fracture surfaces were studied with fractography and X-ray rocking curves. Compression tests were performed both below and above the phase transformation temperature for BeO (2050°C). A model was developed for fracture below 1000°C, involving propagation of existing surface cracks through dissimilar barriers to form a crack front of irregular shape which generates dislocations near the tip. Above 1000°C a model of grain boundary sliding to open cracks at grain boundary junctions was indicated. Permanent deformation under compression was attributed to grain separation and void formation.


With the accelerating process of urbanization in China, the application of green construction technology and energy-saving emission reduction technology in the overall level of building engineering has gradually become a common concern. Based on the current status of technology implementation, the paper first analyzes the definition and value of green construction for construction engineering, and then discusses the main content of green construction techniques for building engineering, and puts forward corresponding application planning strategies on the basis of technical advantages so as to effectively promote the application of green construction technology for construction engineering and create conditions for the stable development of China's construction engineering industry.


Abstract Covalently linked pyrrole (Py)- and imidazole (Im)-containing H-pin polyamides bind in the minor groove of specific DNA sequences with high affinity. The synthesis of 1,2,3-triazole-linked and heterodimeric H-pin polyamides 13a,b formed from the Huisgen reaction of an alkyne-containing f-PyPyPy (6) with an azide-containing f-ImPyIm (7) is reported. The reaction proceeded smoothly under thermal conditions to give an inseparable mixture of 1,4- and 1,5-isomers (13a and 13b, respectively) by column chromatography. When the reaction was conducted under 'click' or Cu(I)-catalyzed conditions or in the presence of the cognate DNA sequence, no desired product was observed. Preliminary results from DNA thermal denaturation and circular dichroism titration studies provided evidence of mixture 13a,b binding to the target DNA sequence 5′-TCTCAA-3′.


Subject of my bachelor thesis is question of secure housing and safe locality of housing estates and panel houses. Bachelor thesis describes and evaluates pilot project named Safe locality, secure housing, which currently takes place in cities Zlin and Brno. I also analyse structure of criminality in Zlin and South Moravian region. In practical part, I propose my own suggestions to global ensurement of panel and multi-family houses.


Magnetic helix (MH) structure can be a role model for future spintronic devices. Utilizing the advantage of constructing possible magnetic configurations, in the present work first time we investigate spintronic behavior, to the best of our knowledge, in a helical geometry with finite magnetic ordering. The interplay between short-range and long-range hopping of electrons yields many non-trivial features which are thoroughly studied. Quite interestingly we see that the MH exhibits the strong chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, like what is observed in chiral molecules. Finally, to make the model more realistic we also examine the effect of helical dynamics. All the results are valid for a wide range of physical parameters, which prove the robustness of our analysis.


257 Disruptive behaviors requiring intervention occur across multiple school systems, including individual students and classrooms (Hendley, 2007; Simeonsson, 1991). Such behaviors, including talking aloud in class, getting out of one's seat, or more serious behaviors, can be frustrating for other students as well as teachers, who are trying to help students meet everincreasing academic expectations. Although some behaviors are the result of an individual child who has difficulty complying with a teacher's classroom expectations, other behavior problems may be because of entire groups of students in the classroom whose behaviors are judged by school personnel as problematic. Although disruptive behavior can be directly observed in isolation, getting a general sense of the frequency of disruptive behavior in classrooms is much more difficult. Researchers observing four elementary school classrooms found that behaviors that interfered with the flow of classroom instruction occurred two times every 10 minutes (Reinke, Lewis-Palmer, & Merrell, 2008). Teachers report that acting-out behaviors are sources of significant distress and relate to teacher burnout in a variety of class settings (Axup & Gersch, 2008; Evers, Tomic, & Brouwers, 2004; Hastings & Bham, 2003; Talmor, Reiter, & Feigin, 2005).


The article analyzes an episode of the brazilian interview series "Minha Periferia"
broadcasted by TV Globo in order to understand the interactions of the organization's
situation and its environment. To do so, we analyze the interlocutors' positions, their
relationship with the environment and the situation's context. We discuss these
elements based on Louis Quere's concepts (1990, 1991, 1997, 2000) such as situation,
environment and context. The article identifies the emergence of peripheral social
representations as well as environmental renewing and its reconfiguration.


This paper analyses the causes of China's current inflation,points out that the current inflation is the type of cost-driven,suggests that the government must take some measures to prevent the structural inflation from evolving into overall inflation,and gives some ways of dealing with the current inflation from the monetary policy and fiscal policy.


In this article, a three‐species food chain model with intraspecific competition in top predators has been considered. Ecological and mathematical well posedness of the model system has been established by showing that all the solutions of the model are positive and bounded. The extinction scenarios of intermediate and top predator species along with the existence and stability of all equilibrium points have been discussed. The effects of competition and conversion efficiency of top predators in the dynamics of the system have been discussed with great thrust, and it is observed that the conversion efficiency of top predators deteriorates the stability of the system, whereas intraspecific competition in top predators enhances the stable coexistence of all the populations of the system. Further, nonautonomous version of the model system has been taken into consideration to study the impact of seasonal variation in the dynamics of the model system. Sufficient conditions for the existence of a globally attractive positive periodic have been established in a periodic environment. Finally, numerical simulations have been carried out to validate our analytical findings.


The hepatozoonosis is a parasitic disease caused by protozoa of the genus Hepatozoon spp. affecting primarily the dog, as well as other animal species. The definitive host is the brown tick, Riphicephalus sanguineus, that transmits the disease when ingested by the intermediate host. Clinical symptoms are nonspecific and similar to those produced by other diseases most prevalent in the canine population. It is more severe in puppies less than 1 year of age and older dogs. The aim of this publication is to report the first cases of canine hepatozoonosis registered in the city of General Pico province of La Pampa. The presence of gametocytes of Hepatozoon canis was determined in whole blood drawn from forearm cephalic vein and colored smears with staining 15. All cases were from municipal canilera and were treated at the Small Animal Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Science, National University of La Pampa and had a history of being infested with ticks. We can say that Hepatozoon canis is present in dogs City General Pico clinically and clinically incidence occurs with massive infestation of ticks of the genus Riphicephalus sanguineus. As important conclusion would determine disease prevalence for action protocols to control the hepatozoonosis and tick population.


The invention provides an ion wind heat dissipation device and belongs to the heat dissipation field. With the ion wind heat dissipation device adopted, problems such as large power consumption and proneness to failure of traditional heat dissipation devices such as fans or refrigeration sheets can be solved. According to the ion wind heat dissipation device, air molecules are ionized through a high-voltage electric field, so that charged ions can move directionally under the action of the electric field, and therefore, stable air flow can be formed, and ion wind can be generated, and heat can be taken away through heat dissipation fins, and cooling can be realized.


THIS SYNTHESIS of three decades of research on the archaeology of Port au Choix on the western coast of Newfoundland establishes it as one of the most important archaeological locations in Canada. Port au Choix has been known for its archaeology since the days of Howley, Kidder, and Jenness. Its regional importance was confirmed by Wintemberg and Harp, and major excavations at the Phillip's Garden Dorset site by Harp and at Maritime Archaic cemeteries by Tuck revealed its long history and cultural complexity. Harp was the first to document the site's Dorset material culture, age, cultural affiliation, and settlement aspects. In 1984, after Tuck revealed an equally impressive Maritime Archaic occupation, Parks Canada designated the Port au Choix region as a National Historic Site, built a museum, and initiated more than two decades of Memorial University research directed by


The grain-oriented CxGo1-z (x = 0.9, 0.5) samples were fabricated by the hot.pressing method. The microstruc-ture was observed by an x-ray diffractometer and a scanning electron microscope. The resistance against the applied magnetic field was measured by a standard four-polnt probe method at different temperatures. The magnetoresistance and the magnetization ratio were studied as a function of magnetic field in the range of -1800 kA/m-1800 kA /m at different temperatures from 50 K to 300 K. The magnetoresistance of grain-oriented GxGo1-x is positive. The maximum positive MR of 98% at 50 K and 34% at 300 K was obtained under 1800 kA/m magnetic field in the C0.9Go0.1 sample.


Seventy‐seven patients with endoscopically verified duodenal ulcers were randomized to treatment with either 2 g sucralfate daily at bedtime or 1 g sucralfate q.d.s. in a controlled double‐blind comparative study. After a 4‐week treatment period, the healing rate was 68% for the former and 69% for the latter treatment.


The purpose of this paper is twofold: to establish a tephrochronological framework for the sediments of the Japan Sea on the basis of the identification of the abyssal tephra layers and to examine the paleo-oceanographic conditions of the Japan Sea during the last 60, 000 years, based on the foraminiferal biostratigraphy and 18O record in two piston cores.Accurate determinations of the refractive indices of volcanic glass shards and minerals, together with other data, have enabled successful characterization of several tephra layers and permitted correlation to be made between cores.Of the five marker-tephras described in this paper, three can be correlated with the dated widespread tephras which originated from eruptions of gigantic caldera volcanoes in Kyushu. They are: the Akahoya ash, the Aira-Tn ash and the Aso-4 ash. The Akahoya ash (Kikai caldera, 6, 300Y.B.P.) occurs in cores from the southern part of the Japan Sea. The Aira-Tn ash (Aira caldera, 21, 000-22, 000Y.B.P.) is the most prominent marker, found in cores from the whole area of the sea. The Aso-4 ash (Aso caldera, approximately 50, 000Y.B.P.) is found in cores from the central and southeastern part of the sea.The other two marker-tephras, the Oki ash and the Yamato ash, are the products of major eruptions of Holocene and Late Pleistocene age, and have probably originated from the Ulreung-do Island in South Korea. This estimate is based on their peculiar petrographic nature and distribution. The Oki ash is found in a stratigraphic horizon between the Akahoya ash and the Aira-Tn ash in cores from a tract extending from the area adjacent to the Ulreung-do to the Kinki district of central Honshu, where three radiocarbon ages of around 9, 300Y.B.P. were obtained for the eruption. The Yamato ash occurs in cores from areas to the east of the Ulreung-do. A reliable age for this tephra has not yet been determined, although its stratigraphic relationship to the overlying Aira-Tn ash and the underlying Aso-4 ash, suggests that it must occur within a range of between 25, 000 and 35, 000Y.B.P.Vertical changes in the lithological, foraminiferal and oxygen isotope characteristics of the two tephrochronoiogically dated cores from the Oki bank in the Japan Sea occur at about 6, 500-9, 500Y.B.P., 13, 000 and 23, 000Y.B.P. The paleo-oceanographic conditions of the Japan Sea between these ages are reconstructed from the data of paleosalinity and paleo-temperature, which were calculated on the basis of the 18O values of the benthonic and planktonic foraminiferal tests in the cores.The water of the Japan Sea seems to have been of relatively constant salinity (33-34‰) and low temperature (8-10°C) in the period between 60, 000Y.B.P. and 23, 000Y.B.P. Relatively minor amounts of Pacific sea water flowed into the Japan Sea during this period. A conspicuous, continuous decrease in the salinity of the sea water took place in the period from 23, 000Y.B.P. to 13, 000Y.B.P., as inferred from the decrease of the 18O values of the planktonic foraminiferal tests. It seems probable that the inflow of water from the open sea was checked by some paleogeographic changes at the straits, caused by lowering of sea level during this glacial stage. The 18O values of the planktonic foraminifera tests increased suddenly at about 13, 000Y.B.P. Subsequently, the benthonic foraminiferal fauna which live today in the shallow water of the Northwest Pacific coast appeared in the cores of the Japan Sea. These facts suggest that a remarkable inflow of the Oyashio current through the Tsugaru Straits into the Japan Sea began about 13, 000Y.B.P. The coiling direction of Globigerina pachyderma changed from sinistral to dextral approximately 8, 000Y.B.P. Then warm water planktonic foraminifera appeared in the cores, and the temperature of the surface water of the sea increased abruptly by 7-8°C.


This paper presents some aspects of diagnosis bearings in preventive maintenance and the importance of bearing repair as an alternative to replacing them. Bearing repair is not a new concept, nor has it changed a great deal over the years. Repairing damaged bearings is a precise science that has been fine-tuned over time through careful and gradual enhancements to provide superior results. Knowing and understanding the value of bearing repair means knowing what repair can do, when to use it, and where to get it done.


Let k be a field and n > 0. There exists a DG k-module (V,d) and various approximations d + t d_1 + t^2 d_2 + ... + t^n d_n to a differential on V[[t]], one of which is a non-trivial deformation, another is obstructed, and another is unobstructed at order n. The analogous problem in the category of k-algebras in characteristic zero remains a long-standing open question.


The goal of the research project supported by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) is to improve a theory for estimating the lifetime of solid lubricated ball-bearings developed by the Institute ,,Product Development and Machine Elements". The new approach takes all the essential factors for the lifetime estimation into consideration. Knowing the relation between the calculated friction energy and wear is very important for applying the theory of lifetime estimation rationally. Moreover, the rolling friction constant is needed to carry out dynamical simulations. Both values can be determined most efficiently using an apparatus for rolling friction tests. This article presents the test bench and the achieved tribological results. The friction energy model for this apparatus will be presented as well.


DOI:10.1097/MOL.0000000000000510 Atherosclerotic vascular disease, particularly coronary heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide [1]. Risk factors for CHD are LDL-cholesterol and total serum cholesterol and their levels have been declining as a result of life style changes and lipid-lowering medication [2–4]. This is in contrast to an increasing trend in elevated serum triglyceride levels. In the USA, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 1988–2010) reported that 47% of the population had triglyceride levels at least 150 mg/ dl (borderline-hypertriglyceridemia) with a smaller proportion (<1%) having levels greater than 500 mg/dl [3]. Numerous epidemiological studies have shown an association between elevated triglyceride levels and increased risk of mortality, however, this effect often loses statistical significance after multivariate adjustment for common cofounders such as HDL-C [5]. An independent association between elevated levels of triglycerides and cardiovascular risk is controversial [6,7]. More recently a study carried out by Klempfner et al. [8] in a large patient cohort (15 355) with established CHD over 22 years, found that elevated serum triglyceride levels is associated (in a graded manner) with increased long-term mortality even after adjustment for multiple covariates. It is unclear whether association of elevated triglyceride levels is a marker of atherosclerotic risk or a causal factor. However, emerging human genetic evidence suggests triglyceride-rich lipoproteins (TRLs) causally contribute to CHD. The term TRLs encompasses very LDL (VLDL), chylomicrons and their remnants. They contain both triglycerides and cholesterol as well as apolipoproteins C3 (ApoC-III) and A5 (ApoA5). The major determinant of TRL metabolism is endothelial lipoprotein lipase (LPL), which hydrolyses triglycerides within lipoproteins and clears chylomicrons and VLDL from blood and also inhibits endothelial lipase, which hydrolyses HDL [9]. LPL activity is increased by ApoA5 and inhibited by ApoC-III [9]. The APOC3 gene controls plasma triglycerides [10] and elevated ApoC-III is associated


The present invention relates to a process for preparing ultrafine powders of mono-dispersed and crystalline titanium dioxide (TiO¶2¶), comprising the steps of (a) an aqueous titanyl chloride solution (TiOCl¶2¶ solution) in a concentration above or equal to 1.5 M is prepared by the addition of pieces of ice from distilled water, or icy distilled water to neat titanium tetrachloride (TiCl¶4¶); (B) diluting the aqueous titanyl chloride solution distilled by adding an appropriate amount of water as described above prepared in a specific concentration; (C) titanium dioxide precipitates obtained by heating the compound prepared as described above dilute aqueous titanyl chloride solution and maintaining the temperature within a range of 15 to 155 ° C; and (d) preparing the ultra fine powders of mono-dispersed and crystalline titanium dioxide by separating, washing and drying of the titanium dioxide precipitation as described above prepared.


Lake Victoria has recently undergone immense biological changes. These have led to the extinction of indigenous ecosystems and biota. Decrease in biodiversity has been characterized by mass extinction of cichlid fishes and benthic macroinvertebrates, especially insects. Increasing pollution and/or eutrophication has resulted in the deterioration of water quality and an increase in water-borne diseases. Infestation of the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), which occurred recently, is the latest problem. These problems suggest several responses. A genebank of the remaining fish species should be created. Cage and/or open sea farming of the endangered fishes in Lake Victoria is a viable option in captive breeding of the remaining cichlids. Rehabilitating sewage pumping plants and extending treatment to unsewered urban areas would control organic pollution. Filtration systems based on macrophytes could be used in small urban centres to decrease pollution. Special attention to the taxonomy of the benthic group of insects is needed since undescribed species are being lost.


.. < S ) and mass flow rate ratio. Two flow domains in the r x− plane were measured covering the most intense regions of mixing immediately after the sudden expansion. The focus of the investigation was on the swirl intensity influence on the size and shape of the backflow region being generated in the flow core. In addition, the numerical computations of the entire experimental configuration including swirl generator, inlet section and the combustor (flue) itself using a version of the Second-Moment Closure (SMC) model were performed. The results obtained demonstrate gradual expansion of the free recirculation zone into the radial direction with the separation onset shifted upstream towards the combustor entrance under increasing swirl intensity.


Conservation management approaches focusing on minimizing soil disturbance maximizing soil cover, and stimulating biological activity can be achieved with different cropping choices and production goals in different environments all around the Indo-Gangetic Plains, India. The conservation tillage practice in wheat increased the organic carbon content and carbon stock as compared to conventional tillage in soils. The Conservation tillage increased dissolved organic carbon, microbial biomass carbon light and heavy fractions of carbon in soils at both the depths. The light and heavy fraction carbon values were observed to be lower in lighter textured soil which increased with increase in fineness of the texture. The total nitrogen was highest in clay loam under conservation tillage at 0-15 cm depth as compared to conventional tillage. As tillage intensity increased there was a redistribution of SOC in the profile, but it occurred only between ZT and PRB since under CT, SOC stock decreased even below the plow layer. However, higher SOC content of 8.14 g kg-1 of soil was found in reduced tilled residue retained plots followed by 10.34 g kg-1 in furrow irrigated raised beds with residue retained plots. Whereas, the lowest level of SOC content of 5.49 g kg-1 of soil were found in puddled transplanted rice followed by wheat planted under conventionally tilled plots. Average SOC concentration of the control treatment was 0.54%, which increased to 0.65% in the RDF treatment and 0.82% in the RDF+FYM treatment. Compared to F1 control treatment the RDF+FYM treatment sequestered 0.33 Mg C ha-1 yr1 whereas the NPK treatment sequestered 0.16 Mg C ha-1 yr-1. Long term conservation tillage significantly increased 66.1%, 57.9%, 50.9%, 38.3%, 37.3% and 32% LFOC, SOC, PON, TN, LFON, DOC and POC, over conventional tillage (T7) treatment and WSC 39.6% in surface soil and 37.4% in subsurface soil. Under RWCS, TOC contents were similar in 50% RDN as CF+50% RDN as GM/SPM (F6) and1/3rd N as CF+1/3rd N as FYM+1/3rd N as GM/SPM (F7) and 75% RDN as CF+25% RDN as FYM (F3) plots and significantly higher than those in control (no manure and fertilizer) (F1) plots (by 50.4% 48.3%, and 43.3% respectively). Manure addition further enhanced TOC contents, which were highest following the 50% RDN as CF+50% RDN as FYM (F5) treatment (21.37 gkg−1). Therefore, conservation agriculture in rice-wheat system can help directly in building–up of soil organic carbon, labile organic carbon fractions and improve the fertility status of soil.


Linkage analysis on Utah pedigrees with strong family histories of major depression including only cases with the SLC6A4 HTTLPR short allele revealed a linkage peak on chromosome 4 (maximum HLOD = 3.5). This evidence suggests epistasis between SLC6A4 and an unknown gene as risk factors for major depression. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Abstract In this paper, we study the structure of finite groups
$G=AB$
 which are a weakly mutually
$sn$
 -permutable product of the subgroups A and B, that is, A permutes with every subnormal subgroup of B containing
$A \cap B$
 and B permutes with every subnormal subgroup of A containing
$A \cap B$
 . We obtain generalisations of known results on mutually
$sn$
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A ram fluid turbine is described which includes convenient means to check out performance of the turbine on the ground and/or to enhance its performance during operation.


• There are concerns about the effectiveness of health professionals when they are working with people who have pain. • Health professionals have reported a lack of confidence when working with people with complex pain conditions. • Review of pain education in health professional training may improve clinical practice. • The International Association for the Study of Pain curricula can be useful in developing pain education initiatives. • The up-dated IASP core curriculum appears to be a useful resource for curriculum designers of pre-registration physiotherapy programmes, while the IASP discipline-specific curriculum is in need of revision.


We consider a charged Dirac particle bound in a scalar potential perturbed by a classical magnetic field derivable from a vector potential $\mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r}).$ Using a procedure based on the Gordon decomposition of a field-induced current, we identify diamagnetic and paramagnetic contributions to the second-order perturbation-theory correction to the particle's energy. In contradiction to earlier findings, based on the sum-over-states approach, it is found that the resulting diamagnetic term is ${\mathcal{E}}_{\mathrm{d}}^{(2)}{=(q}^{2}/2m)〈{\ensuremath{\Psi}}^{(0)}|\ensuremath{\beta}{\mathbf{A}}^{2}{\ensuremath{\Psi}}^{(0)}〉,$ where ${\ensuremath{\Psi}}^{(0)}(\mathbf{r})$ is an unperturbed eigenstate and $\ensuremath{\beta}$ is the matrix associated with the rest-energy term in the Dirac Hamiltonian.


Up to 88% of patients with hepatic cirrhosis experience painful muscle cramps resulting in sleep deprivation and impaired quality of life. Management is often based on poor evidence with varying degrees of success in controlling the frequency and severity of muscle cramps in this group.


Impactor is a sort of widely used mechanical equipments in industry.The frequency is an important assessment index of impactor's character.In order to study the influence of the impactor's vibration,the 3D model is established in CATIA,preprocessed in Hypermesh,and modal analysis is worked out based on MSC.Nastran software.The vibration and stiffness characters of the impactor are studied based on its modal vibration shapes and natural frequency The improvement of the mechanical structure which is aimed at keeping the frequency precise is theoretically discussed.


A potentiometric titration study of the complexation of the guests benzoic acid, 4-methylbenzoic acid and (RS)-2-phenylpropanoic acid and their conjugate bases by host 6A-(ω-aminoalkylamino)-6A-deoxy-β-cyclodextrins, where the ω-aminoalkylamino groups are -NH(CH2)nNH2 (n = 2, 3, 4 and 6), is reported. Of the 64 host–guest complexes whose formation is statistically possible over the pH range 2.0–12.0 studied, 35 were detected. Their stability constants range from 140 ± 35 dm3 mol–1 for the [βCDNH(CH2)2NH3·4-methylbenzoate] complex to 1760 ± 150 dm3 mol–1 for the [βCDNH(CH2)6NH2·(S)-2-phenylpropanoate]– complex at 298.2 K and I = 0.10 mol dm–3 (NaClO4). The charge and hydrophobicity of both host and guest appear to be significant factors in the variation of host–guest complex stability. Qualitative structural information on the host–guest complexes obtained from 600 MHz 1H NMR ROESY spectroscopy is generally consistent with the structures generated by molecular modelling.


The surface structures of ReOx supported on CeO2 at low loadings have been elucidated through 18O isotopic exchange Raman spectroscopy and Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscop...


Hans Jacob Orning has produced a doctoral thesis which is in strong opposition to established research and to the importance this research has given to the considerable institutional development of monarchy in the formation of state in Norway in the 1200s. With regard to themes and methods, Orning is deeply indebted to the numerous works of Sverre Bagge on political ideology and practice in the Norwegian High Middle Ages, which are based on the approaches of anthropological and mental history. Orning, however, in his interpretations and conclusions, goes far beyond his master. Orning argues that the pre-state features in Norway were predominant throughout the whole of the 1200s, and he rejects that there was a proper development of state in this period. Orning lays down strong criteria for a state society within a mediaeval context, and he has allowed himself to be inspired by Max Weber's understanding of power and domination. In accordance with Orning's ideal type of a fully developed mediaeval state, the sovereign can demand obedience without his physical presence. Norms of obedience and loyalty are internalized in the people, and the royal power is thus omnipresent. Orning maintains to have revealed an absolute demand of obedience as a part of the Norwegian royal ideology in the 1200s as this is reflected in the legal provisions and in the sagas of the kings of Norway. But he makes a sharp distinction between what he calls an ideological and a practical perspective. Although Hákonar Saga Hákonarsonar imparts an absolute ideal of subordination in accordance with the rex iustus ideology, numerous conflicts and incidents described in this saga as well as in the older Sverris saga reveal that neither the king nor the chieftains and the farmers expected that one should show the king loyalty and obedience in all kinds of situations. In practice the chieftains had a wide range of political action, and the king's as well as the chieftains' expectations of loyalty were in reality vague. For the king it was often more important to establish friendly relations to chieftains who offered resistance than to castigate them. The king's resort to force was based on his personal presence, which presupposed that the king was continuously travelling about in the kingdom in order to confirm the loyalty and submission of chieftains and farmers. In addition the king based his exercise of power on unpredictable and surprising actions against chieftains and farmers, in situations where both severe punishment and mild indulgence could be used. Orning refers to several good examples showing that the king, through appeals or threats, had to mobilize to obtain participation in military campaigns and battles. Consequently, the king could not expect full support from his men in war. Orning


This work evaluates the morphological evolution at the semisolid state of the Al-2wt%Si-2.5wt%Cu alloy produced by direct chill casting under electromagnetic stirring (EMS) and this same raw material enhanced by one equal channel angular pressing pass (ECAP), specially designed to produce raw material for thixoforming processes. The traditional EMS production method is compared to ECAP in order to determine if a second procedure is necessary for this particular alloy. The ECAP process emerged as a promising technique capable of imposing severe homogeneous deformation in metals, which could improve thixoforming processes. The ECAP deformation occurs in a matrix that contains two channels of the same cross-sectional area and form an angle of Φ = 90° and Φ = 120°, the process can be repeated many times allowing to control the microstructure and properties of the materials. Both raw materials, EMS and EMS + ECAP were submitted to re-heating treatment in two conditions of solid fractions, 45% and 60% at soaking times of 0s, 30s and 90s. With this procedure primary particle sizes of about 60 μm were obtained, which exhibit favourable characteristics for the thixoforming process.


In the binary system (1−x)Li2SO4–xNa2SO4, the solid–solid phase transitions and energy storage properties of Li2SO4, Na2SO4, the binary compound LiNaSO4 and two eutectoids (E1: 0.726Li2SO4–0.274Na2SO4; E2: 0.03Li2SO4–0.97Na2SO4) were investigated by X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. Li2SO4 has a solid–solid phase transition at 578 °C with the transition enthalpy 252 J g−1. The binary compound LiNaSO4 gives a slightly lower enthalpy value, 214 J g−1 and its transition temperature is clearly reduced to 514 °C. The transition enthalpy of the eutectoid E1 is maintained to 177 J g−1 and its transition temperature is further reduced to 474 °C. Li2SO4, LiNaSO4 and the eutectoid E1 are applicable phase transition materials because of their large transition enthalpies. The enthalpies of Na2SO4 and the eutectoid E2 are not very high (∼45 J g−1), but their transition temperatures are quite low (∼250 °C); thus their transition properties may be applied at such low temperatures.


Recovery of the energy loss caused by throttling plays an important role in
 improving the performance of a cycle. Based on the original Kalina Cycle
 System 34g, two redesigned cycles, which have different placement of
 single-screw expanders used to replace the throttle valve, are proposed in
 this paper. The thermodynamic performance of two redesigned cycles is
 analyzed and compared with the original Kalina Cycle System 34g. The results
 show that the thermodynamic performance of each redesigned cycle is better
 than that of the original Kalina Cycle System 34g and the I?-redesigned
 cycle performs best. At a low and moderate evaporation pressure, there is an
 optimal ammonia-water concentration and it increases with the increase of
 evaporation pressure. With the concentration increases of ammonia-water, the
 performance advantage of the redesigned cycle system over the original
 Kalina Cycle System 34g gradually decreases. When the ammonia-water
 concentration is much lower than the optimal concentration, the single-screw
 expander produces much work and plays a positive role in net work output of
 cycle system. The highest cycle exergy efficiency of 54.14% can be obtained
 in the II-redesigned cycle when the evaporation pressure is 3.0MPa and
 ammonia-water concentration is 0.85.


A fan using the Weis-Fogh mechanism was built and its characteristics were studied. Two wings were set to move out-of-phase by an arm which rotates changing its directions in a square channel. Characteristics for two types of arms and wings were investigated. The best performance was achieved with a combination of an elastic arm and elastic wings which elastically deform. The Weis-Fogh mechanism is shown to be applicable to fans as well as pumps or propulsion equipment for ships. However, further investigations are required for diminishing the noise and vibration.


The Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky paradox is resolved by reconsidering what entangled state is actually prepared, what physical quantities are conserved and the character of the correlation measurements employed.


There is a necessity to produce a great number of talents who possess both foreign language competence and specialized expertise in the 21st century.This paper is meant to discuss how to cultivate English majors specialized in medical English by means of reforming and optimizing curriculum set-up as well as providing them with flexible and various learning opportunities and resources so that they are able to follow the trend of social development.


A comparison is performed between a simple hardware-controlled cache mapping and a systematic, software-controlled scratchpad mapping of a two-dimensional, lifting-based wavelet transform, in the context of dynamic applications. In this context it is important for the application to optimally exploit the memory hierarchy under the dynamically varying memory availability. Contrary to expectations, the comparison shows the cache-based mapping to exhibit a lower miss rate. The reasons for these different results are examined and improvements for the systematic scratchpad mapping are proposed which would give it a 30% lower missrate performance for localized wavelet-based applications


The analysis of the consequences of a life-course "critical event", particularly a period of unemployment and a childbirth, on individual careers is the main subject of this thesis. Three empirical studies compose my work. The first empirical study (written with Felix Bühlmann – Université de Lausanne) describes the consequences of a period of unemployment. More precisely, we describe three unemployment effects: long-time unemployment, professional downgrading, and career instability. Our results stress that unemployment has an effect that varies among socio-demographic groups both in size and in the type. The most vulnerable groups are women (for professional downgrading), low-qualified workers (for career instability), and old, foreign, and, surprisingly, well-educated workers (for long-term unemployment). The second empirical study describes the cantonal differences in the Swiss labor market. In my analysis, I condense these differences in a typology that include three idealtipical labor markets: "marginal", "multicenter", and "attractive". Marginal labor markets have a local-based economy with a strong presence of low added-value activities. Consequently, they are poorly attractive for workers coming from other territories. Multicenter labor markets are mix territories, with cities that strongly attract workers coming from other territories and rural areas with a local labor force. Multicenter labor markets record high unemployment rates in comparison with other regions. Central labor markets have an economic structure with strong international connections, and record a large presence of multinational and high-tech companies. In the final part on this study, I show how the territorial differences described by this typology have an impact on individual life-courses. In the third chapter (written with Ashley Pullmann University of British Columbia), we study how parents' careers varied after two similar maternity leaves reforms, the first occurred in Switzerland in 2005 and the second introduced in Canada in 2001. Our results show that the Canadian reform impacted parents' careers more that the Swiss one. The causes of this difference are traced back to a stronger change in the length of the maternity leave, and in a socioeconomic context that, in Switzerland, is relatively hostile to a strong presence of mothers in the labor market. In the conclusion, I present few empirically-informed theoretical considerations on (a) the model of human action that best suits life-course analyses, (b) how life-course critical events have different effects depending on individuals' sociodemographic characteristics, and (c) the contribution of longitudinal analysis to the definition of causal models.


Report on a study among residents of areas with Woonerf status and of similar design. A number of indications are given to guide the designers of residential areas such as: tuning to scale, behaviour and needs of pedestrians and cyclists, keeping walking distances between parking and house-door acceptable, and banning non-essential traffic while restraining what is left. (Author/TRRL)


This paper discusses the potential thermal improvements in a low-voltage concentric-wound machine by modifying the airflow paths in the end-windings. Two machines were built and tested by means of heat runs. One machine had a non-uniform array of predominantly blocked end-winding gaps at both ends of the machine. The second machine had modifications to ensure fully unblocked end-winding gaps at both ends of the machine. The selective blocking of the gaps made it possible to evaluate the impact of each stator end-winding modification. CFD simulations of the complete set of design variants were carried out using the ANSYS CFD package. The introduction of end-winding gaps had a positive effect on both stator and rotor temperatures. The various changes in flow patterns observed from CFD were correlated to the test results to provide explanations of the cooling dynamics.


The effective remediation of the traumatic brain injured patient is problematic. Cognitive rehabilitation programs are often not offered to patients due to poor clinical results. This paper reviews the empirical reports of changes in cognitive functioning after treatment and compares the relative effectiveness of several treatments including computer interventions, cognitive strategies, EEG biofeedback, and medications. The cognitive functions that are reviewed include auditory memory, attention and problem solving. The significance of the change in cognitive function is assessed in three ways that include effect size, multiple measures of effectiveness and longevity of effect. These analyses complement the previously published meta-reviews by adding these three criteria and include reports of an intervention method called EEG biofeedback.


This paper presents a brief analysis of some approaches in the eld of Hardware/Software (HW/SW) Co-Design. The main eeorts in the design of these systems are focused on the HW/SW partitioning process, and little work is devoted to providing a modern system development environment in this eld. In the design process, some changes to the architectures of the systems are needed to adopt these enhancements. In order to investigate and evaluate diierent architectures in this regard, i.e. non-functional qualities, an analysis method is required. SAAM, originally devised for the analysis of software ar-chitectures, is utilized to compare and evaluate three co-design systems, based on diierent task-scenarios and functional decompositions.


Let us talk of healing. The ancient wisdoms teach that all worlds exist now-the past, the present, and the future-all co-existing simultaneously. Man invents nothing. He merely discovers, interprets, and reports what already exists in nature; many medical doctors today believe that it is really nature that heals, not the doctor or the drug, and that medicine merely assists the patients to heal themselves. The traditions of both wisdom healing and physical medicine can trace their origins back 2600 years to the third Egyptian dynasty of King Zoser, and that master healer-physician, Imhotep. Throughout the flow of human civilization, in Greece, China, Persia, Africa, and India, wisdom healing and physical medicine were not separated. True healing treated man as a whole, as spirit, mind, and body. This concept is epitomized in the 3,000 year old Oriental system of Ayurvedic medicine, which not only incorporates over 2000 medicinal herbs and minerals, but also includes surgery, psychoanalysis, and the cleaning of man's subtle-energy-body.1 The great healer-physicians of history, including Hippocrates, Avicenna, Paracelsus, and Galen, all recognized that man is far more than a mere physical body and that any attempt to truly heal by treating the body alone is partial and incomplete. Paracelsus, as a healer-physican, overshadowed his medical contemporaries and set the standard for European medicine for many centuries. He is credited with having founded the sympathetic system of medicine, wherein everything which occupies space-all bodies, plants, minerals, heavenly bodies, etc. influence man by means of subtle energies. He stated that "the ultimate cause of illness is a weakness of the spirit" and he advised his fellow physicians to search within themselves for spiritual insight to heal their patients. Hippocrates also held to the practice of healing the spiritual as well as the physical parts of his patient's illness. The birthplace of Hippocrates, the island of Coz, was reputed to have special healing powers, a curative vibration, inherent in the earth and in the surrounding atmosphere. A word must be said about Shamanism. Dr. Michael Harner states that Shamanism represents the most widespread and ancient system of mind-body healing known to humanity. He states that the methods are at least 20,000 or 30,000 years old. The Shaman is able "to transcend the human condition and pass freely back and forth through the different cosmological planes." Shamanism flourished in the ancient cultures that lacked the technology of modern medicine.2 Now on the eve of this twenty-first Century, we stand upon the shoulder of centuries of ancient healing tradition, peering still further into the bio-psychic evolution of our species. What possibilities do holistic health and consciousness research hold for our expanded awareness as healers? Some of the most influencing present day research has been done by Dr. Victor Beasley and Dr. Christopher Hill in connection with Chakra functions, energy vibrations, and healing. Basically, what they found is that "human consciousness is a product of light and that an individual's perception of the world is determined by how cosmic light, breaking up the stars' and the sun's undifferentiated white light into the seven color spectrum of the rainbow. Thus light, or cosmic energy, becomes both the creator and the conditioner of the human consciousness and health. The situation is somewhat analogous to holographic laser technology wherein coherent light from a single source is divided into two separate beams, passed and refracted through certain filters, and eventually recombined as a standing wave form which creates an image we call a hologram. Human consciousness then is a hologram created by cosmic light-energy." Hence, all energy from light, sound, color, and all substance becomes increasingly important to the well-being of the individual and has relevance for modern day healing strategies. …


For 11 years, the Division of Applied Science, University of Paderborn, has offered a four‐year undergraduate technical environmental protection course. More than 500 graduates have completed the programme so far. By means of regular surveys, the job situations of the graduates are evaluated, and feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of the education is requested. In addition, the faculty members keep in close contact with potential employers by supervising students during their professional practical training and by joint projects. The results of this exchange of information and ideas with respect to the professional situation and perspective are described.


----------------------DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION ---------------------- Healing of EE: 60 mg once daily for up to 8 weeks. (2.1)  Maintenance of healed EE: 30 mg once daily for up to 6 months. (2.1)  Symptomatic non-erosive GERD: 30 mg once daily for 4 weeks. (2.1)  Hepatic impairment: Consider 30 mg maximum daily dose for patients with moderate hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Class B). No studies were conducted in patients with severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Class C). (2.2, 8.7)  DEXILANT can be taken without regard to food. (2.3)  DEXILANT should be swallowed whole. Alternatively, capsules can be opened, sprinkled on one tablespoon of applesauce, and swallowed immediately. (2.3)