International higher education research focused on students who claim same-sex identifications in university residential spaces has tended to prioritise the 'gay as victim' discourse, often leading to the pathologising of same-sex identification. While there is emerging research seeking to challenge this dimension of scholarship by offering a more nuanced and 'queer' approach to doing research, such research has tended to be thin, often exclusively focusing on Western contexts. This paper responds to this limitation by showcasing the experiences of Black South African same-sex-identifying students residing in student accommodation spaces in one South African university. Ten participants (five men and five women) were selected to participate in the study through snowball sampling. Each participant was interviewed twice using grounded conversations – an interview technique designed to address unequal power relations during the interviewing process. Findings highlight that the experiences of same-sex-identifying students at the university where this study took place are complex, involving the accommodation of homophobia and heteronormativity as well as resist-stancing. This is mainly due to the fact that the university residential space was heterosexualised. The paper, therefore, argues for a 'queering' of higher education scholarship given the deeply heterosexualised and misogynistic cultures that exist in such spaces.


We describe an uncommon clinical presentation of caudal duplication syndrome and features of caudal regression syndrome in a female infant with complex urogenital and colorectal duplication associated with lipomyleomeningocele and left lower limb hypoplasia. A staged surgical treatment plan was carried out to maintain fecal and urine continence, potential fertility, and cosmetic appearance.


This study is an introduction to the theory of three-dimensional consolidation. The point of departure in the description are the basic equations of elasticity (i.e. constitutive law, equations of equilibrium in terms of stresses, and the definition of strain), together with the principle of effective stress, and the law of Darcy for fluid flow in porous media. These equations, together with the principle of mass conservation, are the only premises used to derive a drained description of consolidation theory. Next, the increment of fluid content is defined and its constitutive law is derived - with its derivation following naturally from the equation of fluid mass balance. Pore pressure, storage, and undrained coefficients are also introduced and useful relations are proven. Where appropriate, the physical meaning of these coefficients is proven mathematically. Equations of equilibrium and fluid mass conservation are subsequently expressed in terms of the increment of fluid content and undrained coefficients, leading to an undrained description of consolidation theory. Thus the initial approach of using drained description is extended to the formalism of Rice and Cleary. This approach to three-dimensional consolidation is useful for its simplicity. It does not require the ad-hoc definition of constants and that of an elastic energy potential. Instead, it is a direct extension to linear elasticity that accounts for the coupling of skeletal deformations and fluid behaviour.


The number of tourist who visits Malaysia has been increase every year. Tourism is one of the main contributors to Malaysia's economy. The purpose of this study is to investigate on motivation factor push and pull factor that lead to tourist intention to visit Melaka. The motivation factor push and pull factors can help destinations to meet the desired needs of individual travelers from different markets. Knowledge of tourist's motivation is critical to predict future travel patterns and enable destination marketers to plan and execute effective marketing strategies. Using the framework of push and pull motivation to determine tourist intention to visit Melaka, 200 questionnaire has been distributed and only 150 were returned. The result shows that there are negative relationship between push and pull factor of motivation that encourage tourist intention to visit Melaka. Field of Research: Push and pull factor, motivation, tourist , intention to visit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The variable sampling interval (VSI) scheme is a well‐known technique for improving the detection ability of control charts (CCs). In the proposed study, measurement error (ME) has been applied to investigate the effectiveness of the Hotelling T2 charting scheme for compositional data (CoDa) using VSI. The current study considered the case of the monitoring phase, assuming that process parameters are known using the continuous times Markov chain model. The evaluation of the proposed scheme has been done using the average time to signal. The authors studied the impact of MEs on the performance of the Hotelling T2 CC for CoDa using VSI, and additionally, the authors also examined the impact of linearly covariate error model parameters on the performance of Hotelling T2 VSI CoDa CC. Six cases for the variance–covariance matrix were used to study the impact of different involved parameters. The effect of ME, sampling interval (SI), powering operator (b), error variance ( σM)$\sigma _M)$ , and subgroup size (m) has been studied on the performance of proposed CCs by increasing the value of one parameter while keeping the other parameters fixed. The ME and σ have a negative impact on the performance of the proposed CC, while SI, b and m have a positive impact on the performance of the proposed CC. Among all the six cases, the correlated cases (negatively and positively) with equal variance performed better than all the other four cases. In the end, an illustrative example of muesli production with p=3$p=3$ part CoDa (where p is the number of variables in CoDa vector) is provided for the practical implementation of the Hotelling T2 VSI CoDa CC in the presence of ME.


Objective:To evaluate the difference between rest 99m Tc-MIBI imaging and Isoket infusion 99m Tc-MIBI imaging in detecting viable myocardium and compare the difference of viable myocardium between old myocardial infarction (OMI) and acute myocardial infaction (AMI) with 99m Tc-MIBI tomography.Method:16 patients with OMI and 12 patients with AMI underwent 99m Tc-MIBI rest、Isoket-infusion 99m Tc-MIBI imaging.Result:185 segments of rest imaging and 160 segments of Isoket-infusion imaging were identified abnomal the meanscores of abnomal segments were 15.1 ± 3.8 , 10.8 ± 1.6 respectively (P 0.01 ).In 185 improved segments with 99m Tc-MIBI rest imaging:16 patients with OMI had 102 segments and 12 patients with AMI had 83 segments.In 87 improved segmengs with Iskoet-infusion 99m Tc-MIBI imaging,OMI had 40 segmants,AMI had 47 segments (P 0.05 ).Conclusion:Isoket-infusion 99m Tc-MIBI myocardial imaging may improve sensitivity for detecting viable myocardium in myocardial infarction and the detection for AMI is superior for OMI.


This paper extends the previous application of Alfred Whitehead's educational ideas to the domain of enterprise education. In doing so, a unique approach to enterprise education is illustrated that links students to their reality whilst also connecting the curriculum to contemporary entrepreneurship theory. The paper reports upon past cycles of reflective practice related to the developing hic et nunc teaching and learning framework. Two specific findings of note have emerged. First, that student-learning outcomes are enhanced through the oscillating influence of freedom and discipline. However, in the absence of either factor, sub-optimal outcomes are seen to occur. That is, an imbalance between freedom and discipline has resulted in sub-optimal outcomes from either a lack of student interest or an inability to adequately apply acquired knowledge. Where gains have been made, the most obvious process has been through consultation with students. Second, that the students also play an important role in shaping the nature of the learning environments within which they interact. Both findings are of significant importance to all academics charged with the responsibility of developing enterprise education curriculum. The main implication of the paper is that in the absence of sound pedagogical practises, it is possible that enterprise programs may develop a tendency to reinforce past practises. The processes of constructive alignment and criterion-based assessment are argued to offer avenues through which students can influence the educational process. They also provide the educator with a reflective pathway through which continual improvements are constantly possible. This paper provides other academics with a window through which to view the ongoing development of a process that has been recognised nationally for teaching excellence and influenced many fine young entrepreneurs. The paper also draws attention to a set of core educational philosophies that have transferable value to any academic setting. It is noted that the task of developing a learner-centred curriculum for enterprise education has been an entrepreneurial endeavour in itself. Many mistakes have been made and many memorable achievements have been celebrated. Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship 29 National Conference Oct-Nov 2006 Rethinking Hit et Nunc: Contemplating Whitehead's Freedom and Discipline Page 2 of 10 Rethinking Hic et Nunc: Contemplating Whitehead's Freedom and Discipline Introduction This paper extends the previous application of Alfred Whitehead's educational ideas to the domain of enterprise education (Fiet 2000; Hindle 2005; Jones 2006a; 2006b). The discussion centres on the recently designed hic et nunc teaching framework that facilitates studentlearning in the here and now. The hic et nunc process has been greatly influenced by the past work of Alfred Whitehead, and continues to be further developed through the infusion of the ideas of Tyler (1949), Heath (1964), King and Kitchener (1994), and Baxter Magolda (2004). The entire process of curriculum development has been motivated by a desire to discover and create a process through which students can learn through and for enterprise (Gibb 2002). As such, it is the centrality of each individual student in the educational process that determines both learning outcomes as well as the emerging curriculum structure. The teaching practices used within the hic et nunc program have received national recognition. Recognition based on the degree of reflective practice aimed at continually improving student learning outcomes through innovative curriculum design. This paper provides evidence of a selfreflective case study (Hayward 2000) through which a process of continual improvement has, and continues to occur. It outlines the process of initial experimental strategies designed to provide enterprise students with considerable freedom to learn through and for enterprise. Despite the emergence of a core set of deliberate strategies that now comprise the hic et nunc program, critical consideration is given to need to balance the various aspects of the hic et nunc program to achieve desirable balance between freedom and discipline. The remainder of the paper is structured as follows. First, the nature of the research method used is explained and justified. Then, the hic et nunc program developed at the University of Tasmania is discussed with its current limitations presented. The discussion then introduces Whitehead's notion of discipline and brings to account to implications of achieving an incorrect balance of freedom and discipline. The paper concludes with summary of the educational philosophies used to develop the hic et nunc approach that may have transferability to other educational institutions. Method The research method used throughout this research has been modelled on Hayward's (2000) cycle of reflective practice within which the seminal works of Dewey (1933), Kolb (1984) and Schon (1983; 1987) where successfully integrated. This process of reflective practice is designed to allow the self-reflection of one's practice with the aim being the development of new knowledge that is personally relevant. The process began in 2002 with the author's participation in the development and delivery of a new degree program in entrepreneurship. During the last four years a continuous cycle of acquiring feedback from multiple sources (Brookfield, 1995), reflecting upon the information received, drawing inferences from that information, developing new patterns of thought and then taking action to alter practice has occurred. Evidence of the process and its outcomes can be found in the numerous peerreviewed publications related to the programs past development (Jones 2006a; 2006b; 2006c; 2006d; 2006e; 2006f, Jones 2005a; 2005b; 2005c, Jones & English 2004, Jones 2003, and English & Jones 2003). The research is based on a single-site case study with the data collected almost entirely by the author. The following sources of data were collected; an initial review of literature related to entrepreneurship education, informal student feedback (both one-to-one and one-to-many), formal student feedback (Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning), peer observation by colleagues, mentor feedback, and continuous interaction with the literature. The process of the data analysis was dictated by the open ended and emergent nature of the research questions. Predetermined coding categories were not imposed on the data, and issues related to the respondent's observations primary concerns emerged naturally. These included the nature of student engagement, authentic assessment, personal responsibility, and co-development of the learning environment. Multiple sources of data provided the means of triangulation to ensure Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship 29 National Conference Oct-Nov 2006 Rethinking Hit et Nunc: Contemplating Whitehead's Freedom and Discipline Page 3 of 10 internal validity. Due to space limitations, a full analysis of the results thus far is not possible. However, the next section presents an overview of the teaching and learning processes that have emerged from the process of self-reflective practice. Intuition and Reflection: Lighting Fires It was said by the great poet Yates, that 'education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire'. This beautifully captures the essence of a learner-centred approach to teaching, effectively removing the notion of a vessel in need of filling from the equation. As previously discussed by Jones (2005a), a learner-centred enterprise program has been developing in recent years at the University of Tasmania. Despite more recently being inspired by the ideas of Whitehead (1929), Tyler (1949), Gibb (2002) and Biggs (2003), it began from the intuition of it founders' desire to co-develop knowledge and ability. The development of this framework provides an example of how a curriculum can emerge from continuous reflective practice (Brookfield 1995). Ongoing interaction with students, facilitators, colleagues and the literature have provided sources of direction and confirmation in the ongoing development of the hic et nunc approach. As time has passed, the ideas have Heath (1964), Baxter Magolda (1998; 2004), and King and Kitchener (1994) have assumed greater importance in influencing the emerging structure. The learning activities shown in Figure 1 relate to a specific unit (i.e. BMA204 Foundations of Entrepreneurship), but the underlying process illustrated is used throughout all courses within the Entrepreneurship Major at the University of Tasmania. The title of the framework, hic et nunc, is derived from the literal Latin translation of the term 'here and now'. The framework and its title are inspired by the past work of Whitehead who argued the students should learn in their here and now. Figure 1: The Hic et Nunc Framework The hic et nunc framework produces a replicating process through which several specifically chosen journal articles (and other sourced material) reinforce a specific and very focussed learning outcome to be acquired through a cumulative learning process. Within other units, the framework may move beyond the development of one major concept, to support learning outcomes related to a series of specific tasks (e.g. conducting market research and preparing financial statements). The full reasoning for not using a single textbook will be explained in more detail shortly. Suffice to say, in general they are seen to be too broad in the breadth of information presented, but too shallow in depth of any information from which useful future generalisation is possible. Essentially, the learning outcomes associated with the units in the major precede the selection of a theory source, and textbooks are deemed an insufficient source of theory to address the desired learning outcomes. Student


Current methods for 3D measurement have various kinds of restrictions. For example, laser triangulation method has shadow effect while cross-section method destroys the object etc. Moreover, all these methods need special measurement equipments which increase the cost of measurement. A method based on image sequence is proposed. By importing some photos of the test object taken by a digital camera in a computer, the 2D information of the test piece can be obtained through image processing and 3D measurement can be finished by stratified reconstruction of the features from projective space to Euclidean space step by step by means of computer vision. A set of coded targets is designed as an assistant utility to measure the object, which avoids the matching problem. A strategy of image segmentation and recognition is proposed to obtain 2D information from each image. The rate of recognition is beyond 95%. The stratified self-calibration based on modulus constraint is used to get 3D information from Euclidean space. And some optimization algorithms are used to reduce error impact. The implementation of this method is simply done on hardware with little requirements for measuring conditions. Experiments show that the relative error can reaches 1.48% and the re-projection error reaches 0.3864 pixel


This dissertation describes how to build conceptual parsers (that is, natural language understanding systems built on semantic and pragmatic principles) that are embedded into application programs. A new architecture for building such parsers, indexed concept parsing, is described. Indexed concept parsing is a case-based reasoning approach to parsing, in which underlying target concepts (that is, those conceptual representations of the application program identified as important to recognize) are associated with sets of index concepts. Each index concept is associated with sets of phrasal patterns. At run time, the parser looks for phrasal patterns in input text, and the index concepts recognized thereby are used to appraise the best matching target concepts. The architecture defines a range of parsers, in which the complexity of the index concept representations can vary according to the needs of the application program: index concepts can be key words, synonym sets, representations in an abstraction hierarchy, or representations in a partonomic hierarchy. Indexed concept parsing was developed to build parsers for Casper, an interactive learning environment designed to teach customer service representatives how to solve customer problems, and TransAsk, a multimedia system for transportation planners. Indexed concept parsing proved robust (for example, the Casper parser had an accuracy rate ranging from 83-96%), yet required minimal knowledge representation. A methodology for building an indexed concept parser is given, and evaluation metrics are described. Another parser, based on Direct Memory Access Parsing (DMAP), and developed for the Creanimate biology tutor, is also described, as well as a DMAP parser for Casper. Indexed concept parsing and DMAP are contrasted as architectures for building embedded conceptual parsers.


(Quasi‐)Poisson–Lie T‐duality of string effective actions is described in the framework of generalized geometry of Courant algebroids. The approach is based on a generalization of Riemannian geometry in the context of Courant algebroids, including a proper version of a Levi‐Civita connection. In our approach, the dilaton field is encoded in a Levi‐Civita connection and its form is determined by the Courant algebroid geometry. Explicit examples of background solutions are provided using the approach developed in the paper.


The aim of this study was to to analyze the relationship between the big five personality traits and adjustment to university by examining the extent to which the self-assessment of Turkish adolescents personality traits predict their adjustment to university. The study group consisted of 168 students: 101 females and 67 males. The study data was collected using The Adjustment to University Life Scale and the Adjective-Based Personality Test (ABPT). The findings of this study revealed that personal adjustment and academic adjustment predicts emotional instability/neuroticism and conscientiousness in a meaningful way. Also, social adjustment predicts agreeableness in a meaningful way. A number of recommendations were then presented based on our study's findings.


There is substantiated that the historic epoch of civilization end is notable for almost all possible quantitative signs. As the possible variants of development are decreased, and usual work of a person loses its sense, which causes suffering, the modern epoch may be called civilization catastrophe tragedy of end.


Phase transitions and dynamics of the liquid crystal MBBA [N-( p-methoxybenzylidene)-p-n-butylaniline] microconfined within porous glasses of average pore diameters: 82 and 337 Å were investigated by 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). Confinement is found to favour the depression of phase transition temperatures below the corresponding transitions of bulk MBBA. Confinement induces further effects for the molecular dynamics related to the phase investigated. The correlation times of the molecular motions were obtained and the results are discussed by making comparison with the bulk analysis.


Women and children are trafficked between countries and within countries for illicit sexual purposes. This is a serious international crime. Domestic traffickers use a variety of means to advertise the illicit sexual services of the children and women they offer, including Internet classified ads, bulletin boards, and social media associated with escort and massage services (EMS). Clients ("johns") of the EMS fronts for prostitution also use the Internet and social media to compare their experiences and offer leads to one another. FBI, the principal U.S. law enforcement authority in this area, has begun implementing a number of initiatives to combat child sexual trafficking. We describe a prototype law enforcement support system to automatically compile and correlate information from open sources about trafficking and sexual abuse of women and especially children. The system, called TrafficBot, employs information retrieval, information integration, and natural language technologies to build a data warehouse allowing various visualizations of information for the benefit of law enforcement. We discuss the current capabilities of TrafficBot, how it could be used by law enforcement, and suggest some future directions.


For the determination of nodule-forming ability and efficiency of species of Rhizobium, it is necessary to protect plant cultures from contaminating nodule organisms. This is usually accomplished by sterilization or disinfection of seed, containers, nutrient solution, sand and water and by maintenance of such sanitation in the laboratory and greenhouse as will largely forestall the entry or transfer of unwanted rhizobia. When only a small number of cultures are to be tested, elaborate assemblies may be used. However, when thousands of such determinations are to be made almost simultaneously in a small greenhouse, a simpler and more easily operated method is desirable. The method suggested in this paper, it is hoped will supply this need. It merely involves, outside of the usual disinfection of materials, the irrigation of sterile sand by capillarity and the use of extreme acidity in nutrient solutions as a lethal agent against foreign rhizobia; such a solution altered by the neutralizing materials in the sand, ultimately becomes the liquid food for use of the plant.


The utility model relates to a high-pressure crack grouting simulation test bed which is mainly used for the research of high-pressure crack grouting technological parameters at deep ground layer; the high-pressure crack grouting simulation test bed mainly comprises a crack water-pressure control system connected with a crack model and a computer automatic monitoring system; the test bed can simulate grouting of water-containing cracks with different gap length, can research grouting pressure changing in the grouting process and utilizes the computer to automatically monitor the grouting pressure, grouting amount and other parameters, and can detect the grouting effect, particularly for water plugging impervious capacity, and slurry diffusion distance, crack filling and consolidation strength and the like.


Two studies were conducted in order to investigate the psychometric properties of Italian version of the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ). Results from Study 1 (N = 401) provided support of the factorial validity of its four facets (self‐efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience), as well as of its composite factor measure. Results from Study 2 (N = 465) attested the measurement invariance of the PCQ across one year. Study 2 also explored the relationship between psychological capital, job satisfaction, work engagement, and job performance. Limitations and practical implications are discussed in the article.


In the course of some recent work on Fourier series [5, 6] I had occasion to use a number of integral inequalities which were generalizations or limiting cases of known results. These inequalities may perhaps have other applications, and it seems worth while to collect them together in a separate note with one or two further results of a similar nature. For any number k, used as an index (exponent), and such that K > 1, we write k' = k′(k–1), so that k and k′ are conjugate indices in the sense of Hölder's inequality.


Low-carbon economic society construction is an important way to coordinate economic development and climate change. As the significant components of greenways, urban waterfront green space is acting as the irreplaceable important role in regional reducing greenhouse gas emissions by conserving energy. Taking the development and landscape design of Beihu Lake waterfront green space in oil city Daqing as a case, based on the current resources and planning conceptual position of site, adopted ecological approach and means of RS and GIS, this paper discussed how to bring about long-term mechanism of ecological construction and low-carbon development, achieve ecological, cultural, recreational and perceptional fusion in planning and design by means of rational use of waterfront advantageous recreational natural landscape resources, fully dig out of urban historical culture and custom, perfectly integrate historical culture and spirit of place into landscape design, maximize the ecological, recreational and landscape function of urban waterfront green space during the landscape construction process of waterfront green space. The purpose of this study was to provide a reference for realizing ecological and low-carbon development of waterfront green space which was natural recreational resource of particular region in city, particularly those based resources, and for study and practices of its related fields in the future.


The nonelectromagnetic part of the /ital n/-/ital p/ mass difference is known to vanish in the Skyrme model of pions. This result is shown to hold when the model is extended to include an isoscalar 0/sup /minus// field. However the inclusion of vector mesons to describe ''short-distance'' effects enables the isoscalar 0/sup /minus// field to contribute and this explains most of the /ital n/-/ital p/ splitting in a two-flavor model. To carry out the analysis we make a detailed study of chiral-symmetry breaking in the pseudoscalar-vector Lagrangian. The contribution due to the strange constituents of the nucleon is also estimated. The sum of the two contributions is shown to be sufficient to explain the experimental number. Another way to discuss ''short distance'' effects is the explicit inclusion of quark degrees of freedom via the ''chiral quark model.'' We show that this can also give rise to nonzero /ital n/-/ital p/ splitting.


This article states that during the construction of industrial buildings it is necessary to provide engineering communications (including systems of supply and exhaust ventilation) which ensure uninterrupted production, its technological and environmental safety. It is necessary to use cleaning devices to remove pollutants from ventilation emissions in local exhaust systems. As for devices for removing highly disperse non-sticky dust, it is possible to offer vortex dust collectors, the efficiency of which depends on the design and operating mode. A method is proposed to increase the efficiency of a vortex dust collector, to improve the quality of the purified air, and to reduce energy consumption during air purification by installing watering nozzles in primary and secondary air pipes made in the form of a Venturi tube. In consequence of multidirectional movement of dust particles and sprayed water, active coagulation of dust particles takes place, as a result of which the separation increases. Apart from that, watering dusty air flows leads to the formation of a liquid film on the inner surface of the separation chamber, which prevents dust particles from rebounding off the separation chamber and facilitates their capture and flushing into the collecting hopper


We report here hourly variations of Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios in a Mediterranean mussel shell (Mytilus galloprovincialis) collected at the Otsuchi bay, on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan. This bivalve was living in the intertidal zone, where such organisms are known to form a daily or bidaily growth line comprised of abundant organic matter. Mg/Ca ratios of the inner surface of the outer shell layer, corresponding to the most recent date, show cyclic changes at 25-90 mm intervals, while no valuable variations are observed in Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios. High Mg/Ca ratios were probably established when the bivalve was located at low tide with a reduced supply of Ca from seawater. Immediately following the great tsunami induced by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Mg/Ca enrichment occurred, up to 10 times that of normal low tide, while apparent Ba/Ca enrichment was observed for only a few days following the event, implementing a proxy of the past tsunami. Following the tsunami, periodic peaks and troughs in Mg/Ca continued, perhaps due to a biological memory effect as an endogenous clock.


The author asks whether "aesthetics" can be seen as a new paradigm for Practical Theology. Although this question cannot be answered with certainty, the growing importance of aesthetics for Practical Theology is acknowledged. Aesthetics can be understood in numerous ways: 1) as the theory of aesthetic experience, 2) as the theory of art and its objects, 3) as the theory of aesthetic rationality, and, 4) aesthetics as the theory of aesthetic reason. The corresponding influences of these interpretations on Practical Theology are 1) the theory of aesthetics and religious experience, 2) the theory of religious art, 3) the theory of a contemporary Protestant art of life, and 4) Practical Theology in aesthetic constellations. The latter four influences of aesthetics on Practical Theology in turn influences the traditional themes of Practical Theology (worship and preaching, pastoral counseling and religious education).


Abstract
 This case study provides an analysis of the implementation of the National Aquaculture Strategic Plan (NASP) for Malawi. The NASP is a strategic document for aquaculture development in Malawi that was created in response to a request from the Government of Malawi (GoM) to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to conduct a Master Plan Study on Aquaculture Development. The NASP was set to improve aquaculture development from 2005 to 2015. The aquaculture sector plays a significant role as a source of food, income and employment to Malawi's population. It is estimated that the sector provides about 2% of the nation's fish production and, among fish farming households, to contribute up to 17% of household income, depending on fish farming activities. Fish from both aquaculture and capture fisheries contribute about 4% to the country's GDP and provide almost 70% of animal protein and 40% of total protein thereby contributing to the country's food security and livelihood strategies. The purpose of the case study was to provide a clear understanding of the existing state of the NASP. The case study involves a number of stakeholders that were chosen randomly from the NASP document as partners in its implementation. The study analyses the progress of the NASP implementation by looking at whether the implementation structure was functioning, it also assessed the knowledge of the stakeholders on the document, the linkage of the stakeholders, the coordination among stakeholders and developments in fish production through aquaculture. The results show that the institutional structures that were proposed to implement and monitor all the NASP strategies and activities have not been formed. This has led to lack of knowledge of the document by some stakeholders. Poor coordination and networking among the stakeholders has also led to the failure of the strategic plan. The case study concludes that there is an urgent need for the formulation of a separate institutional structure to look into aquaculture development in Malawi with the help of the Departement of Fisheries (DoF) and all the stakeholders so as to help review and process the NASP action plans if quantitative progress is to be achieved.


This paper analyzes the necessity of improving the quality of cataloging personnel in the new period,expounds the present situation of cataloging personnel,probes into some qualities that the cataloging personnel should possess,and sums up some methods and paths for the quality construction of cataloging personnel.


Abstract As a continuation of earlier work on the Holocene history of the pine forests of northern Fennoscandia, new finds of subfossil pine (Pinus silvestris) are reported from sites in Enontekio, northwestern Finnish Lapland, and at one location in the Lyngenfjorden area in North Norway. Two pollen diagrams from lake sediments are also presented, one from near Kilpisjarvi in Finland, the other from close to Skibotn in Norway. The megafossil, pollen, and radiocarbon data provide a more or less consistent picture of the history of the pine forests of northern Fennoscandia. Pine spread to the Kilpisjarvi and Lyngen area around 7500–7000 B.P., and the pine forests were at their maximum there from about 7000 to 4000 B.P. Their subsequent gradual decline meant a retreat of the pine limit by some 70 km or so. Discussions are provided on climatic variations in the area, and on possible further research into these and other palaeo-ecological changes.


AbstractOcean heat uptake is explored with non-eddying (2°), eddy-permitting (0.25°), and eddy-resolving (0.125°) ocean circulation models in a domain representing the Atlantic basin connected to a southern circumpolar channel with a flat bottom. The model is forced with a wind stress and a restoring condition for surface buoyancy that is linearly dependent on temperature, both being constant in time in the control climate. When the restore temperature is instantly enhanced regionally, two distinct processes are found relevant for the ensuing heat uptake: heat uptake into the ventilated thermocline forced by Ekman pumping and heat absorption in the deep ocean through meridional overturning circulation (MOC). Temperature increases in the thermocline occur on the decadal time scale whereas, over most of the abyss, it is the millennial time scale that is relevant, and the strength of MOC in the channel matters for the intensity of heat uptake. Under global, uniform warming, the rate of increase of total heat...


The paper introduces the concept of the low-carbon,analyzes some problems in current urban landscape design and some solutions,and explores the specific application of low-carbon idea in the urban landscape design from the open-source,expenditure reduction,and circulation,so as to provide some reference to develop the low-carbon economy.


Objective
To explore the application value of GeneXpert MTB/RIF for nephrophthisis detection.

Methods
The blood serum of 79 patients with nephrophthisis and 50 healthy people were collected for specimens of Tuberculosis specific Antigen (TB-SA) and T-SPOT.TB; urine sediment of them were collected for the specimens, smear microscopy, mycobacterium tuberculosis culture method, and the GeneXpert MTB/RIF method were used to detect these samples; and their positive rates were compared.

Results
68 cases were TB-SA positive in all 79 cases of nephrophthisis, the sensitivity and the specificity were 86.1% and 82.0%; 63 cases were T-SPOT.TB positive, the sensitivity and the specificity were 79.7% and 90.0%; 12 cases were urine sediment smear-positive, the sensitivity and the specificity were 15.2% and 100.0%; 18 cases were culture-positive, the sensitivity and the specificity were 22.8% and 100.0%; 57 cases were GeneXpert MTB/RIF method positive, the sensitivity and the specificity were 72.2% and 100.0%; there were statistically significant differences in the sensitivity between GeneXpert MTB/RIF method and the smear method, the culture method (χ2=26.05, 19.30; P 0.05).

Conclusion
The convenience and high sensitivity of GeneXpert MTB/RIF technology make it a good diagnostic test for rapid detection of nephrophthisis.

Key words:
Nephrophthisis; Mycobacterium; Nucleic acid amplification technique; Diagnosis


: In order to analyze and study the composition of ancient glass products, this paper preprocessed the data and carried out statistical analysis of charts to qualitatively analyze the relationship between weathering and color, type and pattern of cultural relics, and established a Logistic regression model for quantitative analysis. There are four types of cultural relics according to the type of cultural relics and whether they are weathered. Through the evaluation model of principal component analysis, the statistical law of weathering and chemical composition content of excavated glass cultural relics is calculated according to the corresponding comprehensive score range of each kind. A multiple linear regression model was established to predict the pre-weathering component content. The correlation and difference between the chemical components of different kinds of glass relics were analyzed. The correlation coefficients of high potassium glass and lead barium glass were analyzed respectively, and the correlation coefficient heat maps were drawn. Determine the relationship between the chemical components and the differences between different chemical components.


The analysis of data generated from multi-factor experiments has traditionally relied on a transformation of the data to achieve a constant variance. This procedure not only changes the shape of the response surface, possibly Leading to erroneous interpretations, but also Leads to estimators possessing Larger variances than those available for the analysis of the untrans-formed data.This paper deals with the design, and analysis of experiments utilizing untransformed data when the variance of the response changes from one point in the experimental region to anothero We will begin our discussion with an example using a Poisson response.


Long-term unattended sound monitoring of wind turbines allows the selection of optimal data from a long period of time in which many meteorological conditions occur. However, in some cases, attended monitoring is required, either as a specific requirement of the permitting or because many measurement sites are required, making long-term monitoring impractical. Short-term attended monitoring of wind turbines introduces several complexities to ensure that the data are valid and representative of the target conditions. To illustrate this, we describe the challenges of attended octave band sound measurements made at 38 sites in the vicinity of wind turbines in Illinois in September, October, and November 2021. The attending monitoring was completed at night to reduce the background sound levels and involved the cooperation of residences, turbine operators, and the weather. Successful navigation of these challenges led to completion of the sound monitoring at all locations and acceptance of the study by the County.


In one aspect, a drill bit is disclosed that in one embodiment includes a plurality of elements that extend and retract from a surface of the drill bit, wherein the plurality of such elements are in fluid communication with each other to compensate for differing forces applied to such elements during drilling operations. In another aspect, a method of drilling a wellbore is provided that in one embodiment includes: conveying a drill string having a drill bit at an end thereof, wherein the drill bit includes a plurality of elements that extend and retract from a surface of the drill bit, wherein the plurality of such elements are in fluid communication with each other to compensate for differing forces applied to such elements during drilling operations; and drilling the wellbore using the drill string.


For pulsed power load (PPL) accommodation in a medium‐voltage DC (MVDC) shipboard power system (SPS), the charging control of energy storage systems (ESSs) and the generation control of distributed generators (DGs) need to be properly coordinated. Targeting the important but not well‐studied problem, an optimal output‐constrained control algorithm for the offline PPL accommodation strategy is presented. Three control objectives including realising the generation and charging control references, maintaining the DC bus and supercapacitor voltages within the safe operating ranges, and minimising the total generation cost of DGs, are fulfilled concurrently. First, an SPS model with multiple DGs, a supercapacitor ESS, and regular loads is developed. By restricting the DC bus and supercapacitor voltages within pre‐defined constraints, both the transient‐ and steady‐state performances of the SPS are guaranteed. Furthermore, by incorporating the cost minimisation objective into designed virtual control signals, the third control objective on energy efficiency is realised. The stability of the presented algorithm is rigorously proven based on the Lyapunov method. Finally, detailed case studies are conducted to validate the performance of the designed algorithm.


The dacite of the Yeba Formation in Demingding,Tibet is dated(192.7±1.3) Ma by zircon SHRIMP U-Pb dating,representing the age of the formation in the area.The dacite of the Yeba Formation was formed in Early Jurassic,nearly the same time as that of volcanic rocks of the Yeba Formation in Dazi regions.The study of the features of rock combination and geochronology shows that the Yeba Formation is made up of shallow andesite,dacite,rhyolite,acid tuff with little clastic rock and carbonate rocks,and can be divided into upper,middle and lower parts.Geochemical characteristics illustrate that the rock of the Yeba Formation is the acidic volcanic rock,and may be a product of the northward subduction and reduction of the Yarlungzangbo ocean,and formed in the island arc environment.


Through a deep study on the consistency of generalized judgment matrixes, new re straint equations of the weight vector of set S = u 1,u 2,...,u n are obtained. The weight vector can be solved using the equations whe n the structure matrix corresponding to the sets generalized judgment matrix is irreversible. In addition, a sixth-order generalized judgment matrix is test ed randomly, and the result shows that the scope of their application is raised from 66% to 99.5%.


The Peace River Lowlands of Alberta and British Columbia is one of the most historically active mass movement areas in western Canada. In this study area, the Peace River has incised through approximately 180 m of Quaternary sediments and 30 m into the underlying bedrock. Numerous failures continue to cause infrastructure problems for the town of Peace River. Failures of varying types have occurred in both the Quaternary sediments and the underlying shale bedrock. A bedrock surface model was generated from multiple data sources. This model shows that the ancestral Peace River formed a large valley, eroding the bedrock surface almost to the same base level as the modern Peace River. During glacial times, the advancing Laurentide Ice Sheet dammed and inundated the Peace River valley and its tributaries, depositing a thick and complex sequence of glacial sediments. Chronologically, the Quaternary stratigraphy consists of fluvial sediments derived from the Cordillera, aggrading fluvial and glaciofluvial sediments, grading up into glaciolacustrine deposits, till and other glacial sediments and, within the greater Peace River valley, deglacial sediments of glacial Lake Peace. The deep seated landslides at the Town of Peace River have a strong spatial correlation with the buried valleys and tributaries of the ancestral Peace River. This may be, in part, due to groundwater in the basal sediments of these buried valleys penetrating the bedrock. However, the glaciolacustrine sediments deposited in advance of, and subsequently overridden and overconsolidated by, the Laurentide Ice Sheet are also suspect for a number of failures.


A kind of sports video classification method (D-S PT-LSSVM) combined with least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) and evidence theory has been proposed for the shortages of low accuracy rate and weak stability etc. of sports video with single features. First, four kinds of features of color, texture, brightness and motion vectors reflecting sports video category have been extracted; second, basic probability assignment has been constructed by taking the LSSVM initial category results of four kinds of single features as independent evidence and finally simulation experiment has been made. Simulation results have shown that the accuracy rate of sports video classification of D-S PT-LSSVM is as high as 97.9%; compared with reference method, the specific sports video classification of D-S PT-LSSVM is with advantages of high accuracy rate and good stability etc.


Objective To analyze influence of diameter and location of continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC) to the posterior capsular opacity(PCO).Methods According to the diameter and location of CCC, patients were divided into three groups. We studied the incidence rates of PCO respectively in each group. All patients were follow-up-surveyed for at least 30 months. Results When CCC was symmetrical , the incidence of PCO was lower than when it wasn't, but when CCC was symmetrical, the incidence of PCO in the bigger diameter( 5.5mm) was higher than it in the smaller diameter (≤5.5mm ). Conclusion The ideal capsulorhexis is in the middle, symmetrical and capsulorhexic margin is larger than the IOL margin.


Reactive power control using the static compensator (STATCOM) has more advantageous due to outstanding performance of STATCOM. In transmission and distribution systems, the reactive power control is done by using the STATCOM based on voltage source converter (VSC).STATCOM can supply large amount of VAR's during system faults for voltage support. The STATCOM effects the VSC over currents and trips, during the power system faults when VAR's support is more required. In this paper, we propose and develop an "emergency PWM" strategy to prevent over-currents (and trips) in the VSC during and after single line to ground system faults, LLLG faults and to ensure that the STATCOM supplies required reactive power. System performance during a nonlinear load connected without any fault is also considered. The Simulation results are shown for a 48-pulse VSC based ± 100 MVAR STATCOM connected to a 2bus power strategy to prevent VSC over-currents and to supply required reactive power under line to ground system faults.


Al_2O_(3f)+C_1/ZL109 short fibers reinforced hybrid metal matrix composites can be fabricated by squeeze casting,a new type vibration generator used in vibration drilling system is introduce,which is composed of permanent magnets,can produce compound vibration,and the low frequency vibration experiment was done.The in- fluences of amplitude and vibration frequency on tool wear,drilling force,drilling precision and surface roughness are analyzed.The results show that drilling force could be decreased obviously,and drilling precision can be improved. Tool wear can also be decreased by using appropriate amplitude and frequency.There fore,the machinability of Al_2O_(3f) +C_1/ZL109 hybrid composites can be improved.


Magnetic properties of as-prepared (sputtered) and annealed Fe,Sil-, (0.64 5 x 5 0.78) amorphous films deposited at room temperature, are interpreted in terms of chemical short-range order and compared with evaporated films deposited at 77 K. Low temperature ( 5 30 K) magnetization behaviour follows; M (T) / M (0) = 1 B T ~ / ~ c T ~ / ~ 2 with B = 1.5 x K ~ / ~ ; C = -2.610 x ~ K ~ / ~ . Related spin wave stiffness constant is D = 0.9 meV A . Disorder is at the origin of the magnetic properties of amorphous magnets. Magnetic moment p and spin wave stiffness D are almost enterely determined by chemical disorder [I], while structural disorder also plays for local anisotropies [2]. In FeSi compounds. Si is a substitutional atom and crystalline phases appear in a wide range of composition. Thus the study of amorphous Fe,Sil-, alloys may give insight about short range order effects. Fe,Sil-, films (thickness ~1 000 a) were grown on glass substrates (Corning Glass 7095) maintained at room temperature in a special dc assisted triode sputtering system (Ar preassure 4 x 4oF4 Torr) already described [3]. Fe,Sil-, films within the range 0.64 5 x 5 0.83 were obtained. Subsequent thermal annealing (500 K; 8 h) was carried out in vacuum Torr). Films were checked by X-ray and electron diffraction and no appreciable structural changes with annealing were detected. Amorphousness was observed for films where a: 5 0.78; otherwise Fe3Si phase and a-Fe 6 % -17 % Si crystalline solid solutions were found. Some films were crystallized in vacuum by subsequent thermal treatments. Magnetic-optical Kerr effect (MOKE), Transverse biased initial susceptibility (TBIS), SQUID magnetometry and Mossbauer spectroscopy (MS) measurements were carried out. Here we report mainly the results related with MOKE, magnetic moment and spin wave stiffness in amorphous films (x 5 0.78). In fig&e 1 SK VS. 2 for as-prepared and annealed films is shown. SK = AR/R is the Transverse Kerr effect phenomenological parameter, where R is the reflectivity and AR the magneto-optical modulation [4]. Figure 1 also shows the saturation magnetization M, (RT) measured at room temperature for some annealed amorphous films. It must be noted the close agreement between M, and SK behaviours. This was not unexpected for this kind of materials. Figure 1 evidences the existence of a plateau in M, (RT) us. x behaviour for both as-prepared and annedkd amorFig. 1. 6~ v s . x and M. (RT) v s . x for Fe,Sil-, films. (A) : 6~ (sputtered, as-prepared); (A) : 6~ (sputtered, annealed); (e) : M, (RT) ; ( 0 ) : 6~ (crystalline films); (+) : Ms (RT) in sputtered films from reference [5]; (a) : M , (RT) in evaporated films 171. phous films, which disappears for crystallized samples. A similar behaviour was early found by Aboaf et al. [5] in sputtered samples. Their results are also plotted in figure 1. In other works concerning sputtered thin films [2] [6], this plateau was not so marked. Finally, in thick (1-2 p) vacuum evaporated [7] (see Fig. 1) and in some sputtered films 191, it seems not to be detected at all. Thus the behaviour of M, vs. x between the range 0.66 < x 5 0.78 is greatly influenced by the particular conditions of sample preparation. In figure 2 the mean magnetic moment for iron atoms (p) deduced in our annealed films from magnetization measurements at 4.2 K, are compared to those obtained in evaporated films [7]. Correspondent values for crystalline phases Fe3Si and FesSi3 are also given. It must to be noted that, for our films, p is always higher-than the mean magnetic moment of crystalline phases, but this seems not to be the case for evaporated samples. Furthermore, in our sputtered films, p hardly varies for Article published online by EDP Sciences and available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:19888816


We have good reason to state1 that contemporaneous sources reveal a certain knowledge of the concept and contents of the Ten Words (= Decalogue; Hebr.: םירכדה תודשע; Gr.: οἱ δέκα λόγοι2) in Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity.3 Th erefore the question has to be raised if and in which way Jesus of Nazareth made use of this core text of the biblical tradition during his earthly ministry. Th e inquiry is part of the more general and much discussed problem of Jesus' attitude towards the (Jewish) Law.4 What did Jesus in fact know of the Law? Did he make distinctions between diff erent parts of the Law? Did he


This study examined whether divergent thinking test scores obtained from engineering students during college predicted creative work activities fifteen years later. Results showed that a subscore of the Owens Creativity Test, which assesses divergent thinking about mechanical objects, correlated significantly with self-ratings of creative work activities and number of patent submissions. An overall divergent thinking score obtained from the Structure of the Intellect Learning Abilities Test (SOI-ELCT), however, did not correlate significantly with either creative work activities or patent submissions. Practical and theoretical implications of the results are discussed.


This paper looks at aspects of Māori language revitalisation since the passage of the Māori Language Act, 1987 which gave official status to the language. It is a sequel to an article on Māori language in education published in this journal the following year [Benton, R. A. (1988). The Maori language in New Zealand education. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1(2), 75–83]. It traverses developments in the compulsory education sector, the strategies formulated by government agencies, public attitudes towards the language, and policies articulated by the major political parties. Particular attention is paid to the observations and recommendations made in relation to the Māori language in the Waitangi Tribunal's report Ko Aotearoa Tēnei [(2011). Wellington: Legislation Direct].


Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women 'matter' in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women's needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier 'gender-blind' efforts which simply ignored women's specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on issues such as 'mainstreaming' versus specialisation, methodologies for incorporating gender analysis into planning and evaluation, the limitations of gender training, the unintended impacts of women-focused credit programmes, and how institutional policies to promote gender equity are often tacitly undermined by patriarchal interests. Papers are drawn from South Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.


A simple method to prepare emulsifier was proposed to form stable nano size emulsion as sizing agent to enhance the interfacial bonding strength between carbon fiber (CF) and epoxy resin....


Lecture critique de Jack Goody, The Power of the Written Tradition, Washington, London, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000, 192 p. Brian V. Street, Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education, London, New York, Longman, 1995, 184 p.


Under ideally competitive conditions, both controlling pollution by price (using a combined charge-subsidy scheme) and controlling it by quantity (using a marketable permit scheme) can achieve short- and long-run efficiency and also political acceptability, provided that both schemes embody the same degree of environmental ownership. The resulting full symmetry between control by price and control by quantity, a symmetry overlooked in the literature because of the entry-exit assumptions automatically made for most subsidy schemes, allows a useful practical choice to be made between the two control systems.


In order to strengthen the storehouse management, from the angle of integration and conformity with existing information systems, Jinan Steel designed and developed the management system for steel marketing and stock by the mode of client and server. This system used the special coding of materiel, supported multiple warehouse management and had the characteristics of the interface clarity and simple operation. The application of the system solidified the business process, realized the integration of the logistics, capital flow and information flow and increased the operation efficiency.


Learners of a second language have always been struggling to acquire the 3rd person agreement morpheme -s. The present study investigated the factors, whether over regularization or L1 interference, that EFL learners face while acquiring the of 3rd person agreement morpheme -s. The participants of the current study were 40 elementary level 7th graders students composed of 20 males and 20 females whose ages ranged from 12 to 14 and studying at a state school in Istanbul/Turkey. There were basically two instruments for this study which are written and oral outputs of the learners in the form of in-class and performance assignments. Activities have been prepared carefully to canalize the students to use all the personal pronouns. Oral part of the activities are recorded and each incidences of wrong use of 3rd person agreement morpheme -s counted; and same for writing. The results show that the errors made by students are mostly due to over regularization of the rule and L1 interference is not observed too much. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of Hacettepe Universitesi.


Pharmaceutical companies are facing several major interrelated challenges, the most strategic being the decline in R&D productivity resulting in empty product pipelines to replace products nearing patent expiry. A common response has been mergers and acquisition of competitors and biotechnology firms, but rather than resolving the problems, this has created new ones. While biotechnology promises to reshape the pharmaceutical industry, it too faces challenges: the industry as a whole is unprofitable and there is uncertainty regarding market acceptance of its products. This paper examines the current issues in the two industries, and describes a scenario process resulting in the development of a set of scenarios depicting four possible future paths along which the pharmaceutical industry may develop over the next 15 years.


A method of analysing the interactions between three coherent waves in a plasma in the presence of an external stochastic magnetic field is presented. The equations governing the wave-wave interaction are obtained in the binary collision approximation. The interaction between two transverse and one longitudinal wave is presented as an illustration.


Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, one of the 20th-century's literary power marriages, saw each other as each other's muse. As a result, they developed a common text--a unified work that emerges from two seemingly disconnected collections -- that allows them "speak"� with each other even after Plath's death in 1963. In my paper, I explore constructions of the muse and Harold Bloom's concept of poetic influence, and ultimately expose how Plath and Hughes wrote their common text.


Introduction: De Quervain's tenosynovitis is an inflammation of the abductor tendon sheath long and short extensor of the thumb secondary to acute trauma, extreme exercise and accumulated microtraumas due to excessive thumb use, as in the case of the people who send many text messages per day.
Materials and methods: observational, transversal and analytical study. The sample size was 100 medical students from the National University of Asuncion, non-probabilistic selection.
Results: Sixty three percent of the students were female. A quarter of responders claimed to send more than 200 messages per day. When performing Finkelstein maneuver, it was found that 39% have De Quervain´s tenosynovitis, 25% corresponding to the female gender. 81% of students who perform text messages result in pain in the hand, followed by 92% and 40%, due to pain in the ipsilateral elbow and shoulder, respectively. In addition, 90% present paresthesias in the hands. No relationship was found between the number of sending text messages and the presence of De Quervain´s tenosynovitis.
Conclusion: Almost 40% of young people who use smartphones have De Quervain´s tenosynovitis, but the greater use of it does not show a greater predisposition, while other associated factors must be studied.


The migration of individuals from one country to another leaves traces in different aspects of the lives of individuals, the most important of them is their right to sustainable development, and this right is made up of a set of basic rights that individuals should possess, regardless of their status as indigenous citizens or immigrants. The sustainable development goals is to achieve human well-being in a way that does not affect the rights of individuals in future. These constituent rights to sustainable development are mentioned in the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as countries work with the assistance of international organizations to achieve them, and international migration is one of the most important external factors affecting this, and its impact is positive in some and negative in others. keywords : Sustainable development, International Labor Organization, World Health Organization, International Migration. ثحبنا تًُهأ ن٘ خ١ّ٘ا وٙظر شؾجٌا ا ٗٔٛو ٟف ٠ ً ب٠ٛ١ؽ ً بػٛػِٛ يٚبٕز ٌٟٚلٌا ْٛٔبمٌا ٟف ؾمف خ٠وظٌٕا خ١ؽبٌٕا ِٓ ًهل٠ لا ، بّٔاٚ لؼ٠ ِٓ ٖلٙشٔ ٞنٌا غلاٌٛا ٟف خٌّّٙا غ١ػاٌّٛا ، ما ٟٔبؼر ٟزٌا ب٠بؼمٌا ِٓ ذؾجطا ٝزؽ وفلاا لؼث ًبِٛ٠ كب٠كىلابث نفأر خ١ٌٚلٌا حوغٌٙا ْا ٚلٌا خ١جٌبغ بِٕٙ ي ، خ١ٌٚلٌا حوغٌٙبث ً بم١صٚ ً بؽبجرها كاوفلاا قٛمؽ ؾجرورٚ ، خ١ّٕزٌا َِّٝ ذؾر طهلٕر قٛمؾٌا ٖن٘ ْا ش١ؽٚ خِالزٌَّا ، .خ١ٌٚلٌا حوغٌٙا ِٓ ًب١جٍٍ ٚا ًب١ثبغ٠ا حوصأزٌّا قٛمؾٌا خفوؼِ ٟف ٍٝغزر شؾجٌا خ١ّ٘ا ْأف ثحبنا تُناكشا ٍٝػ خ١ٌٚلٌا حوغٌٙا و١صأر ٜلِ بِ ٛ٘ بٕ٘ ىوج٠ ٞنٌا ياإٌَا ٟف كاوفلاا كؽ ؟خِالزٌَّا خ١ّٕزٌا هٌنث وٙظزٌ خ١ػوف خٍئٍا : تياذتسًنا تًُنتنا ٍف دارفلاا قح ًهع تُنوذنا ةرجهنا رثأ ىشاه رهزا ءاُفأ ؛تنايا ولاس انر د.و.أ


In this paper we investigate the application of High Reliability Theory (HRT) to the field of operational risk management. In particular, we illustrate how HRT can contribute to the analysis of the risks associated with the Incident Management process at the IT department of a large European financial institution. We examine the characteristics of an organizational context that favor high reliability of IT processes. Through a detailed analysis of interactive complexity and tight-coupling as determinants of reliability, and based on empirical qualitative data, we are able to propose solutions and techniques to deal with risk. Based on these findings, we argue that HRT may indeed serve as a suitable theoretical framework for conducting comprehensive risk analysis and management.


This essay deals with the legacy left by Wilhelm Dilthey to contemporary philosophy. In particular, what is highlighted is that the legacy of this philosopher transcends the influence he exerted on several authors since his legacy is, above all, an experience of the limits and the crisis of philosophical knowledge. Dilthey's desire to depart from the traditional metaphysical horizon and propose a philosophy of life able to decode modern times, socially complex and devoid of ethical considerations, is specifically evident in his Leben Schleiermachers. Shifting the emphasis from the traditional Schleiermacher- Dilthey-Heidegger-Gadamer genealogy, this essay provides a more articulate horizon to the comparison between Friedrich Schleiermacher and Dilthey. In the light of this horizon, it can be understood why we cannot speak of a homogenous "Diltheyan school" as heir to the restless mind of the master.


This study aims to find out a comprehensive performance assessment using project-based learning and improving critical thinking.  The method of writing articles through literature studies published in 2010-2022 uses descriptive qualitative bibliometric analysis with the Perish 8 and VOSviewer applications, from 1000 articles sourced from journals, books, conferences, proceedings, and other literature sources that have been screened in the Google Scholar (GS) and Scopus databases with the Perish 8 application, researchers only take articles sourced from journals, namely 343 articles and only 1 09 articles are  Scopus with 45 articles that are on quartile one (Q1), 34 articles on quartile two (Q2), 23 Articles at quartile level three (Q3) and 7  articles are at level quartile four (Q4) to be used as a reference for literature studies in conducting further article reviews. The results of the bibliometric analysis qualitatively found that there was a relationship between comprehensive performance assessment based on project-based learning and critical thinking.


Reform of financial services long overdue Traditional banks suffer at hands of new, less regulated rivals Repeal the BHCA now Congress is embarking on its third attempt in ten years of inter-industry battles to reform the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, a law that separates commercial banking from most forms of investment banking. Welcome though this is, the financial services marketplace has moved beyond any simple legislative revision and demands more fundamental reform, not only to reduce unnecessary regulatory charges but also to achieve greater efficiencies in serving customers. Legislation to reform the Depression-era Act has passed both the House Banking and Financial Services Committee and the Commerce Committee. This bill simply recognizes the current state of affairs, requiring a bank holding company to use a separately capitalized affiliate for securities business, subject to a number of statutory firewalls and restrictions. It also establishes a new regulatory regime that allows investment bank holding companies to be affiliated with commercial banks if they satisfy a number of conditions. If the Republican-led Congress and the Democratic administration care about promoting economic growth, allowing capital to flow freely, abolishing unnecessary regulatory taxes, and serving consumers efficiently, then more market-oriented reform must be introduced and the terms of the current Congressional debate must shift dramatically. New bank competitors are on the scene, operating outside the old regulatory regime and providing customers with the cost-effective products and services they demand in a safe, sound environment. New market realities While concerns linger in Washington about the mixing of banking and commerce, they do not stand up in the light of reality. Since 1956 and the coming into force of the Bank Holding Company Act (BHCA), which set out to separate banks from commercial ownership, both the marketplace and regulation have changed. In 1987, Congress sanctioned the entry of numerous "new bank" competitors, which now have a formidable presence and a notable regulatory advantage. It "grandfathered" consumer banks and made certain other banks (such as Utah industrial loan companies) exempt from both BHCA and Glass-Steagall restrictions. Federal savings associations, including federal savings banks, have always been exempt. Congress thus gave the green light to many eminent corporations - GE, American Express, AT&T, Fidelity Investments, Prudential Insurance, Merrill Lynch and Leucadia National among them - to own full-service, FDIC-insured banks without suffering any restrictions on their product, service, acquisition, or affiliation strategies. A review of market facts reveals the truth behind the illusion of keeping banking and commerce separate. Examining the most recent comparable market data, we find that including both bank and nonbank assets, the top 25 old banks have roughly $1.9 trillion in assets, and the 25 largest new competitors an impressive $1.3 trillion - only about one-third less. Analyzing other market indicators reveals that these new banks consistently outperform their older rivals. Old banks are disadvantaged The top 25 new banks have almost twice the market capitalization of the top 25 old ones ($321.7 billion compared with $168 billion). The average new bank has an 85 percent greater market capitalization than the average old bank. The five-year market-to-book ratio of new banks is 60 percent higher on average, while their top performer posts a 5.4:1 ratio as against 2.1:1 for the best old bank. When five-year shareholder returns are examined, similar results emerge. On average, new banks have achieved returns more than 130 percent higher than those of their older rivals. The top new bank posted a staggering 2,200 percent return, while the most successful old bank turned in just over one-tenth of that amount. …


Adomian polynomials (AP's) are expressed in terms of new objects called reduced polynomials (RP's). These new objects, which carry two subscripts, are independent of the form of the nonlinear operator. Apart from the well-known two properties of AP's, curiously enough no further properties are discussed in the literature. We derive and discuss in full detail the properties of the RP's and AP's. We focus on the case where the nonlinear operator depends on one variable and construct the most general analytical expressions of the RP's for small values of the difference of their subscripts. It is shown that each RP depends on a number of functions equal to the difference of its subscripts plus one. These new properties lead to implement a dramatically simple and compact Mathematica program for the derivation of individual RP's and AP's in their general forms and provide useful hints for elegant hand calculations of AP's. Application of the program is considered.


This work shows that field ion microscopy can be used to image 2D materials by using a rather simple fishing method. The appearance of streaked spots is assigned to the presence of graphene, and it is possible to study their evolution as a function of the applied electrical field.


Microprocessor technology has grown in a decade from simple 4-bit controllers to complex 32-bit architectures which rival the performance of mainframe computers. Applications of microprocessors today range from military and aerospace programs to consumer products and toys. The rapid growth of this field has resulted in many different types of microprocessors, based on several different technologies, being offered by a number of different manufacturers. Each of these manufacturers, and several independent companies as well, also provide support tools to aid in the development and checkout of microprocessor-based products. Evaluation kits, development systems, analyzers, high level languages, and software simulators are but a few of the available aids permitting more rapid design, integration, and debugging of systems incorporating microprocessors.


The dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) is part of the cortical network for arm movements during reach‐related behavior. Here we investigate the neuronal projections from the PMd to the midbrain superior colliculus (SC), which also contains reach‐related neurons, to investigate how the SC integrates into a cortico‐subcortical network responsible for initiation and modulation of goal‐directed arm movements. By using anterograde transport of neuronal tracers, we found that the PMd projects most strongly to the deep layers of the lateral part of the SC and the underlying reticular formation corresponding to locations where reach‐related neurons have been recorded, and from where descending tectofugal projections arise. A somewhat weaker projection targets the intermediate layers of the SC. By contrast, terminals originating from prearcuate area 8 mainly project to the intermediate layers of the SC. Thus, this projection pattern strengthens the view that different compartments in the SC are involved in the control of gaze and in the control or modulation of reaching movements. The PMD–SC projection assists in the participation of the SC in the skeletomotor system and provides the PMd with a parallel path to elicit forelimb movements. J. Comp. Neurol. 523:2390–2408, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


Pastoral visitation was a mean used by God since Eden. Jesus Himself visited the homes of Levi, of Peter´s mother-in-law, of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, and of tax-gatherers. This was also one of the main activities of the apostles such as Paul, who taught "from home to home" (Acts 20:20). However, pastoral visitation seems to have being recently left aside because of many factors, fact that seems to contribute to a lower growth in a member personal religious life and in the life of the Church in general. Coming from this perspective, this paper presents a field research among members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and try to delineate an actual picture of the pastoral visitation in some churches. The data shows that one in four adventists never received a visit form a pastor since his or her baptism. The research also implies that. in most cases, these members are those that do not have any charge in the church, they are mainly young people with little time as adventists. This papers calls out the pastoral body to a reflection on their views concerning the pastoral visitation.


Article History: Received Date: 04/08/2019 Revised Date: 09/08/2019 Accepted Date:16/8/2019 e-First: 28/08/2019 The concept of patent pooling has emerged as a vital tool in the areas of nanotechnology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, clean energy technologies, etc. They are of great use to developing countries like India to attain access to advanced and expensive technologies. However, anti-competitive attributes have been witnessed in developed countries like US. In the international patent regime, patent pooling has is a commercially viable concept. In the global patent thicket where access to advanced technology is a need for developing nations, patent pools by renowned innovators have become an effective market strategy. In the contemporary scenario where climate change is one of the major global concerns the role of environment friendly technologies has become extremely crucial. When we talk about innovative technologies, we have to keep in mind the patent implications that ensue. Large firms have various green patents tagged to their name. Further, patent pooling can be defined as an agreement between two or more patent owners to licence one or more of their patents to one another or to third parties. Often, patent pools are connected to complex technologies that require complimentary patents in order to offer effective technical solutions. The objective of this paper is to critically analyze the current scenario pertaining to patent pooling (in India and US) and its prospective role in diffusion of green technologies.


A high level synthesis for testability method is presented with the objective to generate testable RTL designs from behavioral descriptions. The approach is formulated as an allocation problem and solved using an efficient genetic algorithm. We follow the allocation method with an automatic test point selection algorithm. The method has been implemented and design comparisons are reported.


Horizontal wells productivity equation under pseudo-steady state (PSS) condition has long been used, while the shape factor (CA) parameter is still obtained from correlation of reported CA tables which are limited on few well and reservoir configurations and not yet verified. Most of the reported CA tables have significant error reaches 92% and overestimates well productivity 32%. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis was implemented and CAs were determined over a wider range of well and reservoir configurations by generalizing pressure transient model of Mutalik, P.N., Godbole, and Joshi, S.D. (1988). A new equation of primary pressure derivative (PPD) based on the generalized model was developed. Five pressure derivative functions (PPD, Slope of PPD, PPD × √TDA, Semi-log PPD (SPPD), Slope of SPPD) were evaluated and analyzed to identify five types of flow regimes (early radial, early linear, late radial, late linear, and PSS) for pressure test analysis.
An efficient algorithm was achieved and accurate CAs and their correspondence pseudo-steady state time (TDA)PSS were computed and tabulated.
The results show that each of the five flow regimes has identification by a pair of the pressure derivative functions in spite of Slope of SPPD and Slope of PPD functions are considered one function.


Clinical outcomes of active substances depend on their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Pharmacokinetics illustrates the passage of active substances through the body in spatial and temporal terms and is defined by the processes of release from dosage forms, absorption form the site of administration to the central circulation, distribution throughout the body, metabolism and elimination from the body. Basic mechanisms of these processes are convection and diffusion with the exception of metabolism, where chemical transformation occurs. Pharmacokinetics thus ensures regardless of the mode of application the transfer of the active substance from the site of administration to the site of action, i.e. to the biophase where the targets are located. On the other hand, pharmacodynamics studies the processes that begin to take place between the active substance and the target when the active substance reaches the target. Targets are either receptors or enzymes, they may be carriers or ion channels. The result of the interaction between the active substance and the target is a measurable clinical effect such as drop in blood pressure, drop in cholesterol levels, drop in body temperature, relief of pain, recovery from infection, reduction of symptoms and signs of depression or psychosis and more (Derendorf and Schmidt, 2020). Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are very often influenced by polymorphisms of genes encoding enzymes, carriers, receptors and ion channels which pharmacogenetics deals with. Selected examples of psychopharmaca in the light of the influence of pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics on clinical outcomes will be presented below. Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters


Spin-state transitions, observed in many transition-metal compounds containing ${\text{Co}}^{3+}$ and ${\text{Fe}}^{2+}$, may occur with the change in temperature and pressure but also with doping, in which case the competition of single-site effects and kinetic energy of doped carriers can favor a change in the spin state. We consider this situation in a simple model, formally resembling that used for manganites in Kugel, Rakhmanov, and Sboychakov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267210 (2005). Based on such a model, we predict the possibility of a jumplike change in the number of ${\text{Co}}^{3+}$ ions undergoing spin-state transition caused by hole doping. A tendency to the electronic phase separation within a wide doping range is demonstrated. Phase diagrams with the regions of phase separation are constructed at different values of the characteristic parameters of the model.


Allium obliquum L.is an important wild vegetable resource.The seed morphology and the germination characteristics of this species at different temperature and light conditions were studied in this article.The results showed that seeds wereblack and oboval with granular ornamentation on the seed coat,and the size was 3.49mm×1.88mm×1.40mm.The best germination condition was 15℃/25℃ thermoperiods.In this condition,germination rate,germination energy and germination index could reach to 81.33 %,80 % and 4.37 respectively,which were different from the other treatments significantly.The seed had no strict requirements for light.


ABSTRACT Planning in the Netherlands is practiced at National, Provincial, and Municipal levels. Regional approach to planning has also been given recognition at the macro- and micro-levels. Industrial stimulation to the less developed areas constitute the main content of macrolevel regional planning, whereas comprehensive approach forms the essence of microlevel regional planning. Mesolevel planning (for the metropolitan areas) has currently gained ground, but it has still to make its headway. In spite of meager natural resources, the material prosperity of the Netherlands is largely owing to its economic and physical planning endeavors at different levels.


HIV-infected individuals are at increased risk for human papilloma virus–related cervical and anal cancers. Although the benefit of cervical pap smears


Necrotizing fasciitis is a repidly progressive, often fatal soft tissue infection involving the overlying skin because of thrombosis of nutrient vessels which occurs secondarily. Early diagnosis and radical debridement are essential. Two cases of necrotizing fasciitis are reported. case 1 was a 60-year-old man with diabetes mellitus. He was admitted to the hospital for diabetic gangrene of the bottom. after admission his symptom rapidly progressed and necrotizing fasciitis occurred. Radica debridement was performed. Case 2 was a 45-year-old man. After emergency operation for an abdominal trauma, necrotizing fasciitis occurred from the middle wound to the waist. Radical debridement was carried out, but the fascial necrosis extended to the parietal peritoneum, and the patient died. This paper also presents some notes on accumulated 28 cases from the Japanese literature.


Abstract : The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that oral glycerol administration prior to and during exposure to high altitude will decrease the prevalence and severity of AMS. The basis for this hypothesis was that glycerol would create an osmotic gradient between the blood and the cerebral spinal fluid producing a net movement of water out of the CNS, thus attenuating development of cerebral edema. Furthermore, to assess whether AMS was associated with development of cerebral edema, we used MR imaging and post-processing to quantify changes in brain tissue volume, hypothesized to increase due to cerebral edema. MRI studies were performed in subjects at sea level and following a 32-h exposure to an altitude of 4,572 m in a hypobaric chamber. The study found that oral administration of glycerol did not alleviate the symptoms associated with AMS, and that whole brain volume was increased by 2% following the hypobaric exposure. There was no relationship between the AMS prevalence or severity and the magnitude of the brain volume changes.


Automated placement helps greatly improve the efficiency of cartography.Annotation of map can be divided into name,numeric,illustrative annotation.Almost all researches care about name placement.But numeric annotation has some difference from name,which for example is of fixed length and must be fetched from field value of background feature and so on.According to the character of numeric annotation of land utilization map,rule database is proposed,with which the program can be configured dynamically.And a new Grid Algorithm for region automated placement is put forward which can solve the conflict of overlap between labels,and be applied to program more easily and efficiently.Furthermore,down-lead label of little parcel,update of numeric annotation together with its related parcel,are also discussed.Based on this rule database and grid algorithm,an application of automated numeric placement for land utilization map is developed,which is proved to be effective for above 95 percent of parcels in utilization map.


A space-time crystal has recently been observed in a superfluid Bose gas. Here we construct a variational model that allows us to describe from first principles the coupling between the radial breathing mode and the higher-order axial modes that underlies the observation of the space-time crystal. By comparing with numerical simulations we verify the validity of our variational Ansatz. From the model we determine the requirements for the observation of the space-time crystal and the Ising-like nature of the symmetry breaking involved. Also, we find the onset and growth rate of the space-time crystal, which can be compared to experiments.


Objectives: The purpose of the this study is to investigate parenting stress of married dental hygienists having preschool and school aged children. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 242 married dental hygienists from September to December, 2015 via e-mail and ordinary mail. The questionnaire consisted of demographics, job-related characteristics, family life satisfaction, and parenting stress. The data were analyzed using Stata 13.0 program. Results: As for job-related characteristics, 36.6% of the subjects answered 'not possible' in work hour flexibility. The reasons why family-work balance is difficult were 'parenting and education(58.7%)' and 'burden of family-work balance(32.4%)'. Family life satisfaction was 3.03, and parenting stress was 2.41. Parenting stress gets higher if their children are younger, monthly income is lower, and mother/father's age are lower. And parenting stress becomes higher if their career as dental hygienists is less, they are contract worker, and frequency to change jobs is higher. Concerning the reason why work-family balance is difficult, parenting stress is found to be high when they choose 'parenting and education', 'burdens of work-family balance', and 'relationship in workplace'. Family life satisfaction reduced parenting stress. According to the results of multiple linear regression analysis, frequency to change job influences parenting stress. Conclusions: Parenting stress increases turnover and career interruption of married dental hygienists. It is hard to improve work environment without policy support. It will be necessary to establish policy for employed mothers and create a work atmosphere where the policy can be utilized without difficulty.


The oxidative cyclization of (E,E)-2′-hydroxycinnamylideneacetophenones 1a–e, and (E, E)-2′-benzyloxy-6′-hydroxycinnamylideneacetophenones 1i–l with DMSO/iodine, gave (E)-2-styrylchromones 3a–e,i–l. However, in the case of (E, E)-γ-alkyl-2′-hydroxycinnamylideneacetophenones 1f–h, (E)- and (Z)-2-styrylchromones 3f–h and 4f–h were obtained. The stereochemistry of the (E,E)-cinnamylideneacetophenones 1 and (E)- and (Z)-2-styrylchromones 3 and 4 was established by NOE experiments. The induced daylight photooxidative cyclization of some (E)-2-styrylchromones 3a,f–h gave 12H-benzo[a]xanthene-12-ones 6a,f–h.


Innovating curriculum is the core field for the Innovating education. In the new century, it should be emphasized for the reform and innovation of curriculum in Chinese basic education, and should research and discuss the mechanic and strategy of the creating curriculum.


Fully-matched driver and power amplifier MMICs have been successfully developed operating with the frequency range from 37 GHz to 43 GHz. MIM capacitors and high impedance lines have been employed as matching elements to accomplish a compact chip size. A π-type input matching network with optimized circuit parameters has been additionally introduced into the chips. As a result, this new design technique has achieved both wideband input matching characteristics and reduction in variations of input return loss due to process fluctuation of MIM capacitors. The driver and power amplifiers have linear gains of 22 dB and 12 dB, input return losses of greater than 8 dB and 9 dB, and output return losses of greater than 6 dB and 8 dB in the frequency range, respectively. Their chip sizes are 0.83 × 1.99 mm2 and 1.60 × 1.99 mm2, respectively. Saturated powers of the amplifiers are greater than 17.6 dBm and 24.6 dBm from 37 GHz to 40 GHz.


"I understood where they were coming from. Why can't you accept him as he is? And, you know, you are always trying to be accepted in life…and which, you know, I understand that, but, at the same time- I didn't live it. I am in a hearing world and that's what I want for my child. But, I am not taking away the fact that he is deaf. I want him to be able to function in both worlds." -A hearing mother of deaf child Abstract: Culture has been commonly understood as something we "have", acquired through membership into a community rather than something socio-ideologically situated that we "do" bodily in and through language. Through videotaped interviews with hearing mothers of deaf children discussing their language experiences in the visual world of their deaf child, I attempt to shape an emergent notion of culture as a site of struggle which includes multiple modes of meaning-making via speech, sign and sensory production. What insights might this study offer on language learning?  Introduces a second-language learning narrative often left out of the SLA literature (yet this narrative reiterates the common narrative of the second-language learner underpinned by a monolingual, assimilation ideology)  Brings forth a bodily understanding of culture on the margin and in the in-between  Directs our attention to how the use of multiple modalities creates spaces for meaning making providing us with insight on the social and individual level  Ask us to give attention to non-verbal meaning making processes in a language classroom and in other language learning contexts Authors I draw on:


Early diagnostics of meningitis is a very topical problem as it is a fulminant disease with a high level of mortality. The progress of this disease is, as a rule, accompanied by the appearance of bacteria in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) composition. The examination of the CSF is well known to be the only reliable approach to the identification of meningitis. However, the traditional biochemical analyses are time consuming and not always reliable, simple, and inexpensive, whereas the optical methods are poorly developed. This work is devoted to the study of Raman spectra of several bacterial cultures which are mainly present during meningitis. Raman microscopy is a prompt and noninvasive technique capable of providing reliable information about molecular-level alterations of biological objects at their minimal quantity and size. It was shown that there are characteristic lines in Raman spectra which can be the reliable markers for determination of bacterial form of meningitis at a level of a single bacterium.


This paper describes a CMOS image sensor technology suitable for the next generation of scientific cameras. We describe a prototype sensor with 320x240 pixels based on this technology. The sensor features 8 different types of 5T pixels with pinned photodiodes. All of the pixels have a 6.5um pitch and include an integrated micro-lens. The measured peak quantum efficiency of the sensor is greater than 50% at 550nm, and the read noise is less than 1e- RMS at room temperature. The linear full well capacity is greater than 40ke-, the dark current is less than 3.8pA/cm 2 at 20°C, and the MTF at 77 lp/mm is 0.4 at 600nm. The sensor also achieves an intra-scene linear dynamic range of greater than 92dB (40000:1) at room temperature.


The changes of organoleptic quality and physicochemical index of koji during storage were introduced. The most reduction is fermentation ability which in consequence will has the decisive role in the fermentation quality of fermented grains in the cellar. If the mixture of new koji and old koji is used to promote the fermentation ability,it will produce the stimulus and extra flavor of the liquor body which will cause the declining of the taste quality. Therefore the suitable koji storage period should not be less than six months.


Gradual increase in the usage of electric vehicles in order to reduce the green house gas emission and shortage of conventional fossil fuels gave us the platform to discuss about this modified switched reluctance motor. The switched reluctance motor presented here is rotor and stator swapped one, in which the rotor part of the conventional SRM is kept as stationary part with windings in it and the stator part doesn't have any windings and it acts as a rotor. This paper presents some aspect of using modern switched reluctance motor, based on the static magnetic characterization using modern SR motor design and simulation tool (ANSYS). Three types of SR motor configurations are analyzed here (i) Conventional switched reluctance motor (ii) Rotor and Stator Swapped Switched reluctance motor (iii) Novel Rotor and stator swapped switched reluctance motor with circular hole in the rotor pole. The comparative analysis is based on the magnetic performance and calculated parameters of each motor model. The studied parameters are electro-mechanical parameter, rotor torque profile and magnetic plots.


An interesting application of solar energy for methane production is here analysed in terms of energetic efficiency. The application (called Solargas) is constituted by photovoltaic (PV) panels, an electrolyser and a Sabatier reactor. PV panels pick up the solar energy to supply the electrolyser. The electrolyser produces hydrogen from water; the produced hydrogen is used in a Sabatier reactor to obtain methane. Solargas system is here compared to typical biogas and wood chip production systems in terms of the ratio between the output fuel energy and the input solar energy.


The automatic control system of ICEAS process of city wastewater treatment plant is introduced. The control system can achieve centralized monitor and analysis in any time for all the technology process by the software in a computer. The flexibility of the control system is very good, the reliability is fine and the operation interface is friendly. The control system is used for the control of largescale wastewater treatment plant.


Because legal methods not only should but also could in fact maintain objectivity of law, certainty of law and stability of law, science of law has already been accepted by most people. Looked from the science angle, Legal methodology has three technical significances: practical value, efficiency value and standard value. Legal methodology is one kind of technology which has standard significance. There is certain intrinsic relation between Standard significance of legal methodology and maintaining rule of law. General performances of standard significance of legal methodology are: form function, autonomy function and critique function. Emphasizing the significance of standardization of legal methodology is advantageous to objectivity of law and rule of law.


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Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Xianrong Huang
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ABSTRACT The noncovalent interactions of Ih−C80 fullerene with free-base and 3d transition M(II) phthalocyanines (where M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) were studied at the PBE-D/DNP level of density functional theory. The optimized complex geometries, formation energies and electronic parameters were analyzed and compared to those reported previously for similar dyads with C60. In the complexes with Ih−C80, the central metal atom (as well as one H atom of H2Pc) is always coordinated to a C6:6:6 atom of C80 cage, exhibiting only one general interaction pattern. The shortest M…CC80 and N…CC80 distances are notably longer than in dyads with C60, and the distortion of Pc macrocycle is less significant. In none of C80-based dyads the formation of new coordination bonds by metal atoms was observed. The bonding strength for Pc–C80 dyads varies approximately to the same degree of 20 kcal/mol as for their Pc–C60 analogues, however negative formation energies for Pc–C80 dyads are on average by 5–6 kcal/mol lower than for their C60 analogues. While in closed-shell Pc–fullerene systems HOMO is usually found totally on Pc molecule, in the case of C80-based dyads only a minor HOMO fraction can be detected for some dyads on Pc, with the major one always distributed over fullerene cage. As a result, the calculated HOMO-LUMO gap energies turn to be very low, around 0.1 eV. Analysis of spin density plots revealed that H2Pc+C80, NiPc+C80 and ZnPc+C80 dyads behave as closed-shell systems, like similar noncovalent complexes of Pcs with C60.


Excessive land exploitation in Dumai has been replaced by intrusion seawater in aquifers in the coastal area. This is indicated by the increasing number of society's wells that turn into brackish. The intrusion has a wide impact on various aspects of life, such as decreasing soil fertility, damage the buildings, and disrupting public health. The aim of this study is to find out the saturated zone of water and the interface of water with fresh water, so it is known that water zones are suitable for daily use. The study used Geoelectrical Resistivity Survey with 1D Schlumberger configuration to determine the zone of aquifer and its thickness. Based on the research that has been done, the results of the boundary of the intrusion zone in Dumai were obtained that there is an intrusion zone boundary of seawater content. This is indicated by the low resistivity value. It is less than 10 ohms, which is found at the zone of less than 1 km from the beach line.


Etica y Big Data Internet Research Ethics This anthology addresses ethical challenges that arise within the field of Internet research. Among the issues discussed in the book are the following: * When is voluntary informed consent from research subjects required in using the Internet as a data source?