The overall cost of a hydropower plant is mainly due to the expenses of civil works, mechanical equipment (turbine and control units) and electrical components. The goal of a new draft tube design is to obtain a geometry that reduces investment costs, especially the excavation ones, but the primary driver is to increase overall machine efficiency, allowing for a reduced payback time. In the present study, an optimization study of the elbow-draft tube assembly of a Kaplan turbine was conducted. First, a CFD model for the complete turbine was developed and validated. Next, an optimization of the draft tube alone was performed using a design of experiments technique. Finally, several optimum solutions for the draft tube were obtained using a response surface technique aiming at maximizing pressure recovery and minimizing flow losses. A selection of optimized geometries was subsequently post-checked using the validated model of the entire turbine, and a detailed flow analysis on the obtained results made it possible to provide insights into the improved designs. It was observed that efficiency could be improved by 1% (in relative terms), and the mechanical power increased by 1.8% (in relative terms) with respect to the baseline turbine.


One of the recent trends within the circular economy is the development of materials derived from food processing waste and their utility as an alternative to plastic packaging. In this context, the study aims to evaluate biological causes of deterioration or degradation of chitosan-based films with and without incorporated natural Quercus extract in three different types of soils (industrial compost, commercial garden soil, and soil from a vineyard). Degradation and active properties deterioration was followed by measurement of the loss of mass of tested active films for 14 days, and it was accompanied by other analytical techniques such as measurement of polyphenolic content, FT-IR analysis, and SEM examination of the packaging morphology. The results showed that chitosan-based film properties deteriorate in less than 3 days followed by biodegradation in all tested soils after 14 days. Films with incorporated Quercus extract undergo deterioration of active properties in compost and garden * Author's current affiliation: Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. 2 soil in 6 days, while the fractionation and degradation process has not been complete in the vineyard soil during the 14 days. Furthermore, it has also been revealed that the addition of water to the soil decreased the rate of active chitosan film biodegradation in the terrestrial environment.


Design of effective capillary barrier systems requires a thorough understanding of the soil–water interactions that take place in both coarse- and fine-grained unsaturated soils. Experimental observations of water flow through coarse porous media are presented to gain greater understanding of the processes and mechanisms that contribute to the movement and retention of water in coarse-grained unsaturated soils. The use of pendular ring theory to describe how water is held within a porous material with relatively low volumetric water contents is explored. Experimental measurements of seepage velocity and volumetric water content were obtained for columns of 12 mm glass beads using digital videography to capture the movement of a dye tracer front at several infiltration rates. An estimated curve for hydraulic conductivity versus matric suction is shown and compared to a theoretical curve. The method is shown to provide a reasonable predictive tool.Key words: soil-water characteristic curve, hydraulic conduc...


This article explain aboute the persuasive communication on instruction. Persuasive communi-cation is an effective communication technique in education, because by using these communication techniques students are able to do something that they are desired by a teacher without feeling any burden and fear. The learning process is actually the activity of communication and social interactions between teachers and students in order to deliver the knowledge face to face either in small groups and large groups. In learning activities, there is teaching techniques so that the learning objectives are able to be achieved. The activity of persuasive communication in education is a communication that orients to students' psychological in order to raise the awareness to learn for their future and the Indonesian's drem. The teacher should broad themselves with the theories of persuasive communi-cation to make them effective communicator. The communication and education are not much difference. The differences are just the purpose of communication and education. From the effects' point of view, the goal of communication is general while the goal of education is specific. The purpose of education is specific; to raise the knowledge of someone about something until that person is able to master it while the purpose of communication is to change the attitudes and opinions. Keyword s;  Communication, Education, Persuasive


This paper gives the conditions of existence of echo wave and the accurate expression of the relative period in the coupled Oregonators and finds that in this system there are two types of echo waves,one of which satisfies the pretty relations x\-1(t)+x\-2(t)=2u\++,z\-1(t)+z\-2(t)=2u\++ (where u\++ is a component of the homogeneous positive steady state of the system).


A traveling-wave design technique for microstrip series arrays is discussed. The technique is applicable to both resonant and nonresonant array configurations. Experimental results for both configurations are presented.


Composites are extensively used in aerospace and automotive industry. The requirement usually is to create holes in composite members to facilitate mounting of various members. These holes act as stress concentration regions and the causes of failure. At present, the analytical treatments developed are very restrictive to particular cases. Thus to analyze complex hole patterns subjected to tensile loadings there is necessity of FEA software. FEA tool offers different structural elements for analysis, each with different number of nodes. Engineer has to shortlist the elements and need to carryout permutations for selecting suitable element for analysis. Thus study of these different elements is carried out as part of this paper. Different Structural Finite elements are thus studied and applied to a model under study for tensile loading condition. The results of FE Analysis are validated against analytical solution and best fit Structural element is suggested at the end if paper. Scope of this study is limited to graphite/epoxy composites and can be extended further.


The different 57 acid lime selections collected from Western Maharashtra (India) were evaluated for fifteen important characters including growth, yield attributes and fruit physiochemical characters. Very high variability was observed from most of traits during both the years. Higher values of genotypic and phenotypic coefficients of variation were observed for yield. fruits and flowers plant'1 and tree volume and flowers twig -1 and low for rind thickness. ascorbic acid. TSS and acidity. These estimates indicate the scope for lime improvement by selection.


School culture is the soul of school,and also the explicit display of school humanity,atmosphere and morale. Meanwhile,it is the soft power and core competition of school. Thus,a school must have its own cultural specialty,tradition,atmosphere and values. Construction of diversified school culture must persist in such principles as cultural heredity,uniqueness and humanity.


The invention provides a fusion inversion method and device for a sea wave significant wave height field. The method comprises steps as follows: acquiring a significant wave height field which is acquired by a spaceborne radar height gauge and comprises substellar point sea wave significant wave height data as well as a sea surface wind field which is acquired by a spaceborne microwave scatterometer and comprises wide swath sea surface wind speed data; performing conversion calculation processing on the acquired sea surface wind field according to the wind wave growth relation between sea surface wind speeds and sea wave significant wave heights, and obtaining a wind wave field having the same swath as the sea surface wind field; performing correction processing on the wind wave field according to the acquired significant wave height field, and obtaining the sea wave significant wave height field having the same swath as the sea surface wind field; providing the sea surface wind field with wide swath, high precision and high spatial resolution through the spaceborne microwave scatterometer, converting the sea surface wind field acquired by the scatterometer into the wind wave field according to the wind wave growth relation, performing correction processing on the wind wave field through the significant wave height field of the height gauge, and finally, obtaining the significant wave height field with wide swath, high precision and high spatial resolution.


Under the catalysis of solid acidic ion exchange resin Amberlyst-15, using ethanol as solvent, aromatic aldehyde, β -ketoester, and 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole or 2-aminobenzo as starting materials, a series of triazolo[1,5- a ]pyrimidine derivatives 5a ~ 5m and dihydrobenzo[4,5]imidazo[1,2- a ]pyrimidines 6a ~ 6g were synthesized by three-component one-pot reaction of imidazole derivatives. The method is simple and efficient, and has short reaction time, simple post-treatment and wide application range of the substrate. The catalyst can be recycled for 4 times without the significant decrease of catalytic activity. It conforms to the basic standard of green chemistry.


Violence has always been close to women. Violence experienced by women does not only occur in the real world, but also occurs in literary works. One of the literary works that describes violence against female characters is the novel Cinta Suci Zahrana by Habiburrahman El Shirazy. In this research, it can be seen that the characterization of women in the novel Cinta Suci Zahrana is represented by Habiburrahman El Shirazy. Violence experienced by female characters. As well as feminist studies on female characters in the novel Cinta Suci Zahrana.


The electro-thermal effect is accompanied by the electrothermal effect when the safety spark test electrode breaks the inductance circuit, which plays a key role in electron emission, making the cathode a source of thermal field emission. In-depth analysis of the microscopic morphology of the surface of the test electrode, so as to establish a physical model of the micro-protrusions on the surface of the test electrode of the cadmium disc. Deduced the mathematical expression of the electron emission current density under the action of heat conduction-field, and numerically calculated the relationship between the thermal field-induced current density and temperature of different electrode materials, and found that the tungsten wire and cadmium disk electrode electrons emit electrons during the arc-building phase of the inductance circuit The mechanism is different. Based on this, numerical simulation of the effect of different applied electric fields on the temperature of micro-protrusions on the surface of the cadmium disk electrode has laid a theoretical foundation for further research on the mechanism of inductive breaking and arcing.


Field of view (FoV) prediction is a crucial issue in 360° video streaming, which is the basis for selectively transmitting panoramic videos to reduce bandwidth. The saliency feature is a very important part of FoV prediction. The saliency area identifies a user's region of interest (RoI) and reflects the user's viewing behavior preference. The regular convolutional neural network (CNN) cannot effectively extract the spatial representation of panoramic video content because significant geometric distortion will be introduced after panoramic video projection, especially in polar regions. In this paper, we propose a depth neural network model based on spherical convolution, which can learn the spatial features of the 360° videos by encoding the distortion invariance into the architecture of CNNs. A series of experiments on the public 360° video saliency dataset show the proposed model outperforms the existing saliency models. Finally, we embed the proposed saliency network into a popular FoV prediction framework and propose a complete FoV prediction framework for 360° video streaming.


This cohort study assesses the role of preventability in the definition of failure to rescue when reviewing surgical performance for trauma patients who died after emergency surgery.


We analyze a series of theories which are used to obtain the energy-momentum relation for the piezoelectric polaron. Perturbation theory cannot be trusted, because there is a degeneracy in the unperturbed energy levels. The Tamm-Dancoff one-quantum cutoff in this case diagonalizes the degenerate states exactly, but has other shortcomings. The intermediate coupling theory gives what we believe is a reasonable energymomentum relation, which starts out quadratically and becomes approximately linear as the velocity approaches the speed of sound.


The Ministry of Welfare in Israel was responsible for the care of persons with intellectual disability (ID) until 1962, when the Division for the Mentally Retarded (DMR) was established. Today the DMR provides services to about 20,000 persons with ID in residential care facilities around the country (accommodating 22 398 persons) and small community related programs (hostels, protected apartments), but also through kindergartens, day-treatment centers, sheltered workshops and integrated care in the community. Data is presented on the profile of the population, the population of adolescents in residential care, expenditure studies, and future directions.


Fibre-reinforced engineered cementitious composites are increasing being used in construction due to their superior toughness and durability. For composite structural members additionally reinforce...


The aim of this experiment was to determine the productive performance and egg quality of Japanese quails fed different types of processed rations (mash, extruded, or pelleted). One hundred and fortyfour 18-w-old quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were housed in galvanized wire cages and fed a 21.50% CP and 2850 kcal ME/kg basal feed supplied in mash, extruded, or pelleted form. Experimental data were analyzed by ANOVA as a complete randomized design, with three treatments (ration forms) and six replicates of eight quails each. When necessary, means were compared by Tukey's test at 5% significance. Quails fed pelleted feed presented higher egg production, feed intake, and egg mass weight as compared to mash- and extruded-diet-fed birds. Under the conditions of the present experiment, it was possible to conclude that the feed physical form did not affect egg quality, except for pelleted diets, which promoted good production performance and high egg mass. However, the use of feed pelleting should be economically analyzed considering the final cost of egg production.


Calcifying epithelioma is a benign tumor derived from hair matrix cells. We evaluated the clinicopathological characteristics of 6 calcifying epitheliomas between January 1994 and March 2003.Four patients were male, and 2 were female. They ranged in age from 13 to 29 years (mean, 22.8 years). Symptoms comprised tumor formation in 4 patients, and tumor formation with redness of the overlying skin in 2 patients, including 1 with vesicle formation.Clinically, this tumor was easily diagnosed in typical cases. In cases with inflammation or vesicle formation, fineneedle-aspiration cytological examination was helpful for diagnosis.Histopathologically, the tumor consisted of basophilic cells and shadow cells. In addition, calcification, bone formation, and foreign body giant cells were also observed in the tumor.


The crystal structures of metallic V(bcc) and its hydrides VH x(0≤x≤2) are calculated. The optimized crystal structures and total energies of them are obtained. The phase transitions of V H system with enhancement of hydrogen content in the cell are discussed. The calculatied and experimental results are in agreement very well.


List of figures Acknowledgements Translator's note Liszt's 'Chopin' Part One: Introduction I. 'Comrades' and 'Friends' II. 'Men of the Future' III. Voices IV. Some Contexts and Conclusions Part Two: Text F.Chopin Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Bibliography


Creating accessible software is imperative for making software inclusive for all users. Unfortunately, the topic of accessibility is frequently excluded from computing education, leading to scenarios where students are unaware of either how to develop accessible software or see the need to create it. To address this challenge, we have created a set of educational labs that are systematically designed to not only inform students about fundamental topics in producing accessible software but also demonstrate its importance. Over the previous year, these labs were included in several Computer Science 2 (CS2) offerings at The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), comprising a total of 500 student participants. This paper discusses instructional observations from these offerings, some of which include: I) Many of the research findings from previous efforts remain true with the larger, more diverse evaluation, II) That our created material and format reduced students' belief that creating accessible software was difficult in relation to the baseline, III) We observed that our created material and format benefited student opinion that creating accessible software is important, and IV) Computing majors may not be uniformly impacted by experiential educational accessibility material. The educational labs are publicly available on the project website: https://all.rit.edu


This study examined the effects of different concentrations of spermine (Spm) and putrescine (Put) elicitors on capsaicin production at different times in cell suspension culture of peper (Capsicum annuum L'Kahramanmaraş Hat-187'.), raised from pepper seeds. Callus was obtained from hypocotyl explants of pepper seedlings germinated in vitro conditions, and cell suspensions were prepared from calluses. Spm (0.1, 0.2 and 0.4 mg l-1) and Put (0.1, 0.2 and 0.4 mg l-1) elicitors were applied on cell suspensions, and control groups free from elicitor treatment were created. The amount of capsaicin in cells was found to be higher in the control groups and samples treated with Spm elicitors when compared to filtrates. The highest increase in the capsaicin amount in cells was determined on day 12 of elicitation with 0.2 mg l-1 Spm application. The highest capsaicin amount passing into the filtrate was determined as 0.1 mg l-1 Spm on day 8. The most effective Put concentration and time on capsaicin amount were found as 0.2 mg l-1 Put on day 12 in both cells and filtrates. The highest total capsaicin was also determined in the 0.2 mg l-1 Spm application on day 12with 312.747 ± 8.70 µg  g-1 of culture. Exogenous treatment of Spm and Put elicitors affected capsaicin accumulation.


A series of laboratory tests were performed on the dredged clays treated with quick lime to investigate the main factors of effect on their unconfined compressive strength. The relationships between unconfined compressive strength of treated dredged clays with quick lime and original water content of dredged clays,quick lime content,and water content of treated soils were discussed. Analysis of test data gave a linear relationship between the unconfined compressive strength of treated dredged clays with quick lime and the decreasing percent of water content proposed by authors. A quantitative formula was also proposed in this study for predicting the unconfined compressive strength of treated dredged clays with original water content of dredged clays and water content of treated soils. The testing results are valuable for utilization of waste dredged clays as filling materials.


The necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of and the expressions for the bisymmetric solutions of the matrix equations (Ⅰ)A1X1B1+A2X2B2+^…+AkXkBk=D,(Ⅱ)A1XB1+A2XB2+…+AkXBk=D and (Ⅲ) (A1XB1,A2XB2,…,AkXBk)=(D1,D2,…,Dk) are derived by using Kronecker product and Moore-Penrose generalized inverse of matrices. In addition, in corresponding solution set of the matrix equations, the explicit expression of the nearest matrix to a given matrix in the Frobenius norm is given. Numerical methods and numerical experiments of finding the neaxest solutions axe also provided.


A new compact dual-linearly polarized ultrawideband (UWB) antenna for continuous operation from 100 to 2000 MHz band with a minimum realized gain of -15 dBi is presented. The bore-sight realized gain monotonically increases from -15 dBi at 90 MHz to 0 dBi at 600 MHz, and remains approximately +4 dBi above 1000 MHz. The flared horn section closer to the feed is responsible for radiation above 1000 MHz. The compactness of this antenna at low frequency is achieved via ferrite absorber treatment on the ground plane and series inductive loading at the end of the antenna arms. The overall antenna size is a diameter of 15 in and height of 6 in. Linearly polarized fields are radiated from two orthogonal antennas. This antenna is suitable for software-defined radio application.


To better elucidate the mechanism of dormancy and dormancy release in T. chinensis var. mairei seeds and provide scientific foundation for the method of seeds dormancy-breaking in agriculture and forestry production,the seeds of T. chinensis var. mairei were soaked in 300 mg/L gibberellins and blended with wet sand,one minute after being treated with concentrated sulfuric acid.Then the seeds were treated by cold stratification at 4℃ for three months first and transferred to warm stratification of 25℃ for three months and finally transferred to cold stratification of 4℃ for 150 d.The physiological and biochemical characteristics of T. chinensis var. mairei seeds of different stratification stage(9 d,180 d and 330 d) were investigated.The control was the no stratification seeds.The results showed that total lipid content gradually decreased,and its content decreased by 3.45% compared with the control at the end of stratification.Starch content greatly decreased first and then increased,its content decreased by 13.1% in comparison with the control when the stratification ended.However,the content of soluble sugar increased steadily and its content increased by 29% after stratification in contrast with the control.The change tendency of soluble protein content was similar to that of starch,but soluble protein content was close to the level of control at the end of stratification.The activity of amylase increased first and then decreased during stratification,the amylase activity decreased by 91.3% after stratification compared with the control.But the activity of peroxidase exhibited a rising-falling-rising tendency and the peroxidase activity increased by 79% after stratification.


Ineffective communication at work-front is frequently reported to hinder the successful delivery of construction projects. However, the efforts to address this shortcoming mainly revolve around adopting corporate communication strategies at filed-level. But, temporary nature of projects inhibits implementation of strategies developed based on permanent communication arrangement of established organizations. To bridge this gap, this study aims at understanding how effective communication is defined by construction professionals who manage construction processes onsite. Such definition determines requirements of an ideal communication system on-site and accordingly provides a measure to identify inherent characteristics of construction processes that compromise robustness of work-front communication. Finally, the input from selected construction professionals will be analyzed to map existing solutions to identified communication barriers. The mapping is essential to a) modify existing solutions to better overcome the associated communication obstacle and b) craft new solutions to tackle overlooked communication flaws. As residential projects are known for their relatively simpler structure, they have been selected as the starting point of the attempt to modify project communication based on the constraints imposed by construction process. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 10 construction professionals selected through judgmental sampling. It means that the research team picked one representative per residential building project based on overview of construction site, available personnel, and the likelihood of sharing the information sought in the study. Careful content analysis resulted in extraction of similarities, differences and trends from interview manuscripts that were required to deliver research objectives. The results surfaced nine attributes of effective communication on jobsite. Interestingly, fitness of the communication medium for the purpose of transferred message ranked the most significant factor assuring integrity of the communication. Accordingly, our results show that although linguistics means is the most problematic communication medium on an active jobsite, dialogue within a crew is less vulnerable to failure. Lastly, analysis of data corpus revealed a trend towards creation of an informal communication protocol as a natural response to the lack of officially defined communication conduits.


2,6-Biphenyl-1,4-diselenafulvene (1) was prepared by air oxidation of PhC≡CSe. Treatment of 1 with equimolar amounts of Fe2(CO)9 produced (μ-Se)2Fe3(CO)9 (2). Compound 1 was characterized by elemental analysis, IR, H-, C{H}-NMR spectroscopy and by X-ray structure determination, while compound 2 was characterized by elemental analysis, IR and EI-


The Traffic Accident Analysis and Reconstruction (TAAR) System was developed as a new tool to facilitate accident investigation. The program's major objectives are to reduce investigation time, and improve the reliability and increase the completeness of the information collected. The TAAR System computerized a number of the laws of physics and developed 54 models of vehicle accident kinematics simulating skid, spin, vaulting, rollover, and emergency braking. These models calculate impact velocities, perception/reaction braking distances, stopping distances, pre-impact velocities, etc., for accidents involving vehicles, pedestrians, motorcycles, trucks, trains and fixed objects. The user need not be a physicist or engineer to benefit from this technology; he need only understand the required input and program limitations. An example of the use of the TAAR System to calculate braking and stopping distance for an accident in which the driver struck a bear is presented in this article. The driver was found to be driving in excess of 69 mph, rather than at 50 mph as he claimed. This fact was determined in a matter of minutes by use of the TAAR System.


In seismic engineering, the soil impedance matrix is a complex function of the frequency. It can be computed using classical numerical methods, but simpler lumped-parameter models are often used. Among these, the most famous are Winklerspring models and those derived from the works of Wolf. A more general model, called the hidden variables model, is presented in this paper. It is based on the study of the mathematical properties of impedance matrices, such as the causality and the stability. The identification method for this type of models is presented in detail. Two applications, of interest in seismic engineering, are described.


Location-based services for moving objects are close to our lives. For example, ride-sharing services, micro-mobility services, navigation and traffic management, delivery services, and autonomous driving are all based on moving objects. The efficient management of such moving objects is therefore getting more and more important. The main challenge is the handling of a large number of location-update queries with scan queries. To address this challenge, we propose a novel in-memory grid indexing system, Waffle, for moving objects. Waffle divides a geographical space into fixed-sized cells. For efficient query processing, Waffle forms chunks, each of which consists of neighboring cells. Such a Waffle index is defined by several configuration knobs. A knob configuration has a significant impact on the performance of Waffle, and an appropriate configuration may change as objects continuously move. Therefore, we propose an online configuration tuning system, WaffleMaker, that automatically determines not only knob values but also when to change knob values, as a part of Waffle. Using a configuration determined by WaffleMaker, Waffle rebuilds the current index without blocking user queries based on a concurrency control scheme. Through extensive experiments, we show that Waffle performed better than the existing methods, and WaffleMaker automatically tuned configuration knob values.


Three field studies and a laboratory experiment reveal racial discrimination in financial loan services. The results show that (a) service employees provide Black (vs. White) customers with inferior service outcomes (i.e., products offered), (b) Black (vs. White) customers experience inferior service processes (employees' warmth/competence), and (c) Black (vs. White) customers report lower loyalty intentions toward the firm. Such discrimination is not only morally wrong and illegal, but it is also bad for business. Therefore, the authors also show when and why racial discrimination is mitigated: namely, when Black customers signal higher socioeconomic status, or a Black customer's company (for which they seek the loan) has a more complex and sophisticated legal structure (corporation vs. sole proprietorship). Exploring this mitigation effect further, the results show that a more sophisticated business structure increases the employee's trust toward Black customers, which reduces the perceived default likelihood and increases the likelihood to offer a loan; yet, this process does not emerge for White applicants. The findings point to managerial and policy implications to mitigate racial discrimination.


The invention relates to application of peperphentonamine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in preparing a drug for preventing/treating mammal encephalopathy, the encephalopathy comprises a brain injury disease or a cranial vascular disease, and the mammal includes a human being. The peperphentonamine or the salt thereof is a compound which has good treatment effect, low toxic or side effect and superior curative effect than traditional drugs for treating the encephalopathy, and probably becomes a novel drug for the brain injury and the cranial vascular disease treatment as well as the cerebral ischemia antagonism and injury reperfusion.


In this paper, Lomb periodogram estimate as a new spectrum calculation approach was used to deal with unevenly sampled signals sampled by Laser Doppler Particle Analyzer in Kenics Static Mixer. The effectiveness of the method was demonstrated by the simulations of deterministic model. The time series of instantaneous velocity in the turbulent region under the range of Re between 3972 and 11916 were firstly decomposed by empirical mode decomposition, and intrinsic mode functions were obtained. After that, the spectrum analyses of intrinsic mode function were evaluated based on Lomb periodogram estimate. The power spectra distribution shows that the energy of instantaneous velocity signal in KSM concentrates within 10Hz, and high frequency signal contains low energy.


This paper presents the novel synchronous frame hysteresis controller for three phase Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)based on Z-Source Inverter (ZSI). The proposedsynchronous frame approach minimizes the hysteresis control time delay to onesixthof the fundamental period such that the dynamic response is significantly improved. The hysteresis band currentcontroller determines the switching signals, and the algorithm based onanextension of Synchronous Reference Frame(SRF) Theory (d-q-0) is used to determine thesuitable current reference signals. A filter is applied to further enhance the accuracy of steadystate tracking.Low total harmonic distortion has been achieved under heavilydistorted nonlinear load and unbalanced load.The ZSI provides agreat alternative with lower cost, higher reliability and higher efficiency.


The United States sub-debt crisis of the global financial crisis,China's economy caused by serious difficulties. China's exports continue to decline,residents of our country extinction rate has continued to drop,and expanding domestic demand are necessary to select my country,and expanding domestic demand lies in establishing a sound social security system, but in the short term can not be achieved,the Government increase investment to save the economy become The only way to recession. Because of local finance has long had a deficit of billions of dollars,has its own guarantee,why sell the investment to save economy?In this case,the momentary silence the voice of local governments to issue bonds also four.Local governments to issue bonds is one of the world on a lot of country practice,and achieved good economic and social benefits.Our country after decades of development,already the conditions for local governments to issue bonds.In the current context of financial crisis, local governments issue bonds to resolve the financial crisis will play a key role.Local governments to issue bonds of the time has come.


Mantyniemi, S., Kuikka, S., Rahikainen, M., Kell, L. T., and Kaitala, V. 2009. The value of information in fisheries management: North Sea herring as an example. - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 2278-2283.We take a decision theoretical approach to fisheries management, using a Bayesian approach to integrate the uncertainty about stock dynamics and current stock status, and express management objectives in the form of a utility function. The value of new information, potentially resulting in new control measures, is high if the information is expected to help in differentiating between the expected consequences of alternative management actions. Conversely, the value of new information is low if there is already great certainty about the state and dynamics of the stock and/or if there is only a small difference between the utility attached to different potential outcomes of the alternative management action. The approach can, therefore, help when deciding on the allocation of resources between obtaining new information and improving management actions. In our example, we evaluate the value of obtaining hypothetically perfect knowledge of the type of stock-recruitment function of the North Sea herring (Clupea harengus) population.


Consider the problem of generating bitmaps from character shapes given as outlines. The obvious scan-conversion process does not produce acceptable results unless important features such as stem widths are carefully controlled during the scan-conversion process. This paper describes a method for automatically extracting the necessary feature information and generating high-quality bitmaps without resorting to hand editing. Almost all of the work is done in a preprocessing step, the result of which is an intermediate form that can be quickly converted into bitmaps once the font size and device resolution are known.
A heuristically defined system of linear equations describes how the ideal outlines should be distorted in order to produce the best possible results when scan converted in a straightforward manner. The Lova´sz basis reduction algorithm then reduces the system of equations to a form that makes it easy to find an approximate solution subject to the constraint that some variables must be integers.
The heuristic information is of such a general nature that it applies equally well to Roman fonts and Japanese Kanji.


Aim The study evaluated the culture of patient safety and the factors that contribute and influence patient safety as a critical element, to healthcare in a public hospital in Kwa-Zulu Natal, through a predesigned questionnaire with the objectives of establishing the current status of the culture of patient safety in the said hospital, evaluating responses from nurses and doctors and other healthcare professionals, exploring the effectiveness of communication and teamwork within units and hospital. Methods The study evaluated the culture of patient safety and the factors that contribute and influence patient safety as a critical element, to healthcare in a public hospital in Kwa-Zulu Natal, through a predesigned questionnaire with the objectives of establishing the current status of the culture of patient safety in the said hospital, evaluating responses from nurses and doctors and other healthcare professionals, exploring the effectiveness of communication and teamwork within units and hospital. Results The resultant data from the predesigned questionnaire was divided into components of teamwork within and between units, hospital and supervisor management support for patient safety, communication openness and feedback regarding errors, non-punitive response to errors, hospital handover of information staffing and overall patient safety grade. The study was compared to the studies in the US and three other countries across the European continent, Netherland, Taiwan, and US [Wagner et al. 2013]. The findings as possible strengths of the study were teamwork within units, learning in the organization, feedback and communication, and manager and supervisor support for patient safety. The areas that needed attention were teamwork across units, communication openness, staffing, non-punitive response to errors and overall patient safety grade, handover of information between units. Conclusions The findings, reflective of a developing country, compared to the findings from similar studies in developed countries such as the USA and countries in transition such as Netherlands and Taiwan. In reference to the precincts that face a developing country such as South Africa, certain highlights emerged from the comparison, as areas of strength, areas requiring attention, and a preliminary insight into current practices within the South African context which can be viewed as an opportunity to sustain current good practices and inform future research.


PURPOSE: A light guide panel, a planar optical source device and an LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) are provided to improve the light radiating efficiency of the light guide panel and reduce the luminance non-uniformity near an optical source. CONSTITUTION: A light receiving unit(18) receives light from a point optical source. A lighting unit has a light radiating surface for radiating the received light, and a reflective part formed at an opposite side of the light radiating surface. The light receiving unit includes an incident part(20) located at an opposite side of the lighting unit. The light receiving unit has a width increased from the incident part and the lighting unit. The incident part includes a plurality of incident surfaces(20a) horizontal to the width direction of the light receiving unit, and a plurality of diffusing parts which diffuse the light from the point optical source. The incident surfaces and the diffusing parts are alternately arranged according to the width direction of the light receiving unit. The light receiving unit includes a reflective part which reflects the light diffused by the diffusing parts and provides the reflected light to the lighting unit.


Ford Motor Company is set to introduce a full electronically-controlled air suspension system on the 1984 Continental and Mark VII. The new system on the 1984 Lincolns consists of four independently-sealed air springs with their own solenoids, a 2-K microcomputer that controls the system from the trunk, a 200-watt electric air compressor in the left fender apron, and three Hall-effect height sensors between the body and the suspension arms to maintain the proper height. Two sensors are in front and one is in the rear.


Monodispersed Al₂O₃-TiO₂ powder was prepared by metal-alkoxide hydrolysis. A homogeneous nucleation/growth occurred in the solutions containing ethanol, butanol and acetonitrile, and resulted in spherical, submicrometer-sized powder. The titania and the alumina crystals were formed at 800℃ and 1000℃, respectively. These crystals were subsequently reacted each other beyond 1320℃ and formed Al₂TiO 5 . The relative densities of sintered bodies prepared with as-received powder were examined at the temperature range of 1300~1500℃ and they were about 79% at 1300℃. The formation of aluminum titanate decreased the relative density at the temperature range of 1300~1450℃, and at above 1450℃, the relative density started to increase again. It was observed that α-Al₂O₃-doped aluminum titanate was more stable than pure aluminum titanate at 1200℃.


In this study some aspects of quantitation in capillary gas chromatography are discussed for on-column and cold temperature proqrammed sample inlet systems. Discrimination due to differences in volatility, polarity and concentration of the solutes will be evaluated and compared for both systems. A mixture of n-alkanes with hydrocarbon numbers between 8 and 32 and a test mixture normally used for column quality control are used for this purpose. It will be shown that at optimal operating conditions highly accurate results can be achieved for samples with a wide range of volatility, polarity and concentration.


THIS PAPER INTRODUCES and discusses a group of broadly 14th-century single-looped buckles. These oval buckles are characterised by an outer edge which widens gradually towards its centre, thus providing a sizeable field either side of the pin rest. Two-thirds of the corpus of over 100 examples are decorated with engraved and punched motifs. These motifs comprise abstract forms, schematic or realistic vegetal or animal motifs, representations of humans and architectural features, and religious inscriptions. Such buckles are typical of the South of France, but are documented here for the first time from the eastern and southern coasts of England. Their presence in England can be framed in a commercial context; once diffused, they might have been copied, and other decorative motifs introduced in order to meet local needs. Compositional analyses revealed the existence of alloy groups with high proportions of lead or tin, potentially testifying to production in separate workshops.


The article gives a technico-economic comparison of the two traction systems adopted for the BAM line: diesel and electric. It goes on to show the superiority of electric traction on sections with varied line profile, particularly that between Ust'-Kut and Majakan.


This is an accompanying paper to [1], in which the authors have shown the relationship between the de Branges method and the Boundary Control (BC) method on a basis of three dynamical systems: wave equation with a potential on a half-line, Dirac system on a half-line and dynamical system with discrete time for semiinfinite discrete Schrödinger operator. For each system, they constructed the related de Branges space using natural dynamic objects and operators, used in the BC method. In the present note, we will show the equivalence of dynamic inverse problems (IP) for different dynamical systems (wave equation, Dirac system, Jacobi matrices), and IPs for equivalent canonical systems. We note that every original system will be equivalent to canonical system


In this project were created some operations in MongoDB about spatial data. These data were stored in MongoDB with programming language python. Furthermore the user with these functions will be able to do some operations in MongoDB. Furthermore with Virtual Machines was created replication in mongodb with the use of master-slave system. In this project was analyzed and explained all the operations which will see. Also was presented a backup method in MongoDB.


On the convergence to equilibrium for the B.E., B. Wennberg formation of Maxwellian tails, A.V. Bobylev mathematical analysis of quantum kinetic equations, P. Markowich a simple balance method for transport in stochastic mixtures, G. Pomraning resolution of Riemann problem for Euler equations of Broadwell systems via the fluid dynamic limit, M. Slemrod paraxial approximations of the Vlasov Maxwell equations, P.A. Raviart admissible wave fans for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, C.M. Dafermos examples of non trivial large amplitude oscillations in conservation laws, M. Rascle on long time asymptotics of the Vlasov-Poisson Boltzmann system, J.M. Dolbeault generalizations of the Boltzmann equation and developments in mathematical biology, N. Bellomo on extended kinetic theory with chemical reactions, G. Spiga the semicontinuous Boltzmann equation - towards fluid dynamic applications, L. Preziosi. (Part contents)


— A chat dialogue system, a chatbot, or a conversational agent is a computer program designed to hold a conversation using natural language. Many popular chat dialogue systems are based on handcrafted rules, written in Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML). However, a manual design of rules requires significant efforts, as in practice most chatbots require hundreds if not thousands of rules. This paper presents the method of automated extraction of AIML rules from real Twitter conversation data. Our preliminary experimental results show the possibility of obtaining natural-language conversation between the user and a dialogue system without the necessity of handcrafting its knowledgebase.


A complexly folded rock sequence along the N. side of the Brooks Range is Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous in age and contains black shale and tasmanite that yields 20 to 150 gallons of oil per ton. The oil is fluid at low termperature. The beds are thin. Nitrogen content of the rocks is about 1%. Arsenic, copper, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, gold, silver, vanadium, and zinc occur in unusual amount. A shale that yields 20 gallons per ton contains 0.7% zinc, the largest amount found.


Red complex formation between poly(vinyl alcohol-vinyl acetate) with iodine was investigated from the standpoint of its application as a measure of sequence distribution in the copolymer. Defining a parameter Y which means a ratio of the bound triiodide ion to the VAc unit in a copolymer, we could relate the Y value to the sequence probabilities. Sequence probabilities have also been evaluated by differential thermal analysis. Comparing the probabilities obtained from both methods, the iodine complexation method is concluded to be a complementary method with thermal analysis, that is, the iodine complexation method is applicable to the VAc unit-rich copolymers, in which the melting point cannot be measured by the thermal analysis.


One of the plant communities that many have encountered in the Customary Forest of Lingkat Lake Kerinci is the Nepenthes spp community. Nepenthes spp lives in a nutrient-poor place, propagate on trees, on sharp cliffs and coexist with other plants such as pterydophyta, Glichenia linearis (resam nails), Melastoma malabatricum (senduduk), Clidemia hirta (senduduk bulu) and other plants. The method used in this research is Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and purposive sampling techniques to interview people who were selected based on their understanding of plants useful and used to support people's lives that were tailored to the needs of researchers during the research process. The data analysis was done qualitatively and quantitatively. The qualitative analysis was done by describing the society knowledge on the use of plants and the conservation of the natural resources. The quantitative analysis was done by calculating the significance and usage of the plants.The results of the study found 3 types of Nepenthes Spp, namely Nepenthes ampullaria Jack, Nepenthes mirabilis Druce and Nepenthes gracilis Korth. The catagory of useful plants in Nepenthes spp community are : vegetables to consume, cattle's food, medical or traditional remedies, building structure, craft, farming toos, ropes, coloring essence, magic, ornament plants and food wrap used in traditional events that take place in Kerinci.


Annotation. Cigarette smoking is widespread among the male population. Objective: to identify the degree of influence of cigarette smoking on spermatogenesis. Materials and Methods: 70 patients were examined, whose wife did not have a pregnancy in the course of 1 year of marriage. All men abused cigarette smoking. Results: 60% of patients smoked 1 pack of cigarettes per day. Asthenozoospermia is the most common among them 45 (64,2%). Azoospermia was detected in 5 (7,1%) patients who abused tobacco. Findings: With prolonged smoking in the testicular tissue, an increased apoptosis of spermatogenic cells is observed.


A number of recent research projects in human-vehicle interaction field are addressing the problem of human trust in autonomous vehicles. Almost all of these work are focusing on investigating the attributes and the factors that influence the human drivers' trust of these vehicles. However, a little research has been done on the bystander humans' trust of autonomous vehicles. Bystander humans in the context of autonomous vehicles, are humans that does not explicitly interact with the automated vehicle but still affect how the vehicle accomplishes its task by observing or interfering with the actions of the vehicle. Vulnerable road users (VRU) are considered one example of the bystander humans interfering with the autonomous vehicle. According to a recent research study, intent understanding between vulnerable road users and autonomous vehicles was one of the most critical signs that accounted for a trusted interaction between the two entities. In this paper we are proposing a computation framework for modeling trust between vulnerable road users and autonomous vehicles based on a shared intent understanding between the two of them.


Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy and influence of Chinese medicine bath combined with 308 nm excimer laser on life quality in the treatment of plaque psoriasis. Methods Eighty-five patients with stable plaque psoriasis were randomly divided into two groups: treated group were 42 cases,treated with 308 nm excimer laser in a combination with Chinese medicine bath; control group were 43 cases,treated with 308 nm excimer laser alone. Efficacy and safety were evaluated after eight weeks. The questionnaire of dermatology life quality index( DLQI) in Chinese were assessed in both two groups before and after the treatment. Results After treatment for 8 weeks,the effective rates of treated group and control group were 88. 10% and74. 42%,respectively,and the DLQI scores of the treated group( 5. 64 ± 4. 11) were significantly reduced,compared with the control group( 8. 31 ± 6. 22),both with significant difference( P 0. 05). ALL of the patients tolerated the treatment,with no serious side effects. Conclusion Chinese medicine bath combination with 308 nm excimer laser in the treatment of plaque psoriasis can provide better effect in clinical application and improve the life quality of patients.


Texture is vital in characterising images for effective content-based image retrieval. Integrating features from various feature extraction techniques improves the performance of decision system in comparison to individual techniques as it provides complimentary information as a whole. However, this integration creates a large feature vector which may contain irrelevant and redundant features and hence degrade the performance. Therefore, we propose a three-phase texture-based image retrieval approach for enhanced performance. In the first phase, pool of texture features from seven feature extraction techniques is created. In the second phase, some popular feature selection techniques are applied to this pool to obtain a reduced set of relevant and non-redundant features. In the third phase, three well-known distance measures are utilised to retrieve images based on the reduced features set. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated on Brodatz dataset. The proposed approach outperforms individual feature extraction techniques.


At present metal-optical research is of great academic and practical interest, since discovering the way of electromagnetic field and substance interaction allows to study the structure of different substances, find out their specific optical characteristics and obtain an opportunity of their future identification. Reflection factor is one of major experimental parameters of the matter characterizing its interaction with electromagnetic radiation. Measuring its values for low-power optical and IR radiation allows to develop ways and means of non-destructive surface control and know the composition of the specimen studied. This paper considers the techniques and offers a device to investigate surface reflection ability in vacuum under powerful thermal effect. On the basis of Taylor's sphere. A sensor-analyzer has been developed to study the surface of the material inaccessible for direct physicochemical study by conventional methods. Measurement were taken in vacuum up to 10 mTorr with heating from 20 degrees Celsius to 1700 degrees Celsius for the Sun spectrum with the accuracy up to 4 percents. The experimental specimen offered allows to estimate the reflection ability of the object metal surfaces under high temperature and at a far distance from the information receiver.


. Introduction of English Medium Instruction (EMI) is linked to language development, mainly in countries where English is not the mother tongue of the majority of the population. It is believed that teacher questions that trigger teacher-student interaction, especially dialogic interaction in an EMI classroom, can help students' content and language development. Hence, this study investigates the types of questions lecturers ask, and the patterns of interaction developed in the lecture deliveries in English Medium Instruction (EMI) undergraduate lectures of a Sri Lankan university. It also looks into the underlying reasons for such practices. Six lectures delivered by two lecturers were recorded for this purpose and they were transcribed verbatim. The lecture transcripts were analysed to find the questions lecturers asked and the subsequent pattern of interactions developed. Interview with lecturers informed the underlying reasons for the existing questioning patterns. The majority of the questions asked by the lecturers were rhetorical in nature, and only a limited number of non-rhetorical questions, which could create meaningful interactional episodes of dialogic nature, were found. This study enlightens that lecturers should be trained to ask non-rhetorical questions in order to develop interaction if the objectives of EMI are to be achieved. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.12.11


Introduction: Sciatic nerve injury is a well-known complication of intra-muscular gluteal muscle injections. Affected individuals usually present with foot drop and this results in varying degrees of motor disability. There are different sites such as ventrogluteal, dorsogluteal that can be used for gluteal injections. In last years, the ventrogluteal site is accepted as a more safe and suitable injection site than dorsogluteal site. This study was carried out to compare the distance to the siatic nerve under the piriformis muscle of these different gluteal injection sites. The study also aimed to evaluate the muscle thicknesses at these injection sites.


Iowa counties have tried to rehabilitate deteriorating portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements with standard overlays, placement of engineering fabric, rock, open graded bituminous mixes and cracking and seating. While these methods prolong the life of the road, the cracks in the old pavement have eventually reflected to the surface. One possible alternative for rehabilitating severely deteriorated roads and preventing reflective cracking is the rubblization process. The objective of this research project was to rehabilitate and evaluate a severely deteriorated PCC roadway using a rubblization process. A 3.0 km (1.9 mi) section of L63 in Mills County was selected for this research. The road was divided into 16 sections. A resonate frequency vibration pavement breaker was used to rubblize the existing pavement. The variables of rubblization, drainage, and ACC overlay depths of 75 mm (3 in.), 100 mm (4 in.), and 125 mm (5 in.) were evaluated. The research on rubblized concrete pavement bases support the following conclusions: (1) The rubblization process prevents reflective cracking; (2) Edge drains improved the structural rating of the rubblized roadway; (3) An ACC overlay of 125 mm (5 in.) on a rubblized base provided an excellent roadway regardless of soil and drainage conditions; (4) An ACC overlay of 75 mm (3 in.) on a rubblized base can provide a good roadway if the soil structure below the rubblized base is stable and well drained; and (5) The Road Rater structural ratings of the rubblized test sections for this project are comparable to the nonrubblized test sections.


Under the background of "Internet +" education, online learning methods such as microlecture, MOOC, and spoc have emerged, which greatly enriched educational resources and teaching measures. This article takes the English Phonology course as an example to make a instructional design based on microlecture. In teaching procedure, it uses three kinds of informational technology, which are the 3D effect of mind map, microlecture, and GIF animation created by Adobe photoshop software, and it uses Tsinghua Rain Classroom as an important supplementary means to achieve pre-class sign in, in-class practice, after-school feedback and etc. Practice has proved that this blended instructional design makes the teaching content more vivid and deepens the students' understanding of the learning content. It has achieved good results.


Orthogonal experiments were applied to optimize the polysaccharide extraction from fruiting bodies and mycelium of Tricholoma mongolicum Imai.respectively.The optimal extraction parameters for fruiting bodies were predicted as followed: extraction temperature was 70℃,the ratio of raw material and water was 1∶10,extraction time was 4 hours,extraction was done for 4 times and by 80%(V/V) of ethanol for polysaccharide precipitation.With this technics,the yield of polysaccharides was 5.78%.The optimum extraction conditions for mycelium were extracted at temperature of 90℃,with ratio between raw material and water as 1∶10.The extract would last for 3 hours,and be made for 3 times and by 80% ethanol for polysaccharide precipitation.With this technics,the yield of polysaccharides was 5.93%.


Although the LISMI was enacted 30 years ago, a sufficiently positive degree of labor insertion of persons with disabilities has still not been achieved. Numerous factors have contributed to the lack of improvement in terms of the quality and quantity of contracts for this group. Generally, progress has been made in recent decades, but analyses from different perspectives must be done to improve the current situation. This article aims to identify some of the influences the information and knowledge society has had on employment, specifically among persons with disabilities. These factors, if taken into account, can prevent a much more negative situation and, moreover, can be precursor of the improvement of the employment possibilities of this group. From a current economic point of view, Torrent (2008) suggests a particular analysis that will help us delve deeper into this situation and to work on some aspects of improvement. This view can be used either specifically with persons with disabilities or to create new supported employment projects. The article shows that the professional profiles promoted mainly by supported employment do not fit together with a large part of the employment model imposed by the information and knowledge society. But there is also change of paradigm in which these companies are working that visualizes an immediate future better adapted to the new economy.


The purpose of this research is to explore the combining of marketing and organizational literature. This paper seeks to evaluate the relationships between multichannel coordination and customer participation, as seen through the lens of potential customer opportunism. It aims at showing the impact of this opportunism on the organizational design of multiple channels structures. Design/methodology/approach – The research reports on an exploratory case study in a French retail bank. A total of 25 in-depth interviews were conducted, and the use of other sources enabled data triangulation. Findings – The results show first that an increase in the number of distribution channels is liable to favor customer opportunistic behavior. To counter this, the bank mainly relies on impersonal coordination modes. An emerging result highlights the role of the customer as a 'perceptual filter' between the different channels of employees. Research limitations/implications – Customer opportunism is studied via channels employees perceptions. An investigation using a customer survey may help to better understand this construct, e.g. to identify its antecedents, and to measure it precisely. Moreover, further qualitative and/or quantitative studies with larger sample sizes are needed to try and generalize these results. Practical implications – It is recommended not to forget that customers can facilitate or hinder multichannel coordination. Retail banks have the power to use them conveniently, provided that they are fully conscious of the scope of the 'partial employee' role played by the customer. Originality/value – This paper broadens understanding of how multichannel distribution structures are coordinated, and in a way belies traditional organizational design literature. The emerging result gives birth to the concept of 'reversed interactive marketing', which has interesting...


Executive Summary
> The establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union
(EAEU) in January 2015 congealed EU-Russia
relations in terms of geopolitics and trade policy.
> To date, the EU has not formally recognised the
EAEU. This recognition is conditioned on Russia
implementing the Minsk agreements regarding the
war in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.
> Out of three potential scenarios, relations
between the EU and the EAEU might eventually be
established through trade talks. European
Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) countries should be
part and parcel of this policy.
> With Ukrainian membership ruled out, the EAEU
today looks to countries and regions instead of the
EU. The EU's conditionality risks losing its grip.


Is the current rate of unemployment in the US consistent with the Federal Reserve's mandate? We look at this issue through the lens of an estimated DSGE model which features labor market frictions and nominal rigidities. Using macro data up to 2010:Q1 and our structural model, we back out the path of the natural rate of unemployment and …nd no evidence of an increase in the natural rate. Our results suggest that the natural rate currently lies between 5 and 6 percent.


In order to consider the influence of the continuous rotary motor electro-hydraulic servo system parameters change on its performance,the design method of backstepping adaptive controller is put forward.The mathematical model of electro-hydraulic servo system of continuous rotary motor is established,and the whole system is decomposed into several lower order subsystems,and the virtual control signal is designed for each subsystem from the final subsystem with motor angular displacement to the subsystem with system control input voltage. Based on Lyapunov method and the backstepping theory,an adaptive backstepping controller is designed with the changed parameters adaptive law. It is proved that the system reaches the global asymptotic stability,and the system tracking error asymptotically tends to zero. The simulation results show that the backstepping adaptive controller based on the adaptive law of the changed parameters can improve the performance of continuous rotary motor,and the proposed control strategy is feasible.


A complete assignment of the NMR methyl frequencies of Δ12‐oleanene triterpenes has been achieved. A list of additive chemical shifts permitting a priori calculation of the methyl frequencies for various substituents has been established. The synthesis of some new oleanenic derivatives is described. Copyright © 1967 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim


ABSTRACT Cervical pregnancy was suspected at 9 weeks gestation. It was decided not to interfere. Ultrasound examination incorrectly suggested a complete placenta previa during the second trimester....


We formulate a lattice Hamiltonian model for intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. Our approach incorporates a momentum-dependent nuclear mean field that yields an optical potential that agrees with proton-nucleus experiments and that also receives support from measurements involving heavy ions. We emphasize the precision of our numerical results in connection with energy and momentum conservation. We first outline the static properties of our solutions, after which we consider recent stopping power results for heavy ion collisions. The results obtained with different types of nuclear mean fields are compared with each other. Consequences of the stopping power data on the nuclear equation of state are outlined.


Alcohol acetyltransferase responsible for the formation of isobutyl acetate from isobutyl alcohol and acetyl-CoA was extracted from Hansenula anomala and purified about 50-fold by ammonium sulfate fractionation, gel filtration on Sephadex G-150 and ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50. The enzyme was most active at and pH 7. Alcohol acetyltransferase was strongly inhibited by heavy metal ions or unsaturated fatty acids with higher degree of unsaturation. The and values of the enzyme for the formation of acetic esters from the corresponding alcohols were 1.51 and 0.77 for isobutyl alcohol, 0.72 and 0.45 for isoamyl alcohol, respectively.


The psychosexual aspect of family planning consultations is quite properly gaining an ever higher profile in training and updating of family planning nurses. Method choice and effective use of it are profoundly influenced by emotional psychological factors, and good practice involves an understanding of underlying sexual issues and problems.


Coal seam gas (CSG) waters are a by-product of natural gas extraction from un derground coal seams. The main
issue with these waters is their elevated sodium content, which in conjunction with their low calcium and
magnesium concentrations can generate soil infiltration problems in the long run , as well as short term toxicity
effects in plants due to the sodium ion itself.
Zeolites are minerals having a porous structure, crystalline characteristics, and an alumino-silicate configuration
resulting in an overall negative charge which is balanced by loosely held cations. In New Zealand, Ngakuru
zeolites have been mined for commercial use in wastewater treatment applications, cosmetics, and pet litter.
This research focuses on assessing the capacity of Ngakuru zeolites to reduce sodium concentrations of CSG
waters from Maramarua. Batch and column test (flow through) experiments revealed that Ngakuru zeolites are
capable of sorbing sodium cations from concentrated solutions of sodium. In b atch tests, the sodium adsorption
capacity ranged from 5.0 to 34.3meq/100g depending on the solution concentration and on the number of times
the zeolite had been regenerated. Regeneration with CaCl2 was foun d to be effective. The calculated sodium
adsorption capacity of Ngakuru zeolites under flow-through conditions ranged from 11 to 42meq/100g
depending on the strength of the solution being treated and on w hether the zeolites had been previously
regenerated. The slow kinetics and low cost of the zeolities, coupled with potentially remote sites for gas
extraction, could make semi-batch operational processes without regeneration more favourable than in more
industrial ion exchange situations.


A highly efficient Friedel-Crafts reaction of 4,7-dihydroindoles with beta,gamma-unsaturated alpha-keto esters by a chiral N-triflyl phosphoramide was realized, affording the 2-substituted 4,7-dihydroindoles with up to 98% ee for a wide range of substrates. The Friedel-Crafts alkylation together with a subsequent oxidation of the product with p-benzoquinone led to a 2-alkylated indole derivative in 98% ee.


The efficacy of entomogenous fungi and nematode in controlling Brahmina coriacaea (Hope) grubs was determined in pot experiments and under field conditions. B. coriacea grubs had medium to low susceptibility to fungi, Metarrhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana in laboratory. Under field condition, both these fungi, didn't provide satisfactory control of potato white grubs. B. coriacea grubs were highly susceptible to nematode Heterorhabditis indica. In laboratory assays, H. indica caused 100 and 80.46% mortality of second and third instar grubs, respectively. The application of H. indica did reduce the damage by grubs to potato tubers. Lesser number of grubs were observed in nematode treated plots and white grub infestation was 8.13% as compared to 11.28% in untreated plots.


To prove that the global budget under the "fee for service" is the efficient approach to realize the breakthrough of health reform,based on 30 years' database,the paper takes the policy of "Global budget,Structure adjustment" as an example.After analysing the case from portrait to landscape orientation,the paper finds that the achievement of the policy is prominent:the increasing rate of medical expenditure in Shanghai declined from 32.8%to 12.5%during policy implementation period,which was below the rate of GDP.216.2 billion yuan were economized in 10 years,so the medical burden was lighter than the whole nation and other cities such as Beijing.The result clues on:the global budget is crucial,but risk of high medical expenditure caused by fee for service and the irrational price criterion block the reform.In a word,global budget will be efficient combined by changing the post -payment to prepayment and stably increasing mechanism.


ABSTRACT This paper examines emerging citizen and local government relations in a village in the Junglemahal region of the state of West Bengal, once a major bastion of the Maoist insurgency in India. Since 2014, Junglemahal has not experienced a single Maoist-related incident. This has been widely attributed to the West Bengal government's "model" handling of the insurgency, which rests on the rapid mobilization of public services through the non-elected arms of local governments, bypassing elected officials. How have Junglemahal's residents experienced this particular form of post-conflict governance? Drawing on the culture-centered approach that ethnographically observes the processes of identifying development problems and developing community-grounded solutions to these problems, our findings indicate that the hyper-developmental state was paradoxically experienced by our respondents as a very distant entity. A recurrent theme in our interviews is the absence of a locally embedded party leadership that could be approached regarding issues of distributive justice. We argue that this desire for party mediation in public service delivery is an expression of a powerful social norm that has survived the conflict and ought to be integrated into post-conflict governance structures if the current peace is to endure.


I describe here the attempt to introduce spin-charge separation in Schrodinger equation. The construction we present here gives a decomposed Schrodinger spinor that has one problem: Its absolute value can only have value between 0 and ${1}{2}$. The problem we solve is to expand and generalize this construction so that one can have a Schrodinger spinor with absolute value that are arbitrary non-negative numbers. It may be that one has to introduce a set of different decompositions to cover all nonnegative values, that is to introduce patches over $\mathbb{R}_{+}^{3}$ so that in each patch one has a different representation. It seems that the decomposition has a direct relation to so called entangled states that have been discussed very much in connection of e.g. quantum computing, and we would like to find this relation and discuss it in detail.


I. IntroductionA split-dollar life insurance arrangement (split-dollar arrangement) is a contract between a donor and a donee who share in the costs and benefits of a life insurance policy.1 Prior to 2003, a split dollar arrangement was a method of dividing the tax and economic benefits of life insurance between a donor and donee and allowing the donor to subsidize the donee's insurance coverage while both avoided tax.2 On September 1 1, 2003, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS or Service) issued final regulations designed to remove the tax benefits taxpayers previously received from investing in a split-dollar arrangement.5 The regulations were supposed to have transformed split-dollar arrangements from vehicles for employee, stockholder, and estate tax avoidance, into vehicles for sharing of life insurance costs that were supposed to be devoid of tax advantages.The IRS now either taxes the economic benefits received by donees from the donor's payment of insurance premiums, treats the payments as additional income to the donee (economic benefit regime), or treats the donor's premium payments as loans to the donee, imputing the interest to the loans, and taxing the imputed interest as additional income to the donee (loan regime). Even though the parties to the arrangement decide which approach to use, both are supposed to eliminate the tax benefits.4 However, the loan regime continues to provide significant tax savings. Current low interest rates, which are expected to rise in the future, can be used for an insured's life; thus, properly structured splitdollar arrangements under the loan regime still provide attractive tax savings for employees, shareholders, and irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILIT). This paper summarizes the split-dollar arrangement rules, and demonstrates which techniques will provide those tax savings and which arrangements will not.ii. What Is a Split-Dollar Life Insurance Arrangement?A. Description of a Split-Dollar Life Insurance ArrangementA split-dollar arrangement is an interest in a life insurance contract shared by multiple interest holders.5 The arrangement can be between employer and employee, corporation and shareholder, an individual and an ILIT, or any other donor and donee.6 Each contract specifies how the policy premiums are paid and how insurance benefits are shared.The rules require that a split-dollar arrangement be between one party defined as the policy owner (who may be the party named as owner in the insurance contract or specified by regulation) and a second party (who is designated as the non-owner).7 The parties to the arrangement decide who is designated as the policy owner. The arrangement requires that: (1) the arrangement must be other than a group term life insurance plan8; (2) one or both parties must pay the premiums directly or indirectly; and (3) the payor or payors of the premiums must recover a portion, all or more than all of the payments, from the insurance proceeds.9 For example, an employer and employee may agree to jointly purchase a life insurance policy where the employer pays the cost of the policy and the employee pays income and employment tax each year on the cost of the term insurance portion of the coverage. At policy maturity the employer recovers either an amount equal to the cash surrender value of the policy or the amount of the premiums paid. The insured, the insured's beneficiary, or an ILIT receives the balance of the policy proceeds - cash value above that withdrawn by the employer and any applicable death benefit.10There are two types of split-dollar arrangement: (1) those owned by the donor, who endorses specified rights to a donee (endorsement arrangement) under the economic benefit regime; and (2) those owned by the donee, who assigns an interest back to the donor (collateral assignment arrangement) under the loan regime. Under an endorsement arrangement the donor owns the split-dollar insurance policy and the donee is taxed on the economic benefits the donee receives. …


This study presents a review on the various methods of authentication in cloud environment. Authentication plays an important role in security of Cloud Computing (CC). It protects Cloud Service Providers (CSP) against various types of attacks, where the aim is to verify a user's identity when a user wishes to request services from cloud servers. There are multiple authentication technologies that verify the identity of a user before granting access to resources.


Apart from the preceding fabulae of Hyginus with verbal correspondences with the Tales from Euripides', a considerable number have been thought to reflect to a greater or lesser extent the contents of a Euripidean drama. The brief survey below does not aim at absolute completeness, but contains at least all the most important fabulae that have been connected with Euripidean tragedy. The interested Student can consult for the reconstruction of the fragmentary tragedies with which each relevant fabula corresponds further secondary literature quoted in the footnotes: F. 24: Peliades. It has been stated that both this fabula and D.S. 4.50-3, which show some mutual agreement, would more or less reflect the contents of Euripides 'Peliades'. There are indeed some dramatic elements in Hyginus version, such äs the sceptical resistance of Alkestis, one of Pelias daughters (24.2), and the signal from Medeia after the murder (24.5), which seem to be influenced by tragic treatment, and it is uncertain whether in Sophokles' 'Rhizotomoi' the same story was dramatized. But the only mythographic text explicitly referring to Euripides, a summary in the 'Progymnasmata' of Moses of Chorene, contains one detail that is contradicted by the version of Hyginus: Medeia, longing to persuade the daughters of Pelias of the opportunity of a rejuvenation eure for their father, would have used his lack of male offspring äs an argument (see also D.S. 4.40.3), whereas Hyginus ends the story with the remark that Jason transmitted power to Akastos, the son of Pelias, before leaving for Corinth. Bethe rightly concluded that Euri-


Background: This is a Prospective study carried out at Department of Orthopaedics & traumatology, Index Medical College Hospital & Research Centre, Indore for One Year. 30 patients of proximal humerus fracture were attended in casualty and OPD and were admitted. Result: Age variation in series was from 18 to 70 years. Proximal Humerus Fracture was found to have high incidence in 51 to 70 years age group. In our series of 30 patients, treated by PHILOS plating most common complication was varus malunion and least common complication was implant failure. Conclusion: Fractures of the upper end of humerus account for 4-5% of all fractures. They occur more frequently in older patients after the cancellous bone has become weakened by senility and osteoporosis. In older patients even less severe trauma (fall) can produce significant injury which is the most common cause. In our study 53% belongs to 51 to 70 years age group. PHILOS plates are pre-shaped & pre-contoured plates to match proximal humeral anatomy with multiple proximal locking screw placement options has made fixation of complex fractures easy. It provides rigid fixation, enhanced axial & angular stability & allows early mobilization of the shoulder without compromising fracture union.


An experimental study of the actuation and sensing in a two-dimensional laminar separation bubble flow has been conducted. The laminar separation bubble is caused by the adverse pressure gradient that is imposed on a laminar boundary layer flow over a flat plate. The use of an adaptive mechanical turbulator, which is actuated using a shape memory alloy mechanical system, to control the laminar separation bubble flow is examined. The use of surface-mounted hot-film sensors to detect the locations of separation, transition and reattachment in the laminar separation bubble flow is also studied. The hot-film sensors are operated using a multichannel constant voltage anemometer system. The adaptive mechanical turbulator is found unsuitable for proportional control of the laminar separation bubble flow. The statistical moments of the output from the hot-film sensors provide reliable indicators of the separation and transition. These experimental measurements are verified by the results from numerical simulations.


In this paper we have presented gas chromatographic retention times and characteristic mass spectrometric fragmentation patterns for the 16-androstenes, 5α- and 5β-androst-16-en-3α- and 3β-ols, 5,16-androstadien-3β-ol, 5α-and 5β-androst-16-en-3-one and 4,16-androstadien-3-one, and their isomeric saturated analogues. The behaviour of these underivatized steroids has also been compared with the trimethylsilyl ethers, tert-butyldimethylsilyl ethers and acetyl esters of the alcohols, together with the methoximes and pentafluorobenzyloximes of the ketones. A number of gas chromatographic elution patterns have emerged from this study: (i) the retention times of the underivatized saturated compounds were generally longer than those of the corresponding 16-androstenes; (ii) retention times of androstanones were generally longer than those of corresponding 16-unsaturated steroids; (iii) resolution of the 5,16-androstadien-3β-ol from 16-androsten-3β-ol was extremely difficult; (iv) the syn- and anti- forms of pentafluorobenzyloximes of all ketones studied were resolved but this was not so for all of the methoximes. From a study of the fragmentation patterns of the various steroidal alcohols, ketones and their derivatives, two or three ions are suggested which are suitable for selected ion monitoring (SIM). For quantification of 16-androstenones O-methoximes, choice of M+, [M - 15]+ or [M - 60]+ is available for SIM, the exact fragmentation being characteristic of the steroid concerned. These derivatives did not give such intense mass ions as the underivatized ketones or pentafluorobenzyloximes. The latter oximes again showed marked differences in fragmentation patterns between steroids.


Tetrazoles and acyl sulfonamides are functional groups that are common in medicinal chemistry but virtually unexplored as recognition elements in supramolecular chemistry. We report here on the anion binding properties of these highly acidic N-H functional groups. We have prepared two new calixarene-based tetrazole-containing hosts, as well as new acetyl sulfonamide and benzoyl sulfonamide hosts. We also report on analogous hosts bearing the better-known aryl sulfonamide functional group as a point of comparison. We find that these hosts are competent anion binders and that the recognition of anions by these groups is highly dependent on their conformational preferences. We also report in detail on the preferred molecular shape of each acid bioisostere as determined by calculations and structural database surveys, and discuss how these shapes impact binding in the context of the reported hosts.


The Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is an example of a temporally oscillating chemical
reaction. An unusual and interesting feature of the reaction is that as it progresses on a twodimensional
plate, self-organized spirals are formed. Many computer models have been constructed
of the BZ reaction to simulate the evolution of these spirals. The models typically use
cellular automata to allow progression of a wavefront through a notional substrate. Usually a
single substrate is used with somewhat arbitrary transference rules. Here it is shown that cellular
automata models of BZ spirals can be created by using a very simple set of equations based
on a three substrate model with close connection to reaction-diffusion models, more closely resembling
the actual BZ reaction. Source code for the model is given in the Processing language.


Additive manufacturing, based on layer-by-layer deposition of a feedstock material from a 3D data, can be mechanistically associated to welding. With feedstock fusion based processes, both additive manufacturing and welding implement similar heat sources, feedstock materials and translation mechanisms. From material science perspectives, additive manufacturing can take clue from lessons learned by millennium old welding technology to rapidly advance in its quest to generate fit for service metallic parts. This paper illustrates material science highlights extracted from the fabrication of a 316 L air vent and the functional repair of a Monel K500 (UNS N0500) with Inconel 625.


Ferrospheres in fly ashes from a coal-fired power plant were extracted by a magnetic separation technique and their microstructure was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) and environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM). Ferrospheres in fly ashes show significant iron enrichment compared to their respective fly ashes. Iron oxides in ferrospheres mainly occur as minerals magnetite (Fe3O4) and hematite (α-Fe2O3), which are derived mainly from the decomposition and oxidation of iron-bearing minerals in coal during combustion. EDX data indicate that ferrospheres also contain Si, S, Al and Ca resulting from quartz, mullite, anhydrite and amorphous materials. A large percentage of ferrospheres are commonly 5∼50 μm in size. The microstructure of ferrospheres includes smooth, polygonal, dendritic, granular and molten drop characteristics. SEM coupled with EDX provided fast and accurate results of the microstructure and chemical composition of ferrospheres, and helped us to assess environmental issues related to the disposal and utilization of fly ashes.


South Uist, at the southern end of the Western Isles, is only 22 miles long and, even though it is without the stone circles of other Scottish isles, it is covered in archaeological sites. This well-illustrated archaeological study places South Uist within a tradition of island archaeology, arguing that this island, just like most others, is fascinating because of its isolation and for the ways in which its occupants have chpsen to make contact with the outside world. Following a discussion of the island's geology, the book begins a chronological tour through its archaeological remnants, placing all within their historical context. South Uist is shown to be rich in archaeology from the Neolithic onwards, including chambered tombs, Beaker sites, a Bronze Age hoard, roundhouses (one of which contained a mummified human burial), brochs, cairns, ogham insciptions, Viking settlements, medieval longhouses and post-medieval industry. At times, the archaeology reveals evidence of a troubled past. Illustrated throughout and includes a list of sites to visit.


The purpose of this study is to develop a theoretical basis for the analysis of the phenomenon of sustainable development at the micro-level with an emphasis on the factors that determine the direction of the process (determinants). Based on the existence of conceptual contradictions in the interpretation of the category 'sustainable development of the enterprise' decomposition of existing approaches in the scientific literature is proposed with the selection of two groups according to the criterion of essential content - socio-economic, spatio-temporal (innovative) approaches. The first is based on the socio - ecological - economic triad in the system of sustainable development. In the second case, the main focus is on the role of innovation in enterprises. We have proved that the determinant of sustainable development of an agricultural enterprise is not innovation itself, but responsible innovations related to development not only at the present stage, but also taking into account the interests of future generations. It is proposed to consider the category of 'sustainable development of the enterprise' as a system and complex process of strategic transformation of the business entity, which includes a system of socio-environmental values and is based on the introduction of responsible innovations under the competitive environment and external factors. The contradiction between different levels of achieving sustainable development is revealed: micro-, branch, regional, macro-levels. On the one hand, the sustainable development of the enterprise forms a competitive advantage that distinguishes the manufacturer from others. On the other hand, constant demand must form an adequate consumer market, and this leads to the need to change the conditions of existence and the emergence of new players in the market. Management goals are complemented by a component of influence on all potential stakeholders in order to create a sustainable environment for their activities. Achieving sustainable development in a systematic manner is the result of actions, reactions and a coordinated balance of environmental, cultural, social and economic factors.
Key words: agricultural enterprise, sustainable development, determinants of sustainable development, sustainable development of enterprise, sustainable business development, economic subsystem, social subsystem, ecological subsystem.


The research results show the special admixure mainly made of fly ash and other mineral admixures has advantages of good workability in fresh concrete,long time slump maintaining capacity and normal early compressive strength.It can also consume great amount of industrial byproducts,save much cement and reduce engineering cost, and has great economical and social significance.


Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a commonly used and effective Machine Learning technique, but can perform poorly when faced with complex problems leading to a slow rate of convergence. Parallel Learning (PL) is a novel paradigm within RL that seeks to address these concerns. In PL, multiple agents pool their experiences while learning concurrently on a problem, thus increasing performance and decreasing convergence times. Here we present a modelfree Parallel Reinforcement Learning algorithm based on QLearning, which uses Heterogeneous Agents. Slave agents learn in parallel, where each learns on a different subset of the state action space for the given problem. The experience of these Slave agents is then transferred to a Master agent, where it is used for Q-Value initialisation. The Master agent then learns on the problem using the full state action space. Our approach is tested on several deterministic gridworld domains of varying sizes. We prove experimentally that our PL approach outperforms a standard Q-Learning agent, resulting in increased learning speed, and a lower average number of steps required to reach the goal state after the given training time. The benefits of our approach versus a standard Q-Learner are also found to be more significant as the number of pre-training episodes is increased.


nanowhiskers were synthesized from by liquid-liquid interfacial precipitation (LLIP) using -saturated toluene and isopropyl alcohol. The nanoparticles were synthesized by adding mole amount of ammonium metatungstate hydrate () to 500 ml of distilled water, and the resulting solution was heated on a hot plate for 4 h. The nanowhiskers/ nanocomposites were prepared with nanowhiskers and nanoparticles in an electric furnace at in an argon gas atmosphere for 2 h. The nanowhiskers/ nanocomposites were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. UV-vis spectroscopy was used to evaluate the performance of the nanowhiskers/ nanocomposites as a photocatalyst in the degradation of organic dyes, such as methylene blue (MB) and brilliant green (BG) under ultraviolet light (254 nm).


J.A. Cartwright, D.K. Ross, M.E. Zolensky, and P. Jenniskens. NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA ESCG Astromaterials Research Group, Houston, Texas, USA Centre for Planetary Sciences, Joint UCL/Birkbeck Research School of Earth Sciences, London, UK, IARC, Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, Max Planck Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Germany SETI Institute, Mountain View, USA.


Background. Radiation therapy is an essential in the complex of modern cancer care methods, since it is needed by more than half of cancer patients worldwide. However, each year more than 2 million people from low-income countries are unable to access modern radiotherapy technologies [1]. Thus, the urgent task in the field of radiation oncology is to increase the availability, quality and efficiency of radiotherapy, monitoring the level of technical, methodological and human resourcing of radiation therapy in Ukraine in accordance with trends in Europe and the world. The actual task of the study is to review and analyze the existing level, availability and effectiveness of applying the modern technologies of radiation therapy in the regions of Ukraine.
Purpose – analyzing the current state and level of availability of radiotherapy in Ukraine, seeking for opportunities to expand applying it.
Materials and methods. Analyzing and comparing statistical data of the National Cancer Registry of Ukraine and the information of IARC GLOBOCAN, IAEA DIRAC Database, summarizing the results.
Results. The level of technical and technological equipment as well as staffing of oncology centers of Ukraine has been analyzed, along with assessing quantitative and qualitative components of radiotherapy care in comparison with the average European indicators. The assessment of the state of radiotherapy care in Ukraine was carried out with due regard for the increasing number of patients.
Conclusions. According to the WHO, the structure of cancer incidence in Ukraine is similar to the European one, however higher specific mortality rate indicates, first of all, the insufficient level of covering the population of Ukraine by specialized diagnosis and oncological care, its low efficiency and engineering backwardness. It has been determined that radiation therapy in Ukraine is needed annually by at least 90 thousand cancer patients. In fact, only about 44 thousand of them are provided with tele-radiation therapy. First of all, this is due to extremely insufficient radiotherapy equipment available in Ukraine and using outdated radiation treatment technologies in gamma-ray teletherapy that result in its low quality and aggravating the clinical consequences. Given the growing number of cancer patients in 2022, Ukraine will need about 160 machines for tele-radiotherapy. The rise and adjusting the clinical and technical capabilities of regional oncology centers in terms of quality and efficiency of radiation therapy is possible under the conditions of their rapid technical.


A process for extracting the active component from red sage root includes such steps as extracting by alkali, separating by resin column, regulating pH value and refining. The obtained extract and the medicine prepared from it are also disclosed.


The improvement on toughness and strength is a key field in ceramics of high technology. Based on the transformation toughening ,Zirconia Toughened Aluminum(ZTA)has been widely studied as a new type of toughened ceramic. The aim of this investigation was to review the recent literatures on its mechanisms and preparation methods of the composites powders. Fracture mechanics and microstructure have also been analyzed.


The monomers O(CO) 2 Ph-COOPhNHCOOR (R= Ph, PhCl, PhNO 2 , CH 2 Ph) were prepared. On hydrolysis or hydrogenation, the free amino group was regenerated, resulting in a spontaneous polymerization to form the poly(amic acid), which was converted to the poly(imide ester).


Recent literature on interactions arising between capital forces and local communities has tended to equate "the global" with economic globalization and "the local" as a more or less reactive formation. Less attention is paid to the fact that processes very particular to a locale are crucial mediators between global and local scales. Perhaps the most salient of these is the production of national ideology. This paper examines Mexico in the 1990s and explores the way leaders wove articulations of modernity through reproductions of nationalism to exclude those—poor, largely rural and indigenous—who didn't fit the picture of progress, then looks at how several indigenous communities contested these elite notions, demanding equal access as citizens of Mexico, and radically altered the public view of elite notions of progress.


The general aim of this paper is to recognition properties of submarine soils and their fungal assemblages Trinity Bay (sea of Japan), the Sakhalin Gulf and the sea of Okhotsk shelf about of Sakhalin, shelf Simushir island and Iturup island (Kuril Islands). Granulometric composition, organic matter content submarine soils and regularities in its distribution associated with the bottom topography and depth, hydrodynamic situation (waves, tides, surface and deep currents), views and biological productivity of vegetation. Under beds zostery Maritime develop submarine soils grasscover. Species abundance of fungi of sea soil of the Sea of Japan is presented by the 91st look, 29 childbirth. The species assemblages of fungi akvazems from a shelf of Sakhalin island includes 131 species of from 45 genera, presented generally of morphological group of Anamorfic fungi (117 views from 36 genera) and Ascomycota (14 species from 9 genera). It is shows that you can do ecological monitoring of submarine soils and definition of the limits of their sustainability and ecological capacity.


A low resolution (202) survey of the neutral hydrogen in the Magellanic Clouds has produced two important additions to our knowledge of the system. (1) A bridge of gas between the Small and Large Cloud has been mapped. (2) The Small Cloud profiles show double peaks over a wide area, suggesting the possibility of two substantially separate masses of gas.


Le, Phuoc Cuu Long; Kim, Jong Ik; Kim, Kunbae.2016.The growth of Korean companies and their contributions to the miracle of the Han River,Articles,Science & Engineering Research Support Society,14