Brand is an abstract term for actors in small and medium enterprises (SME). Moreover, it is hard to attach the term into understanding how they need branding. Understanding brand design is one step to synchronize the mind set of SME actors to map the business range, product understanding, and also their target market and other things related to their business. A good identity for an SME brand will create brand core value collaborated by complete understanding about entity aspects that having special ecosystem and unique. If thinking about long-term, SME actors will get many advantages from branding activity. Therefore, selling-based and branding activities are better moving together and strengthen each other.


This paper presents the design of microstrip contiguous broadband diplexer by using dual-mode stub-loaded resonators. The diplexer is formed by two stub-loaded resonator filters operating at 1.36 GHz and 1.75 GHz with distributed coupling technique. A transmission zero for each filter has been created to improve the selectivity and output isolation. For a demonstration, a microstrip contiguous broadband diplexer with fractional bandwidths of 25 % and 20 % has been designed and implemented. The experimental results are in good agreement with the simulation predictions.


In the last decade, concerns regarding global climate change are growing rapidly. Through policies and applications of current technology, several countries are attempting to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2), as it is the major cause of greenhouse-gas effects. The government of Indonesia, as a member of the Kyoto Protocol, plans to reduce CO2 emissions to 26% by 2020 (Kyoto Protocol Reference Manual, 2008). Carbon capture storage (CCS) technology is presently considered to have significant potential to reduce CO2 emissions. It is used to remove a large quantity of CO2 by capturing, transporting, and depositing CO2 into an underground geological reservoir to store it securely away from the atmosphere. The underground geological storage for CCS application includes depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep saline formation, deep mineable coal seams, and other suggested options like basalts, oil shale and cavities (Marbun et. al., 2012). In advanced application, CCS is proposed commercially to be applied in the petroleum industry to enhance hydrocarbon recovery. The study conducted here is part of a research program in the Department of Petroleum Engineering of Institut Teknologi Bandung as a preliminary study from the point of view of petroleum engineering. The aim of the study is to provide knowledge of the CCS system, technology, and potential applications in Indonesia. The specific aspects of storage reservoir, drilling technology, and the CO2 capturing and injection system for both CO2 storage and enhancing oil recovery will be analyzed further. This paper also briefly describes the economics of the CCS project related to the cost * Institute of Technology Bandung ** ENI Indonesia estimation, coupled to HSE parameters, particularly the leakage potential, as a major risk to be prevented. In addition, updates of CCS projects that have been implemented in several countries will be incorporated. It is expected that the results can be used as a reference in applying CCS technology in Indonesia, and henceforward support the green economy development.


ABSTRACT Depression is a serious mental illness that has severe socio-economic costs. Studying the impact of various cultural beliefs on the understandings of depression is imperative as findings could assist with developing effective intervention strategies. This research aimed to explore the understandings South African Muslim females have of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) with a focus on cultural and religious factors that may underlie these understandings. A mixed methods study was conducted using 12 semi-structured interviews and 62 questionnaires. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the quantitative data. The results clustered around four main themes: participants' understanding of MDD, perceptions around the etiology of MDD, treatment of MDD and the influence of culture on perceptions of MDD. It is evident that there is a better understanding of MDD in the sample in comparison to previous studies but there is still much misperception around MDD in the broader community.


UDP tunneling can be used to provide seamless services in mobile environments. However this scheme only works when both frames are aware of mobility frameworks. To enable communication between a mo ...


The present invention relates to compounds with the formula (III) wherein R, R, Rare as defined herein, and also to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, as well as methods of use of the compounds for treatment of disorders associated with human 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme and for the medicament which acts on the human 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme.


Reaction of a solution of the multi-iron polyoxometalate (POM) K9[(FeIII(OH2)2)3(A-α-PW9O34)2] (K91) with a colloidal suspension of cationic silica nanoparticles ((Si/AlO2)Cl) results in the production of a new heterogeneous oxidation catalyst (K81/(Si/AlO2)). Dynamic light scattering data, coupled with elemental analysis and streaming potential measurements suggests that there are 58 molecules of POM electrostatically bound to the surface of each silica particle on average. Transmission electron microscopy confirms the presence of the POM on the surface of the cationic silica and shows the diameter of the (Si/AlO2)Cl and of the K81/(Si/AlO2) nanoparticles to be ∼12 and ∼17 nm, respectively. Significantly, cryo-high-resolution scanning electron microscopy (cryo-HRSEM) shows that the POM retards the natural gelation process that colloidal silica is known to undergo upon aging. EPR and catalytic data collectively suggest that the exchange of the cationic silica for one of the nine K+ cations associated with...


ABSTRACT Tourist harassment has received some attention over the past two decades as a major challenge affecting travelers' personal safety and their perceptions of tourism destinations. However, there is still a need to understand and explore in depth the types of behavior that constitute tourist harassment. Using a qualitative netnographic study approach, this study identified the types of harassment that tourists are likely to experience in archeological sites. Travelers' anecdotes reporting harassment incidents in two Jordanian archeological sites, Petra and Jerash, were retrieved from TripAdvisor and examined using a hybrid content analysis approach. Six key categories of tourist harassment emerged from the data. These categories were labeled as vendors' persistence, obtrusive on-site service providers, beggar children, sexual harassment, verbal abuse, and physical abuse. Each category was explored in depth and exemplified using travelers' anecdotes. A typology of tourists' response to harassment was also developed based on the anecdotes. Results suggest that vendors' persistence was the most frequently reported type of harassment. When experiencing harassment, tourists are likely to respond by resisting the harassers. The findings have several theoretical and managerial implications for both researchers and destination managers.


Grice's cooperative principle and Leech's politeness principle are two important parts in language communication.The appropriate use of them can achieve good results in interaction.This paper analyzes the conversations in some literary works to illustrate that the proper application of the two principles should be based on the different communicative object and purpose.Thus,it can assure the smooth communication and foster people to understand the two principles deeply.


Single-crystal structure determinations at room temperature and elevated temperatures were carried out on the silver ion conductor Ag5Te2Cl, and the hitherto unknown structure of the room-temperature phase (β-Ag5Te2Cl) was determined. Ion pathways are discussed for the room- and high-temperature phase by analyzing the joint probability density functions. Main transport pathways at different temperatures were worked out to obtain detailed insight into the movement of the silver atoms in this material. Ag5Te2Cl is an excellent 1D ionic conductor having a pronounced silver mobility along complex silver columns. Conductivities are σ = 1.51 × 10-3 Ω-1 cm-1 at 323 K and σ = 4.30 × 10-1 Ω-1 cm-1 at 469 K. With use of a nonharmonic description of the silver distribution of the high-temperature phase, a promising structure model has been derived for the room-temperature phase. β-Ag5Te2Cl can be regarded as an intermediate phase between the disordered high- and the ordered low-temperature phase, showing an almost o...


In‐depth knowledge of pig liver anatomy allows potential research into segmental liver resections and hepatic regeneration, as well as liver transplantation techniques. The segmental anatomy, however, remains largely unknown. This study aimed to delineate the segmental anatomy of the porcine liver in comparison with that of the human.


This study aims to determine the effect of electronic word of mouth on the image of the destination and its impact on the interests and decisions of domestic tourists visiting the tourist destination of Bukittinggi City. The population in this study is all domestic tourists on tourist destinations Bukittinggi City in 2017 which is not known with certainty in number, with a total sample of 246 people. Sampling technique using nonprobability sampling method with accidental sampling technique. Data analysis method using partial least square (PLS). The result of this research indicate, for direct influence, electronic word of mouth have positive significant effect to tourism destination image, electronic word of mouth have positive significant effect on tourist visiting interest, electronic word of mouth have a significant positive effect on tourist visiting decision, on the interest of visiting, the image of the destination has a significant positive effect on the decision to visit, while visiting interest had negative effect not significant to tourist visiting decision. As for the indirect influence of electronic word of mouth have a significant positive effect on the decision of visiting through the image of the destination, electronic word of mouth have a significant positive effect on the interest of visiting through the image of the destination, the image of the destination has negatively significant effect on the visiting decision through visiting interest.


What will nuclear proliferation look like in the future? While the quest for nuclear weapons has largely quieted after the turn of the 21st century, states are still interested in acquiring nuclear technology. Nuclear latency, an earlier step on the proliferation pathway, and here defined as operational uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing capability, is increasingly likely to be the next phase of proliferation concern. The drivers of nuclear latency, namely security factors, including rivalries with neighboring adversaries and the existence of alliances, are especially consequential in an increasingly challenging geopolitical environment. Though poised to play a significant role in international politics moving forward, latency remains a core area of exploration and subject of debate within the nuclear weapons literature writ large. While in many ways similar to nuclear weapons' proliferation, the pursuit of nuclear latency has distinct features that merit further attention from scholars and policymakers alike.


Liposarcomas are usually seen in the retroperitoneal region and in extremities, but can be seen in the head, neck, inguinal region, and chest wall less frequently. In this report, a relapsing giant liposarcoma weighing 9 kg and with a diameter of 50 cm originating in the chest wall is discussed.


An algebra extension A | B is right depth two in this paper if its tensor-square is A-B-isomorphic to a direct summand of any (not necessarily finite) direct sum of A with itself. For example, normal subgroups of infinite groups, infinitely generated Hopf-Galois extensions and infinite-dimensional algebras are depth two in this extended sense. The added generality loses some duality results obtained in the finite theory (Kadison and Szlachanyi, 2003) but extends the main theorem of depth two theory, as for example in (Kadison and Nikshych, 2001). That is, a right depth two extension has right bialgebroid T = (A ⊗B A) B over its centralizer R = C A (B). The main theorem: An extension A | B is right depth two and right balanced if and only if A B is T-Galois with respect to left projective, right R-bialgebroid T.


This study aimed to determine financial ratios commercial Bank Go Public to profitability with control variables of Good Corporate Governance (GCG).   Financial ratios are proxied by CAR, NPL, LDR, NIM, and BOPO, and Profitability is proxied by ROA as a measure of the amount of profit generated. while GCG control variable is proxied by the audit committee, independent directors, institutional ownership and managerial ownership. The sample in this study is a commercial were bank go public listed in Stock Exchange (the Indonesia Stock Exchange) in the 2009-2013 period. The number used were 12 banks were taken by purposive sampling. The methods of analysis of this research using multiple linear regression with SPSS 20 Program. The results of this research show that CAR had positive but not significant effect to ROA, NPL and LDR had negative and insignificant effect to ROA, NIM had positive and significant effect to ROA, BOPO had significant negative effect to ROA, while the audit committee, independent directors, institutional ownership and ownership managerial had no effect to ROA.


Fullerene-based materials are widely used as acceptor and electron transport layer materials in organic and planar perovskite solar cells. Modeling of electronic properties such as band alignment and charge transport for these applications is typically done using optimized geometries. Here, we estimate the effects of nuclear motions on band structure and electron and hole transport in two prototypical fullerenes, C60 and C70. We model the dynamics in solid fullerenes using Density Functional Tight Binding and we use the Density Functional Theory based Projection of Monomer Orbitals on Dimer Orbitals (DIPRO) approach to estimate effects on charge transfer integral in the Marcus approximation. We show that room-temperature molecular dynamics cause a shift and spread of frontier orbital energies on the order of 0.1 eV which leads to an increase by more than a factor of two in the Marcus exponent, and can cause a decrease by up to orders of magnitude in the overlap integral, leading in most cases to an overall decrease in the charge transport rate.


Background: the control is essential for a hospital to achieve its objectives and goals, otherwise it would be impossible to define the measures to be taken to achieve them. Objective: to evaluate control activities as a component of internal control in a Cuban hospital entity, showing the best direction to follow when making decisions, with a low level of uncertainty in the results. Methods: a model was designed through Diffuse Compensatory Logic, composed of the fundamental elements of the control activities standard. Results: the control activities in the hospital are in a deficient category of something true, negatively influencing staff turnover and performance indicators. Conclusions: the control management index was obtained, showing that there are notable deficiencies in its implementation. Allowing the hospital to establish an improvement strategy based on an action plan. DeCS: HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION/methods; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION/standards; PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION, HOSPITAL; FUZZY LOGIC; HEALTH STRATEGIES.


OBJECTIVES
To report one case of adrenal gland cyst in a patient presenting with lower urinary tract symptoms. The diagnosis and therapeutic aspects are discussed.

METHODS
Diagnostic studies included ultrasound, KUB x-ray, CT scan and fine needle aspiration.

RESULTS
Conservative treatment was chosen after the diagnosis of uncomplicated adrenal gland cyst with oligosymptomatic obstructive uropathy.

CONCLUSIONS
The reliability of diagnostic tests (radiological and cytological) for adrenal cysts leave surgical treatment for symptomatic tumors and complicated cases; an incidental finding does not justify surgery.


Introduction: The human heart is vascularised by the Third coronary artery apart from the right and the left coronary arteries. The first branch of the right coronary artery is the conus artery. This branch may arise separately from the anterior aortic sinus in 36% of the individuals which is sometimes termed a 'Third coronary' artery (TCA). Objective: To detect prevalence of Third coronary artery among cadaveric human hearts. Material & Method: After an ethical approval, 50 formalin fixed human cadaveric hearts were collected from Department of Anatomy as well as from mortuary of SGMH Rewa MP. India and a study was done on the origin of third coronary artery in human cadavers by dissection method. Result: Present study find that among 50 cadeveric human hearts 16 hearts having Third coronary artery i.e 32% taking as a separate opening from anterior Aortic sinus. Conclusion: Sound knowledge on third coronary artery is essential to understand the advances made in coronary artery bypass surgeries and newer methods of myocardial revascularisation. Well developed collateral circulation through TCA may allow diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in patients with coronary artery disease.


Model-based testing attempts to generate test cases from a model focusing on relevant aspects of a given system under consideration (SUC). When SUC becomes too large to be modeled in a single step, existing design techniques usually require a modularization of the modeling process. Thereby, the refinement process results in a decomposition of the model into several hierarchical layers. Conventional testing requires the refined components be completely replaced by these subcomponents for test case generation. Mostly, this resolution of components leads to an oversized, large model where test case generation becomes very costly, and the generated test case set is very large leading to infeasible long test execution time. To solve these problems, we present a new strategy to reduce (i) the number of test cases, and (ii) the costs of test case generation and test execution. For determining the trade-off due to this cost reduction, the reliability achieved by the new approach is compared with the reliability of the conventional approach. A case study based on a large web-based commercial system validates the approach and discusses its characteristics. We found out that the new approach could detect about 80% of the faults for about 20% of the test effort compared with the conventional approach.


AbstractA novel two-scale topology optimization method is developed in this work to optimize three-dimensional (3D) plant-inspired fluidic adaptive cellular structures for morphing applications. In...


Objective:To compare the effects of different dosage of dexamethasone(DEX) on rat fetal lung morphogenesis. Methods:Fifteen pregnant rats were divided into five groups with 3 rats in each group randomly:small dosage DEX single and multiple course groups,large dosage DEX single and multiple course groups and control group. On the 19th day of gestation,cesareans were taken out,and the histologic structures of 6 fetal rat lungs in each pregnant rat were observed with light microscope and electronic microscope. Results:Under the light microscope,fetal rat lung in the four treatment groups had fewer alveolar numbers,larger alveolar space,and thinner alveolar septum compared with control group(P 0.01). With the increased dosages and times of the DEX,the fetal rat lungs have fewer alveolar numbers,larger alveolar space,and thinner alveolar septum(P 0.01). Under the electronic microscope,lamellar body and cellular organs such as bioblast in endochylema of the four treatment groups were more obvious compared with the control group. But basal membrane of lung epithelial cells turned out to be discontinuous and different thickness.Conclusion:Using DEX antepartum could promote fetal lung morphogenesis obviously. But with the dose and course increased,the development alveoli was inhibited and the basal membrane was damaged.


. I propose a definition of the uncanny: an anxious uncertainty about what is real caused by an apparent impossibility. First, I outline the relevance of the uncanny to art and aesthetics. Second, I disambiguate theoretical uses of 'uncanny' and establish the sense of the term that I am interested in, namely, an emotional state (a kind of anxiety) directed towards particular objects in the world which are characteristically eerie, creepy, and weird. Third, I look at Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' as a means of drawing out the conditions that I claim are essential to uncanny experiences, and then elaborate the terms of my proposed definition. Finally, I show how the definition accounts for two paradigmatic kinds of uncanny phenomena: cases of 'uncanny resemblances', which include twins, doppelgangers, and very lifelike representations of the human body; and unlikely coincidences of events.


In order to support the massive number of resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices and machine-type devices, it is crucial to design future beyond 5G/6G wireless networks in an energy-efficient manner. To this end, this letter proposes a novel two-hop hybrid backscatter-and-relaying scheme to facilitate simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) considering both the Time-Switching (TS) and Power-Splitting (PS) receiver architectures, while dynamically modelling the involved dual-hop time-period (TP) metric. An optimization problem is formulated for the joint optimization of throughput, harvested energy, and transmit power of a SWIPT-enabled system with the proposed hybrid scheme, and is solved using a nonlinear optimizer. Our numerical results in terms of weighted utility function show the superior performance of proposed hybrid scheme over backscatter-only and relay-only schemes, while also depicting their individual performance benefits over the corresponding benchmark SWIPT systems designed with the fixed-TP.


Abstrcat Gray compensating RBF neural network-a new kind of combining method of gray system and neural network was given. The network establishes the map relationship between remains and data by means of RBF neural network, and adapts its predicting results to compensate the predicting results of gray model. Simulation examples showed that this method was better than other gray neural network.


Diffusion‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging suffers from physiological noise, such as artifacts caused by motion or system instabilities. Therefore, there is a need for robust diffusion parameter estimation techniques. In the past, several techniques have been proposed, including RESTORE and iRESTORE (Chang et al. Magn Reson Med 2005; 53:1088–1095; Chang et al. Magn Reson Med 2012; 68:1654–1663). However, these techniques are based on nonlinear estimators and are consequently computationally intensive.


The writing of an article about this condition presents considerable difficulties. It is found in a numbet of separate disorders and is not therefore an entity in itself, though a common final mechanism may be typically involved. Moreover, a number of matters are involved about which knowledge is confused, fragmentary or uncertain. It is proposed to consider various aspects of the subject separately and then to attempt some synthesis of ideas in the final section on aetiology.


To get basic knowledge about the degradation of polyethylene (PE) to oils in supercritical water (SCW), the effects of reaction temperature, reaction time, water to PE ratio and water fill rate on the degradation of PE to oils were investigated in supercritical water with a 125?mL autoclave. Reaction conditions were in the range of temperature 450?℃~480?℃, time 1?min~30?min, water/PE ratio 2/1~10/1 and water fill rate 25%~40%. The experiment results show that PE can be highly converted to liquid fuel and the temperature is the main factor effecting the decomposition of PE in SCW. The yield of oil decreases from 91.4% to 61.7% and that of gas increases from 1.9% to 27.7% with the increase of temperature from 450?℃ to 480?℃. A twofold increase of the yield of C_(7-11) hydrocarbons with the increase of reaction time from 10?min to 30?min is observed. The decomposition of PE is retarded to a certain extent due to the high water/PE ratio or high water fill rate. For increasing the productivity of the unit volume of reactor, keeping H_2O/PE ratio at 2~4 is reasonable.


: The persistence of development and settlement in flood plains and continued damages from flooding, raises the question of how property owners respond to flood plain location and whether property values reflect this response. Existing studies disagree on the significance of flood hazard for property values. This study evaluates the effect of flood plain location on assessed valuation and home value in three towns in New Jersey. A t-test on mean assessed value and value of owner-occupied units at block levels showed no statistically significant variation for flood prone and nonflood prone lands. Possible explanations are that homeowners do not know or perceive the risk of living in flood plains, assessors do not incorporate flooding into assessment criteria, and the National Flood Insurance Program subsidies and broadened financial markets may equalize property values.


In this paper a model of web application's source code, based on the OSD ontology (Ontology for Software Development), is proposed. This model is applied to implementation and maintenance phase of software development process through the DevOntoCreator tool [5]. The aim of this solution is decreasing software complexity of that source code, using many different maintenance techniques, like creation of documentation, elimination dead code, cloned code or bugs, which were known before [1][2]. Due to this approach saving on software maintenance costs of web applications will be possible.


A foreign language learning system using associations of image characters related to spellings of words, a foreign language learning method, and a storage medium of the same are provided to enhance memory effect by expressing association states as a graphic image file or animation. An image character setting unit(2) defines a group of spellings and sets image characters corresponding to the group of spellings. A combination unit(3) composes and stores a word by combining one or more groups of spellings. An association state setting unit(4) sets association states as images or animations by using the character images corresponding to the group of spellings. An association sentence generation unit(5) expresses and stores the association states as foreign sentences.


This paper examines adaptive instructional methods to accelerate learning and improve learning capacity. Adaptive instruction provides tailored, computer-based learning experiences based on the needs and preferences of the learner. Often the goal is to optimize learning, performance, retention, and transfer of skills from instructional environments to work/operational environments. In this case, we shall examine methods to accelerate learning (improve instructional efficiency) and enhance learning capacity (improve instructional effectiveness) during adaptive instruction using Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). Specifically, we will examine best practices incorporated or emerging in ITSs authored by the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT; Sottilare, Brawner, Goldberg, Holden 2012; Sottilare, Brawner, Sinatra, and Johnston, 2017) GIFT is a prototype, free, open-source architecture for authoring, managing, and evaluating ITSs and adaptive instruction.


In recent years, the scholarly study of 'global' English, language policy, language ideologies, sociolinguistics, and the global English teaching profession has expanded hugely. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized, and persists in the 21st century, Linguistic Imperialism Continued reflects and contributes in important ways to understanding these developments.


The γ→α phase transformation of Fe2O3 under high pressure and after effects of pressure squeezing upon the magnetic properties of γ-Fe2O3 were studied. The study on the phase transformation was conducted under the pressure up to 3.3×104 kg/cm2 in the temperature range of 150°–300°C. It was found that γ-Fe2O3 has no definite transition temperature even at high pressure and the rate of the transformation increases remarkably with increasing pressure. The rate constant depends principally on the thermodynamic parameter PΔV, where ΔV is the volume difference between γ and α-forms. Two notable phenomena were also found after pressure squeezing; the saturation magnetization is reduced about 7%, and γ-Fe2O3 becomes more unstable, i.e. it transforms at lower temperature compared with virgin specimen. The two phenomena were explained on the basis of the structure of stacking faults caused by plastic deformation during squeezing.


We prove that under some assumptions a one-dimensional Itô equation has a strong solution concentrated on a finite spatial interval, and the pathwise uniqueness holds. Introduction. In the present paper we will consider a diffusion satisfying the stochastic integral Itô equation (1) X(t) = X(0) + t ∫


ZAP‐70 has been proposed as a surrogate marker for immunoglobulin heavy‐chain variable region (IgVH) mutation status, which is known as a prognostic marker in B‐cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The flow cytometric analysis of ZAP‐70 suffers from difficulties in standardization and interpretation. We applied the Kolmogorov–Smirnov (KS) statistical test to make analysis more straightforward.


This study aimed to identify mordant effects of Chestnut hulls. The color of post and pre-mordanted fabrics were measured in terms of H, V, C, , , , and K/S values. In addition, color fastness and antimicrobial activity were evaluated. The pre-mordant concentration of Chestnut hulls for cotton, mercerized cotton and silk was optimized to 50% (o.w.f.) and 70% (o.w.f.), respectively. Post-mordant concentration of Chestnut hulls of mercerized cotton, silk and cotton was optimized to 50% (o.w.f.) and 90% (o.w.f.), respectively. The hue of fabrics was influenced by mordant methods, such as pre-mordant and post-mordant, slightly. Wet cleaning fastness of pre-mordanted cotton and mercerized cotton fabrics was higher than that of post-mordanted fabrics. The wet cleaning fastness of silk fabrics was not affected by the mordant method, and their fastness were proved to be excellent. The dry cleaning fastness of post-mordanted cotton fabrics was higher than that of pre-mordanted cotton fabrics. The dry cleaning fastness of mercerized cotton and silk was proved to be excellent regardless of mordant methods. The antimicrobial activity of Oenothera odorata jacquin dyed fabrics and Chestnut hulls mordanted fabrics was proved to 99.9%, and their excellent antimicrobial activity remained after wet and dry cleaning.


As with all transposition flaps, the position and extent of any defect that can be reconstructed is limited by the range of the flap's vascular pedicle in this instance the thoracoacromial and, less importantly, lateral thoracic arteries. 4 • In the past, when additional length was required for reconstruction of the oral cavity and skin defects above the level of the mandible, the lateral thoracic artery needed to be divided,fi This may decrease the viability of the skin island especially when the lateral thoracic artery is the dominant vessel supplying the flap. The following technique will lengthen the muscle pedicle of the flap, spare the lateral thoracic artery and thus insure an adequate area of viable skin island.


Abstract— The effect of neonatal thyroidectomy on the cyclic AMP system in the developing rat brain was examined. Administration of 131I at birth led to a 16 per cent reduction in brain weight and a 70 per cent reduction in body weight by 40 days of age. The level of cyclic AMP in the brain increased 5‐fold between birth and 40 days of age and this increase was partially reduced by early thyroidectomy. A similar increase in the activity of adenyl cyclase and phosphodiesterase was observed during development, but thyroidectomy produced no detectable changes in the activity of either enzyme. The activity of the cyclic AMP‐dependent protein kinase was already maximal at birth and also was unaffected by thyroidectomy.


Landslides, as one of the major natural hazards, account each year for enormous property damage in terms of both direct and indirect costs. Mountain roads where probability of land sliding is the highest, causes hurdles not only in the traffic flow but generate various traffic problems in the form of congestion, high accidents rate and waste of time. This paper introduces an agent-based model for modeling and simulation of the effects of landslide on the circulation of transports on mountain roads. This model is applied to the National Road N°6 of Vietnam to visualize and analyze the effects of landslide on the road when it occurs. This model could help us to improve and optimally organize of landslide warning and rescue system on the road.


A survey of the polymer matrix composite materials that were flown on Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) is presented with particular attention to the effect of circumferential location (alpha) on the measured degradation and property changes. Specifically, it is known that atomic oxygen fluence (AO), VUV radiation dose, and number of impacts by micrometeoroids/debris vary with alpha. Thus, it is possible to assess material degradation and property damage changes with alpha for those materials that are common to three or more locations. Once the alpha-dependence functions were defined, other material samples will provide data that can readily be used to predict damage and property changes as a function of alpha as well. What data can be realistically obtained from these materials, how this data can be obtained, and the scientific/design value of the data to the user community is summarized. Finally, a proposed test plan is presented with recommended characterization methodologies that should be employed by all investigators to ensure consistency in the data base that will result from this exercise.


tive distribution of patronage to a small British elite and they did want greater local control over their own affairs. But these were objectives that could have been achieved without rebellion – a rebellion that only a small minority of the population of the Eastern Townships supported. Little stresses the key role in drumming up anti-francophone sentiment played by the constitutionalist press. But they did not have to invent the threat posed to the long-term survival of the Englishspeaking population if the imperial government had simply given in to all the patriotes' demands. Ironically in the long run there was really no future for the Eastern Townships as an English-speaking enclave, even within a Quebec that remained an integral part of a Canada with an English-speaking majority. How much more quickly would this region have lost its distinctive character within a French-Canadian dominated colony or an independent republic? The anti-colonial struggle in Lower Canada reflected the desire of the French-Canadian leadership for national autonomy – not just constitutional reform – and, as the implications of the demands of the patriotes became clearer, it was surely inevitable that the colony would increasingly – if never completely – be divided along ethnic lines and that the inhabitants of the Eastern Townships would emphasize their BritishCanadian identity. Nonetheless, Little is right to stress the importance of incorporating the story of the Eastern Townships into the history of the rebellions, and no one could have written that story more effectively. phillip buckner Institute of Commonwealth Studies


Numerous gold occurrences, including the Lupin mine, exist in Archean iron formation within the Contwoyto Lake – Point Lake region of the Slave Province. Early studies suggested that gold was a syngenetic component of the iron formation; however, the present study suggests that the gold and sulphides are epigenetic.At both the Lupin mine and small-scale gold occurrences gold is associated with quartz veins and concentrations of pyrrhotite or pyrite and of arsenides (arsenopyrite ± loellingite) in iron formation. The quartz veins contain 0.03–1.00 ppm Au and comprise sulphide-poor quartz. A zoned sequence of hydrothermal alteration is present in iron formation adjacent to quartz veins. Immediately adjacent to the veins a calc-silicate lithology (0.03–1.00 ppm Au) is sometimes developed that comprises hedenbergite + quartz ± epidote ± scheelite ± grossular. Next is an arsenide-rich zone (5–30 ppm Au) comprising hornblende + quartz ± hedenbergite ± epidote ± actinolite. The next zone is an iron-sulphide zone...


A new type of Al2O3-SiO2-TiO2-ZrO2 supported composite membrane was made by Sol-gel process without visible cracks. There are several existing crystal phases such as γ-Al2O3, TiO2, and Al2SiO5 in the Al2O3 composite membrane. Changing the ratio of Al:Si:Ti:Zr, different pore size distribution and main crystal phase of Al2O3 composite membrane could be obtained, and the microstructure of the membrane may by affected. It emphasized on the microstructure of composite membrane measured by XDR, AFM, SEM method in this study, and effect on properties of alumina composite membrane with titania, silica and zirconia doped was discussed.


Planktonic B/Ca holds promise of reconstructing the surface seawater carbonate chemistry, which is linked to the past levels of atmospheric partial pressure of CO2. However, it is still not clear to what extent the carbonate chemistry control on planktonic B/Ca is complicated by physiological activities of foraminifera. In this thesis, the environmental controls on B/Ca in two planktonic foraminiferal species, Globigerinoides ruber (white) and Globigerinoides sacculifer (without final sac-like chamber), are examined using core-top samples from the Atlantic Ocean. For an accurate estimation of the ambient calcification environments, the calcification depths and seasonality of the studied species at these core-top locations are determined by planktonic Mg/Ca. The dissolution effect on B/Ca, which is evident from planktonic B/Ca data from three depth transects, proves to have little impact on the interpretation of planktonic B/Ca data from the Atlantic core-tops. While the carbonate chemistry control on planktonic B/Ca can be detected from these core-top data, a strong calcification rate control on planktonic B/Ca is demonstrated by the correlation between B/Ca and Sr/Ca, where Sr/Ca is employed as an indicator of the calcification rate. This calcification rate control on planktonic B/Ca complicates the direct link between planktonic B/Ca and seawater carbonate chemistry. Nevertheless, based on the different responses of B/Ca in the two studied species to the calcification rate, it is possible that B/Ca in some species are less susceptible to this influence, and thus can be employed for carbonate chemistry reconstructions. Benthic B/Ca is a recently developed quantitative proxy for deepwater carbonate ion concentration ([CO2− 3 ]). In this thesis, deepwater [CO 2− 3 ] variations during the last 150 thousand years are reconstructed using two cores from the deep Southwestern Pacific, a critical but not fully investigated region to regulate the carbon inventory in the deep ocean. Since Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5a, the deep the SW Pacific [CO2− 3 ] varied in concert with benthic carbon isotopes (δCb). These covariations, on the timescale of ∼10 kyr, are similar to those observed in the deep Atlantic. This suggests that the deep SW Pacific [CO2− 3 ] could be affected by changes in the Atlantic Overturning Circulation and the biological pump. However, the deep SW Pacific [CO2− 3 ] showed little change during Termination II (T II), despite that variations of δCb, neodymium isotopes (εNd), and foraminifer-bound nitrogen isotopes (δNpf) were similar to those during Termination I (T I). This difference is interpreted as the result of coral reef regrowth on continental shelves, which decreased the whole ocean [CO2− 3 ] and counteracted the [CO 2− 3 ] increase due to the influences from Atlantic Overturning Circulation and the biological pump changes during T II.


The mobile phone has changed the cultural norms of communities. Especially among youth which are the most small device users and available, as it is often seen a young person has several phone. So having this tool will lead to normative changes and subsequent cultural changes. Thus, in addition to positive uses including recreation, leisure fixes, educational and Quran use, the exchange of news and information ... it also has negative consequences, including facilitating relations between boys and girls, the dissemination of modern culture, changing Iranian identity, religious, and culture, abuse, and tools, consumerism and many other negative consequences that all have changed the lifestyle and behavioral rules. The present paper was carried out with the aim of expressing youths' experiences of cell phones in changing cultural norms.


44:133 Italy Meets Africa: Colonial Discourses in Italian Cinema by Roberta Di Carmine (New York: Peter Lang's ''Framing Film: The History and Art of Cinema, vol. 10,'' 2011—$68.95, ISBN 978-1-4331-0868-6, 145 pp., black and white photos, bibliography, index) is a study of the images of Italian and African identities as displayed in Italian colonial intervention in Africa that lasted 75 years—up into the early 1940s. The author argues that ''Italian colonial films mirror imperial ideology influenced by a racial hierarchy that was acted upon during the colonization of Africa.'' Di Carmine is associate professor of film at Western Illinois University and has published essays is several journals. (Bruce A. Austin)


The invention provides a user equipment uplink power control method and a network device in a heterogeneous network in order to reduce interference on other devices in the heterogeneous network when the uplink power of a user device in the heterogeneous network is adjusted. The method comprises: receiving information of a user device at a district edge; calculating the uplink power adjusting step length fc (i) of the user device at a district edge according to the information of a user device at a district edge; comparing the uplink power adjusting step length fc (i) with a uplink power adjusting step length fc (i-1) corresponding to a last frame; and transmitting the uplink power adjusting step length fc (i) to the user device at a district edge when the uplink power adjusting step length fc (i) is not more than the uplink power adjusting step length fc (i-1) corresponding to the last frame. The method provided by the embodiment of the invention is capable of effectively reducing interference on uplink reception of other user devices while increasing the uplink signal receiving quality of the user device at a district edge in the heterogeneous network.


This paper addresses the problem of soft controlling an avatar's facial expressions by its user's facial expressions. For example, when a user laughs, the avatar also gives a laughing expression but the avatar does not necessarily mimic the user's expression exactly. The major challenge here is how to recognize the user's facial expressions in real time. Unlike conventional approaches trying to recognize universal expressions independent to individuals, we use a personalized scheme to recognize facial expressions. We represent facial movements by facial motion graph (FMG), which is based on feature points and their relations. Expression discrimination is achieved by analyzing the similarity between the new FMG and the person's FMG models of known expressions using continuous dynamic programming. Experiments show excellent accuracy and near real time speed of the system.


This paper was developed as a result of discussion among a diverse group of parents, advocates, and service providers in Dane Country, Wisconsin, who came together to recommend a long-range direction for developmental disabilities services in the community.


This article discusses technology and social networking issues for couple and family therapists in their professional relationships with couples and families. Despite the prevalence of technology in many spheres of contemporary clients' lives, the potential for intrusion, unrealistic expectations of accessibility, and boundary violations can adversely affect therapy relationships. The article specifically addresses: (a) technology and the ecology of therapy, (b) the therapy relationship and boundary management, (c) social media within and outside the therapy relationship, and (d) ancillary uses of technology in therapy. It concludes with recommendations for addressing and managing technology in the therapy relationship.


The study was carried out in Bauchi metropolis of Bauchi state (Nigeria) to evaluate the effective role of human capital management towards organizational value added of some selected organizations in Bauchi metropolis. The research assessed some selected staffs of five (5) different organizations drawn from both public and private sectors to examine how their employees are systematically selected, retained and maintained at their best. The study also aimed at determining the human capital measurement approach by those organizations to get the workers working as money alone cannot deliver the organizational goal. The research been an empirical study was conducted using structured questionnaire distributed to Staffs of some selected organizations in the metropolis. The sampling method adopted for the study was stratified random sampling technique. The instrument used for data analysis was using SPSS Pearson Product Correlation Method to test the hypothesis. A total number of 55 questionnaires were returned and considered out of the 60 that was distributed. This paper believed that the human capital management should be designed, implemented and assessed by how well it help organization achieved its strategic results and pursue its mission. It's the overall recommendation of this paper that the long-term survival and sustainability of the organization in the fast moving world is guaranteed with investment in resources that can have different effects on human behaviors with the need to work effectively and how people pursue goals in a fast changing and multifaceted environment most affected by modernity and globalization.


Measurements of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in both in-plane (H‖) and out-of-plane (H⊥) magnetic field configurations have been performed on a series of epitaxial (La0.7Ca0.3)1−xMn1+xO3 films. The FMR linewidths have a local maximum near the Curie point and increase continuously at low temperatures. The effective anisotropy of the films has the easy-plane character. The angular dependences of Hres were found to be in reasonable agreement with the theoretical ones, taking into account the second- and fourth-order terms of the magnetic anisotropy energy. A reasonable agreement between ΔHres(α) and Bloch type dissipation was obtained only for deviations of the external field from the normal to the film plane up to α=20°. From the temperature and angular dependences of the FMR spectra, the main magnetic parameters such as the effective magnetization, effective field Heff, anisotropy field HA2, and FMR linewidth were estimated.


The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the employee behaviour with Information System Artefact (ISA). However, this relationship does not arise directly. The authors argue that the employee behaviour in organization has a positive effect on the use of Information System Artefact (ISA) tools and processes due to employees are facing a lot of challenges in handling complexity of job and this subsequently increase human errors. Increase of human errors in organization contributes to disasters thus impact the organizational resilience. Information System Artefact (ISA) and the usage are tools to simplify employees work practises and processes to achieve better organizational resilience. This study aims to determine whether Information System Artefact (ISA) mediate in the relationship between employee behaviour in organization and organization resilience on companies listed under Malaysian Digital Economic Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDEC) during the period of 2000 to 2018.The main finding is that the role of employees behaviour positively affects the use of Information System Artefact (ISA) thus enhances organization resilience. The study is a new contribution for academics and practitioners, since the Information System Artefact (ISA) and behaviours is tested in education practises for adult learners and students instead over employees on disaster management practices and organizational resilience. In addition, the effect of artefact has been studied in organization routines and security context instead of in disaster management. The study has two practical implications for companies to continue working for sustainability. The first practical implication is the need to work the processes that are aimed at the exchange of information that are simplified both internally and externally to the organization. The second practical implication, that has been determined several enhancement initiatives for resilient organizations that may contribute towards the strategic goals of Sendai's framework (2015–2020). These enhancement initiatives help to cultivate a new dimension of behavioural capacities among employees. Moreover, it raises awareness of risk with relevant lead and follows indicators to recognise trend, emerging risks, and opportunities. Thus, risk attitude for each main type of operational risk must be identified for guidance using symbols or artefacts that can position the risk.


These are strange times for the statistical use of administrative records. At a time when statistics from sample surveys and censuses are contracting, it would seem reasonable for the community of statistical users and statistical agencies to turn to increased and improved utilization of administrative records. This has not happened, however, partially because of the effect of budget cuts on the utilization of administrative records. Most users are painfully aware of the effects of budget cuts on sample surveys and censuses. A number of user groups have compiled "casualty lists," which include such things as: --decreased sample size for Current Population Survey --reduction of number of occupations in the Occupational Outlook Handbook --cancellation of 1982 Annual Housing Survey There are very few lists, however, that consider the effects of budget cuts on administrative record data sources. One of the reasons for this is that the effect on administrative records, and eventually on statistics produced from those records, is much more insidious and difficult to trace. An example is the fact that, as State Employment Security Agencies experience funding cuts and staff reduction, there has been an observable decrease in the timeliness and quality of data which they provide to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) from Unemployment Insurance (UI) records. The effect on personal income estimates for States and counties is even more difficult to identify and by nature of a longer range. Initially, this has meant that--even though the agency has itself experienced staff reductions--BEA has been forced to devote more effort to preparing estimates for States whose reports are late, and to edit the data received more intensely for possible errors to refer back to the State agency for investigation or verification. Ultimately, this will take its "toll" on the reliability and timeliness of the personal income estimates. The effects of budget cuts include not only decreased availability and reliability of statistics that have been produced from administrative records, but also increased difficulty in obtaining changes and improvements necessary to new statistical uses. It is the second category of effects that is addressed here. The lack of a uniform set of establishment codes and definitions among administrative record systems is a major deterrent to increased and improved statistical use of administrative records. This problem of nonuniform establishment reporting, which in some cases is inadequate for statistical purposes, has received considerable attention in recent years because of increased emphasis on using administrative records to generate necessary statistics in lieu of the more expensive sample survey approach. The importance of the problem is illustrated by the fact that a major new administrative record data source, with powerful potential statistical applications, continues to go largely unutilized-if not unnoticed--by the statistical community because of serious establishment reporting problems. That system is the one assembled by the Social Security Administration (SSA) from Forms W-2 and W-3, which will present possibilities for the creation of powerful data bases for the measurement and analysis of economic activity and demographic changes for subnational areas. The realization of these possibilities, however, requires improvements in the way in which establishment units are reported and coded. There is potential for such improved records to provide much needed statistics on a current and geographically detailed basis. These potential uses could yield improved statistics, at low cost, with less reporting burden for employers.


We report the discovery of RV Tauri stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In light- and color-curve behavior, the RV Tauri stars appear to be a direct extension of the type II Cepheids to longer periods. A single period-luminosity-color relationship is seen to describe both the type II Cepheids and the RV Tauri stars in the LMC. We derive the relation V0 = 17.89(±0.20)-2.95(±0.12) log P + 5.49(±0.35)⟨(V - R)0⟩, which is valid for type II Cepheids and RV Tauri stars in the period range 0.9 < log P < 1.75. Assuming a distance modulus to the LMC of 18.5, the relation in terms of the absolute luminosities becomes MV = -0.61(±0.20)-2.95(±0.12) log P + 5.49(±0.35)⟨(V - R)0⟩.


After the investigation on students' perception towards the laboratory activities, presented at GIREP-MPTL International Conference 2014 (Marocchi & Serio 2015), we conducted a new analysis concerning the aspects of support and enhancement of the teaching activity in laboratory. We investigate i) how students prepare the laboratory activities, ii) the importance of the presence of teacher, technicians, tutors throughout the entire laboratory process, iii) the usefulness and ease of use of the informatics instrumentation. This second phase involves first year students during the academic year 2015/16. Results of questionnaires highlight the importance of teaching methods used, as well as of all the professional figures involved during the educational laboratory experience.


This paper aims to ascertain theoretically and empirically if there is any impact of demographic variables on the relationship between HRM best practices and employee loyalty. This paper discussed specific demographic variables namely gender, age, nationality, job experience, and job level. Theoretically, a meta-analysis review was used to cross validated literature review in the area of research. Number of relevant articles derived from several databases were reviewed to validate the impact.  Based on extensive meta-analysis approach, the majority of prior literature illustrated that demographic variables had a significant impact on the relationship between HRM practices and employee loyalty. Previous literatures as well explained that, there are no differences between male and female employee in terms of loyalty, the older employees are more loyal than the younger employees, and the citizens are more loyal than the expatriates. Furthermore, literature pointed that, the longer the employee's years of experience, the more loyalty to the organization as well as the higher the level of the employees' career, the more loyal they have. Empirically, to check the results achieved in meta-analysis review, a quantitative approach was adopted through the questionnaires that were distributed to 52 employees in the largest 14 logistics companies in Oman. Data were analysed using SPSS, as the regression analysis was used to find whether there is any impact of demographic variables on the relationship between HRM practices and employee loyalty. The results illustrated that gender had no impact on the relationship between HRM practices and employee loyalty. While, age, nationality, job experience, and job level had a significant impact on the relationship between HRM practices and employee loyalty. As past studies depicted the impact of demographic variables on HRM practices and employee loyalty, this paper recommends future research to investigate the impact of demographic variables as moderating variables on the relationship between HRM practices and employee loyalty.


The quadrature processing techniques used in digital communications, spectral analysis, and computer graphics demand high-speed calculation of complex number magnitude and its logarithms. The aim of this work is to design a highly parameterizable circuit generator for approximating the magnitude of a complex number and performing the Look Up Table (LUT)-based binary logarithm on its value, thus supporting high-performance data processing. In order to achieve that, Chisel hardware description language has been used. A proposed design generator supports a wide range of parametrization options, including input/output data type and bitwidth, LUT table size, optional square magnitude calculation, several rounding methods, etc. Various generator instances are tested and verified on a commercially available FPGA platform. They are mutually compared in terms of resource utilization and performance.


Electro-catalytic oxidation was used for treating the first biochemical treatment effluent of coal gasification wastewater. The influences of p H,voltage,HRT and aeration rate were all investigated,and the result showed that the optimal reaction conditions were p H of 6. 0—6. 5,voltage of 15 V,HRT of 2 h and aerationrate of 5 m3/( m2·h). Under these conditions,COD and color degree were removed effectively for 80% and 90%,respectively,which indicated that electro-catalytic oxidation can remove organic residues in the coal gasification wastewater and destroy the structure of chromophoric group. As the advanced treatment of coal gasification wastewater,it has remarkable effect,lower cost,and the effluent can reach the standard of discharging.


Agrobacterium tumefaciens introduces bacterial genes into plant genomes, giving rise to characteristic crown gall tumours. This is exploited in plant biotechnology as a DNAdelivery vector. A. tumefaciens-mediated transformation of yeast is considered to proceed by a similar mechanism, involving transfer of T-DNA, nuclear localization and integration into host genome. The process is largely regulated by host factors but poorly understood. Analysis of six ubiquitin-related yeast genes via yeast gene-deletion strains showed that deactivation of ubiquitin-specific protease UBP3 led to enhanced transformation success rates. Further steps were carried out to try to study the effect of the UBP3 protease on the ubiquitylation status of host cellular proteins. Proteomic analysis via isolation of ubiquitylated proteins using 6xHistagged ubiquitin was attempted. This study opens a new window to look into the process of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of eukaryotic cells.


Remote sensing image super-resolution has always been a major research focus, and many deep-learning-based algorithms have been proposed in recent years. However, since the structure of remote sensing images tends to be much more complex than that of natural images, several difficulties still remain for remote sensing images super-resolution. First, it is difficult to depict the nonlinear mapping between high-resolution (HR) and low-resolution (LR) images of different scenes with the same model. Second, the wide range of scales within the ground objects in remote sensing images makes it difficult for single-scale convolution to effectively extract features of various scales. To address the above-mentioned issues, we propose a multiscale attention network (MSAN) to extract the multilevel features of remote sensing images. The basic component of MSAN is the multiscale activation feature fusion block (MAFB). In addition, a scene-adaptive super-resolution strategy for remote sensing images is employed to more accurately describe the structural characteristics of different scenes. The experiments undertaken on several data sets confirm that the proposed algorithm outperforms the other state-of-the-art algorithms, in both evaluation indices and visual results.


The Crystal Chain - "Die glaserne Kette" - was a utopian correspondence initiated by Bruno Taut in 1919-1920, in which a small group of like-minded architects and artists exchanged ideas on what form the architecture of the future should take. Unfettered by the demands of practicability, the members of the group described their visions of an ideal society and of a beneficent architecture in a series of dazzling, fantastic letters and drawings.Although the letters are referred to in almost every survey of twentieth century architecture, this is the first book to offer in English the complete texts of all the known Crystal Chain letters, including some which have never been published in German. The letters are accompanied by illustrations, an introductory essay, and explanatory notes.The Crystal Chain letters document the crisis of modernism that afflicted German architectural theory in the years immediately following the First World War. The trauma of the war and the subsequent social unrest led the radical architects to reject the materialism and positivism that had characterized the "Kaiserreich." The result was an ideological and aesthetic vacuum, and the search for suitable alternatives provided the basis for the correspondence. After a year of intense theoretical speculation, several of the links in the chain, including Bruno and Max Taut, Walter Gropius, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, and Hans Scharoun, emerged as leading advocates and practitioners of the new architecture in Germany.Iain Boyd Whyte is an English architectural historian. He is the author of several books including "Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism," and the translator of "Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG "(MIT Press, 1984).


In each entry. describing phenomena of an types, there is always a map at the end of the book. A rather long treatment is accorded to problems of substratum and "superstratum," mainly for the latter involving entries such as the Greek influence, Germanic penetration, and the French civilization. Onomasiology and homonimy are also treated, though rather sketchly. There is no particular coverage of "contemporarily" tr~ated problems dealing with the relationship between language and ". sociological" factors, although Chapters XV and XXII take into consideration institutions outside linguistic systems (such as " society" and the " church "). In short, one should not expect any approach like, say M. Alvar's in Estructuralismo; geografia lingUistica y dialectologia actual (Madrid: Gredos, 1969) for the single reason that Rohlfs stays within " historical linguistics " boundaries. In essence RohIfs is for the practical . presentation of facts and figures without the application of exciting speculations deriving, say, from U. Weinreich's " Is a Structural Dialectology Possible " (\Vord, X [1954J, 388-400) or from R. P. Stocwell's " Structural Dialectology: A Proposal,» (American Speech, 34 [1959], 258-268). The synopsis, constituting the last chapter, leads flat1y to an old saying: "Jedes Wort hat seine eigene geschichte" (cf. Y. Malkiel, " Each word has a history of its own," Glossa, I [1967], 137-149.) The indexes are generous and handy since they are classifi.ed according to " languages." One should not forge t to take into account the erratacorrige on pp. 233-234, since there are a few typographical errors. RohIfs' Romanische Sprachgeographie will be acceptèd not only by the traditional Romance scholars but also by " dialectologists " in generaI. As a matter of fact, now that (beyond Weinreich and Stockwell above) the tendency is to adapt a generative model for dialect comparison (cf. R. C. Troike, "Overall Pattern and Generative Phonology" in H. B. Allen and G. N. Underwood, Readings in American Dialectology. New York: Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1971), the younger scholar will find in the Romance fami1y a go Id mine of data, and in RòhIf's a reliable and useful tool of work. LUIGI ROMEO University of Colorado


We propose and demonstrate a novel re-modulation scheme using inverse-return-to-zero (IRZ) signal for downstream data and differential phase shift keying (DPSK) signal for upstream data with high extinction-ratio(ER) in both directions. A 20-km-range colorless dense wavelength-division-multiplexing passive optical network (DWDM-PON) without dispersion compensation was demonstrated within 1-dB penalty for both 10-Gbit/s downstream and 10-Gbit/s upstream signals. The impact of the relative delay between the upstream signal and the downstream signal was investigated.


Pattern discovery is the important part of knowledge discovery in Database, comes under Data mining. To discover useful patterns, association rule mining is one of the most popularized and revealing technique in data mining. Association rule mining plays a key role in decision making by discovering useful relations between attributes in the database. For this, first Frequent itemsets need to calculate followed by Candidate itemset. While generating frequent itemsets, frequent-1 itemset can be generated easily. But frequent 2-itemsets suffered from both time and space complexity. More overhead and space complexity occurred in a generation of frequent 2-itemset is the issue of this paper. For more I/O throughput it is essential to generate frequent itemsets as fast as possible and space eificient. To possible this, intermediate data generated by pairing each item with another item in itemset needs access of random read/write. To access random data for low latency, Apache HBase is the solution. Based on performed results, it is shown that if dataset stored through HBase on HDFS, space and time complexity can be achieved better with Apriori MapReduce algorithm for finding association rules.


Some of the principal contributions to the study of Tyrone Irish this century are the works of: 0 Tuathail; Stockman/ Wagner; and 0 Baoill in 0 Baoill/Wagner (288-94). Sadly, native Irish has now disappeared from this county, but the material presented here is, I believe, a corpus of material collected from native Irish speakers in Tyrone sometime within the first half of this century. The material was discovered in October 1987 among the papers of the late Mrs. Deirdre Flanagan in the Celtic Department, Queen's University Belfast. Deirdre Flanagan (1932—84) was not the compiler of the material and, indeed, it is doubtful if she ever had the opportunity to read it through in any detail as her only brief comment, written on the outside cover, was: Tyrone Irish possibly! Quite a substantial amount of the library and notes of the late Sean Mac Airt (al. J. B. Arthurs, 1910—59) came into the possession of Mrs. Flanagan and I shall illustrate below that the material presented here was possibly the work of Mac Airt. Mac Airt had a fairly keen interest in Tyrone Irish inspired, perhaps, by his great-uncle, the Rev. Fr. C. Shortt, for in his 1950 and 1957 articles, Mac Airt published (in 'normalised* Irish Orthography) versions of the Gaelic stories and traditions collected by Father Shortt


59 IN A RECENT ISSUE OF this journal (Dis Manage. 2007;10:185-188), Scott MacStravic, Ph.D., asserted that disease management (DM) programs are likely to show lower savings in the first year and greater savings in subsequent years of intervention provided participants persist in programs. Persistence is often out of the hands of the DM vendor, and self-insured employers may not kick and scream when costly health care members drop coverage or even employment. But the original premise bears consideration, too. DM vendors often identify high-cost members for intervention knowing only too well that roughly 60% of them will not be high-cost again the next year (ie, regression to the mean). If these same individuals persist in programs then, in all likelihood, their savings potential diminishes rapidly. Hence, assuming stable intervention costs per participant as well as participant persistence, return on investment (ROI) should be maximal in Year 1 and minimal or nonexistent in subsequent years. DM vendors, therefore, maximize their purported ROI benefit because of new patient identification each year. Gordian Health Solutions' reported results, on the other hand, tell a different story. Gordian is not a traditional DM vendor as Dr. MacStravic states. Rather, Gordian engages as much of the population with health risks as possible to encourage healthier lifestyle habits such as better diet and exercise and smoking cessation. As such, Gordian is in the disease prevention business rather than the DM business. Often, employers working with Gordian have a DM vendor in place as well. The highest cost members are typically "claimed" by the DM vendor, leaving Gordian the rest of the at-risk and healthy population. Naturally, these lower risk and lower cost members also have lower savings opportunity in the short term. Yet, when these wellness behaviors are promoted over a longer period of time, the health and cost benefits to the population increase.


The present invention relates to a composition for an environment-friendly floor finishing material. More specifically, the composition comprises an epoxy resin, a reactive diluent, a viscosity control agent, a coloring pigment, an additive, a mineral, and a curing accelerator. The composition for an environment-friendly floor finishing material has a very low content of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and does not contain hazardous heavy metals and is thus environment-friendly. Further, the composition contains tourmaline, which emits a large amount of far infrared rays and anions that are beneficial to the human body, and thus has good concealment, integrity, adhesion and durability as well as good effects of deodorization, antibacteria, antimold and mite repellence, and has excellent flame resistance and thermal insulation.


The Sandbox technology is a kind of security protection mechanism,which aims to protect the security of system by limiting the program running environment.The LSM is a lightweight access control framework provided by the Linux kernel.This paper analyzes the shortcomings(complex and resource consumption)of the common sandbox technology in Linux system and proposes a method to achieve the Linux kernel sandbox based on LSM.Based on LSM;Linux kernel sandbox can reduce the workload.The test results show that the Linux kernel sandbox based on LSM has little impact on Linux system performance.The maximum loss of system performance is about 10%.


This paper discusses customer relationship management (CRM) synthetic decision support system (DSS) based on GIS. Aimed at the characteristics of CRM, DSS framework combined with GIS is designed to manage customer relationship, with design principle and system analysis.


While the influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) on precipitation has been extensively studied, its influence on precipitation extremes remains not well-known. Based on a series of generalized extreme value modeling experiments, this paper demonstrates some distinct regional patterns of the PDO's influence on precipitation extremes worldwide. In eastern China, the well-known 'southern flood (drought) and northern drought (flood)' pattern in summer corresponds well to the positive (negative) phase of the PDO. In Australia, there tends to be a tripole pattern, with positive correlation between precipitation extremes and the PDO in the central region, and negative correlation in both eastern and western Australia. The precipitation extremes in northwestern Europe and western Russia roughly hold positive correlation with the PDO. These regional patterns of the PDO's influences are explained via comparative analyses of the atmospheric circulation conditions between cold and warm PDO phases. Certain precipitation extremes tend to be missed or happen more than once during different phases of the PDO at more than 2/3 of stations in a typical region. The cold phase tends to exert more consistent influences than the warm phase in these typical regions. These findings not only indicate different risks of extreme precipitation for the typical regions during different phases of the PDO, but also have important implications for the near-term projection of variable regional climate extremes under global warming.


One of the fundamental cellular processes governed by genetic regulatory networks in cells is the transition among different states under the intrinsic and extrinsic noise. Based on a two-state genetic switching model with positive feedback, we develop a framework to understand the metastability in gene expressions. This framework is comprised of identifying the transition path, reconstructing the global quasi-potential energy landscape, analyzing the uphill and downhill transition paths, etc. It is successfully utilized to investigate the stability of genetic switching models and fluctuation properties in different regimes of gene expression with positive feedback. The quasi-potential energy landscape, which is the rationalized version of Waddington potential, provides a quantitative tool to understand the metastability in more general biological processes with intrinsic noise.


Symbolic powers is a classical commutative algebra topic that relates to primary decomposition, consisting, in some circumstances, of the functions that vanish up to a certain order on a given variety. However, these are notoriously difficult to compute, and there are seemingly simple questions related to symbolic powers that remain open even over polynomial rings. In this paper, we describe a Macaulay2 software package that allows for computations of symbolic powers of ideals and which can be used to study the equality and containment problems, among others.


Smart city mission aims to promote the quality life in Indian cities and for that cities were selected from entire India. All the smart cities needed to make a smart city proposal (SCP) for further selection. Gwalior is being selected to be one of the smart cities in 100 Indian cities. Gwalior is a city in Madhya Pradesh and had a strong link to the region glorious past, as this is the one of oldest center in region (as per the current footprints). Because of fast urbanization rate the current condition shows urban decay due to lacking in core infrastructural element in almost most all the Indian cities, Gwalior is also going through same issue. The paper aims to identify the various unexplored aspects that were not considered and not taken care of in the current SCP. This research work will be started with the understanding of the concept by analyzing the guidelines of the smart city mission and comparative study/analysis of smart city global module(international modules on smart city), the entire research work will focus to identify the gaps between need of the city and smart city proposal.


H ENRY Calvert Simons was the Crown Prince of that hypothetical kingdom, the Chicago school of economics, and even at this late date it is desirable to present the main facts about the man and his career. Simons was born into an upper middle class family in Virden, Illinois, on October 9, 1899. His father was an attorney, his grandfather an English immigrant who had become a church organist and then a successful grain merchant; his mother was a southern belle whose imperious ambitions caused Simons to escape from home as soon as he completed high school in 1916. The first stop was the University of Michigan, where he specialized in economics and received the AB in 1920. The brilliance and capacity for boredom that marked his entire life were already present: he was an excellent student (9 A's, 5 B's, in economics) and a poor accountant (1 A, 1 B, 2 C's, 1 D). He moved on to the University of Iowa in January of 1921, beginning as an assistant in principles and railroads ($700 per year), rising to assistant professor with a salary of $2750 in 1926-27. At Iowa he met and eventually became the premier student of Frank Knight. He began the pursuit of a Ph.D., first sampling Columbia in the summer of 1922 and then shifting to Chicago (summers, 1923, 1924, and the academic year, 1925-26). A thesis on personal income taxation was launched, and when he followed Knight to Chicago in 1927 as a lecturer, he was given a leave to learn German in the first half of 1928. He spent the time in Germany, partly at the University of Berlin, and readers of his Personal Income Taxation (1938) will remember his perverse pleasure in quoting the German literature only in the original. He returned to Chicago in 1928 as an assistant professor and Chicago was his home for the remainder of his life. By external signs he was a desultory, aimless student (that is, well ahead of his time!). No prelims were taken, and up to 1932 he had published only three book reviews. Paul Douglas led a strong opposition to the renewal of his appointment, beginning in 1932. Simons' main and perhaps only defender, unreasonable and intransigent


An efficient protocol for in vitro propagation of Justicia gendarussa Burm. f. has been developed. MS medium supplemented with NAA induced prolific callus in both leaf and nodal explants. Organogenic and chlorophyllous calli were produced at lower concentrations of NAA (1.0 mg L) and BAP (0.1 mg L). Thick and long roots with numerous root hairs were produced with NAA (1.0 mg L) and BAP (0.1 mg L). Long shoots were also formed. Of the in vitro grown 120 plantlets transferred to the field 94% survived after 2 months of transplantation to natural environment.


Most of the onshore activities associated with North Sea Oil developments have been located in essentially rural regions of Scotland. The wide varieties of regional and oil activity characteristics have led to a research emphasis on the diversity of oil impacts on affected areas. Using empirical evidence, this paper demonstrates that there are underlying similarities in the pattern of oil impact on Scottish rural areas. It is argued that this arises from a fundamental technological 4mismatch, between the supply capabilities of the indigenous rural economy and the demand requirements of the oil industry. It is suggested that this mismatch is exacerbated by a lack of information exchange between the local and oil sectors.


A large-eddy simulation of a velocity-ratio (VR = 1:0),
pitched and skewed vortex generating jet issuing into a turbulent boundary layer (Red delta* = 2000) is presented. As the jet issues from the orifice, an asymmetrical counter-rotating vortex pair is produced, consisting of a strong primary vortex and a weaker secondary vortex. The secondary vortex quickly dissipates to leave the primary vortex, which persists farther downstream. The primary vortex replaces the near-wall region with higher momentum fluid, and is shown to be associated with improved skin friction downstream of the jet. This increase in skin friction has been previously shown to be associated with improved resistance to boundary-layer separation.


This is one of the papers presented at a seminar that took place in 1994 in Marseilles on the advantages and pitfalls of modern forms of apprenticeship. This paper describes the history of apprenticeship training in Finland. The development of apprenticeship training has faced a number of obstacles. Two of these obstacles are the focus of this paper. What is the relationship between theoretical education and practical training? Is it possible to learn everything essential to the qualification through on-the-job training, and what is the part that cannot be learned effectively in school? This paper offers an analysis of these two issues. See TD/TND 63.218 for the volume entry and for individual chapters see TD/TNC 63.219 to TD/TNC 63.229.


: The selective enrichment behaviors of labile substances sgch as hydroxides to the surface of specific mineral particles in river water were clarified by scaRniRg electron tn{croscopy/energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (SEM-EDX). Individual particles with particle size between O.45 and 10pm other than diatom in water samples from the Fiiji and Sagami rivers, central Japan were aRalyzed by SEM-EDX aRd classified into seventeen groups accordii3g to the chemical compositioR and the shape. Phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, maRganese and copper detected in each paytic}e could be used successfi;illy in order to elucidate the insoluble compoRents secondary formed iik river water, because the detection frequencies ofsuch elements are usually quite }ow or negligible iR fresh miReral particles derived fi"om igReous rocks. Almost all parts ofmanganese detected iR individual partic}es are ones adsorbed aftresh as the hydroxides together with iron and aluminum. Anions such as phosphorus, su}fiir and chlorine form the complexes with the hydroxides and/or are incorporated in them. The detection fi'eguencies of such iabiie species were predoininantly high iR Mg andfor Ca rich aluminosilicates. in river water in terrns of tke chemical compositions of individual panicles. In study, the chemical corripositions of iRdividL}al above in river determined by scanniRg electroR microscopylenergy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (SEM-EDX). Phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, maRganese and copper detected in individual particles used in order to estimate the labile secondary forrned in river water. ConsequeRtly, tke selective enrichrneRt behaviors ofthe labile substances to specMc mineral particles were clarified. -72-selectivity. These results indicate tkat Mg andlor Ca rich aluminosilicates in river water play irr}portaitt roles as the scaveftgers of Mn-, Fe- and Al- hydroxides adsorbing dissolved trace elements aRd affect the elementa} fractionatioR between liquid and solid phases.


Summary

Yolk plasma has been examined before and after (a) freeze-thaw gelation and (b) heat-setting at 62·5°C for aggregation states by gel filtration and electron microscopy and for its performance in standard Madeira cake baking. Frozen and thawed plasma consists predominantly of large aggregated species of lipoprotein particles. Heat set plasma has a lower degree of aggregation than frozen and thawed samples. It is richer in aggregated species than untreated plasma. The aggregation state is not readily reversed by egg white and/or sucrose The degree of aggregation does not appear to affect the baking performance of plasma. Implications of this finding are discussed in terms of possible relationship of lipoprotein size distribution to baking function.


Hydrologic parameters such as rainfall, runoff etc vary both in space and time. For most of the hydrological models, one of the main elements involved is rainfall-runoff process. Determination of the amount of average rainfall or runoff that a given storm event will produce on each subbasin is of prime importance as it is major cause of error in the applied hydrology. To take care of the spatial variability, the watershed is divided into various sub-basins with hydro meteorologically homogeneous characteristics like rainfall pattern to arrive at representative spatial runoff. Larger the number of sub-basins, better is the accuracy. Using modern tools of geospatial technology(SRS,GIS) as well as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), it is possible to achieve the objectives of representative as well as more accurate spatial rainfall and concurrent runoff. This paper discusses Digital Rainfall Modellingan innovative tool for estimation of spatial rainfall for the storm event with the objective of more accurate assessment of the spatial rainfall distribution. For spatial runoff estimation, hydrologic models such as AGricultural Non Point Source [AGNPS] model, HEC-1, HEC GEOHMS, ILWIS, SWAT, as well as Arc-CN Runoff tools of ESRI at Arc GIS are reported. Estimation of spatially varied runoff depths using Arc-CN Runoff tools -Digital Runoff modeling, is discussed. Land use and soil map of the catchment are used as inputs. The digital runoff thus obtained for the event is compared with the same obtained using ANN and rational formula with respect to the observed runoff for the events occurred in Panshet reservoir catchment within Krishna river basin in India.


This study aimed to determine the effect of inquiry learning models and learning motivation on students' metacognition. The study used the quasi-experimental research method with the 2x2 treatment by level model. The subjects of this study were high school students in Grade 11. The samples were divided into two groups; one group learned through the open inquiry learning model while the other group learned through the guided inquiry learning model. Both groups were then given a learning motivation test to divide students into categories of students who had high learning motivation and students who had low learning motivation. The research showed that the metacognition of students who learned through the open inquiry learning models was lower than those who learned through the guided inquiry learning models. Also, the metacognition of students who had high learning motivation was greater than students who had low motivation. The results of the hypothesis test indicated that there is a significant difference in metacognition between students who learned through the open inquiry learning model and students who learned through the guided inquiry learning model, and there is a significant interaction effect between learning models and learning motivation on students' metacognition.


The aggregates which are recycled should be used in construction of structures as they will decrease the using of natural aggregates. Daily in world constructions are increasing so usages of aggregates are also increasing. We cannot meet the increasing demand of aggregates if we use like this every day. So as we cannot reduce usage of aggregate we should search for alternate to the aggregates. Increasing usage of aggregates also causes destruction to the environment. To decrease environmental issues and to meet increasing demand there is only one option called recycling. By recycling we can reduce environmental issues as well as meeting demand for aggregates in modern day constructions. This project deals with, two different mixes (i) Replacing 10mm Recycled Coarse Aggregates (Hereafter it is denoted as RCA) at different percentages i.e 20%, 30%,40%. (ii) Replacing 20mm Recycled aggregates with same percentages. Then the compressive strength of cube find with mixing these two aggregates. The compressive strengths that obtained are compared with normal aggregates.


The paper presents investigations of rate-decline analysis and its feasibility in the assessment of gas resources discovered in Polish shale formations. The investigation uses both oneand two-phase simulation models constructed and calibrated for typical shale formations discovered and tested by Polish operators. Various types of rate-decline curves are investigated. Expected uncertainties of gas resources estimated by the rate-decline curves are found depending on the available production data period for various geological parameters and gas production mechanisms. General conclusions are drawn from the results of the analysis for the practical usage of rate decline curves in the process of the resource estimates of Polish shale gas formations.


Hydroxyethyl methacrylate(HEMA)was synthesized from methyl methacrylate (MMA) and ethylene glycol with tetramethylammonium hydroxide as catalyst and 1,4 dihydroxybenzene as polymerization inhibitor.After orthogonal trial,the optimum reaction conditions are obtained:reaction temperature 75 ℃,reaction time 4 h,mole ratio of MMA and glycol 1∶2.0,amount of catalyst 2.0 ml. The yield of HEMA is 91.4%.


restricted, three-body problem, as long as one of the spacecraft is in an orbit at L1 or L2. In the two-body problem, only the relative orbits can be estimated using crosslinks, but when three-body dynamics dominate, it enables the estimation of both relative and absolute orbit states. To add realism in this study, navigation simulations were performed again, but this time the spacecraft trajectories were propagated in an inertial frame using the DE403 ephemeris for the planets. Also, a 50th degree and order lunar spherical harmonic gravity field, solar radiation pressure,andmaneuversweresimulated,withappropriatemodelingerrors.Fourdifferentlunarconstellationswere analyzed with applications to lunar navigation and communication relay. An extended Kalman filter was used to process the measurements. The results show that real-time, on-board position accuracies on the order of 100 m root sum square are possible for lunar libration point orbiters, and solutions on the order of 10 m root sum square are possible for lunar orbiters.


INTRODUCTION Currently, across Tasmania there is little available data identifying the impact of land use and land management on soil condition. Agricultural production in Tasmania is economically important, contributing in excess of $903 million (gross value) in 2001/02 (DPIWE 2004). The value of primary industries in Tasmania has grown significantly since 1998, returning an additional $204 million at the farm gate over the period of 1998-2002 in agricultural production alone (DPIWE 2003). Whilst this growth is economically impressive, such an increase in production can place pressure on valuable natural resources. Furthermore, rural Tasmania has recently been experiencing significant land use change. Conversions of land from grazing to cropping and the introduction of centre pivot irrigation systems warrant investigations into the impact of current land management on soil condition. If such growth, production intensity and land use is to be sustainable, the impacts on soil condition need to be assessed and desirable threshold targets established to avoid degradation of a resource essential to Tasmania's agricultural industry. Therefore, there is an urgent need to establish preliminary benchmarks for the major indicators of soil condition to assist and benefit land management decisions.


Vibrant, energetic and fitness-conscious, Sandy Wexler, a pediatric nurse who appeared to be in perfect health, was shocked to learn during her routine dental check up that she had a large suspicious lump on the right side of her neck. Sandy had not noticed anything different about her neck until that moment and thought it must be simply a swollen lymph node due to a subclinical infection of some kind. She assumed a course of antibiotics would easily remedy the situation.


One of the problems of society is that most sick people will experience
mental and mental shock due to their illness. This resulted in the slow process of healing
the patient. Patients with this condition are in dire need of spiritual assistance from spiritual
development officials for healing. Nur Hidayah Hospital provides services in spiritual and
spiritual aspects for patients known as HU Care. The implementation of the program in the
Bina Rohani unit is guided by Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) that have been set at
Nur Hidayah Hospital. This study aims to conduct research on evaluating the
implementation of the spiritual guidance program at Nur Hidayah Hospital. Programs that
run in the Bina Rohani unit must be in accordance with SOP that have been set.


Two separate series of experiments were conducted to determine: 1) the influence of dietary arginine supplementation in late gestation on reproductive performance, and 2) the impact of a whole yeast product in gestation, lactation, and weaned pig diets on reproductive, growth, and immune parameters. In the first study 99 sows were provided a control diet, or the control diet supplemented with 1% L-arginine from gestation d 93 to 110. Compared to control-fed sows, no differences were observed in reproductive parameters, however a tendency for increased gestational weight gain was observed for sows provided supplemental arginine. In a second study, 98 sows were provided a control diet, or the control diet supplemented with 0.1 or 0.2% CitriStim (whole yeast product, Pichia guilliermondii [Pg]) through gestation and lactation. Additionally, two separate nursery studies were conducted in a 3 (sow treatments) × 2 (nursery with or without Pg) factorial arrangement. Pigs were challenged with lipopolysaccharide in a sub-study during the second nursery study. Supplementation with Pg increased number born alive, number weaned, and preweaning mortality, and decreased the number born weighing less than 0.9 kg compared to the control diet. Additionally, total neutrophils and the neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio were increased in sows receiving diets supplemented with Pg. In the first nursery study, pigs from sows fed Pg supplemented diets, but not from control sows, had increased ADG, ADFI, and BW in a linear fashion in phase 1 when Pg was also fed to weaned pigs (interaction; P < 0.05). In several instances an additive effect of Pg supplementation to sow diets and nursery diets was observed. Additionally, linear increases in weaned pig growth performance were observed in the second nursery study as the level of Pg inclusion increased in gestation/lactation diets. Supplementation of sow diets with Pg improved feed intake following LPS challenge in weaned pigs and altered the febrile and immune response compared to pigs from sows fed control diets. In conclusion, Pg in sow and nursery diets improved sow reproductive performance, weaned pig performance, impacted immune parameters and altered immune response to LPS stimulation. This dissertation is approved for recommendation to the Graduate Council Dissertation Director: __________________________________________ Dr. Charles V. Maxwell Dissertation Committee: __________________________________________ Dr. Elizabeth B. Kegley __________________________________________ Dr. Gisela F. Erf __________________________________________ Dr. Charles F. Rosenkrans DISSERTATION DUPLICATION RELEASE I hereby authorize the University of Arkansas Libraries to duplicate this dissertation when needed for research and/or scholarship. Agreed __________________________________________ Benjamin Bass Refused __________________________________________ Benjamin Bass


The mainly used technique to correct satellite images with geometric distortion is to develop a mathematical relationship between pixels on the image and corresponding points on the ground. Polynomial models with various transformations have been designed for defining the relationship between two coordinate systems. GCP based geometric correction has performed overall plane to plane mapping. In the overall plane mapping, overall structure of a scene is considered, but local variation is discarded. The Region with highly variant height is rectified with distortion on overall plane mapping. To consider locally variable region in satellite image. TIN-basedrectification on a satellite image is proposed in this paper. This paper describes the relationship between GCP distribution and rectification model through experimental result and analysis about each rectification model. We can choose a geometric correction model as the structural characteristic of a satellite image and the acquired GCP distribution.


Background & Aim : The number of cancer patients has been continuously increasing due to early diagnosis and the developments in cancer treatment. This has led to an increase in psychosocial problems associated with the diagnoses and treatment of cancer. Loneliness is emphasized to be one of the most frequently observed psychological symptoms in cancer patients. Personal and external factors that cause stress in life and insufficient social support increase the level of loneliness in patients. This systematic review aimed to determine the effect of education and social support provided to the patients diagnosed with cancer on their loneliness. Methods & Materials : This systematic review was prepared in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) protocol. The databases of PubMed, CINAHL, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Ulakbim Turkish Medical Index, and Turk Medline were scanned to August 31, 2016, without a limitation of date. The keywords used during the scanning were "cancer and loneliness," and "cancer patients and loneliness." Five studies were included in this review keeping in consideration the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results : The results of the studies included in this systematic review revealed the positive effect of education and social support on the sense of loneliness observed in cancer patients. Three of five randomized controlled studies found that education and social support positively affected loneliness. Conclusion : The results of this review showed that the education and social support provided to cancer patients should be increased, and sociocultural factors should be considered while planning education and social support.