Air-core coil current transducer is not in magnetic saturation,but its voltage signal is weak and vulnerable to outside magnetic interference.To solve this problem,a new-style air-core coil was proposed,which consisted of serial spiral coils in secondary winding,had big mutual inductance and strong ability of anti-electromagnetic interference.This paper illustrated its basic structure and mechanism,established a mathematic model,and analyzed calculation methods of the electromagnetic parameters in detail.Then the linearity of the hand-made model has been tested.The experiments and simulation results indicate that spiral air-core coil current transducer has good linearity,fast response speed,wide frequency bandwidth and dynamic range.In theory,it can meet the requirements of the current transducer applied in the power grid.


Small-world network is a very common network structure, which is characterized by low average degree, small average path length and high centrality. At the same time, small-world networks have high resilience to random errors and low resilience to targeted attacks. In this study, the importance of nodes is represented by attributes such as degree and centrality, and attacks refer to the removal of important nodes. The network is attacked according to the degree, betweenness and closeness centrality to observe the power distribution. The data is mainly obtained from the open source OpenFlight. Gephi, Python, and Excel are used as tools. Gephi is used for network visualization and analysis. The third-party python libraries Pandas, Matplotlib, and NetworkX were used in this study to deal with the things that Gephi can't compute or represent well, and then plot the corresponding graphs with Matplotlib. The work of cleaning data is mainly done by excel.


Objective To discuss the difficulties and countermeasures of nursing administration in medical plastic and cosmetic center.Methods The difficulties were not only analyzed but also were strategies put forward after reviewing the experience of nursing administration in medical plastic and cosmetic center during 5 years.Results The difficulties of nursing administration in medical plastic and cosmetic center includeded many nursing station,more consultation than treating,single nursing skill of nurses and in short of cooperation each other.The strategies are as followes: rationally dispose these nursing station depending on the environment of department,encourage the cooperation,execute the flexible arrangement and e strengthen the training of every nurse.Conclusion Choosing some strategies can effective copy with the difficulties of nursing administration in medical plastic and cosmetic center,which can advance the integral nursing quality


We report the improvement of the hydrophobicity in fabrics treated by radio-frequency (RF) inductively coupled SF6 plasma. The plasma was generated in the pressure range of 0.005-1 torr and with the RF power range of 25-75 watts. A set of fabrics including polyethylene terephthalate (PET), silk, cotton and mixed cotton-silk woven fabrics are treated under different operating conditions. Treated fabrics were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, water contact angle and absorption time measurement as a function of storage time after treatment. The atomic species in SF6 plasma were analyzed by optical emission spectroscopy (OES), while the chemical compositions on fabric surface were also investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The OES and XPS results show spectrum lines of F I in SF6 plasma and peaks of F 1s on sample surface, respectively. We expected that the change of fabric hydrophobicity is resulted from both surface etching and deposition of C-F residue on the fabrics fibers.


To facilitate the use of TIP in circuit implementation, effects of technology scaling on temperature independence point (TIP) in MOS transistor are discussed in this paper. Under technology scaling, location of TIP moves closer to threshold voltage (VT) of a device and starts to appear in PMOS instead of NMOS. Such observations will be explained together with other reported observations (Hisamitsu et al, 2003) in this paper through studying the physics behind TIP


abstract: Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is an essential Vitamin which participates in many different biological processes. The ascorbic acid content in vegetables and fruits is a maturity index and its determination in such samples is of special interest in quality control. In this paper we present a titrimetric method with potassium bromide for the determination of ascorbic acid in walnut, cabbage and some herbs. For determination of ascorbic acid we used titrimetric method with potassium brommat-bromide solution in the acid medium. Ascorbic acid, C6H8O6 is cleanly oxidized to dehydroascorbic acid by bromine. Ascorbic acid is instable and his preservation depends on the way and on the time duration of the storage. The different ways of storage of the vegetable products leads to the different preservation of ascorbic acid into the samples.


ROFIQ SUNARYANTO. Isolation, Purification, Identification, and Fermentation Medium Optimization of Antibiotic Produced by Marine Actinomycetes. Under direction of TUN TEDJA IRAWADI, ZAINAL ALIM MAS'UD, LIESBETINI HARTOTO, BAMBANG MARWOTO. Isolation and purification of active compounds produced by marine actinomycetes has been carried out. Marine sediment samples were obtained from 3 different places in Banten West Coast, Cirebon North Coast, and Yogyakarta South Coasts. A total of 40 actinomycetes isolates were obtained 4 isolates were active against Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, 5 isolates were active against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC25923, 4 isolates were active against Bacillus subtilis ATCC 66923, 4 isolates were active against Pseudomonas aeroginosa ATCC27853, 4 isolates were active against Candida albican BIOMCC00122, and 4 isolates were active against Aspergillus niger BIOMCC00134. A11 isolate showed the most active to Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Species identification using 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that A11 isolate is Streptomyces sp. Elucidation of its molecular formula and structure using LC-MS, H NMR, C NMR, and C DEPT NMR showed the antibiotic was cyclo(tyrosyl-prolyl), molecule formula was C14H16N2O3 which has a melting point of 140 °C. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of the antibiotic was determined against 4 bacterial test strains, namely Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, and Bacillus subtilis ATCC 66923, which were inhibited at 27, 69, 80, and 74 μg mL, respectively. Fermentation profile of Streptomyces sp. A11 showed a lag phase which occurred until 8 hours, a log phase from 9 until 48 hours and a stationary phase from 48 until 144 hours. The growth phase showed maximum specific growth rate (μ ) of 0.04 hour and the rate of substrate conversion into biomass (Y ) of 0.6 max -1 x/s gram biomass per gram substrate. The optimum temperature and pH of cyclo(tyrosyl-prolyl) fermentation were 30 °C and 6.5-7.5, respectively. Optimum composition of fermentation medium was determined with three independent variables: dextrin as a carbon source, peptone as nitrogen source, and a mixture of mineral salts using Response Surface Methodology. The results showed that the three variables significantly affected the activity of cyclo(tyrosylprolyl). Peptone gave the strongest effect compared to dextrin and mineral salts. Interaction was found between dextrin and peptone. On the contrary, no interaction was observed between peptone and mineral salts, and between dextrin and mineral salts. Using a mathematical model, the most optimum composition of the medium were found to be dextrin (32.55 g L ), peptone (11.22 g L ), and -1 -1 mineral salt (8.65 mL), in which 51.54 g L cyclo(tyrosyl-prolyl) was produced. -1 Verification of the model in laboratory showed the cyclo(tyrosyl-prolyl) activity to be 50.04 mg L . Thus, the difference between the result of the experiment and -1 the expected response value was 2.9%.


In recent years pulse magnetic welding technology gained an ever increasing attention. The process was known for over 40 years, yet the poor knowledge of process parameters as well as the difficulties concerning the calculability of the process due to lack of adequate software, performance and appropriate material models hindered the application of the technology. In the past, some simulations treating the process of explosive welding were conducted. There, the assumption was made to define a friction condition to the boundary regions which was reasonable due to similar conditions in the collision region during the process. However, at pulse magnetic welding processes, the contact forces are highly transient and have big gradients over the geometry. In this paper a new empirical approach is presented, which gives the possibility of modelling the welding process by parameter-controlled bonding at the welding interface. The pulse magnetic forming process was simulated by loose coupling of electromagnetic and mechanical FEM software with the commercial code ANSYS. As geometry the joining of a duct with an internally positioned conical bolt was chosen. The material used for both duct and bolt was EN AW 6063. First of all the influences of heat generation were analyzed. Therefore, the additional thermal simulation was coupled with the electromagnetic and the mechanical simulation. The heat generation caused by the plastic deformation was considered. As the resulting temperatures were below the melting temperature of the material, further simulations were carried out without thermal simulation. In order to calibrate the welding model, a set of relevant parameters were defined. It included the cumulative plastic work, the plastic deformation in collision direction, the normal and the tangential components of the collision velocity and the collision angle between the two parts. By comparing the simulation with experiments carried out at the same specific process parameters, it was possible to reduce the set of parameters to the normal collision velocity and plastic deformation. Based on their distribution, the parameter control of the bonding condition could be adjusted. Further experiments gave a high accordance to the simulations carried out with the parameters found for this model.


Entendiendo que entrenar no siempre significa alcanzar la independencia funcional para un adulto mayor (AM), ni desentrenar perderla, se crearon 4 categorias para valorar el efecto a largo plazo de un programa multicomponente fisico-cognitivo sobre el nivel de independencia en sus usuarios. Se evaluaron 25 AM sanos (69.74±5.36 anos) a lo largo de dos anos, considerando 2 periodos de Entrenamiento (E1, E2; 8 meses cada uno) y Desentrenamiento (D1, D2; 3 meses + 1 de evaluacion). Se analizo la agilidad ( Time UpG 8 months each one) and detraining (D1, D2; 3 months + 1 of testing). Agility ( Time Up&Go Test ) was analysed because of its relationship with gait and fall-prevention. The exact Fisher's test was considered to analzse between-period category changes, followed by a Repeated Measures ANOVA, to compare the results in both approaches. Although agility showed significant improvements following training, larger in T1 compared to T2, the percentage of independent participants was higher in T2. In terms of detraining, paired comparison showed larger losses during D2. However, more than half of participants reached the physical independence during this second period. Both analyses are complementary and clarify the long-term benefits of this training program for the agility of the elderly population.


Linking Islamic Commercial and Social Finance with Special Reference to Cash-Waqf as New Strategy of Interest-Free Micro-Credit for Family Empowerment of the Poor Towards Establishing World Social Bank: A Case Study Approach


The article reports on a study of approximately 500 U.K. learned societies. An initial discussion is given of the histori cal and present-day roles of learned societies and current per ceptions of the relative roles of commercial and learned society publishers. Characteristics of age, size and subject of U.K. learned societies are presented. The main focus of the paper is on the extent and nature of cooperation between learned society and other publishers. Some 30 per cent of U.K. learned societies cooperate with publishiers, to a much larger extent in science and technology than in the arts and humanities. The nature of cooperative arrangements varies markedly but can be broadly classified into: marketing and distribution; 'commission'; profit-sharing; no payment to the society. There is considerable disparity in the deals achieved by societies, particularly between the last two groups men tioned. Most cooperating societies are satisfied with their cur rent relationships, although a number of societies have changed publishers, and over 20 societies who once cooper ated no longer do so. Agreement documents are rarely suffi ciently clear and unambiguous to give confidence in their interpretation. Societies' and publishers' opinions on coopera tion vary markedly and help to illustrate the different percep tions of their roles in journal publishing.


It is very important to estimate the flow and deformation behaviour of fresh concrete at the stages of mixing, transporting, placing, consolidating etc. to obtain good performance of concrete works. However, analytical methods to predict the behaviour of fresh concrete are not well established, and there are few theoretical studies to clarify the properties of fresh concrete subjected to vibration1,2


The effect of bromide concentration, ozone dosage, and biotreatment on the control of disinfection by-products (DBPs) was evaluated. Although total trihalomethane precursors were better controlled by ozonation and the precursors of six haloacetic acids were better controlled by biological treament, the combined processes were effective for the control of all halogenated DBP precursors. Ozone's conversion of bromide to bromate and the chemical or biological oxidation of organic matter changed the ratio of bromide to dissolved organic carbon. Increases in this ratio increased the formation of some brominated DBPs, but these DBP increases were offset by the precursor oxidation provided by the combination of the two processes.


Latex from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is separated into the rubber cream, the clear aqueous phase (C-serum), and the sediment, which consists mainly of vacuole-like organelles called lutoids by high-speed centrifugation. The fluid content of the latter, known as B-serum has drawn attention for many years, owing to its hydrolytic enzymes and pathogenesis-related proteins. A number of these proteins were also pursued in latex allergy studies. [beta]-glucosidase is among the first hydrolases detected in the H. brasiliensis latex B-serum. It is in the leaf tissue, however, that a [beta]-glucosidase was first isolated and purified. Besides [beta]-monoglucosides, this enzyme from Hevea leaves cleaves a wide range of indigenous heteroglycosides including coniferin and cyanoglucosides (linamarin and lataustralin) indicating a possible role in lignification and cyanogenesis. Accordingly it is given the name cyanogenic glycosidase (linamarase). In cassava, hydrolysis of cyanoglucosides by linamarase produces cyanohydrins and glucose. Subsequent breakdown of cyanohydrins either spontaneous or by an a-hydroxynitrile lyase releases a ketone and hydrogen cyanide (HCN), which among others has a role in plant defense. Likewise, the H. brasiliensis linamarase has been implicated in the resistance against South American Leaf Blight, a devastating disease caused by the pathogenic fungi Microcyclus ulei. The present study is aimed at isolating, identifying and characterising a cyanogenic [beta]-glucosidase in the B-serum, as well as cloning and sequencing of its transcript in H. brasiliensis latex. (Resume d'auteur)


The invention provides an image processing device, an image processing method, and a solid-state imaging device. According to an embodiment, a high dynamic range synthesizing unit synthesizes first image signal and second image signal. A main control exposure value calculating unit calculates a main control exposure value based on a signal designated as a main control signal between the first image signal and the second image signal. A sub-control exposure value calculating unit multiplies the main control exposure value by a high dynamic range magnification and sets the multiplication result as a sub-control exposure value for a sub-control signal. The sub-control signal causes the main control signal to follow lightness adjustment.


Co-crystallization of the antibacterial agents proflavine and methyl viologen with the inorganic salts CuCl, CuCl2 and AgNO3 results in enhanced antimicrobial activity with respect to the separate components.


I applaud R Whitley for his thought-provoking essay.1

Such comparisons are not so hard to understand as they may appear at first glance. All religions aim to help individuals at times of need, to act as comfort in good times and bad, and provide guidance (if not always direct help). A role not unfamiliar to patients' expectations of the modern medic, I think many would agree.

Just like religion, medicine has changed through the ages. Just like religion, it shall continue to do so.

The important realization for us professionals is the responsibility bestowed upon us by being held in such esteem. When religious leaders are caught in the wrong, much questioning and anger tends to follow.

Many patients have similar expectations of doctors. Psychiatry stands at an extreme end of the spectrum – here patients may be deemed 'hopeless' and 'rejected by all'. Their ailments baffle many people – we cannot see and many cannot understand what is wrong. Science provides relatively few easy answers.

It is not so hard to understand the parallels drawn between 'psychiatrists' and 'priests' – patients turning to them for help at the time of their greatest need.

Yet with such responsibility comes great demands – on all medics, especially psychiatrists, must try their upmost to uphold.


One of the main constraints in Aloe vera production is poor information about optimum nutrients that are helpful for growth and production. The objective of this study was to optimize nutrient solution for Aloe vera cultivation in soilless culture. Therefore, to determine the best nutrients the experiment was conducted in a greenhouse during 2011 in the Agricultural Faculty, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran (37 °16 ′N). Experimental design was a completely randomized with three replications and each replication contained ten pots. Aloe (A. vera L.) sprouts were irrigated with nutrient solution containing different level of NO3, NH4 and potassium starting from March and harvesting took place during September. The research indicated that nutrient solution with the highest level of nitrogen increased Aloe vegetative growth without any negative effect on qualitative indices including Aloin, total phenol, total antioxidative activity and element contents; it was possible to produce the highest level of vegetative growth in Aloe vera.


In this lecture, we examine the dynamics of suspensions of mesoscopic (Brownian) particles in a molecular fluid, starting from first principles. We introduce the technique of multiple time-scales to derive the Fokker–Planck equation for a single, or for a set of interacting Brownian particles, starting from the Liouville equation for the full system (Brownian particles and discrete bath). The limitations of the Fokker–Planck equation will then be emphasized. In particular, we shall point out that under "standard" experimental conditions, the Fokker–Planck description cannot be correct and that non-Markovian effects are expected. A microscopic description in the true experimental limit confirms this breakdown and leads to a "generalized" (non-Markovian and non-local in velocity space) Fokker–Planck equation, which describes the thermalization of the Brownian particle.


Since the modern times,Beijing was China's political center most of the time.So compared with other industry and commerce developed cities,the prohibition of prostitutes could not result in severe social turmoil.So in the early stage of P.R.C,Beijing closed all brothels and offered accommodation,education,transformation and arrangement for the prostitutes and its success exerted great influence both home and abroad.In this process,Beijing accumulated a lot of experiences in educational style,discrimination from brothel managing members and ordinary prostitutes and social mobilization.


Roughly a century after Okakura Tenshin made his historic journey to India and published his classic The Ideals of the East , visions of Asian community and Asian renaissance have evolved in directions that Okakura could never have imagine. The complex crosscurrents in Japan's contemporary Asianism reflect the economic and political, as well as cultural, complexities of the twenty-first century world. This chapter discusses four commentators approach on Japan's role in Asia from varied perspectives shaped in part by their differing backgrounds and experiences. All four commentators emphasize the need for Japan to undertake the task which might be termed 'escaping from America' ( datsu-Bei ); all agree on the need for Japan to engage more closely with Asia and depict that close engagement in terms both of formal international relations and of informal human relationships. But within this shared vision of Japan's Asian future there are also profound differences of perspective. Keywords: America; Asian community; Japan; Okakura Tenshin


Introduction A high frequency of cognitive and behavioural disturbances has been reported in preterm children. It is not known if this affects the children's apperceptions or behaviours during dent ...


Based on the study of the origin,the situation of the science and technology services cooperation and the existing cooperation models of Guangdong and Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Corridor,this paper analyzed the problems of service cooperation model between Guangdong and Hong Kong,and then gave some suggestions such as promoting government- led model vigorously,fully implementing university- industry cooperation model,and actively promoting market spontaneous cooperation.


SummaryA case of reticulum cell sarcoma of the kidney producing a clinical picture of renal failure and brain damage presented two particular features : 1) extensive ha:matogenous dissemination; 2) association with progressive multifocal leuco-encephal opathy.


By June 2015, the Turks will have gone to the ballot box three times in a span of fifteen months: local polls in March 2014, the presidential race in August 2014, and parliamentary elections next June 2015. Turkey's ruling Islamists, under the roof of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkmma Partisi, AKP), are probably heading for their ninth electoral victory in thirteen years. But in the longer term, a simple win may not suffice to keep afloat this coalition of Islamists, conservatives, Sunni supremacists, business cronies, and liberals. AKP's ambitions go beyond winning elections, and although it remains the most powerful political grouping in Turkey, with its votes now possibly at a saturation point, the party may be vulnerable to potential externalities. For now, Turks seem to have ignored the worst corruption scandal in their political history,1 but there are no guarantees that they will keep the stunning events of last December out of their memories forever.2A Family FeudSomething "Nordic," i.e., political transparency and lack of tolerance for nepotism and corruption, appeared briefly in the notoriously corrupt Crescent and Star in December 2013. Along with nearly fifty other high-profile suspects, police arrested the sons of three cabinet ministers, including that of the interior minister, on charges of corruption.3 But a few hours later, everything was back to normal: Five police chiefs in charge of the operation, along with dozens of other officers whom government bigwigs thought may have been their accomplices, had been removed from duty.4Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his nomenklatura rarely disappoint. After the first shock, they announced their verdict on the affair: The arrested were innocent before trial. They had not even examined any of the prosecution's evidence which, by law, must be secret until court proceedings open. But they were certain that the investigation was the work of the clandestine network operated by the powerful Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his men in the police force and judiciary.5 Once the best of allies, Gulen, in self-exile in rural Pennsylvania, and Erdogan had openly clashed earlier in 2013 over what looked like a power-sharing matter.6 Gulen, whose Hizmet movement runs hundreds of charter schools in the United States and more than eighty other countries, had his men systematically running up the ladders of Turkey's bureaucracy under Erdogan's nod. Ideological differences and the Gulen network's "dangerous rise to power" had already begun to unnerve Erdogan in 2011. Last year, AKP passed legislation to close down all private tutorial schools in Turkey. A quarter of those schools belonged to Hizmet.7The police officers involved in the affair were removed from duty one by one, but that was not the end of Erdogan's troubles. Unknown sources began to upload recordings of telephone conversations to various social media platforms- conversations that in any decent country could cause a public uproar and bring the collapse of any government. The recordings detailed how Erdogan controlled the media; how his business cronies donated vast amounts of money to his son's foundation; how the son, despite orders from Erdogan, was unable to get rid of stacks of cash he kept at his home; and how Erdogan ordered businessmen to buy newspapers or to sack journalists.8 Erdogan denied any wrongdoing and claimed that all the audio material on the Internet was a "montage."9 Thousands of pages of evidence the police had produced after several months of technical and physical surveillance were all declared bogus and the work of dark forces.By March 2014, Erdogan was clearly nervous as his former and powerful friend had now become a powerful foe. Gulen's men were knocking on every door in the Anatolian heartland, a traditional Erdogan stronghold, to convince voters not to vote for a corrupt man.10 About ten days before the elections, senior Hizmet figures privately claimed that Erdogan's vote would drop to around 35 percent, from nearly 50 percent in 2011. …


Several empirical challenges arise in estimating the health status of racial/ethnic populations and especially African Americans. African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of sub-Saharan Africa. There are racial/ethnic health disparities that appear to result from genetics, environment, and access to health care and cultural preferences. African Americans have higher relative morbidity and mortality rates than other racial/ethnic groups in the United States across all health areas: chronic disease, communicable disease, injury, and child health. A further indication of health disparity is that the average life expectancy for European Americans in 2007 was 4.8 years greater than for African Americans. However, the difference was down from 5.5 years in 2000. African Americans account for a higher proportion of HIV infections at all stages of the disease from new infections to deaths. The number of new HIV/AIDS cases in African Americans is slowly decreasing. In conclusion, on a relative basis, the health of African Americans is not good, but the good news is that their health is improving.

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African American;
disease;
ethnicity and culture;
health;
United States of America


n order to deal with complex as well as uncertain information, in this paper, we introduce fuzzy data into nested relational database model, where data fuzziness appears in forms of possibility distribution and resemblance relations in the universe of discourse. We present the structure of fuzzy nested relational model and define the algebra for manipulating fuzzy and complex data.


Talent is the first essence in future economy,talent training in enterprise has been the key existing and developing strategy in Knowledge Economy.This article analyses and brings up new thoughts and countermeasures of contingent construction of archives of enterprise in new era from the angles of en- terprise profit,knowledge—information—enterprise's archives,modernization management,knowledge management,enterprise development,etc.


Abstract : The document gives a response to the question on how to protect civil defense equipment in the condition of nuclear war. Various methods and types of equipment are used to solve the problems of civil defense in order to avoid massive losses of equipment and vehicles in a nuclear war. (Author)


Kyai Langgeng Park is one of most important assets in Magelang city. This tourist attraction is the one and only tourist spot with the conceptof city park and provides various rare and half rare plans, various kind of animals supported with some half facilities such as 33 rides and 12 meeting place. Kyai Langgeng park also well known as �recreation, sport and study� area with market targfeting of in large numbers as visitors.
As the one and only different tourist attraction in Magelang city, Kyai Langgeng Park is supposed to be managed with a correct marketing activity in order to increase the number of tourist each year. The condition of tourist number, increase of decrease, may affect Kyai Langgeng�s Park income.
The research methods used ini this study is a method of combination or mixed-method. Mixed-method combined quantitative and qualitative methods in sequence. Quantitative methods used in sampling as the initial determination of the respondent members and then used qualitative methods to describe the findings data.
This research finds that as for the last years, the condition of tourist visiting Kyai Langgeng Park is unstable and the target is not achieved. The attraction has its high season condition on June, because of school holiday. Marketing strategy implented by Kyai Langgeng Park are put different and superior product, making multi-trip ticket, give discounts to tourist group, making different price for the game, using distribution channels both direct and indirect, promotion and seeking quality of human resource.


This paper is on the compressive stress-strain behavior of unreinforced concrete under elevated temperatures from fire. Relationships are developed for the temperature-dependent compressive strength, elastic modulus, strain at peak stress, and ultimate strain of concrete by conducting a comprehensive multiple least squares regression analysis on the existing experimental data, including the effects of aggregate type, test type, and compressive strength at room temperature. These relationships are then used to produce predictive compressive stress-strain models for concrete under fire. High-strength and normal-strength concrete with normal-weight as well as light-weight North American aggregates are considered in the study. Unlike previous models, creep deformations are not included in the proposed models, resulting in baseline relationships to which time-dependent creep strains can be explicitly added in the future. It is shown that the relationships developed provide a good statistical fit to the available experimental data.


Aerial images for isolated defects and the interactions of defects with features are compared between the Actinic Inspection Tool (AIT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the fast EUV simulation program RADICAL. Comparisons between AIT images from August 2007 and RADICAL simulations are used to extract aberrations. At this time astigmatism was the dominant aberration with a value of 0.55 waves RMS. Significant improvements in the imaging performance of the AIT were made between August 2007 and December 2008. A good match will be shown between the most recent AIT images and RADICAL simulations without aberrations. These comparisons will demonstrate that a large defect, in this case 7nm tall on the surface, is still printable even if it is centered under the absorber line. These comparisons also suggest that the minimum defect size is between 1.5nm and 0.8nm surface height because a 1.5nm defect was printable but a 0.8nm was not. Finally, the image of a buried defect near an absorber line through focus will demonstrate an inversion in the effect of the defect from a protrusion of the dark line into the space to a protrusion of the space into the line.


Clos networks of large dimension built with optoelectronic matrices are analysed from performance measures recently reported. Networks serving over one thousand lines appear to be possible with current technology for a data rate of 1 Gb/s and bit error rate of 10/sup -12/. Optoelectronic matrices offer sufficient size and flexibility that these networks can be optimised for minimal numbers of crosspoints. >


The dynamic system simulation and the control design process of the new developed bearingless rotating-field axial-force/torque motor (AFTM) requires an augmented state-space framework for mathematical system description. After a short summary of this framework, the main focus of this paper concentrates on the model parameterization using state-of-the-art drive gauging procedures. A direct comparison features minor deviations between magnetostatic finite element analysis simulation results and available measurement data. Moreover, a closed-loop control concept for concurrent axial position stabilization and vector drive control of AFTMs is proposed. The quality of the closed-loop control system simulation is reviewed using relevant measurements of the functional prototype. A presentation of the disassembled prototype and a summary of its performance data concludes this paper.


Desk top digital computers are widely used for data reduction and statistical analysis in radioisotope studies. Typical of these is the Olivetti Programma 101 (P101). This self-contained machine performs the basic arithmetic operations and the determination of spuare roots in response to programmed instructions. In addition to the three operating memories of 22 digits in which the arithmetic is performed, there is a numeric storage capacity of five memories of 22 digits or ten memories of 11 digits. This later facility is referred to as a split memory. The basic program capacity is a set of 48 instructions which are stored in two memories which cannot be addressed for data. The number of program instructions can be increased up to a maximum of 120, by using three of the five available numeric storage memories. The program instructions are written using the self-contained, manually operated keyboard, and can be recorded for future use on a magnetic card. The data are entered using this keyboard. The output...


The electrochemical kinetic behaviour of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on PdPt alloy nanocubes of various composition is investigated in 0.1 M KOH and 0.1 M HClO4 solutions adopting the rotating disk electrode (RDE) configuration. The PdPt nanocubes are prepared in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone and identified by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM micrographs reveal that the PdPt alloy nanoparticles have preferential cubic-shape and the average particle size is ca. 8-10 nm. CO-stripping and cyclic voltammetry (CV) experiments are used for electrochemical cleaning and characterisation of metal nanoparticles. The CV responses indicate alloy formation. In acid media, Pd36Pt64 shows the highest specific activity (SA) for ORR from the alloyed catalysts studied, but this activity is similar to that found with Pt and Pd nanocubes. However, in alkaline solution, the SA value for Pd72Pt28 is about two times higher than that of Pd and Pt nanocubes. The mechanistic pathway of O2 reduction on PdPt alloy nanocubes is analogous to that of pure Pd and Pt catalysts and the ORR proceeds via a 4-electron pathway in both electrolyte solutions.


Background Modifying attentional processes with attentional bias modification (ABM) might be a relevant add‐on to treatment in addiction. This study investigated whether influencing cortical plasticity with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could increase training effects. tDCS could also help alcohol‐dependent patients to overcome craving and reduce relapse, independent of training. These approaches were combined to investigate effects in the treatment of alcoholism. Methods Ninety‐eight patients (analytical sample = 83) were randomly assigned to 4 groups in a 2‐by‐2 factorial design. Patients received 4 sessions of ABM (control or real training) combined with 2 mA tDCS (active: 20 minutes or sham: 30 seconds) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Alcohol bias and craving were assessed, and treatment outcome was measured as relapse after 1 year. Results Attentional bias scores indicated that during the training only the group with active tDCS and real ABM displayed an overall avoidance bias (p < 0.05). From pre‐ to postassessment, there were no main or interaction effects of tDCS and ABM on the bias scores, craving, or relapse (p > 0.2). However, effects on relapse after active tDCS were in the expected direction. Conclusions There was no evidence of a beneficial effect of tDCS or ABM or the combination. Whether the absence of effect was due to issues with the outcome measurements (e.g., lack of craving, high dropout, and unreliable measurements) or aspects of the intervention should be further investigated.


A phase 2, single-blinded, randomized, multicentre trial was conducted to compare recovery times from anaesthesia between patients induced with a new short-acting benzodiazepine Ro 48-6791 (Hoffman-La Roche, Sydney, N.S. W.) or propofol. Seventy-six patients were randomly allocated to receive either Ro 48-6791 or propofol for induction followed by a standardized anaesthetic. Alertness and ambulatory function during recovery were scored by a rater blinded to treatment group. Mean time to awakening was longer for the Ro 48-6791 group (15 min), compared with propofol (7 min, P<0.001), as was mean time to full clinical recovery (116 min vs 75 min respectively, P=0.002). Both groups showed similar cardiovascular stability following induction, but shorter apnoea times were demonstrated for Ro 48-6791 (48s vs 133, P<0.001). The longer recovery times with Ro 48-6791 would make this drug a less suitable sole induction agent than propofol for routine use in day stay surgery. Further studies of Ro 48-6791 should pay particular attention to the effect of dose reduction on recovery profile.


Abstract The nonabelian tensor square and the Schur multiplicator are determined for arbitrary groups of class 2 in a closed form. A functorial description is given in terms of a polynomial quotient of the integral group ring, as well as a more explicit formula for finite groups which can be evaluated by matrix calculus. This is carried out for 2-generator groups. Also some homotopical data of the suspended classifying space of class 2 groups are derived. The approach is based on the use of polynomial maps and constructions in the sense of Passi.


At present, adequate mathematical tools are not used to analyze the arrangement of components in arrays of naturally ordered data of a different nature, including words or letters in texts, notes in musical compositions, symbols in sign sequences, monitoring data, numbers representing ordered measurement results, components in genetic texts. Therefore, it is difficult or impossible to measure and compare the order of messages allocated in long information chains. The main approaches for comparing symbol sequences are using probabilistic models and statistical tools, pairwise and multiple alignment, which makes it possible to determine the degree of similarity of sequences using edit distance measures. The application of pseudospectral and fractal representation of symbolic sequences is somewhat exotic. "The curse of a priori unconscious knowledge" of the obvious orderliness of the sequence should be especially noticed, as it is widespread in mathematical linguistics, bioinformatics (mathematical biology), and other similar fields of science. The noted approaches almost do not pay attention to the study and detection of the patterns of the specific arrangement of all symbols, words, and components of data sets that constitute a separate sequence. The object of study in our works is a specifically organized numerical tuple – the arrangement of components (order) in symbolic or numerical sequence. The intervals between the closest identical components of the order are used as the basis for the quantitative representation of the chain arrangement. Multiplying all the intervals or summing their logarithms allows one to get numbers that uniquely reflect the arrangement of components in a particular sequence. These numbers, allow us to obtain a whole set of normalized characteristics of the order, among which the geometric mean interval and its logarithm. Such characteristics surprisingly accurately reflect the arrangement of the components in the symbolic sequences. In this paper, we present an approach for quantitative comparing the arrangement of arrays of naturally ordered data (information chains) of an arbitrary nature. The measures of similarity/distinction and procedure of comparison of the chain order, based on the selection of a list of equal and similar by the order characteristics of the subsequences (components), are proposed. Rank distributions are used for faster selection of a list of matching components. The paper presents a toolkit for comparing the order of information chains and demonstrates some of its applications for studying the structure of nucleotide sequences.


Fine-grained data integrity check to forensic copies can mitigate the disaster effect on the data by some random errors or intentional forging modification.An electronic evidence dispersing storage method is designed with the extra ability of fault tolerance.The idea is to improve their fault tolerance under the premise of ensuring the integrity of electronic evidence.The method distributes the electronic evidence to(p + q) data blocks.It generates fewer hash data to check the integrity of sub-blocks using the integrity indication code.In the case of no more than q error data blocks,it makes validity assessment in a fast check and recovers the original data.In the case of(q +e)(0ep) error data blocks,if each column of the error mapping matrix is not less than e elements of the value of 0,the original data is also recovered.The basic performance of the method is analyzed.The conclusion shows that adding a little additional hash data is able to obtain better data recovery effect.The method further enhances the fault tolerance and reliability of electronic evidence.


Various embodiments of digital control systems and docking stations are described. In one embodiment, a digital control system includes an electronic device which has a rear side and an opposite front side, at which a display of the electronic device can be viewed. The system also includes a body for supporting the electronic device. A lowered portion is formed in the body from an upper surface of the body, and the electronic device is positioned within the depressed region, so that the rear side of the electronic device fits completely into the depressed region and the front side of the electronic device is substantially flush with a portion of a top surface of the body, which surrounds the depressed region. An opening can be at least partially formed by the depressed portion for receiving a cable assembly which is operable to connect to the electronic device. An elongated cutout can be formed, which extends from an opening to an edge or edge surface of the body, and is so measured that an insulated wire of the cable assembly may extend from the opening to the edge or edge surface of the body.


Effects of barbiturates have been linked to the inhibitory GABAA receptor in the brain. The present study examines changes in the expression of GABAA receptor in the hippocampus of pentobarbital treated rat. Intraperitoneal pentobarbital injections were administered once daily for 9 days at an increasing dose schedule, 30 mg/kg at day 1–3, 60 mg/kg day 4–6, and 90 mg/kg day 7–9. Within each of the three dosage periods, the duration of sleep and extent of reduction in body temperature of the rats decreased with time. Two hours after the 9th injection, 3H‐muscimol binding of the hippocampal homogenates of the animals showed that the maximal number of binding sites (Bmax), 10.2 ± 1.6 pmol/mg protein, was not significantly greater than 9.5 ± 1.2 of saline control, but strikingly about 7‐fold control level of β1 mRNA was seen in the pyramidal cells of CA1 and CA2, as revealed by in situ hybridization analysis with digoxigenin‐cRNA probes. However, when the rats were withdrawn from pentobarbital injection for 24 hours and 7 days, the Bmax of the hippocampi was lowered to 7.3 ± 1.0 and 5.1 ± 0.7, respectively, and the expression of β1 mRNA in CA1–2 returned toward control. The pentobarbital treatment did not significantly alter the affinity of the radioligand to the receptor in the hippocampus and the expression of β1 mRNA in CA3 and CA4. The results suggest the plasticity of the β1 mRNA in CA1–2 as well as differential involvement of CA1–2 and CA3–4 in response to the pentobarbital perturbation. Synapse 29:371–378, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Classical alternating direction (AD) and fractional step (FS) methods for parabolic equations, based on some standard implicit time-stepping procedure such as Crank–Nicolson, can have errors associated with the AD or FS perturbations that are much larger than the errors associated with the underlying time-stepping procedure. We show that minor modifications in the AD and FS procedures can virtually eliminate the perturbation errors at an additional computational cost that is less than 10% of the cost of the original AD or FS method. Moreover, after these modifications, the AD and FS procedures produce identical approximations of the solution of the differential problem. It is also shown that the same perturbation of the Crank–Nicolson procedure can be obtained with AD and FS methods associated with the backward Euler time-stepping scheme. An application of the same concept is presented for second-order wave equations.


The multidisciplinary approach to the study of metals which we are proposing includes the modernization of the curricular content and its connection with everyday life. The use of additional teaching material in elementary schools in rural and urban areas in the wider region of the city of Niš has contributed to increased interest and activities on the part of the schoolchildren, which has in turn led to a significant quantitative improvement in their knowledge of chemistry in general, but also of metals in particular. All of the schoolchildren achieved a satisfactory level of knowledge (>50%) following the implementation of the expanded curriculum.


The invention discloses a digital photo frame based on a telephone network. The digital photo frame comprises a microprocessor, an audio and video encoding and decoding processor, a display screen, a memory, a network connecting card and a data connecting port. The network connecting card is connected with the data connecting port, is connected with a network server through the telephone network, and based on the telephone network, transmits audio and video data. As long as a user operates the digital photo frame, the network server can be connected based on the telephone network and the audio and video data can be transmitted, therefore, user operation is simple, network connection and data transmission of the digital photo frame are realized based on the telephone network in the prior art, the cost of the digital photo frame is decreased, and promotion and application of the digital photo frame based on the telephone network are facilitated.


The hydrogen bond interaction is an important stabilizing interaction present in many kinds of molecular systems, from small water clusters to the big DNA molecule. The study of the specific case of the intramolecular hydrogen bond (IHB) is of special interest because of the important role of this kind of interaction in internal hydrogen transfer processes, photodynamic behavior and structural conformation. The β-dicarbonyl family of molecules is a unique model system with relatively small amount of degrees of freedom and where all the processes just mentioned are clearly present. The main aim of this work is to study the link between the isotopic and electronic structure of β-dicarbonyl molecules (model IHB system) with the strength of intramolecular hydrogen bond, selectivity on the photoisomerization process and coupling of hydrogen transfer with other large amplitude motions. Experiments are supported with quantum chemical calculations. Four molecules from the β-diketone family (double deuterated acetylacetone, 3-chloroacetylacetone, hexafluoroacetylacetone and trifluoroacetylacetone) and one from the β-dialdehyde (2-chloromalonaldehyde) are studied in low temperature inert environments by means of electronic and vibrational spectroscopy (FT-IR and Raman). Neon and para-hydrogen were mainly used as host matrices allowing clear spectroscopic analysis. The β-dicarbonyl molecules can be present in two tautomeric forms: keto and enol, but the latter largely predominates in the gas phase, and as a consequence, in the deposited isolated samples. Eight different enol conformers can exist, but the one with intramolecular hydrogen bond (chelated enol) is the most stable. The enol conformers can be divided in four pairs in which each couple shares the same skeletal structure and differs only in the hydroxyl conformation.In the deposited sample of all the molecules under study, the closed enolic conformer was found as the most stable species. The influence of the environment and the hydrogen bond strength on spectroscopic variables like bandwidth, intensity and frequency position are discussed. Experimental evidence of Nuclear Spin Conversion process in para-hydrogen matrix of the closed enol form of double deuterated acetylacetone was also found. Different open enol conformers were produced in each system after UV laser excitation. The open enol conformers show different energy ordering for each halogenated analog because of the existence of specific non covalent interactions, as revealed by theoretical calculations. Nevertheless, in all cases, the produced conformers are the most stable conformers of their enolic pairs. This is explained by a tunneling driven process in the hydroxyl hydrogen, as observed experimentally in deuterated isotopologues. From the experimental results we proposed a general mechanism to explain the photoisomerization in these systems. On the other hand, helium droplets technique was also used to allow recording valuable spectroscopic information (ro-vibrational spectrum) about strong and weak complexes in inert media. The role of water as donor or acceptor proton species in a complex can easily change by an imbalance of the interaction forces at play. Preliminary results about the intermolecular hydrogen bonded system propyne-water in helium droplets are presented.


ABSTRAKSI The impact of the growing number of unemployed and supported by the higher poverty rates resulted in one heart to do evil and the economic pressure many people who take shortcuts by any means to earn money, so that this problem causes to grow and increased racketeering practices that causing a lot of problems and concerns for the community. Police in this regard relates to its function as a protector of the public has a very big role in the response to the thuggery. Police were so close to the people expected to take appropriate action in addressing the phenomenon of gangsterism in the community.


This text results from an investigation on knowledges and practices of teachers of the initial series of Fundamental Education and their use of the school municipal atlas. We have sought in this study to inspect closely the teaching practices of two teachers of the fourth grade of Fundamental Education in a state school of the city of Limeira, State of Sao Paulo. The article seeks to identify processes that structure and characterize the actions of these teachers with the use of theme pages and school maps of the municipal atlas, focusing particularly not so much on the forms of construction of knowledge with the atlas, but on the basis of the knowledge and on which knowledges help to structure the teaching situations promoted by the teachers with the use of these didactic materials in the classroom. Making use of methodological foundations of a qualitative approach to educational research, we reached the conclusion that the knowledges of these teachers about cartographical facts have their origins in the daily experience of their teaching work; they involve knowledges that come from the contact with other experienced teachers; from images and memories of the time when they themselves were students; and from the use of textbooks. We observed with the subjects of this investigation that the atlas gives rise in the school context to stimulating teaching and learning processes, in the sense of dealing with local problems experienced both by teachers and by pupils.


Abstract. Daru TP, Sunaryo W, Pagoray H, Suhardi, Mayulu H, Ibrahim, Safitri A. 2023. Diversity, nutrient contents and production of forage plants in an integrated cattle livestock-oil palm plantation in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 24: 1981-1989. The integration of cattle livestock rearing into oil palm plantations delivers various benefits. The livestock management can reduce the weeds and add organic nutrients to the plantations, while the understorey vegetation grow under the oil palm trees can be used as forage for the livestock. Several studies reported that the age of oil palm plantations affects forage production in integrated cattle livestock palm oil plantations. From an ecological standpoint, the diversity of plant species and the level of forage production varies based on the age of the oil palm trees. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the diversity, composition, nutrient contents, forage production and carrying capacity of understorey vegetation in oil palm plantations at different ages of 3, 7, and 10 years in Paser District, East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. A total of 29 plant species from 13 families were found under oil palm plantations, of which 14 species (48.27%) are palatable to cattle livestock. The results showed that the diversity of plant species decreased along with the increasing age of oil palm trees, but they were able to meet the needs of livestock. In the 3, 7, and 10-year-old plantations, the diversity index (H') was 1.491, 1.634, and 2.099, with evenness index (E) of 0.538, 0.589 and 0.757; as well as the dominance index of 0.15, 0.30, and 0.18, respectively. Narrow-leaved forage plant species dominated the understorey vegetation and increased along with the age of oil palm plantations due to the ability to adapt to environmental conditions. The low forage production under the different ages of oil palm plantations caused a low carrying capacity to support livestock feed, namely 0.87, 0.56, and 0.36 Animal Unit (AU) ha-1 per year in the 3, 7, and 10-year-old plantations. Nonetheless, Crude Protein (CP) and total digestible nutrients can meet the basic life needs of livestock. The results of this study imply that oil palm plantations in Paser District can be applied as livestock rearing with different carrying capacities based on the different ages of oil palm plantations.


Geomagnetic activity measured by the Kp index varies with the angle α between the Earth–Sun vector and the vector of the interplanetary magnetic field. The effect is due to the change in magnitude and in fluctuations of the magnetic field with α.


Acetylated starches have been prepared in different pH reaction conditions. The acetylation value and substitution degree of these starches were determined with chemical analysis methods and IR spectrum. An influence rule of pH on esterification of starch was discovered and explained.


You need not have any familiarity with clinical engineering to page through an issue of BIT he wants us—his students and his readers—to be informed by the case studies taken from the history of engineering.9 The messages are universal and reach well beyond engineering. After all, not all design is done by engineers: Given the faults of human nature, coupled with the complexity of the design of everything, from lectures to bridges, it behooves us to beware of the lure of success and listen to the lessons of failure.10


Recently Eibl et al. [PRL 92, 077901 (2004)] reported the experimental observation of the three-photon polarization-entangled W state. In this Comment we point out that, actually, the particular measurements involved in the experiment testing Mermin's inequality cannot be used for the verification of the existence of genuinely quantal tripartite correlations in the observed state, and therefore this state cannot conclusively be identified with the W state.


The paper presents how the Analytic Hierarchy Process can be used to select the most suitable combination of new forest roads to build onto a forested area provided that social or ecological aspects are not jeopard- ized. All important features worth being considered when a new network of forest roads is designed were grouped in three types of criteria, which are benefits, costs and risks. Further, in order to ease the pairwise com- parisons between criteria, both benefits and costs have been divided into private and social, while the risks refer to the events that might be triggered or favoured by the construction of new roads, like habitat fragmentation, landslides in case of heavy rainfall during the construction phase or even illegal cuttings. The outcome consists of a series of benefit-cost-and-risk indices and benefit-cost ratios, one for each combination of forest roads, including the status quo. The method has been tested on three combinations of new forest roads already designed for a small forest management unit located in Prahova County, encompassing 838.0 ha of mountainous forest. Keywords Stepwise Analytic Hierarchy Process, risk assessment, cost-ben- efit analysis, forest roads.


Let $I$ be an intersection of three monomial prime ideals of a polynomial algebra $S$ over a field. We give a special Stanley decomposition of $I$ which provides a lower bound of the Stanley depth of $I$, greater than or equal to $\depth\ (I)$, that is, Stanley's Conjecture holds for $I$.


Objective: To study the safety of Propofol during the examination of painless colonoscopy.Methods: Forty patients were devided averagely into 2 groups.Anesthesia group: painless colonoscopy;Control group: traditional colonoscopy.The changes of patients'blood pressure,pulse,oxygen saluration and arteious bloodgas analyses were observed before and during the examination.The feeling of patients was observed. Results: In anesthesia group,during examination the blood pressure and pulse had an significant decline,no lower than normal standard.There were not significant changes about arterious bloodgas analyses and oxygen saturation between two groups.The adverse reactions in anesthesia group was much less than those in control group. Conclusion:Colonoscopy with the help of propofol has been a safe and effective method


The present invention discloses a rotary workpiece holder assembly, comprising a main column turn, workpiece holder, the workpiece holder and the workpiece rotating wheel turret wheel base, the main transfer section is provided with a column holder, the holder is provided with forks, forks fixed rod provided with holes; workpiece holder rotatable transfer wheel provided on the main base of the lower end of the column, the work turret wheel rotating wheel base in uniform workpiece holder, the workpiece holder comprises a rotating gear rotating wheel and the workpiece carrier fixed, stationary workpiece holder disk rotating gear is disposed above the central stationary workpiece holder is provided with mounting holes fixing plate column with fixed wheels rotatably mounted beneath the rotating gear of the column, the upper end of the workpiece holder disposed in the fixed rod fixed rod bore, the lower end of the fixed post a mounting hole provided in the mounting post, the workpiece holder turret wheel with the outside wheel synchronization, the synchronization wheel comprising on the ring, the ring wheel and column, the column wheel rotates with the inner gear. Clear structure of the present invention is arranged to achieve a set of a plurality of rotatable workpiece holder, not only to ensure production quality, but also improve the production efficiency.


The survey targeted two maize-legume based farming systems in the eastern and northern zones of Tanzania. In the eastern zone the survey target two districts; Kilosa and Mvomero. While in the northern zone the study focused on Mbulu and Karatu districts. A combination of purposive and stratified sampling methods were used to select the four districts (Karatu, Mbulu, Mvomero and Kilosa) included in this survey. As the project focus is on maize based farming system, maize production used as an important criterion to select districts, wards and villages. A total of 39 wards were sampled. A multi-stage random sampling procedure was used to arrive at a total sample of 65 villages. In each district, wards selected with probability to proportional size. The number of villages selected with probability to proportional size was 60. In every selected village, probability to proportional size sampling was used to identify the households that were interviewed. A total of 701 households were interviewed.


Abstract Objective To determine the association between having government health insurance and the timeliness and outcome of care, and catastrophic health expenditure in injured patients requiring surgery at a tertiary hospital in Ghana. Methods We reviewed the medical records of injured patients who required surgery at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in 2015–2016 and extracted data on sociodemographic and injury characteristics, outcomes and out-of-pocket payments. We defined catastrophic health expenditure as ≥ 10% of the ratio of patients' out-of-pocket payments to household annual income. We used multivariable regression analyses to assess the association between having insurance through the national health insurance scheme compared with no insurance and time to surgery, in-hospital mortality and experience of catastrophic health expenditure, adjusted for potentially confounding variables. Findings Of 1396 patients included in our study, 834 (60%) were insured through the national health insurance scheme. Time to surgery and mortality were not statistically different between insured and uninsured patients. Insured patients made smaller median out-of-pocket payments (309 United States dollars, US$) than uninsured patients (US$ 503; P < 0.001). Overall, 45% (443/993) of patients faced catastrophic health expenditure. A smaller proportion of insured patients (33%, 184/558) experienced catastrophic health expenditure than uninsured patients (60%, 259/435; P < 0.001). Insurance through the national health insurance scheme reduced the likelihood of catastrophic health expenditure (adjusted odds ratio: 0.27; 95% confidence interval: 0.20 to 0.35). Conclusion The national health insurance scheme needs strengthening to provide better financial risk protection and improve quality of care for patients presenting with injuries that require surgery.


Based on the experimental Studies, a new kind of expansion anti-fire coating was manufactured, which is made mainly of cheaper urea-formaldehyde resin. Contrasted with traditional coatings, this one is low in cost and good in property.


Using the Add Health data set of 6485 adolescents aged 11-21 years, it was found that whether participation in sports was a protective factor or a risk factor for suicidal ideation depended on the particular sport, as well as the sex and ethnicity of the adolescents. In general, team sports was associated with a protective effect, while participating in a sport outside of the gender norms (for example, cheer leading/dance for boys and wrestling for girls) was a risk factor. The results were clearer for White adolescents and less clear for Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American adolescents.


Abstract Production rates for various activities and overall construction project duration are significantly influenced by crew formation. Crews are composed of available renewable resources. Construction companies tend to reduce the number of permanent employees, which reduces fixed costs, but at the same time limits production capacity. Therefore, construction project planning must be carried out by means of scheduling methods which allow for resource constrains. Authors create a mathematical model for optimized scheduling of linear construction projects with consideration of resources and work continuity constraints. Proposed approach enables user to select optimal crew formation under limited resource supply. This minimizes project duration and improves renewable resource utilization in construction linear projects. This paper presents mixed integer linear programming to model this problem and uses a case study to illustrate it.


The project that I chose was Electronic Design Automation. The reason that I chose it was because of my interest in the design of boards and also to improve my English. This project gives me the chance to expand my knowledge of design with OrCAD.
The objective of this project is to draw schematics, simulate and Layout PCB as proposed by lecturers to the first year students. The purpose is to study them, build them and explain step by step their design.
The project is for first year students. It is a tool to help students who will have to learn to draw electronic schemes with their own simulations and to obtain the necessary "photo litho" to make the printed circuit. Some general concepts are explained to the student to help them achieve some knowledge about the boards design. In summary, the project is to generate a tutorial, which explains in detail what one needs to know and how to do specific circuits.


Bob DuTeau has plotted the data from the EE3-A logs performed on 10/31/95 and 11/07/95. Please add these plots to the "Recent Temperature/CCL Logs at Fenton Hill", logging report, dated 11/21/95.


Sleep is a vital, highly organized process regulated by complex systems of neuronal networks and neurotransmitters. Normal sleep comprises non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and REM periods that alternate through the night. Sleep usually begins in NREM and progresses through deeper NREM stages (2, 3, and 4 stages), but newborns enter REM sleep (active sleep) first before NREM (quiet sleep). A period of NREM and REM sleep cycle is approximately 90 minutes, but newborn have a shorter sleep cycle (50 minutes). As children mature, sleep changes as an adult pattern: shorter sleep duration, longer sleep cycles and less daytime sleep. REM sleep is approximately 50% of total sleep in newborn and dramatically decreases over the first 2 years into adulthood (20% to 25%). An initial predominant of slow wave sleep (stage 3 and 4) that peaks in early childhood, drops off abruptly after adolescence by 40% from preteen years, and then declines over the life span. The hypothalamus is recognized as a key area of brain involved in regulation of sleep and wakefulness. The basic function of sleep largely remains elusive, but it is clear that sleep plays an important role in the regulation of CNS and body physiologic processes. Understanding of the architecture of sleep and basic mechanisms that regulate sleep and wake cycle are essential to evaluate normal or abnormal development of sleep pattern changes with age. Reduction or disruption of sleep can have a significant impact on daytime functioning and development, including learning, growth, behavior, and emotional regulation.


Background: Lymph node enlargement is an age related physiological change which is normal in every individual. Lymph node enlargement is a common problem in children and evaluation of a child with lymphadenopathy is utmost important It may also occur due to chronic infections and other conditions like autoimmune disorders. Etiology varies from region to region. Aim and objective is to study the clinico-pathological picture of significant cervical lymphadenopathy in pediatric age group and to arrive at an etiological diagnosis. Methodology: Hospital based prospective observational study. Fifty children with cervical lymph node enlargement attending the Pediatric unit of RVM Institute of medical sciences, Siddipet (D), Telangana State from June 2019 December 2019 were taken as study participants. Manteaux test, hematological investigations, FNAC was performed in all the cases. Additional investigations were done wherever required.Results: Among 50 cases the common age group was 11 15 years (38%) children. The etiology was confirmed in 82% cases and could not be confirmed in 16% cases even after other investigations. Cytological examination revealed lymphoid nodular hyperplasia 48% cases, tubercular lymphadenitis in 24% cases and Suppurative lymphadenitis 12% cases. Commonest etiological diagnosis after detailed investigation was found to be due to infections due to bacteria, fungi, viruses in 60% cases followed by tuberculosis in 16% cases and there were 8% cases caused due to measles.Conclusion: Reactive nodular lymphadenitis was the commonest problem which is treatable. Further follow-up involving detection of antigen and antibodies against viruses, parasites and rare causes of lymphadenopathy may decrease the incidence of new significant cervical lymphadenopathy among children of pediatric age group.


The harmony university management is one kind of brand-new management idea.It take"harmony"the culture as the ideological foundation,insisted"humanist"the core values,the utilization"is friendly but not at the expense of principles"thinking mode.The harmony university management has the standardization,user-friendly,the ecology and so on essential feature.The harmony university manages must insist that the scientific management and the democratic management unify,with unify,the coordinated management and the dynamic management by the government by law school according to the virtuous rule school unify and so on basic principle.


Inductive power transfer (IPT) systems significantly depend on magnetic coupling and coil characteristics. To achieve maximum coupling in case of an air gap and misalignments, different coil shapes were investigated. Based on this research a special orthogonal coil system and arrangement was designed. The magnetic design is presented along with FEM-simulations and measurements. With its mechanical structure the presented IPT system is positioning tolerant and interoperable with a huge variaty of car models. It requires a minimum of space while maintaining high flexibility and efficiency. Corresponding illustrations and analysis are provided to clearly show the design of a bidirectional resonant converter. Measurements of the entire system at full load (3kW) are made.


The theorem points out that the expected error of h on the target samples is bounded by three terms. First, εS(h) is the expected error of h on the source samples. Second, dH∆H denotes a divergence measure between source and target domains with respect to a hypothesis set H. Third, C denotes the shared error of the ideal joint hypothesis. Given labeled data for source samples, we can easily minimize εS(h) by using the deep neural network. Also, many previous approaches such as the adversarial network for domain adaptation are expected to reduce dH∆H significantly. However, these networks ignore the effect of the shared error C. As pointed out in [4] and [5], we can not disregard C, which is defined as C = minh∈H εS(h, fS)+ εT (h, fT ). fS and fT are labeling functions for respective domains S and T . From the derivation of theorem 1 in [4], we can state that the following inequality holds:


Current Welfare Code recommendations suggest one nipple drinker per 10 pigs, while farmers have often used a ratio of one per 20 animals. This statement is based on information from pig farmers and advisors in the United Kingdom. Neither approach is based on empirical investigation. The use of larger group sizes in commercial herds raises further questions, since the relationship between group size and the appropriate number of drinking points cannot be assumed to be linear. The aim was to assess the two conflicting drinker allocations for their effect on welfare, as measured by drinking behaviour, social behaviour and performance, and any effect of group size on these. A total of 640 Large White × Landrace growing pigs were assigned to four treatments in a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement (60 pigs, three drinkers; 20 pigs, one drinker; 60 pigs, six drinkers and 20 pigs, two drinkers). Drinker provision had no significant effect on water use (5.10, 3.88, 4.99 and 3.45 s.e. 0.231 I per pig per day respectively) but in a larger group more water was used in less drinking time ( P v. 3.8% of drinking bouts terminated by aggression for 60 pigs with three drinkers and mean all other treatments respectively, P


This special issue starts from the observation that the microeconomic foundations of the theory of regulation have received in recent years more and more attention from other social sciences. The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs therefore asked scientists from these other disciplines to write position papers on specific topics. The issue contains contributions by experimental economists (Potters, Krause and Kroger), by a sociologist (Arts), by moral philosophers (Graafland and Smid), by a psychologist (Poiesz) and by lawyers (Hancher, Larouche and Lavrijssen). Together the articles give a good idea about the richness of insights that is present in these other disciplines. The question to what extent the government (the state) should intervene in the working of the market and how it should intervene has always figured among the most important questions in economics from its very origin. Oversimplifying one could say that three important features characterize the microeconomic foundations laid for this market regulation after the Second World War. First, the theory starts from the background of the Arrow-Debreu model of perfect competition resulting in the first welfare theorem stating that the market


There is a set of tools that we can use to improve the results of each of the phases that continuous improvement projects must go through (8D, PDCA, DMAIC, Double diamond, etc.). These methods use divergent techniques, which help generate multiple alternatives, and convergent techniques that help analyze and filter the generated options. However, the tools used in all those frameworks are often very similar. Our goal, in this research, is to develop a comprehensive model that allows it to be used both for problem-solving and for taking advantage of opportunities. This protocol defines the main terms related to our research, makes a framework proposal, proposes a rubric that identifies observable milestones at each stage of the model and proposes the action plan to validate this rubric and the model in a given context. The action plan will be implemented in a future research.


Stephanie Bilderback reviews Moratis, Lars, and Melissen, Frans (2022). Business Schools, Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals: The Future of Responsible Management Education (Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations. Fadwa Berouel reviews Baccaro, Lucio, Blyth, Mark and Pontusson, Jonas (editors) (2022). Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation. Christine Bretschneider reviews Sigler, Thomas and Corcoran, Jonathan, (2021). A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy.


Users referred to as macro functions macro programs,and its greatest feature is the use of macro programs can be variable,so that the actual value can be set to variable,longer working hours in accordance with the actual situation of the variables assigned to macro programs have a common,greatly enhanced the functions of CNC machine tools.Hyperbola parts of the former parts CNC milling process design analysis,program structure flow chart of the preparation and reasonable mathematical approach described.


Provided is a light beam, which includes an elongated support having an opening extending along the support surface. Capacitive sensors are spaced apart along the carrier and disposed below the surface. Light sources are included for illuminating the surface, each of which is associated with at least one capacitive sensor and positioned in the proximity thereto. A controller is included for detecting capacitive changes in the capacitive sensors, wherein the controller changes a lighting state of a light source associated therewith, when the control unit detects a capacitance change in a capacitive sensor.


This study is a study of local history that reconstructs the DI / TII rebellion in the Surakarta Residency in 1951-1952. This rebellion was related to Darul Islam in Central Java targeted the Diponegoro Division of the former Surakarta Hizbullah, namely Battalion 426. This research uses historical methodology through four main stages of the historical method, namely: (1) heuristics, (2) source criticism, (3), interpretation, and (4) historiography. The results of this study indicate that the 426 Battalion came from former Hizbullah Surakarta fighters during the independence war named Hizbullah Sunan Bonang. The DI / TII infiltration was led by Captain Sofyan who had connections with Darul Islam in Central Java. The rebellion lasted for five months from December 1951 to April 1952 dengan Surakarta as the destination. The rebellion was framed with propaganda defending Islam and anti-communism for support. The rebellion influences security stability, its presence is used by local rioters to increase crime, cause economic losses, disrupt transportation, and result in social tension due to the arrest of Muslim communities and local Islamic leaders.


......................................................................................................... iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .....................................................................................iv LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................... viii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Problem Formulation ................................................................................ 1 Purpose of the Study ....................................................................... 2 Significance of the Project for Social Work ..................................... 4 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW Introduction ............................................................................................... 6 Studies Focusing on Language ....................................................... 6 Studies Related to Cultural Competence ........................................ 9 Spanish Clinical Skills ................................................................... 11 Studies Related to Support Provided to Student ........................... 13 Theories Guiding Conceptualization ............................................. 15 Summary ....................................................................................... 16 CHAPTER THREE: METHODS Introduction .......................................................................................... 18 Study Design ................................................................................. 18 Sampling ....................................................................................... 19 Data Collection and Instruments ................................................... 19 Procedures ................................................................................... 20 Protection of Human Subjects ....................................................... 21


The invention relates to a method for determining the thiamphenicol and florfenicol residue quantity in culture or slaughter environment. Water body or soil samples are taken from cow, sheep, pig, chicken, fish or shrimp culture or slaughter environment, immunoaffinity chromatography column treatment is carried out, the materials pass through a 0.22mum organic micropore filter film, a liquid phase-mass spectrum/mass spectrum is used for analysis and test, and the color spectrum peak of the samples is obtained through determination; and the determined color spectrum peak is compared to the standard color spectrum peak of the existing medicine, and the concrete variety of the inspected medicine is determined. The sample pre-treatment process is fast, simple and convenient, and the treated sample detection results are reliable and sensitive.


A case of glandular fever-which seemed to be a possible case of lymphadenosis-was observed by us for about 3 months. Blood was examined as often as 9 times, the noticeable hematological findings were as follows: (1) anemia and hypohemoglobinemia; (2) moderate acceleration of hemosedimentation of erythrocytes; (3) slight de-crease of blood platelets; (4) lymphocytosis and neutrocytopenia; (5) regenerative nuclear shift to the left; (6) appearance of lympho-blasts and an increase of large lymphocytes. These changes drew near the normal limits gradually in a month, except for the presence of a remarkable lymphocytosis.


[1] & [2] Panel Chair/Discussant Linda Eisenmann Wheaton College email@example.com [3] Panel Abstract From celibacy requirements to curfew regulations to debates over co-education, the gendered body has always been problematic in university spaces. Ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle argued that the mind housed the ethereal soul and should be exalted above physical needs. In the seventeenth century, Rene Descartes argued that while "man" was ALL body, cognitive functions defined one's humanity. More recently, feminist epistemologists argue that knowledge and the mind are situated within an individual's particular standpoint in the world and that specific identity factors like race, class, gender, and sexuality can significantly affect how an individual perceives, and is perceived by, the world. For many in power, bodies, particularly gendered ones that carried notions of masculinity and femininity, were seen as challenges to patriarchal hegemony, as transformed physical threats to the entrenched socio-intellectual world. Looking at formal intellectual and academic cultures, this panel explores the conflicted and unsettled attitudes of nineteenth and twentieth-century university students, personnel, and institutions about the gendered body. The first paper explores the literal study of bodies as anatomical corpses in university classrooms and laboratories that was framed by Victorian society's understanding of crime against the body typified most heinously in the act of murder of both men and especially women. The paper pieces together pedagogical approaches in nineteenth-century Scotland in the realms of history, law, literature, and the sciences. The subsequent papers of this panel investigate twentieth-century campuses, arguing that the parallels in cultural interactions between university faculty and the general public saw the former seeking to establish its role as authorities on all matters concerning the socio-intellectual gendered body. The second paper focuses on a landmark 1932 university hazing case, Powlett and Powlett versus the University of Alberta, which incited considerable debate around the ritual practice and the performative violence of students' initiations that were commonplace—although not uncontested—on university campuses in the first half of the twentieth century. The corporeal marking and disfigurement of the male body served as a form of intimidation that constructed and manipulated bodies relative to minds. Focusing on the appeal's case and medical and psychological testimony, the paper analyzes how masculinity was discursively seen to operate within normative and performative binaries which specified particular and layered notions of manhood. The concluding paper analyzes how fictionalized women academics were used to explore and exploit contemporary cultural anxieties about gendered bodies after the era of Margaret Thatcher. Contemporary British academic crime fiction seems fascinated with the persona of the violent woman don, out to destroy her students, male colleagues, and perhaps the institution itself. At the same time, women intellectuals often are portrayed as crime solvers , and thus as symbolic saviors of the university. Contemporary novelists thus seem conflicted over who to blame for the current state of higher education: Thatcher or the women academics themselves. The panel concludes with an exploration of the role that ideological apparatuses (pedagogy, the law, fiction) play in defining our own identities, work, and understanding of gendered bodies in higher education today. [4] Paper Abstracts Studying Murder in Scotland during the Long Nineteenth Century Christine D. Myers Monmouth College email@example.com Crime has always been a part of society that people grapple with in an effort to make sense of it.  During the Victorian era violent crimes like murder were a source of extreme fascination, in both popular fiction and scholarly study.  In this paper I will examine the ways students in Scottish universities were taught about murder.  From students studying Scots Law to those who learned Anatomy by dissecting executed murderers, universities engaged regularly in conversations about this particular crime. These intellectual considerations did not always follow expected lines, but pushed students to explore new ways of thinking.  For instance, in 1884 students at the University of Glasgow were asked on their Moral Philosophy exam: "If to die were the intensest pleasure, would murder be a crime?"  In response they were to consider "Mr. Spencer's view" for Herbert Spencer wrote extensively on the ethics of murder, as he interpreted it from current events and history, and comparative morality of criminals. Source materials used will include university records/library holdings, contemporary journal/newspaper commentaries, and writings of individuals who studied or taught in universities to ascertain what was taught and how it was taught.  As such, this paper will offer a chance for twenty-first century conversation about why we teach students about violent crime in the ways that we do. Marking the Male Body: Hazing, Performative Violence, and Legal Interpretations of Mental Illness E. Lisa Panayotidis and Paul Stortz firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com In 1932, following the vicious hazing of a young male student named Armand Powlett, the University of Alberta was sued by the student and his father for $200,000 in damages. As a cause celebre , the Powlett case incited considerable discussion and debate on and off campus around the ritual practice of hazing and its  performative violence. The corporeal marking and subtle disfigurement of the male body served as a ritual form of initiation that was conceived as a manly pursuit that built bodies relative to minds. The subsequent court cases (an appeal case followed) revolved around notions of masculinity and gendered robustness. Rather than focusing on the perpetrators, the cases focused on the victim, linking "effeminate" and "histrionic" behaviors in men to mental illness and subtly to homosexuality. The case reflected the unease both on and off campus around the indiscreet, subjective, and idiosyncratic expressions of masculinity among young freshmen. In this paper, we concentrate primarily on the appeal's case and the testimony given by medical/psychiatric professionals on behalf of both the crown and the appellant. We analyze how masculinity was discursively seen to operate within normative and performative contingent binaries that specified particular and layered notions of manhood. The complex historical intersection is problematized between hazing as an ostensibly innocent set of formalized youth behaviors and criminal assault that aggressively threatened someone's physical/mental health. Historically and culturally, the case serves as a critical inquiry into power relations among students and student cultures on campus and also mediated meanings of socio-academic regulation of university initiations and youths' rites of passage. Deadly Dons: British Crime Fiction and Post-Thatcherite Anxiety about Women in Higher Education Ann McClellan Plymouth State University email@example.com Simultaneously one of the most revered and reviled of British Prime Ministers, Margaret Thatcher made a substantial impact on British higher education. While many of Thatcher's opponents hoped for radical policy changes after she'd stepped down in late 1990, her successor, John Major, followed closely in his mentor's footsteps. In fact, some critics argue that Major's 1993 Education Act granting university status to all polytechnic institutions was the final blow to British dons' authority over the higher education system. At the same time the British government was making drastic cuts to higher education, the British public was being flooded with cultural representations of university life and privilege. Rather than immuring the public to Oxbridge, such portrayals often fueled hostility, resentment, and even fear of academia. Thatcherite British women's university fiction, in particular, seemed to be riveted on questions of control, violence, and women's bodies in academic spaces. Ruth Dudley Edward's Matricide at St. Martha's (1994) reveals the economic, emotional, and political turmoil at the heart of St. Martha's College Cambridge, when one campus leader, Dame Maud Buckbarrow, is found murdered over a financial large bequest.  Margaret Murphy's Caging the Tiger (1999) traces the suspicion following Dr. Helen Wilkinson upon the discovery of her husband's dead body. In both, a woman don is discovered to be the murderer. Why? What attributes, behaviors, or experiences make these fictional academic women seemingly prone to murderous acts? Why are they individuals to fear? This paper will analyze how these novels explored and exploited contemporary cultural anxieties about gender, violence, and the body within the university and, as such, served to reinforce Conservative fears about British higher education at the same time they were trying to subvert them.


Nowadays, both ou r world and China have entered into r isk societ y. Nuclear r isk is an obvious characterization of risk society. In order to prevent nuclear risk and curb nuclear crime, China's criminal law created some nuclear crime articles. But those articles failed to break away from the beaten track of the ordinary criminal legislation pattern. As a risk crime, nuclear crime legislation should base on the theory of risk society, through the way of setting the abstract dangerous crime and negligent dangerous crime, revising the standard of nuclear crime, extending the object and behavior of nuclear crime, to expand the circle of nuclear crime. Meanwhile, the criminal law interferes in the field of nuclear risk should be limited in a certain range, it should avoid impeding the development of nuclear energy.


An investigation was made of the possibility of fabricating planar acoustooptic systems intended for operation in read/write heads of disk holographic memory devices. An optical system for such a device was made from homogeneous refracting waveguide lenses. The basic factors limiting the data recording density were identified. A prototype planar acoustooptic system for a 16-bit device was constructed and investigated.


Author(s): Blair, Kyle Adam | Advisor(s): Karis, Aleck | Abstract: In a number of Stuart Saunders Smith's pieces, he calls upon the performer to compose dynamics, articulations, and phrasing atop the rhythms and pitches he provides. In my preparation of four of these pieces, namely Family Portraits: Self (in 14 Stations), Thicket, Palm Sunday, and Among Us, I chose to fashion my compositional process around placing myself in the role of a listener. This involved the creation of a sequence of self-recordings. Beginning with recordings of the pieces devoid of musical nuance, I would listen back, take notes on what my ear desired in terms of dynamics, phrasing, and articulation, put those thoughts into practice, and record the pieces again. I repeated this process until I achieved interpretations of Smith's works that I was satisfied with as a listener.Given the numerous compositional possibilities Smith allows for in these circumstances, I was curious as to why my ear made the decisions that led to these finalized recordings of the four pieces. The process I employed seemed highly intuitive, but I found it difficult to discuss the nuances of my choices from an analytical perspective. This dissertation is an attempt to self-analyze my compositional process in these works. Through study of the final recordings against the scores, I hypothesize about the inherent facets of Smith's music that influenced my compositional decisions.These discussions orbit a number of larger thematic considerations. Firstly, I write about nuanced compositional decisions influenced by my ear's desire for main voice or hauptstimme, and the impact that the density of Smith's counterpoint, implied pitch and rhythmic hierarchy, and pianistic choreography have on the sounding results of the pieces at a microcosmic level. Secondly, I discuss macrocosmic compositional concerns regarding resemblances to classical musical forms, Smith's calling upon prolonged use of the sustain pedal, the implications of repetition, and the evocation of changing tempo when such shifts are aurally difficult to discern. Finally, the dissertation concludes with theorizing on the relationship of one's own education and performance background to the compositional process and results, relating Smith's pieces to mirrors that reflect individual musical values back onto the performer.


This paper presents the development of an efficient implicit upwind multi-block structured solver for aeroelastic computations of unsteady turbulent flows around airfoils in arbitrary motion. Time-integration is carried out with a dual-time stepping procedure consisting of a 2nd-order implicit backward difference scheme associated with the LU-SGS scheme for the inner loop. An implicit unconditionnally-stable algorithm is used for the resolution of the two-degree of freedom structure system. Grid motion is resolved each outer time-step. For deforming-mesh problems, a geometric conservation law is available in the solver in order to reduce discretization errors. We have also extented the upwind scheme AUSM+ to ALE/ formulation. Efficiency and accuracy of AUSM+ upon Roe scheme for steady and unsteady flows was demonstrated for several test cases.


A mechanical technique to tune the radiating performance of a waveguide-fed slot is presented. Three metallic tuning screws are introduced through the bottom wall of the feeding waveguide. The field radiated by the slot is mechanically controlled with the insertion length of the tuning screws and a good input matching response is also maintained. One of the tuning screws modifies the slot coupling parameter as well as the phase of the transmitted signal, while the other pair of screws compensates the impedance mismatch introduced by the first one. A five-element traveling-wave (TW) linear array antenna has been designed and manufactured as a proof of concept to validate the performance of the tuning screws. Several improvements such as a main beam steering range of 17°, an enhancement of the antenna efficiency, the mitigation of the undesirable grating lobe appearance typical of TW air-waveguide-fed arrays, as well as the compensation of the mutual coupling effects or manufacturing tolerance errors could be experimentally achieved by using the proposed mechanism based on tuning screws.


Travel surveys provide valuable inputs to a variety of models. While they are well-established, and reliable, they are also associated with large expenses (both in terms of time and actual cost). With the emergence of social media and alternative data sources, researchers and practitioners often wonder if such data sources can supplement (or obviate the need for) conventional data collection efforts. In this research, we empirically examine of the use of different social media data for such applications. Data from three popular Social Media is examined and compared with data from conventional travel-diary surveys for the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Both spatial and temporal aspects of the activities' representation are considered. The findings of this research contribute towards the identification of methodologies that can support the inference of meaningful travel information from Social Media, which could in turn improve ITS applications.


The article discusses daily religious practice among Seventh-day Adventists in Madagascar in- and outside the formal context of church services. Two points, which make a contribution to the ongoing discussions concerned with the nature of religious belief, are stressed. The first is that Adventist practice is of a distinctly intellectual nature, in particular through its use of a Socratic type of Bible study. The second, related to the first, is that church members view religious knowledge as, above all, providing clarity about empirical truth concerning the universe. This implies the lack of a distinction between the world one knows through one's senses and another, transcendental world one believes in. Given that framework, knowledge is more meaningful than faith.