1. Balsevich, V.K. (2000), "From High Informational Technologies – to Sport Wins", Theory and practice of the physical culture, No. 10, p. 56. 2. Belyantseva, V.B. (2010), "The Model of the monitoring to physical preparedness student", Proceedings of the International scientifically-practical conference", Agrarian science and formation on modern stage of the development: experience, problems and way of their decision, Ulyanovsk, pp. 149-153. 3. Biryukova, G.M. and Zobnina, T.V. (2010), "Methodological principles of the acmeological approach to psychological training of pedagogical university students", Uchenye zapiski universiteta imeni P.F. Lesgafta, Vol. 68 No. 10, pp. 17-23. 4. Bogdanov, V.M., Ponomarev, V.S. and Solovov, A.V. (2000), "Use modern information technology in theoretical and methods-practical preparation student on physical education", Proceedings of the Russian scientifically practical conference: "Physical culture and sport on border millennium", St.-Petersburg, Vol. 2, pp. 23-24. 5. Gaykov, A.V. (1998), "Old and new as philosophical categories", Theoretical and practical aspects of the training specialist physical culture, No. 7, pp. 99-104. 6. Ushakov, A.R., Romanov, D.A. and Shaposhnikova, T.A. (2010), "Information technologies of the retraining of employees of Federal Agency of the Russian Federation on control over drug trafficking", Uchenye zapiski universiteta imeni P.F. Lesgafta, Vol. 68 No. 10, pp. 95-101. Контактная информация: firstname.lastname@example.com


Our first principles are said to be so fundamental to our thinking as to be "quasi innate." That is, while not being innate, after our first encounter with being, we understand in an implicit way the difference between to be and not to be. The principle of noncontradiction, more usually referred to as the principle of contradiction, is said to underline our first judgment whatever it is. If we assert "x is y" we are excluding at that moment the thought "x is not y," and so in some form, the first principles of contradiction, identity and excluded middle are always part of our thinking. Before Leibniz, reference to first principles would ordinarily include along with the principle of contradiction, what later would be called axioms of geometry: "things equal to the same thing are equal to each other" or "the whole is greater than its part." These principles are indemonstrable in their primacy, and are assented to as soon as the meaning of their tenns is understood. These principles are the basis of our thinking and to attempt to prove them would involve the fallacy of"begging the question," that is, using in your premises what you are tlying to establish in your conclusion. Approaching it from another angle, Aristotle showed that anyone who would try to counter the principle of contradiction with a serious argument would commit the absurdity of having to use what he is attacking as soon as he began to make a statement of his belief. So too Leibniz in his Principles r?f Nature and Grace Founded on Reason arguing to establish the monad as the fundamental unit of reality asserts:


This paper reports deposition of silicon at elevated and room temperatures in spatially localized areas of a microchip by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition using microplasmas. The microplasmas are generated by providing dc power to thin-film Ti electrodes patterned on the microchip. Electrode arrangements include configurations in which multiple cathode elements share a single anode. At the operating pressures used, the plasma glow is confined to the region directly over the energized cathodes only, and the deposition is localized to these regions. A silane ambient allows Si to be deposited at 6.7-15.9 nm/min using cathode power densities of 3.65-9.35 W/cm2, with the substrate heated to 300degC. At room temperature, deposition rates up to 4.2 nm/min are realized. Also described is a plasma-coupling technique that permits isolated metal pads to be powered by plasma spreading from a proximate cathode at certain levels of power and pressure. This permits controlled variations of silicon thickness in a subarray of unbiased electrodes, simplifying the powering scheme.


A novel estimation algorithm for multipath number, time delay and the Doppler shift in the underwater acoustic multipath channel is proposed. A double-chirp signal with a fixed time interval T is sent. And the fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) is applied to analyze the received signal. So at a specific order, a series of peaks will appear in the corresponding u domain. The relationships between the channel parameters with the intervals among the peaks are induced. Besides, it's not necessary to search for the order of the received signal as the result of the invariant characteristic of the chirp rate, which greatly improve the algorithm efficient. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the algorithm.


Context. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have significant potential as a plasma heating mechanism. Finding a suitable wave dissipation mechanism is a very tough task, given the many observational constraints on the models, and this has resulted in the development of an important research community in solar physics. The magnetic field structure has an important role in the solar corona heating. Here, we investigate in detail current sheet mode generation via magnetic reconnection and mode conversion releases some of the free magnetic energy and produces heating. In addition, energy conversion is discussed completely. Moreover, nonlinear effects on density variations and, in turn, mode conversion are pursued.
Aims. In order to assess the role of magnetoacoustic waves in plasma heating, we have modeled in detail a fast magneto-acoustic wave pulse near a magnetic null-point in a finite plasma-β. The behavior of the propagation and dissipation of the fast magneto-acoustic wave is investigated in the inhomogeneous magnetically structured solar corona. Particular attention is given to the dissipation of waves and coronal heating and energy transfer in the solar corona, focusing on the energy transfer resulting from the interaction of fast magneto-acoustic waves with 2.5D magnetic null-points.
Methods. The shock−capturing Godunov−type PLUTO code was used to solve the ideal MHD set of equations in the context of wave-plasma energy transfer.
Results. It is shown that magneto-acoustic waves could be a viable candidate to contribute significantly to the heating of the solar corona and maintain the solar corona at a temperature of a few million degrees. The temperature is not constant in the corona. Coronal heating occurs near magnetic null points. It is found that magnetic reconnection, phase mixing and mode conversion contribute to the heating. Moreover, nonlinear fast and slow magnetoacoustic waves are decoupled except in β = 1 layer.


Reducing the NP-problems to the convex/linear analysis on the Birkhoff polytope. Introduction Since the classical works of J. Edmonds [2, and others], linear modeling became a common technique in combinatorial optimization [8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, and others]. Often, the linear models are expressed with some constrains on the incidence vector. The major benefit of this approach is the symmetry of the resulting model: the resulting equations are an invariant under relabeling. The major disadvantage of the approach is difficulty to express the constrains explicitly due to their size and structural complexity [8, 9, 13, and others]. In this work, the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem [3, 4, 7, 11] is taken as a basic NP-problem. The adjacency and incidence matrices are used to express the linear and convex models explicitly. In such asymmetric models, the unknown is a relabeling. The relabeling is presented with an unknown permutation matrix. That reduces the NP-problems to the linear/convex analysis on the Birkhoff polytope [1]. 1. Adjacency matrix models Let's take the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem [3, 4, 7]: whether a given multi digraph g contains a subgraph which is isomorphic with another given multi digraph s. That is a NP-complete problem. Let n and m be powers of vertex-sets of g and s, appropriately. Based on a node labeling/enumeration, let's construct adjacency matrices of these digraphs matrices G and S, appropriately. In terms of these matrices, the problem is a compatibility problem for the following quadratic system where the unknown is permutation matrix X = (xij)n×n: (1.1) PmnX T GXP T mn ≥ S Here, matrix Pmn is a truncation: Pmn = (Um 0)m×n, where matrix Um is the union matrix of size m × m. Permutation matrix X presents all n! possible ways to label vertices of (multi) digraph g. Compatibility of system 1.1 means that there is such a vertex labeling of digraph g that the appropriate adjacency matrix of that digraph will "cover" the adjacency matrix of (multi) digraph s. Such a labeling of g would make the positive solution for instance (g, s) the self evident. Obviously, if the system is 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 68Q15, 68R10, 90C57.


Background: The inhibition of BCR-ABL1 kinase with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) has markedly improved the prognosis of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Recently, it has been recognized that some CML patients with a complete molecular response (CMR) are able to maintain treatment-free remission (TFR) after discontinuation of TKIs. However, no predictive prognostic factors for successful discontinuation of the treatment have yet been identified. We set out to further clarify the role of predictive biomarkers in molecular relapse and non-relapse after ABL TKI discontinuation. Materials and methods: Patients in sustained CMR (MR 4.5) undergoing TKI therapy were eligible for inclusion in the study. Molecular relapse was defined as loss of major molecular response (MMR) of at least one point. Genomic DNA was obtained from whole blood using a DNA Extractor WB Kit (Wako, Osaka, Japan), and was subjected to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification using primers designed to detect a deletion site (2903 bp) in intron two of the BCL2L11 gene (forward: 5′-AATACCACAGAGGCCCACAG-3′; reverse: 5′-GCCTGAAGGTGCTGAGAAAG-3′) and JumpStart RedAccuTaq LA DNA polymerase (Sigma Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA). Results: 32 CML patients (17 men, 15 women, median age 58.4 years) were included in this study (Sokal category; low 24, intermediate 7, high 1). Six patients were treated with IFNα before TKI treatment, and 3 were treated with IFNα after stopping TKI. Median duration from TKI initiation to discontinuation was 79.3 months (range; 22 to 138 months); median duration of CMR before TKI discontinuation was 47.3 months (range; 5 to 97 months). Seven patients showed loss of MMR; 6 relapsed within 6 months and one showed late relapse at 25 months after discontinuation. The cumulative incidence of MMR loss was estimated as 18.8% at 12 months and at 24 months. Fluctuation of BCR-ABL transcript levels below the MMR threshold (> two consecutive positive values) was observed in 6.25% of patients at 24 months after ABL TKI discontinuation. Treatment-free remission was estimated as 81.2% at 12 months and at 24 months. The median period of restoration of second CMR was 6.0 months in re-treated patients. No patient died during the follow-up period. TKI-free remission was estimated as 78.1% at 30 months. There was only a significant difference in BCL2L11 (BIM) deletion polymorphism between the patients who maintained and those who lost MMR (p = 0.0253). No significant difference was observed in prior IFNα therapy, time to complete cytogenetic response (CCyR), time to MMR, and time to CMR between relapsing and non-relapsing patients. Conclusion: Our study shows a specific association between BCL2L11 (BIM) deletion polymorphism and clinical outcome after ABL TKI discontinuation in patients with long-lasting molecular undetectable residual disease. BCL2L11 (BIM) deletion polymorphism may predict relapse after ABL TKI discontinuation, which may have an impact on future ABL TKI discontinuation trials. These results further illustrate the importance of single nucleotide polymorphisms in successful long-term treatment of CML. Disclosures Ohyashiki:Bristol-Myers Squibb KK : Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis KK: Research Funding, Speakers Bureau.


One of the efforts to increase individuals' or families' knowledge and ability of nutrition is nutrition counseling. Patients are entitled to qualified nutrition counseling because it is an integral part to accelerate their healing process. Type II DM patients' compliance with diet therapy is a difficult problem to control. Some studies showed that 75% of patients did not comply with the recommended diet, and 53% had poor blood glucose control. This study employed an experimental study with a quasi-experimental design as well as a pretest and posttest without a control. The sample of this study was 30 people. This study was conducted in Meuraxa Regional General Hospital, Banda Aceh from June to July 2017. The primary and secondary data were analyzed using the statistical test of T-test dependent and chi-square test with a level of confidence (0:05).  Th Moreover, before the counseling, the average of their blood sugar levels was 318.13, but after the counseling, their blood sugar levels decreased by 273.20 mg/dl; thus, the margin of decline was 42.167 mg/dl. The chi-square test discovered that the nutrition counseling significantly influenced adherence and obtained a p-value of <0.05. Meanwhile, the dependent t-test showed that the blood sugar levels of the type II diabetes patients were p<0.05. It is expected that the nutrition officers provide continuous or sustainable nutrition counseling to increase the patients' knowledge and dietary compliance and help them achieve normal blood sugar levels.


It discloses a floating gate method for preventing failure of a subsequent process according to the cracking of the inner floating gate. The floating gate method constituting the memory cell of the flash memory according to the present invention comprises a first poly to form an upper portion, a portion of the floating gate on the part side and a portion the top of the STI device isolation film of the tunnel oxide film formed between the STI device isolation forming a silicon layer, and then etching all of the steps of forming an oxide film to ensure that the oxidation of the first polyester surface of the silicon layer so formed to a predetermined depth at the top a portion of the first polysilicon layer and the oxide film, wherein 1 with a poly silicon layer is characterized by forming a second polysilicon layer to constitute the floating gate at least. Therefore, a semiconductor device to increase the reliability of the ONO interlayer dielectric layer by a subsequent process air eliminates the cracking of the inner layer of polysilicon is used as a floating gate can provide a method of manufacturing the same. Flash memory, the floating gate polysilicon, STI


To the Editor:— Edrophonium (Tensilon) chloride [dimethylethyl (3-hydroxyphenyl ) ammonium chloride] has been used as a diagnostic tool in myasthenia gravis and as a therapeutic anticurare agent in anesthesia and electric shock therapy. Its formula and its pharmacological actions as an anticholinesterase and anticurare agent resemble those of neostigmine (Prostigmin). Of the series of neostigmine analogues synthesized recently, edrophonium chloride was found to have maximal anticurare action, short duration of action, minimal cholinergic effect on smooth muscle, and low toxicity. In our small series of unanesthetized human controls there was no significant effect on blood pressure or pulse rate. No fatalities have been reported, and the only contraindication to its use is bronchial asthma. We decided to try edrophonium chloride in patients with paroxysmal auricular tachycardia uncomplicated by congestive heart failure because it combines the desirable qualities of neostigmine (low toxicity) and acetylcholine (intravenous route of administration, rapid peak action, and


This paper introduces a low-complexity, novel dynamic measurement technique to extract Ciss and Crss of a power MOSFET under high current conduction, providing an accurate description of the transistor dynamic characteristics while hard-switching an inductive load. The results of our dynamic measurements revealed larger capacitance values when compared to those extracted from conventional static measurements.


This paper presents a low phase noise sub-sampling PLL (SSPLL) with multi-phase outputs. Automatic soft switching between the sub-sampling phase loop and frequency loop is proposed to improve robustness against perturbations and interferences that may cause a traditional SSPLL to lose lock. A quadrature LC oscillator with capacitive phase interpolation network is employed to generate multi-phase outputs, which are further utilized to achieve fractional-N frequency synthesis. Implemented in a 130nm CMOS technology, the SSPLL chip is able to achieve a measured in-band phase noise of −120 dBc/Hz and a measured integrated jitter of 209 fs at 2.4 GHz, while consuming 27.2 mW with 16 output phases. The measured reference spur and fractional spur level is −72 dBc and −49 dBc, respectively.


Flowering is a decisive factor in the productivity of mango. Twenty mango cultivars were studied for the flowering behaviour at Bihar agricultural university, sabour. The perusal of data recorded showed the earliest bud break in cultivar Bombay Green on 19th January followed by Bombai and Zardalu on 26th January. However, SB Chausa, Fazli and Neelum recorded a very late bud break. Maximum numbers of panicles were found in the cultivar Langra (2275) while the minimum number of panicle was found in Neelum (587). Maximum panicle length was observed in SB Chausa (34.5 cm) while minimum was found in Bombay green (17.25 cm) followed by Neelum (20.75 cm). There were differences between cultivars for the date of first flower opening and in the time and duration of peak flowering. There is, therefore, a possibility of carrying out selection for earliness as well as duration of flowering. In terms of the flower types, staminate flowers were first to appear in all the cultivars followed by hermaphrodite one. The cultivar Langra showed maximum percentage of hermaphrodite flower (73.86%) while minimum hermaphrodite flower percentage was found in Swarnarekha.


This letter proposes a precise cross-range scaling algorithm for inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images by estimating the effective rotation angle through coordinate locations of feature points extracted from two sequenced subaperture ISAR images. In the approach, we first extract adequate feature points and feature descriptor vectors from these two images by scale-invariant feature transform and speeded-up robust features. Then, a two-stage registering scheme is employed to match these feature points to link the two images. Consequently, the effective rotation angle is efficiently and robustly estimated by evaluating a cost function based on the coordinate locations of the matched feature points. Experiments of simulated and real signals validate this proposal.


In mass%, C: 0.18% or more 0.23% or less, Si: 0.1% or more, 0.5% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more, 2.0% or less, P: 0. 020% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Ni: 0.5% or more, 3.0% or less, Nb: 0.003% or more, 0.10% or less, Al: 0.05% or more, 0. than 15%, B: 0.0003% or more 0.0030% or less, N: containing 0.006% or less, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, Pcm = [C] + [Si] / 30 + [ Mn] / 20 + [Cu] / 20 + [Ni] / 60 + [Cr] / 20 + [Mo] / 15 + [V] / 10 + 5 [B] that weld crack sensitivity index Pcm which is calculated is less than or equal to 0.36% by having a component composition that meets the; A is at


Based on a specific example, the enclosure structure for energy coservation in high-rise building is described in detail. The measures are not only feasible economically but can improve its comfort and taste.It can also be referred by the future designers.


The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of stepping exercise program using rhythmic auditory stimulation(RAS) could improve on balance, gait cycle ratio and time in chronic stroke patients.
Twelve stroke patients who had agreed with the study were randomly assigned to either RAS exercise group(n=6) or control group(n=6). Both groups received rehabilitation exercise physical therapy 30 minutes a day, 3 times a week for 4 weeks. and RAS exercise group also participated in the RAS exercise program for 4 weeks(20 minutes a day, 3 times a week).
To find out the effect, evaluated the balance(body sway surface) and gait cycle ratio and time by Gaitview system AFA-50. In balance, body sway surface was significantly different within and between both groups(p .05). but in gait cycle time, within-group comparison, RAS exercise group appeared to be significantly different for non-paralyzed limb and both lower limb gait cycle time difference(p<.05). Also, between-group comparison revealed that the gait cycle time difference of both lower limb significantly different at post-test between the groups(p<.05).
The result of this study show RAS using stepping exercise program is more effective to improve balance and gait cycle time in stroke patients than general rehabilitation exercise physical therapy.


Along with object oriented developmental thought applies widely in large-scale software,the corresponding higher request is proposed to object oriented software testing technology.Object oriented software testing technology is same with the traditional software testing in the testing procedure,but the thought is entirely different,it emphasizes the class testing.The construction method and application of dynamic test model based on OSD are explored in the stage of class testing.


Correlation between anti-C1q and immune conglutinin levels, but not between levels of antibodies to the structurally related autoantigens C1q and collagen type II in SLE or RA.


A room was designed with the sole purpose of listen all kinds of recorded music, with a high preference to classical and romantic music. It was decided to locate the room in the basement level of a large single family home, where the external noise control or the control of the sound going out were not the big issues, so that the internal acoustics became the main one. The acoustics was adjusted for clear and balanced sound, and the high‐end audio system to be installed can handle monophonic, stereophonic, and surround signals, but stereo sources are paramount. The room is 4 m wide, 7 m long, and 2.8 m high, with the lower part of the walls used for the equipment and music source storage, while the floor, ceiling, and higher part of the walls are the places where the non‐proprietary acoustic materials and the speakers are going to be located.


Strengthening image building is a long-term task confronted by the ranks of journalists. At present, the image building of journalists is affected by the negative influence of social morality under the conditions of market economy, the Western bourgeois views of journalism and the weak mechanism of supervision and restriction. Therefore, the following measures should be taken: 1. The education of Marxist views of journalism should be intensified so as to improve the political quality of the ranks of journalists. 2. To improve the journalists' moral quality, major efforts should be made to strengthen the education of professional ethics and of fine tradition. 3. To improve the journalists' cultural quality, the style of working hard and aiming high should be advocated. 4. The building of a fine working style should be vigorously strengthened.


N uclear fusion has long been considered an ideal form of propulsion for space travel. Fusion is roughly 4 times more energy dense than nuclear fission, which is, itself, roughly 2 × 10 times more energy dense than chemical fuels. This extreme energy density allows for rockets that can reach far higher speeds then any chemical rocket, and even exceed the propulsive capability of nuclear fission, while being able to operate with lower mass ratios [1–7]. This, coupled with the high (approximately 4% of the speed of light) exhaust velocity of fusion-reaction products, puts interstellar travel within the reach of fusion-propelled vehicles as well as more near term uses such as interplanetary exploration and planetary defense. Fusion-propulsion suffers from two primary complications though: the difficulty of igniting a self-sustaining fusion reaction and the large amount of ionizing radiation generated by the reaction, which requires a considerable mass of radiation shielding to protect against [1, 2, 8]. Unfortunately, the fuel that is easiest to ignite (deuterium-tritium, or "DT") also produces most of its energy as ionizing radiation in the form of neutrons [9, 10]. Fuels that produce fewer neutrons are more difficult to ignite, requiring larger reactors and ignition power supplies, whose cost in mass is often more than enough to outweigh any reduction in shielding they may allow. This paper outlines how a well known nuclear physics technique, known as spin polarization, could potentially reduce the incident neutron radiation by ~20%, reduce fusion ignition requirements by ~45%, and increase the propulsive efficiency of the fusion rocket by more than 30% over a similar fusion rocket that does not use this technique. Spin polarization has long been know to affect the radiation emission of fusion reactions and more recently shown to lower the ignition requirements as well. [9, 11–13]. Up until now though, it has never been considered for use in fusion rockets. The use of spin polarization would allow for lighter fusion rockets that suffer less radiation damage and require less circulating power for operation while also increasing propulsive efficiency. All nuclei possess an inherent angular momentum known as spin that plays a significant role in nuclear reactions, especially nuclear fusion. Spin polarization is the process of aligning the nuclear spin vectors of the fusion reactants prior to the reaction. For five-nucleon fusion reactions, notably DT and DHe (deuterium and helium-3), spin polarization serves to increase the cross section for fusion and force the reaction products to emit anisotropically. Increasing the reaction cross section lowers the requirements to reach fusion ignition, allowing the spacecraft to use less energy for ignition and requiring less total circulating power during operation. This will lower both the fusion reactor equipment mass and radiator mass. Additionally, the anisotropic emission of reaction products allows a substantial fraction (up to 80%) of the neutron radiation to be directed away from the spacecraft, lowering the craft's shielding mass. For fournucleon fusion reactions, notably DD (deuterium and deuterium), and those with greater than five nucleons, notably pB (proton and boron-11), no clear benefit has been shown from spin polarization [11]. Such reactions require more study before any comment can be made on their use. Several methods for producing spin-polarized fusion fuel have been considered and tested for the purposes of nuclear physics experiments and for producing beams of spin-polarized particles in particle colliders [11, 14, 15]. For fusion reactors that require a constant stream of gaseous fusion fuel, various optical pumping techniques provide options for creating jets or beams of polarized fusion fuel. These techniques are quite technologically mature, but do suffer various polarization-loss mechanisms via contact with the walls of the fuel transport system. For fusion reactors that can operate with frozen fuel injection, spin polarization can be achieved via super chilling of the fuel and/or the application of a strong (>10 –T) magnetic field. This method allows for pellets of pre-polarized fuel to be created and stored before injection into the reactor. Neither method consumes a large amount of energy (of order 1-100 eV per atom) compared to the expected power output of a fusion reactor, thus, the additional power load on the spacecraft is small.


This thesis investigates the use of fusion techniques and mathematical modelling to increase the robustness of iris recognition systems against iris image quality degradation, pupil size changes and partial occlusion. The proposed techniques improve recognition accuracy and enhance security. They can be further developed for better iris recognition in less constrained environments that do not require user cooperation. A framework to analyse the consistency of different regions of the iris is also developed. This can be applied to improve recognition systems using partial iris images, and cancelable biometric signatures or biometric based cryptography for privacy protection.


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5540 Background: Among oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), the true prevalence of HPV remains variable and studies have estimated that up to 60% may be HPV positive. Patients with HPV pos...


This paper targets the time-consuming problem of user IOs and debugging in MPSoC. It introduces the concept of dynamic allocation of virtual UARTs to implement standard-IOs in various hardware and software contexts, on a hybrid FPGA. It discusses the advantages and limitations of this abstraction, presents an implementation on the hybrid Xilinx Zynq device. Multiple experiences illustrate how hardware (processors) and software heterogeneities can be handled. As a result, a real MJPEG decoder is debugged and validated in a couple of hours thanks to standard-IOs and virtual UARTs.


Footbridges facilitate pedestrian and cyclist travel which can promote a shift towards greener means of transportation and thus help reducing carbon emissions. Facing the challenges of climate change, further steps in the reduction of waste and carbon footprint must be taken, by addressing the structure and construction method itself.
The Campus Bridge in Opladen, Germany, is a 100m long footbridge crossing a major multi-track rail corridor. The bridge, and its equally long access ramps, was developed following a selection of approaches recommended to reduce its impact on the environment. This includes easily recyclable weathering steel, clamped and bolted architectural fit-out elements, the intensive use of habitat-friendly gabion walls as an alternative to concrete retaining walls, and the preference of lansdscaped embankments to elevated access ramps. The bridge was built in a temporary condition in 2013, awaiting the urban developments on both ends to catch up, including the removal of a two-track rail corridor requiring a temporary extension of the bridge and a temporary access ramp. For the final set-up between 2018 and 2021 elements of the temporary ramp have been re-used for the final ramp and one bridge span has been re-adjusted to accommodate the new, shorter gradient. The paper will provide a case study discussing how the re-use of building components can be integrated in the design process to respond to varying constraints in order to reduce waste and save cost.


The natural radiative lifetimes of some excited Bi I levels belonging to the 6p27s and the 6p26d configurations have been determined by analyzing Hanle depolarization curves obtained in an atomic beam experiment on the 100% abundant isotope Bi209 (I=9/2). Taking the exciting light spectral distribution into account the following values for the lifetimes have been obtained:


The article systematically examines the processes associated with the role of innovative entrepreneurship in increasing the competitiveness of the national economy. Also, the impact of innovative entrepreneurial activity on the formation of a competitive economy is based on a scientific abstraction method. Scientific proposals and practical recommendations to improve the role of innovative entrepreneurship in improving the competitiveness of the national economy have been formed.


Motivating employee to work better in order to succeed in their job is important to ensure the success of the company. Organization can enhance the motivation by recognizing employee's hard work and provide an environment that meets their basic emotional drives to perform. The present study aimed to explore the leadership style on employee motivation in one of the main branch of public banking in Bandung. Data had been collected using questionnaire and distributed by nonprobability sampling techniques. The instrument employs 18 items on leadership style and 18 questions on motivation. The study found that the leadership style matched with employee expectation and employees were highly motivated. The results also showed that the degree of conformity between leadership styles has a significant influence on employee motivation. Organization should encourage their leader to continously implement style that drive the motivation in order to get the best result from the employee.


【Objective】Potosia brevitarsis Lewis had damaged grape seriously in the recent years,the application of chemical pesticide will affect the quality of grape as well as the health of people.It doesn't meet with the development of the green and organic grape production.【Method】Toxicity of three botanical insecticides(matrine,pyrethrins and azadirachtin)to Potosia brevitarsis Lewis were detected with the methods of contact toxicity and stomach toxicity.【Result】Results indicate that stomach toxicitics of all tested insecticides are higher than that of contact toxicity.The order of the toxicity of different insecticides to Potosia brevitarsis Leiwis was as follows: 5% imidacloprid(LC50=5.456 mg/L) 0.36% matrine(LC50=10.557 mg/L)5% pyrethrins(LC50=15.079 mg/L)0.3% azadirachtin(LC50=23.459 mg/L).【Conclusion】5% imidacloprid could be used in the production of green food,and 0.36% matrine and 5% pyrethrins could be used in both green food production and organic food production to control the damage of Potosia brevitarsis Lewis.


On-line fabricated fiber Bragg grating (FBG) array and its sensing potentials have attracted plenty of attention in recent years. In this paper, FBG arrays are written on-line on a two-mode fiber, and this two-mode fiber Bragg grating (TM-FBG) is further experimentally investigated for temperature and curvature sensing. The responses of this sensor were characterized by 11.2 pm/°C and −0.21 dB/m−1 for temperature and curvature, respectively. Based on the measurements, a dual-parameter fiber sensing system was developed, which can realize the quasi-distributed, simultaneous detection of temperature and curvature, making it suitable for structural health monitoring or perimeter security.


Along with rising energy prices and increasing awareness of environmental issues, the criteria for buildings energy performance have been sharpened through the years. Today, "passive house" and "lo ...


The transmission properties of the ring-structured plastic photonic crystal fibers are simulated with finite-difference beam propagation method.The relationship between effective index of fundamental mode and the structure of the fiber is discussed.The variation rules of dispersion properties with both pitch and size of air holes have been analysed.It is found that the total dispersion of the plastic photonic crystal fiber mostly comes from the material dispersion,which plays an important part especially in the short wavelength region,and the waveguide dispersion increases with the increase of wavelength.The appropriate designing of plastic photonic crystal fiber can yield zero dispersion in the visible light region,and the fiber can be well applied to the nonlinearity field.


This paper proposes a peer-to-peer energy market platform based on the new concept of multiclass energy management, to coordinate trading between prosumers with heterogeneous (i.e., beyond purely financial) preferences. Power networks are undergoing a fundamental transition, with traditionally passive distribution network consumers becoming "prosumers"; proactive consumers that actively manage their production and consumption of energy. The paper introduces the new concept of energy classes, allowing energy to be treated as a heterogeneous product, based on attributes of its source, which are perceived by prosumers to have value. Examples include generation technology, location in the network and owner's reputation. The proposed peer-to-peer energy market platform coordinates trading between subscribed prosumers and the wholesale electricity market, to minimize costs associated with losses and battery depreciation, while providing added value by accounting for the prosumers' individual preferences for the source/destination of the energy they consume/produce. The decomposable structure of the multiclass energy management problem is exploited to devise a distributed price-directed optimization mechanism, providing scalability and prosumer data privacy. Receding horizon model predictive control allows the prosumers to adjust their planned power flows based on the wholesale energy price, and up-to-date renewable generation and load predictions.


Getting off to a good start in a class is a real challenge, however. A source of the difficulty is identified by Peter Elbow (1986), who in his superb collection of essays on teaching, Embracing Con traries, observes that we have two prima ry and conflicting roles as professors? gatekeeper and coach. As gatekeepers, we must set standards high enough to certify that our students will be qualified to enter their intended professions and the broader community of scholars. But as coaches, we must help our students surpass the hurdles we set for them as gatekeepers. Being a professor means walking a tightrope between these two roles. The key to success is to maintain a good balance. As Elbow observes, it is hard enough to fulfill these contrary roles over the course of a semester. The challenge we examine in this paper is that of establish


The article is devoted to the problem of key elements functioning in the structure of poetic texts. The key elements in poetic texts are characterized by certain strophic arrangement. The semantic variability is an inalienable characteristic of the key elements in contrast to formal-linguistic variability, which is not constant.


A reliable and efficient way is proposed for investigating the electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a large marine environment containing multiple vessels. To enhance the computational efficiency, an improved method is proposed based on the facet-based simplified small slope approximation to calculate the scattering field from the sea surface. In addition, the overall sea surface is decomposed into noncoupled and coupled regions. Then, this letter uses a combined method based on the geometrical optics/physics optical method and the physical theory of diffraction method for studying the scattering field from the targets and the coupling scattering field between the targets and the sea surface in the coupled region. Numerical results show that the proposed method has advantages of higher efficiency and good accuracy compared with the original EM model and it can be applied to simulate synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of a marine environment with ships.


In the school year 2019/2020 during online schooling, 11 educators – teachers, head teachers and pedagogues kept reflective journals about their practice for three months, during which time they also participated in focus groups and individual sessions. Valuable data obtained through systematically conducted qualitative research led to the formulation of questionnaires for teachers, head teachers and parents, which were delivered at the end of the school year in July 2020. More than 26 000 responses were collected. Taking a phenomenological perspective, this paper provides snippets into challenges faced by educators during online schooling and highlights their need for ICT-related education in Croatia.


Research from the Netherlands has pointed out that the increased popularity of New Age since the 1960s by no means compensates for the dramatic decline of the Christian churches. From a theoretical point of view, however, it is more important to study why those remarkably divergent developments have occurred in the first place. This article does this by analyzing survey data collected among the Dutch population at large in 1998, focusing on a comparison of the young and the elderly. It is concluded, first, that there are no indications that the decline of the Christian tradition has been caused by a process of rationalization. Second, the decline of the Christian tradition and the growth of nonreligiosity as well as New Age are caused by increased levels of moral individualism (individualization). implications for the sociological analysis of cultural and religious change are discussed.


Wheat flour is the main ingredient in making white bread. The use of wheat flour can be
reduced by substituting wheat flour with other ingredients like rice bran flour. Rice
bran has high fiber content so it is good for health. One of the processed products made
from bran flour is white bread. The use of bran flour on white bread results in changes
in physical and chemical characteristics of the bread. The way to improve the physical
qualities of white bread, especially in the development of bread volume is by adding
acidulant. Acidulant contains organic acids which reacting with baking soda to produce
CO2 and H2O. Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is an ingredient that contain a lot of
organic acid so that it is expected to be an acidulant in the manufacture of white bread
based on the sustitution of bran flour. This research is aimed to determine the effect of
tamarind as acidulant and substitution of rice bran flour on physicochemical
characteristics of white bread, including development volume, pore diameter, color,
texture and moisture content. The research method was made by making white bread
with various concentrations, namely 100% wheat flour, bran flour (10%, 20% and 30%
of the total flour used), as well as the addition of tamarind juice acidity 25%, 50% and
75% of the total water used. Physical analysis carried out were the development of
volume, hardness, pore diameter and color. Chemical analysis carried out included
water content. Based on the results of this study, it was found that the addition of
tamarind juice at a concentration of 25% increased the development of volume, pore
diameter and moisture content of white bread, but reduced the hardness value of the
bread. The higher addition of bran flour could reduce the development of volume, pore
diameter and moisture content of white bread, but increased the hardness value of the
white bread.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the perception of professors, students, administrative staff and academic directors about social responsibility in four universities of Rio Grande do Norte (RN) – Brazil.

Design/methodology/approach
The research was carried out in four universities in RN, Brazil. A survey was conducted with 1,318 students, 118 members of the administrative team, 104 professors and 29 academic directors, to whom a Likert-type questionnaire was applied, with 65 items allocated in seven dimensions as follows: organizational governance, human rights, work practices, environment, legal practices, consumer issues and community involvement and development. Exploratory factorial analysis and Cronbach's alpha were the statistics used to analyze the data.

Findings
The research showed difficulties in assessing social responsibility aspects because of the lack of discussion and little socialization and debate of the data. Concerning everyday issues such as student service, environment issues, working conditions and local development is an exception because they have explicit opinions and often negative perceptions.

Research limitations/implications
The data used were self-reported they were subjected to bias, such as self-attribution and selective perception by community members. The lack of a theoretical model of social responsibility to study a non-profit organization. This study offers a theoretical contribution to analyzing six variables in non-profit organizations.

Practical implications
The data collection instrument also contribute to Brazilian universities can meet the evaluation criteria of higher education institutions in Brazil by Law 10.861/04, which established the national higher education evaluation system.

Social implications
This contribution allowed the authors to understand, which of them find the most consensus among stakeholders and which are the most contradictory, as well as to promote improvements in the implementation of social responsibility policies. The proposal of the instrument results in concrete actions for the adoption of the university, to accelerate the implementation of ISO 26000 in its statutes.

Originality/value
The study on social responsibility at universities of RN, Brazil, under dimensions of organizational governance, human rights, work practices, environment, legal practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development is innovative and supports other universities to think their processes and better contribute in training new generations of citizens and professionals.


۹  Research Article Distribution and Population Density of Cereal Cyst Nematode in Ardabil Province LALEH EBRAHIMI1, ZAHRA TANHA MAAFI2, HOSSEIN KARBALAEI KHIAVI 3, GHORBAN DIDEHBAZ MOGHANLO 3, YAHYA AZARMI4 , RAUF ZAMANI4 1BioControl Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran. 2Nematology Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran. 3Plant Protection Research Department, Ardebil Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Moghan, Iran. 4Ardebil Agricultural Jihad Organization, Ardebil, Iran. Received: 18.06.2019 Accepted: 11.08.2019 Ebrahimi L, TanhaMaafi Z, KarbalaeiKhiavi H, DidehbazMoghanlo G, Azarmi Y and Zamani R (2019) Distribution and population density of cereal cyst nematode in Ardabil province. Plant Pathology Science 8(2):9-15. DOI:10.2982/PPS.8.2.9 Abstract Introduction: Cereal cyst nematodes (CCN), Heterodera species, are important parasitic nematodes of cereal. Potato cyst nematodes (PCN), Globodera species, are also serious pests of potato world-wide. Continuous monitoring of these nematodes is necessary to prevent their damage to their host plants. This study was conducted to determine the distribution and density of these nematodes in Ardabil province, northwest of Iran, where potatoes are planted in rotation with cereals. Materials and Methods: One hundred and two soil samples were collected from potato fields in the suburbs of Ardebil, Nair and Namin cities in the first year, and 116 soil samples were collected from the wheat fields that were cultivated in the rotation with potato in the second year. The samples were transferred to the laboratory and examined for cyst nematodes. After isolating the cysts, identification of the species was performed based on morphological and morphometrical characteristics of the cysts and the second stage larvae. Results: Examination of the collected samples in both of two years indicated the presence of CCN in some soil samples, but PCN were not observed in none of the soil samples. The morphological and morphometrical data of isolated cereal cysts and comparison with valid identification keys led to the identification of Heterodera filipjevi. Mean numbers of the cysts with eggs and larvae in those samples that were collected in the first and second year were respectively 0.76 and 0.11 in 100 g of the soil. Wheat fields of Ardebil had the highest and fields of Nair had the least number of cyst nematode. Conclusions: The results of this study showed that some of the wheat fields in the province were infected with H. filipjevi and potato fields were not infected with any cyst nematode.


.............................................................................................................................. ii Dedication ........................................................................................................................... v Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................ vi List of Tables ................................................................................................................... xiii List of Figures .................................................................................................................. xiv Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ 1 Chapter 1 Understanding the Problem of Practice .............................................................. 3 History of School Function and Student Discipline ....................................................... 4 The Common School Movement ................................................................................ 4 Marginalization ........................................................................................................... 5 Harsh School Discipline and Corporal Punishment.................................................... 5 Socio-Cultural Framework.............................................................................................. 6 Drivers to the Problem of Practice .................................................................................. 8 School Culture and Social Constructs......................................................................... 8 The Cycle of Exclusionary Discipline ...................................................................... 10 Bias in Suspension Risk for African American Students ......................................... 12 Bias for African American Students with Disabilities .............................................. 13 Congressional Acts, Legal Precedence, and Policy Decisions ..................................... 14 Disciplinary Provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ................ 15


I was greatly encouraged toread 'Clinical governance fornurses: smoking cessationinterventions' (art&science June 20), at lastacknowledging the value ofthe quality of serviceprovided to smokers whowant to quit.


The increasing diversity of US higher education has brought greater language diversity to institutions nationwide. While writing studies researchers have increasingly paid attention to the linguistic diversity of student writers, little attention has been paid to the growing numbers of writing teachers who speak English as a second language. This article reports on a study in which we surveyed seventy-eight nonnative English-speaking instructors and conducted follow-up interviews with eleven of them. Following a presentation of the survey data and profiles of selected interviewees, we recommend ways of working with instructors and students in order to decrease language prejudices and better facilitate the professional development of nonnative English-speaking teachers in writing programs.


We analyze the reactions $A+A \to \emptyset$ and $A + B \to \emptyset$ occurring in a model of turbulent flow in two dimensions. We find the reactant concentrations at long times, using a field-theoretic renormalization group analysis. We find a variety of interesting behavior, including, in the presence of potential disorder, decay rates faster than that for well-mixed reactions.


Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (iPAH) is a rare and chronic disease associated with poor outcomes. Previously considered a disease restricted to the pulmonary circulation, PAH is now being recognized as a systemic disorder that is associated with metabolic dysfunction. The aim of this study is to analyze the metabolic reprogramming in the lung and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMCs) of iPAH patients and explore their potential roles in PAH pathophysiology.

 Five independent datasets, containing transcriptomic data of human PBMCs (GSE22356 and GSE33463) and lung (GSE48149 GSE113439 and GSE117261) samples, from 139 iPAH patients and 96 healthy controls, were downloaded at the GEO database. In each dataset, the samples were normalized and a pair-wise comparison between control and iPAH samples was performed using limma package, for the R programming language. Genes with a p-value lower than 0.05 were considered differentially expressed between the two groups. A subset of metabolism related genes was selected, and their expression was compared across the datasets.

 Among the 13 genes with differential expression identified, only 10 had a coherent expression across all datasets (Figure 1). Firstly, we report an association with insulin resistance through impairment of PI3K signaling in iPAH patients, by expressing lower levels of the heterodimer PIK3CD and regulatory PIK3IP1 and PIKR1 subunits in PBMCs, and by expressing higher levels of its downstream targets in the lung (TBC1D4). However, more extensive metabolic dysfunction was observed. A significant glycolytic shift in the lung and PBMCs was present, as a consequence of deregulation in genes involved in aerobic glycolysis and decreased fatty acid oxidation, namely increased expression of PD1K and lower levels of expression of LDHB. The findings of decreased SLC25A1 protein in both PBMCs and lung suggest impairment of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle flux in PAH. Additionally, SLC1A5 highlights the involvement of glutamine metabolism and glutaminolysis derangements in PAH. Conversely, SREBP1 is involved in sterol biosynthesis and lower levels in PMBCs results in impaired resolution of inflammatory responses. Finally, although the role of autophagy in iPAH is complex, higher levels of expression of ATG13 in PBMCs and lower levels in the lung confirm autophagy deregulation in iPAH. Interestingly, all the metabolic pathways identified (Figure 2) are hallmarks of the metabolic reprogramming seen in cancer cells, a finding already suggested by the clonal proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells described in plexiform lesions.

 Our results provide novel insights into the metabolic regulation in iPAH. Molecularly, these cells exhibit many features common to cancer cells, suggesting the opportunity to exploit therapeutic strategies used in cancer to treat iPAH.

 Type of funding sources: None.


This paper presents the background of a regulation,which is brought into force and focusing on the quality assessment for shipping company and ship in the Yangtze River.The framework is discussed.


The essay is designated to survey the construction of teaching of disciplinary educational curriculum by analyzing the importance of pedagogical content knowledge(PCK) in the frame of the teachers' professional learning.It works out rational framework of the content and system of the disciplinary education in terms of historical analysis of the discipline's advance,and further emphasizes the value of micro-instruction from the perspective of teachers' practical knowledge.


The implementation of foreign languages in preschool education has prompted the need for qualified teachers. However, most recent studies report a gap between the supply of qualified foreign language teachers of young learners and the demand for such teachers as foreign languages are introduced earlier and earlier. The authors of this paper present some models of initial and in-service training of preschool foreign language teachers in Slovenia. As learners' beliefs about language learning have been considered an important variable, like many other individual differences in language learning, the main aim of the research was to determine pre-service preschool teachers' beliefs about early foreign language learning. The research was conducted on a sample of 90 pre-service preschool teachers. The results imply that future preschool teachers are aware of the importance of foreign language learning and their awareness raises with the year of study. The results of the survey indicate that it would be beneficial to include early foreign language teacher training in the education of preschool teachers who are willing to teach foreign languages in kindergartens in Slovenia and elsewhere.


Observations on habitat, movements, population structure and recruitment of a troop of 85 free-ranging chacma baboons, Papio ursinus, were made in the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, South Africa...


The present invention addresses the problem of discovering an effective cancer therapy method and providing a medicine. Provided is a medicine comprising a combination of a compound represented by general formula (I), a salt, solvate or N-oxide of the compound or a prodrug of the compound or the salt, solvate or N-oxide and an immune checkpoint inhibitor (e.g., an anti-PD-1 antibody). The combination according to the present invention exhibits a high anti-tumor effect and is therefore useful for the treatment of cancer.


We derive a kinetic equation with a non-Markovian collision term that includes a memory effect from Kadanoff-Baym equations in ${\ensuremath{\varphi}}^{4}$ theory within the three-loop level for the two-particle irreducible effective action. The memory effect is incorporated into the kinetic equation by a generalized Kadanoff-Baym ansatz. Based on the kinetic equations with and without the memory effect, we investigate the influence of this effect on the decay of a single particle excitation with zero momentum in 3+1 dimensions and the spatially homogeneous case. The numerical results show that, while the time evolution of the zero mode is completely unaffected by the memory effect due to a separation of scales in the weak coupling regime, this effect leads first to faster relaxation than the case without it and then to slower relaxation as the coupling constant increases.


OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The goals of this project are to develop, disseminate, and evaluate an online, self-paced training module designed to help mentors better understand and support their mentees' motivation. The module introduces learners to the CARES mentoring model, which is rooted in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), one of the leading theories of motivation. According to SDT, an optimal mentoring environment provides support for mentees' psychological needs for Competence, Autonomy, Relatedness, Equity in extrinsic resources, and Structure (CARES). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Content for the CARES online module was drawn from a previously developed two-hour mentor training workshop designed for delivery in a face-to-face, small group setting. Content experts developed a slide deck and speaker notes. These materials were edited, adapted into a storyboard, and translated into a 60-minute interactive online module created with e-learning authoring software (Articulate Storyline). An evaluation survey was developed to assess mentors' perceived skills gains related to course content (e.g., "Encouraging my mentees to think about how well their psychological needs are being met within the work/training environment," "Recognizing how diversity, equity, and inclusion can be salient issues that impact a mentee's motivation") and mentors' confidence gains in their ability to implement motivation-focused practices into their mentoring relationships (e.g., "Autonomy: Giving my mentees freedom in deciding what goals to pursue and how they to do their work," "Competence: Working with my mentees to establish appropriate challenges to stretch their abilities"). The module was beta tested in October 2018 by 11 individuals with experience as mentors and in facilitating mentor training. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The beta testing process produced useful recommendations for improving clarity of content, visual design, and navigation. Users expressed a high level of enthusiasm for the content, which included a combination of practical information and empirical support for the CARES mentoring model. They also appreciated specific functionality in the module, including the presentation of brief case examples of mentoring scenarios that enhance or diminish motivation, opportunities for self-reflection, and a downloadable guide for initiating conversations with mentees about different domains in the CARES model. Evaluation data (quantitative and qualitative) from beta testers (n=11) are being analyzed. A preliminary examination of these findings found that mentors report gains from before to after the training in their self-perceived skills and confidence levels. Moreover, all expressed an intention to makes changes in their mentoring practices as a result of the training. Comments indicated potential value in offering a follow up face-to-face experience in which mentors can hear from others who have successfully implemented the CARES approach and acquire practice in skillfully implementing the CARES conversation guide with their mentees. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: This innovative e-learning module offers a readily accessible and theoretically driven training approach to help mentors recognize the value of supporting their mentees' motivation, and become more intentional in implementing motivation-focused practices into their mentoring relationships. In future work, the CARES module will be pilot tested with specific cohorts and in different implementation scenarios (as a standalone training, or combined with other programming) and made available to users nationally with support from the University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the NIH National Research Mentoring Network.


In the light of Glucker's claim to have found in De Divinatione 1.115 a separate, unnamed Pythagorean-Platonic influence on Cicero, I examine the passage again with special reference to early Platonic interpretation. I find that the Meno 's influence is wider than had been suspected, suggesting (i) the correspondence between the two types of 'natural' divination, dreams and ecstatic prophecy, and (ii) the kinship of souls. Posidonius' influence on the underlying interpretation of Platonic psychology is to be detected, insofar as he would have read Meno 81d as a statement about all souls (together) having all available knowledge. However, Cratippus, Cicero's other main source, can be held to have directly borrowed from Meno 81d2-3 for his crowning argument ( De Div. 1.71), and it is likely that other material that uses 81d would also stem from Cratippus. A little is known elsewhere of early interpretation of the Meno . Comparison with other early 'Platonist' material suggests strongly that we must look to Antiochus' school for this view that dreams regularly contain substantial truth explicable in terms of the nature of soul. This would lead once again to Cratippus, and nothing prevents our detecting his hand behind 1.115. Indeed 1.70, which Glucker uses to argue that Cratippus' dream-divining soul would literally have to leave the body, only makes good sense when understood metaphorically.


called 'Third World' his remark that the economics of non-profits 'is like development economics fifty years ago' doesn't exactly inspire confidence about the future of the third sector. Victor Pestoff achieves the remarkable feat of finding fresh perspectives on Albert Hirschman's much-abused trinity of exit, voice and loyalty. Paul Hoggett and Marilyn Taylor usefully link new thinking about structural change in delivery systems in the market with the development of networks in the non-profit world. Several authors, Torben Bager chief among them, point up the importance of cooperatives, whose habitual omission, at least in Britain, from discussions about the 'future of voluntarism' has prevented potentially important links from being made with constructive thinking in new economics. Yohanan Stryjan connects two themes in a particularly helpful way by describing how some of the spaces created by the reform of the Swedish welfare by the right-wing government which has just left office there have been colonised by cooperatives, which offer consistency with social values while meeting the standards of service quality demanded in that archetypical middle-class welfare system. Whether the totality of what is being sampled in this volume justifies Perri 6's closing claims for the value of work now being undertaken by academic researchers in the third sector is another matter. There is a faint tinge here of the 'boosterism' that he himself warns about elsewhere. JSP readers will not fail to rise (as their reviewer did) to his claim that it was voluntary sector researchers who helped to kill off 'the now defunct discipline of "social administration"'. Cock Robin's death certificate (see JSP and Critical Social Policy, passim) will show that he died of different causes; voluntarism's arrow was a flesh wound, at most. But what the volume does certainly demonstrate is the liveliness and variety of the work being done, from an increasing range of disciplinary perspectives, in a rapidly expanding field. Like the best sort of compilation CD, it makes the listener eager to hear the full versions. And for that the editors deserve thanks from (among others) those working in the far from defunct discipline of social policy.


We present a novel approach to non-monotonic ILP and its implementation called TAL (Top-directed Abductive Learning). TAL overcomes some of the completeness problems of ILP systems based on Inverse Entailment and is the first top-down ILP system that allows background theories and hypotheses to be normal logic programs. The approach relies on mapping an ILP problem into an equivalent ALP one. This enables the use of established ALP proof procedures and the specification of richer language bias with integrity constraints. The mapping provides a principled search space for an ILP problem, over which an abductive search is used to compute inductive solutions.


Remote learning replaced for almost a year the traditional face-to-face education to maintain and ensure the continuity of the teaching-learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic. This article reports the results of an exploratory and descriptive-transversal study that exposes primary and secondary school students' perceptions about their experience with remote learning during 2020. Though the research study was also aimed at finding out potential teaching and learning issues inherent to remote education, we only focus on reporting the main findings on the determining factors that hindered or enhanced students' learning during their remote education experience. Data were collected through two different surveys addressed to 101 secondary and primary school students from Neiva and Pitalito, the two most populated towns in the state of Huila, Colombia. The findings showed that the students' learning was both positively and negatively influenced by several factors affecting interaction inside and outside of the classroom setting.


Acid corrosion inhibitor. New compositions for inhibiting corrosion of pipes, pumps and other metallic materials that may be in contact with highly acidic solutions used in the stimulation of oil wells and the like are described. Such compositions contain (A) cinnamaldehyde and / or substituted cinnamaldehyde, and (B) urea.


ABSTRACT Males of the green June beetle Cotinis nitida are regularly attacked by birds as they search for females on lawns but which bird species feeds on the beetle changes from year to year. In 2018 for the first time on a farm in northern Virginia, brown thrashers (Toxostomum rufum) joined blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) as major predators of the beetles. The two species employed very different tactics when hunting for June beetles, with the thrashers searching while walking forward on the mowed lawn while the jays scanned for beetles when perched in trees about the lawn. The beetles became very scarce at the lawn in early July in 2017 and 2018 and their predators apparently moved elsewhere. Subsequently, male beetles were occasionally observed patrolling a nearby hayfield in search of mates with rare copulations recorded after July 15. Because predatory birds could not exploit the beetles in the tall grass of the hayfield it seems likely that the mowed lawn constituted an evolutionarily novel ecological trap which made searching beetles conspicuous and easily captured by beetle-hunting birds.


Although clinical outcomes have been reported for patients who do not accept allogeneic blood transfusion (ABT), many previous studies lack a control group, fail to use risk adjustment, and focus exclusively on cardiac surgery.


While historians have learned much about the political, social, and economic roles of the Ottoman provincial elites (a'yān) in the 18th century, little is known about their cultural orientations and personal interests. Functioning as political intermediaries between the Ottoman central government and local populations, the majority of the a'yān were effectively placed in an ambiguous position between the cosmopolitan demands of service as Ottoman officials and the cultural particularism of the local society in which they were or had become rooted. This study takes in hand the foundation document of a college (madrasa) built in mid-18th century Aleppo by a Muslim judge (qadi) and merchant, Tahazâde Ahmad Efendi. Examining together the document's constituent elements, primarily the library inventory, personnel recruitment strategy, curriculum stipulations, and prayer supplications, this study discerns a calculated and fine-tuned effort on the part of the founder to fashion a distinct and autonomous social status and cultural identity. On the one hand, Ahmad Efendi identifies with the Ottoman legal and social establishment as through the prescribed teaching of Hanafi jurisprudence in the curriculum of the madrasa, the plurality of Hanafi texts in his library, and his cultivation of Turkish and Persian poetry in the Edeb-i Osmani tradition. On the other hand, Ahmad Efendi carves out a space within which he asserts his own cultural and intellectual orientation. This is seen most notably through promotion of his sharīf lineage and pursuit of group leadership as naqīb al-ashrāf, which is reinforced by ownership of prestigious genealogical texts in his library; the cultivation of an pre-Ottoman awareness tied primarily to the Mamluk Sultanate as seen in his concentrated acquisition of chronicles and biographical dictionaries of that era and his affiliation with multiple pre-Ottoman Sufi orders with proud but temporally remote local histories; his extensive financial and technical support for the training of timekeepers (muwaqqits); and, perhaps most strikingly, his explicit and extensive patronage of Kurds, primarily from the area of Mosul, as teachers and students in his madrasa.


In order to calculate eddy current loss and magnetic field distribution in iron core of single-phase three-legged transformer under DC bias, and to analyze local overheating problem, this paper puts forward to the coupling model of transient electric circuit and magnetic circuit considering core topology and nonlinearity of ferromagnetic materials. The transient distribution and variation of eddy current loss and magnetic field of single-phase three-Iegged transformer under different bias conditions are studied. The result shows that the waveform of transient eddy current loss and magnetic field in the iron core are shifted under DC bias. The amplitude of the eddy current loss and magnetic field grow nonlinearly with DC. The amplitude in B phase core column grows faster, which indicates the DC intrusion has greater influence on B phase core column.


Deposition of compound thin films with reactive magnetron sputtering method causes a lot of difficulties, of which the main ones are the instability of the process and decrease of the deposition rate. Computer simulations were performed using Berg's model assumptions. Firstly, effect of basic process parameters on aluminum oxide deposition was examined, also theoretical characteristics of the deposition of Al2O3, AlN, TiO2, TiN were compared. Next, the parameters for efficient deposition of titanium oxide were determined. Simulations were confirmed by the results of experimental work. The purpose of presented work was to define, with Berg's model, mechanisms which enable deposition, in metallic mode of magnetron work, of oxides with properties near to stochiometric. Presented analysis results were compared to real process parameters observed during reactive sputtering .


Introduction: PT. X Surabaya is a company engaged in the field of construction services. Construction is an industrial sector which accounts for the highest accident rates in Indonesia. The high number of accidents in companies is a result of employee behaviors, one of which is related to the use of PPE. Based on Activator-Behavior-Consequence (ABC) model, factors that influence worker compliance behavior can be determined. From here, measures to strengthen or weaken the behavior can be proposed. This study aims to analyze the correlation between activator and consequence factors with compliance behavior in using PPE. Method: This study was an analytic observational study with a cross sectional design. This study used sample size by a total population of 32 construction workers at PT. X Surabaya. The variables studied were work motivation, reward, and punishment as independent variables, while the behavior of using PPE as the dependent variable in this study. Data were gathered by collecting company's secondary data, questionnaires, and observations by using critical behavior checklist instrument. The research analysis used the Spearman correlation statistical test. Results: The Spearman correlation statistical test showed that the relation between work motivation with compliance behavior in using PPE (r = 0.329), reward with compliance behavior in using PPE (r = 0.374), and punishment with compliance behavior in using PPE (r = 0.263) was weak. Conclusion: Work motivation, reward, and punishment had a correlation with compliance behavior in using PPE, but these factors had a weak correlation. There may be other correlated factors in determining compliance behavior in using PPE.


Practically, a pretensioned cable is replaced into the simple tension element. At the same time, for accuracy, there have been presented the sag-embodied elements based on the parabolic cable or the catenary cable. e. g. 1)-4) While for a mere cable assembly there exist certain analyses categorized into the force method, the displacement method has a potential capability to deal with a wide variety of "cable structures, " such as a mixture of cable and beam members. In a displacement method, the nonlinear equilibrium equations are iteratively solved for the nodal displacements. If the hanging cable element is employed, an additional difficulty is encountered. The spatial configuration is expressed in a nonlinear parametric form of tension components. That is, the nodal forces of each element are implicit in terms of its nodal coordinates. This compatibility problem has to be solved numerically for all the cable elements, on each cycle of the global iteration. So far as subjected to a uniform weight per unit natural length, the elastic catenary is exact for any tensions. But, when the cable is vertically hanging, with absence of the horizontal tension component, the characteristic relations become somewhat singular. In this study, after their degrees are clarified, a treatment of those singular states is presented for a complete utilization as a displacement-method element. Finally, the fractional correction method3) is verified to hold a consistent convergence in the compatibility problem, even if the singularity is involved.


Objective:To discuss two different ways of staining methods in evaluating myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. Methods:Anesthetized SD rats were subjected to myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury (ischemia 30 mins/reperfusion 6 hrs). Hemodynamic parameters were measured upon the completion of reperfusion in rats. The hearts were stained with TTC or Evans blue-TTC double-staining,separately,to determine the extent of myocardial damage. All the rats used in the experiment had the same LV morphology and the similar function. Results:The Evans blue-TTC double-staining method can measure the ratio of infarct areas-to-total left ventricular areas (I/R ratio),While the TTC staining can only measure the ratio of infarct areas-to-risk areas (I/T ratio). Compared with the I/T ratio,the I/R ratio has higher relevance with the cardiac function. Conclusion:The Evans blue-TTC double-staining method can determine the degree of myocardial damage induced by the ischemia-reperfusion injury more objectively and accurately than the TTC staining method.


The vocal cords are used to produce sounds, these sounds are called voice. The vocal tract acts as a cavity resonator with forming regions where the sounds produced are filtered. According to the constitution of the respiratory human apparatus, the larynx and the vocal cords and, our voice have a personal and unique timbre. In this paper the vocal tract is modeled using Helmholtz resonator that is excited by a source (the vocal cords) that is represented by vibrating strings using the wave equation, lumped element modeling is used to describe the Helmholtz resonators in an equivalent circuit model, and finally we will obtain the transfer equation of the model of voice production.


This paper analyzes the composition and pattern of migration within Cordoba province during the period of the Argentinean wars of independence. Studied are the two largest ethnic groups (Spanish and Mixed) using information provided by the census of 1813. Correlations between migration estimates are analyzed. The results obtained indicate that migrants were predominately males, the rest consisting of women and children. Movement took place generally from town to distant localities and the proportion of Spanish and Mixed migrants entering both areas was similar. Men, women and children migrated in comparable numbers, thus suggesting a family migration pattern. Correlation between the proportions of migrants among geographic units indicates equivalent patterns of men, women and children as well as ethno-social categories (Spanish or Mixed). One of the main factors determining migration could be the political and economic instability of Cordoba following the Colonial Period.


An optical drop multiplexing optical splitter, wherein the OADM optical splitter comprising: an input terminal trunk, branch input terminal, an output terminal trunk, branch output, OADM, the a beam splitter, a first detection circuit, a control circuit; said optical add-drop multiplexer comprising the optical switch. By detecting circuit detects whether the trunk failed, in case of failure trunk switches the operation mode from the first operation mode to the second operation mode automatically disaster trunk and branch to ensure the normal communication. Above scheme implemented disaster tolerance without an integrated amplifier. Without human intervention, disaster recovery rapid response speed, improve disaster recovery effect, greatly reducing transmission systems business interruption caused economic losses. Optical switching device used in a small volume of space requirements, low design complexity structure, thus reducing the complexity of the structure to reduce costs and improve the reliability.


This paper attempts to read Uncle Tom by focusing on his nonviolent resistance. Uncle Tom is one of the more distorted characters due to misrepresentations in popular play productions, vaudeville skits, minstrel shows and films. Uncle Tom has been criticized particularly by the Afro-American critics because of their claim that his obedience has solidified and perpetuated the white supremacy and the institution of slavery. This paper, however, argues that Tom`s nonviolent resistance should neither be considered docile nor reconciled to bondage against his will as he subjects himself to his white masters. In other words, Tom`s resistance can be considered more as an active protest against unfair violence rather than passive submission to brutality. Slavery contains within itself violence, thus intensifying numerous sectional, political, social and domestic conflicts. Instead of a revolutionary black hero to overturn the violence-ridden society, Stowe creates an obedient Uncle Tom full of self-discipline, sacrifice and communal love. Under the extreme violent circumstances, only Tom`s nonviolent resistance can break the vicious cycle of persistent violence and move the wicked, despaired and brutalized people into action. However, by depicting the appalling death of this saint-like Tom, Stowe draws the attention of the readers to the absurdity of slavery, which defines a dignified human being as a marketable property by dismissing values such as faith, motherhood, love and nonviolence.


OBJECTIVE
Evaluation of percutaneous ultrasound guided thrombin injection for treatment of postcatheterization pseudoaneurysms.

DESIGN
Prospective.

METHOD
In the period 1 April 1999-30 June 2000, all patients with postcatheterization pseudoaneurysms were included and primarily treated with ultrasound guided percutaneous thrombin injection. Under ultrasound guidance a 22 gauge needle was percutaneously positioned within the pseudoaneurysm and a thrombin solution was slowly injected to induce thrombosis. Distal pulses and ankle-brachial indexes were measured before and after the procedure. Colour Doppler ultrasound examination was repeated after 1 day, 1 week and 6 weeks.

RESULTS
Fourteen patients were included: 6 men and 8 women, age range 50-79 year (mean: 66 year). Thirteen of 14 pseudoaneurysms, 12 femoral and 2 brachial pseudoaneurysms, were successfully treated with thrombin injection. Twelve pseudoaneurysms thrombosed after 1 injection. Because of recurrence 2 patients needed a second injection. One patient developed a recurrence after 2 injections and was referred for surgical treatment. Doses of thrombin needed varied between 150-1000 units. The whole procedure took 15 minutes on average. One patient developed a superficial infection 2 weeks after treatment at the site of the thrombosed pseudoaneurysm which needed incision and drainage in the outpatient department. No thromboembolic complications were found.

CONCLUSION
Percutaneous thrombin injection appears to be an effective and safe procedure for the treatment of postcatheterization pseudoaneurysms.


This study presents the simultaneous coupling method (SCM) that enhances the shallow water equation (SWE) by replacing the conventional Manning approach with a direct assessment of the bed stress from the boundary layer. The SCM couples the SWE model with the k-ω model. The SWE calculates the depth average velocity that is used to assess the bed stress from the boundary layer using the k-ω model. The developed method has the advantage from the simplicity and efficiency of the SWE while providing an accurate estimation of the bed stress. The k-ω model was verified with experimental cases and showed good performance in estimating the bed stress. The SCM was verified and used to simulate three cases of the solitary wave run up on a sloping beach. The SCM successfully assessed the boundary layer beneath the solitary wave run up. The SCM is able to provide a more accurate bed stress as compared to the conventional Manning approach. The SCM is able to explain the known bed stress behaviors under unsteady wave motion. The accurate bed stress estimation leads to a higher accuracy of the wave profile and run up height prediction. The SCM is a valuable tool for understanding the boundary layer characteristic under the wave motion in practical application.


Objective:To observe the therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM),a therapy for nourishing kidney,dredging collaterals and removing turbidity (NKDCRT),in treating diabetic nephropathy (DN) induced renal inadequacy at decompensation stage.Methods:Sixty-nine patients with DN-induced renal inadequacy at decompensation stage were randomly divided into treatment group (35 cases) and control group (34 cases).Patients in treatment group were treated with NKDCRT decoction and basic treatment,while control patients with Bailing Capsules and basic treatment.Before and after treatment,the clinical effects,TCM syndrome scores and biochemical indicator changes such as glycometabolism,lipid metabolism and renal function were observed.Results:After treatment,TCM syndrome scores in treatment group were significantly lower than those in control group (P0.01).The total effective rate and stable rate in treatment group was 71.43% and 91.43%,respectively,being significantly higher than 26.47% and 54.29% in control group,correspondingly.The renal dysfunction,blood fat disorders and glycometabolism disorders were all improved in treatment group,being superior to those in control group (P0.01).Conclusion:NKDCRT therapy,in mainly treating DN-induced renal inadequacy at decompensation stage,could improve renal function and clinical symptoms and regulate blood lipids.


Surface nanocrystallization(SNC) was a new surface treatment technique for metals,which can provide repeated loads acting on the metal surface,and a gradient nano-micro-structured surface layer can be synthesized on ferrous material through intense plastic deformations.This unique gradient structure can not only be used to study deformation-induced grain refinement mechanisms and structure-property relationships within a wide-range(from nano-to micro-meters),but also significantly enhance over-all properties and behaviors of ferrous material,therefore it was expected to achieve practice application.Recently,more and more investigations were focused on the SNC due to its scientific and technological interests,and the SNC become a new branch for the development of the nano-materials.Investigation results on the SNC technique,including synthesizing methods,structure,property and chemical treatment,were presented.


Young drivers are over-involved in serious road crashes due to a combination of factors, including inexperience, risky driving, the nature of their driving exposure and lifestyle. As a population group they are justifiably the focus of many road safety initiatives. Whilst risky driving is common among young drivers and generally reduces with age, there does appear to be a subset of young people who are at far greater risk than the average young person. This paper summarises a project investigating whether it is feasible to identify higher risk young people and effectively intervene prior to them engaging in unsafe driving behaviours. Investigations included: literature reviews; review of young driver fatality coronial data; consultation with government agencies; advice from experts in road safety, juvenile justice, developmental psychology and health. The research literature indicates it may be possible to identify young people who may have a greater likelihood of becoming a higher risk young driver than average. While no particular trait or descriptor is completely accurate in predicting who will become risky on the roads, some patterns are evident. The young people more likely to engage in unsafe driving include those with: high sensation seeking and impulsivity traits; conduct disorders; anti-social behaviours; lower than average attentional abilities; anti-social peers; poor family relationships, especially low parental monitoring.


Ministry religion Is one of government institution that focusing in religion
problem and education. Data processing of Islamic education in ministry religion
Palembang have many problem in old system procedure. They are many mistake
in data input process from old system and also system run slow and make data
recapitulation process take more time, in the other hand result that we expect no
effective and also not efficient. Because of that writer have built an application of
Islamic education data collection in religion ministry in Palembang with php as
program language, dreamweaver cs5 as an editor, and php mysql as database


The development of a sufficient understanding on which to base decisions or make predictions often requires consideration of a multitude of data of different types and with varying levels of uncertainty. The data for the development of numerical groundwater flow model includes time-constant parameters and time-variant parameters. The time-constant parameters were mainly extracted from thematic data layers generated from GIS and image processing of remote sensing data. Integrated approaches in GIS play a rapidly increasing role in the field of hydrology and water resources development. It provides suitable alternatives for efficient management of large and complex databases developed in different model environments. Remote sensing (RS) technology is capable of providing base for quantitative analysis of an environmental process with some degree of accuracy. It provides an economic and efficient tool for landcover mapping and has its advantages in planning and management of water resources (Ashraf and Ahmad 2008 & Ahmad et al., 2011). One of the greatest advantages of using remote sensing data for hydrological investigations and monitoring is its ability to generate information in spatial and temporal domain. Though, the presence of groundwater cannot be directly ascertained from RS surveys, however, satellite data (GRACEGravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and GOCE-Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) provides quick and useful baseline information on the parameters that control the occurrence and movement of groundwater such as geomorphology, direction of groundwater flows, lineaments, soils, landcover/landuse and hydrology etc.


Surface magneto‐optical Kerr effect is used to measure magnetic hysteresis loops for Ni‐Fe bilayers previously studied by ferromagnetic resonance [Phys. Rev. 38, 12879 (1988)]. The approach to saturation in the [11] direction confirms the existence of enhanced fourfold in‐plane magnetic anisotropy, attributed to the effect of arrays of misfit dislocations arising during the epitaxial growth of bcc Ni overlayers on ultrathin layers of bcc (001)Fe. The [11] magnetization curves for 10 monolayers (ML) of Ni on 7 ML of Fe shows a breaking of symmetry between positive and negative fields. This is ascribed to spin configurations frozen during growth.


The provision of a normal thermal regime for the future design of the radio-electronic device at the design stage prior to its manufacture is considered. The effect of the form of the radio electronic device on its temperature regime at the stage of its design is established. Tha algorithm for the thermophysical design of single-unit radioelectronic devices has been developed. For the first time recommendations were received on the choice of the optimal form of the radio electronic device at the design stage prior to its manufacture.


While recent work suggests that quantum computers can speed up the solution of semidefinite programs, little is known about the quantum complexity of more general convex optimization. We present a quantum algorithm that can optimize a convex function over an n-dimensional convex body using O~(n) queries to oracles that evaluate the objective function and determine membership in the convex body. This represents a quadratic improvement over the best-known classical algorithm. We also study limitations on the power of quantum computers for general convex optimization, showing that it requires Ω~(n) evaluation queries and Ω(n) membership queries.


Numeracy is an integral part of any language. For any linguistic discourse in a language to be meaningful, it should make reference to numbers. Yorùbá language employs vigesimal numerals of counting which involves complex calculation and had led various users to neglect its use. Despite scholars' efforts at finding lasting solution to this problem, learners are fast losing grip of the numerals. By way of contribution to solving the problem, this study examined the effects of vigesimal and decimal learning modes on students' learning outcomes in Yoruba numerals. A total of 180 Junior Secondary schools sixty students were randomly selected in one of the three selected secondary schools in Ijebu-Ode local government area for the study. Treatments were administered to the students. Vigesimal and decimal learning modes were administered to two experimental groups, students' previous knowledge on vigesimal numerals was considered for control group. Two research instruments were used namely: Yoruba numeral achievement test (r = 0.76), students' attitudinal questionnaire towards Yoruba numerals (r = 0.74). Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyse data at 0.05 significant level and Sidak post hoc analysis was used to explain the direction and source of obtained significant effects. The findings revealed that the main effects of treatments were significant both for vigesimal mode (F (2, 161) = 35.975, P < 0.05) also decimal mode (LM= 16.128), There was significant main effect of treatment (learning mode) on students' attitude to Yoruba numerals (F (2, 161) = 3.824, P < 0.05). The study concluded that Decimal Multidisciplinary Journal of Language and Social Sciences Education | Volume 2, No. 2. (Pub. 31.12.2019) 80 Yorùbá is an effective strategy in enhancing students' learning outcomes in Yorùbá numerals. It was therefore recommended that policy makers, curriculum planners and teachers should ensure its adoption into the school curriculums.


Deakin University's online study environment continues to grow with over 12,000 students now studying in the Cloud. It is important to provide these students not only academic support, but also a sense of inclusion and community. This will improve their social engagement and from there, they will more likely succeed. In 2015, the Division of Student Life ran an online pilot based on their successful Peer-Assisted Study Sessions program. Results from the pilot were positive. Students reported greater connection with the subject and with their fellow students. The program will be expanded in 2016 based on this pilot.


The invention belongs to the technical field of pharmacy, relates to a polypeptide vaccine salt and a preparation method thereof, and especially relates to a KIFGSLAFL acetate, a preparation method thereof, and a medicinal product containing the KIFGSLAFL acetate.


Integration of renewable energy distribution generators (REDGs) into the existing power grid has become more popular due to the technical benefits. The optimal location and sizing of the REDGs, particularly the photovoltaic (PV) and wind turbines (WT), remains a challenge due to the stochastic nature of these energy sources. In this work, we propose a method based on the Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO) algorithm to solve the optimal planning of REDGs problem. The HHO technique is used to minimize the active power losses and maximize the voltage stability of a network integrated with the REDGs. The proposed HHO technique is validated on the standard 33 and 69 IEEE bus systems. The results show that the proposed HHO technique improves the voltage stability and minimizes the active power losses in the system.


To generate transgenic animal bioreactors expressing human lysozyme(hLYZ),a hLYZ cDNA of 1.5 kb was amplified by RT-PCR from the pooled first-stranded cDNA of human mammary gland using a pair of primers based on the previously published cDNA sequence for hLYZ.The cDNA was subcloned into pGEM-T vector and submitted to sequence analysis.Amino acid sequence alignment showed that the cDNA was 100% identical to that cloned from human placenta,macrophages and colon,and differed by 1 amino acid and 6 amino acids,respectively,from that cloned from histocytes and Chinese placenta.The cDNA was subcloned into a mammary gland-specific expression vector and the resulting recombinant vector pCXLYZ was injected to milking mice via tail vein route.RT-PCR showed that the hLYZ cDNA was transcribed in the mammary gland and spleen,but not in heart,liver,and kidney of the injected mice.Micrococcal lysis assay of milk from the injected mice demonstrated that the cDNA was efficiently expressed in the mammary gland with an expression level of 69.3 mg/L.These data indicate that the construct may be used for generation of animal mammary gland bioreactors expressing hLYZ.


Abstract. Lynx is the future x-ray observatory with superb imaging capabilities (<1  arc sec half-energy width) and large throughput (2  m2 effective area @ 1 keV), which is being considered in the U.S. to take over Chandra. The implementation of the x-ray mirror module represents a very challenging aspect, and different approaches are being considered. Thin and low-weight substrates, working in grazing incidence configuration, are necessary to meet the severe mass constraints, but they have to also preserve the requirement of an excellent angular resolution. The use of monolithic glass (fused silica) shells is an attractive solution, provided that their thickness is kept very small [<4  mm for mirror shells up of 3-m diameter]. We present the optomechanical design of the Lynx mirror assembly based on this approach, together with the ongoing technological development process. In particular, we discuss the figuring process, which is based on direct polishing followed by an ion-beam figuring correction. A temporary structure is specifically devoted to support the shell during the figuring and polishing operations and to manage the handling of the shell through all phases up to integration into the final telescope supporting spoke wheel. The results achieved so far on a prototype shell will be discussed.