Secularization is of concern not only to theologians; the crisis has captured the interest of social and political philosophers. If Western theologians and advocates of liberal democracy remain optimistic and are attempting to rethink Christian proclamation and find adequate solutions to the challenges of a godless world, then Orthodox theologians and representatives of conservative thought are more pessimistic and see the only solution in a return to the ideals of the past. Democracy is based on Christian foundations and is doomed to self-destruction by secularization. Several consequences of secularization can be predicted. The introduction of secular ideas into social practice could lead to Christianity's dissolution into religious pluralism and the loss of its status as the "center" of European culture and civilization. The realm of religion could be reduced to the merely social, finding its expression in civil religion (as in the USA). The opposition of secularists and fundamentalists could be accompanied by the escalation of tension, expressing itself in a "conflict of civilizations" on religious grounds. A conservative revolution as a radical means of halting secularization could lead to new forms of totalitarianism, including the establishment of theocratic regimes


Six new flame-retardant poly(amide-imide)s (PAIs) 9a–f with high inherent viscosities containing phosphine oxide and hydantoin moieties in main chain were synthesized from the polycondensation reaction of N,N′-(3,3′-diphenylphenylphosphine oxide) bistrimellitimide diacid chloride 7 with six hydantoin derivatives 8a–f by two different methods such as solution and microwave assisted polycondensation. Results showed that the microwave assisted polycondensation, by using a domestic microwave oven, proceeded rapidly, compared with solution polycondensation, and was completed in about 7–9 min. All of the obtained polymers were fully characterized by means of elemental analysis, viscosity measurements, solubility test, and FTIR spectroscopy. Thermal properties and flame retardant behavior of the PAIs 9a–f were investigated using thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA and DTG) and limited Oxygen index (LOI). Data obtained by thermal analysis (TGA and DTG) revealed that these polymers showed good thermal stability. Furthermore, high char yields in TGA and good LOI values indicated that these polymers are capable of exhibiting good flame retardant properties. These polymers can be potentially utilized in flame retardant thermoplastic materials. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 102: 5062–5071, 2006


The position on Isiamic law compilation based on Presidential Instmction number 1 the year of 1991 in National System ofLaw isdirected to the position of Presidential Instniction it self in the procedure on ordinance In Indonesia, itmeans that Islamic Law Compilation is subordinate or it is lower than ordinance and Governmental Regulation. There no forbidden for Religious Judge however to make islamic Law Compilation Is one ofthe reference ofguldence in deciding caseat Religious Court, especially ifitis fail to gain the basic material on the higherrule oflegislation.


The expansion of the concept of globalization and industrialization has increased the number of corporate sectors around the world in recent times. The investors still expect to maximize their profit and assets on the other hand the public has become increasingly aware of the importance of the responsibility of corporate sectors towards society. Many of the corporate sectors fulfilling the expectations of the society, but few of them do not consider about the problems and needs of the society. It has been increased the economic insecurity, human rights abuses and environmental degradation. In 2013, the government of India have enacted the new law under the Companies Act 2013, to protect the society and to increase the social responsibilities among the corporate sectors in India. Under the Companies Act, 2013, any company having a net worth of rupees 500 crore or more or a turnover of rupees 1,000 crore or more or a net profit of rupees 5 crore or more should mandatorily spend 2% of their net profits per fiscal on CSR activities.


The most reliable detection of a fire outbreak in waste stores is personal monitoring. Where for rationalization reasons an uninterrupted direct monitoring of the store is not intended, an automatic fire control with infrared cameras should be envisaged. The extraction of useful material from waste favoured today, whose expenditure seems justified only by separate collection, leads, due to a slackening collection frequency, to an increased self-ignition inclination in the store. The resnlting overall higher temperature level the collected store does not permit a differentiation of hazardous and harrnless storage conditions on the basis of pysical parameters.


Objective To explore the effects of nursing intervention on understanding of proper use of medicine in hypertensive patients at community.Methods 85 patients with hypertension were interviewed using the questionnaire of misunderstanding of proper use of antihypertensive therapy.Meanwhile the health education of hypertension was performed at the community.Results the rate of misunderstanding of proper use of medicine in hypertensive patients at community decreased significantly after the health education(P0.05).Conclusion The health education of hypertension can correct the misunderstanding of proper use of medicine in hypertensive patients,improve the compliance of patients with antihypertensive therapy and prevent complications.


Dr. Rajammal P. Devadas was not only a great institution builder, but also a scientist who wished to create fora for the expression and publication of scientific work relating to Nutrition and Dietetics. On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education, it will be proper to remember the monumental contributions of both Shri. Avinashilingam Chettiar and Dr. Rajammal P. Devadas to building this great centre of research and education which has provided the building blocks for a national nutrition security system.


There is huge gas resource potential in the continental facies clastic reservoir of Xujiahe Formation in Upper Triassic of Sichuan Basin. In recent years, commercial gas flow has been got in central Sichuan, such as Hechuan and Guang'an etc. In the study area, Xujiahe gas reservoir is mainly lithologic gas reservoir and compound traps of lithologic-structural gas reservoir. The reservoirs are very heterogeneous horizontally and vertically, and most of them are thin interbedding with low porosity and low permeability. Moreover, the reservoir fluid contents are very complex, so it is very difficult to perform reservoir prediction and fluid detection. Aimed at this type of lithologic gas reservoir, prestack high-fidelity processing technique has been applied to obtain prestack gathers with high quality, then, prestack quantitative reservoir prediction technique, mainly including elastic parameter inversion, as well as hydrocarbon detection technique which integrates elastic multi-parameter method and expanded elastic impedance inversion have been applied to improve the accuracy of reservoir prediction and fluid detection, and good application effects have been achieved.


Daily applications of two levels of synergized pyrethrins plus MGK Repellent-1207® (3-chloropropy1 octyl sulfoxide) were applied to one herd of beef cattle in each of two environmental areas to determine the effect of horse fly (Tabanidae) control on rate of infection of anaplasmosis under field conditions.

Horse fly population densities were low in both treatment and control herds in one area. During the period of peak horse fly activity less than 1.0 fly per animal was recorded in both the treatment and control herds, thus no valid results were obtained. In the other area 77.0% control of horse flies was obtained during the peak period of adult activity. A comparison of preseason and postseason blood samples of all animals subjected to the complement-fixation test for anaplasmosis showed a 14.1% greater increase in the percent reactors in the untreated than in the treated herd. Twelve deaths occurred in the wooded area in the control herd, presumably owing to anaplasmosis, whereas only one occurred in the treatment herd.


The identification of the BRCA1 gene is a powerful tool for predicting a patient's lifetime risk for carcinoma of the breast and ovary when she has hereditary breast/ovarian carcinoma (HBOC) syndrome. The process of BRCA1 testing and genetic counseling, and participants' reactions to test results, are described.


This study aims is to evaluate the rhizobacteria potency from the local onion rhizosphere as a trigger for the growth of shallot plants. The study conducted in the Laboratory of Agronomy, Agriculture Faculty, Halu Oleo University. Research arranged in a completely randomized design (CRD) consisting of 20 rhizobacterial isolates. Analyses of data using analysis of variance to test viability and seed vigor, while the ability of bacteria to produce IAA growth hormones, phosphate solubilization, and nitrogen fixation were analyzed qualitatively. The results showed that the inoculation of the rhizobacterial isolate could increase the vigor and viability of shallot seeds. Rhizobacteria's ability to increase seed viability and vigor both directly and indirectly relates to its ability to produce IAA growth hormone, phosphate solubilization and nitrogen fixing. Of the 20 rhizobacterial isolates, there were 19 isolates that we're able to fix nitrogen, 13 isolates which could solubilize phosphate and 16 isolates, which were able to synthesize IAA growth hormone. It concluded that among the isolates tested, selected ten isolates, which have the potential to increase the vigor and viability of shallot seeds, namely: Twb11, Lt10, Twb02, Twb06, Lp03, Lw02, Lw07, Tt01, Tt02, and Lr05.


Relatively high quality Josephson tunnel junctions have been fabricated using e-beam coevaporated Nb-Al thin film alloys as the base electrode. Alloys of various Al concentrations, and deposited at several substrate temperatures, have been studied. Structure analysis indicates that these alloys contain metastable disordered bcc and/or amorphous phases. Low excess tunneling currents and a small barrier dielectric constant ( \varepsilon_{r} \sim 5 ) can be achieved by oxidizing an aluminum layer which is deposited on the base electrode as the tunnel barrier.


Eighteen volatile monoterpenes, which are among the major constituents of essential oils from plants, were screened for phytotoxicity to several crop and weed species. Several monoterpenes containing an oxygen function severely inhibited germination of four different annual weeds while concurrently displaying little effect on soybean germination. Soybeans varied in their sensitivity to various monoterpenes (measured by seedling growth), with α-terpineol and geraniol selectivity inhibiting weed seed germination while having little or no effect on soybeans. All of the monoterpenes tested exhibited relatively high germination and growth inhibition to corn and wheat.


This paper reported the results of serological type of patients with Rickettsiatustusgamushi using micro-IF in Dan prefecture.The results of serological typing of 199 patients showed that 120 cases (63. 30% ) wereof Karp type; 40 cases (20. 10% ) of Gilliam type; 31 cases (15. 58% ) belonged to Karp+Gilliam type; 3 cases were Kato type; 3 cases were Karp+Kato+Gilliam type; 2 cases wereKarp + Kato type'The study showed that main epidemic type of R' tustusgamushi in the area was Karptype, the next were Gilliam type and Karp+Gilliam type.


The electric quadrupole interaction (QI) of ${}^{181}\mathrm{Ta}$ on Zr sites of nanocrystalline ${\mathrm{ZrO}}_{2}$ prepared by crystallite condensation, oxidation, and in situ compaction was investigated by perturbed-angular-correlation (PAC) measurements which show the existence of three components with different QI parameters. The dominant contribution to the PAC spectra is characterized by a broad distribution of strong axially asymmetric electric-field gradients, suggesting a highly disordered oxygen environment of the Zr sites in the nanocrystallites in addition to a distribution of probe sites in the crystallite interfaces. The other two PAC components correspond to monoclinic and tetragonal ${\mathrm{ZrO}}_{2}$. The thermal evolution of the phases in nanocrystalline ${\mathrm{ZrO}}_{2}$ was studied by isochronal annealing between 290 K and 1500 K. The complete transformation of the disordered component to the monoclinic phase requires an annealing temperature of ${T}_{A}=1400 \mathrm{K}$, indicating that complete defect recovery occurs only after a martensitic transformation cycle through the high-temperature tetragonal phase.


Rid rubber and polyvnyl chloride bronchial double lumen tubes were compared. Polyvinyl chloride rubes are easier to puss, quicker to position und cause less damage to the mucosa of the respiratory tract than the red rubber equivalents.


Corresponding Author Hüseyin Durukan Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Kadın Hastalıkları ve Doğum AD, 33343 Yenişehir, Mersin, Turkey E-mail: email@example.com  Ethics Committee Approval Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Mersin University: registration number: 2019/48. All procedures in this study involving human participants were performed in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.  Conflict of Interest No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.  Financial Disclosure The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.  Published 2021 May 3


Background . Abon is a dry food products with a crunchy textured and have a relatively long shelf life. Dregs tofu is the manufacture of solid waste out. Research Ridayanti, et al (2006) regarding the manufacture of shredded dregs tofu with dregs tofu formula of 50% and 50% addition of young jackfruit give organoleptic properties are preferred. Required the addition of a food that is rich in nutrients, easy to obtain, and have a low economic value of the chosen addition of tilapia fish. Research Wulandari (2007) is the substitution swordfish with tilapia fish in the manufacture of shredded much as 50% give organoleptic properties that are preferred by the panelists. Objective. To identify effect of adding Tilapia fish meat toward organoleptic properties (taste, smell, color, texture) of shredded dregs tofu tilapia fish. Research M ethods . an experimental study design with a completely randomized design (CRD) one additional factor tilapia fish meat 10%, 30%, 50%, 70% and 90%. Treatment was repeated 3 times. The parameters observed organoleptic properties (color, smell, taste and texture). Data were analyzed using ANOVA. Research Result : Treatment t4 (70%) are most preferred in terms of color and taste, treatment t5 (90%) are most preferred in terms of smell, and treatment t2 (30%) are most preferred in terms of the texture of Abon ATM. Color obtain scores of panelists from 3.72 to 3.76, scores of smell 3.56 to 3.84, scores of taste from 3.42 to 3.72, and scores of texture from 3.64 to 3.96. The addition of tilapia fish meat no significant effect on the color, smell, and texture of Abon ATM (p>0,05) and significant effect on the taste of Abon ATM (p<0,05). Conclusions: The addition of tilapia fish meat significant effect on the taste of Abon ATM (p<0,05). The addition of Tilapia Fish meat 70% (t4) that is recommended.


The transvestite's mate often seeks psychiatric consultation following discovery of her partner's cross-dressing. The clinical management of such situations is complex and mandates investigation of how such women have coped with the knowledge that their partner wears women's clothes for sexual arousal. This report reviews the coping styles of 20 women married or living with transvestitic men. Depression, hostility, sadism and alcohol abuse were methods utilized to cope with their perverse mate. Therapeutic strategies are discussed to help such women during the initial stages of a consultation so that they may develop sufficient insight and information to intelligently manage the dilemma in which they find themselves.


Direct involvement of the user in the assembling process of his/her own products or even entire house is a reality among low-income populations in developing countries. Nevertheless, there are a limited number of products that have actually been designed from a do-it-yourself (DIY) perspective, which results in several problems, such as poor user safety while the product is being assembled or inadequate results from an improvised assembling. Hence, the main goal of this paper is to analyse barriers to and opportunities for developing DIY products for low-income housing in developing countries. The research method utilises a case study of a DIY product consisting of a hybrid solution that acted as both a partition wall and a wardrobe. The identified opportunities included more systematic use of existing craft competencies among low-income families and the possibility of cost reduction through DIY concepts. Major barriers included the perception of the DIY product as inferior and the difficulty of communicating the DIY assembly process to users who quite often are illiterate.


Parties to arbitration proceedings seated in London may wish to compel evidence from witnesses located outside the English jurisdiction by applying to the English and/or foreign courts for assistance. This article provides an overview of the available methods and discusses some of the practicalities thereof, together with likely developments in this area as a result of the United Kingdom's imminent withdrawal from the European Union.


The thermofluid dynamic fields in two-dimensional multiconnected domains are analysed by solving the Navier–Stokes equations with the Boussinesq approximation in the vorticity–velocity formulation. The need of an integral condition for the pressure to be single-valued on each independent irreducible loop, in analogy with the ω–Ψ formulation, is demonstrated. The field equations are discretized by a finite difference technique and solved at the steady state via an alternating direction implicit method of a scalar type. Two test cases at low Reynolds and Rayleigh numbers are considered: the multiconnected driven cavity and an annulus with isothermal walls and stationary or rotating inner cylinder.


Permutations and Combinations Permutations Permutation Groups Inversions and Inversion Vectors Special Classes of Permutations Combinations Exercises and Research Problems * Partitions, Compositions, and Young Tableaux Partitions Compositions Young Tableaux Exercises and Research Problems * Representing Graphs Data Structures for Graphs Elementary Graph Operations Graph Embeddings Storage Formats Exercises and Research Problems * Generating Graphs Regular Structures Trees Random Graphs Relations and Functional Graphs Exercises and Research Problems * Properties of Graphs Connectivity Graph Isomorphism Cycles in Graphs Partial Orders Graph Coloring Cliques, Vertex Covers, and Independent Sets Exercises and Research Problems * Algorithmic Graph Theory Shortest Paths Minimum Spanning Trees Network Flow Matching Planar Graphs Exercises and Research Problems


Objective To put forward the principles that should be followed for the hospital information system design in order to realize the digitalization and informatization construction of the modern hospital.Methods The design program and principle were taken into account from some factors such as clinical management,business procedure management and decision support management.Results The hospital information system design principle was made up under the condition of scientific and normative hospital internal management and bv using modern information technology such as computer technology,network communication and database technology.Conclusion The hospital information system based on the principle made up can realize the electronic hospital information management effectively.


The contemporary egyptian novel is often located in a big town, like Cairo, and not in the desert or in a oases. But some novelists, like Bahaa Taher, Nabil Naoum or Gamal Ghitany choose oasis and desert. One reason may be that such a remote location for fiction enables to assume a radical opposition to current and past politics in Egypt. Such a location is halfway between reality and fiction, and it reveals how deeply literature can build a parallel world in competition with physical or geographical reality.


The increasing complexity of environmental policy is a result of new and global environmental issues and IT developments. Global environmental impacts seem to result in new forms of governance and practices. This may require new or broader conceptual frameworks. Beside the disturbance chain (DPSIR), a well-structured process of data and information flows is also needed. Water mass and load balances also offer a lot of opportunities and may serve as a basic tool for policy measures, sustainable development or the development of complex indicators. It will be shown that balances relate in a stepwise pattern to a broad and high-level policy, making this process more efficient and effective. This approach is of practical use for integrated water management, although the description of this term should be restricted in favour of new terms dealing explicitly with governance aspects.


EAP-AKA is the extensible authentication protocol(EAP)for the authentication and key distribution using the Authentication and Key Agreement(AKA)mechanism used in the 3rd generation mobile networks.Based on thoroughly studying the authentication procedures of the EAP-AKA protocol,we verify and analyse its security by using the improved authentication tests.Finally,the verification result shows that the EAP-AKA protocol can satisfy the mutual authentication between the peer and the EAP server.


Development of analytical methods for the determination of phytosterols in whole grains is one of growing interests due to their clinical and nutritional functions in human. In this study, we examined simultaneous determination of β-si tosterol, stigmasterol and campesterol in Korean rice cultivars by liquid chromatography atmospheric chemical ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (LC-APCI-TOF-MS). The hulled rice samples were extracted using a modified QuEChERS and analyzed by LC-APCI -TOF-MS. The method was validated by low limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) values and high recovery values with low relative standard deviation (RSD). The highest concentration of sitosterol was detected in Hwasung and Undu rice cultivars, exhibiting approximately 195.5 and 191.7 mg/Kg, respectively. Stigmasterol and campesterol were detected at the highest level in Hwasung rice cultivar, giving the concentrations of approximately 70.0 and 53.9 mg/Kg, respectively. Sitosterol was determined to be a main phytosterol detected in the rice samples. Our data demonstrated that LC/APCI-TOF- MS coupled with QuEChERS method can be used as a simple tool for the determination of phytosterols in rice samples.


Our country has become the member of WTO, and moreover the agricultural productions are relatively surplus, so the adjustment of agricultural industry structure has become an important task. In such cases, we should abide by certain principles and take some measures to accelerate the adjustment of a-gricultural industry structure.


elanoma is a cancerous lesion in the pigment-bearing basal layers of the epidermis and is the most deadly form of skin cancer, yet it is also the most treatable, with a cure rate for early-stage melanoma of almost 100%. Therefore, there is a need to develop computer-aided diagnostic systems to facilitate the early detection of melanoma. The first step in these systems is skin lesion segmentation. The next essential step is feature extraction and pattern analysis procedures to make a diagnosis. According to the literature, pigment network or reticular pattern is an important diagnostic parameter for melanoma. We decided to work on this automatic melanoma detection system. In this paper, an introduction is given about different characteristics of the melanoma cancer images and a brief review has been present in which different features of melanoma have been discussed. Finally a survey has been given which carry out the analysis of melanoma images by different methods.


From the perspective of social exclusion theory,this paper takes families that enjoying minimal assurance in Dalian for example.The study starts from urban poverty space,analyzing the spatial distri-bution characteristics of the poor in Dalian,their living condition and the social exclusion they experience in economy,institution,social relation and market.Based on this,the author proposes some suggestion and measures to solve urban poverty.


In order to realize a simultaneous acquisition of the mixed vehicle-carrying signals, this paper put forwards a new acquisition system that synchronous controls the digital IO module, the vibration-and-noise module, the electrical pressure module, the temperature-measuring module, as well as the CAN module, under the mode of FPGA, which is based on the embedded platform CompacRIO, and it could also be controlled by both PC and PDA. The operating procedures of this system are highly reliable and compatible, specifically designed to be people-oriented. This paper gives a full introductions to how the multi-mixed signals are simultaneously collected, the deepening of the FIFO on FPGA, and how it could be controlled by PDA. Finally, the efficiency and stability of the system would be proved through the practical pressure tests of data-acquisition.


A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of herbicides and submergence period on the growth behaviour of emerging weed Red Sprangletop [Leptochloa chinensis (L.) Nees] in transplanted rice on a loamy sand soil during kharif 2003 and 2004 at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana in a split plot design with three submergence periods (one, two and three week after transplanting of rice) in the main plots and four herbicides (butachlor 1.5 kg, anilofos 0.375 kg, pretilachlor 0.75 kg and pyrazosulfuron 0.015 kg ha−1) along with an unweeded control in the sub plots. The two and three week submergence, though statistically at par, were significantly better than one-week submergence in registering better control of Leptochloa chinensis by reducing its emergence, plant height, LAI and dry matter accumulation leading to higher grain yield of rice. The submergence of two and three week registered 46.7 and 48.1 per cent increase in grain yield of rice over the one week submergence, respectively. All the herbicides were statistically at par but were significantly better than the unweeded control in respect of growth parameters of L. chinensis and grain yield of rice. The growth of L. chinensis was not adversely affected by herbicides under one week submergence.


Steganographic demolition using the LSB Algorithm is increasingly being carried out by researchers for modifications as needed. Previously, the LSB algorithm has been modified by doing a bit inverse where the message is inserted into the container image and then modified by looking at the 2nd and 3rd LSB bits. If the two bits are different then the inverse of the entered message bit (bit 1 LSB) is performed. However, if the two values are the same then the entered message will not be inverted. This modification is considered good but still lacks in the pixel position of the image that is inserted with the message (modification is done by inserting sequential images in an image). To cover this weakness, in this study a modification of the LSB with insertion based on the length of the message was carried out. Message insertion was carried out on random pixels of an image using the LCG algorithm and the number of message bits that were inserted varies according to the message length. Moreover, the modifications made should produce a better stegoimage than before, as evidenced by calculating the PSNR of a stegoimage. From the modification test results, it was found better results than before both in text message archiving (66.29 dB > 61.8 dB) or in image messages (54.20


Despite the research on PCBs occurrence in the various matrices in the world, no review has been carried out on the status of these substance contaminations in marine and freshwater sediments during the current periods throughout the globe. The objectives of this paper are to briefly discuss the occurrence of PCBs concentrations within marine and freshwater sediments in several places in the world and to determine which part of marine and freshwater sediments are the most contaminated in the world. The emphasis is on the last three decades namely from 1985 to 2020. The results suggested that during 1985 to 2010, the PCBs concentrations in the sediments ranged between 2 μg.kg−1 and 1648 μg.kg−1. The most elevated was found in Ionian Sea, Italia as the site where connected with high activities of industries, urban and harbor. The lowest one was reported in Bering sea and the Gulf of Alaska as the uncontaminated site during this era. Subsequently, a decade later which was recorded from 2011 to 2020 found the PCBs concentrations in the sediments ranged from 0.036 to 3730 μg.kg−1. The highest concentration was reported at coastal area at the center of Vietnam where linked with the urban and industries sites. Conversely, the lowest one was found at Chao River sediments where connected with the agriculture field. The evaluation of sediments guide lines quality through ERL (Effects Ranged Low) and ERM (Effects Ranged Medium) showed that the most contaminated marine and freshwater sediment in the world during 1985 to 2010 was at Ionian Sea, Italy, whereas in the recent period (2011 to 2020) was found in the Coastal area of Vietnam. According to this evaluation, these locations are high risk to the toxic effect particularly to the benthic organisms. Therefore, these places are high concerned in terms of protection and conservation of some marine biotas.


The WNV-BOT Portal project is an NSF-funded infectious disease informatics project (grant number: EIA-9983304) aimed at demonstrating and assessing the technical feasibility and scalability of a cross-jurisdiction, cross-species infectious disease information sharing, alerting, and analysis framework. The related technical and system development research is summarized in a regular paper and a demonstration plan appeared in this proceedings. In this project summary, we briefly present the project accomplishments and describe the inter-agency, inter-disciplinary, and academia-government partnership that has been critical to the success of our project. We also share the lessons learned from our project on important issues faced by many digital government projects such as data sharing, academic research versus practical applications, funding mechanism, and project management.


ULTIPLE OUTBREAKS of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) continue to be reported, and there is heightened awareness of this infectious disease among those associated with athletic and recreational activities. Although MRSA has primarily been linked to hospitals and other health care facilities, it has recently emerged as a growing concern among high school, college, professional, and recreational athletes. Those involved in athletic and recreational activities, such as athletes, coaches, parents, athletic trainers, and physicians, should become aware of the potential for MRSA infections.1 The purpose of this report is to present guidelines and recommendations for the prevention, detection, and treatment of MRSA in athletic and recreational settings.


A preliminary study investigating capabilities of a planned but not yet installed neutral particle analyzer (NPA) [1,2] system combined with a diagnostic neutral beam at Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) [3] is presented. Additionally two NPAs viewing the neutral beam injection (NBI) [4] source 8 beam and using it as neutral source are studied. The main focus is laid on what information about NBI fast-ion slowing down distributions can be inferred from active NPA measurements when altering the magnetic configuration, plasma β, density, electron temperature or radial electric field. For an order of magnitude estimation of the passive signal a model for penetration of neutral hydrogen recycling from the first wall is implemented. For the active signal a diagnostic neutral beam injector was simulated using FIDASIM [5]. The fast-ion slowing down distributions were calculated with ASCOT [6]. The synthetic NPA signal is found in general to be sensitive to changes in the fast-ion distribution function. Distinct features can be seen in the high energy active signal in the high-mirror configuration when changing β, especially, when looking at deeply trapped fast particles. However, for the initially planned installation geometry of the NPA diagnostic most fast-ion distributions exhibit only small differences in the magnitude and especially shape. In a high density case in the standard magnetic configuration with a central β of 8%, the fast-ion density in the core region is too low to provide a measurable flux of charge exchanged neutrals. The passive signal from the inner plasma regions is found to be negligible compared to the active signal.


Gold nanoparticles are the subject of intense studies due to the exceptional photooptical properties combined with the biocompatibility and has proved to be a powerful tool in various nanomedicinal applications. This book chapter discusses the recent advances and current challenges facing the biomedical applications of gold nanoparticles of various sizes and shapes. This chapter summarizes the applications of gold nanoparticles in biomedical area including diagnostic imaging, biosensing, drug delivery, and photothermal and photodynamic strategies etc. The key advantages of the gold nanoparticles including their ease of synthesis and functionalization together with biodistribution and toxicity has also been discussed. INTRODUCTION: NANOTECHNOLOGY "Nanotechnology" broadly defined as the creation of objects and surfaces whose unique functions are governed by the dimensions falling within the nanoscale. The prefix of the term "Nanotechnology" comes from the ancient Greek word να̃νος through the Latin nanus meaning literally dwarf or very small. Within the convention Irshad Ahmad Wani Govt. Boys Hr. Secondary School, Yaripora Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India Biomedical Applications of Gold Nanoparticles 75 of International System of Units (SI) it indicates the reduction factor of 10-9 times (Wani, 2014). Thus, nanotechnology manipulates matter at the one billionth of a meter. This one billionth, 10-9part of a meter represents a nanometer. A nanometer (nm) represents a collection of a few atoms or molecules. "Nanoscale" generally refers to objects 1-100 nm in one or more dimensions. At its lower limit this definition intentionally excludes individual molecules which generally define the lower end of the nanotechnology, i.e. nano derived features are as much a function of larger bulk materials approaching a molecular scale as they are a selective change in molecules' properties as they aggregate. Properties of the bulk materials of micrometer size or larges are currently well understood and studied by the solid state physicists and material scientists for years. Materials on the nanometer size lying within 1–100 nm scale were not studied by either group in the past. It has been very recently shown that on this size scale the properties of a material become dependent on its size and shape. At the nanoscale new properties develop due to the lack of symmetry at the interface or due to electron confinement that do not scale linearly with size. Thus, the nanometer scale (1-100 nm) incorporates collections of atoms or molecules, whose properties neither represent those of the individual constituents nor those of the bulk (Eustis & El-Sayed, 2006). New properties are observed on this scale due to the interface that is not observed in the bulk or individual atoms. Since the properties depend on the size of the structure, instead on the nature of the material, reliable and continual change can be achieved using a single material, e.g., quantum dots of CdSe of different sizes have differing maximum emissions across the whole visible region, and gold and silver nanostructures have absorption across most of the visible region (Eustis & El-Sayed, 2006). Nanometer scale is also interesting in biological systems (Gill, Dr., And, & Prof., 2005; Nathaniel L. Rosi and Chad A. Mirkin, 2005). Many proteins are nearly 10's of nm in size. Since structures can be accurately designed on the nanometer scale and these nanostructures can be incorporated into biological systems, due to the similar size scales. The ability to rationally design structures on the same size as biological molecules generates the ability to probe and modify biological systems. Furthermore, biological systems are used to build up nanomaterials of specific shape and function. Nanostructures are being used as drug delivery agents, labeling agents, sensors, and to enhance electromagnetic fields (Eustis & El-Sayed, 2006) as discussed latter. Due to the rapid increase in the applications of nanotechnology in different spheres of our life especially in biomedicine, the conventional therapies face a large number of challenges including poor bioavailability and intrinsic toxicity. These have seriously compromised the therapeutic efficacy of many otherwise beneficial drugs. Nanoscopic systems that alter the pharmacological and therapeutic properties of molecules are being designed to overcome some of these limitations (Chen, Mwakwari, & Oyelere, 2008). 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The purpose of the article was to confirm the thesis of the rapidly growing commercial importance of transnational corporations in food retailing in the world, especially in Poland and their influence on other actors in the food chain. The article presents the development of the largest commercial transnational corporations in the world and in Poland and description of the major changes in food trade in our country. The study based on an analysis of the literature and statistical data. It confirmed that the importance of commercial corporations in the food industry is very large and will continue to increase.


Several years ago my partner's teenage nieces suggested that I check out an animated television series from the US featuring a somewhat cynical and sarcastic misfit by the name of Daria. I quickly became a fan and for some time wrestled with how I could introduce Daria (Eichler and Lewis-Lynn, 1997-2002) to my Year 12 Media students. With the changes to the VCE Media Study Design implemented in 2012, the time was opportune to change the texts used for what used to be the 'social values' part of the course. As with all new adventures there were challenges throughout, pauses and stops as we confronted new concepts, and successes as we traversed the landscape of texts, discourses, society's 64 values, social issues and attitudes as well as critical analysis. I was fortunate to be supported on this journey by two excellent pre-service teachers, Helen Mason and Ranjit Nijjer, who made a significant contribution to the development of our senior Media students. What follows is how we went about it together with our lesson sequence. While we planned the teaching of the sequence to meet the requirements of the senior Victorian curriculum, we are confident that it can be adapted for use in other systems. The lessons are designed for 120-minute classes.


The aim of the research was to highlight the influence of industrial water on the germination of seeds and the development of seedlings of Pisum sativum L., so that the impact of these water on the plants may be assessed, in case of accidental spills. The analysis of polluted industrial water indicates the presence of Cr, Fe, Ni, Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn concentrations higher than CMA, except Cd, which was below the detection limit, and Cu. On leaving the neutralization station, metal concentration was below the CMA, except Pb. The early ontogenetic stages of root development were much more sensitive to water pollution. For the experimental variants where the seeds were immersed in water treated and discharged from the neutralization station, there were no significant differences between the experimental variants, which also confirms the results of the chemical analysis. The metals absorbed by the roots were translocated into the stem, which affected its growth processes. Along with the increased dilution in the polluted water, the average stem length also increased, which was also true of the root growth. Root and stem growth can represent biomarkers of environmental pollution by metals.


This paper presents a methodology which can assist small business managers making development decisions in growth communities. Development impact planning implications associated with the socioeconomic dynamics of the four types of communities identified in this analysis are discussed. These implications may prove useful in site selection and preliminary development planning for the small business operator located within, or considering a new venture in, a rapid growth area.


Though superficially The Revenant is an expertly written, acted, and directed new age Western about one man's wild quest for revenge. It is all of those things to be sure, but this critical review essay goes deeper and explores the ideological dimensions of the film, arguing that the film's main antagonist is actually a capitalistic hero representing the mindless application of the endless drive for profit and wealth. Furthermore, this essay concludes with the dialectical assertion that it is precisely because of the audience's situatedness within the ideological confines of capitalism that they are able to view the antagonist as the villain of the film.


The nonempirical Hartry-Fock-Rutaan procedure in the STO-3G basis including the electrons correlation according to the Moller-Plesset perturbation theory of the second order to calculate the one-electronic energy states of the carbon-, siliconand germanium hydrogens nanoparticles was applied (the increasing of their sizes makes them become corresponded tetrahedral semiconductors structures). The peculiarities of the energy spectrum of one-electronic states of the investigated nanoparticles caused by the defects of substitution the central atom the element from the third or fifth group of the same period were discussed.


To address the need for real-time accurate total beryllium analyses, Savannah River Technology Center Analytical Development Section personnel evaluated and modified a colorimetric screening method developed at Los Alamos National Lab to measure beryllium on surfaces. This method was based on a color complex formed by beryllium and chromium azurol s . SRTC converted this visual method to a quantitative analysis method using spectrophotometric detection. The addition of a cationic surfactant (hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, CTAB) to the Be-CAS system shifted the complex absorbance away from the CAS absorbance and allowed for the detection. Assuming complete dissolution and a 10 mL rinse solution volume to remove the beryllium from the wipe, the detection limit was calculated comfortably below the free release limit. The spectrophotometric method was rugged and simple enough that it could be used as a field method.


In vitro evaluation of the antagonistic properties of Trichoderma spp. against Pyrenochaeta lycopersici and Phomopsis sclerotioides was carried out, using two different methods: the cellophane-agar plate method and the duai culture method. With these methods, the direct interaction between pathogen and antagonist was demonstrated, showing very remarkable differences between the different isolates. Growth inhibition ranging from 20 to 100% was found. Proliferation in non-sterilized soil was investigated for the isolates showing the most interesting antagonistic properties. A Belgian isolate of Trichoderma hamatum was found to be able to proliferate very well in soil and to maintain a high population density during the whole experimental period.


In this paper, through the Monte-Carlo simulation, the interaction between electrons and material, a deck of paper and its surroundings, is traced. The deposit energy in the target is recorded when 2MeV and 3MeV electron beams pass through the deck of paper. To assume 200Sv could make virus in the paper die out, it is shown what intensity of electron beam we will need to deal for such as one ton of paper per hour rate. And we will get the surrounding radiation dose to make sure what kind of protection is needed to keep people safe.


Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) is a simple and efficient method to suppress inter-cell interference (ICI) in multi-cell OFDMA networks. Base station cooperation, or a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) multiple access strategy in the FFR cell-edge, will further improve the performance of the systems. This paper presents analytical performance analysis for the downlink FFR scheme in a cluster of three or seven cells with CoMP over generalized composite fading consisting of Nakagami-m fading, path-loss and log-normal shadowing. Our analysis include the effect of full and partial loading of inter-group interference (IGI) on the capacity of the cellular system. We demonstrate that by reducing the number of participating CoMP base stations in cooperating cluster, the IGI is reduced, maximizing the capacity of the system. Our framework able to compute the spectral efficiency via a single numerical integral and is applicable to arbitrary fading distribution. Numerical and simulation results are provided.


This paper focuses on discussions about establishing the design resistance of hollow section joints, which have now been ongoing for 30 years. The question arose once physical experiments could be replaced by numerical tests and was temporarily solved by agreement on a displacement limit within the IIW. With the advent of design using finite element (FE) solutions and the use of high‐strength steels, this question is being raised once more.


The use of reflective inorganic coverings in the soil has as main purposes, to improve the physical and chemical properties of the berries and consequently the quality of the must and wine. Therefore, this work aimed to evaluate the effects of different materials on soil cover, placed in two phenological seasons in two harvests, on fruit yield, quality of must and quality of wine. Treatments with plastic canvas and non-woven fabric, both in white, were used in the period of fruiting and color change, in the 2018 and 2020 seasons. It was observed through the results that the treatment with TNT in the period of maturation in the 2020 harvest it was superior to the other treatments for the average number of bunches per plant. For the variables indicating sugar in the must, the best treatment was with white canvas in the color change in the 2018 harvest. In wine, the anthocyanins and the color intensity were higher in the fruiting with TNT in the 2018 harvest. Therefore, for these conditions, the harvest had great influence on the treatments, being that the soil cover can be an alternative to improve the physical and chemical characteristics of the Tannat grape.


"Resilience" describes how systems operate at an acceptable level of normalcy despite disturbances or threats. In this paper we first consider the interdependencies inherent in critical infrastructure systems and how resilience mitigates associated risks and then define "resilience" in distinction from convention control engineering. We then introduce the concepts "agent" and "multi-agent systems" (MAS) to consider the distributed nature of critical infrastructure control systems and illustrate the application of computational intelligence to MAS event-based dynamics (management, coordination) and time-based dynamics (execution) to manage policy and coordinate assets. In addition, we consider the optimal stabilization of the MAS and suggest the extension of graph theory to MAS execution layers. The closing discussion provides an overview of how to achieve critical infrastructure resilience through advanced control engineering.


This thesis investigates the term Point of Audition within sound theory, by reviewing literature dealing with this term, and discusses the term's position in the academic field today, after Svein Høyer in 2013 suggested to refine and expand the term by adding four sub-categories. The purpose of this discussion is to compare and complement Høyer's categories with related or more or less corresponding terminology, to reveal some of their limitations. David Neumeyer put forth in 2015 a set of categories for describing auditory phenomena which range broader than Høyer's attempt to expand Point of Audition to make it cover more. Høyer and Neumeyer's categories lay the basis for this thesis' analysis, which aims at showcasing some of the grey areas not covered by their categories. It also opens up for a discussion of Robynn Stilwell's Fantastical Gap (2007) as a possibility to capture the auditory phenomena that are falling between categories. This thesis hopes to be a step towards answering a larger question: Whether the conceptual framework for discussing sound in film and television is fulfilling its purpose, namely aiding our understanding of how the different auditory perspectives influence the audience's experience of the visual narrative. This page intentionally left blank


Although much of the emphasis in ESP studies involves statistical analysis of the direct hits on the selected targets, the importance of examining the structure of the misses has also been recognized (Rhine, 1952). For example, a considerable body of research has focused on the displacement effect, which suggests that subject calls might precede or succeed the presented targets by one or more places (Pratt & Foster, 1950; Russell, 1943). A review of the displacement trend is provided by Milton (1987). Crandall (1989) examined the displacement trend, noting the dry spell of a few decades since it had initially been reported in parapsychological literature. A second, but less substantial, volume of research under the umbrella of psi-missing is associated with the study of confusion structures (Cadoret, 1957; Cadoret & Pratt, 1950; Kelly, 1980; Kelly, Kanthamani, Child, & Young, 1975; Kennedy, 1979; Timm, 1969). As these authors have observed, a systematic tendency to confuse certain targets with other targets can also be indicative of the presence of ESE Cadoret and Pratt (1950) provided a significant contribution with their development of the consistent missing (CM) theory, which reflects the propensity of subjects to exhibit systematic patterns in their incorrect identifications of the targets. These authors also proposed a [chi square] test for determining whether or not such systematic patterns were present in the data. They noted the necessity of developing a "method of evaluating the misses that was independent of the number of hits" (Cadoret & Pratt, 1950, p. 245). In reference to the Fisk and Mitchell (1953) and Fisk and West (1957) clock card experiments designed to examine misses, Kennedy noted that "the CM analysis that evaluates incorrect calls in isolation from direct hits has not been applied to most of these data" (Kennedy, 1979, p. 116). Kelly et al. extended the CM paradigm by comparing the resulting confusion structures of visual recognition and ESP tasks for the same exceptional subject. Kelly et al. used nonmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS) to reveal similarities between the two confusion structures. In light of the substantive findings that can be uncovered from confusion data, we should not be surprised to find that future analyses in this area were strongly encouraged by Burdick and Kelly (1977, p. 101): "The confusions methodology opens up a rich set of possibilities for investigating the mechanisms of psi, and we hope it will be vigorously pursued in future work." Despite the suggestion for further development of methods for studying ESP confusion data, research in this area remains rather scant. This dearth of literature in parapsychology is in marked contrast to experimental psychology, as this latter area has a literature base that is replete with studies emphasizing the analysis of confusion structures. Psychological applications include visual recognition of letters and/or digits (Townsend, 1971), visual recognition of textures (Cho, Yang, & Hallett, 2000), lipreading tasks (Manning & Shofner, 1991), auditory recognition tasks (Morgan, Chambers, & Morton, 1973), taste recognition (Hettinger, Gent, Marks, & Frank, 1999), odor discrimination (Kent, Youngentob, & Sheehe, 1995), and tactile recognition (Vega-Bermudez, Johnson, & Hsiao, 1991). This body of research examines the study of confusion in sensory perception. Clearly, research should be further extended in extrasensory perception. At least two important issues are associated with the study of confusion matrices obtained from ESP experiments: (a) the implementation of tests for the presence of systematic patterning in a single confusion matrix or among multiple confusion matrices, and (b) the deployment of analytical methods to uncover confusion structures that are masked by noisy data. In this paper, permutation-based methods are presented to tackle both of the issues related to analyzing confusion data from ESP experiments. …


The rapid synthesis of 2,4- and 2,5-disubstituted oxazoles via metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions is reported. The 4- or 5-position of the corresponding 4- or 5-halogenated 2-butylthiooxazoles was successfully functionalized via Suzuki― Miyaura, Sonogashira and Stille cross-coupling reactions. The 2-position of the 2-butylthiooxazoles obtained was further coupled to various organozinc reagents through palladium- or nickel-mediated cross-coupling reactions.


This paper proposes a design method to obtain robust performance in the control of linear systems with uncertainty. This is achieved by judicious use of a particular parameterization for both the controller and the uncertainty. The robustness requirement is introduced in the form of a quadratic constraint in the frequency domain. The final design is then carried out subject to this constraint and uses quadratic optimization.<<ETX>>


In recent years, great progress has been made for enhancing the detection sensitivity of capillary electrophoresis analysis, and can be include into three parts: high sensitive hyphenated technique for detection, pre-concentration on column, sample pretreatment technique coupled to capillary electrophoresis. This review focused on the advance about preconcentration on column.


Diabetes has emerged as the most chronic disease that may cause mortality to the diabetic patients. However, early prediction of diabetes can be helpful in reducing the severe effects of diabetes. Several approaches have been developed for diabetes prediction, recently, the data mining based machine learning approaches have gained huge attraction from research community. However, conventional approaches suffer from the performance related issues. Hence, in this work we introduce a novel data mining approach for diabetes prediction and classification. The proposed approach includes missing value imputation, data clustering, dimension reduction and Bayesian regularized neural network classification. The proposed approach is carried out using open source available Pima Indian Diabetes dataset and implemented using MATLAB simulation tool. The obtained performance is compared with the existing techniques; this comparative study shows a significant improvement in the prediction performance using proposed approach.


The chemical composition of the vitreous of a rabbi,t eye has been illustrated by e. g. Pirie 8c van Heyninger (1956), Long et al. (1961), Skmonin (1961), Cristiansson (1958) and CastrCn & Laamanen (1963). The resorption speeds of intravitreally injected implants have been studied by Widder (1962). He used precious gases (A, Kr and Rn), sodium chloride solution and hyaluronic acid solution in his experiments. He fixes considerably accurately the time of the variations in concentrations of these substances in experimental conditions. He observes resorption speed in correlation to molecule size by comparing the transfer of glucose amine solution and hyaluronic acid. The authors of this study think that Rinderknecht (1962) has presented a very suitable modification to the Novels method to trace the proteins fluorescent which in the biological milieu regularly are dissolved. This gave us reason to study the resorption speed of thus traced substances out of the rabbit vitreous. According to Pirie e. g. the total protein concentration of a cow vitreous would be 46 mg./100 ml.; 31.7 mg. of these globulins and 14.3 mg. albumin. Thus the above mentioned traced proteins would be characteristic and suitable for this purpose.


【Objective】We conducted a Systematic Review the effect on overall survival, local control rate,and irradiated injury of accelerated hyperfractionation radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC). 【Methods】We used the searching algorithm to search the foreign language databases and the chinese databases. We considered eligible all randomized controlled trials comparing accelerated hyperfractionation radiotherapy with conventional radiotherapy on NSCLC. Use Rev Man 5.3 software for statistical analysis. The χ2 test is used to compare heterogeneity. Sensitivity analysis is used to evaluate the stability and reliability of the results. 【Results】A search of five trials with pooled total of 1857 patients. 1 We found no significant difference associated with 2-years overall survival(P=0.50), but significant difference associated with 3-years overall survival(P=0.01) and 5-years overall survival(P=0.05). 2 No significant difference associated with 2-years disease free survival(P=0.17). 3 We found significant differenc associated with 2-years local control rate(P=0.02). 4 No significant difference associated with 2-years distant metastasis rate(P=0.71). 5 No significant difference associated with grade 3 or greater radiation esophagitis(P=0.65) and radiation pneumonitis(P=0.81), but significant difference associated with Grade 3 or greater myelosuppression(P=0.02).【Conclusion】Accelerated hyperfractionation radiotherapy can improve 3 years, 5 years overall survival and 2-years local control rate of NSCLC.No significant differences were found in 2 years overall survival, disease free survival, distant metastasis rate, grade 3 or greater radiation esophagitis and radiation pneumonitis, but significant difference associated with grade 3 or greater myelosuppression.


From abstract: The objective of this project was to assess the magnitudes and types of nonpoint discharges that affect the water quality of Pequea Creek. The project included the determination of (1) the total discharge of suspended sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus from the basin; (2) intermittent storm and base-flow discharges from six subbasin sites of varying size, geology, and land use; (3) the difference in magnitudes of the discharges during base-flow periods and storms; and (4) which variables most affect the transport of these constituents.


We describe a mild and efficient method for the formation of 3-(2'-aminoaryl)pyrazoles in excellent yields from reactions of 4-chloroquinolines with hydrazine. These heterocyclic ring opening reactions occur under much milder conditions then previously described.


Introduction
A combination of portal vein embolization (PVE) and preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) in hilar cholangiocarcinoma (CCC) increase the resectability and help to reduce postoperative complications. To date, there is no study on the optimal timing of PVE after PBD in hilar cholangiocarcinoma. The purpose of this study is to identify the optimal timing of PVE after PBD in patients undergoing liver resection for hilar CCC.

Methods
We retrospectively reviewed 64 patients who underwent combined treatment PBD and PVE followed by liver resection for hilar CCC between January 2005 and December 2018 at Samsung Medical Center. The patients were classified into 3 groups: PBD-PVE interval (≤ 7 days)-Group1, PBD-PVE interval (8-14 days)-Group 2 and PBD-PVE interval (>14 days)-Group 3. The primary end points were 90 days mortality and posthepatectomy liver failure (PHLF).

Results
There was no significant difference in primary end points between three groups. The PBD-PVE interval showed a marginally significant relationship with Clavien-Dindo grade ≥ 3 complication (p = 0.053) and wound infection (p = 0.099). In univariable analysis, risk factors for PHLF were PTBD (p = 0.050), Bismuth type IIIb or IV (p = 0.023) and ERH or right trisectionectomy (p = 0.045). In multivariable analysis, independent risk factors for PHLF was Bismuth type IIIb or IV (HR 4.782, 95% CI 1.365-16.759; p = 0.014).

Conclusions
Considering that the PBD-PVE interval did not affect PHLF, and the surgical complication increases as the interval increases, it is more beneficial for the patient to performing PVE as early as possible after PBD. This will help to perform the operation faster.


Reactions of [RuCl2L4](L = PMe3 or PMePh2) with the lithium salts of 1,2,3-trimethyl-, 1,2,3,4-tetramethyl-, or 1,2,4,5-tetramethyl-benzene lead to complexes which contain co-ordinated methyl substituted o-xylidene moieties. Spectroscopic studies confirm the metal-ligand interaction as intermediate between (σ2,π) and (π2) and the o-xylidene moieties can be better described as methyl substituted o-quinodimethanes. By contrast reaction of the lithium salt of o-xylene with [RuCl2{P(OPh)3}4] gives the o-metallated compound [[graphic omitted]OPh)2){P(OPh)3}3] whilst reaction of the lithium salt of 3,4-dimethylanisole with [RuCl2(PMe3)4] gives [[graphic omitted]H2Me2)(PMe3)4] with binding through a phenyl carbon atom. The structures of these complexes have been assigned by spectroscopic means.


Catalogue of exhibition held at gallery/ten 13th october - 19th november 2016, 23 windsor place cardiff cf10 3by and
installation at cardiff contemporary, 10th october - november 12th 2016, school of art & design cardiff metropolitan university
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The ANOVApot® is a new patented pot (container) for the plant nursery industry, with innovative features of root and water control. The Twinpot is a nested arrangement of two ANOVApot®s. This overview describes the unique design features of the ANOVApot® and presents key results highlighting the performance of the ANOVApot® and the Twinpot. Compared with a conventional bottom-holed pot, the ANOVApot® increases water retention on average by 36-39% without water-logging, and greatly restricts roots from escaping the base of the pot. Increased water retention of GROTERDAN2 fold is achieved by the Twinpot and external root escape eliminated, making the Twinpot a valid alternative to Pot-in-Pot systems. ANOVApot® prices are about 10% more than for current alternatives.


W epresenttechniquesforsuccessfully perform ing num ericalrelativity sim ulationsofbinary black holeswith fourth-orderaccuracy.O ursim ulationsarebased on a new coding fram ework which currently supportshigherorder nitedi erencing fortheBSSN form ulation ofEinstein'sequations,but which isdesigned to bereadily applicableto a broad classofform ulations.W eapply ourtechniques to a standard setofnum ericalrelativity testproblem s,dem onstrating the fourth-orderaccuracy of the solutions. Finally we apply our approach to binary black hole head-on collisions,calculating the waveform sofgravitationalradiation generated and dem onstrating signi cantim provem entsin waveform accuracy oversecond-orderm ethodswith typically achievable num ericalresolution.


Line is not an obvious feature in young children's painting. As they explore with the paintbrush, they tend to produce dabs, splodges and areas of colour. To encourage children to create lines with paint, abandon the paintbrush and introduce Jackson Pollock's 'action painting' technique.


Zhang Tailei was one of the outstanding members of the May 4th Movement,and also one of Chinese Communist Party's founders,who grew and developed during the New Culture Movement.He was influenced greatly by Chen Duxiu.When he fulfilled his task as a very early Communist International Emissary of Chinese Communist Party,he became an excellent representative of the high level of Marxism-Leninism of CCP.He zealously helped and influenced Chen Duxiu on the necessary and inevitable decision of joining the Communist International.He played an important role in coordinating the relationship between Chen Duxiu and the Communist International Representative Maring.Chen Tailei devoted himself together with Chen Duxiu and other people to the foundation of Chinese Communist Party.


Abstract Restorative functions of sleep are of special interest for sleep medicine. For the assess-ment of these restorative functions, various parameters are taken into account, among which sleep duration and sleep quality play the most important roles. Both terms are es-sential for sleep perception, expressing the subjectivesatisfactionoftheindividualwiththe time spent asleep. In recent decades, sleep medicine and sleep research have de-veloped methods for the assessment of both objective and subjective dimensions of sleep. Among subjective methods, taking of the medicalhistoryfocusingonthepatient'ssleep is important. Standardized and validat-ed questionnaires play a supportive role. Ob-jective methods are, for example, estima-tion of the sleep–wake cycle by means of ac-tigraphy and polygraphy. Especially in mul-timorbid patients, polysomnography is still the gold standard method for diagnostics. An important approach during recent years is shifting from bothering overnight exam-inations into less disturbing procedures for patientsthatincludeperformingambulato-ry, outpatient examinations in the patients' home rather than inpatient surveillance with-in sleep centers.


The distinctive clinical characteristics of ainhum conforming to classical descriptions, as seen in 100 patients in Central and West Africa, are briefly reviewed, special emphasis being laid on those features that serve to differentiate ainhum from other conditions that may in some respects resemble it.


In this work, the thermo-mechanical limit elastic speed analysis of functionally graded rotating disk has been reported. Three different material models, i.e., power law (P-FGM), sigmoid law (S-FGM), and exponential law (E-FGM), along with varying disk profiles, namely uniform, tapered, and exponential disk profiles, are considered. The methodology adopted is variational principle wherein the solution has been obtained by Galerkin's error minimization principle. Halpin–Tsai method was used to estimate the modulus, modified rule of mixture for yield strength, and the rule of mixture for density and coefficient of thermal expansion. This study aims to analyze the effects of material models, grading indices, aspect ratio, and disk geometry on disk performance when subjected to combined thermal and mechanical loadings. Finite element analysis has been performed to validate this study and good agreement between both the methods is seen. The study shows a substantial difference in the limit speed for different disk profiles changing from uniform thickness to exponentially varying thickness. The von Mises stress distribution and location of yielding at limit speed are shown for different indices, material models, and disk profiles. In P-FGM, limit speed decreases with the increase in grading indices whereas in E-FGM, limit speed decreases with the decrease in grading indices. For increase in aspect ratio, limit elastic speed decreases in all the cases.


Road vehicles are still largely a consumer product and as such the styling of a vehicle becomes a significant factor in how commercially successful a vehicle will become. The influence of styling combined with the numerous other factors to consider in a vehicle development programme means that the optimum aerodynamic package is not possible in real world applications.

Aerodynamicists are continually looking for more discrete and innovative ways to reduce the drag of a vehicle. The current thesis adds to this work by investigating the influence of active flow control devices on the aerodynamic drag of square back style road vehicles. A number of different types of flow control are reviewed and the performance of synthetic jets and pulsed jets are investigated on a simple 2D cylinder flow case experimentally.

A simplified ¼ scale vehicle model is equipped with active flow control actuators and their effects on the body drag investigated. The influence of the global wake size and the smaller scale in-wake structures on vehicle drag is investigated and discussed. Modification of a large vortex structure in the lower half of the wake is found to be a dominant mechanism by which model base pressure can be influenced. The total gains in power available are calculated and the potential for incorporating active flow control devices in current road vehicles is reviewed. Due to practicality limitations the active flow control devices are currently ruled out for implementation on a road vehicle.

The knowledge gained about the vehicle model wake flow topology is later used to create drag reductions using a simple and discrete passive device. The passive modifications act to support claims made about the influence of in wake structures on the global base pressures and vehicle drag. The devices are also tested at full scale where modifications to the vehicle body forces were also observed.


This paper presents the unmarked grammatical and discursive means of expressing evidential values in Catalan Sign Language (LSC), an almost unexplored area in the signed language literature. The focus is on the evidential use of constructed direct discourse, not necessarily actual, to present the source of opinions and events. The study is based on own naturalistic and elicited data of various genres from 20 native LSC signers.


This paper is the initial investigation into a new Lagrangian cell‐centered hydrodynamic scheme that is motivated by the desire for an algorithm that resists mesh imprinting and has reduced complexity. Key attributes of the new approach include multidimensional construction, the use of flux‐corrected transport (FCT) to achieve second order accuracy, automatic determination of the mesh motion through vertex fluxes, and vorticity control. Toward this end, vorticity preserving Lax–Wendroff (VPLW) type schemes for the two‐dimensional acoustic equations were analyzed and then implemented in a FCT algorithm. Here, mesh imprinting takes the form of anisotropic dispersion relationships. If the stencil for the LW methods is limited to nine points, four free parameters exist. Two parameters were fixed by insisting that no spurious vorticity be created. Dispersion analysis was used to understand how the remaining two parameters could be chosen to increase isotropy. This led to new VPLW schemes that suffer less mesh imprinting than the rotated Richtmyer method. A multidimensional, vorticity preserving FCT implementation was then sought using the most promising VPLW scheme to address the problem of spurious extrema. A well‐behaved first order scheme and a new flux limiter were devised in the process. The flux limiter is unique in that it acts on temporal changes and does not place a priori bounds on the solution. Numerical results have demonstrated that the vorticity preserving FCT scheme has comparable performance to an unsplit MUSCL‐H algorithm at high Courant numbers but with reduced mesh imprinting and superior symmetry preservation. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Floods are natural disasters that often occur in countries with high rainfall, such as Indonesia. Floods occur due to sudden changes in water level; therefore, the dam cannot withstand the increase in water causing water to overflow into the riverbank area. As a result of this issue, a system was created that can be used to provide information about river water levels. This system relies on computer vision to program the camera to monitor the water level through image processing. Image processing allows the camera to process the image of the water surface detected at the ditch's edge. The edge detection result is used as a water level detector using the Hough line transform, which generates a line to indicate the water level. The height detected by image processing differs from the actual height on the detected surface. The minimum and maximum error reading for both methods recorded in this experiment is 0,8 % and 16,67 %, respectively


The paper describes a cold water plant for the recovery of light C 3 and C 4 hydrocarbons. It shows how the absorption cold plant in the grid with a power-heat cogeneration saves primary energy in conttrast to a compression cold plant


Automatic fault diagnosis and circuit identification using analog signatures are considered, focusing on the automatic comparison of nearly similar analog signatures. Two known correlation-based similarity criteria are compared, and a new criterion using a weighting factor, which improves the discrimination capability, is introduced. Comparative results for various signatures are given, and useful applications of this work are discussed. >


Significance Microbial photoreceptors, bacteriophytochromes, absorb near-infrared light, which penetrates deep into animal tissues and is harmless. Bacteriophytochromes delivered as genes can be used to control biological activities in live animals via external light sources. However, the lack of understanding of light-induced conformational changes has hindered development of bacteriophytochrome-based optogenetic tools. Here, we offer a proof of principle that homodimeric bacteriophytochromes can be engineered to activate heterologous output domains that require homodimerization. We constructed an adenylate cyclase, which can control cAMP-dependent processes in live animals in response to light in the near-infrared spectral window. When expressed in cholinergic neurons of a roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, near-infrared light-activated adenylate cyclase affected worm behavior in a light-dependent manner. Bacteriophytochromes sense light in the near-infrared window, the spectral region where absorption by mammalian tissues is minimal, and their chromophore, biliverdin IXα, is naturally present in animal cells. These properties make bacteriophytochromes particularly attractive for optogenetic applications. However, the lack of understanding of how light-induced conformational changes control output activities has hindered engineering of bacteriophytochrome-based optogenetic tools. Many bacteriophytochromes function as homodimeric enzymes, in which light-induced conformational changes are transferred via α-helical linkers to the rigid output domains. We hypothesized that heterologous output domains requiring homodimerization can be fused to the photosensory modules of bacteriophytochromes to generate light-activated fusions. Here, we tested this hypothesis by engineering adenylate cyclases regulated by light in the near-infrared spectral window using the photosensory module of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides bacteriophytochrome BphG1 and the adenylate cyclase domain from Nostoc sp. CyaB1. We engineered several light-activated fusion proteins that differed from each other by approximately one or two α-helical turns, suggesting that positioning of the output domains in the same phase of the helix is important for light-dependent activity. Extensive mutagenesis of one of these fusions resulted in an adenylate cyclase with a sixfold photodynamic range. Additional mutagenesis produced an enzyme with a more stable photoactivated state. When expressed in cholinergic neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans, the engineered adenylate cyclase affected worm behavior in a light-dependent manner. The insights derived from this study can be applied to the engineering of other homodimeric bacteriophytochromes, which will further expand the optogenetic toolset.


The etiologic relationship of Hodgkin's disease (lymphogranulomatosis) and tuberculosis remains uncertain. Most of the investigations designed to solve this problem have been the experimental injection of diseased tissues into animals or cultural studies. Injections of "pure" Hodgkin's tissues do not regularly produce tuberculosis in animals, and cultures of the same tissues only occasionally yield a growth of acid-fast bacilli. The reports of L'Esperance 1 claiming that tissues histologically typical of Hodgkin's disease produced tuberculosis in chickens—an animal species not previously used for this purpose—gave a new impetus to such studies. Utz and Keatinge 2 stated that they had confirmatory evidence. Van Rooyen, 3 Garrod, 4 Stewart, 5 Wallhauser 6 and I 7 failed to confirm the findings of L'Esperance. Numerous early investigators of Hodgkin's disease performed tuberculin tests on some of their patients in an effort to obtain information on the relationship of the two diseases. As early as 1902 Reed 8 observed that the tuberculin tests performed


This study examines from simulation the effects of the privacy sensitivity of customers, the personalization practices or standards of retailers and the difficulty in locating alternate favorable sites, on the loyalty of consumers to a Web site.
The key finding of the study is that customer privacy sensitivity is a critical success factor that significantly impacts loyalty to a retailer. Customers have higher loyalty to sites that request the least information, while they have lower loyalty to sites that request the most information. Web retailers considering expanded personalization of products or services to customers, through increased personal information from the customers, need to rethink their practices. The study also found that difficulty in locating a favorable site is a success factor that impacts retailer loyalty, and that customers have higher loyalty to difficult to locate favorable sites on the Web. These findings are important at a time when consumers are empowered with Web technology to immediately shop competitor sites.
For retailers, the study contributes insight into customer sensitivity to personalization practices on Web sites. The significance of privacy to loyalty is a factor that needs to be considered seriously by retailers, if they are to compete for loyal customers. For researchers, this study initiates a new paradigm on the dynamics of loyalty, personalization and privacy on the Web.
No known studies have examined loyalty in the manner of this study.
Overall, this study furnishes a living framework to effectively research consumer loyalty to a Web site.


This chapter deals with rabbinic traditions, as well as some passages from the Dead Sea Scrolls, in which biblical narratives are given a nonliteral, symbolic interpretation of a sort rather rare in rabbinic literature, and more akin to what might be labeled allegorical interpretation. These rabbinic traditions are studied against the foil of Philo, Origen, and later patristic writers who use allegory and typology as hermeneutical techniques. Each section of the chapter deals with a separate biblical passage and its interpretation, and is meant to stand as an independent unit. Taken together these case studies are intended to suggest some broader observations concerning the dynamics of allegorization and concretization in post-biblical writings. The chapter deals with the interpretation of the well in the wilderness, and especially the Song of the Well in its biblical context. It also deals with water symbolism, this time of the water of Marah. Keywords:allegorical interpretation; biblical narratives; Marah; Origen; Philo; rabbinic literature; the well in the wilderness


Thwaites (1972) demonstrated that cortisol administration to sheep on a low plane of nutrition resulted in a depression in fibre diameter and fibre shedding which is associated with 'tender' wool. Schlink and Dollin (1995) showed that declining staple strength was significantly related to an increasing incidence of shed fibres at the point of break (POB). In this experiment we have examined whether sheep with different staple strength phenotypes respond similarly to cortisol administration. Four groups of Merino wethers with either low or high staple strength (average of 3 shearings, 20.6 and 30.5 N/ktex, respectively) were allocated as follows: (1) low staple strength, placebo (n=11); (2) low staple strength, cortisol (n=11); (3) high staple strength, placebo (n=10); (4) high staple strength, cortisol (n=10). Sheep were offered a maintenance ration of 88% hammermilled oaten hay, 10% lupins and 2% mineral mix for 20 weeks. At week 12 the sheep were injected intra-muscularly daily for 12 days with a placebo or 120 mg cortisol. Blood samples were collected for plasma glucose determinations. Liveweights were recorded weekly, and dyebands placed in the wool at regular intervals. Sheep were shorn approximately 4 months after completion of the experiment. Mid-side wool samples were collected for staple strength determination and the POB examined for incidence of shed fibres and fibre diameter. Dyebands were used to calculated the time of the POB. Results are shown in Table 1.


Spatial, temporal, and spectral characteristics of stimulated scatterings (SS) of light, excited in water, have been investigated both in nano- and picosecond range in different experimental conditions and compared with the analogous properties in other liquids. The results can give important information about the structure of water, its purity, and additions, which may lead to its pollution. Conditions have been defined for stimulated excitation of SS in one spatial mode and with maximum pulse conversion. Stimulated scatterings of light can be used for water quality control, which may be fulfilled in a very short time, and for information processing: amplitude-phase structure of complex light fields may be registered in water as dynamic hologram and reconstructed in a real-time scale.


The present paper introduces cyclostationary spectral analysis as a new approach to analyze the turbulence
velocity measurements generated by a rotor. To apply this technique, a random signal should have periodic statistical
characteristics and should be suitable for many rotating mechanical system as shown in recent studies. However,
this method has never been applied on rotor velocity measurements. Via a Wigner–Ville representation, the
instantaneous power spectra of the turbulence in the wakes and in between the wakes will be depicted and analyzed.
The usefulness of the technique applied to rotor-generated turbulence is that it can separate the spectrum of the
turbulence in between the wakes from that in the wake with a much greater frequency resolution than conventional
spectral analysis.


Extended X‐ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements on shocked polycrystalline iron have provided further evidence for the shock induced α−e phase transition in iron. However, recent molecular dynamics investigation of this system has suggested the presence of fcc material in the shocked region. In this paper we will investigate the difficulties in simulating EXAFS signals from molecular dynamics data. We will aim to show that in the case of the shock induced α−e transition EXAFS is insensitive to the type of close packing of the product phase.


The maximizing the minimum machine delay game (or cover game) with uniformlyrelated machines is considered. Players choose machines with different speeds to run their jobstrying to minimize job's delay, i.e. the chosen machine's completion time. The social payoff isthe minimal delay over all machines. For the general case of N machines we found the lowerbound for Price of Anarchy (PoA), and for the case of 3 machines we found its exact value. Weproved that the PoA does not change or increases when an additional third machine is includedinto the system with two machines. Also we propose a method of computation the PoA value andillustrate it for 3 machines.


Purpose: In this paper the chromatic contrast was defined as color difference CIEDE2000, the sensitivity was defined as reciprocal of threshold of the color difference, and the CSFs called color difference sensitivity functions were measured. Methods: The CSFs of 4 subjects were measured for nine spatial frequencies(0.28, 0.56, 1.00, 1.97, 2.95, 4.72, 6.74, 11.80 and 15.74cpd) gratings of mean luminance of 40cd/m2 on a CRT display. Measurements were made for gratings whose average color was a chromatically neutral point(a*=0 and b*=0) and also for modulations around four chromatic points along the color directions a* and b* in the CIELAB color space. Results. The thresholds of color difference are from 0.74 to 6.67 in the range of experimental frequencies. The color difference sensitivity functions are similar with known results that CSF curves for the two chromatic directions are consistently low-pass irrespective of the average color of the stimulus. The sensitivity to gratings for b* direction is identical as for a* direction below spatial frequency 4.72cpd, however, the sensitivity for b* direction is smaller than the one for a* direction above spatial frequency 4.72cpd, which indicates that the CIEDE2000 threshold for grating with lower frequencies(i.e., small color differences) is not related to the chromatic direction and chromatic point of modulation, however, the threshold is related to the chromatic direction and chromatic point of modulation for large color differences.


The doses to radiation sensitive organs and structures located outside the radiotherapeutic target volume for nasopharyngeal carcinoma treatment are determined. Clinically relevant treatment fields were simulated on a tissue-equivalent anthropomorphic phantom and subsequently irradiated with 60Co y rays and 6 MV X ray beams. Thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD) were used to measure absorbed doses of lens , retinals, pituitary, thyriod (isthmus) et al. Modifications to the basic techniques studied included placement of an eye block on the tray of 60Co machine and a block on the surface of testis. The total treatment doses to lens, retinal, pituitary and thyroid when irritated with 60Co y rays are given . When irritated with 6 MV X ray beams, the doses to the organs outside treatment field were lower than those irritated with 60Co y rays. The results show that the total lens dose could be cataractognic, pituitary and thyroid doses have the potential of causing endocrine deficiencies. The doses to the lens and retinals could be reduced by placing an additional block and 6 MV X ray beams could be a better choice to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma.


A novel preparation process for 2,3-dichloroanisole,an intermediate for ethacrynic acid,was developed from reaction of 2,3-dichlorofluorobenzene and sodium methoxide. The target product was obtained in 98.4% yield at 60℃ after 12 hours of reaction with starting molar ratio of 2,3-dichlorofluorobenzene to sodium methoxide(30%in methanol)of 1 to 1.1.


Photo-induced Fenton reaction was utilized in this paper to control the sizes of polyethylenimine hydrogels (M-PEIs,M,Fe atom) as gene delivery vector.H_2O_2 and FeCl_2 were mixed with PEI pre_polymer in water in a 3-neck quartz flask, and the mixture was stirred vigorously.M-PEIs nanogels dispersed very well in water could be prepared under illumination by use of low-pressure Hg lamps at room temperature.This system was protected from oxygen with N_2.By changing reaction conditions,such as the pH value,reaction time and concentrations of solutes,sizes of M-PEIs nanogels could be controlled.It was found that the sizes of M-PEIs decreased with the pH value and the concentrations of FeCl_2.The increasing of the initiator (H_2O_2) concentrations would make the particles more tighten,but might result in crosslinking or degradation of particles.A suitable irradiation time ensured formation of homogeneous nanogel products,but prolonged irradiation would cause degradation of nanogels.After photo crosslinking,the products were purified with membrane filters of 0.45 μm and treated further by dialysis bags with size exclusion below 10 kDa in order to make them more stable for storage.


The purpose of this review is to assess the adequacy of various economic and sociological explanations in accounting for certain key features of change in large-scale corporations, including vertical integration, product related and unrelated diversification, and the implementation of the multidivisional form. We first review the various economic theories that purport to explain these phenomena, including the structure-conduct-performance perspective, the literature on managerial discretion, transaction cost analysis, contingency theory, and the evolutionary theory of economic change. All of these literatures have efficiency mechanisms that drive their explanations although they work in different ways. We then consider sociological approaches including the literatures in organizational theory on institutionalization and power. Our review of the empirical work provides little support for the economic view of vertical integration and unrelated product diversification, and only modest support for the economic view of product-related diversification and the multidivisional form. The sociological views aid in understanding all of these phenomena to some extent. We conclude by suggesting that the concept of organizational fields may be useful in understanding these structural changes.


A significant advance for prediction in ungauged basins would be a classification framework that characterizes the circumstances under which a particular flow path is likely to be dominant, and the effect of that flow path on the transformation (or filtering) of the episodic precipitation inputs into discharge outputs. In this work we develop such a framework for patch and hillslope scales that is "quantitative","process-oriented" and "generalizable". The framework is based on the idea that the relative dominance of different hydrologic functions (the storage, partitioning and release of water) in the soil depends on the relative timescales of variability in the inputs of water and the various processes that carry out these functions "(infiltration, drainage, evapotranspiration, etc)". Dimensionless ratios of these timescales capture the competition between the processes they represent, and produce quantitatively different modes of behavior. The use of similarity parameters to express the relative importance of a particular process is a well established concept in fluid mechanics, but has had only limited application in hydrology thus far. The classification system is applied to results from a simple "multiple wetting front" model of unsaturated zone fluxes, and a Boussinesq-equation model of lateral saturated flow in hillslopes. The results suggest that the classification system can distinguish quantitatively different modes of discharge behavior from the unsaturated and saturated zones that arise due to the dominance of particular processes, such as evapotranspiration, fast and slow drainage, leakage through the bedrock, and Hortonian overland flow. The classification is also applied to lysimeter data for a range of soil types, revealing a diversity of types of hydrologic variability, even in systems subject to the same climate.


This book provides youth work practitioners and policy-makers with a tool in understanding the new political and social challenges surrounding youth work in the United States. As the authors state, youth work is "a part of national consciousness and woven into our social fabric" (pg. xiii). Not only does this book provide basic information regarding the status of youth in America today, it also engages youth workers from a diversity of settings and programmatic offerings. Edginton and his colleagues produce a well-structured and practice-focused book that is clearly written to serve as a conceptual foundation of the diverse influences on youth development, to facilitate positive and caring relationships, and provide a basic understanding of positive youth frameworks and how they can lead to a more productive youth driven society. Youth Work: Emerging Perspective in Youth Development comprises thirteen chapters with emphasis on three areas: (a) theoretical and empirical foundation of youth development beyond the traditional preventive strategies (chapters 1-5), (b) youth work practice for planning programs and developing relationships in diverse settings (chapters 6-9), and (c) quality of practice in professional development (chapters 10-13).


The invention relates to compositions comprising plant organic waste from the processing sectors of agricultural or wine industry, and hydrated calcium sulfate, process for their preparation and their use as a fertilizer material.


Differential elastic and inelastic neutron scattering cross-sections for low lying levels in {sup 197}Au have been measured for incident neutron energies of 1.0 MeV, 1.5 MeV and 2.0 MeV. In addition, the total neutron cross sections in {sup 197}Au was measured from 850 keV to 1.5 MeV. For both experiments the UML 5.5 MV Van-de-Graaff accelerator with a Mobley post acceleration compression system, produced subnanosecond proton pulses which generated neutrons via the {sup 7}Li(p,n) {sup 7}Be reaction.


1. The Rules of Art Now 2. A New Global Art World 3. Contemporary art and mass culture 4. How much is art worth? 5. art and art writing 6. old and new challenges


This paper mainly analyzes the current problems existing in oral English teaching with application of multimedia technology and network-based environment on base of constructive learning theory as well as current reform situation. By providing diverse effective strategies, both scientific application of multimedia technology and oral English teaching quality could be achieved to its best.


This paper is a brief survey on the researches of measurements of the propeller induced pulsating pressure on the full-scale ships over the last forty years.It includes the researches on the measurements of the propeller induced pulsating pressure and viewing of the cavitation on the full-scale ships,the need and procedure for full-scale measurements.The trend on the researches of the measurements of the propeller induced pulsating pressure on the full-scale ships is proposed.


The paper is devoted to the issues of opposition and negation in coordinative structures of the French language. These issues are associated with a whole complex of structural-semantic and communicative-pragmatic problems. Lexical-grammatical features of adversative coordination can differ in the simple sentence with negation and in the compound sentence with negation.


This paper is devoted to the study of some aspects of the instability of two flavor color-superconductive quark matter. We find that, beside color condensates, the Goldstone boson related to the breaking of U(1){sub A} suffers from a velocity instability. We relate this wrong sign problem, which implies the existence of a Goldstone current in the ground state or of gluonic condensation, to the negative squared Meissner mass of the 8th gluon in the gapless two flavor color superconductor (g2SC) phase. Moreover we investigate the Meissner masses of the gluons and the squared velocity of the Goldstone in the multiple-plane-wave Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrel (LOFF) states, arguing that in such phases both the chromomagnetic instability and the velocity instability are most probably removed. We also do not expect Higgs instability in such multiple-plane-wave LOFF, at least when one considers fluctuations with small momenta. The true vacuum of gapless two flavor superconductors is thus expected to be a multiple-plane-wave LOFF state.


A method is given for establishing an exact confidence interval for availability under the assumption that the time between failures and the time to repair are independent, exponential and lognormal random variables respectively. The method requires computations of the distribution of The cumulative distribution of W is tabled for selected values of W and the parameters.


The article raises the problem of conflicting axionormative models, diagnosing the phenomenon of anomie in the system of science in Poland. The content of the paper is based on in-depth interviews with experts who work in the system of science (scientists, research project leaders, scientific editors-in-chief) and experts who cooperate with scientists (scientific journalists, administrative management staff). The article recalls the concepts of post-academic and post-normal science, ethical "declarative" models, as well as diverse models of "factual" cultures, demonstrated in many ethical and non-ethical actions. The article identifies areas of normative contrasts related to scientific policies which correspond with the processes of science globalization, as well as ways of doing research, additionally determined by scientific mobility. The presented paper deepens the understanding of the changing normative patters in the system of science from the grassroots perspective, with the application of the humanistic coefficient.