Dinoflagellates (Pyrrophyta) are an unusual group of algal protists, and the recent description of the crystal structure of a unique pigment-protein in these organisms 1 leaves a number of fascinating questions in its wake. In recent years, dinoflagellates have come to prominence for their ability to produce neurotoxins (saxitoxins) that are passed on to shellfish and other marine life, and from there to human populations - with dire results 2. The name Pyrrophyta refers to their red colouration, caused by a unique pigment, the carotenoid peridinin. In common with the carotenoid fucoxanthin, peridinin has one ring acetylated (allenic end) and a carbony] group on the other ring, giving rise to a caroteno-protein interaction that produces an extended absorption ('red shift') in the blue-green and green regions of the spectrum 3. This extended range of absorption for light-harvesting has been of great benefit to the brown algae, which possess fucoxanthin, and to the dinoflageltates, which utilize peridinin. In both groups the carotenoid is associated with a protein that also carries chlorophyll. These lightharvesting, chlorophyll-binding, protein complexes (LHCs) are hydrophobic, and are found in the thylakoid membranes of green chloroplasts, where they channel blue, green and red light into the photosynthetic machinery. However, in dinoflagellates, in addition to this typical LHC, there is with peridinin another pigment-protein - the peridininchlorophyll protein (PCP) - that binds peridinin and chlorophyll a. The PCP is water soluble and lies near the thylakoid membrane. It is the crystal structure of this protein that has now been resolved 1. The structure of the peridinin-chlorophyll protein The PCP is a unique light-harvesting protein, both in terms of its pigments and its water solubility. It was isolated in pure form back in 1976 by Haxo and colleagues s, but it has only recently been sequenced 4,5. The primary sequence of peridinin is also novel and unlike any other protein yet determined. These data have now been augmented by a complete model of the PCP from Amphidinium carterae (a member of


In our national reality, and during these two hundred years of history, there has been a diversity of interpretations, facts and local circumstances from the point of view of psychology, particularly psychology linked to education, which were made bringing along categories and conceptions from other societies. With no intention to start from the very beginning, we can have statements derived from our own syntax which are linked with concepts selected due to its epistemological compatibility and due to its appropriateness to be used in interpretations about events, situations and processes contextualized in our lifeworld, consistent with post colonial Latin-American ideals and interests.


Fig. 2 Light micrograph of a cubic stabilized zirconia (CSZ) with 12 mol% Y2O3, thermally etched in air at 1300 C (2730 F). The large cubic grains show interand intragranular porosity. Fig. 1 Tetragonal zirconia polycrystals (TZP) with 2 mol% Y2O3, thermally etched in air at 1300 C (2730 F). The scanning electron micrograph shows a finegrained microstructure. Pores appear black. IN CONTRAST TO METALS, high-performance ceramics have higher hardness, lower ductility, and a basically brittle nature. Other general properties to note are: excellent hightemperature performance, good wear resistance and thermal insulation (low thermal conductivity), as well as high resistance to corrosion and oxidation. However, the full advantage that these materials can provide is strongly dependent on composition and microstructure. Most high-performance ceramics are based on high-purity oxides, nitrides, carbides, and borides with carefully controlled compositions. Ceramic engineering components are usually produced by powder metallurgical methods. The required properties of a specific part are optimized by selecting parameters associated with the powder mixture and the pressing and sintering operations to obtain the desired microstructure. High-performance ceramics can be divided into two main categories; structural and functional ceramics. While optimization of structural ceramics is directed toward improved mechanical properties, the performance of components produced from functional ceramics is controlled by electrical, magnetic, dielectric, or optical properties. Therefore, restrictions with respect to mechanical properties can be tolerated. Typical structural ceramics are aluminum oxide (Al2O3), zirconium dioxide (ZrO2), silicon nitride (Si3N4), and silicon carbide (SiC). However, Al2O3-, ZrO2and SiC-based ceramics are also often used as functional ceramics. Other functional ceramics of technological interest are barium titanate (BaTiO3) and lead zirconate titanate (Pb(Ti,Zr)O3). Due to the large variations in microstructure, different ceramographic preparation techniques are applied to achieve the surface quality desired so structural details are revealed under the microscope. For ceramographic preparation, it is not sufficient to know that a sample is Al2O3. The manufacturing conditions must also be known because they provide important information regarding expected porosity, grain size, and impurities. These microstructural variables have a strong influence on the method selected for preparation. An example for two different ZrO2 ceramic materials is illustrated in Fig. 1 and 2. Figure 1 shows the microstructure of tetragonal ZrO2 (TZP, or tetragonal zirconia polycrystals). This is a high-strength structural ceramic used for room-temperature applications (e.g., knives and scissors). Tetragonal zirconia polycrystals have a grain size less than 1 lm, an extremely high bending strength ranging from 800 to 2400 MPa (115 to 350 ksi), and fracture toughness (KIc) between 6 and 15 MPa (5.5 m and 15.5 ksi .), which renders this material in resistant to pullout during preparation. The microstructure of cubic ZrO2 (CSZ, or cubic stabilized zirconia) is shown in Fig. 2. The mechanical properties of this material are considerably poorer than TZP, with a bending strength of 200 MPa (29 ksi) and a fracture toughness of 2 to 3 MPa (1.8 to 2.7 ksi ). m in The microstructure is characterized by a high intragranular porosity and a grain size of approximately 30 to 50 lm. These materials are very sensitive to mechanical shock. Applications of TZP and CSZ are focused on their high ion conductivity (e.g., mobility of O2 ions across the cubic ZrO2 lattice). Cubic stabilized zirconia is also used in as k-sensors for automobile catalytic converters and for p(O2) measurement in liquid metals. Because of these differences in mechanical properties and microstructure, the ceramographic preparation of TZP and CSZ is quite different. The tough, fine-grained TZP requires longer polishing times for the fine-polishing step with 1 and 0.25 lm diamond, while CSZ needs longer polishing times for the coarser polishing with 6 and 3 lm diamond compounds. Depending on the type of ceramic or ceramic component, the mechanical properties (e.g., fracture toughness and strength) may vary considerably, and therefore the ceramographic preparation procedures have to be adjusted accordingly.


An automobile differential gear system is used to establish a differential motion between left and right driving axle which provides a smooth turning of the vehicle. When a vehicle takes a turn then the wheels at outermost position requires to cover a large distance than that of the innermost wheels. This speed variation can be achieved by using a differential gear system. It also transmits the power from the propeller shaft to each axle. A rear wheel drive vehicle requires a differential at the rear axle while all-wheel drive vehicle requires differential gear system for each and every axle. In this paper, an open differential is designed for a leading automobile and analysed the ability to work without failure. The analysis was done using the modified Lewis equation, Hertzian contact stress equation and AGMA equations. The analytical results were compared with results obtained by FEA. It is observed that results obtained from Lewis criterion are more conservative as compared to AGMA. The results obtained from modified Lewis, Hertzian contact stress and AGMA are in good agreement with the results obtained from FEA.


The lack of restriction system on civil servants' post-civil-job careers directly led to corruption such as "the status conversion between government official and merchant",payment with power,and money laundering,which is getting more and more serious.The corruption not only has destroyed civil servants' incorruptible images but also has made the public question our anti-corruption work.Therefore,in order to regulate civil servants' post-civil-job careers,and to provide institutional guarantee for the legalization of our anti-corruption work,we must perfect the restriction system.


The application of large numbers of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) to control insect pests of agriculture is likely to have an impact on the local EPN fauna, yet little is known about the intraspecific relationships between EPN populations, particularly with regard to phylogeny and outbreeding. Here we assess the fitness, with regards to fecundity, host insect mortality and time taken to produce progeny, of isolates of Steinernema feltiae from Bull Island, Ireland. Exon-primed, intron-crossing (EPIC) PCR was used to examine intraspecific phylogenies between S. feltiae isolates, and identified up to three possible colonisation events of Bull Island. EPIC-PCR grouped two isolates, 33.D.(2) and 59.F.(2), separately from the remaining ten S. feltiae isolates These same two isolates consistently performed poorly in all fitness assessments. Following the crossbreeding of all isolates in Galleria mellonella , the number of host cadavers exhibiting emerging infective juveniles was significantly fewer than expected and there were significant differences between isolates in the number of days until progeny were observed. Host insect mortality varied between 40 and 87%. Such intraspecific variation may be a result of adaptation to different microhabitats of Bull Island, which in turn may be accentuated by laboratory culture practices.


U.S. and Canadian peace activists traveled to Iraq as a social movement tactic, in the buildup to the war and during the war itself, in an attempt to sustain or increase peace activism at home. Based on interviews with fourteen peace activists, this study analyzes how the presence of antiwar activists in Iraq serves two social movement goals. First, their presence in Iraq bestowed activists increased access to media, bolstering their ability to reframe the war within mainstream media accounts. Second, by traveling to Iraq, activists furnished themselves with stories of the hardships and suffering of war to share with audiences at home. By retelling these narratives, activists provide opportunities and obligations for audience members to imaginatively take the role of Iraqi civilians, in the hope that audience members will practice moral reasoning and be consequently moved to act against the war. To provide these role-taking opportunities, peace activists must also engage in a political struggle over "otherhood" by countering official attempts to dehumanize Iraqis.


As a result of examining the specimens collected from various freshwater bodies since 1995, four eutardigrades are added to Korean fauna: isohypsibius brevitubutatus n. sp., I. baldii (Ramazzotti), I. marcellinoi (Binda and Pilato), and Diphascon (Diphascon) higginsi Binda. I. brevitubulatus n. sp. differs from its congeners by having a combination of the following characteristics: smooth cuticle, rather big body size, short and broad buccal tube, presence of lunules, and pharynx bearing 3 rod‐like macroplacoids without microplacoid. All the species are illustrated and briefly commented on their habitats with the associated fauna.


Abstract Hypercorrection is always a function of rule generalization, though the converse does not hold. It is therefore a sociolinguistic term, not definable in purely linguistic terms. What is generalized is not necessarily the original rule of the grammar. It may be an added rule symmetrical to it. These symmetrical rules are not necessarily 'Last rules', for their output may undergo further non-hypercorrect rules. (Hypercorrection, sociolinguistics, phonological theory, historical phonology.)


Dispersed anterior pituitary cells were prepared by treatment of hog pituitaries with collagenase. The cell yield based on DNA recovered in intact cells after collagenase treatment was 5–10%. Ninety percent of the cells appeared intact by phase contrast microscopy. The three major cell types were identifiable by Mallory-Heidenhain staining. The dispersed cells incorporated glucose carbon into CO2 and leucine into protein more rapidly than corresponding slices. Increasing the glucose concentration of the medium caused a progressive rise in cellular growth hormone (GH) content and in leucine incorporation into protein. The dispersed cells were capable of releasing immunoreactive GH and bioassayable thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). Crude acid extracts of stalk-median eminence had variable effects on the release of these hormones. Some extracts enhanced GH release while having a minimal effect on TSH release; others had the reverse effect. Stimulation of adenyl cyclase activity paralleled TSH release, but n...


Models of basic personality structure are among the most widely used frameworks in psychology and beyond, and they have considerably advanced the understanding of individual differences in a plethora of consequential outcomes. Over the past decades, two such models have become most widely used: the Five Factor Model (FFM) or Big Five, respectively, and the HEXACO Model of Personality. However, there is no large-scale empirical evidence on the general comparability of these models. Here, we provide the first comprehensive meta-analysis on (a) the correspondence of the FFM/Big Five and HEXACO dimensions, (b) the scope of trait content the models cover, and (c) the orthogonality (i.e., degree of independence) of dimensions within the models. Results based on 152 (published and unpublished) samples and 6,828 unique effects showed that the HEXACO dimensions incorporate notable conceptual differences compared to the FFM/Big Five dimensions, resulting in a broader coverage of the personality space and less redundancy between dimensions. Moreover, moderator analyses revealed substantial differences between operationalizations of the FFM/Big Five. Taken together, these findings have important theoretical and practical implications for the understanding of basic personality dimensions and their assessment.


Abstract This paper analyses which districts are targeted by Spanish political parties in their electoral campaigns. We find that the major Spanish parties - PP and PSOE - mobilise districts where they are more likely to win a new seat or are in danger of losing one they already hold. The predicted closeness of the district race is more relevant in the smallest districts. We also find that Spanish parties mobilise their strongholds. We suggest that, apart from the pure office-seeking strategies, political finance motivations might also play a role in the mobilisation choices made by Spanish party elites.


Acentric chromosome fragments produced in cells by irradiation or other agents give rise to micronuclei in daughter cells. The micronuclei can be readily counted in large numbers of cells thereby providing a sensitive measure of chromosome aberrations. Previous studies have shown a consistent elevation of micronuclei count following the use of diatrizoate contrast materials. This study was undertaken to compare the micronuclei counts of patients receiving sodium iothalamate with those receiving sodium diatrizoate. Our results indicate that sodium diatrizoate produced significantly greater cytogenetic damage than the sodium iothalamate agents.


The range of dielectric constants available in low temperature ceramic technology is K4 through K10,000. By integrating these dielectric constants in a monolithic ceramic structure RF performance can be greatly improved. The improved insertion loss and higher frequency performance of the low K material, the capacitor values achieved by the high K material and how they can be integrated into a single substrate will be discussed. The frequency range to be examined will be from 20 gigahertz to 50 gigahertz. The dielectric tape is created by casting glass filled ceramic material onto a polyester film. They are then laminated to a prefired substrate. Lasers are used to excise the tape from the roll and create vias, cavities and tooling alignment holes. A prefired alumina or beryllia substrate is metalized on one side or both sides with through holes connecting the two sides. The first layer of dielectric tape is laminated to the substrate and after removing the film carrier the dielectric is fired, the vias are filled and a conductor pattern is printed and fired. This procedure is duplicated until the required number of layers are complete.


In this paper, we propose an incremental learning model for ensemble classifier systems. Learn++, an ensemble of classifiers based algorithm originally developed for incremental learning, and now adapted for information/data fusion applications. Recognizing the conceptual similarity between incremental learning and data fusion, Learn++ follows an alternative approach to data fusion, i.e., Generates each classifier of the ensemble for each data set coming from a different source, and appropriately combine the classifier outputs to take advantage of the additional information in subsequent data sources using ―weighted majority voting‖ (WMV) combination rule. Learn++ creates additional classifiers trained on the new data until the old classifiers are Out-voted, when classifying an instance from a new class. In order to overcome the problem of out-voting when new data comes and to create new classifiers, we propose Learn++ using dynamic weighting ensemble. Learn++ suffers from the inherent ―out-voting‖ problem when asked to learn new classes, which causes it to generate an unnecessarily large number of classifiers. This paper proposes a modified version of this algorithm, called Learn++.MT that not only reduces the number of classifiers generated, but also provides performance improvements. This paper proposes an incremental learning algorithm framework using dynamic weighting ensembles to effectively learn new batches of data appearing over time without the need of retraining. This algorithm help classifiers to learn additional information from new batches of data incrementally while preserving previously acquired knowledge. We demonstrate that the proposed incremental learning algorithm using dynamic weighting scheme has comparable performance with fixed weighting scheme. When a new batch of data becomes available, a new ensemble of basic classifiers is built solely on it so that the new information can be effectively extracted, without interfering with existing classifiers. Another advantage is that the training process has much better flexibility than the retraining strategy.


ABSTRACT The extent to which infrastructures being deployed for a postcarbon transition can be considered sustainable has been increasingly scrutinized within the critical turn in energy justice research. However, the focus therein tends to be on how new megaprojects still reveal Global North–Global South colonial relations and energy-related injustices. In this paper, we aim to contribute to widening critical energy justice research by illustrating how it needs to also consider the spatio-temporalities of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North. To that end, we undertake a psychosocial historiography of selected large-scale hydroelectric power plants in Portugal, from the twentieth century to the present day. This historiography is undertaken via archival data and interviews. Our analysis illustrates how hydrocolonialism has been enacted – discursively, infrastructurally, and psychosocially – in rural areas in Portugal, across different socio-political regimes; and also how it can be contested, by identifying some examples of resistance.


The combination of expanding demand for IT services on college and university campuses, coupled with flat or declining budgets at many institutions, is arguably the greatest systematic challenge facing higher education IT during the next several years. It puts pressure on IT organizations to juggle "keeping the lights on" with the need to provide innovative technology platforms that support new levels of collaboration and promote strategic agility for institutions as well as their faculty and students. The pressures will only be exacerbated, for many institutions, by the arrival of federally funded, next-generation "cyberinfrastructure" that will require installation, adaptation, training, local administration, and support. If institutions do not have in place an IT infrastructure that can support these new arrivals efficiently, the cumulative burden on IT staff and budgets could be formidable, even unsustainable. Moreover, even if these cyberinfrastructure platforms are integrated, institutions face significant challenges in diffusing their islands of expertise broadly to the campus community. One interesting potential strategy for dealing with these problems is the model of "community-source" software (CSS) production. Another is the move to a services-oriented architecture (SOA). Both strategies show significant promise, but it remains an open question as to how much of that promise can actually be achieved. The next few years will be crucial for both.


Objective To study multidrug resistance (MDR1) gene expression in brain of patients withmedically intractable epilepsy Methods Brain specimens of 15 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy and 5 controlpatients were collected The MDR1 and B-actin wer simultaneously amplied in RT-PCR reaction The B-actin waschosen as a control to verify that the RNA was sufficient quality for the RT-PCR. Two hands (226hp and 548bp)were attained by an agarose gel electrophoresis. Following the process of photography, scan and calculation, a semiquantitative analysis was completed. Results Compeared with that of the control group, MDR1 expression in brainspecimens of the epilepsy patients showed an obviously statistical increasing (P 0.01). Conclusions It is wellknown that P-glycoprotein, encoded by MDR1, exports he from brain cells into blood then lowers drug concentrations in brain. MDR1 overe xpression in brain of Patients with medically intractable epilepsy can export AEDs frombrain and contribute to the refectory nature of their seizures. It is probable that MDR1 inhibitors may increase AEDconcentrations in brains and decrease seizure frequency


The invention relates to a method for controlling a vehicle braking system comprising an electric control motor, a sys tem for transmitting the control forces provided by the motor, at least one braking device for the wheels of a vehicle con trolled by the control forces transmitted by the transmission device. The method comprises at the end of a braking system release cycle, three additional phases after braking is stopped: phase H: re-operating of the motor in said forward direction of rotation corresponding to the actuation of braking, phase I. detecting a value characteristic of the electric current power ing the motor, phase J, operating the motor in the opposite direction of rotation to said forward direction then stopping the motor.


We study the retrieval-based multi-turn information-seeking dialogue systems, which are widely used in many scenarios. Most of the previous works select the response according to the matching degree between the query's context and the candidate responses. Though great progress has been made, existing works ignore the contexts of the responses, which could provide rich information for selecting the most appropriate response. The more similar the query's context and certain response's context are, the more likely they are to indicate the same question, and thus, the more likely this response is to answer the query. In this paper, we consider the response and its context as a whole session and explore the task of matching the query's context with the sessions. More specifically, we propose to match between the query's context and response's context and integrate the context-to-context matching with context-to-response matching. Experiment results prove that our proposed context-to-session method outperforms the strong baselines significantly.


The objective of this study was to construct a phage gene-targeted random peptides library of Mhp P97 gene and to investigate the feasibility of screening epitops of Mhp.The partial C-terminal sequences of Mhp P97 gene were amplified by PCR.The PCR products were digested with DNaseI,then the recovered fragments(50 bp-100 bp) were cloned into the properly handled pC89 phagemids and the recombinant phagemids were used to transform competent E.coli XL1-blue.The transformed cells were infected with helper phage VCSM13,and the recombinant phagemids were rescued,then the phage gene-targeted random peptide library of Mhp P97 gene was constructed.The library was screened by affinity reaction,and the positive clones were concentrated.The results are as follow: The capacity and liter of the peptide library was calculated as 1.8×104 clones and 1.3×1012 pfu/mL.The 10 positive clones got from the library randomly were tested by ELISA,all of them showed positive results except the number 1 hole.


The seasonal distribution and variability of growth of three types of irrigated pastures were measured at Kyabram over a period of up to seven years. The pasture types studied were (1) paspalum (Paspalum dilatatum)-dominant perennial pasture, (2) ryegrass (Lolium perenne)/clover (Trifolium repens) perennial pasture, and (3) annual pasture based on subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum) and Wimmera ryegrass (Lolium rigidum). The influence of environmental factors on the year-to-year variability in monthly growth rates was also examined. Annual growth curves were constructed for each pasture type, and examination of the variability about each monthly mean indicated that the spring months, and October in particular, were the most variable months for pasture growth. Environmental factors were found to account for part of the year-to-year variation in pasture growth of paspalum pastures in August, September, October, November and April. Higher mean maximum temperatures significantly increased growth in September, October and April, with the greatest response occurring in October; hours of sunshine was the significant factor influencing growth in August and November. Annual pasture growth also responded to changes in mean maximum temperature or hours of sunshine in September and October. The comparative mean annual production of paspalum pasture, ryegrass/clover pasture and annual pasture was 18.3, 18.3 and 11.0 t DM/ha, respectively. These levels of production represented 1.1, 1.2 and 1.6% conversion of photosynthetically active radiation during the growing period of the three pasture types, respectively. These levels of productivity and the animal production that should result, suggest that the pasture productivity on many irrigated dairy farms is either very low or the pasture that is grown is inefficiently utilized. Because animal productivity depends on pasture productivity more than any other single factor, farmers should make improvement of pasture growth their major aim while having regard for the variability in growth that can result from variations in environmental factors.


This article investigates the moderation effects of participation in decision making on the relationship between HPWS and the perception of quality of care. Survey responses were collected in March 2008 of 541 hospital managers, administrators and various groups of clinicians in a large regional Australian health service. Findings demonstrated that the positive relationship between HPWS and perceptions of the quality of patient care will increase with increasing levels of staff participation in decision making within their unit. These findings illustrate that by implementing HPWS and encouraging employee participation across different hierarchical work units, there is the potential to positively impact patient outcomes. Keyword: Human Resource Management and Development, Public Sector and Non-profit, Strategic Management, Management Education and Development


The first attention to Arenaria serpyllifolia var. macrocarpa in the Netherlands is paid in 1980, as the editors of Atlas Florae Europaeae asked for data of this neglected taxon. Dr. F.H. Perring (Oundle, Great-Britain) kindly controled the determinations of specimens of 'macrocarpa' in the collections of the Rijksherbarium (Leiden). The taxon only occurs in the coastal area of the Netherlands (fig. i). The differences of the infraspecific taxa of Arenaria serpyllifolia are given (table i). Awaiting 'closer study to clear up the taxonomical delimination and the range of this coastal ecotype' (Jalas & Suominen, 1983), the taxon has been considered subsp. serpyllifolia var. macrocarpa. closely related to var. serpyllifolia.


Hydrological parameters have vital role in civil engineering, infrastructure planning and natural resource management. Since the last one and a half-decade their extraction using the High-resolution satellite stereo data has been very helping and less time consuming. In the earlier times, the ground surveys use to take a lot of time to cover a small area. Whereas with the availability of high accuracy Digital Elevation models from satellite stereo data one can extract these parameters with ease and good accuracy. During last one and half-decade vast experience has been gained in techniques of processing stereo data acquired from space. This paper deals with the extraction and validation of hydrological parameters from digital elevation model (DEM) derived using CARTOSAT-1 stereo data. In this paper two sub-watershed, one in Chamoli, Uttaranchal and other in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh were selected, A detailed morphometric analysis of the derived drainage network from the various sources and using various algorithms has been carried out. The parameters like stream order, stream length, bifurcation ratio, length ratio etc., have been used for comparison purpose.


Books featuring oral history interviews with World War II veterans abound. One of the things that makes this particular collection unique is the choice to interview people from a specific geographic place. The people interviewed in this book all came from the area in and around Cambridge, Massachusetts; it is the place they were raised, called home, moved to, and chose to come back to. Cambridge is where they raised their families, and now as they grow older, continue to live. And while the book is a compilation of their stories, it is also the history of Cambridge and surrounding areas during the war years.


Double aortic arch is the most common symptomatic type of the aortic arch variant . The double aortic arches forms a complete symptomatic vascular ring that encircles the esophagus and trachea giving the symptoms of dyspnea and stridor (usually in the infancy and childhood) and dysphagia (more common in the adulthood). In this article w e present one month girl patient imaging findings with progressive respiratory distress.


Abstract : Scientific evidence indicates recent global climate trends which if remain unchanged or develop further could result in abrupt climate change. Abrupt climate change could result in serious environmental and social impacts. The most serious environmental impact would be the disruption of the natural processes which sustain, feed, and fuel people and nations. The disruption of these natural ecosystem processes could result in the scarcity and/or inaccessibility of vital natural resources like water, food, and energy supplies. Scarcity and/or inaccessibility of vital natural resources could create social and political turmoil and adversely impact regional stability and homeland security. As the US is the largest historical producer of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases, it should reform and adopt policies to adapt to the effects and/or mitigate the onset of abrupt climate change. Failure to take action will leave the US vulnerable to the environmental, social, and political impacts of abrupt climate change and threaten national security and vital US interests.


Alkyd resins are the product derivation of polyacid and polyol modified with monobasic fatty acid through polycondensation. Over the recent years, alkyd resins are widely used as the binder for composite and film-forming agent in paints. Vegetable oils were being explored and evaluated to synthesis alkyd resin due to its biodegradability and renewability. Synthesis of alkyd resins involved the alcoholysis of the oil by the polyol (commonly glycerol) and followed by polyesterification with a polyacid (commonly phthalic anhydride). Generally, a homogeneous or heterogeneous base catalyst was used to carry out the reaction. Nanoparticles were said to be a promising catalyst and colloidal form of nanoparticles was discovered in this context. In this work, palm oil based alkyd resin was synthesized over Magnesium Oxide (MgO) nano sol. Colloidal MgO nanoparticles were synthesised in glycerol and subsequently was used in alkyd resin synthesis. The alcoholysis process was conducted in the presence of various concentration of MgO (0.01, 0.02, 0.04 and 0.06wt% w.r.t. palm oil) at 240oC. The monoglycerides yield was found to achieve up to 95% in 40 minutes reaction time for 0.04wt% MgO catalysed system. As for the polyesterification process, fusion method was used since it was seldom discovered by other researchers. The crystallized size of the nanoparticle in sol was analysed by X-ray diffraction technique (XRD). Formation of the alkyd resin was monitored by measuring the acid values at different reaction time. Alkyd resins obtained after polyesterification of the alcoholysis products with phthalic anhydride at 240oC were characterized by employing Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The antimicrobial activity of MgO incorporated alkyd resin against microorganisms was tested via the Kirby–Bauer method. The MgO incorporated in alkyd resin not only reduced the reaction time but also was also proved to be an effective antibacterial agent which added value to the alkyd resin synthesised. Overall, MgO nanoparticles incorporated alkyd resin showed outstanding performance compared to conventional homogeneous base catalyzed system.


The key point of upscaling by the Multiscale Finite Element Method is a prolongation from a coarse to fine mesh. We have proposed a strategy for constructing such an operator when the ultra-weak formulation with optimal broken test functions is used. Preliminary numerical results confirmed the correctness of this new prolongation.


To determine the minimum detectable change (MDC) in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measurements of brain activity over repeated sessions with 95% confidence using a block design of tasks.


The way to raise cultural pride of Gyeongju is to produce the cultural landscape that is used as historical identity, the most valuable thing Gyeongju possesses. Producing cultural landscape is to create the visible form treated tangible and intangible assets. That's just the thing historical culture of Gyeongju gets redesigned. Understanding the concept of Ecomuseum is the first point to start on producing cultural landscape. And then this study investigates the current situation of heritage, culture infrastructure and urban infrastructure. And it sorts these cultural facilities which givs characteristics, according to period and function, then the connected path is to be capable of becoming a cultural street. So, the needed facilities for that cultural street should be designed to express the identity of Gyeongju, and the museums on a small scale ought to be built up within the connected sites to be Ecomuseums. And it should be shaped up the cultural landscape that the center of whole city Gyeongju is to be on a network museum.


The English-Chinese Dictionary(2nd edition)with Lu Gusun as the chief editor completed its revision in order to attain normalily and perfection.This altempt is thoroughly based on the compilers' admirable academic attitude of conscientiousness rigidity, frankness,modesty and rectification.


An equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter, describing both the neutron star crust and the liquid core, is calculated. It is based on the eective nuclear interaction SLy of the Skyrme type, which is particularly suitable for the application to the calculation of the properties of very neutron rich matter (Chabanat et al. 1997, 1998). The structure of the crust, and its EOS, is calculated in the T = 0 approximation, and under the assumption of the ground state composition. The crust-core transition is a very weakly rst-order phase transition, with relative density jump of about one percent. The EOS of the liquid core is calculated assuming (minimal) npe composition. Parameters of static neutron stars are calculated and compared with existing observational data on neutron stars. The minimum and maximum masses of static neutron stars are 0:094 M and 2:05 M, respectively. Eects of rotation on the minimum and the maximum mass of neutron stars are briefly discussed.


This paper proposes a design method of the intelligent monitor for newborns in which the ECG and RESP signals of newborns are supervised synchronously. The paper investigates the identification algorithm of ECG signal and uses fuzzy control method to send out intelligent adjusting signal as pretreatment before nurses carry through first aid. The application shows the effectiveness of the monitor.


This book is devoted to the theory of two-dimensional
flow of inviscid fluids and the solution of problems by the use of the theory of functions of a complex variable. There is no study of boundary layers or viscous wakes, and effects of viscosity are completely neglected. Nevertheless the range of topics is wide, and the problems and examples
chosen to develop and illustrate the theory are generally those for which it is known that ideal fluid theory gives a close approximation to the real flow. The work is indeed clearly motivated by real problems which gives the book a vital flavor and interest, and many of the results are of practical importance.


A "caldera" is a volcano formed by gigantic and has the potential to voluminous pyroclastic flow into the neighboring areas and to disperse volcanic ash broadly to the downwind side of the volcano, which would destroy or severely affect human life. For the purpose of predicting the next eruption and mitigating volcanic risk, it is essential that a detailed eruptive history should be demonstrated. Volcanic ash, or pyroclastic deposit produced in previous volcanic eruption, which is called 'tephra', is a geological indicator of past eruption, and various data in tephra studies. such as straugrapny, depositional and dispersal area of tephra, are valuable for detection of every eruption and for reconstruction of a detailed eruptive history. Coatepeque Caldera is one of five large calderas in the northern part of Central America and located 40 km southwest of San Salvador City, the capital of the Republic of EI Salvador (fig. 1). Ten million residents in the western pali of El Salvador, the southern part of Guatemala, and their neighboring areas are exposed to remarkable risk by eruption, because prevailing winds in the area tend to carry volcanic ash to the west. Three tephras have been already described in previous works, and another tephra younger than the three was suggested. Their distributions in El Salvador have also been illustrated. The fourth eruption, however, has not been supported with petrological and geochemical -::on-::olm;:pQ and the distribution of the four outside of El Salvador remains unknown. This aims at presenting analytical data to support the existence of the fourth eruption of Coatepeque Caldera and to illustrate the distribution of the tephras in Guatemala City for more than 150 km away from the volcano to the northwest.


Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 552p. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. Muthiah Alagappa has assembled an impressive number of essays in this volume, which is the product of two workshops in Honolulu and Phnom Penh held in 2002. It offers contributions covering 12 countries by 14 contributors, organized by country.


The use of English language has become an important tool for the development of communication in the globalized world, allowing better opportunities in the academic and work environment.
The following learning session entitled: "Describing an ability" was designed for 1ST year secondary students of Rafael Narvaez Cadenillas Experimental School. This session aims to allow students to be able to ask and answer questions related to the skills they can and cannot do in English.
In order to achieve the success of the objectives set, the use of the communicative method was considered, to contribute with an adequate environment for teaching - learning of students of the first year of secondary school. The techniques and materials were selected, taking into account the chosen method.


From the beginning of his career as a poet, William Carlos Williams (1883~1963) was fascinated by the grotesque images subsuming horrible, bizarre, terrible, ghastly, repulsive, mysterious, ugly and surrealistic elements. The poet, who once longed to be a painter before becoming a poet, has unceasingly adopted the characteristics of the grotesque in his poetry and prose. This is explicitly revealed from his early poem "Grotesque" of 1914 to his later essay "Nicolas Calas's Illumination of the Significance of Hieronymous Bosch's The Garden of Delights." of 1951. Especially, Williams feels a strong artistic affinity with the painters who create the strikingly grotesque images. A number of Williams' works clearly show an imaginative exploration of the estranged world of grotesque paintings. This is well demonstrated in the poet's essays on the painters in relation to the grotesque such as Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Brueghel, and Pavel Tchelitchew. As he proclaims that he was "closely allied with the painters," the grotesque acts as the source of Williams' artistic imagination, transcending the bounds of periods and genres.


In recent years, HVDC transmission project is developing greatly in China and the ±800 kV UHVDC project prepares for construction in the future. This paper introduce the oversea and domestic research situation of pollution performance and withstand voltage at pollution condition for insulators used under Ultra Voltage Direct Current(UHVDC). The design method of entironment pollution station and insulators experimented in the station are recommended with the requirement of UHVDC project. Several pollution experiment methods used in domestic and overseas for DC pollution has been analysed and compared so as to summarize a new principle which DC and AC special insulators for contrasting experiment in the article. Via gathering the surface dirt accumulated at insulators, several viable pollution measurements such as measure salt deposit density(ESSD) and dust deposit is put forward on the basement of experiment data collected by the station operating. In the experiments, the problem that how to measure the pollution rate of direct current and alternating current are also discussed . Considering the experiment error, a corrected measure that setting a DC insulator without electricity to accumulated dirt for contrasting the insulators with electricity is designed. At last, the usage of the DC and AC pollution rate under UHVDC is preliminarily researched in the paper.


An improved apparatus for detecting simulation of unilateral deafness. F. OESTERLE. (Z. Laryng., 1936, xxvi., 353-5.) Most tests for the unmasking of malingerers who pretend to be totally deaf on one side depend on the fact that a person always refers a given sound to the ear where the greater intensity of sound is used. Earphones are fitted over the head of the patient. The electrical circuit in the apparatus allows one to vary the intensity of the sound over a wide range. An assistant in another room speaks numbers into a microphone and the patient is asked to repeat them. At first the experimenter's voice is conducted only to the " good " ear with a low intensity and the patient repeats the numbers. Then rather suddenly the sound is switched into both earphones with a much increased intensity in the alleged deaf ear. If the patient is simulating deafness, he judges that his " deaf " ear is now being tested and he ceases to respond. On the other hand, if he is genuinely deaf on the affected side, he continues to repeat the numbers, as his " good " ear receives the same sound intensity as before.


In this paper, an approach to the construction of a neural network system of biometric authentication is proposed, which allows organizing the distributed stor-age of the base of biometric images and using a secret cryptographic key generated on the basis of the input biometric image as an output of the neural network. The object of the research is the biometric authentication system, and the subject of the research is the algorithms for converting parameters into a cryptographic key based on neural network technologies. The structure of a biometric authentication system has been developed, which identifies biometric features of a face image. The main difference between the developed system and existing solutions is the method of constructing a vector of primary biometric features based on neural network models and methods of machine learning and data mining, which allows assigning a unique private cryptographic key to each authentication subject. The mechanism of a distributed neural network representation of private key components significantly reduces the likelihood of compromising the vector of biomedical features. The use of the developed system and algorithms will make it possible to create highly reliable biometric security systems that ensure the ability of users to work with confidential information in open and weakly protected information systems.


As snow accumulates and compacts on ice sheets, ambient air is trapped within the ice, making glacial ice a direct archive of past atmospheric composition (Mccrimmon et al. p. 112). the extraction and measurement of gases trapped in ice cores provide continuous, direct observations of atmospheric composition going back hundreds of thousands of years. these records show changes in atmospheric composition on timescales ranging from decades to hundreds of millennia (Martin et al. p. 100). Ice cores have provided high-resolution records of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations including carbon dioxide (cO2) and methane (cH4), and their influence on, and relation to, global climate.


Empirical evidence on the effectiveness, dominant and the exact channel through which monetary policy impact the Nigerian economy is at best mixed. Against this backdrop, this paper set out to investigate this mixed evidence by exploring a data-rich environment using a FAVAR model estimated with 53 variables spanning the quarterly period of 1970:01 to 2013:04. Overall, the results showed that interest rates and credit channels are the dominant and strongest channel of transmission of monetary shocks in Nigeria, followed by Exchange rate and money channel. Stock channel, has no significant impact in the transmission process. Based on these result, we recommended that the Central Bank of Nigeria should improve on the use of the interest rate and credit channels as monetary policy variables through a policy approach of stimulating and emphasizing judicious management. This has the capacity to stimulate growth in distinct sectors of the economy.


When a young man enters the monastery in Cambodia there is a big celebration which begins with a procession through the streets. Here they are on their way to the temple to complete the ceremonies.


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A canon of seven "sights" of man-made art and architecture is first attested in the second century bce in a Hellenistic context: in the Laterculi Alexandrini (P. Berol. 13044 v, cols. 8–9) and in a poem by Antipater of Sidon (Anth. Pal. 9.58), referring to the pyramids of Egypt, the city wall of Babylon, the hanging gardens of Semiramis in the same city, the temple of Artemis at Ephesos, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, and the colossus of Rhodes. While the number "seven" remains stable until Late Antiquity, and is sometimes used to celebrate an "eighth" wonder (e.g., the Colosseum at Rome in Martial, Spect. 1, or St. Basil's hospital in Gregory of Nazianzus, Or. 43.63 = PG 36.577), the items listed vary, and replace "wonders" in the list by others.

Keywords:

archaeology;
classical civilization;
technology


For all continuous function g having a specific form that we call with increasing visibility, we construct a function f whose multifractal spectrum is such that df = g ◦ f . The function f is obtained as an infinite superposition of piecewise C functions, is also with increasing visibility, and is homogeneously multifractal, i.e. its restriction on any subinterval of [0, 1] has the same multifractal spectrum as the function f itself. In particular, we can construct a function f which is its own multifractal spectrum i.e. f = df .


By the potential method, it was determined that regardless of the nature of the liquid, the surface tension coefficient is determined by [Formula: see text]. In this expression, [Formula: see text] is the specific heat of the surface formation, [Formula: see text] is the critical temperature. According to our approach, the specific heat of the surface formation (SHS) also depends on temperature: [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text] — the specific heat of the surface formation at the mealting temperature, [Formula: see text] — thermal coefficent of SHS). In this research work, the temperature dependence of the surface tension coefficient was calculated for seven dissimilar liquids. It was revealed that the calculated values of [Formula: see text] are in satisfactory agreement with the available experimental values.


Tremor is the most common movement disorder, affecting ∼15 % of people over 50 years old according to some estimates. It appears due to a number of syndromes, being essential tremor and Parkinson's disease the most prevalent among them. None of these conditions is fully understood. Tremor is currently treated through drugs or neurosurgery, but unfortunately, it is not managed effectively in ∼25 % of the patients. Therefore, it constitutes a major cause of loss of independence and quality of life. Various alternative approaches for tremor management are reported in the literature. Among them, those devices that rely on the application of forces to the tremulous segments show a considerable potential. A number of prototypes that exploit this principle are available, spanning fixed devices and orthoses. However, none of them has fulfilled user's expectation for continuous use during daily living. This thesis presents the development and validation of a neuroprosthesis for tremor management. A neuroprosthesis is a system that restores or compensates for a neurological function that is lost. In this case, the neuroprosthesis aims at compensating the functional disability caused by the tremor. To this end, it applies forces to the tremulous limb through the control of muscle contraction, which is modulated according to the characteristics of the tremor. The concept design envisions the device as a textile that is worn on the affected limb, thus meeting the usability requirements defined by the patients. The development of the neuroprosthesis comprised the following tasks: 1. The development of a concept design of the neuroprosthesis, which incorporates state of the art knowledge on tremor, and user's needs. 2. The design and validation of a cognitive interface that parameterizes the tremor in functional contexts. This interface provides the information that the neuroprosthesis uses for tremor suppression. Two versions are developed: a multimodal interface that integrates the recordings of the whole neuromusculoskeletal system, and an interface incorporating only wearable movement sensors. The latter is intended for the functional validation of the neuroprosthesis, while the former is a proof of concept of an optimal interface for this type of applications.


It is well known that adaptive deformable fronts attached to trucks reduce pedestrian injury. However, the suitability of these frontal attachment devices from a holistic point of view, considering both primary and secondary impacts, is questioned in this paper. Using head-injury-criteria index, the effects of pedestrian gait and different closing speeds are considered for evaluation of numerous truck-pedestrian side and rear impact situations. Numerical simulations, considering coupled rigid and deformable-body dynamics, have been carried out in this paper to arrive at conclusions. For primary side impact scenario DEA frontal attachment provides a performance improvement specifically for 0% gait; however, the performance improvement is non-uniform for other gait cycles. For primary rear impact scenarios, it is observed that DEA is not a useful alternative at all. For secondary collision scenarios (involving both side and rear impacts) DEA is not at all an effective means for performance improvement.


This paper proposes a backup path multiplexing scheme for survivable generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) networks. The shared risk link group (SRLG)-disjoint label switched paths (LSPs) share common backup resources as many as possible to achieve higher efficiency. Based on the problem formulation, the analysis on the expected recovery failure probability, the expected recovery time, and the expected signal loss reveals the upper bound of the backup path length. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme provides higher multiplexing gain.


We read with interest the paper by Couderc, et al 1 on the prevalence of renal impairment in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) from the ASAS-COMOSPA study (Assessment of Spondyloarthritis international Society-COMOrbidities in SPondyloArthritis). Their results encouraged us to investigate renal impairment prevalence in our cohort.


concepts in terms of concrete experiences, and how linguistic metaphors reveal these underlying concepts. For example, someone may refer to the abstract notion of understanding using the concrete experience of seeing, exemplified by metaphorical phrases such as 'I see what you mean,' or 'My eyes have been opened to the truth.' Following this line of reasoning, Lakoff (1996) proposed that liberals and conservatives 6 have distinctly different underlying conceptualizations of morals in politics. He drew on research that demonstrates a common conceptual metaphor of the United States as a family, with governmental entities and politicians taking parental roles. Lakoff (1996) proposed that the prototypical liberal understanding of this family is one led by a nurturant parent, while the prototypical conservative understanding is a family led by a strict parent, specifically a strict father. This informs how individuals understand political issues and evaluate their moral worth. Under a pure nurturant parent moral concept, individuals conceptualize a family in which children are inherently good, and the role of parents is to exhibit care towards them and help them develop into mature adults. These adults then care for other people and other aspects of society, such as the environment. Nurturant parent morality follows metaphorical concepts that depict morality as empathy, nurturance, and fair distribution. In contrast, the strict father moral concept is based less on care and more on justice, or the idea that people should receive what they deserve based on their own initiative and action. In this family concept, children are not necessarily inherently good; they must learn good from bad and right from wrong through a just system of rewards and punishments. Strict father morality follows metaphorical concepts that depict morality as purity, health, and self reliance. As an example of one conflict inherent between these moral concepts, Lakoff (1996) described the state of modern-day capitalism. Conservatives may point to free market capitalism to demonstrate the benefits of a just worldview. In this system, theoretically anyone can achieve wealth commensurate to the effort they put in towards this achievement. Competition in the free market begets innovation, and those who 7 innovate receive financial reward. Conversely, liberals may point out that this system creates a wealth gap that leaves many people behind the financial curve of elites. Those who are impoverished may not deserve their situation simply because they do not have access to the resources necessary to build wealth. Thus, the government should care for these individuals by eliminating wealth inequality in some way. Lakoff (1996) acknowledged that his model was just that: a model, rather than a fully elaborated theory. However, he believed that these family based moral evaluations would be evident in the language used to discuss issues from either a liberal or conservative viewpoint. Researchers have since used the family model to explore the moral content of political documents, speeches, and the like, as well as to test relationships between political affiliation and family conceptualizations. Cienki (2005) analyzed debates between Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore during the 2000 US Presidential election. He found that each candidate did use speech that would indicate entailments of their predicted family models, but at times both candidates appeared to draw from both family models. Deason and Gonzalez (2012) found a similar pattern when analyzing the Presidential and Vice-Presidential convention speeches from the 2008 election. The Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden mainly drew from a nurturant parent model, but the Republican candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin drew from both a strict father and nurturant parent model. Deason and Gonzalez (2012) concluded that issue frames, rather than underlying moral concepts, appeared to be the salient factor that determined how candidates would discuss certain topics. For example, there was a significant global recession occurring at the time which warranted language from the 8 nurturant parent model regardless of political affiliation. It would not do to tell millions of people that they needed to pull themselves out of financial trouble, as a strict father moralist might; rather, candidates discussed how the government would care for citizens, in line with nurturant parent morality. As a measure of individual moral leanings, Feinberg et al. (2020) described the process of developing the Moral Political Scale. This scale asks participants to rate their agreement with various statements about a family, such as "I'd rather see my children play cooperatively than competitively" or "Obedience must be instilled in children" (Feinberg et al., 2020, p. 784), with the intent of discovering a person's underlying family concept (strict or nurturing). During development, the authors administered this scale to participants from the Amazon Mechanical Turk website alongside other scales that determined political leanings. Fienberg et al. (2020) found significant correlations between strict parent scores and indicators of political conservatism, and likewise between nurturant parent scores and indicators of liberalism. Their results supported Lakoff's (1996) model, and, importantly, it connected this model with a newer model for morality in politics: Moral Foundations Theory (Haidt, 2013). Feinberg et al. (2020) found significant correlations between nurturant parent morality and ideals that emphasize care and fairness, as well as between strict father morality and ideals emphasizing loyalty, authority, and purity. These five categories make up the five moral foundations theorized by moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt and colleagues, a theory which I will build on for the remainder of this study. 9 Moral Foundations Theory Haidt (2013) and Graham et al. (2013) described the process of constructing a multidimensional theory of moral psychology by first reviewing past theories on morality that rest on only one foundation. For example, they cited Lawrence Kohlberg's promotion of a moral imperative of justice, wherein actions are deemed moral or immoral solely based on whether they promote justice, that is, whether good deeds are rewarded and bad deeds are punished. Similarly, they reviewed Carol Gilligan's work, which argued that women view morality as based on whether actions promote care towards others while preventing harm. These moral foundations are not unlike Lakoff's strict and nurturant models. Graham et al. (2013) argued that such monistic moral theories do not capture the complexity of human moral intuition because they only provide one basis on which humans judge something as moral or immoral—does an action promote justice or not? Does it promote care or not? Graham et al. (2013) described themselves as "unabashed pluralists" (p. 57), that is, their theory rests on the notion that humans have several foundations on which to draw when making moral judgments. Haidt and Joseph (2004) began constructing a multi-foundation model of moral psychology by exploring possible evolutionary challenges of human physical and social development. This became the Moral Foundations Theory, which is comprised of five pillars of morality, each based on an evolutionary challenge of human history. Haidt and Joseph (2004) argued that humanity needed to overcome these challenges to develop within a complex social structure. The solutions to these challenges originated as social goals common to members of a social group. Common goals became group values and persist today as morals—underlying beliefs about what actions, attitudes, or behaviors are 10 fundamentally right or wrong (Haidt, 2013). A brief description of these foundations follows, adapted from Graham et al. (2013) and Haidt (2013): 1. The care/harm foundation, based on an evolutionary need to protect children. Current manifestations include compassion for victims of harm, both human and non-human (for example, compassion for nature or endangered species), as well as anger at the perpetrators of this harm. 2. The fairness/cheating foundation, based on an evolutionary need to form beneficial interpersonal relationships. Current manifestations include interpersonal issues, such as relational fidelity, along with non-interpersonal issues, such as equitable treatment towards all members of a society. 3. The loyalty/betrayal foundation, based on an evolutionary need to form social groups. Current manifestations include group pride ranging from school alumni and sports fans to political party and national pride. 4. The authority/subversion foundation, based on an evolutionary need to form hierarchies within social groups. Current manifestations include respect and obedience for those in authority in various contexts, such as teachers, bosses, or political leaders. 5. The sanctity/degradation foundation, based on an evolutionary need to avoid disease. Current manifestations include disgust at anything deemed a threat to personal or group sanctity, such as sexual deviancy, immigration, or physical maladies. Graham et al. (2013) described the process of developing Moral Foundations Theory as the co-development of theory and methodology. During the early stages of 11 development, the theory informed researchers on methods to test the theory; these methods then informed new directions and revisions for the theory, spurring new methods and so forth. Moral Foundations Theory has primarily been tested in four categories of methodology: word count analyses, self-report scales, implicit measurements, and physiological measurements. I describe some of the studies here with the exception of the word count analyses, to which I devote more attention in upcoming sections.


Composite polymer electrolytes were prepared by incorporating inorganic filler TiO2 into PVdF-HFP-PMMA-EC-LiClO4 system. The electrolyte films were prepared by solvent casting technique. The effect of inorganic filler on the conductivity of the blended polymer electrolyte was studied and it is found that there is a considerable increase in ionic conductivity 1.296 × 10-3 S/cm-1 on the addition of TiO2. X-ray diffraction (XRD) study elucidate the increase in amorphous nature of the polymer electrolyte. This tendency of the polymer electrolyte could be the reason behind the increase in ionic conductivity. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) spectra show the occurrence of complexation and interaction among the components.


The number of Te atoms and hole concentrations in undoped p-type CdTe quenched into water after annealing were investigated as functions of annealing temperature and Te2 vapor pressure. The number of Te atoms diffused from the annealing atmosphere into CdTe increased with increasing annealing temperature and Te2 vapor pressure, but decreased with additional increasing Cd vapor pressure. Te precipitates were observed by a scanning electron microscope in CdTe with diffused Te atoms more than approximately 1×1019 cm-3. The number of Te precipitates was increased with increasing Te vapor pressure, but was decreased by adding Cd vapor pressure. It was found that the precipitates resulted in a decrease in the concentration of the holes in p-type CdTe.


Based on accelerated carbonation test and rapid chloride penetration tes(tRCPT),this study systematically examined the chloride and carbonation durability performance of concrete incorporating 15%、30% fly ash in comparison to ordinary Portland cement concrete with similar water-binder ratios to the range of over 0.5 and below 0.35.Further more,the influence mechanism of fly ash on the carbonation and chloride resis-tance were discussed.Results indicate that:when exposed to different aggressive chemicals of carbon dioxide and chloride ion,the effect of fly ash on concrete durability conform to different mechanism.Irrespective the W/B ratio investigated in this paper,the addition of 15%、30% Fly ash both improve the chloride resistivity,additionally,with the hydration progress the effect of pozzolanic reaction exceed W/B to take the leading role in the formation of concrete resistivity.Whereas,the carbonation property of fly ash concrete depend greatly on the W/B ratio,which present opposite tendency when the W/B ratio degree goes from low to high.


A method for manufacturing a Bi nano-wire is provided to produce the Bi nano-wire through a simple process without changing a phase of Bi into a liquid phase or a vapor phase. A method for manufacturing a Bi nano-wire comprises the steps of preparing a substrate having an oxide layer thereon, forming a Bi thin film on the oxide layer through a sputtering process, loading the substrate including the Bi thin film into a reactor(110) and heat-treating the substrate. The heat-treated substrate is subject to a cooling process at the normal temperature to grow the Bi nano wire. The oxide layer has a thickness in a range of 300nm to 1'i. The Bi thin film has a thickness in a range of 50nm to 4'i.


A new polymorph of (2S,3S)-2-amino-3-methylpentanoic acid, l-isoleucine C6H13NO2, crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21 with four independent molecules in the asymmetric unit. In the crystal, N–H⋯O hydrogen bonds link two pairs of independent molecules and their symmetry-related counterparts to form two types of layers stacked in an anti-parallel manner parallel to (001). The hydrophobic aliphatic isopropyl groups protrude from these layers.


A theory is introduced to describe the adsorption of rigid rodlike molecules to a planar surface from solution. The configurations of the adsorbed rods are modeled by restricting the possible orientations to three mutually orthogonal directions: two parallel and one normal to the surface. We examine the adsorption isotherm and the most stable configurational state of the adsorbed rods as a function of rod axial ratio, bulk concentration, and adsorption energy. In the case of a strongly attractive wall, the rods are adsorbed parallel to the surface. As the bulk concentration is increased, however, the adsorption isotherm has a kink at a characteristic bulk concentration where the adsorbed rods become preferentially aligned parallel to the surface. For a weaker surface attraction, the adsorbed rods are aligned along a direction normal to the surface. The dependence of the configuration of the adsorbed rods on the temperature is also discussed.


This report documents a comparison of life-cycle costs of an assured isolation facility in Texas versus the life-cycle costs for a traditional belowground low-level radioactive waste disposal facility designed for the proposed site near Sierra Blanca, Texas.


The transient coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer in multilayer thermal insulation (MTI) consisted of non-gray semitransparent materials and reflective foils are investigated. The combined radiation and conduction heat transfer in MTI is modeled using the finite volume numerical method.The radiative transfer equation (RTE) is solved using the finite difference method.The spectral scattering and absorption coefficients as well as the phase function are determined using the Mie theory,thus providing a broader choice for fibrous insulation materials of the metallic thermal protection systems.


A method of encoding for optical transmission of information includes encoding information with a generalized low-den sity parity-check (GLDPC) code for providing coding gains, and constructing the GLDPC code with a Reed-Muller RM code as a component code, the component code being decod able using a maximum posterior probability (MAP) decod ing. In a preferred embodiment, the GLDPC code includes a codeword length of substantially 4096, an information word length of substantially 3201, a lower-bound on minimum distance of Substantially greater than or equal to 16, a code rate of substantially 0.78 and the RM component code includes an order of Substantially 4 and an r parameter of substantially 6.


he world leader in yoghurts faces the decrease in consumption in Europe; the activity of fresh dairy products remains low on the Old Continent which continues to impact the Group's profitability. The world leader in fresh dairy products notably suffers from the crisis that hits Spain and Italy where the drop in sales of yoghurt in terms of volume exceeds 10%.After having been the cash cow of DANONE, the activity in baby nutrition in Asia puts the Group in an awkward position. Besides, the crisis gives cause for concern to shareholders and directors. The multinational reacts by developping an expansion strategy in the emerging markets and in North America which are its profitable growth engines. There, the Group continues to reinforce its brand names and organisations, and to prepare its future through new growth drivers. Market conditions remaining negative, several questions arise: is the Group's portofolio balanced? Is the anti-crisis plan a "second wind" for stimulating a strategic change in the Group? Is a significant change in the strategic direction necessary?


Author information: Wang, Zhenyu, Lee, Chanyoung, Lin, Pei-Sung, Guo, Rul, Xin, Chunfu, Kolla, Rama Durga, Tammayya Naidu, Yang, Runan, Vasili, Abhijit Publication: University of South Florida, Center for Urban Transportation Research Florida Department of Transportation Publication Date: 2018-10 Motorcycle crashes are overrepresented on horizontal curves, especially along rural two-lane roads. Most roadway design and traffic control strategies on horizontal curves include limited considerations for motorcycles. It is necessary to conduct a study to investigate the factors contributing to motorcycle crash risk on horizontal curves and identify effective countermeasures to improve motorcycle safety. This project aimed to fill the gap by completing the following four tasks: 1. A comprehensive literature review to summarize current practices of preventing motorcycle crashes on horizontal curves; 2. A crash analysis to address relevant factors and how to influence motorcycle crash risk on horizontal curves, including crash occurrence, risk of fatalities and severe injuries, and motorcyclist-atfault; 3. A field experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of Dynamic Speed Feedback Signs (DSFS) to reduce motorcycle speed and increase motorcyclist attention on curve risk; 4. A before-after crash analysis to address the effectiveness of DSFS in motorcycle crash reduction on horizontal curves; 5. Recommendations to address the identified curve-related safety issues for motorcycles in Florida and prevent motorcycle injury on horizontal curves. Advanced statistical models were used to analyze 11 years (2005–2015) of motorcycle crashes data collected on curves on Florida roadways. Crash Modification Factors (CMFs) of curve radius and curve type for single-motorcycle crashes on rural two-lane highways were developed. The CMFs can be used in Highway Safety Manual (HSM)-compatible motorcycle safety management. Significant factors contributing to motorcycle crash frequency, severity, and motorcyclist-at-fault on horizontal curves were also identified and quantified. A field behavior experiment collected speed profile data and eyetracking data from 10 participants with different DSFS operation modes ("OFF" – without DSFS, "STATIC" – continuously display speed limit, "DYNAMIC" – feedback scheme with flashing and "SLOW DOWN" display). The results indicate that DSFS in "DYNAMIC" mode can effectively increase motorcyclist attention on curves and intention to reduce speed. The before-after with comparison group study shows that the implementation of DSFS on rural two-lane undivided curves can reduce lane departure motorcycle crashes by 22%. Based on the analysis results, recommendations were developed for increasing awareness of curve risks, decreasing speed, roadside clearance, implementation of DSFS, and education/training.


iii CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW AND THESIS OUTLINE 1 CHAPTER 2: SURVEY OF GRAIN AMARANTH PRODUCTION AND SOIL PROPERTIES IN KAMULI DISTRICT OF UGANDA 48 CHAPTER 3: ORGANIC GRAIN AMARANTH ON-STATION EXPERIMENTS IN UGANDA 76 CHAPTER 4: ORGANIC GRAIN AMARANTH ON-FARM EXPERIMENTS IN UGANDA 139 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 176 APPENDIX I: AMARANTH SURVEY 187 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 189


A forced-air-cooled three-phase inverter built with SiC-JFETs and -SBDs as power semi-conductor devices was designed and fabricated. The inverter can operate steadily at a rated power of 10 kW in a junction temperature range up to 200°C. Output power density of more than 20 kW/L was achieved. The design specifications, the power module fabrication process, the results of a high-temperature operating test and a continuous switching test are described in turn.


Exomphalos minor is one among uncommon disorders of the umbilical region. Here, we report a fatal case of exomphalos minor with enterococcal septicemia. A male baby, born with exomphalos minor, developed clinical features of septicemia on the fourth postnatal day. Blood samples were collected by venepuncture from two sites for culture. Enterococcus faecium was isolated from both the blood samples. The swabs collected from the site of exomphalos also yielded growth of Enterococcus faecium, confirming the source of infection. The antibiogram with Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MIC) for various antibiotics was done for isolates from all three sites, which was similar. The isolate was resistant to multiple antibiotics with high level aminoglycoside resistance. The baby was treated with antibiotics and other supportive measures. However, the baby succumbed to the septicemia. As per our knowledge, this is the first reported case of fatal septicemia by multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a case of exomphalos minor.


Developing countries are striving for the development of infrastructure facilities including transportation systems. India has a national highway with a length over 52,000 km. A further 14,000 km length of express highway is currently being built under the golden quadrangle and North–South and East–West corridor projects. These projects have large scope for adopting superpave technology. The strategic highway research program (SHRP) conducted a $ 50 million research effort from 1987 to 1993 to develop a new concept for the design of bituminous mixes referred to as superior performing asphalt pavements (superpave). Superpave mixes have been widely used by the developed countries for the last few years but the developing countries are still working with the conventional mixes i.e. marshall mixes. Flexible pavements, with bituminous surfacing as a wearing course, are widely used in India. The objective of this study was to compare the design of asphaltic concrete by the superpave and marshall methods of mix design. A detailed laboratory study was carried out using aggregate from the Delhi region and bitumen from the Mathura refinery. From the analysis of design of asphaltic concrete, it was observed that superpave mixes fulfill all the criteria for easy and good construction at lesser binder content than the marshall mixes. Apart from superpave mix design, the effect of angle of gyration, number of gyrations on mix properties like density, stability, indirect tensile strength were also determined. Results revealed that percentage theoretical maximum density increases with the increase in number of gyrations. At any level of gyration, theoretical maximum density percentage increases with increase in gyratory angle. Further, it was observed that indirect tensile strength decreases with increase in angle of gyrations. Comparing both the design methods, it was observed that marshall compactor is unable to answer the rutting resistance of the designed mixture. The marshall compaction effort in the field laboratory corresponded to an air void content of slightly less than six percent, and the mixture appeared to stabilize under traffic at an air void content between three and four percent. In contrast, superpave gyratory compactor is capable of achieving air void contents much lower than achieved by mechanical marshall hammer compaction. This prevents additional compaction under traffic, which could result in rutting in the wheel paths. Hence, marshall mix design should be replaced by superpave mix design for Indian national highways/express highways, which compact the specimens in the same manner as compacted under actual pavement climate and loading conditions.


The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of using augmented Slater-type orbitals (STO) as basis functions for electronic-structure calculations. STO's have a radial dependence given by r/sup n/-1exp(-zetar) and as a result have a number of important advantages. They are localized about sites and have the same asymptotic form as actual atomic orbitals. They are regular at the origin and possess analytic Fourier transforms. The Fourier transform can be manipulated to yield an addition theorem, that is, a reexpansion formula for an STO about another site which is similar to the one used for spherical Bessel functions. Augmenting the STO's with numerical solutions of the Schroedinger equation within touching spheres leads to a small secular matrix since the numerical functions are orthogonal to all the core states and the STO's are only used in the interstitial region. The method has been applied to copper, silver, and palladium using Chodorow-type potentials and accounting for all relativistic effects except spin-orbit coupling. The results on copper are in good agreement with previous calculations and with experiments. The results on Pd and Ag are in better agreement with photoemission experiments than fully self-consistent local-density calculations.


From the high-frequency electrode or other electrical member in the processing chamber with respect to high frequency noise that enters on the line, such as a power supply line or a signal line to control the parallel resonance frequency, optionally, be efficiently stabilized and securely cut off both the high-frequency noise of different frequencies. Filters 102 (1), the coils (104 (1)) in a Cheating body (110) of the tubular receiving the shaft, and the ring members between the coil (104 (1)) and Cheating body (110) 122 to be installed on the same axis. Ring member 122 preferably is configured as a plate body extending in the annular shape on a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of the affair body 110, preferably formed of a conductor such as copper, aluminum, Cheating product ( 110) and being electrically connected to the coil (104 (1)) to be electrically isolated.


Objective. Aortic valve calcification and stenosis become increasingly common with advancing age. This work aimed at assessing whether a time‐dependent reduction of aortic valve area is detectable in an unselected elderly population and whether the rate of reduction can be predicted from clinical or biochemical characteristics.


Based on a literature review from various theoretical frameworks, along with personal construct psychology, I developed a preliminary personal construct model of the adaptation process to giving birth to and parenting children with developmental disabilities. This model was tested and elaborated from qualitative and quantitative analysis of interview data collected from 81 participants. It was a longitudinal study with the first data collection being within 6 to 24 months of the diagnosis and the second data collection being 18 months later. A matched control group of 81 parents of children without disabilities was interviewed on both occasions. The results indicated that parents of children with developmental disabilities did experience significantly higher levels of cognitive anxiety, death, mutilation, separation, guilt, and shame when compared with parents of children without developmental disabilities. The participants w h o could incorporate the event into their preferred way of viewing life, experienced less anxiety compared with parents who perceived themselves as being on their non-prefened construct poles. The adaptive process was most effective when parents experienced themselves as having been de-railed by the events from their preferred construct pole and reconstrued life. In so doing they moved again to their preferred construct pole. This group of i parents indicated no significant difference in the levels of their negative emotions compared to parents who gave birth to children without developmental disabilities.


The traditional financial crisis early warning mostly carries on the forecast through the financial index establishment model,the financial index theoretically has not going on depth analysis the deep causes for the enterprise fallen into the financial crisis,so it needs introduce the non-financial information to integrate the financial crisis to early warning mechanism.This paper analyzes the relates between corporate governance structure and financial crisis of listed companies,and using the corporate governance to governs the financial early warning mechanism,establishes financial crisis early warning mechanism of listed companies after introducing corporate governance information.


Upon smaller package, be substantially equal to the plane size of the LED die and the circuit board, the semiconductor light-emitting device to emit light and an upper surface side gap is suitably provided between the LED die and the circuit board, and to provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device such as. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor light-emitting device, toward the electrode of the plurality of the semiconductor light emitting device on the adhesive sheet side by arranging the semiconductor light emitting element on the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, a resin between the side surface of the semiconductor light-emitting elements arranged on the adhesive sheet filled, to cure the resin to create a semiconductor light-emitting element wafer, peeling the adhesive sheet from the semiconductor light-emitting element wafer, the semiconductor by overlapping the semiconductor light-emitting element wafer to the large-sized circuit board a number of the circuit board when singulation is obtained bonding the formed electrode and large format circuit board of the light-emitting element electrodes, wherein the semiconductor light emitting large format circuit board plane size and the circuit plane size of the substrate of the semiconductor light emitting element is bonded semiconductor light-emitting device wafer as equal It characterized by having a step of singulating the device.


The mean width is a measure on n-dimensional convex bodies. An integral formula for the mean width of a regular n-simplex appeared in the electrical engineering literature in 1997. As a consequence, expressions for the expected range of a sample of n+1 normally distributed variables, for n infty.


Having organic functional layer sandwiched between; (105 104) and (103) and the first transparent electrode layer (104), and a second electrode layer (105), said first and second electrode layers organic functional device (101,201,401) of at a method of suppressing the short-circuit defect occurs. The method, wherein an organic functional device step (301) to identify a portion of the (101,201,401), said portion contains a defect (102a-g) which leads to increased risk of short-circuit failure and has, step, a segment of the second electrode layer (105) step (302) to select (108a-g), said segments, corresponding to said portion, step and said segment, (108A- comprising the steps of: electrically isolated from the remaining portion of said g) second electrode layer (105) (303), the step of short-circuit trouble is eliminated caused thereby due to the defect (102a-g) It has a.


Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common pediatric rheumatic disease; when disease activity persists into adulthood, it may lead to functional disability. The transition of adolescents and young adults with JIA to an adult Rheumatology clinic is not a matter of transfer: it is a coordinated and targeted transition and integration from child/family-focused health systems to those for adults. Transition is an active, dynamic and flexible process, adapted appropriately to the patient's age, mental and physical development in respect to his/her culture. It aims to empower the patient to undertake the responsibilities of their own personal health and lifestyle, and above all, to guarantee the optimum lifelong functionality. A prerequisite for successful transition is the patient's training in development of their skills regarding communication, decision making, and self-health management. The transition process involves parents, patients and health caregivers (pediatric/adult) and, in addition, educational /social services. Patient management is holistic, physical and psychosocial, with an extension to areas of education and vocational rehabilitation and requires the full cooperation of parents, patients and health professionals at all stages. The steps for final transition take place only when the patient has completed his/her developmental process and has a proven ability for self-healthcare management, unsupported by


According to the characteristics of the course,Powder Engineering Basis,scientific researches play an important role in the promotion of teaching quality of this course and the training of innovational abilities of the students.The optimization of course system,improvement of teaching methods and teachers′ scientific research abilities as well as diversification of practical activity are discussed in this paper.


Electron transport in small graphene nanoribbons is studied by microwave emulation experiments and tight-binding calculations. In particular, it is investigated under which conditions a transport gap can be observed. Our experiments provide evidence that armchair ribbons of width 3m+2
 with integer m are metallic and otherwise semiconducting, whereas zigzag ribbons are metallic independent of their width. The contact geometry, defining to which atoms at the ribbon edges the source and drain leads are attached, has strong effects on the transport. If leads are attached only to the inner atoms of zigzag edges, broad transport gaps can be observed in all armchair ribbons as well as in rhomboid-shaped zigzag ribbons. All experimental results agree qualitatively with tight-binding calculations using the nonequilibrium Green's function method.


Objectives:  To review recent cases of Kawasaki disease (KD) with significant cardiac sequelae in New Zealand. It is known that intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) reduces the risk of coronary artery aneurysm formation if given within 8−10 days of onset of KD.


Coral cover remains highest on patch reefs at the northern end of the Florida reef tract. Two indices, the FORAM Index and the SEDCON Index, were developed to indicate the suitability of a reef environment for continued reef accretion. Patch reefs were sampled in Biscayne National Park, FL, to assess sediment characteristics and foraminiferal assemblages, as well as to examine trends between the two indices. Sediments associated with a majority (59%) of reefs were coarse sands; muddy sediments were restricted to a few inner patch reefs that were isolated from the flow of Caesar's Creek. Unidentifiable grains dominated the sediment constituents, along with calcareous algae and molluscan debris. Shells from 82 genera of Foraminifera were identified in the sediments. Quinqueloculina was the most consistently common genus. Percent mud was the most influential measured variable on the distribution of both sediment constituents and foraminiferal assemblages. Patterns of FORAM and SEDCON Index values and their similarity to temperature, salinity, and percent mud distributions show that Caesar's Creek is affecting the benthic community by providing flow that limits the accumulation of mud and potentially other anthropogenic stressors. Overall this study suggests that the reefs in this area are marginal for continued reef growth.


In this paper low-velocity impact response and damage of composite laminates is analytically investigated. A modified displacement field of plate considering initially loaded in-plane strain is proposed. From the displacement field a finite element equation on structural behavior of composite laminate is newly induced and a computational program is coded. Numerical results using the FEM code is compared with the numerical ones from reference. Additional numerical analysis is performed on another impact condition and effect of initial in-plane load is reviewed. Potential delamination damage area in the first inter-ply surface from bottom of laminate is approximated and effect of initial in-plane load and impact condition is also reviewed.


This article describes the evolution and key features of a training programme, Empowering Coaching™, which pulls from both the achievement goal frameworks and self-determination theory and related research. This programme takes into account that there are key dimensions of the social psychological environments created by significant others (such as coaches) and central motivational processes that are pertinent to sustained and optimal engagement in activities (such as sport). Also presented is information on how and why Empowering Coaching™ was implemented within the European-wide "Promoting Adolescent Physical Activity" project (www.projectpapa.org), which aimed to provide an evidence-based intervention approach to facilitating "healthy sport experiences for healthier kids".


Background: As most academic research does not address barriers to real world implementation, the evidence generated is often not seen as useful or relevant to practitioners and policymakers, and thus has little overall public health impact (Kessler & Glasgow, 2011). Aim: The aim of this paper is to promote research co-production as a means of facilitating evidence-based management in the field of employee health and wellbeing and illustrate processes and outcomes of academic-practitioner collaboration. Approach: This will be a joint presentation articulating academic and practitioner perspectives on research collaboration and goals regarding research co-production. Key messages: Academic/industry partnerships are critical to innovation and research in workplace wellbeing. Representatives of the organisation partnering with consultants and academics has pioneered new approaches to building psychological capital, growth mindsets and positive work environments enabled by developed leaders with skills and capabilities in psychological wellbeing. Limitations: Challenges experienced in academic-practitioner collaboration will be discussed. Implications for practice: A model for WSVs research and data-led employee wellbeing strategy will be shared as well as key stages in the collaborative timeline. Conclusions: Further time is needed before evaluation of the overall impact of the collaborations discussed in this paper can be assessed. Examples provided demonstrate commitment to enhancing employee wellbeing and the role of research and data integration around organisational strategies, programs and practices.


Electrical and Electronic Knowledge is becoming difficult to understand for most of the students of Automotive Engineering Department FT UNP Padang. Electronics technology has been widely applied in the automotive world, for example ignition sistem using transistors. Students will have difficulty understanding, identifying and doing maintenance for transistor ignition sistem, if the basic concepts and principles of the transistor are not understood. The use of powerpoint as a media instructional, it can not fully solve the learning problems encountered by students. This article explains to create innovative media instructional in the form of small trainer's transistor. Trainer's transitor is made using Reseach and Development (RnD) methodology. Achievements are 2 units of small transistor trainers and equipped with data capable of explaining the basic concepts and applications of PNP / NPN transistors


A common conclusion in criminology is that fears of terrorism are being (mis)used. The media have used them to market their products, politicians to promote themselves as protectors, and the police have profited through being granted increased powers and resources. Some scholars even argue that one outcome has been a growing militarization of the police. This article revisits this debate. It does so by taking an ethnographic look at how the war on terror has affected a number of Danish police detectives' daily work. In doing so, the paper shows how the idea that police (mostly) benefit from the war on terror somewhat misses the mark – at least when seen from the perspective of frontline officers. As the article demonstrates, rather than mobilizing Danish detectives, terrorism most often makes them feel mired.


The invention provides a preparation method of inflaming retarding hydrophilic polyester fiber. The preparation method is characterized by comprising the specific steps of: 1, mixing terephthalic acid with ethylene glycol to prepare slurry, adding the mixture into an esterification reaction kettle for primary esterification reaction, adding sorbitol and polyethylene glycol for carrying out secondary esterification reaction when the collecting quantity of byproducts reaches 82-95 percent of a theoretical value, after the esterification reaction is completed, carrying out a condensation polymerization on an esterification product to prepare a hydrophilic polyester slice; 2, after coffee grounds are dried, calcining to obtain coffee carbon, activating the nano-level coffee carbon powder body, adding a fire retardant to obtain a fire retardant-containing nano-level coffee carbon powder body; 3, smelting and pelleting the fire retardant-containing nano-level coffee carbon powder body and the hydrophilic polyester slice to obtain a functional master batch; and 4, smelting and spinning the functional master batch and the hydrophilic polyester slice to obtain the inflaming retarding hydrophilic polyester fiber. The inflaming retarding hydrophilic polyester fiber has the advantages of good hydrophilic performance and has a long-term continuous function of the fire retardant and the coffee carbon.