Recently, many researches based on millimeter wave (mmWave) together with analog beamforming technology have been done to provide higher transmission throughput in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. While hybrid beamforming technology, which can generate multi radio frequency (RF) chains with reduced hardware complexity, continues attracting attention. Hence, this paper focuses on a hybrid-beamforming-based roadside unit (RSU) beam resource scheduling problem in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication and intends to improve transmission fairness. Then, this paper proposes an indicator $Q$ to evaluate transmission fairness. Furthermore, a Power-allocated-based Beam resource Scheduling strategy (PBS) and a Time-allocated-based Beam resource Scheduling strategy (TBS) are designed for the multi-RF-chain based V2I communication to enhance transmission fairness. Simulation results prove that, the two proposed beam resource scheduling strategies can effectively improve the transmission fairness in V2I communication.


PURPOSE: A pillow type acupressure device is provided, which promotes circulation of blood and fatigue recovery by effectively pressing acupoints of the head. CONSTITUTION: A pillow type acupressure device comprises a main body in which a space part is formed and a lot of first penetration holes corresponding to acupoints of the back of the head are formed in the surface center; a first acupressure plate which is installed to keep interval of acupressure protrusions; a first elevating unit which elevates the first acupressure plate; a controller(140) controlling the first elevating unit; and a power supply unit(150) supplying drive power of the controller.


When roaming between data communication networks of a plurality of packet-switched, discloses a mobile communication terminal apparatus and a control method capable of realizing a rapid and continual smooth handoff. Mobile communication terminal device (100) includes a hardware, software and network access unit having a network access mechanism uniquely set by the protocol each specification is adjusted (NAU) (101), a set of interface and NAU (101) and determines the channel to be used in communications session by exchanging information, and controls the NAU (101) corresponding to the determined channel MADU (Multiple Access decision Unit) (103) using the comprising, roam between data communication networks of a plurality of packet-switched.


This two-day meeting of the UN-GGIM Expert Group on Land Administration and Management (UNGGIM: EG-LAM) is hosted by the Government of The Netherlands through Kadaster International of The Netherlands in Delft on March 14 & 15, 2017. This physical meeting is a working meeting where members of the Expert Group together with invited experts are expected to work together towards tangible outcomes and deliverables expected by the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management.


To explore the Senecio scandens and develop it into a green feed additives,we use the membrane method to separating it's active substances. Methods: using Ultrafiltration membrane to separate gallic acid family active substances in Senecio scandens, By using anhydrous ethanol as solvent,ratio of material to liquid was 1:100,Senecio scandens raw material powder quality is about 10g;using the design of orthogonal experiment with four factors and three levels,research the the solvent concentration20%,30%,40%, microwave processing time of 50S、60S、70S,particle size 30#、40#、60#,pressure0.08 MPa,0.15 MPa,0.2MPa respectively to the influence on extraction result. Results:the factor include solvent concentration、microwave processing time on the absorbance value was not significantly(P 0.05);particle size and pressure on the light absorption value was significant(P0.05),the optimum extraction conditions to separate gallic acid family active substances in Senecio scandens were 40#, pressure 0.08 MPa. Conclusion:the ultrafiltration method could be using in the separating for gallic acid family active substances in Senecio scandens,which will benefit to exploring the Senecio scandens as new green feed additives。


Acute maternal hyperoxygenation (AMH) results in increased fetal left heart blood flow. Our aim was to perform a pilot study to determine the safety, feasibility and direction and magnitude of effect of chronic maternal hyperoxygenation (CMH) on mitral and aortic valve annular dimensions in fetuses with left heart hypoplasia (LHH) after CMH.


Stroboscopy was introduced to provide a visualisation of vocal fold vibrations, and is still the visualisation technique used in clinical practice. Stroboscopy uses low-frequency repetitive light flashes (slower than the fundamental frequency of the vocal folds) that illuminate the vibrating vocal folds at specific points in time. In doing so, a video can be produced that represents a virtual slow-motion recording of vocal fold vibrations.


Second, Russia benefits from high commodity prices and the increasing dependence on oil and gas by Western countries. In the year 2006, Russia expected a balance of trade surplus of several billion Rubles. This has also positive effects on average salaries. As most of salaries and wages are paid without taxes (on the black market), people get gross for net salary. Instead of generating deficits, Russia reduces debts at industrial countries.


The chaperone system (CS) is emerging as a key multistage participant in carcinogenesis. The CS chief components are the molecular chaperones (some of which are named heat shock proteins or Hsp), which are typically cytoprotective but if abnormal in structure, location, or quantity, can become etiopathogenic and cause diseases, known as chaperonopathies, including some cancers. For example, abnormal Hsp90 expression is associated with tumorigenesis and poor prognosis. Hsp90 is positioned at the center of several key oncogenic pathways by stabilizing and activating oncogenic kinases responsible for driving cell proliferation and survival. Consequently, inhibition of Hsp90 is being investigated as a possible anti-cancer strategy and some results are encouraging. However, the 5-year survival rate for patients suffering from salivary gland carcinomas is still unsatisfactory. Because of the rarity of these malignancies, they may have been overlooked and understudied and, thus, novel therapies (e.g., inhibition of CS components like Hsp90 and others) are urgently needed. In this review, we also summarize the histopathological quantitative patterns and the intra- and extra-cellular location characteristics of Hsp90 in tumors of salivary glands, pointing to their potential for differential diagnosis, prognostication, and patient monitoring.


OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine (1) the diurnal variation In SHBG and (2) the Inter‐relatlonshlps of Insulin, IGF‐I, SHBG and IGFBP‐1 over 24 hours In 10 women with anovulatory PCOS and compare them with weight‐matched ovulatory controls.


In 2015, 41 universities had less than 80% of the average freshman registration rate in Taiwan. In 2016, it is estimated that the freshman population will be further reduced by 30,000. This indicates that universities may experience financial difficulties due to the shrinkage of student population. Conducting total quality management (TQM) and enhancing the quality of education are the strategies being adopted by many schools to attract students. This research investigates whether TQM strategies, teaching quality and school brand are conducive to student learning satisfaction and loyalty. The results showed: 1) TQM strategies and teaching quality have significant and positive influence on student learning satisfaction and loyalty; 2) among TQM strategies, student learning satisfaction and loyalty, teaching quality has an intermediary effect. The results of this study can be used as a reference for the recruitment strategy and sustainable management of higher education institutions.


Optic disc detection and retinal vessel diameter measurement are important tasks in the studies of the association of retinal micro vascular disease with ocular effects, such as cerebral atrophy, cognitive decline, stroke, diabetes and hypertension. This work presents an automatic detection of optic disc irregularities, and determines an appropriate region of interest for retinal vessel diameter measurement. We measured the retinal vessel diameters in 44 diabetic and 60 normal images captured from human eye fundus images with three parameters: Main retinal artery equivalents, Main retinal vein equivalents, and artery to vein diameter ratio. The average of the main artery equivalents in patients with diabetes mellitus is 8.48 pixels, and the average of main vein equivalents is 11.63 pixels. The average of main artery equivalents in healthy people is 9.57 pixels and the average of main vein equivalents is 12.03 pixels. The average ratio of arteriole to vein diameter is about 0.75 in patients' images with diabetes and approximately 0.80 in healthy people. The results show that the average ratio of arteriole to vein diameter in diabetic patients is smaller than that of healthy people.


Focusing on Fujian Province with counties and cities as the basic research units,the study uses weighted average travel time as an indicator to analyze the accessibility patterns of highways within Fujian Province and those between Fujian and other provinces,as well as those of railways,ports and civil aviations respectively.Then,with the result of these patterns,the accessibility patterns of integrated transportation are elaborated.Finally,the proportionality of transportation space distribution is discussed.Basing on classification method of resources intensive,the selected 28 kinds of manufacturing industries can be classified into resources-intensive manufacturing,labor-intensive manufacturing and capital-intensive manufacturing.Then by Average Concentration Rate,industry centralization is calculated.Selecting 13 variables in the aspects of endowment factors,external economies,scale economies and policies to do regression analysis of influencing factors on the spatial distribution of manufacturing.The results indicate that: the accessibility of integrated transportation in Fujian Province decreases from the central coastal area to the periphery with the accessibility of highways within Fujian Province presenting an obvious circle structure,and the accessibility of highways between Fujian and other provinces taking the shape of "﹟",while railways,ports,and airports form a saddle-shaped pattern of high accessibility around Fuzhou-Xiamen-Quanzhou area.The integrated transportation net shows a zonal distribution.The different types of manufacturing present the different characteristics in spatial distribution: the high value area of manufacturing average concentration rate show an annular distribution and the low value area is distributed dottedly,which coincide with the "sag area" of transportation accessibility.There are strong positive correlations between transportation accessibility and manufacturing industries agglomeration,but the correlation degree is different in various types of manufacturing.For example,transportation accessibility has a low correlative rate with the resources-intensive manufacturing.In addition,the determinative factors of manufacturing industries agglomeration in Fujian Province also include agriculture abundance,natural resources endowments,knowledge spillovers and relative enterprise scale.


A silanylamine-based compound is provided to show excellent electric properties and electron transporting capability, thereby being useful as a hole injection layer, a hole transporting layer and/or a luminescent layer forming material of fluorescent and phosphorescent organic emitting devices. An organic emitting diode having an organic film including the silanylamine-based compound is provided to show high efficiency, low voltage and high brightness. A silanylamine-based compound is represented by the formula(1), wherein each R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 is independently H, C1-30 alkyl, C2-30 alkenyl, C2-30 alkynyl, C1-30 alkoxy, C6-30 aryloxy, C6-30 aryl, or C2-30 heteroaryl, or R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 may be bound to an adjacent group to form a saturated or unsaturated carbocycle; and each Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 is independently H, C6-30 aryl or C2-30 heteroaryl. An organic light emitting diode including a first electrode, a second electrode and an organic film interposed between the first and second electrodes is characterized in that the organic film comprises the silanylamine-based compound. Further, the organic film is a hole injection layer or a hole transfer layer.


This paper describes two methods employed in reconstructing a 3-D object. The first method called factorization is a technique for reconstructing the 3-D shape of an object without using camera parameters. This method is employed repeatedly to provide a set of partially reconstructed shapes of the object concerned. The reconstructed parts are integrated to yield the whole 3-D shape of the object. In order to achieve this, the second method called the registration algorithm is employed. Experimental results are shown with discussion.


Objective To investigate the postoperative risk factors for gastrointestinal stromal tumors.Methods From December 2005 to December 2010,sixty-one gastrointestinal stromal tumors patients of People' s Hospital of Tongling city gastrointestinal surgery department were analyzed retrospectively.Using the logistic regression model to calculate the postoperative recurrence risk factors. Results Sixty-one patients underwent operation,including gastrectomy (40 cases ),partial intestina parva resection (7 cases),partial colon resection ( 3 cases ),Dixon' s operation ( 2 cases ) and tumorectomy ( 9 cases ).Fifteen patients were given postoperative imatinib Mesylate Capsules (Glivec) treatment.Fifty-seven patients were followed-up more than 1 year and 7 cases were found palindromia ( 12% ).Logistic model shows that the malignant degree of gastrointestinal stromal tumors is the only risk factor of postoperative palindromia.Conclusions Malignant degree of gastrointestinal stromal tumors is the main risk factor for postoperative palindromia.Imatinib mesylate capsules treatment may be beneficial to the greater stage patients.

Key words:
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors;  Surgical treatment;  Diagnosis;  Risk factor


Complete or partial removal of the stomach results in considerable anatomical and physiological changes which lead to more or less pronounced dietary problems. Nutritional counselling is essential to avoid the major postoperative problems. The selection of appropriate foodstuffs as well as the beverages and the way of their intake should be discussed. Preprandial exercise in order to stimulate the appetite is just as important as post-prandial resting to avoid the dumping syndrome. Food intake should be divided into six to ten small portions per day. Substitution of vitamin B 12 , the fat-soluble vitamins, calcium, and iron may be necessary.


We report phosphorescence and polarization spectra of the lowest 3 Eu state of platinum porphin in an EPA glass at 1·3 and 77 K. From the results the relative polarizations of the different components of the 0-0 multiplet are determined and vibronic bands involving degenerate modes are identified. The conspicuous 238 cm-1 eg vibronic doublet is studied in more detail by Zeeman experiments on PtP in an n-octane single crystal at 1·3 and 4·2 K, and the relative radiative decay rates of the lower spin components of the 3 Eu state to the two components of the 238 cm-1 ground state vibration are determined. Finally, we account for the decay rates of the 238 cm-1 mode by a mechanism of spin-orbit and vibronic coupling, in which the intensity is stolen from transitions between triplet states.


The invention relates to a preparation method of a chemical raw material, namely a method for preparing precipitated white carbon black with controllable specific surface area. The raw materials comprise water glass with modulus of 3.3-3.5 and water solution proportion of 1.085+/-0.001 and 15 percent of sulphuric acid. The method comprises the following steps: reaction: when the quantity of bottom material and the water glass is 30-80 percent of the total inventory rating, stirring, and rising the temperature to 84+/-1 DEG C, beginning to add the 15 percent of sulphuric acid for reaction, then adding the water glass and the sulphuric acid and keeping the pH value constant when the pH value of a suspending liquid reaches 9-10, finishing the addition of the left 70-20 percent of water glass within 55min, continuously adding the sulphuric acid to enable the water glass to completely react and adjusting the pH value to be 2-3; washing with water and drying: filtering the suspending liquid by a filter and drying by a spray dryer. The preparation method can be used for preparing the white carbon black with the specific surface area of 50-250 m /g, which is particularly suitable for being used as rubber reinforcing filler.


Neurotransmitter receptors play a key role in the pathogenesis and current treatment strategies for status epilepticus (SE). Benzodiazepines are commonly used to treat SE exert their anticonvulsant action by stimulating γ-aminobutyric type A receptors (GABAA receptors). These drugs are quite effective in terminating SE in approximately 55–66% of patients, but there is a residual group of patients with seizures resistant to benzodiazepeines. The mechanisms underlying initiation and maintenance of prolonged SE were explored.


THE DEAF POET IS NO OXYMORON. But one would think so, given the popular understanding that poetry has sound and voice at its heart. Add to this the popular philosophy that maintains that deafness reduces the human experience, and the result is that deaf poets are often objects of amazement or dismissal and their work is rarely judged on its merit beyond the context of their deafness. Deaf poets in the United States have had to contend with sound not only because some members of the mainstream culture consider deaf people a lesser variety of the human race but also because so much emphasis has been placed on sound as it relates to their chosen art. This marginalization was especially acute in the nineteenth century, when poetry was expected to consist of a rhyme scheme and an identifiable metrical pattern. Such requirements so discouraged deaf poet John Carlin (1813-1891) that he considered giving up on poetry. "I was convinced," he wrote, "that I could never be what I so ardently desired-a correct writer of verses." Fortunately, the perceptive hearing poet William Cullen Bryant pressed Carlin to continue writing poetry and recommended that he rely on rhyming dictionaries. Carlin eventually published many poems, including "The Mute's Lament" in the first issue of American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb in 1847. However, the hearing editor could not resist adding a note to the poem: "How shall he who has not now and who never has had the sense of hearing, who is totally without what the musicians call an ear, succeed in preserving all the niceties of accent, measure, and rhythm? We should almost as soon expect a man born blind to become a landscape painter as one born deaf to produce poetry of even tolerable merit." Despite the reaction of incredulity that Carlin's poems evoked, deaf poet Laura C. Redden (1839-1923) initially experienced the opposite. That the acclaimed "Howard Glyndon" (Redden's nom de plume) was a woman was well known, but that she was also deaf was not. When critics learned of the fact, many of them lowered their earlier opinion of her poetry. Infuriated, Redden responded with her 1870 autobiographical allegory, "Down Low" (later redded "The Realm of Singing"), in which she portrays herself as a bird with a crippled wing trying to make a place for herself in the fabled Realm of Singing. After some attempts, the bird wins praise from a band of soldiers passing through the forest on their way home. But when the soldiers discover that the bird is crippled, they abandon her, saying, as did Redden's critics, " 'What have we here? A crippled bird that tries to sing? Such a thing was never heard of before. It is impossible for her to sing correcdy under such circumstances and we were certainly mistaken in thinking that there was anything in such songs. Our ears have deceived us.' " Readers will agree that a crippled wing has nothing to do with a bird's ability to sing. Yet many will nevertheless pause before applying this concept to deafness and poetry. Even some deaf poets themselves were plagued by doubts about their ability to write poetry-or at least "good" poetry that would be respected by the mainstream audience. Such doubts have always been linked with audism, which is the belief-imposed by the hearing society and internalized by many Deaf people-that people with "hearing loss" are inferior. One troubled poet was Howard L. Terry, who wrote in the foreword to his 1929 book, Sung in Silence, "In offering these poems to the public I feel as if I were throwing a snowball into a red-hot furnace!" Terry anticipated that he would not find many appreciative readers because his poems savored of the old formalism. In defense, he explained his view of the problems the deaf poet faced: Deafness retards daily mental growth. The deaf man slowly falls behind his hearing brother. He moves with die slower shore current, while his fortunate brother is hurrying along with the stronger, middle current. …


The morphometric and meristic studies on obtuse barracuda Sphyraena obtusata from Mumbai (Bombay) waters indicated allometric relationship and high degree of homogeneity within the population. Based on the present study, the fin formula can be written as B. vii, D. 5, 1/9, P. 14, V. 1/5, A. 2/9, C 17, Ll. 90-95, two gill rakers on the first gill arch. Variations observed in some of the meristic counts when compared with findings from different locations indicate the presence of different stocks. The length-weight relationship for the species from the Mumbai waters is estimated to be W = 0.0000245L. Deviation in the growth rate "b" observed during the present investigation from that of other countries and different region in India itself is result of variations in ecology of these geographical locations. [


This article discusses the production of contemporary urban space based on the investigation of recent transformations in the Altiplano Cabo Branco borough of Joao Pessoa, the state capital of Paraiba. In recent years this neighborhood has been the target of intense real estate production after changes in local land use legislation concerning environmental and landscape patrimony. The research was undertaken from the point of view of the production of space and its agents investigating land use regulation. Incorporation registers and housing licenses were analyzed and the real estate market was researched. It was found that an eminently local process triggered a wider process of urban restructuring beyond the scale of the neighborhood and its specific real estate production reaching the scale of the whole city.


We present a study of Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations of the inner kiloparsec of the interacting galaxy M51 in six bands from 2550 to 8140 Å. The images show an oval-shaped area (which we call the "bulge") of about 11′′ × 16′′, or 450 × 650 pc, around the nucleus that is dominated by a smooth "yellow/reddish" background population with overimposed dust lanes. These dust lanes are the inner extensions of the spiral arms. The extinction properties, derived in four fields in and outside dust lanes, are similar to the Galactic extinction law. The reddish stellar population has an intrinsic color of (B-V)0 ≃ 1.0, suggesting an age in excess of 5 Gyr. We found 30 bright pointlike sources in the bulge of M51, i.e., within 110-350 pc from the nucleus. The point sources have 21.4 < V < 24.3, many of which are blue with B-V < 0 and are bright in the UV with 19.8 < m2550 < 22.0. These objects appear to be located in elongated "strings" that follow the general pattern of the dust lanes around the nucleus. The spectral energy distributions of the pointlike sources are compared with those predicted for models of clusters or single stars. There are three reasons to conclude that most of these point sources are isolated massive stars (or very small groups of a few isolated massive stars) rather than clusters:


The research in children's mental health and religion is a developing field. Most of the studies examine the religious developmental process either from a psychological, or from a religious point of view. The purpose of this research is to combine these two areas in order to understand more comprehensively the relationship between the child and God. The results are personal insights of this relationship, here conceived as determined by the encounter of inner and external forces and dynamics. Six common themes have been identified through the systematic analysis of the interviews and can be considered as shared features in the various personal relationships. The most interesting findings, obtained from the analysis of these themes, are related to child-God communication, defined by a child as the "magic action process", an interaction activated by the child when asking for God's help. As described in Elkind's work (1970), in children's hands the image of God becomes a tool used to solve problematic situations; this paper aims to analyse this interaction and its effects on the child's life. Finally, the findings can also be interpreted as material to critically analyse psychologically informed theories on religious development in children. INTRODUCTION This study is the result of a series of analyses and considerations on the connection between children's mental health and religion. The origin of the interest in this area of research can be found in the study of Freud's works on the religious sense of guilt as a symptom of neurosis. While researching on the existing literature, the urgent need to leave the classic theme of guilt and to concentrate on a more basic topic became quite evident: the image of God and how the child relates to it. The reader is invited to approach this project not as a static study, but as a work in progress that can be enriched by the reader's personal experiences and by his/her will to enter the children's world.


The effects of interaction in systems of capacitively coupled Al single-electron transistors were studied. Employing one device carrying a small current as an electrometer we observed the suppression of its modulation characteristic by applying a substantially greater current to the neighboring transistor. This is explained by the combined action of charge oscillations and dissipated power in the transistor island (both caused by intensive single-electron tunneling) on the electrometer island. We demonstrate that by changing the parameters and mutual location of the interacting transistors on an ${\mathrm{SiO}}_{x}$ substrate, the contribution of each effect can become dominant.


: Optimizing the kinetics of an electrode reaction is central to the design of devices whose function spans from sensing to energy conversion. Electrode kinetics depends strongly on electrode surface properties, but the search for optimal materials is often a trial-and-error process. Recent research has revealed a pronounced facet-dependent electrical conductivity for silicon, implicitly suggesting that rarely used crystallographic cuts of this technologically relevant material had been entirely overlooked for the fabrication of electrodes. By first protecting silicon from anodic decomposition through Si – C-bound organic monolayers, conductive atomic force microscopy demonstrates that conductivity decreases in the order (211) >> (110) > (111). However, charge-transfer rates for a model electrochemical reaction are similar on all these crystal orientations. These findings reveal the absence of a relationship between surface conductivity and kinetics of a surface confined redox reaction, and expand the range of silicon crystallographic orientations viable as electrode material.


This paper studies the difference in the survival status, in terms of sex, age, educational background, title, labor relation and region according to four core index: income, work pressure, happiness, and professional development, by finishing questionnaire research on 708 reoriented rural kindergarten teachers from Shanxi, Ningxia, and Yunnan Province. It is concluded that there are huge difference in the income status of reoriented teachers in western rural kindergartens, in terms of sex, age, educational background, title, labor relation, and region, as well as in work pressure in terms of educational background, in happiness in terms of age and labor relation, and in professional development in terms of age, title and region. The above difference not only relates to the individual effort by teachers, but also relates to administrative system and the investment to preschool education in rural areas.


Pregnancy and the early years of the child's life offer an opportune time to prevent a host of adverse maternal and child outcomes that are important in their own right, but that also have significant implications for the development of criminal behavior. This paper summarizes a three-decade program of research that has attempted to improve the health and development of mothers and infants and their future life prospects with prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses. The program, known as the Nurse-Family Partnership, is designed for low-income mothers who have had no previous live births. The home visiting nurses have three major goals: to improve the outcomes of pregnancy by helping women improve their prenatal health; to improve the child's health and development by helping parents provide more sensitive and competent care of the child; and to improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future preg- nancies, complete their educations, and find work. Given consistent effects on prenatal health behaviors, parental care of the child, child abuse and neglect, child health and development, maternal life-course, and criminal involvement of the mothers and children, the program is now being offered for public investment throughout the United States, where careful attention is being given to ensuring that the program is being conducted in accordance with the program model tested in the randomized trials. The program also is being adapted, developed, and tested in countries outside of the US: the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Australia, and Canada, as well as Native American and Alaskan Native populations in the US, where programmatic adjustments are being made to accommodate different populations served and health and human service contexts. We believe it is important to test this program in randomized controlled trials in these new settings before it is offered for public investment.


It is a pleasure to be here for the South African Reserve Bank's 90th anniversary seminar. The theme of today's seminar is well chosen. Central banking is in a state of flux. The crisis pushed central banks into the front line and tested to the limit their ability to provide instant system-wide liquidity. At the same time, it highlighted a new set of challenges for monetary policymakers. The consequences for the role of central banks are likely to be far-reaching.


Lymphedema is the accumulation of lymphatic fluid in the interstitial tissue, causing swelling. Lymphedema can develop when lymphatic vessels are missing or impaired; or when lymph nodes removed, such as during surgery for cancer. It may develop as a result of surgery, radiation, infection or trauma. Lymphedema may be caused by the weight of a fat apron, the excessive pressure congesting the lymph and blood vessels of the lower abdomen. Patients will note swelling, darkened skin, hardening and thickened abdominal tissue, dryness, fissures, itching, pain, and development of warty growths or 'papillomatosis'.They may note development of ulcers in the skin folds and in traumatized areas: and inability to get ulcers in the damaged skin to heal. In our clinic, we see a number of morbidly obese patients with lymphedema.They all report dry, itchy, scaly, painful skin. Clinically, they present with indurated, congested skin, with varying degrees of peau 'de orange and papillomatosis.This firm, but delicate skin is prone to injury and ulceration, particularly in the creases and around the papillomas.We have found success with the consistent use of Olivamine containing skin care products. The line of products we use contain Olivamine, a blend of ingredients including antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins, and methylsulfonylmethane.These ingredients help to nourish skin with everything it needs to atttain and maintain health.These products soothe the pain and itching, promotes healthy skin at the edge of wounds and ulcerations, thus promoting a healthy epithelial edge for improved wound healing. We will continue to utilize Olivaminecontaining skin care products in our clinic to promote healthy skin, to reduce the risk of sores and ulcerations, and improve quality of life. CONCLUSIONS Eighty nine percent (89%) of the skin breakdown, odor, pain, and pruritus were reduced or completely resolved and maintained for at least six (6) months. In most cases, patients who had experienced painful, chronic symptoms for numerous years drastically improved in a matter of weeks.The Olivamine containing skin care product regimen significantly improved patient quality of life by diminishing the agony that accompanies skin breakdown associated with lymphedema.


. The publication is devoted to the issue of the professional speech competence formation of medical students with taking into account the specifics of the activity, as well as the international practice of medical discourse. The purpose of the publication is to study the conditions for correlating the level of speech culture formation of medical students and the dynamics of the professional speech competence formation. Methods of research used: theoretical (psychological and pedagogical analysis), empirical (observation of the educational process and study of pedagogical experience for studying the specifics of teaching the course of the language training unit in the pedagogical higher education of the I-II accreditation levels); actually linguistic (component and etymological analysis). The author outlines the directions of the development of the language culture of medical students and studies out the conditions of the formation's correlation of medical students language culture, the dynamics of the formation of professional language competence, where the leading role is devoted to the development of communicative literacy, the implementation of stylistic and communicative qualities (normativity, precision, accuracy, logic, expressiveness, relevance, ethics and aesthetics) of complete professional language; introduced the didactic accompaniment that is used in the content of professional language training of medical students, which provides a system of exercises that ensure the development of linguistic literacy, communicative skills, taking into account the specifics of medical discourse. The correlation with the degree of the speech competence formation of medics at the level of medical texts production, taking into account pragmatic guidance and communicative purpose, consist of such features: normativity (observance of the norms of the current spelling); accuracy (the use of lexemes according to their semantics, service with special terms); logic (the consistent combination of words and sentences of the sentence / parts of the sentence; reproduction of semantic, structural, intonational connotations) Within the whole text, which transmits the connection of non-contradictory judgments); expressiveness (achieved by the accuracy of words and logic of presentation, professional vocabulary and phraseology); ethics (the system of stoic language formulas recommended by the society to establish the speech contact of the interlocutors); aesthetics (the aesthetics of the daily practical language of physicians is achieved by the optimal selection of linguistic means required for a certain communicative instruction); relevance (speech erudition).


Sleep loss causes millions of individuals around the world to carry out daily activities with impaired alertness, affecting injury risk and productivity. If properly consumed, caffeine can safely and effectively mitigate the effects of sleep loss on alertness. However, to be effective, caffeine should be consumed at the right time and in the correct amount, depending on sleep history, work schedule and, importantly, sensitivity to sleep loss. Here, we present the 2B-Alert app, a unique smartphone application with capabilities to learn an individual's trait-like response to sleep loss and to provide personalized caffeine recommendations to optimize alertness.

 We conducted a prospective 62-h total sleep deprivation study to validate the capabilities of 2B-Alert. Throughout the challenge, 21 participants used the app to measure their alertness via the psychomotor vigilance test (PVT). The app used the PVT data collected during the first 36 h of wakefulness to learn each participant's sleep-loss response and provided on-the-fly personalized caffeine recommendations (from 0 to 800 mg), so that each participant would sustain alertness at a pre-specified target level (mean PVT response time of 270 ms) during a 6-h period starting at 44 h into the challenge. To assess the effectiveness of the personalized recommendations, we computed the amount of PVT data during the 6-h period that fell within the target alertness level +/-2 times the within-subject variability of alertness impairment (i.e., +/-60 ms).

 We observed a wide range of responses to sleep loss, with some participants displaying high levels of resilience and others high levels of vulnerability. Accordingly, 2B-Alert recommended no caffeine to five participants, 100-400 mg to 11 participants, and 500-800 mg to five participants. Regardless of their sleep-loss response and the consumed amount of caffeine, participants sustained the target alertness level ~80% of the time during the 6-h period.

 2B-Alert automatically learns an individual's trait-like response to sleep loss and provides personalized caffeine recommendations in real time so that individuals achieve a desired alertness level regardless of their susceptibility to sleep loss.


Almost a 100 years to the day after the birth of the eminent epidemiologist Richard Doll on 28 January 1912, the results of the smoking analyses of the million women study were published.1 The report, fittingly dedicated to Doll by the authors, demonstrates the hazards of prolonged smoking and benefits of smoking cessation in women. This adds another important chapter to the health literature on smoking that Doll famously contributed enormously to, particularly through his landmark 50-year study of smoking among British doctors. Epidemiologists will naturally have followed this story with interest, but I feel that there are also valuable lessons for trainees in general practice.

Many GPs may question the relevance of smoking cessation research to their practice …


The yellow color of bulk AlN crystals was found to be caused by the optical absorption of light with wavelengths shorter than that of yellow. This yellow impurity limits UV transparency and hence restricts the applications of AlN substrates for deep UV optoelectronic devices. Here, the optical properties of AlN epilayers, polycrystalline AlN, and bulk AlN single crystals have been investigated using photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy to address the origin of this yellow appearance. An emission band with a linewidth of ∼0.3 eV (at 10 K) was observed at ∼2.78 eV. We propose that the origin of the yellow color in bulk AlN is due to a band-to-impurity absorption involving the excitation of electrons from the valence band to the doubly negative charged state, (VAl2−), of isolated aluminum vacancies, (VAl)3−/2− described by VAl2−+hν=VAl3−+h+. In such a context, the reverse process is responsible for the 2.78 eV PL emission.


iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge the guidance of my advisor, Dr. Mark Borodovsky, and the patience of my wife, Kristin.


Fluid equations with transport effects have been derived from summing up discrete particle effects in the configuration space. The diffusion coefficient takes a form different from, but equivalent to, the Kubo formula. By taking into account the decoherence along the field lines, the diffusive damping in the perpendicular direction, and the finite Larmor radius effect in the cyclotron resonance, it is shown that the diffusion of magnetized 3d plasma has a regime of B−3/2 scaling which lies between the Bohm diffusion of B−1 and the classical diffusion of B−2.


In this study, spectroscopic properties of the single-walled boron-nitride nanotube (SWBNNT) –a semiconductor channel in molecular diodes and molecular transistors–have been investigated under field-free and various applied electric fields by first principle methods.Our analysis shows that increasing the electric field in boron-nitride nanotube (BNNT) decreases the Highest Occupied Crystal Orbital (HOCO) /Lowest Unoccupied Crystal Orbital (LUCO) gap (HLG) significantly and the nanotube can be a conductor. The observed results suggest that the BNNTs is a useful semiconductor channel as nano-molecular diodes and nano-molecular transistors. Apart from that, the relationship between isotropic chemical shielding as an observable spectroscopic property with atomic charge and magnetizability in the presence and absence of an external electric field was studied. In order to rationalize energy changes, the relationship between the relative energy with the average electron delocalization of nitrogen and boron atoms with a variation of the external electric field is studied.


1 Wilso childre Public This report was prepared for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the U.S. Department of Education under a subcontract from the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC). MDRC is conducting this evaluation under a contract with HHS. HHS also receives support for the evaluation from the U.S. Department of Education. Additional funding for this study has been provided by the Foundation for Child Development, the William T. Grant Foundation, and an anonymous funder.


The Cu-loaded CuHY and CuLaHY zeolites were prepared by an incipient wetness method under nitrogen gas atmosphere. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), N(2) adsorption, NH(3) temperature-programmed desorption, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The crystalline structure and the distribution of Cu(2+) cations in the cages of Y zeolite were determined by XRD. The adsorption desulfurization performance of the zeolites was investigated for model diesel containing dibenzothiophene (DBT). The results showed that most of Cu species from the precursor CuCl(2) was ion-exchanged with the HY and LaHY zeolites. For the La(3+)-modified CuHY zeolite (Cu-LaHY), the Cu(2+) cations entering the supercages of the zeolite coordinated with both skeleton-oxygen atoms and water molecules, and thus being firmly situated at the sites Sri and Sill in the supercages. For the CuHY zeolite, however, Cu(2+) cations entering the supercages were only near the sites S(II) and S(III) in the supercages. A very small percentage of CuCl molecules was highly scattered in the cages of the Y zeolite, with no definite position. The Cu(2+) cations at the sites S(II) and S(III) in the supercages adsorbed DBT molecules in the model diesel were the centers of adsorption desulfurization. The desulfurization capacity of the CuLaHY zeolite was better as compared with the CuHY zeolite. However, naphthalene molecules will result in competitive adsorption with DBT molecules if there are naphthalene molecules in the model diesel.


In order to effectively extract features from remote sensing images,this paper utilized moment invariants algorithm to extract the urban building area from high-resolution remote sensing images IKONOS and WorldView. It firstly processed the image data by Canny algorithm and watershed segmentation. Then,it used Hu moment invariants and affine moment invariants for feature extraction. The experiment results show that affine invariant moments has a better effect than Hu moment invariants in feature extraction of buildings,and that the use of moment invariants algorithm in building feature extraction for high-resolution remote sensing data is feasible.


In this paper, a novel algorithm is developed to feature out tumor from diseased brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. In this work, based on a study of quality parameter comparison of two filters, adaptive median filter is selected for de-noising the images. Image slicing and identification of significant planes are done. Logical operations are applied on selected slices to obtain the processed image showing the tumor region. A novel image reconstruction algorithm is developed based on the application of Principal Components Analysis (PCA). This reconstruction algorithm is applied on original raw images as well as on the processed images. Results of this work confirm the sole efficiency of the developed image processing algorithm to detect brain tumor. For this work randomly chosen 20 normal brain MR images and 20 brain tumor MR images are considered. Also in this work, statistical significance testing is carried out to justify the uniformity of population means of the processed output. Finally normal and processed outputs are compared.


This article is dedicated to intercultural management, in other words, it considers enterprise culture in intercultural aspect. The authors analyze three main approaches: the first one is so called culturalistical; the other one is the approach based on professional identity; from the point of view of the third one, gnoseological, recent data in the investigated field are analyzed.


A spray drying process of preparation of diisporopyl malonate with super acid as catalyst was studied. The yield and purity were above 90% and 96%, respectively.


Author(s): Gibbons, Pat | Abstract: Many people (incorrectly) believe that eating disorders (ED) are more prevalent in the higher socioeconomic status (SES) groups. Studies conducted in the 1960s and 70s corroborate this statement; however, their methods may have biased the results. Recent studies using health questionnaires distributed to large heterogeneous populations have shown that EDs equally effect all people, regardless of SES. These studies have also demonstrated that females of the lower SES group report higher rates of disordered eating behavior (vomiting, use of diet pills, diuretics, or laxatives as a means to lose weight). Girls that exhibit disordered eating behavior are more likely to develop EDs later in life. Physicians need to be aware of this knowledge in order to screen patients for the signs of EDs. More research is necessary to understand why females of low SES employ such methods of weight loss.


Incorporating blockchain into Halal traceability systems is developing in nature; the research aspires to examine the participation intent in blockchain-empowered Halal fashion traceability (BHFT) system via a joint framework that includes diffusion of innovation theory, institutional theory, and Halal-oriented approach. The study uses a simple random sampling method to collect the data from 165 Indonesian Halal fashion manufacturing companies. PLS-SEM is employed to examine the conceptual framework. Findings show that Halal-oriented approach significantly affects institutional pressures, while institutional pressures significantly affects perceived desirability, and perceived desirability significantly affects the participation intent. The companies operating an inclusive Halal-oriented approach will be more aware of the institutional pressures that expect them to partake in a BHFT. The paper enhances the existing literature in Halal supply chains, blockchain, operation management, and information systems via a cohesive framework and empirical insight.


This study aims to understand how various meanings of "katta" are represented in colloquial and written languages. To this end, this study examined the meaning of 'katta' by comparing how 'katta' is described in various dictionaries. According to this classification, the meanings of 'katta' can be sorted into three higher meanings 'comparison', 'metaphor' and 'conjecture'. Each of the higher meanings has its subsidiary lower meanings. As such, the higher meaning 'comparison' consists of three lower meanings 'identity', 'example', and 'value'. Another higher meaning 'metaphor' contains two lower meanings 'similarity' and 'criticism'. Likewise, two lower meanings 'simple conjecture' and 'euphemistic conjecture' constitute the higher meaning 'conjecture'. This study analyzed general discourse corpus and speech lecture corpus as colloquial language as well as corpus presented in newspapers and books as written language. This analysis revealed patterns of how frequently the various meanings of 'katta' are used. In decreasing order, 'katta' is used 'example > euphemistic > similarity > identity > simple conjecture > criticism > value ' in colloquial language, and similarity> example > identity > euphemistic > simple conjecture > criticism> value in written language. When both colloquial and written languages are combined, the frequency at which the meaning of 'katta' are used is in the decreasing order of example > euphemistic > similarity > identity >simple conjecture > criticism> value. This analysis also identified 'kattan' as the most frequently used conjugational forms of 'katta'. This study helps understand how differences in colloquial and written language arise as well as how our language is used in real world. Furthermore, this study will shed light on constructing learning contents for Korean language education as a foreign language.


In modern conditions, the vital activity of an enterprise largely depends on the effectiveness of its economic security system, which is designed to protect both from external and internal threats. In the context of a pandemic and a reduction in the number of economic entities to reduce the risk of non-payment, the issues of assessing the reliability of suppliers are especially relevant. In this regard, the article proposes a method for determining the level of economic security of the supply system, by determining the final rating score. The methodology is based on the weighted average rating method, since the system of indicators is heterogeneous and includes qualitative and numerical indicators. The proposed assessment method has a kind of "seasonal" character, as it evaluates the economic security of the supply system from the point of view of a new type of risk - a logistic blockade.


The expression of α‐cardiac and α‐skeletal actin mRNA in regenerating muscle was examined. Changes in mRNA levels were analyzed in autografted extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles in rats using α‐isoform specific synthetic oligonucleotides and β‐actin cDNA as probes. After autografting, the expression of α‐cardiac actin mRNA was induced; concomitantly that of α‐skeletal actin mRNA was reduced. The pattern of α‐actin mRNA expression appeared to be similar to that seen in embryonic skeletal muscle. In order to evaluate the effects of innervation on α‐actin mRNA expression in regenerating muscle, nerveless, standard, and nerve‐intact autografted muscles were examined. More complete innervation facilitated the recovery of α‐skeletal actin mRNA to control levels, but had little effect on the amount of α‐cardiac actin mRNA. We found that regenerating muscle shows the embryonic pattern of α‐actin mRNAs in the early stage and concluded that the recovery of α‐skeletal actin mRNA expression to the adult pattern is influenced by innervation, while α‐cardiac actin mRNA expression is nerve independent. © 1992 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Graphene, a two-dimensional carbon allotrope, exhibits excellent optoelectronic properties. The assembly of graphene into films provides a platform to deepen the study of its interaction with varying surfaces, to engineer devices, and to develop functional materials. A general approach to produce graphene films consists of preparing a dispersion and laying it on a substrate of choice, followed by solvent evaporation. Here, we report the preparation of stable suspensions of new types of graphene nanomaterials namely, graphene nanoflowers (GNFs) and multi-layer graphene (MLG) flakes, in ethanol, N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP). Sprayable suspensions of both GNFs and MLG were prepared in DMF/ethanol, which showed high stability, without addition of any surfactant. The stable suspensions were used to deposit micrometer-thick MLG/GNF films on glass substrates. Calculations of initial droplet size and of timescale of droplet evaporation are performed and possible thermophoretic effects on droplet deposition discussed as well. Coating glass substrates with a methacrylic acid–methyl methacrylate (MA) copolymer prior to the deposition significantly improved the adhesion of the nanomaterials to the substrate. With the MA coating, a substrate coverage of nearly 100% was achieved at 14-min spraying time for 0.05 wt% GNF and 0.1 wt% MLG suspensions. Raman spectra of the GNF and MLG films reveal that the films were made of MLG in which the individual graphene layers rotated from each other as in turbostratic graphene. This work provides a general approach to prepare graphene nanomaterial suspensions and to create films for a variety of applications. The spraying process applied in the current work is highly scalable and allows control of film characteristics through process parameters. Copyright 2015 American Association for Aerosol Research


Covers virtually everything there is to know about the law as it affects charities and other voluntary organisations. The nine sections are user-friendly, yet detailed enough to ensure voluntary bodies know when to seek expert legal help.


Objectives Functional ability defines a person's ability to walk, with or without the aid of appropriate assistive devices, safely and sufficiently to carry out mobility-related activities of daily living. Longitudinal evaluation of the efficiency of gait training positively affecting these parameters has not been reported. Therefore, the aim of this study is to provide evidence supporting the progression of walking speed and functional ambulation over 12 weeks of orthotic gait rehabilitation using an isocentric reciprocating gait orthosis (IRGO) in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Materials and Methods Twelve patients with SCI participated in this study. Gait evaluation was performed at baseline and at 4, 8, and 12 weeks following intervention with an IRGO and specific gait training. Gait speed and endurance were measured by the 10-m walk test and the 6-minute walk test, respectively. The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) locomotor subscale and the Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury II (WISCI II) were used to measure the locomotor ability. Results Improvement in speed of walking was observed after 4 weeks and continued to improve with time. The distance of walking, FIM, and WISCI also increased significantly during the study period when compared with the baseline. Conclusion Patients with SCI showed an increase in walking functional ambulation ability during a longitudinal period of orthotic gait training with an IRGO. In conclusion, wearing IRGO associated with gait training can provide individuals with thoracic-level SCI the ability to walk faster.


Previous studies using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)‐based connectome analysis revealed improved connectivity in cerebral palsy (CP) patients who underwent autologous umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem‐cell therapy. However, the potential mechanism for the connectivity increase remains unclear and needs to be further elucidated.


This volume deals with the three stories about the creation of man and woman in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 1:26-27; 2:7; and 2:18-25) and with diverse interpretations of these narratives in Judaism and Christianity, particularly in ancient Jewish and Christian texts: Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Philo, the apostle Paul, Patristic, Rabbinic, and Gnostic texts. Other chapters are devoted to John Milton's recreation of Eve and Adam, to a psycho-analytical reconsideration of the biblical creation stories, and to divine creation as a model for human creation in theatre and other art forms.


Gist of the present invention is a method for removing a basic or acidic compound of a metal oxide dispersion which contains a solvent, it is a method having the steps of: a. Step to convert the solvent in the vapor phase; b. Step condensing solvent; c. Contacting the condensed solvent and neutralizing medium; d. Step of returning condensed solvent to the metal oxide dispersion.


Using an angular momentum dependent Bogoliubov–Tyablikov (BT) transformation technique effective rotational Hamiltonians are derived for four molecules all of which have a pair of nearly degenerate strongly coupled vibrational modes. The BT transformation is applied to a two‐vibrational‐mode Hamiltonian obtained by using perturbation theory to eliminate the coupling between all but the nearly degenerate modes. Energy levels computed from the BT effective rotational Hamiltonians and accurate variational calculations agree very well. BT effective Hamiltonians are derived and tested for ozone, formaldehyde, its singly deuterated analog, and chlorodifluoromethane.


This study investigated the influence of family socioeconomic status, on the academic achievement of Secondary School Students in Computer studies at Bauchi Metropolis in Bauchi Local Government of Bauchi State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling techniques were used to select 180 students, from 36 public schools making a total population of seven thousand three hundred and sixty four (7,364) students. Three research questions were used to guide the study. Pearson-Moment Correlation Coefficient were used to obtain the co-efficient of reliability. Also, data on students' academic achievement was obtained from student scores in computer studies. Data obtained was analyzed using simple descriptive statistical techniques. Multiple regression results revealed that, parental socioeconomic status and parental occupation has significantly influenced students' academic achievement, as students whose parents had better jobs and higher levels of educational attainment, and who were exposed to more educational and cultural resources at home tended to perform better than their counterparts, without such opportunities. The study identified parental occupation as the main predictive variable, influencing student's academic achievement. However, increase in parental salaries in line with the current economic situation, as well as the provision of adequate books and facilities in schools, to breach the gap between the high and the low socioeconomic status, are recommended in order to improve the academic achievement of students. The result of the data analysis shows that, socioeconomic background significantly influences self-concept and academic achievement of students.


To guarantee constitution to be put into practice effectively ,many countries in the world establish constitutional review systems. At present, the constitutional review in China is very imperfect and many problems exist. This article puts forward constructive countermeasures on perfection of the constitutional review of China.


The mesoporous molecular sieve was prepared by using silica from industrial water glass, aluminum from Al_2(SO_4)_3 with H_2SO_4 for adjusting the pH of the slurry and CTMAB as template in an open-vessel. The mole ratio of the slurry mixture was: n(SiO_2)∶n(Na_2O)∶n(CTMAB)∶n(Al_2(SO_4)_3)∶n(H_2O)=7∶2.08∶1.4∶(0.087 5 ~0.7)∶530. The product was made by keeping the mixed slurry crystallize at 100℃ for 24h. The characterization of its crystal order and framework aluminum was carried out by means of XRD, IR and chemistry analysis. The effect of mole ratio of n(Si)/n(Al) and pH of the slurry on the crystallization of the mesoporous molecular sieve was discussed.


The fine is a financial punishment and the offenders' assets may vary in extent and social and economic duties; therefore when establishing the fine concretely, it was necessary to take also into account certain criteria of individualization, others than the general ones.The provisions of the 5th paragraph, Article 63 of the Criminal Code in force stipulates special legal criteria with regard to this matter which must be considered by the Court when setting out a fine. Thus, according to this provision, when establishing a fine, the general criteria stipulated by Article 72 of the Criminal Code in force must be observed, but at the same time the fee must be set out so that the convict may fulfill his legal duties regarding the support, upbringing, education and professional training of his dependants.Furthermore, the Article 61, third paragraph of the new Criminal Code (law no. 286/2009) stipulates that the Court establishes the number of the days-fine according to the general criteria for individualization of punishment. The amount corresponding to a day-fine is to be established also in accordance with the legal obligations of the convict towards his dependants.


Introduces a kind of unilateral axle counting sensor and analysis the sensor's working principle and the signal's generation procedure, and gets the value of the induction electromotive force by simulation software at the same time. Finally, the rule of induction electromotive force difference changes along with the changing of coil position is given.


The difficulties associated with the control of nonlinear systems are especially profound when it involves MIMO systems. One possible approach to tackle the system nonlinearities is to employ the input-output feedback linearizing control strategy. However, this controller can only perform well when the exact knowledge of the system is known. To alleviate this problem, it is proposed here to use neural-network-based hybrid models to model the system nonlinear functions. Particularly, multilayer feed forward networks are used to model the unknown parts of the system nonlinear functions, and then the network outputs are combined with the available knowledge to form the hybrid models. Simulation studies are shown on set point tracking and disturbance rejection studies of two continuous stirred tank reactors, one with single reaction, and another one with multiple reactions. The results showed that the control systems were able to track the set points and reject disturbances with only slight overshoot during the transient period.


As a prelude to the study of the astonishing influx of pure poetry which the publication of Hugh McCrae's Satyrs and Sunlight brought to Australia in 1909, it would be pertinent first to' consider McCrae's upbringing and background, in particular the significance of the fact that his father, George Gordon McCrae, was himself an indefatigable writer of verses, a man of restless mental vigour, of dominating individuality and fastidious taste, and simmering, too, with that inextinguishable mental curiosity which defies the desiccation of old age - he lived, indeed, in the full enjoyment of his curiosity until he was 96 years old.


Purpose – The purpose of this research is to find out to what extent older workers make use of ICT and to what extent this influences their job performance.Design/methodology/approach – Workers of various age groups are surveyed in two sectors: printing industry and wholesale trade. The use of (various types of) ICT is compared for a number of age groups, controlling the influence of other explanatory variables and correcting the fact that older users are a selective group. In the next step, the use of ICT is one of the factors explaining performance.Findings – The results show that, compared with younger workers, older workers make less use of ICT in their job, use less complicated applications and have more difficulties in using ICT. This is to their disadvantage as the use of ICT and particularly the level of use appear to affect performance positively.Research limitations/implications – The research is concentrated on two specific sectors which are forerunners in the field of ICT. A generalization of ...


As the streaming media files growing larger and larger in size, it inevitably aggravates the network congestion and user perceive latency, to settle problem lots of caching algorithms have been applied in video-on-demand (VOD)system. However, different algorithm is correspondence to an unique caching replacement policy, which limits its applications and the effects are not very satisfied, so in VOD aspect it is necessary to find a common replacement algorithm. In this paper, we propose a Common Caching Replacement Algorithm (CCRA). As a unification replacement algorithm, it sufficiently considers the recent visit and segment size, effectively solves the disk I/O bandwidth bottleneck limitation and improves byte hit rate. We respectively replace the previous caching replacement policy in Uniform segmentation algorithm and Exponential segmentation algorithm with CCRA. From the experimental comparison, Uniform segmentation with CCRA improves almost 5\% in Disk Reduce Ratio, and Exponential segmentation with CCRA increases near 8\% in Byte Hit Ratio.


The study and application of electrosynthesis in the synthesis of pharmaceutical intermediate was reviewed with 43 refrences through four sections: direct electrosynthesis, indirect electrosynthesis, paired electrosynthesis and ultrasonic electrosythesis.


Tumour‐involved circumferential resection margins (CRMs) and intra‐operative perforation (IOP) are well known risk factors for local recurrence after surgery for low rectal cancer. In conventional abdominoperineal excision (APE) the patient remains in the supine position for the perineal part of the procedure. However, turning the patient to the prone position may improve visualization which potentially might reduce the risk of involved CRMs and IOP and thus improve local control. The study was carried out to assess local recurrence rates after APE in relation to the positioning of the patient during the perineal part of the procedure.


Retraction: Guo, Z. et al. (2023). New types of electron pitch angle distributions on Mars: Funnel and skirt distributions. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101874, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101874. The above article, published online on 24 January 2023 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors; the journal Editor‐in‐Chief, Harihar Rajaram; American Geophysical Union; and John Wiley and Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed because the electron pitch angle data presented were contaminated by internally produced photoelectrons as a result of the illumination geometry of the sensor at the time of the observations. After removal of the affected angular bins by the instrument principal investigator, the published conclusions were found to be invalid. Therefore, the paper was retracted at the request of the authors.


This paper studies the coupling model of material flow and energy flow in the production process of lead smelting enterprises, and establishes the mathematical model for material flow and energy flow to resolve optimization problems. From the point of energy flow, the paper analyses three kinds of energy flow change which effect on the enterprise products. Through calculation and analysis, there is 38.42% energy- saving potential in this enterprise. Separately from the material flow and energy flow angle, the paper puts forward five aspects suggestions to reduce the energy consumption of enterprise products.


This paper uses System Dynamics (SD) simulation to investigate the concept green logistics in terms of energy efficiency in automotive industry. The car manufacturing industry is considered to be one of the highest energy consuming industries. An efficient decision making model is proposed that capture the impacts of strategic decisions on energy consumption and environmental sustainability. The sources of energy considered in this research are electricity and fuel; which are the two main types of energy sources used in a typical vehicle assembly plant. The model depicts the performance measurement for process- specific energy measures of painting, welding, and assembling processes. SD is the chosen simulation method and the main green logistics issues considered are Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission and energy utilization. The model will assist decision makers acquire an in-depth understanding of relationship between high level planning and low level operation activities on production, environmental impacts and costs associated. The results of the SD model signify the existence of positive trade-offs between green practices of energy efficiency and the reduction of CO2 emission.


In order to explore the drought resistance mechanism of grape rootstocks, two grape rootstock species, '1103P' (a drought-tolerant rootstock) and '101-14M' (drought-sensitive), were treated with moderate water deficit (field capacity of 45-50 %). Throughout the experimental period, the leaves of '1103P' showed a higher stomatal conductance (gs), relative water content and photosynthetic rate (Pn) than '101-14M', indicating '1103P' was more resistant to tolerant than '101-14M'. We propose that '1103P' could prevent water loss from leaves under drought conditions based on the discoveries that '1103P' had higher leaf phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) content and leaf cuticular wax content, and smaller stomata aperture than those of '101-14M'. Additionally, the activities of H2O2-scavenging enzymes in leaves of '1103P' were higher than those of '101-14M' under drought conditions, indicating the lipid peroxidation induced by H2O2 of '1103P' was less serious than that of '101-14M'. Therefore, better water-saving and higher reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging abilities contributed together to stronger drought resistance of '1103P' than '101-14M'.


A peer-to-peer, commonly abbreviated to P2P, is any distributed network architecture composed of participants that make a portion of their resources (such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth) directly available to other network participants, without the need for central coordination instances (such as servers or stable hosts). Peers are both suppliers and consumers of resources, in contrast to the traditional client–server model where only servers supply, and clients consume. Peer-to-peer was popularized by file sharing systems like Napster During the last few years the distributed hash table (DHT) has emerged as a flexible and general architecture that can support a large variety of applications including file sharing, storage systems, query processing, name services and communication services. A DHT manages a global identifier (ID) space that is partitioned among n nodes organized in an overlay network. To partition the space, each node is given a unique ID x and owns the set of IDS that are "closest" to x. Each object is given an ID and the DHT stores an object at the node which owns the object's ID Keywords— Load balance, structured peer to peer system, distributed hash table.


ABSTRACT Clinical relevance Eye injuries constitute a significant cause of preventable lifelong visual impairment or blindness. It is important to identify the context in which these injuries occur to develop intervention programs to reduce the incidence and severity of injury. Background To evaluate the nature, external cause, place of occurrence and incidence rate of eye injuries treated at hospitals in Western Australia. Methods Retrospective, population-based study of patients presenting to all emergency departments or admitted to hospital with primary or secondary eye injuries between 2005 and 2014. Results The combined incidence rate of eye injuries requiring tertiary care was 278 per 100 000 person-years (95% CI 276–280). Significantly more males (79%, 44 569) presented to emergency departments (p < 0.001), and most injuries involved the cornea and conjunctiva (83%). The injury incidence rate was 248 per 100 000 person-years (95% CI 246–250). A total of 2823 and 3951 individuals were admitted to hospital for a primary or secondary eye injury, respectively. The most frequent primary diagnosis on admission was contusion (19%). Assault (24%) was the most common cause of injury requiring inpatient treatment. Indigenous individuals were hospitalised for an eye injury at a rate of 109 per 100 000 person-years (95% CI 102–116), compared to 27 (95% CI 26–27) for non-Indigenous individuals. Each year was associated with an increase in the mean number of eye injuries (7% and 5% for emergency department and hospital admission data, respectively). Conclusion Indigenous individuals and males experience eye injuries requiring tertiary management disproportionately. Indigenous female patients were conspicuously affected by eye injuries. Remedial intervention strategies should incorporate violence prevention as assault is a significant cause of eye injury.


We built 3-D and 1-D look up tables (LUTs) to transform a user's desired device-independent colors (CIELab) to the device-dependent color space (RGB). We considered experimental adaptive neighborhood and estimation methods for building the 3-D and 1-D LUTs. Methods of finding neighborhoods include: smallest enclosing neighborhood (SEN), smallest enclosing inclusive neighborhood (SENR), natural neighbors neighborhood (NN), natural neighbors inclusive neighborhood (NNR), and 15-nearest neighbors. The estimation techniques investigated were: local linear regression, ridge regression, and linear interpolation with maximum entropy (LIME) weighted regression. Three printers were tested using combinations of the five neighborhood definitions (SEN, SENR, NN, NNR, and 15-nearest neighbors) and three regression techniques (local linear regression, ridge regression, and LIME weighted regression).


We present a comprehensive framework for Bayesian estima- tion of structural nonlinear dynamic economic models on sparse grids. The Smolyak operator underlying the sparse grids approach frees global approx- imation from the curse of dimensionality and we apply it to a Chebyshev approximation of the model solution. The operator also eliminates the curse from Gaussian quadrature and we use it for the integrals arising from ratio- nal expectations and in three new nonlinear state space fllters. The fllters substantially decrease the computational burden compared to the sequential importance resampling particle fllter. The posterior of the structural pa- rameters is estimated by a new Metropolis-Hastings algorithm with mixing parallel sequences. The parallel extension improves the global maximization property of the algorithm, simplifles the choice of the innovation variances, allows for unbiased convergence diagnostics and for a simple implementation of the estimation on parallel computers. Finally, we provide all algorithms in the open source software JBendge 4 for the solution and estimation of a


Metabolic flexibility is the ability to match biofuel availability to utilization. Reduced metabolic flexibility, or lower fatty acid (FA) oxidation in the fasted state, is associated with obesity. The present study evaluated metabolic flexibility after liver transplantation (LT).


Abstract Radar-estimated rainfall amounts from the NEXRAD Weather Surveillance Radar precipitation accumulation algorithm were compared with measurements from numerous rain gauges (1639 radar versus gauge comparisons). Storm total rain accumulations from 43 rain events from 10 radar sites were analyzed. These rain events were stratified into two precipitation types: 1) high-reflectivity horizontal gradient storms and 2) low-reflectivity horizontal gradient events. Overall, the radar slightly overestimated rainfall accumulations for high-reflectivity gradient cases and significantly underestimated accumulations for low-reflectivity gradient cases. Varying degrees of range effects were observed for these two types of precipitation. For high-reflectivity gradient cases, the radar underestimated rainfall at the nearest ranges, overestimated at the middle ranges, and had fairly close agreements at the farthest ranges. A much stronger range bias was evident for low-reflectivity gradient cases. The radar underes...


All-optical triode derived from tandem wavelength conversion was realized using a distributed feed back laser diode and a semiconductor optical amplifier. The first of the converter was based on cross-gain modulation in the DFB laser diode whereby conversion from an input wavelength of 1555 nm to the wavelength of 1548 nm was accomplished in the laser diode. The 1548 nm was converted to a wavelength of a control laser in the semiconductor optical amplifier in the second stage. The output wavelength was selected using a tunable control laser and an arrayed wavelength grating filter. The output power with the input signal was controlled by the control power. The all-optical triode has the input and output characteristics in the same manner as the triode in electronics.


The Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee (PSIAC) 1968 Sediment Yield Rating Model provides a method to rapidly assess any increase in potential sediment yields following a wild fire event. Increased rates of erosion after a fire in mountainous areas significantly elevate the potential for debris flow/flood events. The PSIAC method provides decision makers with information needed to determine if erosion control mitigation measures are warranted. PSIAC input requires assigning values to nine parameters affecting the sediment yield: geology, soils, climate, runoff, topography, ground cover, land use, upland erosion, and channel erosion and transport. These values are then converted into the potential sediment yield in acre-feet per square mile of drainage area per year (m 3 km 2 /yr).


The invention To be more specifically relates to an apparatus and method of coating a hemostatic powder coating, drying the hemostatic agent was applied to distilled water for medical gauze powder, a nitrogen gas feeder, distilled water supply, hemostatic powder supply, the support plate in through the nozzle to the support gauze consists of a hemostatic powder coating chamber, a drying apparatus for drying the powder-coated gauze to distilled water impregnation chamber for injecting the purified water, spraying the powder through a nozzle in the supporting gauze, by a support plate, and, the method comprising the steps of installing the gauze to the support plate in distilled water impregnation chamber, through the nozzle provided in the distilled water impregnation chamber spraying the distilled water to the surface of the gauze, wherein the distilled water is transferred to the impregnated gauze hemostatic powder coating chamber, the the surface of the gauze with a second nozzle provided in the hemostatic powder coating chamber A step of injecting a hemostatic powder, would be for the apparatus and method of coating a hemostatic agent in the powder characteristics gauze consisting of a gauze, a hemostatic powder drying the coating.


This communication presents a low-profile and low scattering wideband planar phased antenna array with enhanced coupling (PAA-EC). The proposed chessboard-like PAA-EC consists of two different types of low-profile planar antenna elements that have similar radiation performance in the X-band. In addition, the two types of antenna elements have a 180°±37° reflection phase difference over the X-band, which guarantees the cancellation of scattering fields for low scattering purpose. On the other hand, an $8\times 8$ reference PAA-EC and a low scattering PAA-EC are developed and fabricated to validate the radiation performance and scattering characteristics. The simulated and measured results show that the proposed low-profile planar PAA-EC operates in the 8–12 GHz band with ±45° scanning range. It also achieves at least 9 dB scattering cross section (SCS) reduction in the 8–15.2 GHz band as compared with the reference PAA-EC.


This Policy Department A study concludes that TTIP could lead to substantial reallocation of jobs between and within industries. As growing exporting firms pay higher wages than shrinking import-competing ones, average wages would go up. Employment effects are highly uncertain: they could be negative in the short run but positive in the long run. In any case, their magnitude is likely to be very small. Adjustment costs do not undo TTIP's overall economic desirability, but they call for adequately funded trade adjustment programmes. IP/A/EMPL/2015-07 April 2016 PE 578.984 EN This document was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.


Much attention has been focused on the problems of America's prisons and jails. Jail research and often jail litigation have centered on large county or municipal jails; often these resemble correctional systems and are so called. Yet many of the nation's 3041 counties are small, rural, and sparsely populated. In a 1982 survey conducted by the National Sheriffs' Association, 640 jails had bed space for 16 or fewer inmates. Many of these jails suffer from the same kinds of deficiencies as large jails, although these problems are not exacerbated by size. Most jails suffer from lack of adequate funding, but for small jails this is a particularly acute problem which affects all facets of operations. Data from the 1983 National Jail Census and the 1982 National Sheriffs' Association survey are used to develop a profile of the overlooked but important small jail, defined for our purposes as a facility capable of housing ten or fewer inmates. This profile indicates that small jails are older, have less cell capa...


This paper proposes a new geometrical structure for stereoscopic vision using omnidirectional cameras. The motivation of this work comes from the desire to equip a small hopping robot with an efficient and robust vision system to perform self localization during exploration missions. Because of size and weight constraints, we selected the Panoramic Annular Lens, for which no geometric model of stereo configuration was available. The paper describes the geometrical optical properties of the single lens and proposes a configuration for doing stereo vision with this lens. The analytical properties as well as the requirements of the complete system are discussed in the paper.


AI•STRACT.--During 1979-1983, I documented the natal and breeding dispersal of the Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) in the Cranberry Lake, New York, region of the Adirondacks by following the lifetime movements and breeding histories of individually marked birds. During the study, 847 birds were marked, and the movements of most were followed during the season they were marked. About 40% of the adults and 2% of the nestlings and juveniles were resighted or recaptured in two or more years. All recovered nestlings had dispersed from their natal colonies (median distance = 6.37 kin). Most breeding adults remained faithful to previously used colonies, as well as to clusters within colonies, nests, and mates, when the latter were alive and available. Some individuals, however, did disperse. More females than males dispersed and usually moved farther both within and between breeding seasons. Males and, especially, females that had nested unsuccessfully with a particular mate in a particular location had a higher probability of deserting and dispersing than did successful breeders, both within and between breeding seasons. Old nests were reused at high frequencies for consecutive breeding attempts across breeding seasons. After successful first nests, breeders tended to move to secondary nests within 25 m of their first nests. Received 8 December 1983, accepted 28 March 1984.


With the development of GPS and its going into the stage of ripeness,GPS and the control network as well are successively replacing the plane control network of traditional geodetic survey.This paper presents some recommendations about the reformation of the course of control surveying.


White polymer light emitting diodes (WPLEDs) with a glass/ITO/PEDOT:PSS/PVK: PFO:MDMO-PPV/TPBI/LiF/Al structure were fabricated to investigate the effects of the doping concentration of MDMO-PPV emission materials. The PVK, PFO and MDMO-PPV conjugated polymers as host and guest emission materials were spin coated at various concentrations of MDMO-PPV ranging from 15.0 to 30.0 vol%. As the concentration of MDMO-PPV increased from 15.0 to 30.0 vol%, the luminance and current efficiency values were decreased clearly, which are attributable to the quenching effect at a high doping concentration. The maximum luminance and current efficiency were 2280 cd/m2 and 3.83 cd/A, respectively for a WPLED with 15.0 vol% of MDMO-PPV. The average CIE color coordinates were about x = 0.33, y = 0.37 at 15 V, showing a white emission color.


Theme-Names: Aborigines: elections / bread : baking and selling on Saturdays / motor cars : safety belts / family allowance : rate / drunken driving : breathalyzer / immigration, European : Brenner affair / parliament, federal : length of term / religion : state schools, in / United Nations : China / West Irian : government of. Background variables: age / sex / economic classification / occupation of head of household / vote at last Federal election / present voting intention / car ownership.


Foulath Hadid, son of Muhammad Hadid, one of the founders and leaders of the Iraqi al-Ahali social party and the Iraqi National Democratic Party (NDP), has written an interesting book about the pol...


Consider the difference between the standard procedures for measuring length and area. Length is measured directly. The length of a segment is the number of arbitrarily chosen unit lengths that fit end to end on the segment. We measure length by using a ruler-like device that has the unit lengths already marked off and count ed on it. Area, in contrast, is measured indirectly. Although the area of a region is the number of arbitrarily chosen unit ar eas that cover the region with no overlap, almost always we measure area by taking linear measurements and inserting them into a formula. One undesirable consequence of this indirect procedure for measuring area is that many students have developed ex tremely vague or false notions about the concept of area. Asked to define it, many of these students respond that area is "length times width." Asked to compare the areas of two irregularly shaped regions as in figure 1, many students respond that the "distances around" should be found. Few students understand why the areas of certain regions can be determined by tak ing linear measurements and using area formulas. So let us examine the concept of area and explore some activities that can be used to help students gain a better understanding of area and area formulas.


Government and industry have sought means to allocate emissions for cogeneration systems, and research has been undertaken to determine rational allocation methods. Previous research has yielded results that are not universally accepted. Some of the difficulties cited with previously developed allocation methods for cogeneration emissions are that the methods inconsistent, complex and difficult to use and, most importantly, not based on sound reasoning. In this article, the case is made for an exergy-based method for allocating emissions for cogeneration systems. In the part I of this two-part article, comparisons are made of methods for allocating carbon dioxide emissions from cogeneration. Here, in part II of the article, the author demonstrates that exergy methods can form the basis of sound and meaningful allocation methods for carbon dioxide emissions, and that there are problems associated with the other methods. In addition, the results indicate that the exergy-based emissions allocations method provides a sensible foundation for a meaningful overall approach to emissions trading. The results are expected to assist design efforts for energy systems, and decision making and policy development in industry and government.


Objective To compare the curative results of three different therapies for earlyintermediate stage primary liver cancer. Methods The data of 428 patients with early-intermediate stage primary liver cancer treated with one of three curative therapies from April 2004 to July 2010 in our center were analyzed retrospectively. The patients were divided non-randomly into three groups: group A liver-cancer resection (n = 231), group B radio-frequency ablation (RFA) (n = 63), and group C liver transplantation (n=134). The 1-, 3-, 5-year accululative survival and recurrence rate in each group were compared. Results The accumulative 1-, 3-, 5-year survival rates were 93.3%, 71.9%, 57.2% for group A; 86.7%, 46.5%, 38.8% for group B; 95.7%, 78.3%, 72.1% for group C,respectively. The 1-, 3-, 5-year recurrence rates were 30. 3% , 49. 7%, 68. 6% for group A; 39. 3% , 58. 7% , 79. 3% for group B; 7. 0% , 12. 1% , 12. 1% for group C,respectively. There was a highly significant difference between groups A, B and C in the survival rates and the recurrence rates. The 5-year survival rate was significantly higher for group C than group A and group B (P<0. 01, P<0. 001), and the recurrence rate of 1, 3, 5-years were significantly lower for group C than for group A and B (P<0. 001). Conclusion Liver transplantation was the most effective therapy for the early-intermediate stage primary liver cancer.

Key words:
Liver carcinoma;  Hepatectomy;  Radio-frequency ablation;  Liver transplantation


The method of Soxhlet extraction is used to extract gromwell pigment from lithospermum.Three compounds are produced by applying techniques of column chromatography and recrystallization.The composition and structure of compounds are characterized by means of melting point,IR and MS.For micronizing β,β-dimethyl lacrylshikonin.The method of rapid expansion of supercritical solution(RESS) is employed.Microparticles of β,β-dimethyl lacrylshikonin are prepared.


Chinese wine has a long history, unique style, and has profound cultural traditions intrinsic. With the liquor industry and the development of people on the requirements of the liquor changes, the Chinese wine packaging design from the pure product design, development of the market, enterprises, marketing performance of the three coordinate common brand design information. However, as the current wine packaging market confusion, there are more limitations, few visual effect of high and the market works. In order to change this situation, the paper of the national character, culture and ecology of green Chinese wine packaging design of the important impact. Which is to nationalize the culture of wine consumption value and market value; Culture is to arouse consumer personal emotional experience, the emotional meet their needs; Green is requested designer in the wine packaging design aspect of the use of reasonable accuracy, coupled with sound ideas. In short, the success of the wine packaging is required to follow the principle behind packaging Mining the historical and cultural connotation, follow the green packaging principle, which can become a wine packaging market competitiveness.


FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: antipyrene is a mixture of products of oxidation of a lignin-containing substrate. The lignin-containing substrate used is wastes from wood-work and timber processing industry. The antipyrene is obtained through liquid-phase oxidation of a lignin-containing substrate in an alkaline medium in the presence or absence of a catalyst at temperature ranging from room temperature to 90°C under the effect of an oxidising agent. The oxidising agent is selected from a group comprising air, oxygen, ozone and hydrogen peroxide. The catalyst used is metal salts, primarily copper (II) or cobalt (II) salts. The antipyrene is used in form of a liquid mixture or dry powder of a mixture of products of oxidation of a lignin-containing substrate. The antipyrene is used to produce low-inflammability materials, for fire-retardant processing of articles made from wood and other combustible materials, as well as for extinguishing combustion sources. The liquid mixture of products of oxidation of a lignin-containing substrate is applied onto the surface of a combustible material and dried until formation of a film of antipyrene on the surface of the said material. Alternatively, the mixture of products of oxidation of the lignin-containing substrate is mixed with a solid combustible material and dried. The dry powder of the mixture of products of oxidation of the lignin-containing substrate is added into molten polymer thermoplastic and fire-resistant articles are then mouled from the obtained composite material. A combustion source is treated by the antipyrene by spraying or sprinkling. EFFECT: antipyrene is an efficient, environmentally safe fire-retardant agent. 24 cl, 7 dwg


This study is intended to find out the students' disruptive classroom behaviors
and the strategies employed by the English teacher to reduce disruptive classroom
behaviors of the second grade students at SMP Muhammadiyah 06 DAU Malang.
The research design used in this study was descriptive qualitative design. The
subjects were 92 students of the second grade and the English teacher who taught in
the second grade at SMP Muhammadiyah 06 DAU Malang. Observation and
interview were designed to collect the data concerns about the students' disruptive
classroom behaviors and the strategies employed by the English teacher to reduce
those behaviors.
The result of this study showed that the students committed some disruptive
classroom behaviors including: gross motor, verbalization, noise making, aggression
and some other behaviors. To reduce those behaviors, the teacher employed some
strategies which are ignoring the behavior, cueing the students, reprimanding the
students, using punishment and using the Point Book.


In this work we evaluate the performance of a transmission system in an indoor environment, using multiband impulse radio signals at 60 GHz band in terms of efficiency and consumption. The transceiver architecture is based on On-Off Keying modulation and non coherent energy detection at the demodulation. Furthermore the radio channel employed in this work is based on a lot of measured data and statistical analysis named Triple-S and Valenzuela model. This study examines the generator influence on data transmission and the efficiency of the Multi-Band On Off Keying design. The evaluation of this architecture is done in a Desktop environment, where we managed to send the data at a rate of 2 Gbps for a distance of 3.5m.


The transnational character of climate-related security risks often goes beyond the capacity of national governments to respond adequately. As such, it creates challenges for and increases the rele ...


This paper combines the good regulator theorem with the law of requisite variety and seven other requisites that are necessary and sufficient for a cybernetic regulator to be effective and ethical. The ethical regulator theorem provides a basis for systematically evaluating and improving the adequacy of existing or proposed designs for systems that make decisions that can have ethical consequences; regardless of whether the regulators are humans, machines, cyberanthropic hybrids, organizations, or government institutions. The theorem is used to define an ethical design process that has potentially far-reaching implications for society. A six-level framework is proposed for classifying cybernetic and superintelligent systems, which highlights the existence of a possibility-space bifurcation in our future time-line. The implementation of "super-ethical" systems is identified as an urgent imperative for humanity to avoid the danger that superintelligent machines might lead to a technological dystopia. It is proposed to define third-order cybernetics as the cybernetics of ethical systems. Concrete actions, a grand challenge, and a vision of a super-ethical society are proposed to help steer the future of the human race and our wonderful planet towards a realistically achievable minimum viable cyberanthropic utopia.


Thesis submitted to the Gr d
a uate College in accordance
with the Requirements for the Master D ' '
egree of Science in
Geology.


Uncertainty of measurement results is the key metric of environmental data quality, but it is often underestimated by ignoring the contribution from primary sampling. This chapter explains (1) how measurement uncertainty can be estimated in a way that includes all of the steps in the measurement process, including sampling, and (2) how this 'combined' uncertainty information can be used both to judge the fitness of the measurements, and allowed for in any decisions that are based upon the measurements.


The opening of internal borders among the European Union member states has not only evoked complex socio-economic processes, but also produced new spatial development potentials. This is especially important for the areas located close to the national borders that were until recently regarded as underdeveloped and peripheral. Conversely, the European Union sees them in a completely different light, as key elements in the process of integration, economic, and social cohesion. Consequently, the processes of cooperation and networking have been triggered on different levels, whereby the deterritorialisation of the new economic, social, cultural and spatial relations occurs. The article describes the issue of spatial development of cross-border areas, which are setting up new development conditions by opening the borders. This topic is presented by the case study of spatial development of the area stretching along the axis between two regional centres, Maribor (Slovenia) and Graz (Austria), in the past subjected to numerous demographical, economical and geopolitical changes. In this regard, two viewpoints of spatial development of the area are exposed: the first one explores the influence of the national border on the development of the research area, while the second one reflects contemporary trends of dispersed urbanization along the infrastructural corridor extending between both regional centres, the most indicative among them being the emergence of new urban nodes.