This paper presents a sensitivity analysis of the effects of different fault plane parameters on earthquake generated tsunamis in the far field. The parameters studied include the location of epicenter, rake angle, dip angle, strike angle, fault plane dimensions, slip displacement, and focal depth. The study was carried out by applying the verified Cornell COMCOT tsunami model to simulate distant tsunamis generated by earthquakes in three different seismic regions, namely, Japan, Aleutian Islands, and Chile in the Pacific Basin. In this study, each fault plane parameter was varied and its effect on the tsunami wave height at a distant location (Hawaii offshore waters as a case study) was examined. Our results showed that under the same earthquake magnitude, in general, variations within a reasonable range of uncertainty in rake and dip angles, epicenter location, and focal depth do not affect the resulting tsunamis significantly while a variation in the fault dimensions, strike angle, and slip displacement can cause a large change in the wave heights in the far field. The study revealed that the sensitivity of the far field wave height to certain earthquake parameters including the fault plane dimensions, slip displacement, and the strike angle does not always decrease as the distance between the earthquake and the far field increases. These results indicate the importance of accurate earthquake information for accurate tsunami predictions and that even for wave heights in a far field thousands of miles away, the earthquake may not be treated as a simple point source described by its epicenter location and magnitude alone.


This paper presents a wideband low-noise mixer in CMOS 0.13-um technology that operates between 2-10.5 GHz. The mixer has a Gilbert cell configuration that employs broadband low-noise transconductors designed using the negative-positive feedback technique used in low-noise amplifier designs. This method allows broadband input matching. The current-bleeding technique is also used so that a high conversion gain can be achieved. Simulation results show excellent noise and gain performance across the frequency span with an average double-sideband noise figure of 2.9 dB and a conversion gain of 15.5 dB. It has a third-order intermodulation intercept point of -8.7 dBm at 5 GHz.


Covering the important field of applied geology, this book brings together two areas which are normally examined independently, economic (or ore) geology and engineering geology. The first half of the volume presents a geological and geochemical summary of ore forming processes covering both metallic and fossil fuel resources with particular emphasis on their ties to the evolution of the Earth's crust. Mineralization is seen and discussed as a global geological process. Case studies are given for two selected tectonic environments, continental North America and the circum-Pacific arc-trench system. The second part of the book provides a concise summary of basic principles and approaches to the problems of modern engineering geology. Japanese examples are referred to as case studies, demonstrating the special problems encountered in a mobile belt such as the Japanese islands. This will be of particular interest to Western readers.


The investigation was carried out on 90 broiler chickens receiving experimental low-phosphorus starter diets until day 21 of life: C, control; D, with the addition of 750 phytase units/kg; and R, without vitamin D 3 supplemented with 3 jig l,25(OH) 2D 3 and 750 PTU/kg. On day 21,15 chickens from each treatment were killed. Humeri and femora were isolated, weighed and physical and geometrical parameters of bones were determined. Bone mass and length in both experimental groups were similar, but showed greater values in relation to controls. The femora and humeri of control and experimental chickens showed significant differences in physical parameters. The values of geometrical parameters in the experimental group were higher than in the control, but not significantly in either of the experimental groups. Bone breaking strength was significantly affected by the combined addition of l,25(OH) 2D 3 and phytase to the diet without vitamin D 3 as compared with the diet with phytase and adequate level of vitamin D 3 .


To solve the problem of Intranet information leakage,this paper proposed a new Intranet security strategy.There are two characteristics in this strategy.In the first place,information is classified by hierarchical means.In the second place,a component called monitor is introduced.With exerting access control over the communication among the entities in the network,the monitor can dynamically isolate the physical connections among host computers involved in security.This new strategy not only ensures information security,but also improves resource utility efficiently.In addition,according to this strategy,a monitor system is also designed based on the Intel IXP2400 chip.Experimental results show that,by virtue of the powerful processing ability of IXP2400,the monitor system could efficiently process high-speed data stream in Gb/s-net.


This publication contains statistical data broken down by country and region of destination on the number of departures and overnight stays effected by residents of 59 countries travelling abroad.


Proponents of special treatment for religion are increasingly drawn to the implausible claim that (what someone takes to be) divine commands should always supersede human ones. A better account would acknowledge that religion is only one among many profound human concerns. The recognition that there is an enormous variety of deep and valuable commitments undergirds the claims of both gay rights and religious freedom. These can only be protected one at a time, and that is a sufficient reason for singling out religion for special treatment.


The article deals with the problems of institutionalization of children in orphanages. The author discusses the orphanage graduates' inability to start their own families, the reasons, due to which the children escape from the residential care and return to their troubled families. The author suggests that the disadvantaged families should get social and educational support, in order a child, remaining in the native family, still had required education.


Nucleation kinetics of proeutectoid ferrite allotriomorphs at austenite grain boundaries were measured in Fe-0.1 mass%C and Fe-0.1 mass%C-2 mass%Mn alloys with small amounts of V or Nb. Nb was one or two orders of magnitude more effective than V in reducing the nucleation kinetics of ferrite compared at the same amount of addition. The segregation of alloying elements to austenite grain boundaries and the formation of atom clusters with carbon or fine coherent precipitates at ferrite nucleation sites were considered as possible causes for the observed suppression of nucleation. However, quantitative agreement with theory or direct experimental evidence is yet to be obtained for these possibilities to be deemed operative in the present alloys


Administration is an important kind of social activity. With the deepening of reforming and opening to the outside world, also with the establishment and perfection of socialist market economy organism, social practice more and more appeals to modern administration in our country. This article probes into the idea evolution, style, art, rating and tendency of modern administration. The writer thinks that the modernization of administratoin is the inexorable trend of development of the contemporary administration.


The poetry of Tang Dynasty is of great variety in style.Since the preceding understanding of its prosody is limited,there have been certain mistakes.This paper tries to analyze this issue in three aspects: Firstly,the long sentence,mainly used to name the seven-character metric poems;Secondly,the creative writing of seven-character metrics in Tang dynasty with the conclusion of being "not rare",but common with prominent features;Thirdly,a varied examination of the mixed metrics in middle Tang dynasty with the conclusion of Zhang Zhihe's "Yu Gezi" as not being a lyrical Ci poem,but a mixed metric poems.


The control of airborne molecular contamination (AMC) continues to grow as a requirement for all advanced semiconductor manufacturing. With more fabs using copper processing and 300 mm wafers and as we move past the 90 nm technology node, the requirements for AMC control are becoming more stringent. Most AMC control specifications call for levels to be at or below 1 part per billion (ppb) for the target contaminants and verifying of achievement and maintenance of these levels can be a very expensive proposition if real-time monitoring is an option being considered. There are a number of real-time monitoring technologies available that can measure at sub-ppb levels, however, they can cost upwards of US$20,000 per monitoring location. Due to the large investments required in terms of equipment, supplies, and personnel, manufacturers are looking for lower-cost AMC monitoring options that can still provide information relevant to the protection of processes and materials. There are a number of "semi quantitative" analysis techniques being used for AMC monitoring. By this we refer to those analytical techniques that provide quantitative information on environmental air quality, but do not measure specific contaminants. These techniques can involve passive or real-time monitoring using devices such litmus paper, witness wafers, impingers, multi-sorbent tubes, surface contamination monitors, and reactivity monitors. Semi quantitative AMC monitoring techniques are being used to establish AMC fingerprints or baselines for facilities, as part of an "early warning" system to identify and track AMC events, and for benchmarking various control strategies. This paper examines a number of these semi quantitative techniques being used today and discuss their relative strengths and weaknesses with regards to AMC monitoring. A relative cost comparison was offered


Recently, the notion of Multicast Service Overlay Network (MSON) has been introduced to address some of the deployment and maintenance problems of IP multicast and application-level multicast. Basically, an MSON is a backbone service overlay provisioned by an MSON provider and designed to "multiplex" several user overlays. The MSON provider designs the backbone overlay for a large user population and can therefore enjoy large scale economies and benefits. Since the deployment of an MSON is a capitalintensive investment, it is very imperative to carefully design the MSON so that the ISP can make the best revenue out of this investment. In this paper, we formulate the backbone design problem by taking into account ISP operational costs. We divide it into three sub-problems: overlay proxy placement, overlay link selection, and bandwidth dimensioning. We propose several algorithms for each of these subproblems. Through simulations, we study the effectiveness of different overlay design algorithms, analyze their impact on multicast performance, and suggest some practical solutions for MSON design.


In a study done by the Chi Associates, Inc., moderate correlations were found between the longitudinal and lateral latch failure loads of a vehicle's side door latch and the ejection rate associated with that vehicle. The failure loads were obtained through testing, following the procedures (but not the load limits) outlined in the Laboratory Procedure for FMVSS 206. Ejection rates were calculated using the ejection data from the FARS accident data file and registration data from the POLK data file. This report contains the findings of an investigation done by the Vehicle Research and Test Center (VRTC) to explore the possibility that such a relationship exists. The results of the Chi Associates' study were reviewed and additional testing was conducted in an attempt to validate their findings. Latches from fifteen of the models examined in the earlier study were tested as well as those from ten additional models. Ejection rates were found for all twenty-five models and regressions were performed to determine the levels of correlation between ejection rate and possible independent variables, including latch failure loads and vehicle curb weight. This report concludes an initial phase of this program. Laboratory and data analysis efforts are continuing to investigate door latch integrity.


* Need to supply roughage to grow-finish pigs (EC889-2008)
* Expensive protein rich ingredients in concentrate
* Many organic pig farmers have access to grassland
* Some good practical experience with young grass (silage)


A 74-year-old diabetic and obese woman presented to emergency department with weakness, chills, and retrosternal pain irradiated to her back. She also reported significant weight loss. Blood tests showed leukocytosis and increased serum fibrinogen. No signs of myocardial ischemia were found. A chest …


To test the concentration of Zinc in 73 pieces of tea in way of Flame Atom Absorbability Spectrum(FAAS).The experimental result showed that the tea is rich in trace element Zinc.All of 73 pieces of tea had reached Chinese standard of Zinc concentration,and the concentration of Zinc in 83% tea samples had reached the best concentration value.


This study was part of a collaborative US/EU effort (ROSITA II) to assess the use of illegal drug by impaired drivers and to evaluate the effectiveness of oral fluids drug testing technologies for use at the roadside. The project was conducted in major cities in the US and EU by teams of scientists working in collaboration with local police agencies. This paper presents data from the Salt Lake City study site. The data were collected by The Walsh Group in partnership with the Salt Lake City Police Department and the Center for Human Toxicology at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. An oral fluids drug testing device (Drugwipe5®, Securetec) was evaluated during two nine-month research periods. Results demonstrated that the oral fluids collections were tolerated by the drivers and that police officers could administer the test effectively. When compare to laboratory ELISA and mass spectrometry analysis, the number of false negative results greatly exceeded the true positive results especially for cannabinoids and cocaine. As a consequence of the false negative results, the sensitivity of the Drugwipe5®, device ranged from 7.7% for cannabinoids to 42.9% for opiates. The device failed to meet ROSITA study criteria for acceptable device sensitivity and specificity of > 90% for all drug classes evalutated (amphetamines, cocaine, cannabinoids and opiates).


The structural and dielectric properties of Bi2Ti2O7–Zn2Nb2O7 solid-solution thin films were investigated using (Bi2-xZnx)(NbxTi2-x)O7 (BZNT, 0.05≤x≤1.0) pyrochlore thin films prepared on platinized Si substrates by metalorganic decomposition (MOD) process. Thermal analysis and X-ray diffraction (XRD) results confirmed that the crystallization of the BZNT thin films started below 600°C and was completed at approximately 750°C. Broad ranges of single-phase solid-solutions based on cubic (Bi1.5Zn0.5)(Nb0.5Ti1.5)O7 were observed with x values from 0.1 to 0.7. Compared with bulk ceramics, a restriction in the lattice shrinkage of BZNT thin films with x values under 0.5 was apparent, which may have introduced internal stress in the thin films and eventually affected the dielectric properties of BZNT thin films. The BZNT thin films investigated had dielectric constants in the range of 142–242, and the maximum dielectric constant was 242 when x=0.5. Room-temperature capacitance–voltage measurements at 1 MHz demonstrated a tunability of 30%, with a zero-bias tan δ of 0.005.


Abstract One way to tell the story of contemporary ethics of war is as a gradual expansion of the period of time to which theorists attend in relation to war, from ad bellum and in bello to post bellum and ex bello. Ned Dobos, in his new book, Ethics, Security, and the War-Machine, invites us to expand this attention further to the period between wars, which he calls jus ante bellum. In this essay, I explore two significant implications of this shift in normative focus. First, I argue that it opens up an important and productive field of the ethics of military policy-making outside of conflict, including procurement, training, force posture, and military diplomacy. Second, I argue that attending to the relationship between ante bellum and ad bellum considerations contains the seeds of a powerful pacifist argument.


Ratio analysis is an applied procedure that goes back to the initiation of bookkeeping, as an idea. Money-related investigation as a logical device is utilized to do the computations in the region of bookkeeping. With a specific end goal to assess the substantial and existent worth of a venture, the monetary device comes helpful, consistently. Plus, it additionally enables the organizations to watch the execution crossing over a drawn-out period alongside the obstructions and deficiencies. The budgetary examination is a fundamental system for an unmistakable elucidation of money-related explanations. It helps the way toward finding, the presence of any cross-sectional and time arrangement linkages between different proportions.


For a long time,punishment activities in China have the following three major issues:punishment deviation,the imbalance of punishment,the confusion of the punishment procedure and the conviction procedure.This paper uses some experience of America's reform of the punishment practices for reference,and proposes some suggestions on realizing rational and normative punishment activities,such as revising and perfecting China's criminal laws and regula-tions,formulating sinotype normative punishment guidance,changing judges' traditional and retributive opinion about punishment,improving the overall quality of judges and correctly handling the relationship between the "strike hard" criminal policy and legal norms,in order to guarantee the judges' fair sentence and even realize criminal justice.


The chemical finish of electronic fabrics can't do without silane coupling agent.The author discusses the characteristics of three silane coupling agents in common use and analyzes their influences on the properties of electronic fabrics and semipregs,and thereby appeals for the constant improvement of couple agents Z-032 and Z-132 in the industry so as to make them better meet the requirements of electronic fabrics and semipregs.


The features of front teeth positions in people with optimal functional occlusion with different variants of macrodontia depending on value correspondence of dental sizes to dental arch parameters were defined. The correspondence of dental sizes to dental arches parameters was defined by frontal-distal diagonal of the alveolar arch. Front teeth were located in protrusion position and were characterized high torque (inclination angle) with inadequacy dental sizes to dental arches parameters under (to) 3 mm. The dental arch shape after treatment and achievement of optimal functional occlusion was similar to brachygnathic form with low torque of front teeth in people with incomplete dentition (as a result of premolar extraction according to orthodontic indications). The occlusive interrelations were attained after a treatment corresponding to signs of the optimal functional occlusion.


Cancer of the prostate remains poorly characterized cytogenetically. This is due in part to methodological problems and in part to the paucity of radical prostatectomies, until now the main source of material for cytogenetic analyses. We have improved existing techniques for the culturing of prostatic neoplasms removed by radical prostatectomy or sampled by ultrasound‐guided needle biopsy. Successful short‐term cultures were obtained from all 10 prostatectomy samples and from all 10 ultrasound‐guided needle biopsies, always with a pure epithelial morphology. Of the 19 cases yielding a sufficient number of high‐quality metaphases for chromosome banding analysis, the single atypical epithelial hyperplasia had a normal karyotype, whereas both prostatic intraepithelial neoplasias and 12 of 16 (75%) invasive carcinomas were shown to have clonal abnormalities. Ten of the 12 (83%) karyotypically abnormal invasive carcinomas presented structural chromosomal rearrangements. A recurrent deletion, del(10)(p13), was seen in three tumors; in one of them the terminal nature of the deletion was confirmed by two‐color FISH. A del(17)(p11) was seen in one PIN lesion, but since the analysis of exons 4–8 of the TP53 tumor suppressor gene revealed no mutations, there probably was no inactivation of the second TP53 allele. Our study thus leads to the following main conclusions. First, better culturing methods allow the detection of abnormal karyotypes in a much higher percentage of prostatic neoplasms than has hitherto been possible. Second, ultrasound‐guided needle biopsies of prostatic neoplasms are a sufficient source of material for cytogenetic analysis. Third, a terminal deletion of the short arm of chromosome 10, del(10)(p13), seems to identify a subgroup of prostatic cancer. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 28:211–219, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Presents cases of 2 patients (22-yr-old female and 36-yr-old male) with Capgras Syndrome (CS) arising from differing etiologies and with comorbid depression. The neuropsychological profiles of the 2 Ss are similar and involve deficits in performance on tests associated with both right and left hemisphere dysfunction. The authors propose that for these Ss, deficits in verbal memory are chiefly a reflection of depressed mood, while deficits in visuospatial skills and nonverbal memory are reflective of right hemisphere deficits normally associated with CS.


ABSTRACT Accounting educators are criticised for a focus on the development of technical skills at the expense of generic employability skills. This study considers the perspective of UK graduates training for the CIMA professional accountancy qualification and examines their perceptions of the extent to which opportunities for generic skills development are exploited in accounting degrees. The results are compared with opportunities for generic skills development in degrees from other discipline areas, formal work-based training and the training undertaken when studying for professional examinations. The results of the questionnaire-based survey suggest that there is scope for improvement in the extent to which universities exploit opportunities for the development of generic skills. However, across most skill areas trainees' perceptions of opportunities for the development of generic skills in UK accounting degrees are comparable to those offered in other discipline areas and compare favourably to those offered in both professional training and formal work-based training. The results indicate that the development of oral communication skills, the ability to take a comprehensive and global vision of an organisation, resilience and ethical awareness could be improved.


Most studies find that high education, work experience, and cognitively demanding occupations are independently associated with a lower dementia risk, and that the association may be strongest for occupation. It is hypothesized that these three factors provide cognitive reserve. Here we examine the risk of dementia in relation to education, work experience, and occupation in the oldest‐old (age 90+), an age group with the highest dementia risk.


The initiation and development of discharges from a point cathode have been studied as a function of viscosity. The initial growth rate and the transition from a small roughly spherical region to a multibranched geometry have been recorded for a wide range of viscosities using a CCD (charge-coupled device) camera and Framestore. Measurements are reported on the development of the instabilities. It is deduced that electrical forces predominate in the cavity expansion. The instabilities are a natural consequence of growth. As viscosities rise to 100 cSt and above, the form of the breakdown instability changes. A pointed protrusion from the cavity begets another cavity to produce a sausagelike thick filament or thick-filament tree. The basic instability then looks like that described by C.G. Garton and Z. Krasucki (1964).<<ETX>>


This article presents theoretical considerations based on cultural analysis approaches to studying pornography and sexuality as a means of starting to suggest a new agenda for cyberporn research. By bringing to the forefront concepts of how subjectivity and sexuality are produced within the computer/Internet apparatus, I hope to diversify the focus in cyberporn research away from social science approaches and pre-Foucaultian assumptions of the subject which obscure understandings of new media and cyberporn use. Through a summary of visual culture studies and reception studies of pornography, I argue that cyberporn must be understood as contingent within the encoding and decoding processes and discourses of sexuality (Foucault) in which it is produced and consumed. My focus here is the home office/terminal as the site of reception/cyberporn use. While there is potential for a great variety of cultural analytic approaches to the study of cyberporn and how new media use influences sexuality, I end with specific suggestions for researching cyberporn reception in the home.


In a practical CVQKD system, the optical attenuator can adjust the Gaussian-modulated coherent states and the local oscillator signal to an optimal value for guaranteeing the security of the system and optimizing the performance of the system. However, the performance of the optical attenuator may deteriorate due to the intentional and unintentional damage of the device. In this paper, we investigate the practical security of a CVQKD system with reduced optical attenuation. We find that the secret key rate of the system may be overestimated based on the investigation of parameter estimation under the effects of reduced optical attenuation. This opens a security loophole for Eve to successfully perform an intercept-resend attack in a practical CVQKD system. To close this loophole, we add an optical fuse at Alice's output port and design a scheme to monitor the level of optical attenuation in real time, which can make the secret key rate of the system evaluated precisely. The analysis shows that these countermeasures can effectively resist this potential attack.


Imogolite is known as variable charge aluminosilicate mineral which physicochemical properties depend on the pH solution. Dispersion and gelation properties can be adjust by change in pH solution. However, the effect of solvent on the physicochemical properties of imogolite is almost no information. Here, we studied on effect of length tube imogolite and type of solvent on its dispersion and gelation behavior. Guava extract has been used as herbal model and loaded into imogolite suspension.These results obtained important information that the length of the tube imogolite greatly affects the quality of the gel formed. The changes in the distribution of solvent polarity in certain level will affect the force of inter-surface repulsion in imogolite. Under organic solvent, formation of the gelation is not influenced by the pH solution. The obtained data is interesting because until now there is no information on the dispersion and gelation properties of imogolite in the organic solvent. Furthermore, gelation of imogolite is easily formed by addition of extract herbal into imogolite suspension. Therefore, imogolite can be used as herbal delivery material.


[Objective]The purpose aimed to study the antibacterial activity of Carya cathayensis pericarp extract.[Method]The antibacterial activity of C.cathayensis pericarp extract was measured by analyzing the inhibitory effect of C.cathayensis pericarp extract on the mycelium growth and conidial spore germination of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.cucumerinum and Botrytis cinerea Pers..[Result]C.cathayensis pericarp extract could evidently inhibit the mycelium growth of test strains and the germination and tube growth of conidia.Compared with control,the inhibition rate on the spore generation of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.cucumerinum was 73.9% and the inhibition rate of the tube growth was 63.5% after culture 9 days.For Botrytis cinerea Pers.,the inhibition rate on the spore generation and the tube growth was 82.7% and 65.1% respectively.Furthermore,C.cathayensis pericarp extract had obvious promotion effects on the seed germination of cucumber.[Conclusion] The research provided the theoretical basis for developing C.cathayensis pericarp extract as antiseptic.


During survey ten different weed fungi were found commonly associated with the mushroom. Out of this five different fungi were chosen which were found most prevalent and caused maximum damage to the crop. Four fungitoxicants were used viz. bavistin, formalin, Dithane-M 45 and Hexacap and four different Plant materials namely, neem leaves, eucalyptus leaves, Water hyacinth and bioneem an aqueous formulation of neem were used to control these fungi both in virto and in vivo. In vitro studies indicated that Hexacap at 200 ppm was highly toxic to all the fungi followed by bavistin, formalin and Dithane M-45. Bavistin and Dithane M-45 at all conc. could not check the growth of Rhizopus stolonifer, in vitro. Under mushroom house conditions Formalin at 500 ppm gave the highest biological efficiency of Pleurotus sajor-caju. In case of plant materials water hyacinth was found instrumental against all the weed fungi followed by Eucalyptus leaves. However, neem leaves and bioneem were effective against all the weed fungi except Sclerotium rolfsii. Bioneem obtained the highest biological efficiency of Pleurotus sajor-caju with T. harzianum. Formalin and Water hyacinth delayed the spawn run and delayed the primordial formation.


Technology is advancing swiftly in current times. Everybody has to learn and update on developments to be helpful and be connected to the community. In this area, visually impaired people and persons with ADHD and dyslexia fall behind due to their inherent limits. To promote their engagement as active members of the community, the technology must be modified. In order to cope with these obstacles, a lot more complete, enhanced, and appropriate techniques than present ones has to be built. When the current Text Rank methodology is updated, it would help prevent wasting time for users by summarizing the whole text. Then the improved method is compared with the present Text Rank algorithms, the Luhn algorithm, the Lex Ranking algorithm, and Latent Linguistic Analysis (LSA). Based on the comparison it is found that Text Rank is an affordable method to do text summarization and to provide an efficient output which is then again used in a machine- learning NLP module which in turn converts text to audio. This would be a useful concept for all types of people. In addition, the system is being constructed on online open-source platforms, making it more efficient and economical.


The purpose of this paper is to determine the meaning of "for three transgressions and for four, I will not cause it to return," the enigmatic expression appearing eight times in the Old Testament, all of them in Amos 1-2. It employs primarily literary analysis, redaction criticism in particular, as its main methodology, although other approaches, such as historical and textual-critical perspectives, are also a part of this research. Due to the complicate nature in the formation of the so-called oracles against the nations of Amos, a well-known topic throughout the research history of the book, the focus of this paper is given to the last two literary strata along with their historical backgrounds. A little examination sufficed for the author of this paper that the above-mentioned phrase from Amos 1-2 should be dealt with other questions, frequently raised in the analysis of the same pericope. Among those questions and subsequently analyzed in the paper are the principle behind the order of the seven nations, and the relationship between the very first and the last parts of the prophetic book. This intertextual and "inter-topical" examination is a new way of exploring the subject, however a few findings are achieved through the exploration: differences in the meaning of "for three transgressions ? and for four" in each strata and its effect in the structure of Amos 1-2; and the dramatic reversal of the meaning of `uybnw through the redactional activities. At the end, the paper calls for further interests in the intertextual researches on chaps. 1-2 and chap. 9 of Amos as well as these chapters` relationship with Joel 3 and Obadiah.


This paper investigates a new rich-lean pulverized coal burner combined elbow and Venturi tube.The gas-solid two-phase flow inside elbow,Venturi tube and this new structure are simulated numerically.The Euler-Lagrange method and Dispersed Phase Model(DPM) are adopted in the studies of gas-solid two-phase flow.The Detached-eddy-simulation(DES) approach is involved in the calculation of turbulence dispersion of gas phase.The Discrete random walk model(DRW) is used in the turbulence of solid phase.The results show that,for the particles of 10μm,the effect of rich-lean separation of three types of structure is unobvious.For the particles with a diameter larger than 50μm,this new structure burner can achieve rich-lean separation.In addition,the area of high concentration does not adhere to the wall.


Dec. 21, 1974 Germany ............................. 2460891 51) Int. Cl? .................. A61K 31/215; A61K 31/195. 52 U.S. C. ..................................... 424/305; 424/319 58 Field of Search ................................ 424/305,319 (56) References Cited U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 4,035,507 7/1977 Bodor et al. ......................... 424/319 Primary Examiner-Frederick E. Waddell Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Albert H. Graddis; Frank S. Chow; George M. Yahwak 57 ABSTRACT The present invention is concerned with new cyclic amino acids and with the preparation thereof.


A functional integral formalism is used to derive the extension of a stiff chain subject to an external force. The force versus extension curves are calculated using a mean-field approach in which the hard constraint u2(s)=1 is replaced by a global constraint 〈u2(s)〉=1 where u(s) is the tangent vector describing the chain and s is the arclength. The theory quantitatively reproduces the experimental results for DNA that is subject to a constant force. We also treat the problems of semiflexible chain in a nematic field. In the limit of weak nematic field strength our treatment reproduces the exact results for chain expansion parallel to the director. When the strength of the nematic field is large, a situation in which there are two equivalent minima in the free energy, the intrinsically mean-field approach yields incorrect results for the dependence of the persistence length on the nematic field.


Nystatin and Terbinafine are antifungal drugs with well-known antifungal properties. In the present study we investigated the potential of PAMAM and PPI dendrimers of different generations as tool for enhancement of antifungal activity of selected two antifungal drugs. Microbilogical study showed that PAMAM and PPI dendrimers could enhance the antifungal activities of Nystatin and Terbinafine against Candida albicans, Aspergillus niger and Sachromyces cerevasae. Results showed increase in the antifungal activity of Nystatin and Terbinafine in dendrimer solution compared to pure Nystatin and Terbinafine dissolved in DMSO (dimethylsulfoxide). The antifungal activity studies indicated that PAMAM and PPI dendrimers as potential tool for enhancement of antifungal activity of Nysatin and Terbinafine.


This paper describes the techniques used with five patients with stage I endometrial cancer who had laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy combined with laparoscopic lymphadenectomy. Prior to the laparoscopic staging, the prerequisite histological grading with ploidy and measurement of monoclonal antibodies were carried out. All patients underwent a general check with radiography, computerized tomography, liver scan, bone scan and lymphography. The performance of lymphadenectomy in cases of stage I endometrial cancer remains a controversial subject. We believe that laparoscopic-assisted surgical staging of stage I endometrial cancer is an attractive alternative to the traditional surgical laparotomy approach. The change from laparotomy to a laparoscopic-assisted vaginal method allows for a similar success rate with a less invasive approach. No complications occurred in this series, and the results of our pilot study were satisfactory.


On October 19, 1911, in the midst of a six-day rain delay between games 3 and 4 of the 1911 World Series between the Philadelphia A's and the New York Giants, reporters at Shibe Park in Philadelphia had plenty of time on their hands. Figure 1 has former ballplayer–turned-reporter Sam Crane (far left ) of the New York Evening Journal sitting next to a sleeping companion, while the offi cial scorer and publisher of Reach's Baseball Guide and Sporting Life, Francis Richter (black mustache and Derby Hat), strikes a stoic poise. Covering the World Series Nearly a Century Ago


Two pot experiments were carried out during the two successive seasons of 2010/2011 and 2011/ 2012 to apply mineral nitrogen and/or Azolla at different methods of addition with a reduction of mineral nitrogen fertilizer and its effect on vegetative growth, the yield of inflorescences, total phenolic concentration, antioxidant activity, nitrate and nitrite concentrations and the volatile oil concentrations and composition of chamomile inflorescences in sandy soil. Data indicated that dry Azolla (DA) treatments increased significantly plant height, number of branches/plant, shoot fresh and dry weights and number of inflorescences/plant against the rest treatments. It is clear that DA singly induced maximum growth parameters in both seasons and the reverse was true with fresh Azolla (FA) alone. It is obvious that DA achieved the highest total phenolic concentrations, antioxidant activity and volatile oil (VO) concentrations, and the opposite response was true for nitrate & nitrite concentrations. Addition of 50% ammonium nitrate to 50% FA or 50% Azolla extract as foliar (spray Azolla) SA have positive effect on chemical constituents except nitrate and nitrite concentrations. It is evident that the highest chamazulene and α ̶ bisabolol oxide ̶ B were achieved Original Research Article Rabie et al.; AJSSPN, 5(4): 1-13, 2019; Article no.AJSSPN.54558 2 with DA and the reverse was true for α ̶ bisabolol oxide ̶ A. Dry Azolla treatment alone was the most efficient one in increasing the yield production with increment in active substances of chamomile plant in sandy soil.


The classical planar Metal Oxide Semiconductor
Field Effect Transistors (MOSFET) is fabricated by oxidation of
a semiconductor namely Silicon. In this generation, an advanced
technique called 3D system architecture FETs, are introduced for
high performance and low power quality of devices. Based on the
limitations of Short Channel Effect (SCE), Silicon (Si) FET
cannot be scaled under 10nm. Hence various performing
measures like methods, principles, and geometrics are done to
upscale the semiconductor. CMOS using alternate channel
materials like GE and III-Vs on substrates is a highly anticipated
technique for developing nanowire structures. By considering
these issues, in this paper, we developed a simulation model that
provides accurate results basing on Gate layout and multi-gate
NW FET's so that the scaling can be increased few nanometers
long and performance limits gradually increases. The model
developed is SILVACO that tests the action of FET with different
gate oxide materials.


This paper highlights the need to investigate whether blind people can get two dimensional perspectives in their mental model using bi-modal interaction. The two dimensional perspectives are very important for effective navigation in the Internet. This paper proposed the novel protocol to elicit mental model from the blind people using diagrammatic representation.


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the long-term outcome of a multimodal day treatment program for children with severe behavior problems and to identify factors that may predict a positive outcome.

METHOD
Thirty-three children who completed a day treatment program were assessed using a prospective, single-cohort design tested at intake, discharge, and 5-year follow-up. The child's functioning was assessed using the Revised Child Behavior Profile (RCBP), Hare Self-Esteem Scale, Depression Self-Rating Scale, Hopelessness Scale for Children, Index of Peer Relations, and a 5-point ordinal scale for scholastic reintegration.

RESULTS
Repeated-measures analyses of variance showed that improvement was maintained on all measures between intake and 5-year follow-up. A stepwise multiple regression showed that 92% of the adjusted variance in the behavioral functioning of the children at 5-year follow-up, as assessed by the RCBP, was explained by parental cooperation, initial RCBP total and externalizing scores, and history of problem pregnancy.

CONCLUSIONS
Children who were admitted to a day treatment setting appear to function well globally, even 5 years after discharge. Parental cooperation was the most important variable in predicting positive outcome.


Tutoring in a Problem‐Based Learning (PBL) program requires different skills than teaching in a more traditional program. Because the roles are so different, faculty development is considered necessary in any switch to a PBL curriculum. In this article, I compile information about seven faculty development programs and review studies that evaluate the effect of faculty development as it pertains to PBL. Approaches to evaluation used in studies of faculty development programs include participants' end‐of‐workshop questionnaires or interviews, both relating to participant satisfaction; pre‐ and posttesting for attitudinal change or the cognitive component of the learning; student questionnaires related to posttraining performance; and direct observation. Comments from several evaluation studies suggest that longer tutor training programs are needed. Evidence being collected in the literature strongly suggests that tutors require instruction in the content of the PBL cases.


Finding ways to alleviate racial tension is an important societal issue. A well-established strategy is to increase positive contact between members of different racial groups, which is hypothesized to lead to improved racial attitudes if the contact takes place under certain conditions. Bridging racial divides, however, has historically been a difficult process. Leisure settings can be ideal environments for interracial interaction to occur due to qualities of free choice and self-determination. This study focuses on a specific type of leisure environment, community gardens located in urban settings. More specifically, the purpose of the study was to examine whether urban community gardens are perceived as spaces in which people of different races can successfully integrate. The study also sought to examine race and its relationship to perceptions, motivations, and benefits of community gardening. The study focused on African American and White gardeners in St. Louis.


The fast and accurate state evaluation of cable plays an important role in the safe and reliable operation of power system. Thus a high-voltage cables condition evaluation model based on siamese-attention bidirectional long short-term memory (SA-BiLSTM) is proposed in this paper. First, the attention mechanism was used to optimize the BiLSTM network, which can complete parallel training while obtaining global information. then the optimized network was adopted to build a siamese neural network framework, realizing data classification by calculating the Euclidean distance between feature vectors. Finally, the model was trained and tested through the online monitoring data of high-voltage cables from engineering. The results showed that the accuracy rate, precision, recall rate, F1 score and Matthews correlation coefficient of the SA-BiLSTM model was increased at least by 7.92%, 11.79%, 11.41%, 12.04%, and 20.90%, respectively, compared with other models.


In the context of priorities of the state policy in the field of education the author dwells on the approaches to the development of the components of upbringing and socialization in the institution of higher professional education: actual problems of scientific-methodical support of the educational activities of the teachers, approaches to the design of patterns of the student youth socialization, the issues of formation of professional competence of university professors in the field of education and socialization.


The need to increase labour productivity and improve the competitiveness of engineering products, as well as to increase high-tech exports, are urgent tasks for the development of industry in the Russian Federation. The creation of competitive products implies flexibility in the approach to the consumer, which leads to an increase in the share of enterprises operating in conditions of small-scale production. The purpose of this study is to assess the reserves of productivity growth at machine-building enterprises of small-scale and unit-type production in the Ural region. Research has shown that organizational factors, such as the automation of production preparation processes, the use of photo-timing studies in the conditions of small-scale production, have a significant impact on labour productivity. In this case, the solution of organizational problems helps to create informational database for introduction at the enterprises of mechanical engineering complex life cycle management of products (the PLM).


In the setting of regression, the standard formulation of gradient boosting generates a sequence of improvements to a constant model. In this paper, we reformulate gradient boosting such that it is able to generate a sequence of improvements to a nonconstant model, which may contain prior knowledge or physical insight about the data generating process. Moreover, we introduce a simple variant of multi-target stacking that extends our approach to the setting of multi-target regression. An experiment on a real-world superconducting quantum device calibration dataset demonstrates that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art calibration model even though it only receives a paucity of training examples. Further, it significantly outperforms a well-known gradient boosting algorithm, known as LightGBM, as well as an entirely data-driven reimplementation of the calibration model, which suggests the viability of our approach.


Explosively-driven helical flux compression generators are generally of larger inductance and therefore of higher energy gain than most other flux compression generators. On the other hand the operation times (usually 200 to 300 ..mu..s or less) are usually too short to serve as direct power supplies for most rail gun applications. This limitation is circumvented, however, when the generator is used to charge an inductive storage coil, which then serves as the rail-gun energy source. We describe here the results of several recent tests with such systems. Projectile masses have ranged from 0.6 to 1.0 kg; both plasma and solid armature modes have been employed. The flux compression generator and its characteristics are describeed, together with the storage coil, the rail gun, projectiles and diagnostics employed. Particular attention is devoted to minimizing flux losses, for example, in the design of the storage coil input crowbar which is activated after the coil is loaded by the generator.


Visitor management, traditionally, has been concerned largely with visitor impacts and emphasis has been placed on managing negative consequences of tourism. This has involved controlling visitor numbers, attempting to modify visitor behaviour and also modifying the resource. These approaches can be divided into 'hard' and 'soft' categories (Kuo, 2002). 'Hard' visitor management approaches involve physical management, regulatory management and economic management. 'Soft' approaches make use of education and interpretation. While the approach of managing impacts has its merits, it has tended to assume that negative impacts are inevitable. This approach has tended to ignore the role of visitor experience in relation to visitor management. This article discusses a number of 'hard' and 'soft' approaches to visitor management, focusing specifically on interpretation and self-regulation, using codes of conduct. These approaches are examined within the context of protected natural areas in Antarctica and the Arctic Region. These two remote regions, which until recently have not been significantly exploited for tourism development, share geographical similarities, particularly in terms of climate and environment and have large areas of protected landscape, although their human geography is different. Comparisons are made between the various visitor management approaches deployed in these peripheral regions at opposite ends of the earth and the article also provides a critical evaluation of codes of conduct and interpretation.


Silacarbonyl ylides, generated by metal-catalyzed silylene transfer to carbonyls, participate in formal intermolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions with carbonyl compounds and alkynes to form dioxasilacyclopentane acetals and oxasilacyclopentenes in an efficient, one-step process.


The Christian community living under Abbasid rule in the early ninth century witnessed a number of profound changes that were to have lasting effects on church life. Among the more significant of these was the establishment of Arabic as the official language of the empire, along with other policies encouraging conversion to Islam. This situation soon demanded of Christian theologians a careful response to Muslim questions, as well as clear formulations and explanations of Christian doctrines in light of the confrontation with Islamic assertions. It is also within this context that one finds the beginnings of systematic translation of the Bible into Arabic. In response, Christian theologians turned to traditional apologetic approaches involving rational arguments supported by biblical proof texts. Abū Rāʾiṭa Al-Takrītī employed scripture in a multitude of ways to argue for and substantiate his points both to Muslims and to beleaguered Christians.Keywords: Abū Rāʾiṭa Al-Takrītī; Abbasid rule; apologetic approaches; Bible; church; Islam; systematic translation


An innovative three-dimensional approach to static concentrators has keen developed that offers increased concentration ratios with slimmer designs than previous two-dimensional static concentrator photovoltaic modules. Slimmer designs are essential for a practical static concentrator because they allow an economically viable implementation by using less material and by allowing incorporation into building structures such as roofing tiles. In this paper, the theoretical performance limits are discussed and a design is developed that achieves a concentration ratio of 3.6:1 while still capturing 90% of the annual irradiation without tracking the sun. The thermal performance of the static concentrator module is analysed to show that any efficiency loss due to cell heating is matched by the efficiency gain due to concentration. The efficiency of the module described is predicted to he greater than that of a conventional fiat plate module.


The control of reverberation time is certainly one of the outstanding problems in Architectural Acoustics. Besides the classical techniques, some control techniques using electroacoustical devices for artificial reverberation are available today. Commonly, these devices merely supply the ''reverberation'' to an enclosed space so as to simulate the sound queue phenomenon instead of actually controlling the proper reverberation time of the room in such a way to make it longer, but in this case, even shorter. This paper presents an intensity‐based approach to the reverberation time control using the total transfer function of the acoustic system constituted by the room and by the control device itself. As the energy transfer function of an enclosed space is simply related to the reverberation time [D. Stanzial, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Suppl. 1 88, S185 (1990)], an alternative criterion for the local active control of the reverberating acoustic field is readily obtained.


In this paper paraconsistent second order arithmetic Z#2 with unrestricted comprehension scheme is proposed. We outline the development of certain portions of paraconsistent mathematics within paraconsistent second order arithmetic Z#2.In particular we defined infinite hierarchy Berry's and Richard's inconsistent numbers as elements of the paraconsistent field R^#.


ACORDE project emerges as an exercise of rethinking all key factors involved in a building in order to adapt it to present difficulties, taking into account the better use of resources and energy. Present tendency, due to different regulations and traditions, is to design buildings specifically thought for a single use, and even in that case, so rigid that it is very difficult to adapt it to the forthcoming user or owner's needs. During the research process, we detected a number of social and demographic changes; large families are no longer majority, and smaller families, with one or two members, are increasing dramatically. This change in families' composition should lead to a change in dwellings design; distribution needs are different, as well as its size, while the greater part of new houses in Spain are being built for an outdated family model, without taking any of this into account. The principles developed by ACORDE represent a new, efficient philosophy within the open-building framework, regarding maximum flexibility and adaptability of spaces. ACORDE project seeks to maximize buildingś flexibility, conceiving a residential building made of legally independent functional units that can be connected to or disconnected from each other with easy, plug-in facilities, in a way that permits to purchase exactly what the user need, as well as allows future changes for buildings to be adapted to the needs of their occupants, the user decides how to best utilize the space by acquiring or separating functional units along the years. This provides economic benefits to users through increased energy performance and optimal use of space. This model not only allows adaptation to any formal configuration and regulatory directive, but also permits a possible change of its main use. The efficient occupancy of space leads to an efficient use of energy, minimizing maintenance costs and guarantying the quality of life of their occupants.


As customers are the main assets of each industry, customer churn prediction is becoming a major task for companies to remain in competition with competitors. In the literature, the better applicability and efficiency of hierarchical data mining techniques has been reported. This paper considers three hierarchical models by combining four different data mining techniques for churn prediction, which are backpropagation artificial neural networks (ANN), self-organizing maps (SOM), alpha-cut fuzzy c-means (α-FCM), and Cox proportional hazards regression model. The hierarchical models are ANN


The changes in the viscosity of lubricating oils directly affect the ability of lubrication and protection from moving parts of an internal combustion engine. The activation energy of flow indicates the sensitivity of the viscosity due to change of the temperature, so that the greater the activation energy of flow, the greater the influence of temperature. The objective of this study was to estimate the activation energy of flow of lubricating oils SAE 30, SAE 40 and SAE 50 between 10 and 150°C. Thus, the equations of Arrhenius and Vogel were employed. The values of the activation energy of flow were determined from linear regression analysis data of viscosity as a function of temperature. The values of the activation energy of flow of lubricating oils are between 34.7391 kJ.mol-1 (SAE 30) and 39.6802 kJ.mol-1 (SAE 50). In all cases studied, the correlation coefficients were close to unity, classifying as very strong linear correlation. The absence in the literature of the data of activation energy of flow of lubricating oils was hampered to compare with the other values.


Monilinia rubi is the causal agent of dry-berry disease of raspberry and blackberry in northern Washington state and western Canada. The symptoms are visible on green fruits and include necrotic and dried drupelets with progressive necrosis from the receptacle into the peduncle. Diagnosis is based on symptoms and isolation and identification of the slow-growing fungal pathogen. Diagnosis is slow and difficult with late season tissues because abiotic stresses or other diseases may cause similar symptoms and the slow-growing pathogen is not easily isolated from tissues harboring fast-growing environmental fungi. A multiplex PCR assay with primers to amplify an ITS region and beta-tubulin was designed to provide a rapid method to identify the pathogen in culture and in infected berry tissues. For M. rubi and infected berries, two amplicons that differ in length by 400 bp are visualized on agarose gels. No bands were obtained from fungal outgroups or non-symptomatic berries. For further confirmation of the pathogen and the disease, a single amplicon can be sequenced directly from the multiplex reaction and compared to reference sequences in GenBank. This rapid multiplex assay streamlines diagnosis of dry-berry disease and its application may provide valuable information on the range of the pathogen, especially in other caneberry production regions.


Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with t(8;16)(p11;p13) is a rare AML subtype involving exon 15 or 16 of the MYST3 gene [K(lysine) acetyltransferase 6A (KAT6A)] on chromosome 8p11 and exons 3–8 of cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB)-binding protein (CREBBP, CBP) on chromosome 16p13. In this issue of BJH, Kayser et al. report the findings of an international collaboration to characterise AML associated with t(8;16)(p11;p13) in a cohort of >50 patients treated with standard intensive induction-like chemotherapy between 1992 and 2016 and with a median follow-up of 6 48 years. The mammalian MYST family contains five members and has been shown to be critical for maintaining DNA histone acetylation and lysine acetylation. Family members contain the defining MYST domain, which confers intrinsic acetyltransferase activity. In addition to the shared MYST domain, MYST3 contains an N-terminal histone H3 binding domain and a serine/methionine rich C-terminal domain with potent transcriptional activation potential. MYST3 has been shown to function as a co-activator for DNA-binding transcription factors such as Runt-related transcription factor 1 (Runx1) and tumour protein 53 (p53). In the t(8;16)(p11;p13), as well as in other leukaemias associated with translocations involving MYST3, the breakpoints in the MYST3 gene occur 3' to the MYST domain and 5' to the transcriptional activation domain. Similar to many genes identified as partners in leukaemiaassociated translocations, MYST3 has been shown to have a role in haematopoietic stem cell function. Loss of Myst3 in a murine model is embryonic lethal with defects in early haematopoiesis and Sheikh et al. in 2016 demonstrated that targeted deletion of the Myst3 gene in murine adult haematopoiesis was associated with impaired colony-forming activity and loss of long-term re-populating haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) activity following competitive transplantation. Interestingly, in the non-transplant setting, haematopoiesis persisted despite loss of Myst3 and a significant diminution of the long-term HSC pool, suggesting Myst3 deficient progenitors were capable of sustained self-renewal. In cancer, MYST3 has an established role in multiple malignancies. MYST3 has been shown to be mutated or amplified in several solid tumours including oesophageal cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer. In a recent publication Zhu et al. demonstrated that p53 gain-of-function mutations bind to and upregulate both mixed lineage leukaemia 1 (MLL1), MLL2 and MYST3 in patient tumours resulting in changes in histone methylation and acetylation genome wide. In a prior study of AML associated with t (8;16) Murati et al. performed array-based comparative genome hybridisation and RNA expression profiling of 18 cases of MYST3-linked AML cases in comparison to non-MYST3 cases of AML. In that study, MYST3-associated AML was associated with gene amplification and elevated expression of the MYB gene compatible with locus duplication. Hierarchical clustering of RNA expression data from a subset of MYST3-linked AML samples showed that most MYST3linked AMLs grouped together and constituted a homogeneous subgroup of AML. Interestingly and perhaps relevant to the findings of Kayser et al., in 2017 Yu et al. identified amplification of the MYST3 gene in breast cancer and showed that loss of MYST3 in oestrogen receptor (ER)positive breast cancer cell lines was associated with loss of expression of the oestrogen receptor. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) they found that MYST3 binds to the ERa receptor promoter region and that loss of MYST3 histone acetyltransferase (HAT) activity resulted in loss of ERa expression in breast cancer cells. The role of MYST in ERa regulation coupled with our increasing understanding of Correspondence: Emanuele Angelucci, Hematology and Transplant Center, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com commentary


Abstract : This project was focused on a formal framework for analyzing and developing information fusion systems. Category theory was selected as the formal basis for specifying information fusion systems. A formal definition of information fusion was introduced. Various kinds of fusion were defined, their properties and inter-relationships analyzed. An initial ontology of information fusion was presented. A procedure for developing information fusion systems using formal methods was proposed. Examples of reasoning about measures of effectiveness of information fusion systems were shown. Towards this goal fuzzy logic was formally specified in the Slang language and properties of information fusion were proved. This showed that within this formal framework one can reason about the system being developed in the specification and design phases, rather than after deployment. Finally, the selection of wavelet based features for ATR was investigated within the formal framework.


Abstract : A number of conical and quasi-conical linearized supersonic flows have been derived These flows may be applied in. lift- cancellation techniques in the determination of wing-lift disturbances that arise at subsonic trailing edges Some of the results are applied to damping in roll and pitch in another paper. Two methods of analysis have been employed, both involving integral equations. One is a development of the membrane method of Evvard; the other is an analog of the superposition method of Schlichting. In both cases, source distributions are used. The mathematical equivalence of the first method and a new doublet- distribution method of Goodman and Mirels is shown.


. Within the conditions of the spreading the pandemic, the number of domestic violence cases has increased significantly, necessitating a review of restrictive measures in different countries. The concepts, features, legal nature, legal grounds and conditions for the application of restrictive measures, their types and content, nature (short-term or long-term), shortcomings of the modern model of criminalization of domestic violence in Article 126-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine have been systematized in the present academic paper as well as ways of solving problems that exist in this area. The method of content analysis of laws and regulations has been used in the research and the development of the legal framework of Ukraine towards combating and protecting against domestic violence has been analyzed. The object of the research is a system of restrictive measures in order to combat domestic violence. Restrictive measures can be attributed to countering domestic violence due to measures that restrict: 1) general place of stay / residence; 2) communication; 3) approaching to the victim; 4) electronic means of communication; 5) undergoing the program of correction of aggressive behavior; 6) search or pursuit; 7) preventive work; 8) monitoring the offender. These measures are carried out by specially authorized bodies upon request for a certain period. In general, the content of restrictive measures in accordance with the legislation provides for combating violence in the short term through passive measures and in the long term through behavior correction programs. Restrictive measures can be considered coercive criminal measures, which are characterized by an additional nature and can be applied by a court in the case the adult has committed a crime related to domestic violence. The duality of restrictive measures has been identified: on the one hand, they are a law of the forum, but on the other - a duty / prohibition for the offender.


In a recent publication, we employed factor analyses to integrate 14 measures of prosocial behavior, proposing four subcomponents of human prosociality: altruistically motivated, norm motivated, strategically motivated, and self-reported prosocial behavior. However, the reported confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) yielded standardized regression weights above 1, resulting from an improper solution (Heywood cases), which precludes straightforward interpretation of results. Here, we present two adjusted CFA models that rectify this problem. Model 1 resolves the issue of Heywood cases by implementing equality constraints, yielding a four-factor structure that is largely similar to the original model. Model 2 accommodates additional methodological considerations and presents a revised structure of prosociality with three subcomponents: altruistically motivated, norm motivated, and self-reported prosocial behavior. We also report minor corrections of descriptive results, none of which alter the pattern of results and interpretations of the original publication.


A population of eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) in the coastal town of Anglesea has been the subject of an ongoing research program, and a large number have been marked with ear tags and neck collars for identification purposes. Concerns have been raised by the local community regarding the use of the markers and whether they affect the behaviour of the kangaroos. I conducted focal observations of marked and unmarked kangaroos at Anglesea Golf Club to determine if the ear tags and collars altered proportions of time spent in different behavioural states (e.g. foraging, resting, alert, grooming) during their active (foraging) and inactive (resting) periods. There was no difference between marked and unmarked kangaroos in the proportion of time spent foraging during their active period or resting during their inactive period. Kangaroos were more likely to shake their heads during the inactive period, although there was no significant difference in the number of head shakes observed between marked and unmarked kangaroos. The use of ear tags and collars does not alter the behaviour of kangaroos at Anglesea and the use of these markers is suitable for ongoing ecological research of this population.


The levels of potentially mutagenic impurities (PMIs) in active pharmaceutical ingredients are highly regulated and must be below a critical safety threshold. One class of PMIs is primary carbamates, which are formed during drug manufacturing and formulation. To comply with safety regulations, it is critically important to develop analytical techniques that enable the identification of primary carbamates during the drug development process. In this study, tandem mass spectrometry combined with gas-phase ion–molecule reactions as well as collision-activated dissociation (CAD) is demonstrated to enable the identification of protonated primary carbamates. Primary carbamates were protonated via atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) in a linear quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer, isolated, and allowed to react with trimethoxymethylsilane (TMMS) introduced into the ion trap via an external reagent mixing manifold. Protonated primary carbamates reacted with TMMS to form an adduct ion, [M + H + TMMS]...


In this mini-thesis I explore Hannah Arendt's engag ement with the problem of foundation in relation to the work of Derrida and c omplexity theory. In Arendt the problem of foundation takes shape as the attempt to develop a thinking of foundation that does not repress political freedom. The Ameri can Revolution is an important point of reference in Arendt's attempt to develop s uch a notion of authority. According to Arendt the American republic could, ho wever, not entirely succeed in realizing this conception of authority. I draw on Derrida and complexity theory in order to show that the shortcomings Arendt points t o are structural to institutions as such. Following Derrida and complexity theory, I fu rther that the recognition of this structural limitation is an indispensable step in t he attempt to think political authority as something stable, but which nevertheless keeps o pen the possibility of political change.


We describe the Feynman rules for the construction of the Dimensionally Reduced Action (DRA) for a phi^4 field theory, as well as rules for the construction of the connected Green functions and the Dimensionally Reduced Effective Action (DREA), the effective action obtained from the DRA. Two and four-point connected Green functions are calculated to illustrate the application of those rules, and to exhibit the subtraction of UV divergences. As the DRA formalism expands about a background field, instead of the high temperature expansion obtained in the usual dimensional reduced field theory, we derive an expansion that is defined for all range of temperatures. We make a low temperature analysis of the DREA by considering soft modes. In particular, we study the case of near zero mass.


The study of time distribution of occurrences of extreme rain phenomena plays a very important role in the analysis and weather forecast in an area. The timing of extreme rainfall is difficult to predict because its occurrence is random. This paper aims to determine the inter event time distribution of extreme rain events and minimum waiting time until the occurrence of next extreme event through a point process approach. The phenomenon of extreme rain events over a given period of time is following a renewal process in which the time for events is a random variable τ. The distribution of random variable τ is assumed to be a Pareto, Log Normal, and Gamma. To estimate model parameters, a moment method is used. Consider Rt as the time of the last extreme rain event at one location is the time difference since the last extreme rainfall event. if there are no extreme rain events up to t0, there will be an opportunity for extreme rainfall events at (t0, t0 + δt0). Furthermore from the three models reviewed, the minimum waiting time until the next extreme rainfall will be determined. The result shows that Log Nrmal model is better than Pareto and Gamma model for predicting the next extreme rainfall in South Sulawesi while the Pareto model can not be used.


Certified Watermarks is the first to provide a watermark certificate against l 2 -norm watermark removal attacks, by leveraging the randomized smoothing techniques for certified robustness to adversarial attacks. However, the randomized smoothing techniques suffer from hardness of certified robustness in high-dimensional space against l p -norm attacks for large p ( p > 2 ). The certified watermark method based on the randomized smoothing is no exception, i.e., fails to provide meaningful certificates in high-dimensional space against the l p -norm watermark removal attacks ( p > 2 ). By leveraging mollifier theory, this paper proposes a mollifier smoothing method with dimension-independent certified radius of our proposed smooth classifier, for conducting the certified watermark problem against the l p - norm watermark removal attacks ( 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ ) for high parameter dimension d . Based on partial differential equation (PDE) theory, an approximation of mollifier smoothing is developed to alleviate the inefficiency of sampling and prediction in the randomized smoothing as well as numerical integration in the mollifier smoothing, while maintaining the certified watermark against the l p - norm watermark removal attacks ( 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ ).


We present the AKARI mid-infrared diffuse map of an area of about 4 deg x 3 deg near the Galactic center in the 9 um band. The band intensity is mostly attributed to the aromatic hydrocarbon infrared emissions of carbonaceous grains at wavelengths of 6.2, 7,7, 8.6, and 11.3 um. We detect the 9 um emission structures extending from the Galactic plane up to the latitude of about 2.5 deg, which have spatial correspondence to the molecular loops revealed by the NANTEN 12CO (J=1-0) observations. We find that the surface brightness at 9 um is suppressed near the foot points of the CO loops. The ratios of the 9 um to the IRAS 100 um brightness show significant depression near such bright regions in the CO emission. With the AKARI near-IR 2.5--5 um spectroscopy, we find that the 3.3 um aromatic hydrocarbon emission is absent in the region associated with the loop. These suggest the processing and destruction of carbonaceous grains in the CO molecular loops.


Arsenic (As) speciation transformation often accompanies adsorption-desorption when exogenous arsenide is poured into soil. Disregarding the speciation transformation when evaluating adsorption-desorption of As can greatly influence the experimental results. In this study, batch experiments were conducted, and the results in dicated that exogenous monomethylarsonic acid (MMA) or dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) added to fluvo-aquic soil collected from agricultural area in Beijing of China, was completely converted into As(V) after cultivated for 60 or 90 days. However, when exogenous As(V) was added to the soil, no speciation transformation of As(V) was observed. Furthermore, although the total As concentration, which was 6.55 or 11.55 mg/kg in aqueous extracts of the soil to which MMA or DMA had been added, respectively, remained stable after cultivated for 30 or 60 days, the As speciation transformation of MMA or DMA into As(V) in soil still occurred. Differences in As speciation can result in different fates and behaviors of As in soil, and As speciation transformation should be taken into ac count when evaluating the adsorption-desorption of As.


Keller (1998) reexamines Coe and Helpman`s (1995) analysis of international R&D spillovers focusing on the weights used to define the foreign R&D capital stock. Keller creates random weights and shows that they give rise to positive estimates of international R&D spillovers, casting doubts on the robustness of Coe and Helpman`s findings. We show that Keller`s random weights are essentially simple averages with a random error. We derive alternative random weights and present regressions showing that when they are used to define the foreign R&D capital stock, the estimated international R&D spillover estimates are nonexistent, as would be expected.


Abstract Fish culture in small ponds, ditches, or rice-field plots has become important to a large number of poor farmers in north-west Bangladesh. In a situation of decreased fish supply from natural resources due to degradation and/or over-exploitation, small-scale aquaculture has been identified as the best alternative to ensure fish supply for household consumption and income generation. However, the involvement of women in this activity is very limited. Social and cultural constraints cause less mobility of women with less involvement in outside income-earning activities. Women are largely involved in unpaid housework and crop production and livestock rearing within their homestead areas. This study shows that there is a great potential for integration of crop-livestock-fish in smallscale aquaculture production with active involvement of women.


It is widely known that students normally struggle in the mathematics topic of algebra. They tend to steer away from algebraic problems such as solving linear equation with one variable, let alone simultaneous equations, which require them to determine the values of two variables. This action research study investigates the effect of replacing the common symbolic representations with pictorial (static visual) representations in simultaneous equations lessons of 38 low-performing Year 10 students. The data for the study was collected by means of preand post-tests and facilitated by three worksheets as the intervention instruments. During the lessons, pictorial representations were used in solving simultaneous equations questions. These entailed drawing several pictorials that were given in the equations. In particular, drawings of burgers, fries, cheese slices, gift boxes and sweets were used as these were generally relatable to the students in real-life. The students were then provided with fresh worksheets and subsequently translated their workings from the pictorial part to x and y. And thus forms the symbolic part of the intervention. From the students' pre-test and posttest scores, it was evident that the pictorial representations helped the students in making significant improvements in the topic.


Abstract The fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University–National Center for Atmospheric Research (PSU–NCAR) Mesoscale Model (MM5) is used to simulate Hurricane Bonnie at high resolution (2-km spacing) in order to examine budgets of water vapor, cloud condensate, and precipitation. Virtually all budget terms are derived directly from the model (except for the effects of storm motion). The water vapor budget reveals that a majority of the condensation in the eyewall occurs in convective hot towers, while outside of the eyewall most of the condensation occurs in weaker updrafts, indicative of a larger role of stratiform precipitation processes. The ocean source of water vapor in the eyewall region is only a very small fraction of that transported inward in the boundary layer inflow or that condensed in the updrafts. In contrast, in the outer regions, the ocean vapor source is larger owing to the larger area, counters the drying effect of low-level subsidence, and enhances the moisture transported in towa...


Nowadays, detection of drugs of abuse is a usual practice in the legal field due to its incidence in several proceedings. Saliva is a matrix of increasing utility as it is a non-invasive sample that has been tested in international projects such as ROSITA and drove under the influence of drugs (DUID). Objectives: The study focused on the study of prevalence of drugs of abuse in a sample population of drivers of motor vehicles 3468 oral fluid samples came from local police activities, during the years 2007 until June 2010 in Barcelona (Spain). Materials and Methods: Drivers suspected of DUIDs had to comply with an analytical road-side drug testing. A commercial kit immunoassay based was used (Cozart ® DDS 801). Kits with positive results to any drug, 24.59%, were submitted to the Catalonia Institute of Legal Medicine, with an additional saliva sample (as indicated by Cozart ® DDS 801 provider) for confirmation by gas-chromatography/mass-spectrometry (GC/MS). Drugs detected by the test Cozart ® included: D9 tetrahydrocannabinol, cocaine (COC), opiates, methamphetamines (MAP) amphetamines (AMP). Results: After confirmation results showed a cannabis prevalence in 2064 samples (59.5%), COC in 1952 samples (56.2%) opiates in 258 (7.4%) AMP in 69 samples (1.9%) and MAP in 57 (1.6%). No quantitative analysis were achieved. Conclusions: Results show that cannabis is the most prevalent in the study, followed by COC. Data are valuable in order to initiate sanction proceedings in Spanish legislation and also as signs of recreational drugs consumption which provide information to both epidemiology and public health.


This article analyses the housing models of Hong Kong and American, and researches the traits of services, put forward a model to the housing policy in China, which include two parts, we treat housing as a commodity, we let the market to decide their price; we treat housing as a necessity, we can turn them to a public service. The article focuses on the servitization of housing in China and the policy of public housing services.


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Finite periodic array is applied in real situation. But, generally, assumed that periodic structure is arranged infinitely, approximate electromagnetic characteristics can be obtained efficiently. Therefore, comparison and analysis of cylindrical infinite array and cylindrical finite array are required. In this paper, scattering characteristics of cylindrical infinite periodic array are obtained efficiently using cylindrical Floquet harmonics. Also, cylindrical finite periodic array is analyzed using method of moments (MoM) with thin wire approximation because periodic structures which are composed of strip with narrow width are analyzed. Transmission characteristics of each case are obtained and compared.


Intelligent control is essential for tower cranes because the safety and work efficiency of construction. Firstly, an intelligent control system using ARM MCU and its auxiliary equipments, human-machine interface and control strategy were designed for tower cranes to realize monitoring and trouble shooting. Secondly, a fuzzy PID controller was adopted for tower crane. In the end, the experiment was made to test the intelligent control system. The test results show that the intelligent control system can achieve the national standard on tower cranes; also, it can save time, increase work efficiency and provide other auxiliary functions; in addition, the fuzzy PID controller is superior to conventional PID in intelligent control for tower cranes; accordingly, the intelligent control system has a promising application in the tower cranes.


This paper examines fluctuations of aggregate supply and demand shocks across the GCC countries. It argues that the world oil price influences aggregate demand and supply of these countries. Thus, in contrast to other studies, a SVAR model is used to identify structural shocks by including the oil price. The aggregate supply and demand shocks are then analyzed. The correlations of supply shocks among the member countries are either negative or low positive. Similarly, the correlations of demand shocks, except few pairs of countries, are also negative and low positive. Thus, shocks are not synchronized. These results are different than the results found in other similar studies probably due to the model specification. The implication of the findings is that the GCC countries would find it difficult to adjust supply and demand shocks if they form their aspired Gulf Monetary Union.


The aim of this study was to analyze how corona dosages above recommended levels affect film surface energy and hydrophobic recovery of such treated film surfaces as well as laminate bond strength of laminates made of these films. The adhesive for lamination was a polyurethane-adhesive with a dry film thickness of ∼5 µm. Polar and dispersive parts of the surface energy were measured frequently according to DIN 55660-2 (Owens–Wendt–Rabel-and-Kaelble method) for up to 140 days after corona treatment. The corona dosage had a value of up to 280 W min/m2. Laminate bond strength was measured according to DIN 55543-5. The effect of corona treatment was highest for low-density polyethylene (PE-LD) films, mean for biaxial-oriented polypropylene (PP-BO) films, and lowest for biaxial-oriented poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET-BO) films. With increasing storage time, surface energy decreased, as expected. The higher the effect of corona treatment, the faster the polar part of surface energy decreased. At PE-LD, laminate bond strength increased with a higher corona dosage from 0.05 to 8.87 mN/15 mm, whereas at PET-BO and PP-BO laminate bond strength was so high that samples teared before delamination during bond strength testing. By our results is shown that corona dosages above recommended levels resulted in higher laminate bond strength. Only at PP-BO a reduction of laminate bond strength due to "overtreatment" was be observed. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2017, 135, 45842.


A technique for the assimilation of spectral wave observations in wave models is presented and tested. The method uses the concept of spectral partitioning to project the entire wave spectrum onto a few essential mean parameters. Model and observed partition parameters are assimilated using an optimal interpolation (OI) technique. After data reduction, obtained by the partitioning, the cost of the assimilation is negligible compared to the cost of the model run itself. Therefore the optimal interpolation of partitions (OI-P) method is a very attractive assimilation technique for operational wave forecasting. The paper focuses on the assimilation of pitch-and-roll buoy spectra in a North Sea version of the WAM wave model. Treatment of the (non-fully two-dimensional) buoy spectra is discussed. Appropriate choices for the OI weight functions are made. The problem of correlating wave partitions in different spectra is addressed, which is essential for obtaining a robust and efficient system. In order to assess the influence of spectral wave observations on the analysis of the sea state, the method is compared to a second scheme, optimal interpolation of integral parameters (OI-I), which can only be used to assimilate observations of significant wave height and mean wave period. First, tests with synthetic data are described, which illustrate advantages of the partitioning method over the OI-I scheme. Also, the inherent limitations of OI are shown in both methods. Experiments with buoy observations for actual North Sea conditions show the benefits of the system, especially when several wave systems are present at the same time.


Diabetic Retinopathy disease might lead to total loss of diabetic patient's sight. In this research, we aim to detect the lesions of the Diabetic Retinopathy including Hemorrhage, and exudates. To be sure that the fundus images are in the same conditions of brightness, we applied Grey World approach on brightness channel then reconstruct the RGB. CLAHE and Unsharp filter are applied on reconstructed green channel and resulted in corrected green channel Gcor. The contrast stretching function is applied on the original green channel to result in stretched green channel Gs. The two images Gcor and Gs, are processed using thresholding and morphology operations to extract and localize optic disk, exudates, blood vessels, micro-aneurysm, Hemorrhage and macula. The color correction steps highlights Diabetic Retinopathy lesions. Sensitivity in our computer Diabetic Retinopathy diagnoses system achieved 94.44 % and outperforms most of current research works.


Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the prominent figures who are believed to have had their part in bringing the end to the Cold War. It may also be said that he is the most controversial character among them. We have seen a multitude of contrasting opinions about the motivations and consequences of Gorbachev's statesmanship, ranging from Western euphoric fascination in the 1990s to accusations of treason by the members of the collapsed Soviet establishment. More analytical judgments point to the problem of the factual importance of individual agency in shaping the considered events. Several years after the end of the Cold War it became apparent that the USSR was bound to 'lose' the prolonged competition with the Western world. Especially the rigid, wildly inefficient planned economy presented a self-defeating idea. Additionally, Communism as an ideology began to lose its appeal among third world countries, and in the early 1980s the Kremlin was beginning to realize that the possibility of a Communist expansion had become rather marginal. Simultaneously, there was growing pressure from the United States which reinitiated the arms-race with resources vastly beyond the Soviet capabilities. Parallel to these arguments is the recognition that even if the Soviet cause was moribund, it was not certain when and how the Cold War would end. The competition could have extended well into the 21 century – or could have ended in a nuclear confrontation.


Aiming at the deficiencies of some unsafe faults in current secure speech systems, a new secure speech structure is proposed. It solves identity authentication of bi-communications across PSTN. In the system, a new management mechanism that is called management centre is introduced, which registers telephony-user-end and transmits the public-key table, and also proposes region keys which could effectively and neatly compartmentalize correspondents' secure region. Finally, the paper analyzes security of the new system.


This paper presents results of the electron-microscopic analysis of poly (3,3 ' -phthalidylidene-4,4 ' -biphenylylene )s (PPB) thin films with anomalously high spontaneous conductivity. The conductive state of the polymer is shown to be due to the formation of areas of high conductivity about 50-100 nm in size which join into larger clusters. It was established that the microscopic relief of the polymer film and its inherent texture exert no effect on the processes of switching and generation of the conductive structure.


DNA methylation of the cytosine in the CpG dinucleotide is typically associated with gene inactivation. However, we observe that differentiation of primary mouse new‐born dermal fibroblasts into adipocytes activates genes with methylated promoters that are bound by the transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer‐binding‐protein‐α(C/EBPα). Experimental demethylation by either 5‐azacytidine treatment or by using siRNA to DNA methyltransferase1 (DNMT1) inhibits adipocyte differentiation. Differentiation inhibition caused by demethylation is mainly mediated by inhibition of both C/EBPα binding and activation of methylated promoters. Also, expressing of a dominant‐negative protein (A‐C/EBP) in the dermal fibroblasts that inhibits the DNA binding of C/EBP family members completely abolishes this differentiation. Specific C/EBP‐like and CRE‐like sequences are identified in tissue specific proximal promoters that are methylated in vivo, methylation enhances C/EBPα binding as observed by EMSA using pure protein, and need to be methylated for C/EBPα mediated activation as assayed by luciferase reporter. Similar results are observed when primary keratinocytes from new‐born mice are differentiated. These data identify a new function for methyl CpG, producing a DNA binding site for C/EBPα critical for activation of tissue specific gene expression.


According to the problems existed in the teaching process in C language program design course in the recent college,which is guided by the requirement of training plan of excellent engineer in country,the multilevel experimantal scheme of C language coures which considered the training studlents' computational thinking as the final purpose is proposed. Firstly the meaning of the computational thinking and the implemontation situation in domestic and overseas are introduced,on this basis,the specific content of the multilevel experimental scheme is given


Enterprises use credit to acquire productivity-enhancing assets. Rural enterprises in developing economies, however, often lack access to the credit they need. Key reasons for this lack of access include the low level and scattered nature of economic activity in rural areas, the enterprises' lack of collateral, inadequate capacity among the country's lenders to lend in rural areas, and legal and policy environments that discourage lending to rural enterprises. Traditionally, leasing has served as an alternative to credit for urban enterprises, but generally it has not been a feasible option for rural enterprises. This paper argues that rural leasing can be viable and highlights the key factors to facilitate successful rural leasing, including the advantages of leasing, an enabling environment, and institutional support. The paper concludes that leasing is a viable tool to finance rural assets.


This case study is about the design of the one-day course 'How to find a job as a Spanish teacher in the UK', which is taught at the Instituto Cervantes in London. The course came to exist due to a large number of requests from Spaniards who have come to the UK in recent years – many of them wanting to find a job as a Spanish teacher – and realising that they lacked the knowledge as to how to go about it. Most of the course participants have been Spanish graduates from different fields of study but there have also been an increasing number of participants from Latin America.


Using thermodynamic data obtained over a wide range of temperatures, a thermodynamic assessment of the Ni–Zr system was carried out. The associated solution model was applied to describe the short range ordering in the liquid, and the glass transition was treated as a second order transition, using the Hillert–Jarl functions. The driving force of crystallization, and the time–temperature–transformation (TTT) curves were estimated from the optimized parameter set, and compared with experimental data and the results of previous thermodynamic assessments. Taking into account the low temperature thermodynamic data, the calculated driving force was found to have decreased compared to the previous assessments. Consequently, the nose of the TTT curve was shifted to higher times.


How does debate influence policy? While studies show that framing and narrative structure influence attitude formation and policy opinions, there is mixed evidence as to whether and how they influence policy outcomes. I propose that debate — the distribution of all frames used and the volume at which it is projected — provides the criteria by which policy options are compared. In turn, the evaluative criteria determine which pieces of legislation are viewed as good or bad policy and politics. I hypothesize that as debate on an issue increasingly changes, then policy will change to a greater degree. To test this, I first measure the debate in Congress on nineteen issue areas using the Congressional Record — speeches given on the floors of the House and Senate. I do so using dynamic topic models. Then I determine the degree of change in policy ideas by estimating the change in policy ideas proposed and passed as legislation in Congress. This is done using a ratio matching algorithm, which produces a measure indicating the degree of similarity in text across successive Congresses using methods analogous to plagiarism detection. Using these two measures, I show that as debate on an issue changes, the policy ideas passed into law also change. This study provides a new way of measuring the effects of framing and a new tool to study the causes of policy stability and change. Additionally, I provide a new framework to understand how frames influence policy by developing a new measure of debate change.


This paper analyze the role of adaptive filters for monitoring the performance of the wind turbine. Advanced adaptive filters are implemented using various algorithms like standard least mean square, normalized least mean square, generalized normalized gradient descent, weighted least mean square, recursive least square, and affine projection algorithms. A Comparative analysis is done on the basis of parameters like mean absolute error, root mean square error, R-squared (R) score to determine which adaptive filter is suitable for estimating wind-power generation. Additional parameters such as convergence rate, computational complexity, and stability of the system are also analyzed to monitor the performance of each filter. Factual power data sets of two different sites are taken from resource file of National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The comparison is done under similar assumptions on both the data sets in order to extract accurate filter performance.


Facial expressions are the most direct outward expression of an individual's emotion. Unlike other pattern recognition problems, the feature differences between facial expressions are slight. The richness of feature extracted by a single convolutional neural network is poor, and it is difficult to describe the feature differences effectively. Therefore, this paper proposes an expression recognition based on a multiscale adaptive parallel integration network. First, two depthwise separable convolutions of different sizes are used to design sub-networks 1 and 2, and a sub-network3 with a self-attention mechanism is introduced. The small, large convolutional kernel and the self-attention mechanism can extract local detail features, edge contour features, and global features of facial expressions, respectively. Then, this paper designs a sub-network adaptive weight generation mechanism that evaluates each sub-network's accuracy and dynamically assigns weights to it. Thus, the parallel integrated outputs of sub-networks 1, 2, and 3 are effectively realized, and the differences between facial expressions can be better described. Finally, the proposed network is tested on FER2013, RAF-DB datasets. Experimental results show that our proposed method is comparable to the most advanced methods with 88.17% on RAF-DB, and 74.94% on FER2013.


Subtitle: Plan to create a single, mammoth military shipping contract has many in a skeptical private industry lined up in opposition.