THE seventy-ninth annual meeting of the British Associa. tion for the Advancement of Science began at Winnipeg on August 2bth, the first act of the session being the instalment of Sir J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., in the office of President, in succession to Dr. Francis Darwin. The meeting is to last a week, and during its course two formal addresses are to be delivered in addition to those of the President of the Association and of the presidents of the eleven sections among which the work of the meeting is divided. Two "' Popular " Lectures are also to be given, dealing with the chemistry of flame and the pressure of light respectively.


The present invention relates to a wave-power generation apparatus. The present invention provides a wave-power generation apparatus. The wave-power generation apparatus includes: a power generation driving unit which includes a power generation casing provided with a power generating unit therein to produce power and with a rotary shaft protruding to both sides thereof, a buoyant tank connected to the power generation casing and rotated vertically by the vertical movement of the waves around the rotary shaft, and a fixed gear unit arranged on the rotary shaft to transmit the rotatory power of the buoyant tank to the power generating unit; and a position varying unit which includes a frame fixed to a seawall so as to vary the position of the power generation driving unit, a guide rail made up of a rail unit which is connected such that the rotary shaft of the power generation casing is moved vertically, a rotation guide unit into which the rotary shaft is inserted so as to connect the rotary shaft with the rail unit, and a guide member comprising a transfer unit which supports the power generation casing moving along the rail unit.


The switched reluctance (SR) drive exhibits torque pulsations (ripple) due to: (i) the constructional features of the machine-salient poles on both stator and rotor; and (ii) a switched form of supply. The form and level of torque pulsations are therefore dependent on variables related to the geometrical form of the magnetic circuit and on those related to the phase current waveform. The influence of these variables on torque pulsations can be estimated by sophisticated mathematical models. The authors describe a procedure for computing the instantaneous values of electromagnetic torque exhibiting pulsations. It is assumed that magnetic parameter data (inductances or flux-linkage against position and current) are known, i.e. the data are obtained by measurements in stall conditions or computed by numerical field analysis.


The principal objective of the present study was to evaluate the antimetastatic activity of decursin and decursinol isolated from Angelica gigas. Decursin and decursinol inhibited the proliferation and invasion of CT‐26 colon carcinoma cells. The expressions of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)‐2 and MMP‐9 in cells and the activities in the culture medium were also reduced by decursin and decursinol treatment. In CT‐26 cells, the extracellular signal‐regulated kinase (ERK) inhibitor inhibited cell proliferation, invasion and MMP‐9 expression, and the c‐Jun N‐terminal kinase (JNK) inhibitor suppressed the expression of both MMPs, as well as cell proliferation and cell invasion. The phosphatidylinositol‐3 kinase (PI3K) inhibitor reduced only the expression of MMP‐2. In addition, the invasion of CT‐26 cells was inhibited by the treatment with anti‐MMP‐9 antibody, rather than anti‐MMP‐2 antibody. These results indicate that MMP‐9 expression via ERK and JNK plays a critical role for the invasion of CT26 cells. Decursin and decursinol downregulated ERK and JNK phosphorylation. Moreover, oral administration of decursin and decursinol reduced the formation of tumor nodules in the lungs and the increase in lung weight caused by CT‐26 metastases. Therefore, both decursin and decursinol may be benefi cial antimetastatic agents, targeting MMPs and their upstream signaling molecules. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In the recent past, pharmacological and optical approaches have been employed to gain new insights on the basic mechanisms by which two different ligand systems—theparathyroid hormone (PTH) (endocrine and homeostatic) and the PTH-related peptide (PTHrP), autocrine or paracrine mediator of developmental tissues—achieve distinct biological effects by acting at the same cell surface receptor, the PTH type 1 receptor (PTHR). This chapter aims to present a comprehensive model to account for the molecular origin of signal differences mediated by the binding of PTH and PTHrP to the PTHR. It covers the kinetic properties of reactions engaged in the PTHR signalling system and endosomal G protein signalling as an emerging hypothesis for PTHR function.


The article describes chronology of all basic geodetic works through main projects details and obtained results in period from recognition of Croatia as a sovereign and independent state by the international public to 2009 that is in period of 18 years. Article also describes inherited geodetic reference systems of Republic of Croatia (HDKS, AVD1875 and HVRS1875) and the new adopted official ones (HTRS96, HVRS71 and HGRS03) as well as development of old (DAT_ABMO with HRG2000 geoid model) and new coordinate transformation models (T7D2006 and T7D2009 with HRG2009 geoid model) of Republic of Croatia.


The electronic and optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials are directly governed by their energy gap; thus, the band gap engineering has become an important topic recently. Theoretical and some experimental results have indicated that these monolayer TMD alloys exhibit direct-gap properties and remain stable at room temperature, making them attractive for optoelectronic applications. Here we systematically compared the two approaches of forming MoS2xSe2(1-x) monolayer alloys: selenization of MoS2 and sulfurization of MoSe2. The optical energy gap of as-grown CVD MoS2 can be continuously modulated from 1.86 eV (667 nm) to 1.57 eV (790 nm) controllable by the reaction temperature. Spectroscopic and microscopic evidences show that the Mo-S bonds can be replaced by the Mo-Se bonds in a random and homogeneous manner. By contrast, the replacement of Mo-Se by Mo-S does not randomly occur in the MoSe2 lattice, where the reaction preferentially occurs along the crystalline orientation of MoSe2 and thus the MoSe2/MoS2 biphases are easily observed in the alloys, which makes the optical band gap of these alloys distinctly different. Therefore, the selenization of metal disulfide is preferred and the proposed synthetic strategy opens up a simple route to control the atomic structure as well as optical properties of monolayer TMD alloys.


Since the term Smart Grid has become an extensively used word in the operation of electric power systems and since intermittent renewable energy sources had been and will be massively integrated in electrical grids, it became mandatory to think about smarter communication methods to make the power grid more flexible and robust. In order to address this issue, this paper presents a simplified energy flow average models for hybrid PV/Wind/Battery Micro Grid. Two cases of operation are described in this paper; On-Grid and Off-Grid systems with wireless communication networks architecture simulated using Matlab Simulink. Such models help modeling and sizing Micro Grid systems. The simulation results prove the indispensability of the wireless network communication component on the energy control and management in the Smart Grid power in the isolated sites where wired connection is difficult.


In order to perform resource analyses, we here offer an experimental stand on virtual machines. The concept of how to measure the resources of each component is proposed. In the case of system design, you can estimate how many resources to reserve, and if external modules are installed in an existing system, you can assess whether there are enough resources and whether the system can scale. This is especially important for large software systems with web services. The dataset contains a set of experimental data and the configuration of virtual servers of the experiment in order to conduct resource analyses of the logs.


Sleep is one of the most important factors that influence mental and physical health components different factors can affect sleep quality and quantity such as nutritional status. This study investigated the association between nutritional status and sleep status. This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015 with presence 190 employees of Kermanshah university of medical sciences (KUMS) with aged 37/24±9/63 years from both sexes. The subjects were selected by convenience sampling. Data was collected by a questionnaire including Demographic information, Anthropometric measurement, sleep questionnaire and Food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). Data was analyzed by SPSS 20 software using Chi-Square test, univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis for founding the association between nutritional status with quantity and quality of sleep. In this research we found out quality of sleep in subjects with normal weight was 3 times higher than people who was overweight or obese(p-value =0/04 , OR = 3, CI =1/04 – 8/63) and sleep duration in people with high BMI was higher (7-9 hours) than people with standard BMI(<7 hours) (p <0/035).Quality of sleep in people who had eaten less than 3 serving of vegetables group was lower than people who had eaten 3-5 serving of this food group(P-value = 0.02 , OR = 8/58 ,CI = 1 / 28-61 / 20). Consumption of 2-4 serving of dairy products in day acts as protective factor for sleep quality. This study is showing the effect of weight and dietary pattern on sleep status. Having the appropriate weight range and a balance diet can play an important role in benefit from quality sleep.


This article analyses accounts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anglophone travellers to Rome who encountered and described Catholic rituals of walking. These visitors observed Catholic rituals such as pilgrimages and processions so closely that they came to understand the act of walking and ways of walking as expressions of religious identity. They also used the language of walking to interpret such moments of encounter in their narratives. Taken together, this evidence demonstrates the centrality of walking to their understanding of a religiously diverse Europe.


Real-time semantic segmentation on embedded devices has recently enjoyed significant gain in popularity, due to the increasing interest in smart vehicles and smart robots. In particular, with the emergence of autonomous driving, low latency and computation-intensive operations lead to new challenges for vehicles and robots, such as excessive computing power and energy consumption. The aim of this paper is to address semantic segmentation, one of the most critical tasks for the perception of the environment, and its implementation in a low power core, by preserving the required performance of accuracy and low complexity. To reach this goal a low-rank convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for real-time semantic segmentation is proposed. The main contributions of this paper are: i) a tensor decomposition technique has been applied to the kernel of a generic convolutional layer, ii) three versions of an optimized architecture, that combines UNet and ResNet models, have been derived to explore the trade-off between model complexity and accuracy, iii) the low-rank CNN architectures have been implemented in a Raspberry Pi 4 and NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2 GB embedded platforms, as severe benchmarks to meet the low-power, low-cost requirements, and in the high-cost GPU NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB to meet the best performance.


Multicore platforms have been widely adopted in recent years and have resulted in increased development of concurrent software. However, concurrent software is still difficult to test and debug for at least three reasons. (1) concurrency bugs involve complex interactions among multiple threads; (2) concurrent software have a large interleaving space and (3) concurrency bugs are hard to reproduce. Current testing techniques and solutions for concurrency bugs typically focus on exposing concurrency bugs in the large interleaving space, but they often do not provide debugging information for developers (or testers) to understand the bugs. Debugging, the process of identifying, localizing and fixing bugs, is a key activity in software development. Debugging concurrent software is significantly more challenging than debugging sequential software mainly due to the issues like non-determinism and difficulties of reproducing failures. This thesis investigates the first and third of the above mentioned problems in concurrent software with the aim to help developers (and testers) to better understand concurrency bugs. The thesis first identifies a number of gaps in the body of knowledge on concurrent software bugs and debugging. Second, it identifies that although a number of methods, models and tools for debugging concurrent and multicore software have already been proposed, but the body of work partially lacks a common terminology and a more recent view of the problems to solve. Further, this thesis proposes a classification of concurrency bugs and discusses the properties of each type of bug. The thesis maps relevant studies with our proposed classification and explores concurrency-related bugs in realworld software. Specifically, it analyzes real-world concurrency bugs with respect to the severity of consequence and effort required to fix them. The thesis findings indicate that it is still hard for developers and testers to distinguish concurrency bugs from other types of software bugs. Moreover, a general con-


The Dutch agriculture microscopic economic organization,which takes the family private ownership as the foundation farm,is quite consistent with that of our country which takes the household undertaking management as the foundation peasant household. Holland actually depends upon its equipment agriculture to create the matchless agricultural miracle,which is valuable to the construction of the socialism new countryside of our country. Holland equipment agriculture taking the family as the foundation distributes in various agricultural industries including the planter industry,the animal husbandry,the agricultural products processing industry,the farm machinery industry and the greenhouse industry etc. And the family farm is vitalized from aspect of policy,specialized production,domestic international market,technical integration,agricultural innovation and cooperative society. Consequently,the family farm foundation is consolidated,and the greenhouse agriculture is established,being taken as the main stream for modern equipment agriculture development.


PURPOSE: Paper containing bleached wood powder is provided to improve bulk and to fabricate paper of high quality. CONSTITUTION: A method for fabricating bleached wood powder comprises: a step of pulverizing wood raw material in a particular form; and a step of mixing the pulverized wood powder, pH adjusting agent, and stabilizing agent. The pH adjusting agent is sodium hydroxide or sodium silicate. The stabilizing agent is sodium silicate, magnesium sulfate, EDTA, or diethylenetriaminepenta acetic acid(DTPA).


The paper is a short overview of the work of a contemporary French
 sociologist Raymond Boudon. The paper focuses on the following aspects of
 Boudon's biography: academic trajectory, intellectual influences, and his
 major works. It is argued that his major contributions to sociology include
 his theory of social mobility, methodological individualism and the concept
 of cognitive rationality. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.
 III 47010: Drustvene transformacije u procesu evropskih integracija -
 multidisciplinarni pristup]


This paper presents a new electrically small rectangular microstrip patch antenna loaded with metamaterial multiple split ring resonator (MSRR). The unloaded rectangular microstrip patch antenna resonates at 14.80 GHz, after loading it by MSRR its resonant frequency is lowered to 6.15 GHz with the impedance bandwidth of 217 MHz. This antenna has gain of 5 dBi in a small size with the directivity of 7.60 dBi. In loaded condition, according to Chu limit the size of proposed antenna comes to ka = 0.944 which satisfies the condition for electrically small antenna that is ka <1. The estimated radiation Q-factor (Qrad) is 28.14 which is much larger than the Qchu minimum that is Qchu=2.269.


Stizoides Guerin-Meneville,1844,a newly recorded genus in China,is reported,and a new species Stizoides labirubiginus,sp.nov.,is described.The type specimen is deposited in the Insect Collections of China Agricultural University.


: The selection of common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) lines based on grain quality and mineral concentration traits will be more efficient if a minimum number of experiments is established. This study was carried out to determine whether grain quality and mineral concentration traits are significantly affected by the genotype × environment interaction; to estimate heritability and genetic gain in individual and combined experiments; and to select superior common bean lines considering a minimum number of experiments. A total of 17 common bean genotypes were evaluated in four experiments. Grain quality was determined through seven traits, and the concentration of six minerals was analyzed by acid digestion. Statistical analyses were completed using data obtained from both individual (I, II, III and IV) and combined (I and II; I, II and III; and I, II, III and IV) experiments. Except for the potassium concentration, all traits showed a significant genotype × environment interaction effect. Heritability and genetic gain estimates of grain quality and mineral concentration traits varied when the data were obtained from one or more experiments. Genetic gain may be inflated because of the data being based on one or two experiments. Four carioca bean (BRS MG Uai, LP 09-33, LEC 01-16 and Pérola) and four black bean (TB 02-19, CHP 04-239-52, TB 03-11 and IAC Netuno) genotypes were selected for their high grain quality and mineral concentration based on four experiments. Data from at least four experiments should be used to select common bean lines superior in grain quality and mineral concentration traits to increase the efficiency of simultaneous selection.


This research was conducted to determine how forage yield and crude protein (CP) concentration of forage pea-rye (Secale cereale L.), forage pea-triticale (X Triticosecale rimpaui Wittm.) and forage pea-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) intercrops are affected by harvest at two small grain cereals growth stages (milk and soft-dough).The base seeding rate used in this study was 100 seeds m-2 of forage pea in mixture with 200 seeds m-2 of each cereal. A summary of production treatments involved: fertilisation before plowing (40 kg N ha-1, 130 kg P ha-1, 130 kg K ha-1), plowing at 30 cm, granular topdressing 2 x 30 kg N ha-1. In the early flowering stage of forage pea DM yield was significantly (P=0, 05) lower than when it was cut in early seed vegetative stage. The highest forage pea DM yield was obtained in mixture with wheat. Triticale in mixture with forage pea gained significantly the highest yield of DM among all small grain cereals, and that affected in great portion total DM yield that was also significantly highest with that mixture. In the early flowering stage of forage pea CP yield was significantly lower than when it was cut in early seed vegetative stage. The highest forage pea CP yield was obtained in mixture with wheat. All cereals in mixtures with forage pea significantly better yielded in late boot vegetative stage compared to early head. The conclusion of this research is that the highest yield of DM and CP was obtained with the mixture of forage winter pea and triticale.


Recent progress in high current photodiodes now makes it possible to linearly detect over 250 mA at frequencies into X Band. This paper will discuss recent improvements in both PD power and linearity.


Digitization constrains individuals and organizations to use technologies in a more extensive way. In this domain, how technology influences the way work is structured and delivered is increasingly relevant. Purpose of this paper is advancing our knowledge on digital labor and the dynamics experienced by gig workers, who deals with uncertain conditions in a digital domain. In particular, this research is meant to investigate the process of identity construction as it occurs thanks to the use of technologies in liminal states. Data collection is on-going and is based primarily on semi-structured interviews with active participants on online labor markets. Expected contributions locate in the literature on the relation between identity construction processes and technology, as well as in the emergent literature on digital labor dynamics.


This study aims to identify and analyze the effect of LDR, DPK, and NPL on ROA through CAR as intervening variable at conventional bank period 2012-2015. Sampling technique is purposive sampling with certain criterion, that is bank registered in BEI period 2012 - 2016, so there are seven data as a sample of forty three banks in Indonesia. The results showed that LDR did not have a significant positive effect on CAR. Third Party Funds (DPK) proved to have a significant negative impact on CAR. Non Performing Loan (NPL) has no significant positive effect on CAR. LDR has no significant positive effect on ROA. DPK has no significant effect on profitability (ROA). NPL has no significant positive effect on profitability (ROA). CAR can be an intervening variable ROA with profitability. And CAR can be an intervening variable with profitability Keywords: ROA, CAR, DPK, NPL, LDR


Granted that most distresses in asphalt (flexible) concrete (AC) pavements are directly related to fracture, it becomes clear that identifying and characterizing fracture properties of AC mixtures is a critical step towards a better pavement design. This report examines the testing variables of a reliable and practical semicircular bending (SCB) test for evaluating the fracture characteristics of asphalt concrete mixtures at intermediate service temperature conditions. The first part of this report investigates the repeatability of the SCB fracture test method by integrating a statistical-experimental approach to identify testing variables of the SCB test that result in repeatable test results. Toward this end, five testing variables (the number of testing specimens, specimen thickness, notch length, loading rate, and testing temperature) of the SCB test were investigated due to their significant effects on mixture fracture characteristics. After statistical analysis of 18 specimens tested with a typical testing variables, approximately, five to six specimens/replicates were found to be a reasonable sample size that could properly represent asphalt concrete fracture behavior using the SCB test method. The coefficient of variation (COV) of the mixture fracture energy was used to evaluate the effect of each variable on the repeatability of test results. A range of 1 mm/min. to 5 mm/min. for the loading rate, a notch length from 5 mm to 25 mm, and a specimen thickness of 40 mm to 60 mm and a testing temperature of 15-40°C showed a good repeatability of fracture energy with small COVs (≤15 %). The second part of this work is to investigate the sensitivity of the SCB test using the previously determined testing variables. Fourteen different asphalt concrete (AC) mixtures collected from 12 field construction projects in Nebraska were used in this task. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) test showed statistically significant differences between mixtures at a 95% confidence level. Tukey's honestly significant difference (HSD) multiple-comparison analysis found similarities within mixtures of same types and differences between mixture types. In addition, the fracture energy of bituminous mixtures increased with increasing amount of virgin asphalt content in mixture. Overall, the SCB test method developed herein proved to be repeatable and sensitive to changes in mixtures, and thus a promising tool for evaluating the fatigue fracture resistance of AC mixtures.


The Phonetic Difficulty Index (PDI) is a quantitati ve/qualitative measure of word pronouncing difficulty to L1 learners of a given L2. Specifica lly, in its current implementation (see http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~swlodek/public.htm for bibli ography), it assigns numerical (0-10 range) and difficulty (57 pronouncing problems) Polglish-sensi tive tags to an English word-list or text. The ran ge of applications of the current version of PDI exten ds from evaluation of pedagogical materials, such a s texts, word-lists, dictionaries, etc., in terms of phonetic difficulty, to generation of word-lists me eting user-specified phonetic criteria for teaching, lear ning, testing and materials preparation.


We have extended nonlocal orbital-free methods which enforce the correct linear response in the noninteracting uniform electron gas limit, developed at zero temperature for the kinetic energy to finite temperature for the full noninteracting free energy. Comparisons are made to the Thomas-Fermi approximation and to the orbitaldependent Kohn-Sham method. We find significantly improved agreement for the resulting functional with KohnSham for a wide range of densities and temperatures. We also provide the necessary formulas for implementation in quantum molecular dynamics simulations.


The present invention relates to a fiber manufacturing method that is suitable for high transmission rates, the method comprising i) one or more glass forming precursors, if the step of supplying a quartz substrate tube and the dopant by, ii) to form the glass layer causing the reaction not or is doped in the reaction mixture in the interior of the quartz substrate tube, forming a plasma within the substrate tube, iii) the step ii the substrate tube obtained in), a step of crushing the preform while heating, the iv) an optical fiber, and a step of stretching while being heated from the preform. The present invention relates to an optical fiber suitable for high transmission rates.


Four different types of structures, namely 8, 14, 17 and 18 have been prepared for the first time. No more than five steps are needed to synthesize them using 4-nitroaniline as starting material. In order to confirm the proposed structures, some independent syntheses have been carried out.


Early biliary complications (EBC) constitute a burden after pediatric liver transplantation frequently requiring immediate therapy. We aimed to assess the impact of EBC on short‐ and long‐term patient and graft survival as well as post‐transplant morbidity.


The use of plant extracts as antidote against animals venoms is an old practice, mainly envenomations by snakes, besides also may used as supplemental of serum therapy. Snake venoms are a rich mixture of proteins involved in a complex series of events that depends on the synergic action of these molecules. The present study explores the ability of Triacontil p-Coumarate (PCT) an active compound isolated from root bark of Bombacopsis glabra vegetal extract (Bg) against harmful effects of Bothropoides pauloensis snake venom and isolated toxins. For assays Bg or PCT were previously incubated with venom or toxins at ratios 1:1 and 1:5 (w/w; venom/PCT) for 30 min at 37 ◦C before the tests. Treatment condition was also assayed to simulate a snake bite with PCT inoculated at same site of venom or toxin. The PCT was able to neutralize brinogenolytic activity and plasmatic brinogen depletion induced by B. pauloensis venom or toxins tested. This compound was also able to inhibit the myotoxicity and hemorrhage caused by Bothropoides pauloensis venom or jararhagin toxin. These results were con rmed by histological studies of inoculated gastrocnemius muscle showing that jararhagin is strongly inhibited and is possible see the protective effect of PCT by larger number of regenerative cells after one week of inoculation. Our results suggest that PCT present a speci city to inhibit snake venom metalloproteinases. To determinate the possible inhibition mechanism from PCT a molecular modeling was made with docking simulations using Neuwiedase structure data. Thus, we suggest


According to the higher requirement of current situation of electronic map by the users,by the comparison between the characters of fundamental topographical data and electronic map,this paper put forward a quick compilation method of electronic map using fundamental topographical data in ArcGIS environment.


From the beginning of the twenty-first century,Hanshaogong removes seasonally to Baxidong Reservoir in Miluo County of Hunan Province,and published "South of the Mountain,North of Water" in 2006.This marks his return,which is a return of an urbanite to the country,a sojourner to homeland,an intellectual to folks.He criticizes the city but does not refuses civilization.He returns to the nature but does not become a hermit.He lives with folks but does not identify with ignorance.From the view of art,"South of the Mountain,North of Water" is a presentation of sensibility illuminated by sense,a divine imagination in the real world,a careful structuring more than casual inspiration noting.It is the significant acquisition of the contemporary prose creation.


impressive collection of essays on the cross-cultural analysis of the role of culture in the phenomenology and epidemiology of depression seen as both affect and disorder. Dysphoric affect and disorder are of major importance in terms of the extent and levels of distress, disability and sometimes mortality in world populations. Research which clarifies the existential nature of such suffering, its source, its conceptualization and coping strategies, is critical and has both practical and theoretical importance in this &dquo;age of melancholy&dquo; (Klerman, 1979). As the editors note, there is a sense of urgency about cross-cultural psychiatric research. This sense of urgency derives from extent of problems and the increasing tendency for the hypothesis of the universality of Western nosological entities to be taken as dogma. The position of universality in cross-cultural investigations generates data that are artifactual and invalid, a point vividly made in


The purpose of this investigation was to examine the demographic variables of length of teaching experience and age, affects self esteem, job satisfaction and organizational commitment of faculty members of educational colleges in Mysore (India). In addition, the study aimed to find out the relationship between the three variables i.e. self esteem, job satisfaction and organizational commitment of faculty members of educational colleges in Mysore. This research has been designed with a descriptive model. The study was carried out on all the faculty members who are working in educational colleges, affiliated to the University of Mysore in Mysore. The sample for the present study was drawn using stratified random sampling technique. About 165 survey questionnaires were distributed in 2012. Multiple follow ups yielded 134 statistically usable questionnaires. For collecting data, three standard measures of Rosenberg self esteem scale (1965), a job satisfaction scale developed by Singh and Sharma (1999) and organizational commitment questionnaire (OCQ) developed by Mowday, Steers, and Porter (1979) were used to confirming the research hypotheses; and for analyzing the obtained data, the statistical methods of one way ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation Coefficient and DMRT (Duncan's Multiple Range Test). The findings of the study indicated a significant difference between length of teaching experience and age of faculty members with reference to their self esteem. But with regard to job satisfaction and organizational commitment there was no significant differences. Test statistics revealed that teacher's self esteem, job satisfaction and organizational commitment were mutually related. Based on the results of this study, self esteem was found to be negatively related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment. These findings are important since previous research has not tested these variables together. [Cherabin M, Praveena K. B, Mohammad Azimi H, Qadimi A, Shahani Shalmani R. Self Esteem, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment of Faculty Members of Secondary Level Teacher Training Programme in Mysore (India).


where the fir) he regards as belonging strictly to the infinitive use TO fir) Trapeivai, and as retained accordingly when the participle is (by personalising) substituted. This is exactly what happens in the Thucydidean instance TO fir/ rpreipos ovo-a given above. And we may further illustrate both the participle and the fir) by instances where the same use of KptCo-o-wv noted above is followed by a negatived participle. Thus we find (O.T. 1368)


EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS) and The International Society of Neurolmaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP) Second Joint Conference, Munich, Germany Contact: www.ecnsweb.com American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA Contact: www.aanem.org ASET Advanced IONM Seminar, Hartford, CT Contact: www.aset.org. 816.931.1120 American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) and American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Conference, Washington, DC Contact: ACNS at www.acns.org and AES at www.asenet.org


A small but important issue brings us back to debates about the advisability of a womancentered approach to future policy-making and research. In the final chapter, Inhorn argues that demographic research and Egyptian policy-makers have ignored "women's own knowledge and opinions about reproduction," thus contributing to the doubtful success of Egyptian population politics, which are characterized as weak and ineffective (p. 237). Although there is still room for criticism of the Egyptian state, demographic research, and social-science approaches to complicated social and cultural dilemmas, the Egyptian state has committed enormous resources to its population programs, and, in contrast to Inhorn's characterization, there has been a very significant drop in the total fertility rate, from 5.3 percent in 1988 to 3.6 percent in 1996. The infant-mortality rate has also dropped radically, though the remaining disparities in its sex differential reflect continued patriarchal preferences for, and investment in, male children. That the ways in which cultural norms, policy, and macro socio-economic phenomena continue to affect women and men differentially, as Inhorn demonstrates so convincingly in Infertility and Patriarchy, suggests that we need to understand both the lives of women and men "as lived" together.


The use of the method of beats would bring us to the conclusion that the aural harmonics are very important; but this does not agree with other experiments. The perception of beats in these conditions is essentially the result of interferences between the primary and the auxiliary tones; hence, the inadequacy of the method.


The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of intravitreal injection of tissue plasminogen activator and avastin with avastin on macular thickening and visual acuity in macular edema due to branch Retinal Vein Occlusion (BRVO) that had not received any treatment. In this double-blind randomized controlled trial, Fifty eyes of 50 patients with macular edema because of BRVO were randomly allocated to receive to 1.25 mg/ 0.05 ml avastin (25 patients, IVA group) or avastin (1.25 mg/ 0.05 ml) combined with 40000 units of t-PA diluted with 0.25 ml balanced salt solution (25 patients, IVB group). The best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and macular thickening were measured with OCT at baseline and 1, 3 and 6 months after it. In t-PA with avastin group significantly decrease in mean macular thickening was seen from 649.08 ± 179.66 μm at baseline to 422.88 ± 93.05μm after 6 months of follow up (p<0.001).Mean log MAR visual acuity improved significantly from 1.432 ± 0.217at baseline to 0.18 ± 0.160 log MAR after 6 months of follow up (p<0.001). At 1, 3 and 6 months follow-up, in the t-PA with avastin group compared with avastin group showed a statistically significant decrease in visual acuity (p<0.001). We observed no serious adverse events. We found that intravitreal injection of t-pa with avastin might be of greater benefit than avastin treatmentmodality to improve macular edema and visual acuity for macular edema due to BRVO.


1 Peggy Layne, diversity consultant, 1210 N. Taft St. #306, Arlington VA 22201, firstname.lastname@example.com 2 Meredith Knight, Research Associate, Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, Tufts University, 474 Boston Ave., Medford MA 01255, firstname.lastname@example.com 3 Christine Cunningham, PhD, Director, Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, Tufts University, 474 Boston Ave., Medford MA 01255, email@example.com 4 Cathleen Barton, U.S. Education Manager, Intel Corporation, 5000 W. Chandler Blvd., MS CH2-135, Chandler AZ 85226, firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract  Tufts University and the Intel Foundation sponsored a conference on gender equity in engineering education at the National Academy of Engineering January 14-15, 2003, in Washington DC. Engineering schools were invited to send teams led by the engineering dean to the conference. The overall goal was to provide a venue for the exchange of information, highlight cutting edge research about and programs addressing gender issues in engineering, and give participating teams the opportunity to synthesize this information into a plan to accelerate gender equity at their institutions. This paper presents preliminary outcomes from the conference, including challenges that deans and faculty face in addressing issues of gender equity and some strategies for overcoming these obstacles; types of institutional support and roles that administrators or faculty assume that promote change; and action plans developed by the participating teams to mainstream gender equity at their institutions.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nozzle member for high-pressure washing allowing sufficient washing work to be carried out while considering the placement and apertures of a plurality of nozzle holes so as to enable the nozzle member to spirally slide along the inner wall of a pipe, and also while considering the slanting angle of the nozzle hole. SOLUTION: On the center part of the back face 10c of a nozzle body 10a having a front face with roundness and small forward resistance, a female screw hole 11 is formed so as to fit into a male screw at the tip end periphery of a high-pressure horse for washing inside pipes, and the nozzle holes are formed in pairs of 14a and 14b, 15a and 15b, and 16a and 16b linearly so as to slant outward from the remained internal liquid of the nozzle body 10a to the circumferential part of the back face 10c of the nozzle body 10a and having a large and a small diameters. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI


We show that the isomorphism problems for left distributive algebras, racks, quandles and kei are as complex as possible in the sense of Borel reducibility. These algebraic structures are important for their connections with the theory of knots, links and braids. In particular, Joyce showed that a quandle can be associated with any knot, and this serves as a complete invariant for tame knots. However, such a classification of tame knots heuristically seemed to be unsatisfactory, due to the apparent difficulty of the quandle isomorphism problem. Our result confirms this view, showing that, from a set-theoretic perspective, classifying tame knots by quandles replaces one problem with (a special case of) a much harder problem.


Combination of the characteristics of PIM,homogenous mixtures can be obtained by mix the blinder beforehand or add the pure copper powders to the binder in several stages.The PIM method affected by molding pressure and holding time was analyzed by the orthogonal test method,finally we got the optimal injection molding parameters.


First-principles molecular-orbital calculations using the discrete-variational Xα method have been made on model clusters of α-Si3N4 and its solid solutions with lanthanide elements, which occupy interstitial sites in the structure. The formula is LnχSi12–4.5χAl4.5χO1.5χN16–1.5χ (Ln = La, Nd, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb), i.e., a Ln-α-SiAION solid solution. Covalent bond strength between Si and N, evaluated by overlap population, increases because of the presence of trivalent charges at the interstitial sites. When a Ln3+ ion is present, antibondings occur between Ln orbitals and N/Si orbitals, and they depend significantly on the ionic radius of Ln3+. The total overlap population for the whole cluster is determined by the balance of Si-N bond reinforcement and Ln-N/Si antibonding. Although no lattice relaxation around the Ln3+ ion is included in the present calculation, good correlation between maximum solubility and the total overlap population for the whole cluster is demonstrated for the first time.


FIELD: packing industry. SUBSTANCE: package contains a sleeve and an insert. At the same time the insert is designed to be installed in the sleeve with the possibility of displacement and at least partial withdrawal. The insert is made with the possibility to receive and store at least one item. The insert is made with the possibility of repeated insertion into the sleeve after the item reception. The sleeve is designed for repeated surrounding of the installed insert so that the access to the item is restricted or prohibited. At the same time the insert is designed for modification so that its repeated withdrawal is restricted or prohibited after its repeated insertion into the sleeve. EFFECT: development of a package for safe storage of hazardous disposable item prior and after its usage. 24 cl, 6 dwg


This research was carried out to evaluate the capability of a combined fuzzy logic-based approach and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) for potassium saturation percentage (KSP) estimation in some calcareous soils of southern Iran. Based on a reconnaissance soil survey, 52 soil series were selected and different physical and chemical properties were determined. Five soil parameters including clay, cation exchange capacity, calcium carbonate equivalent, electrical conductivity, and organic carbon were chosen for analysis. Mapping was developed with the kriging method for each parameter. Different fuzzy membership functions were employed and weights for all parameters were calculated according to AHP. Finally, KSP classes were provided for each land unit. Results indicated that about 60% of the studied area is classified as having moderate to high KSP content (>3%) and 40% of had low or very low KSP content (<3%). Then 15 sample points were used for determination of the accuracy of the fuzzy method. Results showed that the fuzzy and AHP methods have a high accuracy for KSP estimation in the studied soils. Further development of the fuzzy and AHP methods would be worthwhile for improving the accuracy of KSP analysis.


Seven different brands of sweet sauces were evaluated using electronic tongue with cross-type sensors,and four physicochemical indices including total acid value,amino nitrogen value,salt content and reducing sugar content of these sweet sauces were also determined.The acquired data were analyzed by principal component analysis(PCA) and canonical correlation analysis(CCA).Results demonstrate that electronic tongue technique was very effective in discriminating 7 different sweet sauce brands according to overall taste evaluation.Moreover,an obvious correlation between physiochemical indices and sensor response signals was observed.Accordingly,electronic tongue technique can be hopefully applied for online production monitoring of sweet sauce so as to ensure consistency and objectivity in quality evaluation.


Quality library service depends partially on librarian capability and the adoption and use of technologies that enhance productivity. The perceived adoption and use (PAU) of electronic records management (ERM) in archiving were investigated in four academic libraries in Djibouti. The effects of capability of Librarians to use ERM (CAP) on knowledge sharing (KS), the effects of CAP on PAU, and the mediation potential of KS on the relationship between CAP and PAU were studied using structural equation modeling-partial least square design (SEM-PLS). Findings showed that CAP weakly influenced PAU, but did so significantly when considered with KS. This confirmed the mediating potential of KS. CAP also positively influenced KS among Librarians. The weak effect of CAP on PAU could be further investigated by considering other factors that define both library and personnel capabilities for ERM adoption. The study implied that KS should be practiced along with capacity development of Librarians in order to enhance PAU in Djibouti's libraries.


In this study, an extension of the soft UV nanoimprint process is presented with improved control of the residual layer thickness and significant reduction of the nanoimprint proximity effect. The process is based on the consecutive halving of the liquid resist layer by a liquid transfer process. In the initial stage, this liquid transfer process uses a thick initial resist layer to ensure complete filling of the stamp cavities. The thick residual layer is then thinned down to about half by peeling off the applied imprint stamp, a process that can be repeated until the desired residual layer thickness is achieved. The information carrying layer remaining on the stamp can be transferred conformally to any substrate even with nonplanar surfaces. The fabrication of silicon photonic waveguides and photovoltaic antireflection textures are two applications where the advantage of this process becomes particularly clear.


The subject of research in this article includes Fyodor Dostoevsky's image created in works of Russian 19th – 20th century poets (Konstantin Sluchevsky, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Valery Bryusov, Sasha Chorny, Max Voloshin, Georgy Ivanov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Aseyev, Pavel Antokolsky, Boris Slutsky, Мikhail A. Svetlov, Yevgeny Rein, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, etc.). The genius image has not been examined by scientists in the aforesaid contexts so far. This determines the novelty of this research. Analysis of lyric texts, in which Fyodor Dostoevsky is mentioned, has allowed to identify the aspects of perception of the writer's personality and works significant for the Russian culture, and to analyse the surname of Dostoevsky as a linguocultureme. The author set an aim to analyse the writer's image components, to reveal their causes, to separate the stereotypic from the individual. Intertextual analysis, biographic, comparative, hermeneutical, imagological methods and continuous sampling are used in the work. As a result of the research the author comes to the following conclusions; Fyodor Dostoevsky's image in the Russian lyrics of the 19th – 20th centuries includes the following elements: allusions to his works, references to the writer's biography, inclusion of Fyodor Dostoevsky into a number of other Russian writers and his perception in the worldwide context, general description of his creative work and stylistic features. Specific traits of Fyodor Dostoevsky's image in the Russian lyrics include usage of the hodonym Nevsky and epithet резкий (sharp, strongly-worded) as rhymes to the writer's surname. It is also noteworthy that Fyodor Dostoevsky's surname is used as a qualitative adjective in some contexts and describes properties of other images.


Some years ago an efficient methodology for SCADA metering system planning was developed. The methodology enables the design of Reliable Metering Systems (RMSs) for state estimation purposes (i.e., observable metering systems free from critical measurements, critical sets and critical Remote Terminal Units), minimizing investment costs. It is based on Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) and the analysis of the HΔ matrix. This paper reports on the extension of this methodology for the incorporation of synchronized phasor measurements, which are provided by Phasor Measurement Units. The aim is to obtain an efficient methodology that enables the design of RMSs considering the existence of both non-synchronized SCADA measurements and synchronized phasor measurements, minimizing investment costs. To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methodology, some of several test results of its application in the IEEE 30-bus and 57-bus systems will be presented. Some results will be compared to those obtained by other methodologies.


The ultrastructural features and functions of ependymal epithelium of lateral ventricle and its choroid plexus in rats were studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Results of the scanning electron microscopy study: The ependymal cells of lateral ventricle observed from the free surface were unregular polygon with many cilia, microvilli and occasionally secretory vesicles. There were many microvilli, secretory vesicles and few cilia on the surface of choroid plexus epithelium. Epiplexus cells aslo could be found. Observation of transmission electron microscopy: The epithelium of lateral ventricle and its choroid plexus were both simple cuboidal epithelium, but with two kinds of obviously different ultrastructure. Cilia, microvilli and few secretory vesicles could be found on the free surface of ependymal cells in lateral ventricle, while microvilli on choroid plexus epithelium were abundant and formed labyrinthic web, with its terminal swelling into microapocrinic vesicles. The ultrastructural difference between the epithelium of floor and choroid plexus of lateral ventricle in rats inflected their functional difference. The study suggested that the lateral ventricle choroid plexus was the mian part of cerebrospinal fluid(CSF) secretion. At the same time, microapocrine may be the main mode of CSF formation in lateral ventricle, besides the active transportation of the epithelium of choroid plexus.


A radio-frequency (RF) linear accelerator (linac) and related system for irradiation of electron beam on natural rubber is under the commissioning at the PBP-CMU Electron Linac Laboratory, Chiang Mai University. The maximum kinetic energy of electron beam that can be achieved from the accelerator is about 4 MeV. The bremsstrahlung radiation in the x-ray regime is produced when electrons interact with materials in the beam path. The radiation with the dose exceeding the regulation limit can be harmful for the personnel in the laboratory and public area. This research concentrates on design of radiation shielding to prevent the leakage of radiation from the accelerator area. Calculation of the photon's energy deposition per volume due to the interactions of electron beam with materials in the irradiation system and surrounding area including the collision and bremsstrahlung processes was performed by using a Monte Carlo simulation software GEANT4. Shielding walls of the 4-MeV linac and its irradiation system consists of iron plates with the thickness of 2 cm for the side walls and 3 cm for the top wall. Results of the radiation calculation suggested that the photon's energy deposition per volume outside the accelerator hall reduces by more than 99.5% after the shielding walls were added.


The development of the National Games under the construction of "harmonious society" is faced with some problems and inadequacy which consist of the returning of the concept、the achieving of economic benefits and the utilization of the venue after the National Games and so on.and the 11th National Games will run as an example to explore the concept of "harmonious society" under construction pending the development of National Games Sound areas: Office of National Games will return to the concept should be;contractors should pay attention to the social benefits of the National Games,the Games cost-effective to prevent over-exploitation;National Games venues after more using of it should reflect the Public welfare.


This thesis explores the effect of disclosure on risk management policies. Following recent theory on risk management, with market imperfections, risk management creates value by reducing the volatility of the cash flows. Those risk policies are conditioned by actual disclosure rules that reduce information asymmetry between managers and shareholders, providing a comprehensive view of the firm. However, disclosure gives different accounting choices, hence affecting the decision‐making process of managers. The purpose of this thesis is to establish if managers adapt their actual risk policy to disclosure rules. Specifically, we discuss how managers make decisions regarding exchange rate risk in forecasted transactions. In addition, we discuss how hedging affects valuation by using an investor perspective. This is done through the analysis of the automotive industry in Sweden, Germany and France and the considerations of analysts and auditors. We found that risk management policies are affected by accounting rules and that analysts are aware of those effects but have problems to measure them. However, not enough evidence was found to prove that managers try to avoid the volatility the fair value option brings when hedging a forecasted flow.


The utility model relates to the technical field of construction building material scaffold, in particular to a suspended lifting scaffold with a central bearing truss body, characterized in that: the horizontal bearing truss is arranged at a second-step truss position of the underside of the external frame and successively arranged along the perimeter of the external frame. Each frame piece is mainly the Phi 48 steel pipe and each node is welded and connected with bolt. The truss is 1.8 m high, and the transverse direction for the single span of the node should not be larger than 1.8m, while the vertical direction is the same as the frame body in width, meeting the truss structure principle. The bearing truss of the external frame is arranged at a second-step position of the bottom of the external frame and the lowest part of the frame body is the hanging structure. This design facilitates the bottom flashboard of the frame body to be successively applied so as to change the defect that the lifting point of the external climbing frame is arranged at the bottom of the truss on the market so as to result in the loose sealing of the bottom flashboard. The lifting point is arranged at the vertical middle position of the upper frame of the bearing truss of the external frame so as to greatly reduce the moment that is outwards overturned when the external frame body is lifting as the lifting point is arranged at the bottom of the frame.


Visual Odometry (VO) is the estimation of a camera's motion between sequential image pairs. Many traditional and Deep Learning (DL) VO methods have already been researched, including the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for VO. Monocular, ground-based VO is of particular importance for environments where satellite-based navigation systems are not available. While CNNs can estimate frameto-frame (F2F) motion even with monocular images, additional inputs can improve VO predictions. In this thesis, a FlowNetS-based [1] CNN architecture estimates VO using sequential images from the KITTI Odometry dataset [2]. For each of three output types (full six degrees of freedom (6-DoF), Cartesian translation, and transitional scale), a baseline network with only image pair input is compared with a nearly identical architecture that is also given an additional rotation estimate such as from an Inertial Navigation System (INS). The inertially-aided networks show an order of magnitude improvement over the baseline networks when predicting rotation. The y component rotation prediction errors decrease from a baseline Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 0.09058 deg to an INS-aided RMSE of 0.01447 deg. However, the aided RMSE is still worse than the INS input RMSE of 0.00268 deg. INS-aiding does not necessarily help the translation predictions either with a maximum z translation RMSE improvement of only 0.003 meters on the test set. A full-trajectory analysis gives similar results for the rotation prediction errors, but the translation errors are much larger. When predicting translation, the baseline networks actually perform better than the INS-aided networks in most cases. The INS-aided neural networks are also tested for sensitivity to angular random walk (ARW) and bias errors in the sensor measurements. iv


The invention relates to a method and a device for preparing fluorine sulfimide acid and belongs to the field of fine chemical industries. The method comprises the steps as follows: a crude product of fluorine sulfimide salt reacts with sulfuric acid with the mass concentration in a range of 98-105% with the presence of silicon dioxide at the reaction temperature in a range of 85-150 DEG C for 1-4 h, nitrogen is fed before the reaction, and a crude product of the fluorine sulfimide acid is prepared through atmospheric distillation after the reaction; and then the crude product of the fluorine sulfimide acid is led into a rectifying tower, and the fluorine sulfimide acid is obtained through refinement. According to the method, the content of impurities in the fluorine sulfimide acid is effectively reduced, the operability of the production process is improved, and the purity of the fluorine sulfimide acid is increased.


When Regions Hospital got serious about automating its patient record, administrators there decided that PACS would have to be part of it.


Revised! PPP-6, a 108-page publication by Ken Pernezny, Amanda Gevens, Tim Momol, Aaron Palmateer, Natalia Peres, Richard Raid, Pam Roberts, Gary Vallad, and Shousan Zhang, is a guide to lawful use of sprayable chemicals intended for control of plant diseases affecting vegetables grown in Florida. Published by the UF Department of Plant Pathology, September 2008.


In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) energy saving has become one of the prime optimization problem and clustering technique has been considered as most efficient techniques to achieve the same. The selection of cluster heads (CHs) plays a vital role in hierarchical based WSNs as it consume more energy owing to its additional duty of receiving, aggregating the data from the cluster member nodes and transmitting the same to the base station (BS). Improper selection of CHs causes impact on network life time. In order to have an energy efficient network a suitable optimization algorithm is to be adopted to select the CHs. We propose a cluster protocol based on Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO) algorithm to reduce the energy consumption during cluster setup phase and transmission phase. The CSO cluster protocol is developed by considering intra-cluster distance of nodes to CH and residual energy of cluster member nodes. The algorithm is tested extensively on various scenarios of WSNs, varying number of sensor nodes and the CHs. The energy efficient scheme of proposed CSO performance is compared with other well-known protocols such as Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy -Centralized (LEACH-C) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based protocol to prove the superiority of it.


This paper describes a novel method for classification based on a partly incomplete and low quality image data. The method has been tested on images with low quality areas such as partially corrupted, dark, or blurry images. Image data are converted to classifier input. As a result, we are dealing with missing data describing these areas, but the classifier was designed to work in the presence of missing data. The analysis of the literature shows that missing data have a negative impact on the operation of the learning algorithms. This field is still insufficient explored. In our method, we integrate complex image processing techniques, machine learning, and statistical methods under various contexts. The novelty of the presented approach is the structure of the classifier, which works in the presence of missing data on different principles than those used so far. Evaluation was performed on the basis of realistic images, collected before experiments. Multi-variant experimental protocols, specially designed in this work, confirmed the accuracy of the method. The obtained results help to better understand the methods of recognizing objects with incomplete data structures. Analysis techniques proposed in this paper are rapidly gaining in importance, so the proposed approach can be useful in many areas where the machine learning is employed.


A low-power potentiostatic second-order continuous-time delta-sigma modulator architecture for electrochemical amperometric sensors is presented. The architecture takes advantage of the intrinsic double-layer capacitance of the sensor used as an integrator stage to have a compact and energy efficient conversion of the electrochemical signal. The addition of a second integrator guarantees the real potentiostat operation while introducing new design trade-offs such as stability and resolution. The circuit has been simulated in a standard 0.18 μm CMOS technology. As a proof of concept, a cyclic voltammetry based on real measurements is also presented.


A turbid-appearing pleural fluid sample from a 15-year-old boy was received by our laboratory for biochemical analysis (Fig. 1). Clinical history revealed that the patient was receiving antiretroviral therapy and presented with bilateral pleural effusions. Biochemical results for the pleural fluid yielded an albumin 14 g/L and LDH 245 …


Five Bt strains with high efficacy were screened from 74 Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains which were isolated from corpses of Lepidopterous insects and were used to test their toxicity on Mythimna separata (W.) larve by bioassay. The mortality of M. separata treated with 5 of the strains at concentration of 1. 60×108 spores/ml was 80%-95%. The Lc50 were 5. 49×106 spores/mL, 2. 43×10 6 spores/mL, 4. 47×106 spores/mL, 4.60×106 spores/mL and 3. 56×106 spores/mL separately.


Interdisciplinary studies have always played an important role in the development and theoretical application of a given field of absolute science. The present survey has attempted to make a comparison of two semiotic systems of language and cinema through semiotic devices, taking an alternative view toward adaptation.
Taking language as a semiotic system and because of interpersonal and social relations with other semiotic systems, it tries to identify (specify) which sign in addition to linguistic sign (code), plays a greater role in intersemiotic translation of a literary text to cinematic one, and is more frequent.The study is also going to look for codes as textual stratra relating to each other, causing to form the semantic network, social groups and special characters of the movie.
 In the present study literary text and the cinematic production are taken as the prototext and metatext, respectively. The reasercher has undertaken to introduce codes with the medium of cinema and provide the reader with a proper meaning of cinematic text by applying Farahzad's approach in "Translation as an intertextual function" (2009), which is based on Fairclough's view towards text' (1995), as well as putting Sojoudie's "Stratificational approach, the base for answering the proposed main questions in general.
Regarding the aforementioned systems, the reasercher has compared the adaptable sequences of Bahram Tavakoli's movie "Here without me" as prototext to translation of Tennessee William's play " The Glass Menagerie" as metatext.
It is concluded that, "repetition", "creation" and "deletion" happen during the intersemiotic translation of the mentioned play to the movie ("Here without me"). A dramatic increase in the creation frequency due to using intercultural, interreligious and intersemiotic conversions, was also clearly observed.

Keywords: Adaptation, Codes, Filmic text, Intertextuality, Stratificational semiotics, Translatability.


Wavelength‐tunable light emission is demonstrated from a planar microcavity employing a deformable‐membrane top mirror. A gold/silicon nitride membrane is suspended by an air gap above a GaAs cavity, containing In0.2Ga0.8As multiple quantum wells, and a GaAs/AlAs distributed Bragg reflector. Micromechanical displacement of the membrane allows for broad and continuous wavelength tuning of the cavity resonance formed by the combination of the semiconductor cavity and the air gap. Optically excited luminescence from the quantum wells is restricted to the resonant cavity modes and exhibits a 31 nm (42 meV) tuning range and 2.2 nm (3 meV) linewidth near 960 nm for 0–15 V applied bias.


By ALFRED L. COPLEY, M.D. AND RALPH B. HOULIHAN, PH.D. T HROMBUS formation which in vessel wounds constitutes a protective mechanism against prolonged hemorrhage can also become pathologic when it blocks the circulation of the blood and produces clinical manifestations such as thrombosis and thrombo-embolic disease. Such thrombi are not always pure coagluation thrombi but may be initiated by the agglutination of platelets, and also may present pure platelet agglutination thrombi.' The results presented in this paper are based on the use of a method which is sufficiently sensitive to permit more accurate studies on platelet agglutination than have been possible hitherto. This method permits the elucidation of mechanisms in thrombotic and hemorrhagic conditions which have considerable clinical application. In a subsequent paper2 we shall report findings concerning the agglutinability of platelets by various blood components and other substances. Other investigators have reported various methods of platelet agglutination, but these have not permitted quantitative comparisons, since they take no cognizance of variables such as (a) time and temperature of incubation, (b) concentration of platelets used in the test, (c) variations in the agglutinability of variously isolated platelets, (d) variations in platelets isolated from various members of the same or of different species. The inherent value of our method is dependent upon, first, the use of a stable suspension of isolated platelets free from other cellular elements and from plasma3; second, upon the standardization to permit accurate comparisons. Our observations yield information concerning the agglutinability of platelets per se and in plasma and serum from different origins.


Relative reactivities of radicals derived from several 1-(N,N-dimethylami-no) ethylene-2-derivatives towards the polymerization of butyl acrylate have been calculated. It has been observed that the reactivity of the radicals increases as the electron withdrawing character of the groups attached in the β position to the N atom increases. The experimental efficiency factor (f) has been found to be proportional to the σ F value defined in the Taft equation. The dependence of the reactivities with the nature of the radicals has also been explained through their frontier orbital characteristics. The presence of heteroatoms next to the radical center could modify, in some cases, the accuracy of these calculations, although the inclusion of more sophisticated quantummechanical methods does solve this drawback. Moreover, the enthalpy calculation of the possible radicals formed from a certain molecule gives a good approach to realize about the existence of anomalous behaviors.


Telomerase plays a pivotal role in the pathology of aging and cancer by controlling telomere length and integrity. However, accumulating evidence indicates that telomerase reverse transcriptase may have fundamental biological functions independent of its enzymatic activity in telomere maintenance. In this study, the ectopic expression of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) and its catalytic mutant hTERT K626A induced cancer cell invasion accompanied by the up‐regulation of the metalloproteinases (MMPs) MMP1, ‐3, ‐9, and ‐10. Both hTERT and hTERT K626A induced MMP9 mRNA expression and promoter activity in an NF‐κB‐dependent manner. hTERT and hTERT K626A also regulated the expression of several NF‐κB target genes in cancer cell lines. Furthermore, both hTERT and hTERT K626A interacted with NF‐κB p65 and increased NF‐κB p65 nuclear accumulation and DNA binding. A mammalian 1‐hybrid assay showed a functional interplay between hTERT and NF‐κB p65 that may mediate NF‐κB‐dependent transcription activation in cells. Together, these data reveal a telomere‐independent role for telomerase as a transcriptional modulator of the NF‐κB signaling pathway and a possible contributor to cancer development and progression.—Ding, D., Xi, P., Zhou, J., Wang, M., Cong, Y.‐S. Human telomerase reverse transcriptase regulates MMP expression independently of telomerase activity via NF‐κB‐dependent transcription. FASEB J. 27, 4375–4383 (2013). www.fasebj.org


Abstract : Conventional photographic films sensitive to electrons may be used in the ETL Cartographic EBR provided that image distortions caused by deflection of the electron beam due to electric charge accumulation on the film is within acceptable limits. Various techniques for minimizing film charging problems were investigated and practical solutions are discussed. (Author)


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The ion composition of rarefied interstellar gas cooling from about one million K to about 10,000 K is calculated. The time dependence of logarithmic relative ion densities is determined in an isobaric-cooling model and in a model with an initial adiabatic expansion. It is shown that so long as T is greater than 10,000 K, the N(C IV)/N(O VI) ion density ratio may be used to test the origin of nonstable behavior. 14 references.


All research in Australian universities involving human participants needs approval from human research ethics committees, who make judgments consistent with accepted ethical principles that have recently been captured in the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007). Making a film as an academic research project is a relatively recent phenomenon and there are apparent contradictions between the requirements for ethics approval and the accepted practice of screen production.


(A) the relative dielectric constant (25 ° C.) is 17.0 to 43.0, and tooth whitening component which is a vapor pressure (25 ° C.) is 0~7000KPa, (B) was dissolved in tooth whitening component, and contains material precipitated with calcium chloride aqueous solution, and (C) a gelling agent, substantially non-aqueous gel composition for tooth whitening containing no water and peroxide object. According to the present invention, a tooth whitening ingredients to penetrate the enamel surface of a tooth, the refractive index of the enamel, to change the optical characteristics such as reflectance can be made to appear white apparently enamel, and it can be in the presence of water revert to reversibly original tooth color. Moreover, it is possible to significantly improve the persistence of reversible whitening effect.


The pressure-induced Raman peak shifts for single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been studied using different solvents as hydrostatic pressure-transmitting fluids (PTF). We suggest that the variation in the nanotube response to hydrostatic pressure with different PTF is evidence that the common solvents used are able to penetrate the interstitial spaces in the nanotube bundle. With hexane, we find the surprising result that the individual nanotubes appear unaffected by hydrostatic pressures (i.e. a flat Raman response) up to 0.7 GPa. Qualitatively similar results have been obtained with butanol. Following the approach of Amer et al. [M. S. Amer, M. S. El-Ashry and J. F. Maguire, J. Chem. Phys. 121 2752 (2004)], we speculate that this is due to the inability of SWNTs to adsorb some solvents onto their surface at low pressure.


Background and aims - Despite being a rather common species throughout Europe, little is known about the effects of habitat change on the fitness of Viscum album. We expected to find a reduction in fitness in V. album populations growing in fragmented habitats resulting from a loss of genetic diversity through increased inbreeding. Methods - We studied seed germination as a measure of fitness among sixteen Belgian V. album popula tions varying in size and degree of isolation to investigate the fitness consequences of habitat fragmenta tion. Populations were sampled from two landscapes differing in their degree of habitat fragmentation and V. album population characteristics. We also compared germination percentages of three populations at three different temperatures (5, 20, 30?C) to examine the potential effects of climate change on V. album regeneration in northern Europe. Key results - Germination percentages (at 20?C) were high (69-100%) and we found no evidence of relationships between germination and population size, density, or area. There was no direct relationship between germination percentage and population isolation within study regions, but connectivity among populations appears to be important. Samples from the more fragmented habitat showed a negative correla tion between germination percentage and the proportion of females, suggesting reduced mate availability and pollination resulting from increased isolation of populations. There was no significant difference in mean germination percentages among the three temperature treatments, bui the high temperature samples (30?C) exhibited the highest variation in germination success. Conclusion - Our results suggest that V. album has evolved high germination success to compensate for limited success in establishing on a host plant. Successful germination under a wide range of environmental conditions is expected to increase the likelihood of establishing on host plants, possibly helping V. album respond to changes in climate.


The pressure-retaining device or clamp acts on the roll or log adjacently to the cutting plane and may be adapted to various diameters of the material being processed; for each path of advance of the rolls or logs (B) and on each side of the cutting plane, it comprises: a pair of symmetrically curved flexible strips (12, 14) projecting from enclosing supports (9A, 10; 7A, 10) and having end portions able to move according to the variation in the diameter of the roll, and a strap (22) fixed to elastic return holders (24A) and adjusting holders, said strap surrounding the pair of strips (12, 14) so as to vary their geometry in relation to the variation in the diameter of the material being processed.


Electrode poisoning in high temperature electrochemical systems from trace levels of airborne contaminants remains a critical issue, contributing to long-term irreversible performance degradation. The intrinsic and extrinsic presence of gas phase Cr, Si, B, and SOx, species in air have been reported to form detrimental secondary compounds and microstructural changes at the electrode/electrolyte interface, consuming electrochemically active sites. Herein, a novel contaminant capture method is reported that uses low-cost getter materials based on alkaline-earth metals. The getters, in benchtop transpiration tests, demonstrated the desired ability to form thermodynamically stable reaction products and reducing the gaseous contaminant partial pressures by several orders of magnitude. Consumption of the contaminants in the getter preserves the performance of solid oxide cells. The presented results have demonstrated the feasibility of the use of getter materials under operating conditions typical to elevated-temperature electrochemical systems.


Objective To study the perioperative care in the elderly patients received total knee arthroplasty.Methods20 cases of total knee arthroplasty patients were received perioperative care,such as psychological care,preoperative health guidance,early functional training after operation etc.Results All the patients were followed up for 6-24 months.All patients survived,the motion range of knee joint met the requirement,weight-bearing walking and the good quality of life were achieved.Conclusions The perioperative care play an important role in the elderly patients who received total knee arthroplasty


The violence of Revelation remains problematic. This study offers a literary-critical analysis of the text with postcolonial theory and an intertextual foray into 1 Kgs 19. It argues that God does not speak in direct voice as a character in the story until 21.5. Places where commentators understand a voice to be God's are undercut by an underdetermined text. Since the implied author avoids bringing God onto the stage to authorize events, the narrator assumes that a proliferation of loud heavenly voices provides authorization of the visions and their violence. The narrator is demonstrably unreliable. At the end of the visions and in the epilogue the 'still small voice' of God and Jesus' quiet voice speak. Both undercut the narrator's interpretation of the visions. And by speaking quietly in present tense and without decibel adjectives it forces us to go back and reread the whole for how God is now renewing all creation and Jesus is now offering the water of the River of Life. The violence will need to be read as something other than it at first appeared.


Health care providers and public health officials note the continuing problems of HIV transmission among African American women. They cite sexism, poverty, racism as factors that contribute to its devastating path among black women from the urban areas of New York City to the rural areas of North Carolina.


Two thousand one hundred and sixty-three women completed an extensive set of psychosocial measures prior to a breast examination. These women were subsequently diagnosed as having cancer, a cyst, benign breast disease or normal breasts. It was found that the cancer group had experienced significantly more loss- or illness-related events, perceived life events generally as more stressful, used fewer and poorer coping skills and were significantly lower on type A behaviour.


In many circles, the educational implications of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were rapidly coopted by those who saw the storm and its aftermath as just another example of whatever aspect of education they had already been examining. Charter school advocates have made Katrina about charter schools; those focusing on urban schools have made it into a grand experiment in urban reform; those who write about decentralization have framed the story in this way, and so on. What makes this special issue valuable, and why it has taken some time to produce, is that we have insisted, from our initial conversations in March of 2007, that this be an empirical examination of education in the storm's wake. This is not a series of essays tying education in hurricane-affected areas to a general set of social, pedagogical, or organizational concerns. It is clear to me that the authors in this issue have given more than a passing glance at the educational implications of Katrina and have collectively come to the realization that it is not nearly this simple. Although the complex interplay of political, economic, social, and educational forces certainly underlie the work presented here, the careful analysis exhibited in these articles show Katrina in a much more layered and nuanced manner. Yes, this is a story about charter schools, a story about urban reform, and a story about decentralization, but an overreliance on any one of these perspectives gives a deceptively, even dangerously, oversimplified view of education in storm-affected areas. The authors included here, writing from a variety of perspectives about the educational implications of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, make good progress toward fleshing out a


Background: The metabolic syndrome which in recent times has been associated with obesity is known to be associated with increased morbidity and mortality. This group of patients tolerate surgery poorly and the metabolic syndrome has been partly blamed for this. Cholinesterase hydrolyzes succinylcholine, a potent muscle relaxant used during surgery. Deficiency of this enzyme results in sustained activity of succinylcholine leading to prolonged muscle relaxation and increased mortality.
Aim: This study looks at the possibility of a relationship between the metabolic syndrome and plasma cholinesterase activity with a view to exploring the reasons for the increased morbidity and mortality associated with surgeries in patients with the metabolic syndrome.
Methods: In this prospective study, 195 subjects were recruited, comprising 50 obese type- 2 diabetics (with the metabolic syndrome), 45 Obese type-2-diabetics (without the metabolic syndrome), 50 non-obese type-2-diabetics (without metabolic syndrome) and 50 non-diabetic, non-obese patients recruited as control. Standard criteria for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome were used. Plasma cholinesterase was measured in all the groups using the kinetic colorimetric method.
Results: The result showed a significant reduction in the plasma cholinesterase activity of obese type-2-diabetic patients who also had the metabolic syndrome) (3315 ± 671i.u/L) when compared with the control group (8219 ± 815 i.u/L), subjects without the metabolic syndrome showed normal plasma cholinesterase levels.
Conclusion: Reduction in plasma cholinesterase activity is associated with the metabolic syndrome in obese type-2-diabetics. Port Harcourt Medical Journal Vol. 1(1) September 2006: 39-43


Let σ and ω be locally finite positive Borel measures on R, let T be a standard α-fractional Calderón-Zygmund operator on R with 0 ≤ α < n, and assume as side conditions the A2 conditions, punctured A2 conditions, and certain α-energy conditions. Then the weak boundedness property associated with the operator T and the weight pair (σ, ω), is 'good-λ' controlled by the testing conditions and the Muckenhoupt and energy conditions. As a consequence, assuming the side conditions, we can eliminate the weak boundedness property from Theorem 1 of [SaShUr9] to obtain that T is bounded from L (σ) to L (ω) if and only if the testing conditions hold for T and its dual. As a corollary we give a simple derivation of a two weight accretive global Tb theorem from a related T1 theorem. The role of two different parameterizations of the family of dyadic grids, by scale and by translation, is highlighted in simultaneously exploiting both goodness and NTV surgery with families of grids that are common to both measures.


The invention discloses gold cordyceps yellow wine and a production process of the gold cordyceps yellow wine and belongs to the technical field of a manufacture process of yellow wine. The gold cordyceps yellow wine is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: the ratio of water to sticky rice to cordyceps militaris to Chinese yeast is 120-130 to 100 to 1-3 to 0.2-0.4. The production process comprises the following steps of: (1) screening and preparing the raw materials; (2) steeping rice; (3) steaming the rice; (4) pouring the rice into a cylinder; (5) carrying out heat preservation and fermentation; (6) rinsing the cylinder; (7) post-fermentation; and (8) squeezing, sterilizing and packaging to form a product. The gold cordyceps yellow wine disclosed by the invention is novel yellow wine prepared from the cordyceps militaris, fructus momordicae, medlar and the like by a unique process on the basis of traditional yellow wine brewing.


During poultry processing, abundant of waste feather is produced, which is valuable for its high protein content. After the pretreatment, the feather is hydrolyzed to be polypeptide under alkali conditions. The best process condition is that when the usage of NaOH is 12% (base on the mass of dry feather), the amount H2O is 8 times of the feather, hydrolysis temperature is 100°C, and the reaction time is 2.5h, The extraction efficiency of the polypeptide is more than 85.3%; the mass ratio of polypeptide condensed liquor (calculated as hydrolysis liquid with 30% mass ratio) and oleoyl chloride is 5∶1, the protein-anionic surfactant could be produced with condensed reaction. The appearance of the product is yellowish sticky liquor, the CMC is 0.4 g/L, and the surface activity is excellent.


Objectives : The purpose of this study was to report the case prognosis and evaluate treatment and prevention of pneumothorax after acupuncture treatment. Methods : A 32-year-old slender male complained of pain in the interscapular area. As a result, acupuncture needling and manual technique were pe...


This article discusses the ethics according to Murtadha Mutahhari. To Murtada Mutahhari, human actions can be distinguished between acts naturally (normal) and act akhlaqi. Natural act is an act that does not make the perpetrators be worthy of praise, for example; a hungry will eat, drink thirsty, tired of break and so on. Type of acts of this nature is also made by animals. Find akhlaqi act is an act that deserves to be praised or flattered, the artistry that is identical to the (voluntary). In that sense, people will recognize the great value of an act akhlaqi. The question is not whether prices can be juxtaposed or aligned with the material, such as money or other goods, of any such material. The question is ranked higher in the human person.


The reflected signal from the randomly moving scatterers on a target is a sinusoidal with a random phase and random amplitude. The scattering function is derived. This model can be used to discriminate different targets as well as modeling clutter echoes.


[Objective] To observe the curative effect of combined traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of pleurisy decoction.[Methods] 90 patients in our hospital with pleurisy patients were randomly divided into treatment group and control group,45 cases in the control group using conventional western medicine dehydration,hemostatic,antiphlogistic,acid suppression,enhancement of nutritional support treatment,the treatment group combined with Decoction of Radix Bupleuri,(medical,tansymustard seed,motherwort,Ophiopogon japonicus,tuckahoe,etc.).Two groups were treated for 2 to 6 weeks for 1 courses of treatment,after 1 courses of treatment for therapeutic efficacy.[Results] The total effective rate of treatment group 93.33%,control group in the total efficiency of 80%,the treatment group were better than the control group(P0.05).Review of radiologic clinical symptoms disappear,basically stable condition.Treatment of drug-induced liver damage in 4 cases of the control group,3 cases of drug induced liver disease,the difference was not statistically significant(P 0.05).[Conclusion] Combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of pleurisy can coordinate with each other,played a total of tonic,promoting blood circulation,gas,and water efficiency,achieve both the root causes of power.


The moulding shrinkage of plastic part with special structure is hard to determine precisely.The FEM method was proposed to solve the problem in which the moulding shrinkage of a type of electric connector insulator was studied by using Moldflow software.The application of the technique supports the precision moulding of plastic products.


It has been known that lignin can be used as plywood adhesive for exterior purpose. The sources of lignin are black liquor indulin-AT (commercial lignin). A study on lignin formaldehyde  resin making from  black liquor and indulin-AT was done and the results were  used to predict  the effect of lignin  isolate type and L/F  mole ratio on plywood bonding strength. The results show taht the type of lignin isolate and L/F  mole ratio have highly significant  effect on plywood bonding strength. The mole ratio L/F of 1 : 1.50 and 1:1.75 by lignin isolate from  indulin-AT result in plywood bonding strength about 7.5 kg/cm 2 and 8.8 kg/cm 2 ,   respectively. The bonding strength of these plywood conforms with the 1983 Japanese standard for exterior purpose.


This paper concerns the implementation of a brushless DC machine as a force actuator, for use in suppressing vibrations in civil structures. The machine has the dual capability of operation as an active as well as semiactive device. It operates semiactively by using the machine as a generator to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy which is then dissipated. The electrical network uses electronic switching to control the power flow from the machine. With the machine shaft connected to a gear reducer and ballscrew mechanism, the result is a device that resembles a linear damper with a controllable damping coefficient. The only external electrical power required is that which is needed to support the control system intelligence and to control the transistors, enabling the device to be operated on battery power. As an example of an application of such an actuator, simulations are performed in which the semiactive device is used to control a three-story structural model, with acceleration feedback control. The structural control system design approach is the well-established "clipped-optimal" method. Results suggest that this actuator is effective in simultaneously suppressing the interstory drifts and the absolute accelerations of the structure. A comparison is made to a similar configuration using a magnetorheological damper as the semiactive force device.


Objective: To test the best method for confirming differential fragments from the sequencing gels.Methods: RNA samples of the cultures from the different salt concentrations were taken as a model.RT-PCR,RNA dot hybridization and real-time PCR were used for confirmation of differential fragments.Results: Three methods could produce good results.RT-PCR method had high sensibility,RNA dot hybridization needed huge quantitative RNA sample and the real-time PCR had high accuracy.Conclusion: Real-time PCR which can quantify the change folds can be a better choice.


P RIMARY open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is the most frequent form of irreversible blindness in whites, with a 2% incidence in persons older than 40 years. Family history is a major risk factor for POAG. There is evidence that a number of parameters associated with POAG, such as intraocular pressure, outflow facility, optic nerve excavation, and hypertensive response to corticosteroids, are inherited independently. In addition, POAG includes various clinical elements with no clear relationship to genetic factors, such as ocular hypertension (OH), POAG with elevated intraocular pressure, and normal pressure glaucoma. The less frequent juvenile open-angle glaucoma ( JOAG) appears to be distinct from the more frequent adult-onset glaucoma, which usually affects people older than 40 years. Juvenile open-angle glaucoma has various forms, one of which is a late variant of developmental glaucoma characterized by anterior chamber angle malformations and another of which is an early form of POAG frequently transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. However, families with recessive transmission have also been described. One of the loci for autosomal dominant JOAG, named GLC1A, has been mapped by linkage analysis to chromosome 1q21-q31. The JOAG cases linked to the GLC1A locus are characterized by an age at onset of younger than 30 years and increased intraocular pressure, which can be resolved by surgery. In 1997, the gene associated with GLC1A was identified and found to code for a 57-kd protein called trabecular meshworkinduced glucocorticoid response protein, originally described by Polansky et al, but its normal role is not well known. Several mutations that lead to different characteristic forms of JOAG have been described in the GLC1A gene, which can produce openangle glaucoma with different clinical charSECTION EDITOR: EDWIN M. STONE, MD, PHD OPHTHALMIC MOLECULAR GENETICS


Circulation of Elements in Blast Furnace Estimated by Thermodynamics and Vapour Pressure Measurement Yoshiyasu TAKADA, Mitsuo SUMITO, Nobuo TSUCHIYA, and Kyoji OKABE Synopsis: The circulation behaviour of Fe, Mn, Si, Mg, Zn, Na, K, S, and Cl in blast furnace is studied. The compounds of circulating elements and the region of the circulation are quantitatively estimated by thermodynamic calculations using gas compositions measured by the vertical probes at a working blast furnace. The probable vapour pressures of circulating species are quantitatively estimated by the mass spectrometric analysis of Knudsen effusates from pig iron, slag, and coke.


Starting with his directorial debut, Rodrigo D: No futuro (1990), until his magnus opus,  Sumas y restas (2005) –on the social phenomenon of narcotraffic in Medellin–, passing through what is arguably his best-known feature film, La vendedora de rosas (1998), the films of the Colombian director Victor Gaviria put the distinction between the realms of reality and fiction in crisis, as well as the distinction between representation and what is represented. In this sense, Gaviria's work challenges the whole notion of representation itself. In this article, I argue that this is due to the fact that Gaviria's artistic project involves a permanent reflection on how to represent a reality that is, in the end, impossible to represent, such as the case of the violent reality of Medellin's slums. Reading the three aforementioned films in reverse, starting with the most recent one and ending with the one that launched the director's cinematic career, I suggest that the real contribution of Gaviria to film history is that, in order to consider the living experiences of those living in extreme marginality, at the periphery of the periphery, he reccurs to a model that is not based on representation but on auto-representation. This model has almost no narrative content, but it is highly affective, including the most wretched subjects of Medellin at the end of the 20th Century, those subjects who lack future, hope, and even narratives.


Observations of magnetism in various carbon systems [1, 2, 3, 4] have stimulated much experimental and theoretical research work (Ref. [5] and references therein) on the magnetic properties of all-carbon systems. The driving force behind these studies was not only to create technologically-important, light, non-metallic magnets with a Curie point well above room temperature, but also to understand a fundamental problem: the origin of magnetism in a system which traditionally has been thought to show diamagnetic behavior only. The question which immediately springs to ones mind is whether magnetism is an intrinsic property of carbon systems or is due to the presence of magnetic impurities (e.g., Fe). The debate was initiated from the appearance of the two classic papers: in 2000 Kopelevich and coworkers published a paper [1] with an editor's note of the controversial nature of the result. In that work, the authors identified ferromagnetic and superconducting-like magnetization hysteresis loops in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite samples below and above room temperature. The conclusion was that magnetic impurities were extremely unlikely. In 2001 Makarova and coworkers [2] reported a discovery


Studies of ?? interactions are performed with the KLOE detector, without tagging of the outgoing e+e?. The data sample is from an integrated luminosity of 240 pb?1. It was collected at the -factory DA?NE with e+e? beams colliding at ?s 1 GeV, below the resonance peak. We present preliminary results concerning the observation of the ?? ? ? process and the evidence for ?? ? ?0?0 production at low ?0?0 invariant masses.


BACKGROUND
The role of gastrointestinal function in obesity is unknown. Recent studies have shown that satiety in obese patients is influenced by an abnormal gastric capacity.

AIM
An easy and non-invasive tool, the water load test (WLT) was used to evaluate gastric capacity and how it relates to body mass index (BMI) in obese patients.

METHODS
The WLT was performed in 32 patients with high BMI and 12 healthy volunteers. Water was ingested at a 15 mL/min rate. The maximal tolerable volume (MTV) was defined as the total ingested volume when patients stopped the test.

RESULTS
A BMI > 30 was significantly associated with higher water consumption (2339 ± 306 mL) compared to controls (1830 ± 240 mL, p = 0.001). The MTV had a positive correlation with BMI (r = 0.68, p = 0.001).

CONCLUSIONS
Obese subjects have an increased gastric capacity, as measured with the WLT. This greater drinking capacity has a positive correlation with the subjects' BMI.


Thermomechanical reclaiming of ground tire rubber (GTR) was performed at different temperatures (60, 120, and 180°C) using a co‐rotating twin‐screw extruder. Obtained samples were used in styrene‐butadiene rubber (SBR) blends. As reference samples, SBR compounds containing untreated GTR were used. Curing characteristics, static and dynamic mechanical properties, and morphology of the obtained blends were determined. The results show that the increase of barrel temperature during the thermomechanical reclaiming of GTR has a positive effect on the decrease of screw torque (lower machine load) and decrease of Mooney viscosity (better processing characteristics). However, mechanical properties and crosslink density of rubber revulcanizate decreased with increasing barrel temperature during the reclaiming process. SBR blends with 50 phr of reclaimed rubber showed increasing phase compatibility between SBR matrix and the reclaimed rubber, which was confirmed by mechanical properties and morphology measurements. J. VINYL ADDIT. TECHNOL., 22:213–221, 2016. © 2014 Society of Plastics Engineers


There is a wide confusion on what are scalar waves in serious and less serious literature on electrical engineering. In this paper we explain that this type of waves are longitudinal waves of potentials. It is shown that a longitudinal wave is a combination of a vector potential with a sacalar potential. There is a full analogue to acoustic waves. Transmitters and receivers for longitudinal electromagnetic waves are discussed.