Background The current study is aimed at updating the observational studies on the relationship between threatened abortion and the risk of ASD. Methods The search keywords were covered in three electronic databases PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus up to April 2022. The modified Newcastle–Ottawa scale (NOS) was applied to detect the quality of epidemiological studies. We used the chi-square test and the I2 statistic to show the heterogeneity among articles. I2 more than 50% was considered high heterogeneity. Egger's and Begg's line regression tests were used for evaluating the publication bias. The random-effects model was applied for the analysis of the findings. The Stata 13.0 software package was applied for analysis and indicated p value less than 0.05 as a significant level. Results The pooled analysis reported significant differences between threatened abortion and the risk of ASD in adjusted studies (OR = 1.93; 95% CI: 1.12, 2.73; I2 = 59.5.0%) and in crude studies (OR = 2.17; 95% CI: 1.46, 2.88; I2 = 39.5%). The evidence of publication bias was not found. Conclusions The findings suggest that threatened abortion is a risk factor for ASD. As a result, screening tools to detect are necessary in mothers facing a threatened abortion.


Abstract The objective of the research was to analyze children's conceptualization of death through drawings, using a mixed approach, which combines deductive and inductive qualitative analysis. The sample consisted of 99 children aged 9–11 years, who were asked to elaborate a drawing about their idea of death and to explain it to the researchers. Drawings were coded basing on Tamm and Granqvist's model (deductive analysis) and codes and categories were created and modified (inductive analysis). Three main categories were identified in the analysis and four sub-categories were modified and/or created: causes of death, good death, anxiety-fear and symbolization.


The Albertus L. Meyers Bridge (aka 8th Street Bridge), is a historic gateway located on the south side of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Constructed in 1913 and designed originally to carry trolley cars and horse drawn wagons. The bridge consists of 17 spans; 8 approach spans and 9 main spans. The nine main spans are comprised of dual mildly reinforced concrete open spandrel arches, with span lengths of 135 feet each with a bridge deck that is over 100 feet above the valley below. The bridge was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 based on the innovative construction techniques of the time and the architectural significance of the bridge. Even though the bridge has had many rehabilitations over its life, this paper will focus on the latest rehabilitation completed in 2016 which served to make it capable of supporting modern legal loadings, increasing its usable roadway width, repairing almost 100 years of deterioration due to drainage problems, increasing safety and restoring it to its original position as an icon on the Allentown skyline. The paper will also include information from the design phase through the construction phase and how modern construction techniques can be used to provide similar aesthetics as the historic structure. Title: Design and Rehabilitation of the Historic Albertus L. Meyers Bridge Technical Merit of Presentation • Explain how large structures were designed and constructed in the early 1900's to determine how arches are affected by the removing and addition of deadload. • Innovated use of light weight Styrofoam to reduce deadload. • Use of architectural arch panels and precast elements to retain aesthetics. Name: Albertus L. Meyers Bridge Project Information Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania Opening Date? 10/1/2016 Notes: E-Mail: email@example.com Company: Michael Baker Inernational Phone: 717-221-2006 Name: Justin Baird Address: 4431 North Front Street Harrisburg PA 17110 United States Abstract #: 17-150 Date Received 10/1/2016 Score: Co-Author's Bryan Spangler Michael Baker Inernational 4431 North Front Street Harrisburg Pa 17110 717-221-2053 email@example.com Timpthy Ainsley, II Michael Baker Inernational 4431 North Front Street Harrisburg Pa 17110 717-221-2003 firstname.lastname@example.com PrimaryTopic: Rehabilitation/Preservation SecondaryTopic: Innovative Materials Applications IBC 2017 Conference Individual Abstract Submission


The article deals with the nomen as the second in importance variety of special lexical units of terminological system, the problem of nomen selecting from the general bulk of terminology vocabulary, as well as their use in professional communication of transport industry professionals.


Peat bogs in the British Isles contain tephra from volcanic eruptions in Iceland; tephra in the Falkland Islands most likely derives from Andean volcanoes. Study of these far‐travelled volcanic products is making a significant contribution to our understanding of past environmental changes.


Any new development will generate trips, with these trips normally resulting in either increased use of private motor vehicles or public transport. The traditional approach to assessing the impact of Individual developments has been to look at the expected additional trips from the proposed development in the local area, without looking at the regional impacts or the local impacts of all the possible future development within the area concerned. This approach has led to some developments having to fund roading improvements because they where the 'straw that broke the camels back', whereas other developments are assessed as having no impact. In addition provisions have not been implemented to enable developer contributions to be sought for the improvement of the wider transportation network.


Drag force on a flat plate in cavitating flows The present study focuses on the simulation of two dimensional unsteady cavitating flows. For simulation of unsteady behaviors of cavitation which have practical applications, the development of unsteady PISO algorithm based on the non-conservative approach is utilized. For multi-phase simulation, single-fluid Navier—Stokes equations, along with the volume fraction transport equation, are employed. The bubble dynamics model is utilized to simulate phase change between vapor and liquid phases of the water. Unsteady simulation of cavitation around NACA66(MOD) and supercavitation around a flat plate normal to flow direction are performed to clarify accuracy of presented model. Numerical results and comparisons with experimental data are provided. The accuracy is good, and it is possible to apply this method to more complex shapes.


Experimental results on the dependence of the polarization state of the optical signal upon pump power, signal wavelength, and optical‐signal power in active erbium‐doped fibers (EDFs) are reported in this paper. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 42: 395–397, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20315


The problem of adaptive beamforming in a coherent interference environment is addressed. A partially adaptive beamformer is proposed to present desired signal cancellation. The mean squared error at the beamformer output is shown to consist of a signal cancellation term associated with the presence of interferers coherent with the desired signal and an interference cancellation term. Both terms are functions of the degrees of freedom employed in the partially adaptive beamformer. Hence, the authors propose choosing the degrees of freedom to minimize the average mean squared error over a likely set of interference scenarios. An approximate solution to this optimization problem is described. Simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.<<ETX>>


Abstract : This report examines the dynamic range performance of narrowband and wideband superheterodyne surveillance receivers. A theoretical review of parameters indicative of the dynamic range performance of each type of receiver is presented. It is seen that for a narrowband superheterodyne receiver, the dynamic range performance can be specified using a parameter based on a single tone at the input. For a wideband superheterodyne receiver, one or more two tone dynamic range parameters are needed. These two tone dynamic range parameters are then used to predict the dynamic range performance of a wideband superheterodyne surveillance receiver currently being built for DREO. Some anticipated dynamic range problems specific to this system are discussed.


Tm:fiber laser pumped Ho:YLF laser enables efficient operation at high repetition rate. Corresponding injection seeding technique has been developed. Its significant application is a transmitter of air/space borne CO2 differential absorption lidar.


Much of what follows is taken from 'The COPE Report 2003' by Tim Albert and Liz Wager. They, in turn, draw substantially on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines issued in 2001 and updated in 2013. COPE is the acronym of the Committee of Publication Ethics which is a grouping of more than 5000 editors of scientific and learned journals covering all disciplines. However, most authorship guidelines are similar in tone and content – a good example being those of the IEEE.


The mean area rainfall is an important data for watershed water regime forecasting and water resources analysis.Therefore,taking Beijiang river basin as example,the author introduced the methods of calculating mean area rainfall with sub watershed area weight.Comparison was made between this method and other three calculating methods usually used.The results of comparison demonstrate that this method renders calculation more convenient with accuracy up to the requirements of specification.


Abstract Evaluation of hospital quality is of great significance for the promotion of the development of medical care. Hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) is the ratio of hospital observed mortality to expected mortality (O/E ratio) and is an important indicator for the evaluation of hospital performance. Given the importance of HSMR, accurate estimation of HSMR confidence intervals is essential. All existing methods assume that the distributions of the O/E ratios are close to a normal distribution. However, this assumption is not reasonable. In this article, we propose a new method for calculating the HSMR confidence intervals. We derive the confidence intervals for the O/E ratios by calculating the confidence intervals of log(O/E). Then, we use the coverage probability of the confidence intervals to compare the performance of our method with the performance of existing methods. In the scenarios with different true relative risks, if the mortality rate is less than or equal to 1%, the bias of our method is substantially lower than that of the existing methods. The simulation results show that our method provides a more accurate estimate of the confidence intervals of the O/E ratios in the case of low mortality rates than that provided by the existing methods.


The usage small-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is significantly increasing nowadays. They are being used as a carrier of military spy and reconnaissance devices (taking photos, live video streaming and so on), or as a carrier of potentially dangerous cargo (intended for destruction and killing). Both ways of utilizing the UAV cause the necessity to disable it. From the military point of view, to disable the UAV means to bring it down by a weapon of an ordinary soldier that is the assault rifle. This task can be challenging for the soldier because he needs visually detect and identify the target, track the target visually and aim on the target. The final success of the soldier's mission depends not only on the said visual tasks, but also on the properties of the weapon and ammunition. The paper deals with possible methods of prediction of probability of hitting the UAV targets.


We examine the pricing performance of VIX option models. Such models possess a wide‐range of underlying characteristics regarding the behavior of both the S&P500 index and the underlying VIX. Our tests employ three representative models for VIX options: Whaley ( 1993 ), Grunbichler and Longstaff ( 1996 ), Carr and Lee ( 2007 ), Lin and Chang ( 2009 ), who test four stochastic volatility models, as well as to previous simulation results of VIX option models. We find that no model has small pricing errors over the entire range of strike prices and times to expiration. In particular, out‐of‐the‐money VIX options are difficult to price, with Grunbichler and Longstaff's mean‐reverting model producing the smallest dollar errors in this category. Whaley's Black‐like option model produces the best results for in‐the‐money VIX options. However, the Whaley model does under/overprice out‐of‐the‐money call/put VIX options, which is opposite the behavior of stock index option pricing models. VIX options exhibit a volatility skew opposite the skew of index options. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark31:251–281, 2011


The article identifies several rationales for university-level Pacific Islands studies programs and considers their implications for curriculum design and development. It discusses some fundamental conceptual problems associated with area studies generally, before advocating a new emphasis on interdisciplinary forms of scholarship and more-rigorous attempts to decolonize the field of study.


Superconducting PdxCu(1-x)(H) has been made by ion-beam mixing and low-temperature electrolysis. A multi-layered sample consisting of alternate layers of Cu and Pd, sputter-deposited onto a Pd foil substrate, was bombarded with 125 KeV Xe+ ions. Analysis by Rutherford backscattering (RBS) showed the formation of a Pd.6Cu.4 alloy region approximately 38 micrograms/sq cm thick. After electrolytic charging with H at dry ice temperature, superconductivity was observed, with a transition temperature, Tc, of 11.4 K in the alloy region. The effects of increased currents and changes in the H distribution due to annealing between 77 k and 85 C on the transition curves have been investigated. Transition curves produced in this fashion are broad with an onset of the superconducting transition as high as 14 K. The sample remains partially superconducting even after overnight anneal at room temperature. Electrolysis at room temperature also produces superconducting transitions with onsets as high as 17 K.


Submitted for the DFD06 Meeting of The American Physical Society Analysis of vortical flow with axial swirl and toroidal circulation SUKALYAN BHATTACHARYA, Texas Tech University — Vortical flows with an axial swirl and a toroidal circulation can be observed in a wide range of fluid mechanical phenomena such as flow around rotary machines or natural vortices like tornadoes and hurricanes. These flows can be described by a general scalar equation if incompressible fluid and negligible viscous dissipation are assumed. We consider one of the simpler cases of this general formulation where the involved equation has a resemblance with the governing equation of the hydrogen problem. As a result, we obtain a quantization relation similar to the expression of quantized energies in an hydrogen atom. We solve the equation for two systems. First, we consider threedimensional vortices confined between two parallel walls. Our examples include flows between two infinite plates, inside and outside of a vertical cylinder bounded at the ends by walls, and in an axially confined annular region. Then we also use our formulation to compute highly chaotic velocity fields with three-dimensional vortical structures which qualitatively mimic the features of physical flows. Hence, these solutions may be used in modeling of complicated flow systems. Sukalyan Bhattacharya Texas Tech University Date submitted: 04 Aug 2006 Electronic form version 1.4


All the people expect the Internet to provide multimedia services, especially the video source. However, the QoS requirement is strict for this kind of service and still a challenge to the researchers. For meeting the QoS, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has proposed IntServ and DiffServ service models. There are various QoS control issues in the models. This paper proposes a control mechanism in the very original source end system, i.e. the multiplexer, for video sources. The control mechanism consists of two schemes. One is the scheduling scheme, which enhances the weighted round-robin by dynamically changing the weights with the cell rates of video sources. The other is the video frame adjustment, which utilizes the periodicity of video sources to smooth the aggregated traffic of video sources. Some implementation issues are also discussed to illustrate simplicity of the control mechanism. As expected, the performance is obviously improved by the proposed control mechanism. It is proven in the numerical examples.


For more than 20 years, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) has promoted the NIH's research agenda on women's health and sex and gender issues. Important biological and behavioral differences between women and men influence health and wellbeing, affecting normal function as well as the manifestations, epidemiology, and response to treatment of many illnesses. This special issue is dedicated to reaching across the globe to increase awareness of the importance of women's health research and to stimulate consideration of sex and gender differences in research at institutions around the world. The ORWH's mission is to develop new strategies for women's health research to address gaps in knowledge and further emerging scientific opportunities. As a result of this commitment, a strategic plan for women's health and sex and gender differences research for the decade was developed. This plan, Moving Into the Future With New Dimensions and Strategies for Women's Health Research: A Vision for 2020 for Women's Health Research, provides a framework for women's health research. For this issue of Global Advances in Health and Medicine, "Women's Health Research: Road Map to the Future," we invited experts in women's health and sex and gender–based research to contribute original articles and editorials focused on the ORWH's strategic plan and vision. Contributors include researchers, program directors, and scholars for ORWH's two premier interdisciplinary research programs: Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH), a mentored career development program, and Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR) on Sex Differences.


Ion traps have been applied widely for measurements of atomic masses with unprecedented precision. JYFLTRAP tandem Penning trap, located in the Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, has provided a vast amount of new data in the vicinity of the N = Z line contributing to nuclear astrophysics, nuclear structure studies, and fundamental questions of weak interaction.


The article displays continuation of the accepted for publication in "Journal of Clinical Trials" article entitled "The new method cancer disease treatment making the rearrangement of metabolism from pathological development into normal development". There were described the positive results of cancer treatment by the new method of cancer disease treatment which was borrowed from the folk healers. These results were achieved by treatment of sick patient Ch. with "Metastatic cancer the intermediate bronchus of the right lung the IY degree, clinical stage IY". Taking into account the great experience of folk healer Breuss in treatment of various cancer diseases, Breuss recommendations concerning use of the herbs extracts were appreciated, representing mechanism operating of the tendered extracts of herbs in condition "Prolonged Medical Starvation" of the new method treatment of cancer disease. The roles of
the tendered extracts of herbs in bringing cancer metabolism to depression was analyzed considering the shift of the metabolism both in an organism and in cancer tissue due to condition of Prolonged Starvation. Also it was appraised the possible using light cytotoxic agents in very small dosage with the condition "Prolonged Medical Starvation" of the new method cancer treatment for the full cure of patient. The negative influences of big dosage cytotoxic anti-cancer drugs on an organism were elucidated estimating the use of light cytotoxic agents in very small dosage in the condition "Prolonged Medical Starvation" of the new method cancer treatment. Also the possible mechanisms of drug resistance
were explained referring outcomes of experiments some authors. Besides the advantage of the offered new method cancer treatment was estimated considering the mechanism operation of this method and the mechanisms of drug resistance by chemotherapeutic treatment in up-to-date methods cancer disease treatment. Thus it was supposed the possible modes to integrate the offered new method treatment of cancer disease with the modern methods treatment of cancer disease considering the role of the extracts of herbs for cancer treatment in condition of Prolonged Starvation. However the integration of the offered new method treatment of cancer disease with the modern methods treatment of cancer disease should be made after detailed clinical trials.


Marine Stewardship Council(MSC) was founded in Feb.1996.Its certification system is the only one in the world which is specially aimed at capture fishery products.It is also the only international criteria for fishery products ecolabelling which is based on FAO standards.Up to Feb.2006 the fishery organizations that had got the certification and those that had still been under ecolabelling examination had each numbered twenty-two,mainly from the advanced western countries,and there had been over 200 retailers dealing in more than 330 fishery products labelled with fishery products ecolabelling for circulation certified by MSC.Based on the foreign information collected and collected the paper briefly focuses on the principles,criteria,circulation and implementation of the MSC certification as well as the suggestions for the MSC in order to provide reference for the marine fisheries administration and specialists in our country.


Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations can reduce pediatric, adolescent, and young adult (PAYA) cancer survivors' susceptibility to HPV-related subsequent cancers. We examined differences in HPV vaccination initiation and completion among a Utah-based cohort of PAYA cancer survivors and a cancer-free population sample. Participants received primary care at 1 of 2 health care systems during study follow-up: 2006-2016. Vaccination records were identified from these health care systems, statewide vaccination records, and an all-payer claims database. HPV vaccination initiation (1 dose) and completion (3 doses) were compared between cancer survivors (N=1579) and age-matched and sex-matched cancer-free population sample (N=4513). Individuals were 9 to 21 years old at cohort entry. Mixed-effects Poisson regression estimated incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Relative to the population sample, cancer survivors were less likely to initiate vaccination (IRR=0.8, 95% CI: 0.73-0.98). The most severe disparity compared with the population sample for vaccine initiation (IRR=0.5, 95% CI: 0.31-0.74) or completion (IRR=0.5, 95% CI: 0.28-0.89) was observed for Hispanic survivors. PAYA cancer survivors are less likely to initiate HPV vaccination series than noncancer counterparts. Targeted interventions should be directed at PAYA survivors to raise HPV vaccination with emphasis on high-risk groups such as Hispanic survivors.


Objective We aimed to examine whether impaired olfaction is associated with cognitive decline and indicators of neurodegeneration in the brain of dementia-free older adults. Methods Within the Rush Memory and Aging Project, 380 dementia-free participants (mean age = 78 years) were followed for up to 15 years, and underwent MRI scans. Olfactory function was assessed using the Brief Smell Identification Test (B-SIT) at baseline, and categorized as anosmia (B-SIT <6), hyposmia (B-SIT 6–10 in men and 6–10.25 in women), and normal (B-SIT 10.25–12 in men and 10.5–12 in women). Cognitive function was annually assessed with a battery of 21 tests, from which composite scores were derived. Structural total and regional brain volumes were estimated. Data were analyzed using linear regression and mixed-effects models. Results At study entry, 138 (36.3%) had normal olfactory function, 213 (56.1%) had hyposmia, and 29 (7.6%) had anosmia. In multiadjusted mixed-effects models, hyposmia (β = −0.03, 95% confidence interval [CI] −0.05 to −0.02) and anosmia (β = −0.13, 95% CI −0.16 to −0.09) were associated with faster rate of cognitive decline compared to normal olfaction. On MRI, impaired olfaction (hyposmia or anosmia) was related to smaller volumes of the hippocampus (β = −0.19, 95% CI −0.33 to −0.05), and in the entorhinal (β = −0.16, 95% CI −0.24 to −0.08), fusiform (β = −0.45, 95% CI −0.78 to −0.14), and middle temporal (β = −0.38, 95% CI −0.72 to −0.01) cortices. Conclusion Impaired olfaction predicts faster cognitive decline and might indicate neurodegeneration in the brain among dementia-free older adults.


The invention relates to an atenolol and amlodipine bilayer tablet. Particularly, the invention relates to a bilayer tablet comprising a first tablet layer and a second tablet layer, wherein the first tablet layer contains atenolol as an active constituent and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or accessory, and the second tablet layer contains amlodipine as an active constituent or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or accessory. The invention also provides a preparation method of the bilayer tablet. The bilayer tablet provided by the invention not only has favorable stability, but also has favorable dissolution rate.


Graphene oxide (GO) and titanium dioxide-graphene oxide (TiO2-GO) composites were prepared by microwave technique at power of 500 W and for 10 min. The crystalline structure, chemical structure and morphological of graphite, GO and TiO2-GO were investigated in this study. The morphology of GO and TiO2-GO composites were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It showed that the TiO2-GO composites seem to consist of TiO2 particles aggregated on the top of graphene oxide layer. The strong peak in the XRD pattern of natural graphite appears at 2θ = 26.6°, corresponding with the interlayer spacing of 0.329 nm while the GO pattern shows a characteristic peak at 2θ = 11.8° is assigned to (002) inter-planar spacing of 0.736 nm, indicating the presence of oxygen-containing functional groups formed during oxidation. These groups cause the GO sheets to stack more loosely, and the interlayer spacing increases from 0.329 nm to 0.736 nm. Additionally, XRD pattern for the TiO2-GO composites at 2θ = 25.3° can be ascribed to the anatase phase of TiO2 (JCPDF 21-1272), which is significantly different from the natural graphite and graphene oxide.


Sharing, as a system of social practices, arises in the context of the digital economy. The latter requires a change in the basic ownership model. Classical idea of unlimited private property does not meet the new conditions for the production and consumption of goods and services. Sharing platforms that provide individuals with mutual access to private resources through digital technologies are a result of targeted programming and regulation of social relations. A feature of «joint consumption» is the contradiction between the non-commercial nature of access to private resources and their consumption and the commercial nature of the platform organization. In the regulatory sphere, this contradiction is expressed in the fact that the platforms commercially regulate social relations, while simultaneously solving the tasks of ensuring the non-commercial nature of interaction between users, protecting their interests and legitimizing their regulatory activities in the eyes of users. The development perspective is associated with the evolution of trust systems towards in the blockchain type.


This article is devoted to use of offshore structures (companies) in construction business. Theoretical aspects of this problem are affected, in particular questions of legal forms of the offshore companies which are actively used also by construction companies. The parallel between use of the offshore in construction business of Russia and Singapore is drawn, meaning a construction boom in both countries. Requirements to the Singapore offshore company conducting different types of construction including high-rise construction are in detail considered.


This paper describes the application of black-box models for fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) in heating, ventilat-ing, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. In this study, mul-tiple-input/single-output (MISO) ARX models and artificial neural network (ANN) models are used. The ARX models are examined for different processes and subprocesses and compared with each other. Two types of models are established--system models and component mod-els. In the case of system models, the HVAC system as a whole is regarded as a black box insteati of as a collection of compo-nent models. With the component model type, the components of the HVAC system are regarded as separate black boxes


This chapter explores the highly original contribution that Tony Harrison made to the world of ancient Greek drama performance through his ground-breaking production, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus. This created a change in attitude towards the play fragment, which was often overlooked by playwrights and directors in favour of its complete tragic counterparts, such as Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Oedipus. Harrison gave the ancient 'lost' play an opportunity to publicly grace the stage again, in a world in which the context and relevancy of the satyr play had been forgotten. The chapter discusses how Harrison engaged with the surviving approximately 400 lines of script that were discovered in an Egyptian rubbish heap, and rather than attempting to 'complete' the play, with his own interpretation of what may have concluded the original, bookended the script with new scenes. He used the relatively unknown light-hearted genre of the satyr play to open discussion about serious contemporary topics such as class, education, and social disillusionment in 1980s Britain, through the lens of the ancient. Harrison's utterly original approach has influenced playwrights and directors not only to engage with the fragmented plays of Ancient Greece but also to utilize this new approach to have open discourse on contemporary issues.


Based on PNI11096 magnetic sensor data acquisition system can be used for path recognition of automatic guided vehicle (AGV). The use of the magnetic field on the path to produce paving soft magnetic strip, AGV at run time through the sensor detects the current relative to the magnetic field strength of soft magnetic data will be returned in the STM32 chip data processing after two values through the open collector output 16 bit IO, provide location information for AGV.


Lightweight models are pivotal in efficient semantic segmentation, but they often suffer from insufficient context information due to limited convolution and small receptive field. To address this problem, we propose a tailored approach to efficient semantic segmentation by leveraging two complementary distillation schemes for supplementing context information to small networks: 1) a self-attention distillation scheme, which transfers long-range context knowledge adaptively from large teacher networks to small student networks; and 2) a layer-wise context distillation scheme, which transfers structured context from deep layers to shallow layers within student networks for promoting semantic consistency of the shallow layers. Extensive experiments on the ADE20K, Cityscapes, and Camvid datasets well demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposal.


The invention discloses a technology combining horizontal drilling and profile control blocking. The problem that the requirements of thick reservoir exploitation cannot be met by independently using a profile control technique or a horizontal drilling technique due to the fact that severe ineffective injection-production circulation and portions relatively rich in surplus oil exist in a thick reservoir is solved. Specifically, profile control blocking is conducted at high-permeation portions; horizontal drilling is conducted at low-permeation portions; the pitch particle profile control mode is adopted for profile control blocking; and the hydraulic jet drilling mode is adopted for the horizontal drilling. Profile control blocking and horizontal drilling fully implement measure complementation advantages to effectively exploit the surplus oil in the thick reservoir while the ineffective circulation is controlled, and therefore water control and oil increase are achieved simultaneously, and the effective technological technique is explored for efficient thick reservoir exploitation.


We study optimal (information) mediation in sender-receiver communication games where the sender has transparent motives: she only cares about the receiver's actions and beliefs. We characterize the feasible distributions over the receiver's beliefs under mediation and the value of mediation. The sender achieves her optimal Bayesian persuasion value by mediation if and only if this value is attained by cheap talk. When the state is binary, mediation strictly improves on cheap talk if and only if the sender cannot do better than under cheap talk by always under -- or over -- stating the state.


Rationale and Objectives:To evaluate a large area, cesium iodide amorphous silicon flat-panel detector (CsI/a-Si) at 3 tube voltages to detect simulated interstitial lung disease, nodules, and catheters. Methods:Simulated interstitial lung disease, nodules, and catheters were superimposed over a chest phantom. Images were generated at 125 kVp, 90 kVp, and 70 kVp at the same surface dose and reduced effective dose equivalent for 90 kVp and 70 kVp and printed on hard copies. Fifty-four thousand observations were analyzed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC). Results:Detectability of linear, miliary, reticular pattern, and nodules over lucent lung as well as of catheters and nodules over obscured chest areas increased at 90 and/or 70 kVp with higher Az values; however, only it was statistically significant for reticular pattern at 70 kVp and nodules at 90 kVp compared with 125 kVp (P <0.05). The detection of ground-glass pattern was worse at lower kVp (P >0.05). Conclusion:For most simulated patterns, differences in diagnostic performance at 70 kVp/90 kVp and 125 kVp were not significant, except for reticular pattern and nodules over lucent lung.


High toughness for the prior art special plate are adding a large amount of alloy elements, complex production process, significantly higher cost problems, the present invention provides a method for preparing a low-carbon manganese strength and toughness in thick plate, which belongs to the field of metallurgy. Mass percentage of chemical components of the steel: C: 0.08 ~ 0.15%, Mn: 3.20 ~ 8.50%, Si: 0.12 ~ 0.36%, S: <0.01%, P: <0.01%, Al: 0.01 ~ 0.05 %, Mo: 0.22 ~ 0.86%, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; a steel sheet of a thickness of 80 ~ 140mm; preparation method of (1) hot rolling: the forging stock hot rolled to a thickness of 80 140mm heat ~ rolled sheet, then the sheet at / s cooling rate of 0.5 ~ 5 ℃ cooled to room temperature; (2) tempering treatment: quenching after hot rolling the sheet into a heating furnace and heated, air cooled to room temperature and then removed, to obtain a final composite tissue products tempered martensite and austenite reverse transformation. The steel sheet added with only trace amounts of expensive alloying elements, significantly reduces cost; preparation method of the steel is simple, easy to realize industrial production.


The effect of 17 kinds of amino acids on protein content was studied in 45 kinds of peanut seeds.Based on the multiple linear regression analysis,12 kinds of amino acids were used to make correlation analysis and path analysis on protein content.The analysis showed the direct and indirect effects in orde to provide theoretical basis for peanut breeding.


Cervical agenesis is an uncommon Mullerian anomaly with occurrence of 1 in 80, 000-1, 00, 000 births. Presentation is typically cyclic abdominal pain and primary amenorrhoea. Patients can be considered for canalisation surgeries but most of them eventually end up in hysterectomy due to recanalisation. We report here a case of cervical agenesis and the dilemmas in its management. Case Report: 17 years old unmarried girl presented to our OPD with primary amenorrhoea and acute abdominal pain. MRI was suggestive of lower vaginal atresia, gross hematometra, hematocolpos and hematosalpinx .Examination revealed normal secondary sexual characters and a blind ending vagina.Dilemmas in diagnosis, options of management and comparison with other national and international studies will be discussed.


We consider an isotropic and homogeneous universe in loop quantum cosmology (LQC). We assume that the matter content of the universe is dominated by dust matter in early time and a phantom matter at late time which constitutes the dark energy component. The quantum gravity modifications to the Friedmann equation in this model indicate that the classical big bang singularity and the future big rip singularity are resolved and are replaced by quantum bounce. It turns out that the big bounce and recollapse in the herein model contribute to a cyclic scenario for the universe. We then study the quantum theory of a massive, nonminimally coupled scalar field undergoing cosmological evolution from primordial bounce towards the late time bounce. In particular, we solve the Klein–Gordon equation for the scalar field in the primordial and late time regions, in order to investigate particle production phenomena at late time. By computing the energy density of created particles at late time, we show that this density is negligible in comparison to the quantum background density at Planck era. This indicates that the effects of quantum particle production do not influence the future bounce.


THE INFLUENCE OF MENTAL STATUS ON EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPETITIVE ACTIVITY OF QUALIFIED PLAYERS IN TABLE TENNIS G.V. Barchukova, Dr.Hab. A.V. Rodionov, professor, Dr.Phil. Russian state university of physical culture, sport and tourism, Moscow Key words: mental conditions, personal anxiety, mental tension, competitive activity, table tennis. The purpose of the present research was to determine the level of impact of mental status on effectiveness of competitive activity of qualified players in table tennis. The practical role of the given research is to allocate specific features of behavior of table tennis players, develop recommendations on prediction of possible actions in certain game situations and to apply methods means of regulation of their mental statuses in the course of competitive activity. Methods and organization of the research. The studies were carried out using such methods as: - analysis of literature sources, - questionnaire, - psychological test (Luscher test, diagnostics of quasistationary potential and methods of mathematical statistics). The study resulted in the conclusions. Male master of sport of Russia in table tennis were observed in the research. The total number of tennisplayers, masters of sport interrogated amounted to 8 persons. Their meetings were subjected to analysis. The conducted research promoted allocation of optimum mental statuses of elite table tennis-players with different level of personal anxiety. There were allocated specific features of display of activity parameters, effectiveness and stability in competitive activity of elite tennis-players depending on situational personal anxiety. The data of the results of the study of mental statuses of tennis-players before, during and after competition laid the basis for practical recommendations, promoting increase of effectiveness of performance of elite table tennis-players in important competitions.


Directional wave statistics can be used to optimize the design of offshore structures which are not symmetrical. Unfortunately there does not appear to be any consensus on how directional design criteria should be developed or used. Using simple examples, we show that commonly used methods are unconservative. In order to preserve the reliability given by designing to omnidirectional criteria, the product of the probabilities of nonexceedance from all of the direction bands must equal the omnidirectional probability. We suggest a simple method for assuring consistency between omnidirectional and directional criteria.


Using a principal-agent framework, many analytical studies have examined the role of non-financial or additional performance measures in enhancing long-run efforts such as customer service. However, myopic activities that enhance short-term firm performance at the expense of long-term profitability are prevalent across industries (and perhaps nations). Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate when and how non-financial measures may be used to control such myopic activities. Specifically, we investigate the interaction between a myopic behaviour known as hard selling and a specific non-financial measure (customer satisfaction), often used to measure the customer irritation that results from hard selling. Prior studies suggest that non-financial measures are always a valuable addition because they increase the level of long-run efforts and decrease the (over) reliance on financial incentives. In contrast, we find that non-financial measures may not always be valuable in controlling myopic activities, and when valuable, they may either increase or decrease the reliance on a financial measure such as accounting earnings. In addition, the impact of non-financial measures on myopic activities varies widely, ranging from no impact at all to complete elimination. Overall, these insights enhance our understanding of the role of non-financial measures in controlling myopic activities, in contrast to enhancing long-run efforts.


We describe and implement a structural search methodology which divides the global configuration space into enumerable subspaces, termed isopointal sets, and then searches within them using simulated annealing. This division allows us to follow a natural order for searching the infinite global configuration space, by respecting the observed tendency for molecular or colloidal particles to form crystals with a very limited set of local environments and symmetries. The method also produces near-optimal structural candidates with each symmetry searched, a useful feature for systems exhibiting polymorphic crystallization. We have applied this to dense packing simply-connected hard shapes in two dimensions, but the same method is applicable to optimizing arbitrary Hamiltonians, or ab-initio structural searches in higher dimensions.


AbstractA cohesive finite element model is employed to study the dynamic crack growth mechanisms in different materials. Dynamic crack propagation is analyzed numerically for a 2D square specimen with prescribed initial microcracks subjected to tensile loading conditions. In the cohesive zone model, the initial microcracks or defects are set up as traction-free interfacial surfaces in the specimen plane. The phenomena of microcrack initiation, nucleation, growth, coalescence, and propagation are captured from the simulation. The numerical simulation results have shown that the initially prescribed mircocrack or defect direction will result in a different macrocrack propagation path and crack branching path.


This study was undertaken to identify metabolites associated with BMI and waist circumference (WC) in women and to determine whether these metabolites are associated with biomarkers of metabolic health.


Involvement of different stakeholders in nature conservation is becoming more important as a con sequence of paradigm shift in conservation taken place in recent decades. The concept and methods of social engagement and participation are, however, still not widely known and recognized within the conservation community. One reason for this is that conservation professionals usually do not have a frequent encounter with the social science approach and knowledge system during their education or day-to-day work. In this paper we discuss the definition, criteria and importance of participation in conservation by providing an insight into social science approaches and highlight-ing the paradigm shift in ecology. Hungarian case studies are cited illustrating that participation enriches and diversifies the community's knowledge, values and perspectives, resulting in better decisions and increased acceptance of the decisions. Increased awareness and knowledge of par ticipation theory and methods therefore enhances the success of conservation in the long run and is strategically important to support conservation professionals with the accessible knowledge and tools provided by social science.


Due to the rapid diffusion of social mobile payment (SMP), the current research explores the post-adoption behavior of SMP users. It proposes a research model to determine the core predictors of users' continuance intentions to use SMPs. Through the analysis of survey data from South Korea, it indicates that satisfaction strongly and positively affects users' continuance intentions. Moreover, satisfaction is influenced by perceived usefulness (PU), security, and enjoyment. Interestingly, although perceived ease of use (PEU) does not directly affect satisfaction, it can indirectly influence satisfaction via users' PU and perceived enjoyment. Furthermore, perceived ubiquity has strong effects on users' PU and PEU. The study also discusses meaningful implications, and provides suggestions for future studies.


In this study, effects of wood species and profile type at mistered profiled corner joints on the diagonal compression strength were researched. Two profile types were applied to the mitered ends of samples from Beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) and Scotch pine (Pinus silvestris L.)which are widely used in furniture industry as wood as species. The length of profile is longer from the other. PVA glues was used as binder. 80 samples were prepared according to the ASTM 143-88 and applied diagonal compression strength test to them. The highest diagonal compression strengths were obtained with samples from Beech wood and have longer profile

Keywords: Finger Joint, Scotch pine, Beech, Diagonal Compression Strength


Arabian Gulf has experienced a great transition in the last decades. Largely due to high petrol incomes, it has been financed in a lop-sided way. Nowadays, these oil-rich countries are looking for ways to move out of this situation by diversifying their income channels. Ironically, one of these channels has been renewable energy research which will enable these countries to deploy more of these technologies in their own grids and to become regional and global leaders in that area. In other words, oil revenues are utilized to investigate ways of phasing them out of our daily lives. This paper looks at renewable energy research efforts in the Gulf region at large and in Qatar in particular. The current situation of the national grids and their sources, electricity prices are investigated to estimate the benefits of a possible move to renewable energy based smartgrid infrastructure. Finally, knowledge gaps are identified and further steps are recommended for a successful and smooth transition.


We present a model for a feedback-controlled ratchet consisting of a Brownian particle and a moving, finite barrier that is shifted by an external agent depending on the position of the particle. By modifying the value of a single parameter of the feedback protocol, the model can act either as a pure rectifier, a power-stroke (PS) motor, or a combination of both. Interestingly, in certain situations the motor reaches a maximum efficiency for an intermediate value of that parameter, i.e., for a combination of the information ratchet and the PS mechanisms. We relate our results to the biological motors kinesin, myosin II, and myosin V, finding that these motors operate in a regime of length scales and forces where the efficiency is maximized for a combination of rectification and PS mechanisms.


Neointima formation is the major limitation to the use of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in the treatment of coronary artery disease. It is caused by the proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) from the media into the intima resulting in narrowing of the luminal diameter. The ELN -/- mouse exhibits a similar phenotype in which overproliferation of SMCs into the lumen leads to obstruction of the aorta causing death at post-natal day 2.5. Based on this observation, a DNA microarray analysis of the ELN -/- aorta was conducted to identify candidate genes responsible for SMC proliferation and migration. Through this process thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1), an extracellular matrix glycoprotein implicated in SMC proliferation and migration, was identified as one of the genes upregulated in the ELN -/- aorta. This result was verified through RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry. To determine the role of TSP-1 in neointima formation, a mouse microsurgery model to simulate balloon angioplasty using the femoral artery was established. This procedure was then performed on TSP-1 +/+ and -/- mice. No difference in the extent of neointima formation was observed 28 days following surgery. However, extensive thrombus formation was observed in the TSP-1 -/- vessel, an unexpected finding of the original study. These results suggest that although TSP-1 is not involved in proliferation and migration of SMCs following balloon angioplasty, it is a critical factor in the regulation of thrombus growth following vascular injury.


Counting k-cliques in a graph is an important problem in graph analysis with many applications. Counting k-cliques is typically done by traversing search trees starting at each vertex in the graph. An important optimization is to eliminate search tree branches that discover the same clique redundantly. Eliminating redundant clique discovery is typically done via graph orientation or pivoting. Parallel implementations for both of these approaches have demonstrated promising performance on CPUs. In this paper, we present our GPU implementations of k-clique counting for both the graph orientation and pivoting approaches. Our implementations explore both vertex-centric and edge-centric parallelization schemes, and replace recursive search tree traversal with iterative traversal based on an explicitly-managed shared stack. We also apply various optimizations to reduce memory consumption and improve the utilization of parallel execution resources. Our evaluation shows that our best GPU implementation outperforms the best state-of-the-art parallel CPU implementation by a geometric mean speedup of 12.39×, 6.21×, and 18.99× for k = 4, 7, and 10, respectively. We also evaluate the impact of the choice of parallelization scheme and the incremental speedup of each optimization. Our code will be open-sourced to enable further research on parallelizing k-clique counting on GPUs.


Q uantum chromodynamics, familiarly called QCD, is the modern theory of the strong interaction. 1 Historically its roots are in nuclear physics and the description of ordinary matter—understand-ing what protons and neutrons are and how they interact. Nowadays QCD is used to describe most of what goes on at high-energy accelerators. Twenty or even fifteen years ago, this activity was commonly called " testing QCD. " Such is the success of the theory, that we now speak instead of " calculating QCD backgrounds " for the investigation of more speculative phenomena. For example, discovery of the heavy W and Z bosons that mediate the weak interaction, or of the top quark, would have been a much more difficult and uncertain affair if one did not have a precise, reliable understanding of the more common processes governed by QCD. With regard to things still to be found, search strategies for the Higgs particle and for manifestations of supersymmetry depend on detailed understanding of production mechanisms and backgrounds calculated by means of QCD. Quantum chromodynamics is a precise and beautiful theory. One reflection of this elegance is that the essence of QCD can be portrayed, without severe distortion, in the few simple pictures at the bottom of the box on the next page. But first, for comparison, let me remind you that the essence of quantum electrodynamics (QED), which is a generation older than QCD, can be portrayed by the single picture at the top of the box, which represents the interaction vertex at which a photon responds to the presence or motion of electric charge. 2 This is not just a metaphor. Quite definite and precise algorithms for calculating physical processes are attached to the Feynman graphs of QED, constructed by connecting just such interaction vertices. In the same pictorial language, QCD appears as an expanded version of QED. Whereas in QED there is just one kind of charge, QCD has three different kinds of charge, labeled by " color. " Avoiding chauvinism, we might choose red, green, and blue. But, of course, the color charges of QCD have nothing to do with physical colors. Rather, they have properties analogous to electric charge. In particular, the color charges are conserved in all physical processes, and there are photon-like massless particles , called color gluons, that respond in appropriate ways to the presence or motion of color charge, very similar to the …


The change in the potential ϕ between the bulk of two phases can be measured with reasonable accuracy. A basic assumption, which is generally made in the model theory of the electrical double layer is that one knows the surface potential ψ. This inevitably leads to the conception of the χ potential of Lange-Verwey. This χ potential between AgI and solution is treated in the present article.

The concentrations of the Ag+ and I− ions at the zero point of charge in water-acetone mixtures are measured. There is a sharp increase in this Ag+ ion concentration in the mixture up to 10 mole % acetone. This shift can be explained by the oriented adsorption of acetone on AgI, creating a change in the χ potential. The change in the free enthalpy of solvation of the Ag+ and I− ions can be deduced from the concentration measured at the zero point of charge at higher acetone concentrations.

The shift is compared with the influence of some surface-active substances on the polarised Hg electrode. The inference from it is that even in aqueous solutions the χ potential changes as a function of surface charge.


Web traffic is exposed to potential eavesdroppers, and despite the use of encryption mechanisms, it has been shown vulnerable to side-channel attacks which reveal information about its contents. Although various countermeasures against such attacks have been proposed, the lack of mathematical foundations for reasoning about information leaks in web traffic has prevented the development of provably secure countermeasures. In this thesis, we develop a novel framework for reasoning about information leakage in web traffic. We propose flexible models of web applications, web browsing and web traffic, and develop two security models based on different notions of security: (1) an attacker's knowledge about the possible secret values contained in the web traffic, and (2) the probability of an attacker to guess the secret values. In those models, we formalize countermeasures and network protocols, defining them as compositions of several basic building blocks. We use this framework to perform formal analysis of various aspects of information leakage in web traffic. We design principles for countermeasure composition which strengthens security, as well as investigate the utilization of structural properties of web applications to design countermeasures which provide strong security guarantees. Additionally, we leverage and extend results from quantitative information flow to design algorithms for calculating security guarantees. Furthermore, we investigate the differences in the proposed security models, as well as the role of caching to the security of web applications. Finally, we perform two case studies empirically measuring the performance of countermeasures to a sample of web applications. We propose a methodology for dealing with computational challenges arising during practical analysis, and discuss the results of the case studies.


Plasma antennas are becoming an increasingly interesting research topic because of their uncommon characteristics. They are highly configurable, can be turned on and off rapidly, and exhibit lower thermal noise compared to metal antennas. In recent years, research has been conducted on cylindrical plasma columns sustained by DC, RF or microwave field, and their application as leaky wave antennas or as regular monopole antennas. Dielectric resonator antennas (DRA) with high dielectric permittivity are known for their small size and excellent operating characteristics for modern mobile communications (WiMAX, LTE). Hemispherical dielectric resonator antennas are characterized by simple shape, high radiation efficiency and wide bandwidth. Hemispherical DRA with a low density weakly ionized plasma as dielectric material will combine the positive features of plasma and dielectric antennas, and is particularly interesting, as antennas of this type have not been studied yet. The hemispherical plasma antenna is simulated with Ansoft HFSS in the microwave S-band. Obtained radiation pattern and bandwidth show the advantages of hemispherical plasma antennas for future communication technology.


Wet and dry etching is employed in the fabrication of new planar thin-film multijunction thermal converters (MJTCs) on quartz membranes and crystalline quartz chips at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The use of crystalline quartz as a material for the membrane and chip improves the performance of the MJTC in the frequency range of 100 kHz-100 MHz. Simulations of the ac-dc voltage transfer difference for a heater resistance of 400 Omega in the frequency range of 1-100 MHz show a reduction in the ac-dc transfer difference of more than one order of magnitude, in comparison with the MJTCs fabricated on silicon chips. The devices that have been fabricated, although not optimized for 100 MHz, have been shown to have reasonable performance for their 20-V maximum input.


The Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R. v. Gladue2 clarified the duty of sentencing judges to consider background and systemic factors in sentencing Aboriginal offenders. In this appeal, the Court had to consider the appropriate interpretation of section 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code where an Aboriginal woman, Marie Gladue, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of her common law husband. The offence took place in the town of Nanaimo, British Columbia. Ms. Gladue was one of nine children of a Cree mother and Metis father, born in McLennan, Alberta. She had been living with the deceased, Reuben Beaver, since she was 17 years old and they had one daughter, with another child on the way when he was killed. The relationship included a history of physical and alcohol abuse. The night he died, the two had been drinking and fighting over whether the deceased was having an affair with the accused's sister. Mr. Beaver was fatally stabbed in the heart.


Optimal inequalities involving the p-Yang means are established. Bounding quantities are either the arithmetic or geometric or the harmonic combinations of the p-geometric and the p-quadratic means.


We present a method for VP layout design, i.e., for planning VP routes with prescribed capacities, such that they fit in the given physical network. The method is based on multicommodity flows, combined with a special way of randomised rounding. The main novelty of the proposed approach is that we resolve the "speed vs. guaranteed quality" dilemma. The algorithm runs in polynomial time, allowing a quick practical solution, and we can still provide proven guarantees for the solution, as opposed to heuristic approaches. We show via a numerical example that even in case of a simple network configuration our method can outperform the frequently used greedy approach by almost 50%.


This is na article based on a speech analysis, in accordance with Orlandi (2001), order to analyze discursive formations concerning social integration of Handicapped People – HP, from 1981 through 2001. The analytical device was constituted by the corpus of the analysis, composed of texts on the integration of the HP, of guiding questions on the analyses and of the thought of authors from several fields that supported the analysis. The analytical process exposed discursive formations of the State, of the Rehabilitation Team, of society, family and HP concerning social integration, clearing questions opeople. Keywords: Community health nursing, socialization, activities of daily living, disolbled persons.


Melanoma is an invasive malignancy and in fact the most common form of fatal skin cancer with increasing incidence in many parts of the world


Romania is presently in a period of transition in all aspects of social, economic and political. In this situation and undergo a permanent transformation law and taxation is an endless string of mysteries and dilemmas, sometimes difficult to solve, the effects of which are able to produce systematic distortions major economic, social or political. Any state can exist without a financial system that ensures operation of all central and local institutions and organizations. Given the importance of revenue collection of the principle of equality before the law, the legislature has established a system to prevent violations, and sanctioning those who fall into the trap evasion.


PURPOSE: To obtain a lightweight liquid storage or transport container capable of being strongly stacked and having high strength and beautiful appearance. CONSTITUTION: A lid part 20 and a container main body part 30 are separately molded by injection molding and welded in an up-and-down direction to constitute a container 10. The upper surface of the lid part of the container 10 is formed into a trapezoidal shape and the recessed part 35 in which the trapezoidal part of the lid part is fitted is fomed to the bottom main body part. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO&Japio


In our guinea-pig breeding unit some difficulty has been experienced in providing adequate, clean drinking water. When open pots were used the water rapidly became fouled, whilst bottles which had a nozzle were rapidly emptied by the animals playing with the nozzle, not only depriving the animals of water but also flooding the litter tray. The drinking bottle described here overcomes these problems and has other advantages.


All EU member states have established a long-term renovation strategy (LTRS) and have updated it twice to support renovation of their national building stock to be highly energy efficient and decarbonised by 2050. The new revision of the EPBD is already under way to accelerate progress on climate change mitigation. This paper is an assessment of the third and latest Finnish long-term renovation strategy for 2020–2050 from a low-carbon perspective covering the emissions of energy renovation products as well as heating energy consumption. The renovation strategy of Finland directs measures to structural improvements, more efficient use of building service technologies and changes in heating systems. The measures will reduce CO2 emissions by more than 90% compared to 2020. Only 3–4 percent of emission savings in operational energy are required to offset emissions in accordance with the strategy measures. The measures will meet the CO2 emissions reduction targets of EPBD and Fit for 55 by 2030.


On this control study,We found the discriminating contents of endothelin-1(ET-1)between plasma and cerebrospinal fluid(CSF)that represent different clinic significance.The ET- 1 contents increased simultaneously in plasma and CSF when encephalorrhagia occur,the higher ET-1 contents in plasma than in CSF when simple cerebral parenchymatous hemorrhagia exist.The ET-1 increased significantly between plasma and CSF when cerebral parenchymatous and subarachnoid hemorrhagia exist.The ET-1 contents almost had no significant change in plasma when small amount contrast with midium or large amount cerebral hemorrhagia,but when large amount cerebral hemorrhagia the ET-1 contents in CSF were higher that plasma.This study indicated that increased CSF ET-1 contents in plasma of encephalorrhagia patients may correlate with human body stress reaction and increased CSF ET-1 contents may correlate with impaired blood brain burrier and periventricular tissues,hypothalamus,choroid plexus and meninges were impaired and irritate which stimulating relase raised.


Two liquefaction cycles for LNG (liquefied natural gas) production are compared in this paper. One is a well known MR (mixed refrigerant) JT cycle with two phase separators and four heat exchangers. Another one is the novel concept of hybrid cycle, which is to replace the last stage JT expansion with a turbine expander. The inlet flow to the turbine expander is deliberately warmed up by NG (natural gas) stream to guarantee superheated vapor phase and increase useful work. The turbine expander is to extract pressure exergy and reduce entropy generation by producing work and alleviating work requirement in the compressor. This paper describes the detailed processes of hybrid JT‐expander cycle and the quantitative comparison results by HYSYS simulation under some realistic physical constraints.


Background: The prevalence of dental and oral disease in Indonesia is still high (57.6%) and the most cases are dental caries and periodontal disease. Adolescents during puberty are prone to oral health problems, so they need attention from dental and oral health care programs. Preventive measures against dental and oral diseases need to be carried out in adolescents so that there are no disturbances in function, activity, and work productivity which will affect quality of life. Technological developments require innovation to detect oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in adolescents early. Objective: To determine the relationship between motivation and dental health self-care behavior with the quality of life of adolescents using the Oral Health Impact profile-14 or OHIP-14 questionnaire. Method: This type of research is observational analytic with a cross sectional design. The research location is at the Junior High School in the Sleman Regency area. The sample was 100 teenagers aged 12-15 years. The sampling technique was carried out using purposive sampling. The data analysis used was bivariate analysis using chi-square correlation to determine the relationship between motivation and dental health behavior and quality of life in adolescents. Results: There is a significant relationship between motivation and quality of life (p=0.004; OR=4.74). Adolescents with low motivation have a tendency to have a low quality of life 4.74 times compared to adolescents with high motivation. There is a significant relationship between dental health self-care behavior and quality of life (p=0.041; OR= 5.47). Adolescents with bad behavior tend to have a lower quality of life 5.47 times compared to adolescents with good dental health behavior. Conclusion: There is a relationship between motivation and dental health self-care behavior and quality of life in adolescents.
Keywords: Motivation, Behavior, Quality of Life of Adolescents


The effects of an organic co-solvent on the carboxypeptidase Y-catalyzed condensation of Cbz-Phe and Gly-NH2were investigated with respect to both the apparent equilibrium yield and the kinetics of the condensation reaction. The highest yield was obtained in a 50% DMSO solution.After measuring the solvent-induced deactivation of the enzyme, the time-course of the peptide condensation was examined, and the initial velocity was analyzed. When the concentration of the carboxyl (C) component was fixed, reciprocal plots showed a linear relationship. Furthermore, the lines for different concentrations of the fixed components were not parallel, thus indicating that the condensation reaction did not proceed by a Ping-Pong Bi–Bi mechanism. With fixed concentrations of the amine (A) component and various concentrations of Cbz-Phe, the initial velocity did not yield simple saturation profiles, but showed an apparent substrate inhibition. The data for lower concentrations of the C-component indicated that the recipro...


This extended abstract describes our experience in implementing the distributed features of Ada 9X in the GNAT compiler 7], a free Ada9X compiler which is part of the GCC compiler system. As members of the GNAT team, we have been working on the semantics of the distribution model for the language and have proposed a general implementation model. We have used PVM as a prototyping tool to validate our proposals as rapidly as possible 5, 6].


Internet-based data intensive sensor networks (DISNs) are sensor networks wherein large volume of different types of sensory data are sensed and generated from the physical world, and queried by multiple users simultaneously. One critical issue in Internet-based DISNs is how to support multiple user queries simultaneously in an efficient manner, in terms of query response time, query loss ratio and sensor node energy consumption. In this paper, we formulate and study {\em multi-user data query problem in DISNs} and present our solution. Specifically, we present our design, implementation, and evaluation of LiteWS, a web service system aiming to enhance multi-user queries in Internet-based DISNs. We propose a simple caching technique and give an analytical model of how to reduce query loss ratio in our system. Through extensive experiments based on Crossbow IRIS motes, we evaluate the system performance of LiteWS under both correlated and uncorrelated query traffic. We show the performance with data caching is much better than the one without; particularly, the average query response time of LiteWS is improved 5 to 10 times and the query loss rate is improved 2 times.


A 61-year-old man presented with sudden onset of left-sided weakness and slurred speech that had started 1 h prior to presentation. He was a non-smoker and his medical history included hypertension and ischaemic heart disease for which he was receiving treatment. On examination he had dysarthria, dense left-sided hemiplegia and upper motor neurone lesion of the facial nerve. His initial brain CT was reported as …


Youth employment opportunities have been the priority by the Kenyan Government over the past years, and various policies have been implemented to assure the employment opportunities growth. Economic growth is reckoned to be essential since a positive growth rate will encourage inward investment and improve revenues, which can be spent on long-term public sector works. However, youth unemployment is a consistent problematic element in Kenya, affecting the economy to a large extent. The general objective of this study is to examine the relationship between youth unemployment and economic growth in Kenya. The specific objectives of the study are to investigate the causal relationship between youth unemployment and economic growth in Kenya and to analyze the effect of economic growth on youth unemployment in Kenya. The theories studied include the theory of surplus-value, Solow-swan model, Okun's law, and Keynesian theory, which explain the aspects of unemployment and economic growth. Secondary data was collected and used to illustrate the relationship between the variables, while the methodology used was the Granger causality test and OLS. A unidirectional causal relationship existed linking the two variables, where the lags of economic growth granger cause youth unemployment, and the coefficient between the two variables was positive. Hence Okun's law coefficient didn't apply when it comes to youth unemployment as opposed to the overall unemployment. However, the coefficient was statistically significant.


A. INTRODUCTION Studies that examine the impacts of education interventions on key student, teacher, and school outcomes typically collect data on large samples and on many outcomes. In analyzing these data, researchers typically conduct multiple hypothesis tests to address key impact evaluation questions. Tests are conducted to assess intervention effects for multiple outcomes, for multiple subgroups of schools or individuals, and sometimes across multiple treatment alternatives. In such instances, separate t-tests for each contrast are often performed to test the null hypothesis of no impacts, where the type I error rate (statistical significance level) is typically set at α = 5 percent for each test. This means that, for each test, the chance of erroneously finding a statistically significant impact is 5 percent. However, when the hypothesis tests are considered together, the " combined " type I error rate could be considerably larger than 5 percent. For example, if all null hypotheses are true, the chance of finding at least one spurious impact is 23 percent if 5 independent tests are conducted, 64 percent for 20 tests, and 92 percent for 50 tests (as discussed in more detail later in this report). Thus, without accounting for the multiple comparisons being conducted, users of the study findings may draw unwarranted conclusions. At the same time, statistical procedures that correct for multiple testing typically result in hypothesis tests with reduced statistical power—the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis given that it is false. Stated differently, these adjustment methods reduce the likelihood of identifying real differences between the contrasted groups. This is because controlling for multiple testing involves lowering the type I error rate for individual tests, with a resulting increase in the type II error rate. Simulation results presented later in this report show that if statistical power for an uncorrected individual test is 80 percent, the commonly-used Bonferroni adjustment procedure reduces statistical power to 59 percent if 5 tests are conducted, 41 percent for 20 tests, and 31 percent for 50 tests. Thus, multiplicity adjustment procedures can lead to substantial losses in statistical power. There is disagreement about the use of multiple testing procedures and the appropriate tradeoff between type I error and statistical power (type II error). Saville (1990) argues against multiplicity control to avoid statistical power losses, and that common sense and information from other sources should be used to protect against errors of interpretation. Cook and Farewell (1996) …


The temperature dependence of the nonlinearity constant in pure germanium has been estimated for longitudinal waves along [110] and [111] directions and for shear waves along [110] direction with polarization along [110] and [001] directions in the temperature range 25–293 K. The nonlinearity constant estimated from second order elastic constants and third order elastic constants has been further used to evaluate the ultrasonic attentuation at 475 MHz in Ge for (i) longitudinal waves along the [110] direction and (ii) for shear waves along the [110] directions. We have also estimated the nonlinearity constant and ultrasonic attenuation for longitudinal waves at 306 MHz along the [111] direction. The estimated values of attenuation have been compared with the experimental values of attenuation available in the literature. They are found to be in good agreement with the experimental values. The estimated values of nonlinearity constant increases with temperature for longitudinal waves whereas it shows a ne...


Ballistic electron emission microscopy studies of the Au/Si(100) interface have been performed at temperatures below 77 K for the first time. Spectra below 10 K show collector charging due to the high semiconductor resistivity. Results above 10 K demonstrate unambiguously that both quantum-mechanical phase and amplitude effects are required to describe electron transmission across a metal-semiconductor interface. Furthermore, the ballistic (collisionless) model of electron transmission across this interface is shown to be valid for a wide energy range


This study employed four approaches for estimating carbon storage in HWP,including the IPCC Default Approach,the Stock-Change Approach,the Production Approach,and the Atmospheric-flow Approach,according to the four criteria being feasibility of approach,accuracy of approach,the relevance to the reporting needs of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change( UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol( KP),and relevance to national policies. This study is to help policy-makers choose an approach to be used in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories under the IPCC Guidelines before it is mandatory to report the HWP for the Parties under the KP. We found that at the national level,the four approaches gave significantly different results and had different political,social-economic and environmental implications. Indeed,an internationally agreed approach was crucial to avoid double accounting or omission. However,all the approaches have both advantages and disadvantages concerning the achievement of political goals,while none of them is perfect. Then,this paper makes no policy recommendations as it is extremely complicated to take the direct and indirect incentives,as well as different scenarios assumed and conflicting policy goals into consideration.


Cessation of the management of semi-natural habitats such as grasslands and meadows contributes to secondary succession and encroachment of native and alien tall-growing perennials, large tussock grasses, shrubs, and trees. Thus, the formation of gaps in the plant canopy and litter, enabling seedling recruitment, appears to be a very effective method for the restoration of several plant communities. The main objective of the research was to assess the effect of the shape of openings on microenvironmental conditions and seedling recruitment in Molinietum caeruleae patches in various habitat conditions. In all study patches, circular and linear openings, comparable in area, were randomly created through the removal of plant canopy and litter layer. The circular gaps presented greater light availability and lower soil humidity than linear openings, while soil temperature within differently shaped openings was similar. Regardless of differences in microenvironmental conditions, the total number of seedlings in differently shaped gaps did not vary considerably. Three plant categories were found: (i) those recruited mostly in circular openings, (ii) those recruited mostly in linear gaps, (iii) those colonizing circular and linear gaps similarly. The colonizers of circular gaps represented various synecological groups (ruderal, grasslands and meadows, young tree communities) and diverse life forms (therophytes, hemicryptophytes, chamaephytes, phanerophytes), while the colonizers of linear gaps were meadow and grassland hemicryptophytes. The formation of linear openings contributes to increases in the abundance of meadow taxa, while the creation of circular openings may have a negative effect, contributing to the promotion of the secondary succession process.


"… Evaluation of wartime psychological writing requires consideration of three factors: (1) writing… must be submitted for approval… (2) psychology in the Armed Forces is science under an authoritarian regime… and (3) the ultimate judge of military psychology was usually not a psychologist… . It is submitted that the place for military psychologists is outside the Armed Forces, acting fully in an advisory capacity." (See also 21: 2556.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)


Extended Abstract. Renewable energy as a replacement for fossil fuels is highly desirable, but the reality is that fossil fuels(especially coal and petroleum) will be major sources of global energy for many decades to come. Therefore, CCS is vital to reduce release of carbon emissions and other GHG's to the atmosphere thereby mitigating global warming. The focus of this presentation is on the role of agriculture and soils in CCS. USDOE says that terrestrial carbon sequestration is both practical and effective. This presentation is a review of the role of agriculture and soils in CCS.


In this paper, we propose an efficient technique for solving some infinite-dimensional problems over the sets of functions of time. In our problem, besides the convex point-wise constraints on state variables, we have convex coupling constraints with finite-dimensional image. Hence, we can formulate a finite-dimensional dual problem, which can be solved by efficient gradient methods. We show that it is possible to reconstruct an approximate primal solution. In order to accelerate our schemes, we apply double-smoothing technique. As a result, our method has complexity O (1/[epsilon] ln 1/[epsilon]) gradient iterations, where [epsilon] is the desired accuracy of the solution of the primal-dual problem. Our approach covers, in particular, the optimal control problems with trajectory governed by a system of ordinary differential equations. The additional requirement could be that the trajectory crosses in certain moments of time some convex sets.


This study is to identify and analyze how the male gaze operates in Chicago Film (2002). Based on Male Gaze theory by Laura Mulvey used in this study, it focuses on the gaze of the man audiences when looks at the women. This study will identify several frames of scenes in the movie which focus on two female characters in this film in orderto identify and investigate how the male gaze operates in this film. Identifying this movie by using qualitative method of film studies, the writer identifiedthe aspects of narrative and non-narrative (camera shoots, camera angle, make-up and costume) and found that the movie carried much conviction that women are being the object of male gazeto fulfill the desire of the audiences especially the men.


ABSTRACT Much has been documented on the dismal education system in South Africa and how the country's Senior Phase learners are performing poorly in the international benchmarked tests. This paper aimed at investigating the study patterns and habits of Grade 8 and 9 learners in rural secondary schools. A purposive random sampling procedure was utilised to sample 45 Grade 8 and 9 learners from nine rural secondary schools. Five learners from each secondary school completed closed-ended self-administered questionnaires for this quantitative survey study. The findings of the study revealed that Senior Phase (Grade 8 and 9) learners are not being motivated and assisted by their parents to learn study. The study recommends that Senior Phase learners should be assisted with adopting study skills and strategies that can benefit them while studying. Reading material should be provided in order to instil love of reading among learners.


Abstract We consider stochastic scalar conservation laws with spatially inhomogeneous flux. The regularity of the flux function with respect to its spatial variable is assumed to be low, so that entropy solutions are not necessarily unique in the corresponding deterministic scalar conservation law. We prove that perturbing the system by noise leads to well-posedness.


(51) Int. Cl. A6 IK 38/12 (2006.01) A6IP3/00 (2006.01) A6IP 29/00 (2006.01) A6IP 25/00 (2006.01) A6IP II/00 (2006.01) Novel template-fixed B-hairpin peptidomimetics of the gen eral formula (I) wherein the single elements T or P are C.-amino acid residues connected in either direction which, depending on their positions in the chain, are as defined in the description and the claims, and salts thereof, have the prop erty to antagonize the receptor CCR10. They can be used as medicaments to treat or prevent diseases or conditions in the area of dermatological and cutaneous disorders, inflamma tion, allergic disorders, respiratory diseases, diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract, ophthalmic diseases, haematology and cancer. These B-hairpin peptidomimetics can be manufac tured by a process which is based on a mixed solidand Solution phase synthetic strategy.


A mismatch between patient demand and emergency departments (EDs)' capacity to deliver care often leads to poor patient flow and overcrowding, and therefore an increase in waiting. This paper presents a mid-term decision support system dealing with scheduling and allocation of resources in the ED of the Hospital Center of Troyes, France. An efficient performance evaluation tool based on discrete event simulation (DES) is developed. Through a what-if scenario strategy, 145 scenarios were simulated that allowed us to create a new benchmark that does not exist in the literature. To rank and select the best alternatives, the VIKOR multicriteria analysis method and the entropy method were used. With the objective of minimizing the waiting time and inpatient stay under an additional resource cost constraint, this work has helped to quantify and analyze the impacts related to the structural and organizational reorganization of the ED.


Abstract The enthalpies of mixing in liquid alloys in the binary Ce-Sb and ternary Ce-Co-Sb systems were determined over a wide range of composition by means of isoperibolic calorimetry in the temperature range 1 600-1 723 K. The minimum value of the integral enthalpy of mixing (ΔHmin) in the Ce-Sb system was evaluated to be −123 kJ mol-1 at xCe = 0.55. The enthalpies of mixing in liquid ternary alloys were found to increase smoothly from the binary boundary systems Co-Ce and Co-Sb towards the Ce-Sb system reaching the value of approximately −123 kJ mol-1 in the vicinity of the phase CeSb.


We have screened the Eurofan deletion strain collection for mutants that are either sensitive or resistant to three drugs known to affect intracellular transport: brefeldin A, monensin and C2‐ceramide. Drug‐sensitive mutants were analysed by complementation with cognate clones and tetrad analysis to confirm that the phenotypes are linked to the deletions. Out of 620 deletion strains, we found 18 mutants that were sensitive to either brefeldin A, monensin or both. Several of these mutants are deleted for genes that are known to be involved in intracellular transport, membrane biogenesis and/or cell wall biosynthesis. Among such previously known genes were VAM6, VAC7, SYS1, TLG2, RCY1, ERG4, ALG9 and ALG12. Some other genes recovered in our screen were not previously implicated in intracellular transport, but are related to other yeast genes with such a function. Still other genes encode proteins with no obvious link to intracellular transport. Several of these are putative transcription factors or RNA‐binding proteins, which suggests that they may affect drug sensitivity by modulating the expression of other genes or proteins. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In this paper, we show that any planar polynomial cubic Bezier curve can be described as an affine transformation of a part of four primitive cubics (x3+x2−3y2=0, x3−3y2=0, x3−x2−3y2=0, and x3−y=0), and propose an algorithm to derive the transformation matrix.For a given cubic Bezier curve, we derive the linear moving line that follows the curve, and find the double point D of the curve. If D is not a point at infinity, we derive the quadratic parallel moving line that follows the curve. By testing whether the quadratic moving line crosses D or not, we classify the curve into three cases (crunode, cusp, or acnode) which correspond to three primitive cubics. If D is a point at infinity, the curve is classified as fourth case (explicit cubic), which requires exceptional process. For each case, the affine transformation matrix between the primitive cubic and given Bezier curve can be derived. We confirm that the proposed algorithm never fails unless the cubic Bezier curve is degree reducible or consists of f...


Applying differential drive robots to cooperative systems introduces difficulties regarding the maneuverability of the cooperative system. These difficulties are caused by the sliding constraint of the plain wheels typically used by differential drive robots and mainly affects the turning capability of the cooperative system. This can be a problem when a cooperative system traverses narrow spaces or manipulates large objects. Conversely, differential drive robots are simple to design and control for single robot tasks. To enable differential drive robots to participate in multi-robot cooperative systems, a novel wheel capable of switching between plain and omni-wheel modes is proposed. By selecting the appropriate mode, differential drive robots would be able to work in both single and multi-robot tasks seamlessly without adding complex control to the single robot case or degrading the maneuverability of the cooperative system. As an initial step, the kinematic modeling and the prototype of the wheel is presented together with tests using two differential drive robots implemented with the proposed wheel.


A lot of methods are used for calculation of feeder for castings. Different metal alloys usually have different methods because their physical properties, castability, melting temperatures are different, and their crystallization is specific. Calculation of feeders for ductile iron castings has methods that are used for simple castings of the same cross-section. When castings have more than one element, correction ratios are used that are based only on the experimental results and even more increased. Later on, dimensions of feeders are usually corrected during production, therefore, it takes a lot of time. The purpose of this work was to create a mathematical model for calculation of heat exchange in a cooling casting, which helps to calculate volume changes in a cooling casting. On the base of the mathematical model, a computer program was made. After research of technological ductile iron casting factors, the program can rather precisely, without test castings, find the best dimensions of feeders for ductile iron castings. The experimental results were very similar to the results of digital simulation according to the created method.


This paper considers the properties of the interstage buffer storage capacity as a ' decoupling agent ' in multi-station non-powered assembly lines, where the economics of production are achieved by balancing delay costs against stock-carrying costs and storage space costs. A simplified mathematical model for exponential service time distribution based on the ' cyclic queue ' concept has been developed, taking into account the three cost parameters, to optimize the buffer storage capacity. A numerical example and sensitivity analysis of the model are presented.


Quite a few colleges and universities are competing blindly for the passing rate of CET 4 and 6 . As a result, the ability of students' language application is somehow ignored. Many students who have passed the CET tests are in capable of listening well, neither can they speak well. On the other hand, with the rapid development of high technology and Internet, China is increasing communication and co-operating with other countries around the world, which requires a higher demand in the field of foreign language teaching. It is an urgent task for us to cultivate Chinese students with excellent competency of oral and inter-cultural communication.


To meet the real-time request of control information in the mine-used new energy electric locomotive, a communication network based on the protocols of CAN2.0B and DeviceNet is designed.Also,the topological structure of the network including the network of parallel current sharing,the charge-discharge network and the data acquisition network is described.The hardware and software designs of network node are constructed on the single chip processor STM32F1 series.The methods of time-sharing transmittian and priority-level assignment are used.Network average load rate is compared and analyzed by theoretical calculations and test. The stability margin of network is verified.The communication reliability requirements of the electric locomotive are met.


We present experimental and theoretical investigations on the THz wave generation and detection using ambient air or selected gases as the THz emitter and sensor, as well as the potential applications of THz air photonics.


In colleges and universities, it is inevitable to evaluate archives management which is the focus of daily operation. This paper first confirms the indicators of the archives management evaluation index system for colleges and universities and then utilizes AHP to confirm their weights and fuzzy mathematical method to establish the evaluation model. The model gives results of the evaluation as 5 levels: very high, high, medium, low and very low. Expert judging method is utilized to judge all secondary indexes and level judging vectors are then acquired. Finally the evaluation level is confirmed based on maximum principle.


Lowland forests benefiting from groundwater availability are important ecosystems in Central Europe, both from ecological and economic perspectives. Besides a great reduction in their extent in the historical times and further shifts in the land use and water management regimes intensified during the industrial era, continuing changes in the groundwater and overall hydro-climatic conditions can pose significant challenges to them. Although tree-ring analyses serve as widely used tools to assess the climatic impact on tree growth and vitality, few studies have attempted to investigate the effects of subsurface hydrology on interannual fluctuations in xylem production. In this study, we compared the tree-ring width series of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) from a forested area in southwestern Hungary with the time series of monthly groundwater depth and climatic variables over the period of 1920–2017 with a specific focus on 1961–2017. The radial growth of the studied trees showed the strongest relationship with late winter and early spring groundwater and drought conditions preceding the growing season, differing from the commonly reported climatic signals marked by early summer meteorological conditions of the vegetation season. The results suggest that the groundwater recharge during the dormant period preceding the vegetation season and the groundwater levels in early spring were among the key limiting factors on tree growth in the study area. In the growing years starting with a sufficiently high groundwater table, even scarce summer precipitation did not seem to limit radial growth drastically. However, unfavorable shifts in climatic conditions during the past few decades and the associated uncertainties in the future groundwater regime imply that additional active measures aimed at maintaining and restoring groundwater conditions may well be highly beneficial for sustaining groundwater-dependent forest ecosystems and their productivity.


Kong Yingda,compared with Wang Bi who interpreted Yi in the way of the study of Lao by explaining Li in his classic the Explanation of Yi,explained "Taiji" of "Yi" by using "Yuanqi" in order to restore the tradition of "Yi" in Han Dynasty,which was explained by Xiangshu.It is the sun,yangqi,and the earth,yinqi,that mix with each other,and create all the living things in the world,including human beings.And they form the dynamic universe.Gan exists in all the aspects of the living things in the universe.People feel the rhyme and life of the living things,and then the feeling,guided by their nature,becomes aesthetic appreciation,the dynamic universe thus becomes the humanized universe,and the aesthetic universe.


Goal of this thesis is to design and to implement an aplication for financial resources management. Theoretical part deals with avaliable options for third-party application development for different mobile operating systems, namely iOS, Android and Windows Phone and comparison of avaliable similiar applications for Windows Phone platform. The practical part analyses the implementation of the Windows Phone 8.1 application. Used design patterns are described here as well as an application lifecycle, use of SQLite database system, user interface, implementation of import and export of user data to file and charts creation.


Just like we couldn't figure out the order of egg and chicken philosophically, the sequence of the thinking and language also can't be distinguished. They are in the state of mutual interdependence. It can be affirmed that without thinking, there would exist no language, and vice versa. Thinking is the nature of language, while the language is the expression of thinking. The way of thinking in Laotsu's "Ming and Yan" is dialectical thinking, and its language expression is implicit and euphemistic, while in Western Language it is logical thinking with the brief and clear expression. If we only pay attention to the expression of language, not to its essential thinking, it's really difficult to find where the true content of the expression. This thesis will try to discuss the innerlink of Laotsu's dialectical thinking "Ming and Yan" and western logical language.


Powder metallurgy: applications, advantages, and limitations: a project of the Powder Metallurgy Committee of the Mechanical Working and Forming Division of American Society for Metals , Powder metallurgy: applications, advantages, and limitations: a project of the Powder Metallurgy Com... , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی