The problem of determining and evaluating the basic types of economic awareness and behavior of the various social and demographic groups of the population under the conditions of the transition period is of great importance to sociology. It necessitates accomplishing several tasks: studying changes in the material condition of the population, the degree of social stability in society, the public's sense of how vulnerable it is in terms of its social position (the threat of unemployment, etc.), and the extent to which people have adapted economically and psychologically to the new conditions; and, finally, determining the attitudes of various groups toward the economic reforms, their economic orientations.


The correction of distortions by phase conjugation is considered. It is shown that the findings of other workers for weak, isotropic distorting media are equally valid for anisotropic, strongly distorting media.


The invention relates to a manufacturing method of an organic electroluminescent display device. The method comprises the following steps of: forming an ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) anode on a substrate; forming an insulating layer and a cathode isolating layer on the anode layer; and depositing various organic layers and metal cathode layers on the cathode isolating layer. In the invention, the insulating layer and a cathode isolating post are formed by using a process including twice exposure, once developing and once post-baking. Due to the adoption of the manufacturing method, defects in the conventional manufacturing technology of organic electroluminescent device substrates are overcome, and the yield and the production efficiency are increased simultaneously; and the process is simple, and the production cost is reduced.


The KBF1 factor, which binds to the enhancer A located in the promoter of the mouse MHC class I gene H‐2Kb, is indistinguishable from the p50 DNA binding subunit of the transcription factor NF‐kappa B, which regulates a series of genes involved in immune and inflammatory responses. The KBF1/p50 factor binds as a homodimer but can also form heterodimers with the products of other members of the same family, like the c‐rel and v‐rel (proto)oncogenes. The dimerization domain of KBF1/p50 is contained between amino acids 201 and 367. A mutant of KBF1/p50 (delta SP), unable to bind to DNA but able to form homo‐ or heterodimers, has been constructed. This protein reduces or abolishes in vitro the DNA binding activity of wild‐type proteins of the same family (KBF1/p50, c‐ and v‐rel). This mutant also functions in vivo as a trans‐acting dominant negative regulator: the transcriptional inducibility of the HIV long terminal repeat (which contains two potential NF‐kappa B binding sites) by phorbol ester (PMA) is inhibited when it is co‐transfected into CD4+ T cells with the delta SP mutant. Similarly the basal as well as TNF or IL1‐induced activity of the MHC class I H‐2Kb promoter can be inhibited by this mutant in two different cell lines. These results constitute the first formal demonstration that these genes are regulated by members of the rel/NF‐kappa B family.


Apparatus and methods for storing predefined information with error correcting code (ECC) in a direct access storage device (10) are provided. Predetermined information is identified and loaded to an ECC generator (66) for customer data to be read and written. The identified predetermined information includes an address for customer data to be read and written. The customer data is written and loaded in parallel to the ECC generator. Then the generated ECC that reflects the pre-loaded predetermined information is written at the end of the written customer data. The customer data and ECC is read and loaded in parallel to the ECC generator. Errors in the predetermined information that is not written to the disk surface, can be detected from the read ECC.


A continuous wave backward wave oscillator is studied in this paper. The design of the slowing wave system is completed through theoretical calculation and numerical simulation, and the slowing wave system is manufactured through precision machining. In order to improve the output power of the electron tube, a high resistance diode electron gun is used to produce a sheet electron beam with high emission current density. The test shows that the developed BWO can work in the frequency range of 250 ~ 310 GHz, and the output power is 20 mW to 42 mW.


In the huge project of building a harmonious society,criminal justice is an essential part.Therefore,it will have important theoretical value and practical significance to study restorative justice model which originated in the West and tried out in our judicial practice at present.In the conference there are five themes which include theoretical basis,value orientation,practice model,specific operation and the feasibility of restorative justice in China.The discussions around the themes are extensive and in-depth,and the achievements are fruitful.


We use Schwinger boson mean field theory to study the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on an anisotropic triangular lattice in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field. We calculate the field dependence of the spin incommensurability in the ordered spin spiral phase, and compare the results to the recent experiments in ${\mathrm{Cs}}_{2}{\mathrm{CuCl}}_{4}$ by Coldea et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1335 (2001)].


In marine salvage, extreme tide heights and tidal currents are necessary to anchor an accidental ship. In order to meet this requirement, a simple scheme was developed which yields the spatial informations on the extreme tide from the distribution of approximate highest astronomical tide heights using a relationship between extreme and highest astronomical tides at the standard port. This method is the inference method based on horizontally homogeneity of tide. This scheme was applied to estimate extreme tide heights and tidal currents in the Namhae (southern sea of Korea). The highest astronomical tide heights are computed by amplitude of four major constituents (M2, S2, K1, O1 tide). The estimated extreme tide heights are ranged from 70 to 260 cm for return period 50 years and from 80 to 270cm for return period 100 years, respectively. For return period 100 years, extreme tidal currents show value of 1.55 times as strong as those of normal state.


Aiming at today's gas cooker market,a pulse ignition controler design based on PIC16C711 is presented.The specific descriptions of system components and functions,hardware circuit design and software function are given.


Critical thermoelectric parameters including Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and figure of merit ZT of one-dimensional coaxial Bi2Te3/Sb2Te3 nanocomposite were modeled by following the single carrier pocket and sharp interface assumptions. A calculation scheme based on Landauer approach, instead of commonly used Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) with relaxation time approximation, was adopted to numerically obtain the transmission functions which can be used to evaluate thermoelectric properties. Considerable enhancement of ZT was obtained through our modeling and numerical calculation, and the corresponding dependence of thermoelectric performance on structure parameters was studied. Finally, the efficiency at the maximum power condition for this 1-D system was also investigated.


Purpose: The the overall objective of this study was to establish challenges facing the growth of the insurance sector in Kenya. Methodology: The study adopted a descriptive survey design.  A descriptive survey study design was used.  A population of 43 insurance firms was given. A sample of 21 firms (50 percent), were chosen from the population. This was done using the random sampling approach. The collected data was analysed by the use of statistical package for social science (SPSS) computer software for data analysis by use of tables, frequencies and percentages. Questionnaires were used and data analysed using descriptive statistics. Results: Based on the findings it was possible to infer that not only are regulatory hitches affecting the growth of the insurance sector, the sector is also faced by other challenges ranging from lack of awareness by the public, excessive claims, fraud and competition. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that insurance firms should increase their budgetary allocations to boost awareness and publicity. In addition, the insurance sector should stream line its operations and processes in order to enhance customer satisfaction. Furthermore, the Ministry of finance and the Insurance Regulatory Authority should institute and implement reforms in the sector. The researcher further recommends a benchmark study on the ways that other countries have revamped the insurance sector and the necessary reforms.


The background of online reservation registering was introduced.Based on the experience of online reservation registering process,the application and the advantages of online reservation registering such as reducing visit process,shortening waiting time,decreasing medical management cost,improving visit environment and increasing patient's choice in visit time were discussed.The disadvantages such as the limited information technology support,the jam packed online environment and the limited registration numbers were analyzed and the measures were presented.


UV-curing coatings have many advantages,such as environmental-friendlier,economy,efficiency,energy-saving,wide application and so on.With the thorough research of oligomer,photoinitiator,reactive diluents,additives,pigments and fillers,and the continuous development of new products,UV curing liquid coatings would be rapidly expanded.The research progresses in main components of UV curing liquid coatings were reviewed in the paper.


ANNOTATION The Research and Development Company (NPO) "Kompozit" is an enterprise whose primary activity is the development and analysis of construction materials for aerospace technology. All types of materials metals and alloys, non-metallic and composite materials, and surfacing materials undergo comprehensive testing in the laboratories of "Kompozit" and receive certification for use in missile and aerospace constructions. "Kompozit" produces for a series of aerospace companies in Russia special types of semi-finished products: beryllium alloys, powders of super-alloy and titanium, components pressed from these powders, metal composites of aluminum boron, constructions from carbon plastics, and components from titanium alloys produced by hot forging. "Kompozit" carries out work in the field of conversion: technical processes are developed for electron beam remelt of titanium scrap meta~ extrusion of structural sections and fiberglass, creation of endo-prosthetics from titanium alloys and many others uses. Out of a wide variety of methods for the production of powders from titanium and its alloys, the technique of centrifugal atomization based on rotating electrodes (the Plasma Rotating Electrode Process) provides the highest quality powder. The present article examines powders from technically pure titanium and its alloys produced using the indicated technique, and also the structure and quality of products made from these powders.


"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society." Thus the authors of The Federalist defined the purposes of the government created by the Federal Convention. But they reached this definition as the conclusion to a discussion of the factious nature of mankind. Madison had already remarked that the causes of faction could not be removed without abolishing the liberty which is essential to political life. He believed, however, that the control of its effects was within human power. To the mind of the Virginian the vital political forces in the state should be tied up in a nice poise through the clauses of a written constitution. A government so contrived would, as Madison believed, "secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation." The ideal which Madison envisaged was one of dynamic equilibrium. He thought that by deriving the various branches of the government from different sources all positive action to the detriment of established order and guaranteed rights would be checked from the outset. Every safeguard against "the mutability of public councils" was to be embodied in the interior structure of the government itself. It was not enough that government should have a dependence upon the people; "experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." The political experience to which Madison referred was fresh in the minds of all the men who assembled at Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. It was afforded by the thirteen states, in none of which did political practice square with the expressed provisions of its constitution.


This study was aimed to determine if there is influence of the website-based inquiry learning model on cognitive abilities of class and how much the influence of the website-based inquiry learning model has on the cognitive abilities of class X multimedia students expertise competencies in computer subjects and basic networks in SMK Negeri 2 Buduran. This research method used quantitative research methods Quasi Experimental Design with the design of "Nonequivalent Control Group Pretest-Posttest Design". The population in this study were 108 students of X Multimedia class 72 students as sample consisting of 36 X-TI3 students as the control class and 36 X-TI2 students as the experimental class. The instrument used in this study was the learning achievement test, where there as a pretest (which has not been treated) and posttest (which has been treated). The data obtained were then analyzed using the t-test with t count = (14,978)> t table (1,667) at a significant level of 5%. If the t count is outside the acceptance of H0, then H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. After knowing the prettest and posttest results that have been tested to students to find out whether there is an influence or not it is done by using the analysis of N-Gain test data. From the results of the N-Gain test calculation produces 0.61 which is included in the Medium category. From the results of the study, it can be concluded that the inquiry learning model has a moderate effect on the cognitive abilities of class X multimedia students expertise competencies in computer subjects and basic networks in SMK Negeri 2 Buduran.


Regrettably, as I write this editorial, I have been told of the death of one of the Journal's founding members, Sheila Cunnison. We pass on our sympathies to her family and many of our board and readers will be greatly saddened by her passing. While Sheila was an active member of the board (her activities only declining when she suffered ill-health a few years ago), she was a regular at board meetings, terrifically encouraging and supportive of younger feminists and helped many of us find our feet in various roles at the JGS. She was curious, enthusiastic, open to change, friendly and took a calm and measured approach to everything she tackled. Her book, published by Tavistock in 1966, Wages and Work Allocation: a study of social relations in a garment workshop was an early social anthropology study of women at work written before feminism had really affected academic sociology and social anthropology. The Journal itself owes its existence, and persistence, to her hard work and she will be very missed. I have invited colleagues to put together a more detailed account of Sheila which appears at the end of this editorial. This year's Journal of Gender Studies/Centre for Women's Studies (University of York) Prize has been awarded to Rumana (Syeda) Mehdi for her MA thesis Towards Financial Security for Married Muslim Women: Re-evaluating Nikahnama, Mahr and Jahez in Pakistan which used a shared ethnography to analyse what Quranic verses say about the role of women in marriage, what rights women have under the constitution of Pakistan and what actually happens with Pakistani women when it comes to signing the marriage contract. The Janet Blackman Prize, for an article published in 2021, goes to Lata Satyen for her work Gender Norms in the Indian Migrant Community in Australia: family, community and work roles, which we felt intersected around so many of Janet's research interests. In this issue, I have returned to themes of gendered violence and harassment – a frequent theme of papers submitted to us – latterly though, much of the research deals with online acts of aggression. In The Violence of Norms, Bates draws on Judith Butler's work on normative violence to explore how norms enable, legitimize and obscure the distinct repertoires of gender violence in Colombian civilian society. Bates extends this to understand the emergence of resistance to gender violence in The Common Alternative Revolutionary Force, the political party with its origins in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In Normalizing Violence Mayeza, Bhana and Mulqueeny research the ongoing challenge of gender violence against girls in South African schools. The findings suggest a normalization of violence instigated by boys against girls; often highly sexualized. Girls were sexually harassed, subjected to violence and exposed to sexual coercion by their male peers at school. Beyond simplistic binary positions through which girls are constructed as merely victims, some girls in the study engaged in victim-blaming. Furthermore, there was evidence of female-on-female violence (fights and humiliation) that occurred in the context of heterosexual competition. This kind of behaviour reinforced the subordination of girls in the broader hetero-patriarchal system. In Perceiving Sexual Harassment and #metoo Social Media Campaign among Chinese Female College Students, Mou, Cui, Wang, Wu, Li and Wu investigate female Chinese college students' experience, and tolerance, of sexual harassment through an evaluation of the #metoo social media campaign. Guided by system justification theory, this study confirms the association between tolerance of harassment, traditional gender role values and hostile sexism. Hostile sexism is significantly predictive of tolerance of harassment, but not of the evaluation of the #metoo campaign. As the first of JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES 2022, VOL. 31, NO. 2, 149–152 https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2022.2019995


Free-space optical communication is reputable for its ability to proffer solution to the access network bottle-neck but when used for long range communication, it suffers from scintillation caused by atmospheric turbulence. The probability of outage based performance of subcarrier intensity modulated free-space optical communication in log normal atmospheric turbulence is hereby presented. The bit-error-rate of subcarrier intensity modulated FSO employing phase shift keying (PSK) is also discussed. The atmospheric turbulence is modelled using log normal distribution and its effect mitigated by using an array of PIN photodetectors.


FIELD: electricity. SUBSTANCE: device is suggested, which represents inverter of high capacity with forced switching, having maximum rated output current I Rout . It comprises DC-coupling capacitor, anode stray inductance, switch arm, circuit of level fixation and unit with saturated core. Besides DC-coupling capacitor has voltage pulsation characterised by maximum value dV m of absolute value of growth speed dV DC /dt, and anode stray inductance is connected serially to DC-coupling capacitor. Switch arm comprises circuit of serial connection of locked valve device, and reverse diode, and circuit of level fixation includes fixing capacitor, fixing diode and circuit of fixation level voltage collapse, including resistor. Unit with saturated core has one of linear saturation characteristic and smooth saturation characteristic, every of which has saturation current, equal to I sat and established so that ratio I Rout >I sat >C 31 ×dV m , where C 31 is capacitance of fixing capacitor. EFFECT: elimination of transistor overloads in reverse recovery. 13 cl, 28 dwg


550 MPa high strength cold-formed steel lipped channel column under axial compression loading has three modes(O-O,O-I,I-I) when distortional buckling occur.The distortional buckling behavior of three different modes has been analyzed by finite element method(FEM) which consider geometric and material non-linear,including load carrying capacity,deformation,stress of distortional buckling,stress distribution of cross-section.Analysis results show that behavior of different distortional buckling modes has a greater different in many respects.At the same time distortional buckling is different from local buckling and overall buckling in some behaviors.The direct strength method(DSM) has been used to predict the ultimate load capacity of distortional buckling.The comparison between test results and analysis results shows that result calculated by the direct strength method is close and conservative to test results.So the direct strength method has been suggested to calculate distortional buckling ultimate load capacity of channel columns under axial compression.


One of the effective alternatives to suppress hazardous vibration of stay cables is to use cable dampers. In order to design the cable damper optimally, it is necessary to exactly estimate the dynamic characteristics of existing cables. To estimate more reliable dynamic properties of stay cables, precise excitations inducing forced vibration are needed. Hence, in this paper, a cable-exciting system (cable exciter) controlled digitally is developed. A design formula for the cable exciter is also derived by the solution of the equation of motion of a cable-exciter system. The performance of the cable exciter is verified by sine sweeping tests and resonance tests for a cable model in a laboratory. Also from those tests, more reliable dynamic properties of the cable model are obtained. Thus, it is ascertained that modal damping of stay cables is proportional to the amplitude of cable vibration.


Image segmentation is the division of an image into a number of contained self consitant regions. Each region must be homogeneous with respect to a particular property, such as intensity, colour or texture. In this paper describes a two-level Region based and edge detection of image integration. Edges are first detected in the original image using a combination of operators for intensity gradient and texture discontinuities. To preserve the spatial coherence of the edges and their surrounding image regions, the detected edges are vectorized into connected line segments which serve as the basis for a constrained Delaunay triangulation. Segmentation is first performed on the triangulation using graph cuts. Our method favors segmentations that pass through more vectorized line segments. Finally, the obtained segmentation on the triangulation is projected onto the original image and region boundaries are refined to achieve pixel accuracy. Keywords-edge detection, image segmentation, normalized cut, region merging.


Lung biopsy is a common interventional radiology procedure. One of the difficulties in performing the lung biopsy is that lesions move with respiration. This paper presents a new robotically assisted lung biopsy system for CT fluoroscopy that can automatically compensate for the respiratory motion during the intervention. The system consists of a needle placement robot to hold the needle on the CT scan plane, a radiolucent Z-frame for registration of the CT and robot coordinate systems, and a frame grabber to obtain the CT fluoroscopy image in real-time. The CT fluoroscopy images are used to noninvasively track the motion of a pulmonary lesion in real-time. The position of the lesion in the images is automatically determined by the image processing software and the motion of the robot is controlled to compensate for the lesion motion. The system was validated under CT fluoroscopy using a respiratory motion simulator. A swine study was also done to show the feasibility of the technique in a respiring animal.


Productivity and effects of human disturbance on common loons CGavia immefl was studied from 1986-1991 in the Tobacco-Stillwater and Clearwater-Swan drainages in northwestern Montana. The adult loon population in these 2 drainages makes up approximately 30% of Montana's population. A density of 72.2 ha of lake surface area per loon was determined. Seventeen pairs exhibited territorial behavior and an average of 10 pairs were successful in raising at least one chick. Ninety percent of nests were located on islands situated in open water, along transitional swamp shorelines or within marshes. Fifty-two percent (n=23) of nests on islands in open water, 64% (n=l I) of nests along transitional swamp shorelines and 75% (n=4) of nests within marshes were successful. Successful nests had a significantly deeper water access than unsuccessful nests. Significant differences in vegetation surrounding nest sites were observed between the 2 drainages. Nest losses with known causes were attributed to flooding, wash-out by wave action, and infertility. Suspected causes of nest failures included human disturbance, dropping water levels and interactions with bald eagles. Reuse of a physiographic area for nesting occurred 94% (n=32) of the time. Nests were located within 50 m of a previously used nest bowl 50% of the time. Loons nesting successfully one year reused the area within 50 m of the previous successful nest over 60% of the time. A significant negative relationship was shown between the number of chicks produced per total nest attempt and the surface area disturbance ratio. A positive relationship was indicated between the number of fledged juveniles per nest attempt after protective signs were used and Skaar's disturbance rating. Human related disturbance, which included boats and shoreline activities accounted for 59% of the observed flushes and kept loons off their nests an average of 24 minutes per flush. Natural activities taking loons off the nest included territorial activities, nest building, heat stress and insect harassment. These activities accounted for 40% of the flushes and lasted an average of 8 minutes per flush. Average flushing distances due to approaching boats for the 4 weeks of incubation were 129,121, 91, 64 m respectively. Floating signs 137 m from nests formed a voluntary closure after which the number of nest departures attributed to human recreational activity were reduced from 32 to 13. The number of successful nests, number of chicks, and number of 2-chick broods were significantly increased after the use of protective floating signs. These data demonstrate that recreational activity on nesting territories was having a significant negative effect upon loon productivity which can be mitigated with the use of floating signs surrounding nest sites.


Introduction: This research was to investigate the correlation between lethal thrombus formation and three risk factors including gender, fracture position and thrombus source. Methods: The study reviewed 144 cases of deep venous thrombosis after lower limb fracture who transplanted temporary inferior vena cava filter or retrievable filter. They were classified as lethal or nonlethal group based on the size of thrombus by the digital subtraction angiography (DSA). The thrombus above 10 mm in diameter and the diffuse multiple-thrombi were considered as lethal. The thrombus below 10 mm in diameter and invisible thrombus were considered as non-lethal. All patients were classified into different groups according to the gender, fracture position and the site of thrombus formation. The statistical analysis was performed to determine the correlation between the three risk factors and lethal thrombus. Results: There was no statistical difference between the male group and the female group (Χ2=0.0209, P>0.05). As for fracture position, there was no statistical difference among the groups (Χ2=2.018, P>0.05). The single fracture in different positions of lower limb and multiple fractures had similar potential to induce lethal thrombus. In terms of the thrombus source, the result showed statistical difference among the groups (Χ2=14.526, P<0.05). The logistic linear regression suggested that the incidence rate of lethal thrombus in the group of above the popliteal vein (APV) was lower than the other three groups with statistical difference (P<0.05). Conclusion: Thrombus formed in popliteal vein and below the popliteal vein and multiple thrombi seems easier to induce lethal thrombus when compared to thrombus formed above the popliteal vein. It should be paid more attention in clinical practice.


AbstractSince most of the systems to which microwaves are applied are heterogeneous, the dielectric properties of heterogeneous mixtures are treated, and especially the properties of mixtures containing water, This approach elucidates many of the phenomena which contribute to the general behaviour of many systems when they are brought into a microwave field. Some possible applications and some implications of the theory are treated, heterogeneous mixtures and especially of mixtures containing water, together with some implications and applications of the theory are treated.


As medicinal plants known for their importance in different uses especially pharmaceutical usage due to presence of the active compounds represented by terpens, phenols, alkaloids…etc. and one of these important medicinal plants is our plant under study which is Cymbopogon citratus locally known as lemon grass that belongs to a Poaceae family. It is an aromatic tropical perennial herb, known in Egypt, Arabian Peninsula and North and West tropical Africa. In this study lemon grass was collected from Baghdad Province Al-Yarmuk area then extracted in two ways; first one was soxhlet extraction method so we got an alcoholic extract and identify the chemical compounds found in it by using general tests which shown the presence of alkaloids, phenols, tannins and flavonoids while cardiac glycosides and saponins were absent; and the other method was hydrodistillation by using Clevenger apparatus and the sample was identified using GC-Mass which revealed the presence of the following compounds((E)-3(10)-Caren-4-ol.7,7-Dimethyl-4-methylenebicyclo[4.1.0]heptan-3-o and its percentage in plant sample was 15.07% and the other compound (2,6-Octadienal, 3,7-dimethyl-, (E)- .alpha.-Citral (E)-Citral. trans-Citral trans-3,7-Dimethyl-2,6-octadienal) with percentage 42.27%. We can separate some pure phytopharmaceutical, which in turn can be used as lead molecule for producing the novel agent having good therapeutic activity. This study was conducted to determine the phytoconstituents presents in Cymbopogon citratus plant collected from Baghdad Province Al-Yarmuk area.


Abstract We discuss a novel means for obtaining rheological properties of polishing slurries by combining statistical inference techniques (the Akaike Information Criterion), CFD and Torque vs Speed Data. The data was obtained by using a custom built torsional rheometer that subjects the polishing fluid to conditions that are similar to polishing. Our comparison indicates that side wall and inertial effects significantly affect the values of the parameters of any given model even under nominally slow rates of rotation. When these are considered, the Herschel-Bulkley model seems to be a significantly better fit compared to two other popular other models for the slurry. The results suggest that a systematic combination of computational-statistical-data science approach is necessary for identifying model parameters even for a slow flows as compared to currently used data reduction methods based on analytical solutions for torsional flow that ignore inertial and side-wall effects.


It's easy to say that a company prices its products to achieve at least a minimum rate of retum on equity. In reality, it is not that easy. The hardest part is to allocate capital to individual contracts or lines of business; capital is not really divisible by line of business. It is available, in its entirety, to any one contract or line of business, if that contract or line produces enough losses. That being said, it is useful to think about capital as divisible, at least for pricing purposes. Since the purpose of capital is to absorb adverse deviations from expected, any method to allocate capital is acceptable so long as it differentiates among contracts or lines of business based on the risk of adverse deviation. A method that is arbitrary and does not differentiate between risks is not a viable way to allocate capital. While it might mechanically allow someone to look at rates of retum on equity, it will not provide any meaningful insight as to whether a particular contract or line of business provides an attractive retum for the risk taken to achieve that return.


Determining ammonia concentration in air with nashi reagent spectrophotometry instead of Nashi Inspection Reagent Inspection Colorimetry is present in this paper.This method use single pipe to collect air sample,make operation simply.Moreover,it eliminate disturbing factors during analysis.After blank test of standard curves and inspection curve of calculating methods,this method is shown higher accuracy.


We present a method to integrate case-based reasoning (CBR) with object-oriented image classification to classify SPOT images. Images were first segmented into discrete objects at multiple scales. CBR was then used to classify these objects by comparing their geometric shapes, spectral characteristics, and textural measurements with those of the past objects prepared from archived SPOT images and land use data. Once enough past objects were accumulated, this method was able to successfully classify image objects with promising results as demonstrated by a case study of aquaculture land use mapping in coastal areas of Guangdong province, China.


The present paper is aimed at obtaining common fixed point theorems in fuzzy metric space for a pair of selfmaps by using the notion of pointwise R-weak commutativity but without assuming the completeness of the space or continuity of the mappings involved. We also find an affirmative answer in f uzzy metric space


A Class-D line driver that utilizes a phase-locked loop (PLL) for PWM generation is presented. The principle of operation and implementation details relating to loop stability, linearity and noise performance are analyzed. An implementation is presented in a 130 nm CMOS process. The amplifier can deliver 1.2 W into a 6.8 Ω load with a 4.8 V power supply. The architecture eliminates the requirements for a high-quality carrier generator and a high-speed voltage comparator that are often required in PWM implementations. It can achieve a THD of -65 dB, for a sinusoidal input with a frequency of 60 kHz, while employing a switching frequency that can be as high as 20 MHz. The peak efficiency is 83% for output power larger than 1 W for a switching frequency of 10 MHz. The die area is 2.25 mm2.


Action recognition from video is a problem that has many important applications to human motion analysis. In real-world settings, the viewpoint of the camera cannot always be fixed relative to the subject, so view-invariant action recognition methods are needed. Previous view-invariant methods use multiple cameras in both the training and testing phases of action recognition or require storing many examples of a single action from multiple viewpoints. In this paper, we present a framework for learning a compact representation of primitive actions (e.g., walk, punch, kick, sit) that can be used for video obtained from a single camera for simultaneous action recognition and viewpoint estimation. Using our method, which models the low-dimensional structure of these actions relative to viewpoint, we show recognition rates on a publicly available dataset previously only achieved using multiple simultaneous views.


This article deals with Stanislaw Baranczak's playful approach to the theory of literature, presented in his book Pegaz zdebial. Poezja nonsensu a zycie codzienne: Wprowadzenie w prywatną teorie gatunkow (first edition: London, 1995). The author, inspired by the tradition of literary nonsense and so-called academic humour, creates 'a private theory of literary genres' that combines two different linguistic modes: 1. an abstract scientific jargon of structuralism, along with its professional terminology, and 2. a metaphorically-oriented style, relying on visual effects, as well as evoking humour by the contrast with academic discourse. In Baranczak's treatment, theory becomes a juggler's prop, which he applies to showcase his sophistication and ingenuity. Like a prestidigitator, the author performs tricks in order to grant his readers an illusion of a scientifically deep fictive theory, with such methods as his multiplication of generic phenomena, presented through excessively detailed classification, enormously long footnotes, the description of generic rules resembling a culinary show, and extravagant, bizarre literary terms. He thus reveals the comical potential of theoretical discourse, turning the theoretical into the theatrical.


The study traces the history of the Montenegrin lands during the reign of the Petrović-Njegoš family that lasted for more than two centuries, and also examines the main milestones in the formation of Montenegro's national statehood. Despite the constant external threat (mainly from the Ottoman Empire), self-identity of the Montenegrin people was not eliminated. Throughout the 19th century the formation of state institutions was taking place within the country; with constant help from the Russian Empire Montenegro received recognition of its independence following the results of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877–1878 and the status of a kingdom in 1910.


Nowadays multiple criteria have been added to the decision making procedure as a result of the harmonization of Greece's public procurement to EU guidelines (i.e. 72/62/EC, 93/36/EC and 80/67/EC). The main objective of the research is to propose an evaluation methodology as a group decision framework for this problem. In doing so a systematic procedure is introduced based on Delphi technique aiming to evaluate the capability of grouped vendor suppliers to deliver the project as per the owner's requirements. The order of the tenders is derived by comparison of the tenders' efficiency. A case study is used as an example from a procurement case in Greece using criteria indices namely the Risk management, Quality of work, Price certainty, Time availability and predictability, Technical capacity of tenderers, Regularity of Environment, Energy intensity of building operation, Economic and Financial capacity of tenderers, Familiarity of tenderers of a building project. The results strengthen the opinion that the Delphi method paired with discriminant analysis is a powerful and appropriate technique for deriving objective solutions in categorization of procurement cases and is a rather subjective area such as the procurement system for vendor selection. This research outlines a process by which the traditional tenders' selection using discriminant analysis method can be improved via the utilization of a Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM), a cross-mutation of the traditional Delphi Method (DM) and fuzzy logic (FL).


The concn of malic and tartaric acids in fruits from 'Cardinal' and 'Pinot noir' vines grown in phytotron rooms were negatively correlated with fruit maturity (°Brix). The rate of decrease of both acids was dependent on temperature and cultivar, but relatively independent of light intensity. Curvilinear regressions (hyperbolas) best described the decrease of malic and tartaric acids in the fruits with the former acid always decreasing at the faster rate. Part of the decrease of tartaric and malic acids in fruits during ripening was attributed to the formation of salts of these acids.
The concn of monobasic salts of malic and tartaric acids were usually higher in fruits grown under low light intensity than at high light intensity. Mono-and di-basic tartrates and dibasic malate were present in higher concn in grapes ripened at 30° than at 20°C; however, the reverse was true for monobasic malate salt. The level of dibasic malate and tartrate salts in fruits ripened at 30° increased with fruit maturity, but the concn of these salts in berries ripened at 20° varied relatively little as ripening progressed.


Pagination problems deal with questions around transforming a source text stream into a formatted document by dividing it up into individual columns and pages, including adding auxiliary elements that have some relationship to the source stream data but may allow a certain amount of variation in placement (such as figures or footnotes). Traditionally the pagination problem has been approached by separating it into one of micro-typography (e.g., breaking text into paragraphs, also known as h&j) and one of macro-typography (e.g., taking a galley of already formatted paragraphs and breaking them into columns and pages) without much interaction between the two. While early solutions for both problem areas used simple greedy algorithms, Knuth and Plass (1981) introduced in the '80s a global-fit algorithm for line breaking that optimizes the breaks across the whole paragraph. This algorithm was implemented in TEX'82 (see Knuth (986b)) and has since kept its crown as the best available solution for this space. However, for macro-typography there has been no (successful) attempt to provide globally optimized page layout: All systems to date (including TEX) use greedy algorithms for pagination. Various problems in this area have been researched and the literature documents some prototype development. But none of them have been made widely available to the research community or ever made it into a generally usable and publicly available system. This paper is an extended version of the work by Mittelbach (2016) originally presented at the DocEng '16 conference in Vienna. It presents a framework for a global-fit algorithm for page breaking based on the ideas of Knuth/Plass. It is implemented in such a way that it is directly usable without additional executables with any modern TEX installation. It therefore can serve as a test bed for future experiments and extensions in this space. At the same time a cleaned-up version of the current prototype has the potential to become a production tool for the huge number of TEX users world-wide. The paper also discusses two already implemented extensions that increase the flexibility of the pagination process (a necessary prerequisite for successful global optimization): the ability to automatically consider existing flexibility in paragraph length (by considering paragraph variations with different numbers of lines) and the concept of running the columns on a double spread a line long or short. It concludes with a discussion of the overall approach, its inherent limitations and directions for future research.


The application of the liquid soft starting technique in 6000 kW synchronous motor for 15000 m~3/h oxygen making machine of Jinan Iron Steel Group is presented. The system′s principle, characteristics, artificial calculation and effect after application are expounded.


This bibliography is an annotation of the scientific and nonscientific literature published on the effects of logging on fish and aquatic habitat of the Western United States and Canada. It includes 278 annotations and 317 total references. Subject areas include erosion and sedimentation, water quality, related influences upon salmonids, multiple logging effects, alteration of streamflow, stream protection, multiple-use management, streamside vegetation, stream improvement, and descriptions of studies on effects of logging. A review of the literature, a narrative on the state of the art, and a list of research needs determined by questionnaires are included b T h i s bibliography includes reports involving pest icides published by inany agencies. Recornendation fo r use of these pest icides i s not implied, I n o r t ha t the uses discussed have been registered. must be registered by appropriate S ta te and/or Federal agencies before they can be recommended. A l l uses of pest icides CONTENTS A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON LOGGIIIG AIlD FISHERIES-A STATE;MENT ON T I E STATE OF THE ART * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


A new phase unwrapping algorithm with difference filter for multi-band InSAR was designed by taking zero intermediate frequency vector filtering of interferogram for reference.It differences the interferogram with shorter wavelength to the one with longer wavelength to reduce the frequencies of fringes,as can improve the effects of filtering and phase unwrapping.It unwraps the phases with shorter wavelength based on the unwrapped phases with longer wavelength.All the phases in interferograms with different bands are used in phase unwrapping,so the reliability and the precision of phase unwrapping are improved.The simulated multi-band interferograms from DEM were applied in phase unwrapping experiments.The unwrapped phases were satisfying,as validated the proposed phase unwrapping algorithm.


: Predictive maintenance of machines, also known as Condition Based Maintenance, is based on monitoring operating parameters, and comparison with corresponding values of parameters obtained for the new equipment. All machines with moving parts give rise to sound and vibration and each machine has a specific vibration signature related to the construction and the state of the machine. If the state of the machine changes the vibration signature will also change and a change in the vibration signature can be used to detect incipient defects before they become critical. The condition monitoring technique is based on detecting the presence of a fault, diagnosing the root cause of the fault, assessing its level of severity and making arrangements for its correction. A broad of condition monitoring and fault diagnosis techniques has been carried out for improving the accuracy and ability of condition monitoring and prognosis systems for bearing and gear components. This paper introduces the method for diagnostic of the rear drive axle for the passenger cars without its demounting. The objective method of diagnosing the rear drive axle is done by vibrometer. Application of diagnostic method greatly would be contributed in quickly localization of the rear drive axle fault where diagnostic process of the servicer will done faster.


With the modularization method and utilizes characteristic of parallelity and pipeline of FPGA, interval dot difference with adaptive threshold segmentation algorithm is designed and implemented. The implementation consists of two modules: interval difference algorithm module and adaptive threshold algorithm module. The former carries out pipeline computation of interposing gradient with synchronizing time sequence and clock; the latter conducts adaptive adjustment of segmentation thresholds in real time with the change of image background according to statistic characteristic of background. Results of simulation and experiments show that this design can process image segmentation with short delay and satisfy the real-time processing requirement.


In this paper, a concise modeling approach using UML based on Ratiopn Unified Process is proposed.It was showed out and validate the method in details by modeling a student Information System。It was proved that the visual elements of UML can be used to design the model of the Object-Oriented system quickly and clearly, under the guidance of software architecture oriented approach and based on Ratiopn Unified Process.


Background: Deep-frying is a common cooking method accompanied by production of carcinogenesis substance such as acrolein. Acrolein is a toxic byproduct of lipid peroxidation that is involved in the development of pulmonary, cardiac, and neurodegenerative diseases. This study aimed to explore the effect of aerobic exercise (EXE) and octopamine (OCT) on caspase 3 and pro-caspase 3 expression levels in the heart tissue of rats were fed deep-frying oil (DFO).Methods: 30 male Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups (n=6 in each) including 1) control (CO), 2) DFO, 3) DFO+EXE, 4) DFO+OCT and 5) DFO+EXE+OCT. The apoptotic effects of DFO on heart and cardiomyocytes' fibers were examined by TUNEL assay and Masson's trichrome staining respectively. Also caspase 3 and pro-caspase 3 genes and proteins expression in all groups were evaluated using quantitative real-time PCR and western blotting method, respectively. Results: Data showed a significant increase in apoptotic cells in the DFO group (P <0.05). Masson's trichrome stain analysis demonstrated that the number of cardiomyocytes' fibers are decreased, and collagen deposition is increased in the DFO group. In comparison, the collagen percentage was significantly reduced in DFO+EXE, DFO +OCT and DFO+EXE+OCT groups. Also, the expression level of caspase 3 and pro-caspase 3 was significantly decreased in DFO+EXE+OCT group (P <0.05). Conclusions: The results of this study show that DFO lead to programmed cell death via the activation of caspases in heart tissue. However, it seems that aerobic exercise with octopamine supplementation improves heart tissue through decreasing in the expression of caspase 3 and pro-caspase 3 that inhibit apoptosis.


at the sea is to be regarded as the real nucleus of the Exodus theme ..." 1). Yet in spite of the rather broad consensus of opinion represented by this statement 2), the precise nature of the relationship which it describes remains obscure. NOTH himself is fully aware of this problem. He readily admits that the Reed Sea event does not belong with the Passover traditions 3). And since he understands the plague narratives to be a secondary extension of the Passover traditions, he cannot very well deem the plagues the point of contact for the Reed Sea event either 4). In fact, he is forced to the conclusion that after the release of the Israelites effected by the plagues, the Reed Sea event appears quite unexpectedly and must be considered a postlude in the framework of the present narrative context 5). Dennis J. MCCARTHY argues against NOTH that the plagues do


The human body is home to bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses, protists, and microscopic animals, all of which comprise the microbiome—all the microbes that "share our body space" [1]. The definition of what makes us human needs to account for the traits provided by these microorganisms as well as for the fact that we did not have to evolve on our own [2]. Work on the Human Genome Project [3] led to the realization that decoding the human genome would not provide the full picture for understanding human biology, as the microbial communities in/on our bodies by far exceed our own cells in number and gene content [4].


Since orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs) of tramadol hydrochloride are not available in the market, so an attempt has been taken to formulate and evaluate ODT preparation of tramadol hydrochloride. In this present work, direct compression was the technique used for preparing ODT using superdisintegrants like croscarmellose sodium, sodium starch glycolate and crospovidone at different concentrations. Prepared formulations were evaluated for various quality parameters- angle of repose, Carr's index, Hausner ratio, weight variation, friability, hardness, drug content, dispersion time, wetting time and in-vitro dissolution. The angle of repose data indicated that the flow property of all the formulations was good to excellent. Comparing with the specifications, the results of Carr's index (%) and Hausner's ratio indicated that the flowability of all the formulations blend was significantly good. Prepared formulations showed average wetting time ranging from 40-45 seconds, average dispersion time with 3-6 minutes. In-vitro dissolution profile indicated the cumulative % drug release between 30-80% for most of the cases.
Keywords: Orally disintegrating tablets, Tramadol hydrochloride, Superdisintegrants, Direct compression.


PEX5-related protein (626 aa, ~70 kDa) is encoded by the human PEX5L gene. This protein plays a role in the localization of hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channels.


It is well known that the advances in Broadband technologies have made the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) possible as a commercial service. These broadband technologies should be able to effectively deliver IPTV services with high level of quality of service. One of the Broadband technologies is WiMAX. WiMAX as a broadband technology is able to deliver different communication services, such as voice and video services over IP. The QoS for delivering IPTV services depends especially on network performance and bandwidth. There is an increasing trend to deploy WiMAX technology for offering those services. For adequate IPTV quality and good user experience IP/MPLS core and access network needs to provide guaranteed QoS. Following QoS parameters should be met in order to deliver IPTV over WiMAX without QoS degradation: bandwidth, losses and delays. These are main metrics to satisfy QoS requirements for offering IPTV. In this paper we will analyze the possibility of delivering IPTV services over WiMAX technology. At the end we will analyze in details QoS requirements for delivering IPTV over WiMAX using fuzzy logic.


The use of mixotrophic or heterotrophically grown microalgae as a feed source is a key factor to ensure that the expanding national aquaculture industry will remain economically viable. The mass culturing method needs to enhance the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids within the microalgae to ensure high nutritional value and subsequently needs to be quantified. Over the last number of decades the experimental technique used for determining various nutritional factors, in particularly lipid concentration and analysis have altered. The aim of this paper is to outline the methods that will be used during the experimental analysis. The target species used for this study is a centric diatom, Cyclotella cryptica. Literature data suggests that Cyclotella cryptica can be grown heterotrophically whilst having high nutritional value that is required to be an appropriate aquaculture feed source. Preliminary experimental results will be presented detailing the growth characteristics of Cyclotella cryptica under photoautotrophic conditions to be used as a control for the quantitative analysis of culturing under heterotrophically growth conditions.


A pilot study was conducted in an endemic village for bancroftian filariasis to find out the
compliance and antifilarial action of large doses of mebendazole (30 mg/kg/day). Thirty
eight patients with early clinical filariasis and 16 with asymptomatic microfilaraemia
were treated, under supervision. 'The compliance for drug consumption was high and
there were no serious adverse reactions. Majority of the side effects were gastrointestinal
and mild. The drug, in combination with diethylcarbamazine (DEC), showed microfilaricidal
effect, but the effect was similar to that seen with DEC alone. In as many as 5 of
the 13, who were followed at 1 yr, microfilaria persisted at the end of 1 yr, though with a
reduced density. Prolonged (1 yr) treatment with mebendazole in combination with DEC
did not have a beneficial effect in most patients with clinical disease.


The arteriograms and other findings in 42 patients with the subclavian steal syndrome were statistically evaluated to determine which factors predisposed to vertebrobasilar ischemia. Evidence of disconnection of the circle of Willis between the territories of the carotid and vertebral arteries was found in a significantly higher proportion of the patients with vertebrobasilar insufficiency. This finding was interpreted to mean that in these patients one of the major routes normally available for compensating for the basilar ischemia produced by the steal was not present.It is suggested that this or similar mechanisms may be necessary before the subclavian steal produces symptoms in individual patients.


A configurable logic array, a plurality of logic cells, a plurality of customized overlying logic cells, a metal and vias connecting layers, customization of a number of element which can be I / O cells, a plurality of customizable RAM block, customized, including a look-up table configuring the ROM block, and the array having available content and a microprocessor having a customizable I / O to the test, and customization is carried out both on a single interlayer.


Most plastic surfaces are textured to suppress specular reflection and to enhance their aesthetic quality. Those surface textures are generated in the injection molding process. First of all in this paper, some significant 3-D geo-stastistical parameters for assessing the textured surfaces were selected and their measuring conditions were introduced. Geometrical transfer from the mold to the plastic surfaces could be evaluated by the parameter values. Experimental results and multi-variate analysis showed that reflection luminance distribution of the isotropic surface texture can be well correlated with the 3-D local slope distribution of the facets and some aesthetic indices of visual inspection can be expressed by a combination of those parameters.


Image matching and water-body-detection methodologies are essential parts of generating good-quality digital elevation model (DEM) data. It is one of the very important results for image matching where 1-D searching in the along-track direction is sufficient to find the maximum correlation point if reconstructed unprocessed Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection data (Level-1A data) are used as the source data for DEM products. This important situation is obtained from the general formulation of how to make 1-D searching possible. The image matching quality is evaluated for this 1-D searching method. An image correlation kernel size of 5 by 5 is recommended as the most suitable selection for better horizontal resolution with a slight sacrifice of the image matching error. The satellite pointing fluctuation effect on image matching is also evaluated, leading to the conclusion that it does not seriously affect DEM quality. The water-body-detection technique is another core of DEM generation. The low image correlation coefficient, the low reflectance of water in the near-infrared band 3N, and other spectral characteristics of water were used to identify surface water bodies. In addition, water-body size and the standard deviation of the water-body perimeter elevation are limited for consistent detection without misidentification. As a result, the minimum size of a detectable water body is 0.2km2.


SUMMARY.

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The effect of nutrient availability on the growth of natural samples of Lough Neagh plankton (Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, initial innoculum 0.98 mm3 l-1, Oscillatoria redekei, 2.52 mm3 l-1 and Oscillatoria agardhii, 4.96 mm3 l-1) was studied, using ecologically realistic conditions of temperature (15°C), nitrate-N (<0.35g m-3) and orthophosphate-P (<0.55g m-3), in which the combinations –N–P, –N+P, +N–P, and +N+P were used.

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After 8 days A. flos-aquae had become dominant in treatments lacking N. After 12 days with N available the mean yields of O. redekei (37.7 mm3 l-1) and O. agardhii (10.82 mm3 l-1) were significantly greater (P=5%) than their respective yields (3.6 and 2.6 mm3 l-1) in the absence of N. Somewhat surprisingly the mean yield of A. flos-aquae when N was present (0.15 mm3 l-1), was significantly less (P=5%) than in the absence of N (13.26 mm3l-1).

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The relative rates and duration of growth, the availability of P and N, and heterocyst frequency as an index of nitrogen fixation are considered in relation to the seasonal succession and dominance of these three principal cyanophyte members of the Lough Neagh phytoplankton.


HUMAN NARCOLEPSY IS A SLEEP DISORDER, POSSIBLY OF AUTOIMMUNE ETIOLOGY, THAT CAUSES THE INAPPROPRIATE INTRUSION OF RAPID-EYE-MOVEMENT (REM) SLEEP INTO WAKEFULNESS.1,2 The majority of cases are associated with cataplexy. There is clear evidence that the recently discovered hypocretin (also called orexin) neurotransmission system3,4 is involved in narcolepsy. Three different canine breeds with narcolepsy were found to have mutations of the hypocretin receptor 2 gene.5,6 A preprohypocretin knock-out mouse also exhibited narcolepsy-like behaviors and electroencephalographic (EEG) activity,7 as did a murine model with genetic ablation of hypocretin neurons.8 Hypocretin 1 was undetectable in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 31 of 38 patients with narcolepsy but was detectable in the CSF of 15 healthy controls and 19 patients with other neurologic diseases in one study.9 Reduced numbers of hypocretin-containing neurons have been observed in the usually hypocretin-rich hypothalamic areas of the human narcoleptic brain.10,11 Human narcolepsy is rarely familial and has been shown to be associated with a hypocretin-system mutation in only one individual.11 Human narcolepsy is very strongly associated with an HLA DQB1*0602, which suggests an autoimmune diathesis.12-16 All of the recent findings in human narcolepsy, as described above (except the one demonstrated case of a mutation), could be caused by an autoimmune-mediated destruction of hypocretin-expressing neurons, but this has not been demonstrated to date. Because patients with autoimmune diseases tend to have autoantibodies reactive to a variety of epitopes, in addition to the epitopes causing disease,17,18 we hypothesized that 1) adult narcoleptics who are HLA DQB1*0602 positive have a high prevalence of at least one of the antibodies on a panel of tests described below, 2) adult narcoleptic patients who are HLA DQB1*0602 positive have more serologic markers of autoimmunity than do those who are HLA DQB1*0602 negative, and 3) adult narcoleptic patients with cataplexy have more serologic markers of autoimmunity when compared to those narcoleptics without cataplexy because narcoleptics with cataplexy may have a different etiology and disease course than those without cataplexy. To test these hypotheses we screened patients' serum using a panel of autoantibodies that are recognized as humoral markers of neuron-specific and organ-specific autoimmunity. The search for neuron-specific autoantibodies in the serum of narcoleptic patients is relevant because antibodies against neuronal antigens in other neuroimmunologic disorders are not confined to the CSF but have been found in the serum. For example, Type 1 Purkinje cell cytoplasmic antibodies (PCA-1, also called anti-Yo) and types 1 and 2 antineuronal nuclear antibodies (ANNA-1, also called anti-Hu; ANNA2, also called anti-Ri), which are associated with paraneoplastic central nervous system processes, are detectable in the serum.


This article is devoted to solving the actual problem of the control laser beams with a radiated power of 10 watts and above in the microwave range. Shows the solution of this problem using bulk single crystal modification Mach-Zehnder modulators. Described the use as a control element waveguide electrodynamic structure of filter type.


A discussion is given on the question how to model organizations to better understand where changes are needed, and which changes will be effective. The author presents a dynamic, object-oriented modelling technique that can be shown to meet the main requirements for modelling and evaluating the structure of an organization, both as it is now and as it could be after changes have been implemented.<<ETX>>


Patrick Kiernan's Narrative Identity in English Language Teaching will be particularly useful to students and researchers new to the theoretical aspects of identity or the methodology of narrative inquiry. His arguments are also well referenced and logically presented, and the suggested implications of narrative on ESL pedagogy are original and imaginative. As such, the book is a worthwhile addition to the library of anyone interested in language teachers in Japan specifically, and second-language teaching more generally.


Most of application in use display picture on limited bandwidth to not clarity and user to difficult in this condition verifies who's. So we use The Image Enhanced to clarity/quality (Contrast, Brightness and remove noise etc) to use difficult techniques in image research. In Image we have to difficulties like Social site image, medical image, satellite image and real life photographs due to noise and poor contrast. So it is essential to improve the contrast and remove the noise to enhance image value. We have to provide a better transform representation for prospect robotic image processing the clarity/ quality of images for human screening, sharpening edges, remove blurring and noise, growing contrast, and helpful details. In this paper, we present an overview of low contrast image enhancement processing techniques in Fuzzy logic. Thus the part of this paper is to categorize and analysis image enhancement processing technique, endeavor an evaluation of shortcoming and universal requirements in this field of active research and in last we will point out promise instructions on research for Low contrast image enhancement for prospect research.


As a subjective concept, perceived image quality is heavily affected by visual mechanisms, e.g., selective attention and contrast sensitivity. This work proposes a lightweight attention module in image quality assessment (IQA) to simulate spatial attention and contrast sensitivity mechanisms. The attention module can extract essential information from a CNN backbone for image quality perception using two sequential attention blocks: a spatial block for mimicking selective attention in spatial domain and a channel block for contrast sensitivity. Experimental results on two large-scale publicly available IQA datasets have demonstrated promising performance of the proposed approach. The source code can be found at https://github.com/junyongyou/sca_iqa.


Objective To explore the nursing method of ultrasound-guided percutaneous placed tube drainage in the treatment of severe acute pancreatitis. Methods Nine cases with severe acute pancreatitis were treated with multiple non-surgical methods,including ultrasound-guided percutaneous placed tube drainage from Jan 2002 to Jun 2004. All patients were nursed systemically and strictly, including monitoring of vital signs and abdominal signs, nursing of the drainage tubes and nursing of Somatostatin infusion.Results All patients were cured without surgical intervention, including 1 case of fulminant acute pancreatits. The period of peritoneal drainage was 5 to 7 days, and the time of peripancreatic drainage was 7 to 60 days (mean 30 days). The hospitalization time was 32 to 152 days (mean 68 days). No exfoliation of drainage tube was found in this group.Conclusion Ultrasound-guided percutaneous placed tube drainage is a convenient,safe and effective treatment for severe acute pancreatitis combining with large amount of peritoneal exudate or peripancreatic fluid associated with infection. It's successful application can provide useful experience for non-surgical treatment of severe acute pancreatitis. Intensive nursing to the drainage tube, use of drugs and observation of patient's condition are an important measure to non-surgical treatment of acute severe pancreatitis.


Jiangxi college of Applied Technology is one of the several vocational colleges all over the country, which consist of geology section. In order to keep pace with the social development and bring up the geology high calibers, we have carried out a full survey and research to make the plan according to the need of society. We stick to the connection of learning, researching and practicing, taking the "double division type" as the subjects, perfecting the training base, taking the "make single entry" as character and having carried out a series of reforms in education, having made the remarkable effect.


Abstract : This report is the user's guide for the Computer Aided Inspection Forms for Hydraulic Steel Structures (CAIF-HSS) computer program, which is used to store information obtained during the inspections of miter, tainter, lift, and sector gates. The CAIF-HSS runs under Windows environment and includes an interface that allows the user to generate the inspection forms by following a logical sequence of structural elements in the corresponding structure. The program also has the capability to display images.


As communities and industries continue to expand, delivering power becomes more challenging– electricity grids reach capacity during peak periods, while providing electricity off the grid becomes more expensive. In India the use of electronic loads is increasing very fast and the gap between demand and the supply have made the reliability and power quality a critical issue. By utilizing advanced Super capacitors (also known as ultra-capacitors) are DC energy sources and must be interfaced to the electric grid with a static power conditioner. A super capacitor provides power during short duration interruptions and voltage sags. By combining a super capacitor with a battery-based uninterruptible power supply system, the life of the batteries can be extended. Just about everything that is now powered by batteries will be improved by better energy supply. They can be manufactured to size from postage stamp to hybrid car battery pack. Their light weight and low cost make them attractive for most portable electronics and phones, as well as aircraft and automobiles.


ABSTRACT Renewed interest in plasma isotope separation stems from the need to produce certain isotopes more inexpensively. These include isotopes of groups I and II, rare earth and some other elements of the periodic table. While gas centrifuge cascades, developed for uranium enrichment, are capable of a wider range of separation applications, they are limited to elements that can form volatile gaseous compounds at room temperature. In the absence of a suitable compound, more expensive separation techniques are used, consuming considerable electrical power for relatively low throughputs. We believe that a new type of plasma centrifuge can be a viable alternative.


In a year awash with political and economic challenges, dermatology and venereology persevered, and, as 2022 has drawn to a close, it seems now appropriate to revisit some highlights from our 36th volume. Please allow me to take you on a rather subjective tour through a few articles I found to be of special interest. JEADV had a terrific year, achieving the highest impact factor in its history, 9.2, and ranking fourth out of 93 peerreviewed dermatology journals worldwide.


The present invention for the basalt fiber-reinforced composite material and a manufacturing method comprising a fabric including basalt fibers (basalt fiber) to the reinforcing material, a fiber-reinforced composite material according to the invention is mainly used as a reinforcing material of a fiber-reinforced composite material to an existing by the release of behalf of the carbon fiber fabric or a glass fiber used for the fabric including the basalt fiber as a reinforcing material, the carbon fiber has a strength which while being manufactured cost effective largely comparable thereto than the fabric containing the composite material, is compared to include glass cloth composites It has significantly improved physical properties (excellent chemical resistance and heat resistance, and so on).


Hydraulic design of piping systems usually consists of computing the pump head required to overcome the system pressure head, static head, and resistance losses at the design flow rate. This design point is compared with pump manufacturers' composite pump curves to select a candidate pump. Once a candidate pump is selected, a system head-capacity curve is plotted along with the pump head-capacity curve. The operating point is the intersection of these two curves. Because of inherent uncertainties in the process specifications and in the flow resistance calculations, designers have traditionally used safety factors to ensure that the final system is adequate. Safety factor values are based on the designer's experience (or sometimes lack of experience) and vary greatly. A 25% overrating is typical. The compounding effect of safety factors often leads to pumps that are greatly oversized. Hicks and Edwards give a good discussion of the problem of compounding safety factors. Safety factors assume minimum knowledge of the nature of the inherent uncertainties. However, the designer usually can make a reasonable estimate of the uncertainties in the process specifications. The result of the uncertainty analysis is the probably operating range of the candidate design. This information gives the designer amore » more rational basis for design decisions than that provided by the use of safety factors. With hand calculations, uncertainty analysis can be tedious; however, the uncertainty analysis can be easily combined with piping system analysis computer programs. This article presents the application of uncertainty analysis to series piping design computations and gives a computer program that combines them.« less


Missing values in a data set present an important problem for almost any traditional and modern statistical method, since most of these methods were developed under the assumption that the data set was complete. However, in the real world no complete datasets are available and the issue of missing data is frequently encountered in veterinary field studies as in other fields. While imputation of missing data is important in veterinary field studies where data mining is newly starting to be implemented, another important issue is how it should be imputed. This is because in many studies observations with any variables having missing values are being removed or they are completed by traditional methods. In recent years, while alternative approaches are widely available to prevent removal of observations with missing values, they are being used rarely. The aim of this study is to examine mean, median, nearest neighbors, mice and missForest methods to impute the simulated missing data which is the randomly removed with varying frequencies (5 to 25% by 5%) from original veterinary dataset. Then highly accurate methods selected to impute original dataset for observation of influence in classifier performance and to determine the optimal imputation method for the original dataset.


Abstract : The correlations of tail-wind components and temperatures are obtained for 10 possible SST routes for each season of the year. The correlation coefficients along the routes at the 100-, 70-, 50- and 30-mb surfaces and on arbitrary flight profiles are presented. The correlation coefficients range in magnitude from 0 to 0.6. However the regression coefficients, which are considered more appropriate for planning studies exceed 2 knots/degree in magnitude only in isolated cases. The correlations agree in their general sense with our knowledge of the variation of the general circulation. They should be stable for varying periods of record except in such cases as the Thule-Stockholm route where normal displacements of the polar low at high altitudes may reverse the sign of the correlation. A large volume of statistical and bivariate frequency distribution data was developed in the study and is available on magnetic tapes. This includes wind and temperature relations for 370 stations in a form from which the wind component in any direction may be related to temperature. The results are based on 10 years of observations taken near midnight Greenwich Time. The temperature observations are corrected for solar radiation effects. (Author)


Background:  Bankart lesions and Hill‐Sachs lesions are commonly associated with anterior shoulder dislocations. The presence of Bankart lesion indicates the need for surgical repair. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been shown to be sensitive in detecting these two lesions. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between Bankart lesions and Hill‐Sachs lesions on MRI for patients with traumatic anterior shoulder dislocations.


complexity of the scene which can be formed by several partially occluded objects (e.g. the bin-picking task). We describe the use of geometric reasoning and proI n t h e l i t e r a t u r * J t i s P° s s i b l e t o find <&* a TMmbe o f jective geometry to infer 3-D information about cirm e t h o d s f o r e l h P t i c a l 8 b u t t h e P r o b l e m o f d e a l i n 8 cles which project elliptical curves onto one 2-D imefficiently with real images has been often ignored. age. A robust and efficient method to extract elliptical arcs starting from chains of line segments obtained by the polygonal approximation of edge curves is presented. Then an algorithm that solves analytically the problem of the perspective inversion of an elliptical arc from its projection onto the image plane is outlined. Finally experimental results on real images of mechanical parts are reported; therefore, current drawbacks and future extensions of this work are discussed. Preprocessing f Polygonal (Approximation \ ^ Chains


The chaotic functions and cyclic elliptic curves (CEC) has attracted many researchers, especially cryptographers, since decades. As CEC and chaotic functions meet the requirements of the cryptography, they are widely used either in key sequence generation or encryption/decryption process. Since in symmetric key encryption, stream ciphers need a large key sequence to encrypt/decrypt the information, authors propose a hybrid model to generate pseudo random sequence using CEC and logistic map. The hybrid model is developed using CEC points over GF(28) and an one‐dimensional logistic map. In the proposed system, binary chaotic sequence and CEC points are given to AES S‐box to get two random sequences separately. Byte wise parity is computed for both the sequences. Based on the parity of both the bytes, one of the byte is left shifted and the other is right shifted by two positions in a circular manner. Later, both the bytes are combined using the XOR operation to get the random binary sequence. The generated sequences are analysed for randomness using various test suites like NIST, Correlation, FIPS, and TestU01. It has been observed that all the sequences pass the randomness tests. Using additive stream cipher, image encryption is implemented by considering the generated sequence as key sequence. The performance evaluation and security analysis of the encryption process is conducted. The results obtained for the proposed system indicate that the system is robust to withstand many cryptanalytic attacks.


Latin America represents a strange and complex world where politics and prose are intertwined, where tragedy and com edy co-exist, and where truth can perhaps be stranger—and more compelling—than fiction. Unlike India whose culture was defined two millennia ago, Latin America does not have a grand narrative of cultural heritage. A land of contrasts and a product of conquest and colonization, of authoritarian European monarchies and indigenous theocracies, Latin America has been compelled to invent and reinvent its own story continuously. Encompassing a little more than one-fifth of the landmass of the world—from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Rio Grande in the north and several micro-states in the Caribbean—Latin America presents one of the most fascinating and challenging areas for study. With a population of nearly 470 million people it comprises 18 Spanish speaking countries along with Brazil, Haiti and over two dozen smaller states in the Caribbean including British, French and US dependencies. When I started out as a research scholar specializing in Latin American affairs in the mid-70s, the Latins still direly charac terized themselves as "the people who never win." The great Mexican philosopher Leopoldo Zea had written typi cally of the pessimism that seemed to infuse Latin America from its very birth: "we carry our defects in our blood". American cartoon strips


The present invention relates to the preparation of a 2-aminothiazole derivative having a structure as formula (I) and a therapeutic effect thereof for Alzheimer's disease (AD), and a therapeutic effect thereof against transplant rejection, autoimmune diseases, ischemia-reperfusion injury, chronic inflammation response, endotoxemia, and other diseases.


Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease, with individual cases showing variability in clinical presentation, blast-cell morphology, therapeutic response, and long-term prognosis. One of the most common cytogenetic abnormalities described in AML is t(8;21)(q22;q22) found in 10% to 15


This article is the result of an intervention research based on a case study. It carries out aposteriori analysis of the material referring to the school discourse about a child undergoing schooling,aiming to understand the production of malaise. Based on reports of visits to the school, school reportsand transcripts of speeches by school agents, it reflects on the malaise in the educators' discoursetowards the student who does not correspond to the ideal, as well as maps the strategies to overcomethe malaise. The article concludes that, in the case studied, the strategies predominantly pointed towhat can be called the medicalization of education in the contemporary.


Due to its very obvious and direct connection with the costs of altering the behavior of a software, maintainability is probably the most attractive, observed and evaluated quality characteristic of the software products. There are many coding practices and techniques that may influence the maintainability of a system (e.g. design patterns, coding rules, anti-patterns, refactoring techniques). However, the empirical evidences of the connection between coding practices and maintainability are vague due to the following reasons: i) finding instances of coding primitives like design patterns, anti-patterns, etc. precisely with reverse engineering tools is not easy, ii) the lack of mature practical quality models for objective calculation of maintainability and handling its ambiguity, iii) few empirical studies directly evaluating the connection of coding techniques and software maintainability. The presented work focuses on solving these major problems by creating a benchmark for evaluating the performance of different reverse engineering tools and introducing a novel probabilistic approach for measuring software maintainability. By performing case studies based on new analysis methods we evince that there is a significant correlation between the design pattern density and the maintainability of a system, e.g. 0.89 Pearson correlation for JHotDraw. Moreover, preliminary studies show that applying refactoring has indeed a traceable positive impact on software maintainability as anticipated.


This study systematically tests a formal theory of how certain dimensions of social stratification--income, race, and age--relate to risk of predatory criminal victimization. An opportunity theory of criminal victimization is proposed, focusing on the mediating role played by five risk factors: exposure, guardianship, proximity to potential offenders, attractiveness of potential targets, and definitional properties of specific crimes themselves. Propositions are derived pertaining to the bivariate and multivariate-partial (main) effects expected from the theory and tested in analyses based on a representative sample of the U.S. population for the crimes of assault, burglary, and personal larceny. These data indicate that the relationship between the dimensions of social stratification and the offenses studied here is complex, and that, other things being equal, those usually thought to be most vulnerable economically and socially--the poor, the nonwhite, the old--are not the most likely victims of crime. Race has little direct effect on victimization risk, while age is inversely related to each type of crime at both the bivariate and multivariate levels of analyses. The findings are largely consistent with the proposed theory. (abstract Adapted from Source: American Sociological Review, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by the American Sociological Association) Victimization Causes Crime Victim Violence Victim Racial Factors Age Factors Socioeconomic Factors Victimization Risk Factors 07-02


I am saddened by the letters saying that nursing students do not learn essential care skills in university before going on placements (June 30 and July 7).


This study is to explore In-depth understanding of the tourist perceptions towards the activities and services provided and to investigate the overall perception of tourist towards the activities and services provided by tour operator in Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park. . However, if a customer's expectation is not met by the perceived performance, dissatisfaction experience will occur. Therefore, satisfaction, being positive or negative, can be determined by performance and regarded as a vital basis of competitive issues. The result from this study attempt to gain overall perception of tourist towards the activities, price, satisfaction and quality of services provided by tour operator in Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park and from the result researcher could determine the factor of behavioral intention toward the Marine Park, or island. The significance of this paper will soon help to enhance tour operator's services and give a wonderful experience to the tourist and meet the tourist needs and wants in future. Findings clearly revealed that tourist perception on island activities, service quality and price value are positively or negatively influenced tourist satisfaction in island tourism and their intention to revisit.


The accurate modeling and analysis of two-phase fluid networks found in environmental control and life support systems is presently undertaken by computer-aided engineering (CAE) techniques whose generalized fluid dynamics package can solve arbitrary flow networks. The CAE system for integrated test bed modeling and analysis will also furnish interfaces and subsystem/test-article mathematical models. Three-dimensional diagrams of the test bed are generated by the system after performing the requisite simulation and analysis.


Islamic education ia a mean of value transmission and islamic doctrines to the students in order to understand, internalize, and practice the islamic doctrines precisely. Meanwhile, the core of islamic doctrines is to implant good morals. And this the prophetic mission of Muhammad SAW, prefecting morals of humans. Inserting good morals as the soul of developing the planning, actuating, and evaluating islamic education. These efforts are very crucial to avoid misleading orientation of islamic education as mastering knowledge only (Islamology) without understanding, penetrating, and actuating in daily life. The efforts to reconstruct islamic educaton as exsplain above can be carried out by formulating instructional goals, designing curriculum, and implementing Islam by referring to pervading good morals (akhlak) through tazkiyah al-nafs.


The real goal of this research is to evaluate one of the innovative and educational experiences (Smart School plan) throughout West Azerbaijan Province. It is for recognition of any current problems (Material & humanistic) and submission of some practical guidelines for remove them. Research method is descriptive –survey one. Statistical population includes all girls' and boys' school as the executors of smart plan (High School) and also occupied teachers. There is a sample including 17 schools and about 233 teachers (male & females) who were selected randomly with a simple volume. We used two factors (questionnaire & check list) in this research for required data collection and reliability coefficient of %91. The obtained data out of research tools were analyzed statistically with two descriptive and conceptual methods (K-S test, Chi-square test, One - Way Analysis of Variance, LSD test, Friedman test and Pearson Correlation). According to the results, smart schools are facing with lots of shortages in the field of required infrastructures (Space, Facilities and equipment). Occupied teachers in these schools are not satisfied from current situation due to the mentioned problems and shortages. In spite of a positive attitude about promotion of smart schools, teachers have no more acceptable level of knowledge and skills. According to the results of Friedman test for classification and recognition of importance of four folded factors (Knowledge, attitude, satisfaction and skills), it is obvious that knowledge and satisfaction are respectively the first and fourth negative factors on smart schools. From viewpoint of teachers of statistical sample, supplying of suitable space and equipping of schools with required facilities, reducing of job volume of teachers and also holding of educational courses for increasing of e-content are the most important guidelines for removing any obstacles and problems at smart schools.


Abstract α-Ketoaldehydes have been extensively employed as reagents for the chemical modification of arginine residues in proteins, and to probe for putative anion recognition sites. A major disadvantage in their use is instability, as α-ketoaldehydes are prone to hydration, oxidation, and polymerization. These reagents are typically supplied as the aldehyde hydrates which are relatively stable, but must be purified and standardized prior to analytical use. The known chemical, spectroscopic, and enzymatic methods for quantitating α-ketoaldehydes are not practical for routine analysis due principally to their high detection limits and sensitivity to interfering substances. Surprisingly, α-ketoaldehydes have not been reported as substrates for the alcohol dehydrogenases. We have discovered that phenylglyoxal and several related α-ketoaldehydes are good substrates for horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase (HLADH). The second order rate constants ( k cat/Km) are within a factor of 10 of that for the reduction of acetaldehyde, a known good substrate for HLADH. The enzymatic reduction reaction is stoichiometric with the oxidation of NADH, resulting in a rapid, convenient, and sensitive method for the spectrophotometric quantitation of α-ketoaldehydes, with a submicromolar detection limit for phenylglyoxal. The sole product of phenylglyoxal reduction has been identified as α-hydroxyacetophenone. The ketone functional group is not reduced, and the enzymatic reaction is essentially irreversible as α-hydroxyacetophenone is not oxidized to phenylglyoxal by HLADH in the presence of NAD+.


The issue of pension benefit security is currently in the foreground of both economic and political debate in many OECD countries. After a 'golden age' for pension funds, which enjoyed high investment returns and funding surpluses throughout the 1990s, a more troubled period has emerged since the start of the millennium. With equity market corrections, (and the subsequent questioning of long-term equity return assumptions), a low interest rate environment, asset liability mismatches, severe underfunding (highlighted by accounting changes), ageing populations, financial scandals and loss of pension benefits, the whole defined benefit pension system in many countries is under assault. Once the rise in defined contribution schemes (and the uncertainty they inherently entail) as well as the scaling back of government pensions are also taken into consideration, people of all ages are rightly asking what retirement income they can rely on? Though the subject has been debated on many occasions, recent events have ensured that the topic of pension benefit security has once again become a focus for policy discussion.


Wound contraction and scar formation after cleft palate surgery impair maxillary growth and dentoalveolar development. Since myofibroblast numbers and scar formation are reduced by interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) in the healing of dermal wounds, the hypothesis was tested that local administration of IFN-γ reduces the numbers of myofibroblasts and the elevated amount of collagen during palatal mucoperiosteal wound healing. Standardized mucoperiosteal excision wounds were made in the palatal mucoperiosteum of young rats. Either IFN-γ or vehicle alone (sham group) was repeatedly injected into the wound site between 4 and 29 days post-wounding. The results were compared with unmanipulated control wounds. Samples of wound tissue were prepared for biochemical and microscopic analysis. The hydroxyproline, sulfated glycosaminoglycan and DNA contents of the wound tissues were analyzed biochemically. The degree of re-epithelialization, tissue thickness, the numbers of myofibroblasts, and the amounts of elastin and collagen types I and III were evaluated on histological sections. Injection of vehicle alone affected almost all healing parameters, compared with the controls, and delayed the wound-healing process. IFN-γ stimulated re-epithelialization and decreased the numbers of myofibroblasts when compared with vehicle-treated wounds. It also decreased the hydroxyproline and glycosaminoglycan contents of 60-day-old wound tissue, but the histological characteristics of scar tissue persisted. Therefore, IFN-γ is able to reduce the numbers of myofibroblasts and the collagen content of scar tissue after palatal wound healing. It may be a promising pharmaceutical agent for the reduction of wound contraction and scarring after cleft palate surgery.


This study intends to show how understanding of ministry influences on the Pastor's ethical consciousness. To achieve this goal, first, I contrast two views such as understanding of ministry as a calling and one as a profession, and then, I try to explore historical backgrounds of each understanding. Also, I deal with criteria of profession to decide whether or not the pastor's ministry can be argued as a profession. Second, I explore ethical implications of each understanding of ministry. Here I show that different understanding can result in different ethical implications in relation to Korean pastor's ethical problems. It can not be argued that one understanding of ministry is superior to the other. Each understanding has its own characteristics, although Korean church is mainly biased on understanding ministry as a calling. Third, the comparison study between understanding of ministry as a calling and one as a profession, I choose two leading Korean pastors such as Jae-Chul Lee and Dong-ho Kim. And I explore each one's understanding of ministry and its ethical implications. Whereas the former is biased on the understanding of ministry as a calling, the latter is biased on profession. Also, while the former emphasizes the pastor's personal ethics as the one who is standing in front of God, the latter argues relational ethics between pastor and elders based on each one's clear role. On this basis, I argue integrative understanding of ministry and pastoral- ethical implications in the conclusion chapter.


This paper presents some distinctive features of a power system which is composed of a generator and a large power system connected to it through relatively long tie-line. The generator is closely connected to an induction machine which is regarded as a dynamic load. The phenomena-affected with dynamic load are explored by extending the approach developed by deMello and Concordia [1], and the laboratory field tests. The features are compared with the case of impedance load to which many studies have already been conducted.


Microstructures of magnetic materials, including defects and crystallographic orientations, are known to strongly influence magnetic domain structures. Measurement techniques such as magnetic force microscopy (MFM) thus allow study of correlations between microstructural and magnetic properties. The present work probes effects of anisotropy and artificial defects on the evolution of domain structure with applied field. Single crystal iron thin films on MgO substrates were milled by Focused Ion Beam (FIB) to create different magnetically isolated squares and rectangles in [110] crystallographic orientations, having their easy axis 45° from the sample edge. To investigate domain wall response on encountering non-magnetic defects, a 150 nm diameter hole was created in the center of some samples. By simultaneously varying crystal orientation and shape, both magnetocrystalline anisotropy and shape anisotropy, as well as their interaction, could be studied. Shape anisotropy was found to be important primarily f...