en Sin noticias de Gurb (Mendoza) y Plutón BRB Nero (De la Iglesia) AuThor: Benjamin Fraser AffiliATion: The College of Charleston AbsTrAcT: This essay emphasizes the possible connections between the nineteenth-century literary costumbrismo of Mariano José de Larra and the theme of science-fiction as it has been developed through two recent artistic products from Spain. Álex de la Iglesia's televised series titled Plutón BRB Nero and Eduardo Mendoza's novel Sin noticias de Gurb echo the spirit of Larra's articles through their captain's logs and highly social emphases. Moreover, the critique of everyday life advanced by spatial theorist Henri Lefebvre provides a basis for bringing these two time periods and three types of cultural products together. It seems that—as Juan Goytisolo noted in an important essay from the twentieth century—it is still appropriate to write of 'Larra's contemporary relevance.'


This small‐scale piece of research stemmed from a larger study on oral storytelling and the responses of children to stories told and read to them. In the larger study several children expressed preferences for stories from picture books, as told stories were not real stories. This concept of real stories and what constitutes a real story in the eyes of an infant child, aged between five and seven years, is what led to the basis of the research. One hundred and thirty‐five children between the ages of five and seven years old were involved in the research. The investigation was conducted in three different schools in South Wales, UK. It was hoped that the research would give some insights into the literacy habits of children today. The children were asked some basic questions about home practices relating to storytelling and story‐reading and about preferences in relation to oral stories and picture books. Finally they were asked if they thought oral tales were real stories. This essay gives an overview of some of the literacy practices of the children and deliberates on their comments as they wrestle with the concept of a real story.


The article reveals the content of the notions "ethnos" and "ethnic culture" with the purpose of determining the modern forms and ways of their existence. The interpretation of these notions is the key aspect in understanding the socio-cultural dynamics problems of ethnic culture today. The author pays special attention to the fact that the main instrument of people's ethnic consolidation is culture that is inherited in traditional form. In this connection it is possible to ascertain that during ethno-genesis process two equivalent components are formed: ethnic population and ethnic cultural system. The idea about ethnic culture is presented as about the structure that has an integrating basis and doesn't permit disappearance.


Introduction: Liver is a wedge shaped visceral organ in the body, occupies right hypochondrium,
epigastric region and extends in to left hypochondrium. A thorough knowledge of anatomy of liver and
its variations will avoid errors in diagnostic imaging and will also help the surgeons design appropriate
surgical approaches.
Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in the Department of Anatomy of our Institution. A
total of 35 numbers of livers removed from cadavers were used for the study. The morphological variations
of liver such as changes in size, shape, presence of accessory lobes, fissures, hypoplastic lobes were noted
and tabulated.
Results: Out of the 35 livers studied, 15 specimens (42.9%) exhibited normal fissures and lobes, 13 (37.1%)
had accessory fissures over different lobes. In 3(8.6%) specimens of liver hypoplastic left lobe was observed
and in 4(11.4%) specimens lingular process of left lobe was observed. There were 8 accessory fissures were
seen in right lobe, 5 in left lobe, 4 in caudate lobe and 5 in quadrate lobe. Out of 35 livers studied, accessory
lobes were observed in 9 liver specimens, which can be grouped as 1 in right lobe, 2 in left lobe, 5 in caudate
lobe and 1 in quadrate lobe.
Conclusion: The authors conclude that morphological variations of liver must be taken in to account by
the Radiologist and G a stroenterologist while making various differential diagno sis as these variations can
present various clinical manifestations/ implications.

Keywords: Liver, Morphology, Variations, Lobes, Fissures.


Taking the Qitaihe Taoshan coal slime and Xinjian coal slime as research object,the impacts of the reagent ratio,the way of reagent feeding and surfactant upon the coal slime flotation were studied.The effect of KJ reagent mixtures on the coal slime flotation was discussed.The results of research showed that KJ reagent mixtures was a good reagent for coal flotation.


▪Leaf photosynthetic properties, e.g., the maximum carboxylation velocity or Vc ,max , change with leaf age due to ontogenetic processes. This study introduces an optimal dynamic allocation scheme to model changes in leaf-level photosynthetic capacity as function of leaf biochemical constraints (costs of synthesis and defense), nitrogen availability and other environmental factors (e.g., light). ▪The model consists of a system of equations describing RuBisCO synthesis and degradation within chloroplasts, defense and aging at leaf levels, nitrogen transfer and carbon budget at plant levels. ▪Model results show that optimal allocation principles explained RuBisCO dynamics with leaf age. An approximated analytical solution can reproduce the basic pattern of RuBisCO and Vc ,max in rice and in two tropical tree species. The model also reveals leaf life complementarities that remained unexplained in previous approaches, as the interplay between Vc ,max at maturation, life span, and the decline in photosynthetic capacity with age. Furthermore, it explores the role of defense, which is not implemented in current models. ▪This framework covers some of the existing gaps in integrating multiple processes across plant organs (chloroplast, leaf and whole plant) and it is a first-step into representing mechanistically leaf ontogenetic processes into physiological and ecosystem models.


Image reconstruction by sparse data is an important and intractable problem in the field of OCT(optical computerized tomography).On the basis of previous work on the measurement of refractive index distribution by phase-shifting interferometry,the feasibility of reconstruction from orthogonal projections within limited narrow views is discussed.Local differentiable basic function was used to expand the refractive index filed,and consequently for precision in reconstruction,an iterative reconstruction algorithm with multiple-changeable relaxation factors is presented,based on genetic algorithm.Experiments and numerical simulation showed that the method of reconstruction from a few orthogonal projections within limited views caused a marked reduction in the quantity of measurement data.It is proved that the application of multi-changeable relaxation factors to the process of iteration makes the reconstruction precision considerably improved reaching a max error of no more than 5% and an average error less than 1%,when compared with the conventional grid method,associated with the expansion of local differentiable basic function.


Summary This paper includes information relevant to the ecology of Metrosideros umbellata, a distribution map based on its presence or absence in grid squares, and bibliographic references to other information.


The Taylor rule is not exactly a rule, but it is a useful tool to help economists and Federal Reserve officials think about how they should conduct monetary policy. Forefront talks to the Cleveland Fed's Todd Clark, vice president of macroeconomics and monetary policy, about the Taylor rule's ins and outs.


It is the interest of this work to analyze the dynamics of two of the primary mechanisms of the miscegenation, concubinage and the illegitimacy, in the particular case of the province of Costa Rica in the period 1690-1821, that corresponds to the called second colonial configuration that is framed between the aim of the era of the encomienda and until independence. The protagonists of this process were men and women of mixed blood, who were related in the cities and the ranches, to each other and with the other groups of the society, Indians, African slaves and Spanish, tie by bows of blood, social networks, networks of compadrazgo and economic relations. Consequently, the miscegenation is established as a characteristic not only of the yesterday Hispano-American colonial societies, but also of the today Latin American contemporary societies.


List of Figures Preface Introduction 1. The Formation of English Portrait Traditions 2. The Evidence: Patrons and Venues 3. Painters 4. Timing and Circumstances 5. Content and Meaning 6. Audience and Display 7. Conclusion Appendices A. Civic Portraits painted or acquired, 1500-1640 B. The Cost of Paintings, 1500-1640 Bibliography Index


This study reports the synthesis and activity as precatalysts for the polymerization of propylene of five racemic group 4 complexes, cis-[p-R′C6H4C(NR)2]2MX2 (R′ = CH3, R = SiMe3, M = Ti, X = Cl (1); R′ = CH3, R = SiMe3, M = Zr, X = Cl (2); R′ = H, R = i-pr, M = Zr, X = Cl (3); R′ = CH3, R = SiMe3, M = Zr, X = CH3 (4)) and (acac)2MCl2 (M = Ti (5), M = Zr (6)) (acac = acetylacetone). The hydrocarbyl complex 4 was prepared by the alkylation of the corresponding complex 2 with MeLi·LiBr. Reaction of complex 4 with B(C6F5)3 or all complexes with MAO (MAO = methylalumoxane) results in the formation of a "cationic" intermediate complex which rapidly reacts with the incoming monomer. Some of the complexes catalyze the stereoregular polymerization of propylene only under pressure in either toluene or CH2Cl2, producing polypropylene with very large isotacticities (mmmm % = ∼95–98), high melting points (140–154 °C) and similar molecular weights as compared with cyclopentadienyl complexes, whereas complex 5 is active for the polymerization of elastomeric polypropylene. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Objective:Experimental observation on effectiveness of modified Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang for treatment of hyperlipidemia in order to provide pharmacodynamic basis for clinical treatment.Method:Rats were given high fat diet for 4 weeks,resulting in model of hyperlipidemia,meanwhile three doses of the modified Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang was given.Changes in body weight,TG,CHOL,LDL,HDL,apoA1,apoB,SOD,MDA were observed during the process.Result:Body weight of high-dose group was increased compared with the model group at the same period.Serum triglyceride in three dosage groups was significantly reduced,serum CHOL,LDL levels in high-dose group were significantly reduced compared with the model group(P 0.05).Serum HDL levels in three dosage groups were increased to some degrees compared with model group,however,without significance.The levels of serum apo A1 had no significant changes in three dosage groups,while apo B levels in the three dosage groups and in the positive control group of steatohepatitis appeared a trend of decrease,the most obvious one was in the high dose group compared with the model group.SOD activity was increased to various degree in three dosagegroups while with reduced MDA content compared with model group,the most obvious one was the high dose group.Conclusion:The modified Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang can clearly improve the parameters related to hyperlipidemia.


In the title compound, C14H12ClN5, the dihydropyridine ring adopts a shallow boat conformation. The dihedral angle between the plane of this ring and that of the chlorobenzene ring is 69.15 (15)°. In the crystal, molecules are linked by N—H⋯N and N—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, generating (001) sheets.


Abstract My curiosity of students' use of images for reading led me to seek knowledge of the students view on the text illustrations in the literature and through interviews. This study is about how pupils in the school year 2 experience reading, especially with images. The purpose is to investigate the significance of illustrations in reading for students in school year 2. I also want to find out how students see themselves as readers and how the survey material believes that the students comprehend reading. Eight children, both girls and boys have participated in the interview. They had to read from three books in different formats with the same approach and questions. Interview and reading aloud were recorded and analyzed. The results suggest that the students are not always aware of their own development of reading process and the importances of the images are not considered as high among students. Notably, many of them used the images to get the information they needed to answer questions. Those who read other than books at home believe that they do not read, even if reading is about decoding information and messages. ´The broadens the concept of text´, which means that the text also includes the message that is mediated by other than through the written word, seems unfamiliar to the students. You can see that it is of importance for their reading comprehension among the students who read a lot at home.


We clarify why the well-known exponential growth in the ultraviolet asymptotics of the mass level expansion in any superstring theory does not imply a divergence in the one-loop string free energy, even when restricted to target spacetime bosonic modes alone: perturbative string theory is not merely an infinite tower of point particle field theories of increasing mass; it is both finite, and renormalizable, and equivalent to the 2d gauge theory of diffeomorphism and Weyl invariances. We calculate the free energy of the type IIA and type IIB superstring canonical ensembles at finite temperature, demonstrating the absence of thermal tachyons in the physical state spectrum. We derive the exact temperature dependence of the free energy in the form of a power series expansion by explicit evaluation of the one-loop modular integrals of closed string theory. Similar expressions are derived for the free energy of both heterotic closed string ensembles, as well as for the unoriented type I open and closed superstring ensembles, consistent with the thermal (Euclidean T-duality) transformations of the String/M Duality Web. Our string theory analysis leads to an expression for the pair correlator of Wilson loops in the low energy finite temperature Yang Mills gauge theory, evidence for a first order thermal phase transition at the self-dual temperature. Finally, we derive an explicit expression for the microcanonical density of states of the type IB open string ensemble, demonstrating that the growth in the density of string states as a function of ensemble energy is slower than that of an exponential. Our elucidation of both the canonical, and the microcanonical, type IB open string ensembles is irrefutable evidence that the Hagedorn "phase transition" in string theory is a myth.


Background: Sunglasses safety is important regarding driving conditions and is requirement of sunglasses standard ISO 12312-1, for testing traffic light and visible transmittances on lenses. Methods: We have spectroscopically investigated 232 sunglasses regarding compliance with standard, in the 380 nm – 780 nm range, with 5nm steps. Category (0 – 4) were determined as well as Q factors, which evaluate color distortion for the vision on sunglasses. Furthermore, we developed a prototype for public to self-check sunglasses regarding safety for driving. Combination of white light illumination, 4-channels photo sensor detection and calculation, allows testing simultaneously the colors of traffic light, as well as the visible light transmittances (categories). Q factors are provided by the prototype. Results: Spectroscopy shows that 75.43% complies with ISO 12312-1:2013. Prototype was validated by testing 232 sunglasses, with trained user and 60 from this set were double-checked with non-trained users, and compared to spectroscopic measurements. Bland-Altman analysis presented non-significant biases and narrow 95 % limits of agreement within pre-defined tolerances, for all measurements. Only 2 samples differed in category measurement. Conclusions: Sunglasses on the market should adjust for driving conditions. Prototype it is a fine set up for guiding users on checking proper sunglasses for safe driving Significance: Immediate attention on checking sunglasses for driving conditions is needed.


Symbiotic stars are eccellent laboratories to study a broad range of poorly understood physical processes, such as mass loss of red giants, accretion onto compact objects, and evolution of nova-like outbursts. As their evolution is strongly influenced by the mass transfer episodes, understanding the history of these systems requires foremost to determine which process is at play: Roche lobe overflow, stellar wind accretion, or some more complex mixture of both. We report here an interferometric study of the symbiotic system SS Leporis, performed with the unique PIONIER instrument. By determining the binary orbit and revisiting the parameters of the two stars, we show that the giant does not fill its Roche lobe, and that the mass transfer most likely occurs via the accretion of an important part of the giant's wind.


A method for controlling the traction slip in the start in a vehicle with a substantially rigid drive coupling by controlling and reducing the tendency to spin of a drive wheel on the road side where the coefficient of friction is lower, and eliciting a minimum engine speed, characterized by the steps of: - Define the side of the road, facing two existing roadway side has the higher road friction coefficient, only once, so until the completion of traction control, - Set of friction value control thresholds, said driven vehicle wheel, which is on the road side with the higher road friction coefficient, is adjusted to the recoverable optimum traction, whereas the driven vehicle wheel, which is located on the carriageway side with the lower road friction coefficient, is regulated in such a way that the speed of the vehicle engine is equal to or greater than a predetermined minimum engine speed.


Umrotun Nafsiyah, 2017, 49124705 K " The Role of Barge Schedule to reduce Delay Time in PT. Indexim Coalindo", mini thesys of Port and Shipping Department, Diploma IV Programmed, Semarang Merchant Marine Polytechnic, Advisor (I) : Dr. Winarno, S.S.T, M.H., Advisor (II) : Achmad Wahyudiono, MM.

Delay time is one of factor which cause a company get loss. instead of time tha supposed to be used for charging and discharging process or productive time became unproductive time or there is no activity. A company must be minimize that factor or even eliminated or nothing at all. This things performed in order to make company not bear demurrage caused of delays that happen while charging and discharging process. In this case, researcher use descriptive qualitative writing method to describe object which observed. Researcher involved in searching data process by observing and analyzing fact and characteristic of object and subject which observed directly. This method purpose to get description comprehensively and clearly about the role of barge schedule to reduce delay time in PT. Indexim Coalindo. Submitting data that used in this research is primary and secondary data. Besides that, this research also use observation, interview, and literature study. Researcher use direct and indirect observation. From the result of this research which doing by researcher that factor which stunted delay time is malfunction of charging discharging equipment which located in hopper and reclaimer, thich dust which produced by coal, coal not appropriate with criteria. To solve that obstacle doing some efforts by company which are repairmen and maintenance charging discharging equipment continuously, giving chemical liquid, streamline trucking flow from mining to stockpile and doing blending process.

Keyword: barge schedules, delay time, PT. Indexim Coalindo


By combination of several 1H NMR techniques, the sequence of actagardine has been elucidated. It has been shown that it is a tetracyclic 19-residue peptide antibiotic. It differs from the previously described lanthionine-containing peptide antibiotics belonging to the lantibiotic class.


To restore an original image that does not deteriorate from a PSF estimated from a marker copied into a deteriorated image to conduct positioning of a robot. A robot system 5 includes a robot having an arm; a reference pattern 150, disposed near a workpiece which is a move destination of the arm; a digital camera, disposed on the arm for outputting a deteriorated photographed image that reflects the reference pattern as a trajectory image by photographing, while the arm is moving, the photographed image combining the workpiece and the reference pattern together; a reference pattern extracting section 104 for extracting the trajectory image out of the photographed image; an image restoration section 106 for restoring the nondeteriorated image through conversion by using the extracted trajectory image as the PSF; a position calculating section 110 for calculating a position of the workpiece 130 based on a restored image; and a robot operation control section 115 for controlling the robot, to make it move the arm based on the calculated position.


Terminal deletions of the long arm of chromosome 7 are well known and frequently associated with syndromic holoprosencephaly due to the involvement of the SHH (aliases HHG1, SMMCI, TPT, TPTPS, and MCOPCB5) gene region. However, interstitial deletions including CNTNAP2 (aliases Caspr2, KIAA0868, and NRXN4) and excluding the SHH region are less common.


E is a widespread belief that the incidence of allergic contact dermatitis from formalin has been rising in recent yeara. Whether the supposed increase is real or apparent is not easy to determine, for it may reflect no more than an increased awareness or speeial interest in the problem. The only helpfnl statistical data have eome from the I)ej)artment of Dermatology at the Finsen Institute in Copenhagen. Dr. Paul Bonnevie published his remarkable thesis on the aetiology and ])athogeneHis of eczema in 1030. Over a ])eriod of about one year he patch tested all patients with any type of eczematous dermatosis who attended the department, using a standard series of twentj'-four substances, including formalin. With admirable foresight this practice has been continued ever sinee by his successors at the Finsen Institute. Marcussen (10B2) has recently analysed the results of this test procedure over a ])oriod of twenty-three years. Since the procedures, and even some of the investigators, have remained Kubstantialiy unchanged throughout this time, a fairly accurate estimate of tho trends in sensitivity reactions to individual substances can be made (at least for Denmark). Although the proportion of patients who give a positive reaction to one or more substances, out of the total tested, has r emained constant at about 25% to 30%. the incidence of reactions to individual substances has shown wide variations. Tiie number of ]>atients witli positive reactions to formahn haa shown an absolute and a relative increase, particularly over the past decade.


Ultimately for some groups of fungi there may need to be two barcodes to meet the requirements of identifying very closely related fungal species. In order to develop a suitable barcode system for Fusarium species complexes, universally accepted fungal barcode, Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS, 600bp) was examined for the barcoding performance with other poten-tial barcode loci viz., Cytochrome Oxidase subu-nit I (COI, 567bp) and Translation elongation fac-tor 1 (tef-I, 700 bp). One novel genomic region (NADH dehydrogenase subunit 6 (ND6), 900bp) was also be evaluated. Multilocus sequence Typ-ing (MLST) of 22 Fusarium isolates representing eleven different species (F. acuminatum, F. chla-mydosporum, F. graminearum, F. oxysporum, F.pallidoroseum F. poae, F. solani, F. sporotrichi-oides, F. subglutinans, F. udum and F. verticil-lioides), were compared. The ITS regions did not work well within the Fusarium species complex, and its near relatives due to less barcode gap (0.12). Comparative sequence analyses suggested COI to be a better marker for intraspecific and interspecific variability because of greater bar-code gap (0.50), Transition/Transversion ratio (1.48) and evolutionary divergence (0.49). How-ever, the presence of mobile introns and low PCR success in CO1 region poses a serious difficulty in the PCR and bioinformatic surveys. Therefore, ND6 could be considered as a suitable secondary barcode candidate for Fusarium species complex due to the absence of introns, justified barcode gap (0.48), higher Transition/Transversion ratio (1.42) and evolutionary divergence (0.44).


An enantioenriched three-dimensional quartz-type framework {[Ni(1.5)(tzdc)(H(2)O)(3)]·3H(2)O}(n) (H(3)tzdc = 4H-1,2,4-triazole-3,5-dicarboxylic acid) possessing chiral channels is obtained through spontaneous asymmetric crystallization without any enantiopure additive.


Increasing concern about somatic effects of low doses of x radiation to blood-forming organs led to direct measurements of the exposure of 60 adult patients during actual clinical procedures in a university teaching hospital. The peak skin exposure ranged from 1.99 R for an intravenous pyelogram to 263 R for abdominal angiography. From these measurements, the vertebral marrow doses were calculated and the peak values were found to range from 0.11 to 54 rad. The integral dose to the entire vertebral marrow ranged from 90 to 5400 g-rad in abdominal angiography and from 760 to 2900 g-rad in cardiac cineangiography. The magnitude of these doses points to the need for a conservative approach to multiple-injection angiography in view of indications of somatic damage from irradiation. The exposure given in these examinations should be consciously minimized. (auth)


Abstract : The overall objective of this study is to provide a program analysis of the Defense Race Relations Institute training of Army personnel, only. In specific terms, the study has four main objectives: To describe and analyze the training provided by DRRI for Army personnel; To describe and analyze the job, tasks, and utilization of Army DRRI graduates; To describe and analyze the impact of DRRI in terms of the relationships between training and job performance; and To provide a set of recommendations for future DRRI training of Army personnel.


We achieved a reduction in the misregistration of overlying patterns printed on a flexible plastic film and a drastically shorter processing time with fully printed thin-film transistor (TFT) fabrication. This was achieved using a newly developed wet-on-wet (WoW) printing process wherein a subsequent layer can be printed on a previous semi-dried (not-sintered) layer. In the WoW process, as examined by rheological measurements, a semi-dried (highly solidified) state of ink was attained before transferring by utilizing the solvent uptake of a PDMS blanket in offset printing to ensure the structural integrity of the ink layer, and to reduce the inter-contamination of adjoining layers. Loss-on-drying tests and resistivity measurements indicated that molecular penetration at the boundary of adjoining layers with a length of c.a. 70 nm occurred in the WoW process; however, with thicker electrodes, we successfully fabricated a WoW-processed TFT whose performance was comparable with a TFT formed by a conventional printing process.


Although we still have to wait for a while (or a little bit longer) until we see quantum computers at our desktops, researchers are building logic systems, semantic structures, even programming languages for them. This is an edited volume containing 11 lengthy articles in the broad area of semantics for quantum computation. The articles are quite diverse, some are more technical, some are more theoretical, some are more review-oriented, and some are definitely research papers. After reading this review you might be interested in checking the site of the past QPL workshop11 or the EPSRC Network on Semantics of Quantum Computation12.


Background: Somatosensory stimulation using electrical microcurrents (MSOMA) has proven efficacious for treatment of pain and tissue healing however little is known about its use to augment hemipar...


Improvement of the compact sized f ermenter which had been developed in our previous study was done to make it possible the concurrent measurement of weight loss and ventilated air composition. The classification of weight loss into dry matter loss and moisture loss which were calculated from the measured data indicated satisfactory reference to actual phenomena in the composting. 〔Keyword〕 animal waste, composting, kinetics, dry matter loss, moisture loss


Based on Gibbs-Markov random field model and the Gamma distribution property of SAR image's speckle noise,global optimal pseudo likelihood estimation of radar cross-section can be achieved with simulated annealing algorithm.In this article,J.Schou's method is extended from polarimetric SAR images to usual images;a simple and effective method is presented for detecting structural information in SAR images;furthermore,the relationship between the first-order model and zero-order model is shown.


This paper analyses advantages and characteristics of HCCI technology in enforcement inplateau area,and discusses that related factor of restriction and influence Of HCCl way and present situation of research.


OBJECTIVE To observe the property,the bacterial retaining effect and the storage time of nonwoven and wrinkle paper.METHODS The weight and shape,and the retaining effect and storage time of 14 kinds of nonwoven and wrinkle paper were observed.RESULTS Bacteria could go through all kinds of nonwoven and wrinkle paper.After sterilization,different quality and different package layer of nonwoven could be kept for 7-30 days.One or two layers of wrinkle paper package could be kept for 3 months.There was no significant difference in keeping place-in sterile room or in ward.CONCLUSIONS The time of preservation validity is related to the quality and the layers of nonwoven.It is suggested that two layers of lower quality nonwoven(28-30 g/m2) be used for lower and middle level dangerous medical material,with 7-10 days of preservation;four layers of high quality nonwoven(above 33 g/m2) could be used for high level dangerous medical material,with a 1 month of preservation.


Contemporary citizenship and democracy encompass a wide range of political, civil and social rights and responsibilities for both the individual and the state. An active, effective and responsible citizenship, in contemporary times, requires that people be empowered to exercise those rights and responsibilities towards other people, the community and the state. Citizens should be vigilant regarding the responsiveness of the state towards them and the members of their community and should be motivated to participate in public life. To participate, each person needs to acquire specific skills. Education for citizenship should be continuous, both in the formal education system and in the more informal adult education for lifelong learning. These skills range from literacy, to communication and information literacy skills. They enable one to locate, access, retrieve, evaluate, interpret and act on information to be able to participate in community affairs, to develop community involvement and to have an informed opinion about problems occurring locally, nationally or internationally. In most developed societies, an increasing volume of information for citizenship is produced by or about national and local government, government departments and public sector organizations on the Internet; political parties, civic societies and interest groups are increasingly using bulletin boards, chat groups, list servers and e-mail to communicate with their membership and to promote civic engagement skills through the use of Information and Communication Technologies. These are being seen, by some, as a valuable supplement to traditional forms of communication and in some cases may even become an alternative way to communicate. However, policy makers at national and global level, when devising strategies to facilitate progress towards an information literate citizenry cannot ignore the Digital Divide. This term, now commonly used to describe inequalities that exist regarding the use of Internet and other telecommunication services, encompasses divergence of access between industrialised and developing societies, the gaps between the information rich and the information poor in each nation, as well as the difference between those who do and those who do not use digital resources to engage and participate in public life. This paper offers some insight into how to foster the development of information literate people for an active, effective and responsible citizenship; it considers the development of information literacy skills within "education for citizenship" programmes both in the formal education system and in the informal adult lifelong learning schemes. The role of public libraries, school libraries and other public and civil society institutions will be pointed out, as well the importance of promoting the acquisition of information literacy skills by those that act as intermediaries to the disadvantaged groups in society. Information policies that may have an impact on the access and provision of information for citizenship will be explored. Some key areas requiring further research will be pointed out. 1 1. CITIZENSHIP In the political tradition of the Greek city states (polities) and the Roman republic (res public), citizenship means participation in public life and involvement in public affairs by those who have the rights of citizens: to take part in public debate and directly or indirectly, to shape the laws and decisions of a state. The French Revolution and its aftermath, created a constant pressure to broaden from a narrow citizen class of educated property owners, to achieve female emancipation and include every member of society—the economically deprived, those who are terminally ill or have physical disorders, the unemployed, as well as the elderly—to achieve freedom of speech, equity and justice before the law and to make transparent the process of government. Citizenship can be described as participation in a community, particularly the relationship between the individual and the state. Contemporary citizenship is facing formidable challenges from several quarters—political and economic integration, such as the formation of the European Union; fragmentation of previously united multinational political communities (such as Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia); mass migration and the flux of asylum seekers; and mass unemployment—they all exclude millions of people, even in the richest nations, from a sense of full membership in the civic community. The problems of citizenship, exacerbated by ethnic conflicts, create a dichotomy between national identity and citizenship; cultural inclusion in societies that are each time more multicultural constitutes new challenges for modern citizenship (Beinern, 1995). In a well-known analysis by Marshall, in 1950, the concept of citizenship was divided into three elements—civil, political and social (Barbalet 1988; Beiner 1995). Later, Turner (1993) and others criticised the Marshall theory as it did not cover the economic and cultural elements of citizenship. They expanded the citizenship definition by including reference to a collection of practices that individuals need to become competent members of their community. All of the above elements involve reciprocity between rights and responsibilities for both the individual and the state. For example, political rights are the rights to participate in the exercise of the political power including the right to vote, to make democratic choices, to hold institutions to account (i.e. national and local government funded bodies have to prove they are efficient, effective and economic). Civil rights concern the right to freedom of speech, thought and faith, the right to own property, and the right to justice and equality before the law. Social citizenship stretches the notion to include a range of rights to economic welfare and security, the right to share, to the full, in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized human being, according to the standards prevailing in society, i.e. the right to employment, housing, health care and other social welfare benefits. Cultural rights are those that enable an individual to play a full part in the culture of a community – in this sense, all organizations in the education system and cultural heritage (or communal memory) organizations (such as, libraries, museums and archives) make a fundamental contribution to cultural citizenship. In turn, citizenship responsibilities include upholding the law, in letter and spirit, to participate in the public process, including both support and opposition to established policies (Mosco, 1998). The importance of the Civil Society is increasing for contemporary citizenship and the sustainability of democracy. This means membership of non-official, voluntary groups, at local, national and international level and membership of social movements whose links to government and businesses are tenuous, but which aim to represent constituencies for or in opposition to the state and the private sector (Mosco, 1998). Freedom and full citizenship in the political sphere is strengthened in 2 a society where participation in informal groups, involving voluntary and communal activity is encouraged and will reinforce electoral turn-out, attention to public issues in media, and citizens' involvement in election campaigns and demonstrations (Klein, 1999). In this context, contemporary citizenship is in a state of flux: changing laws; changing rights and responsibilities; impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (mass media, mass communication, Internet) and related global trade agreements are all urging people to "think globally" as opposed to the notions of "national belonging/national identity" (Mosco, 1998). The objective of this paper is to provide an insight on how policy makers, globally and at national and local level, can create an environment that will develop information literate workers and citizens. This is a complex undertaking, because the world is "digital divided," and the details of individual rights and responsibilities vary between states, reflecting the details of its political, civil and social structures (Steele 1997, p. 4). Norris (2001) clarifies this aspect by stating, Democracies differ significantly in their core institutions and constitutional features, mostly in terms of their majoritarian or proportional electoral systems, the range of competition in party systems, whether executives are parliamentary or presidential, whether the state power is centralised or dispersed. These institutional structures have significant consequences for patterns of political participation such as levels of voting turnout and types of election campaigning, as well as in the rates of party membership and activism (¶ 6). 1.1. Active and Responsible Citizenship Contemporary citizenship faces challenges that are highlighted in the report "Education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools," published in 1998, by Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, on behalf of the Citizenship Advisory Group, of the UK Parliament. These are: .... citizens must be equipped with the political skills needed to change laws in a peaceful and responsible manner; ... individuals must be helped and prepared to shape the terms of such (civic) engagements by political understanding and action; ... volunteering and community involvement are necessary conditions of civil society and democracy (QCA 1998, p. 10). The report also points out that preparation for these skills and competences, at the very least, should be an explicit part of education. This is especially important at a time when governments worldwide are attempting a shift of emphasis from state welfare provision and responsibility towards community and individual responsibility. The same report claims that "active citizenship and civic engagement" involves "social and moral respons


The present invention provides a WLED driver and the drive control method. The WLED driver comprises 2N Each CS module includes the 2N switches. Each one end of the N switch is connected to the output end of the error amplifier, each of the other ends of the N switch is connected to a gate of the N corresponding NMOS transistor. The remaining each end of one of the N switch is connected to the negative input end of the error amplifier, each of the other end portion of the remaining N of switches is connected to a positive input end of a corresponding feedback resistor of the N. The controller then generates a clock control signal group Φ


Studying abroad provides students with many benefits including the ability to work within culturally diverse settings, live and work in ambiguous circumstances, and creatively solve problems. This in turn benefits industry by increasing the cultural competence, intercultural communication skills, and adaptability of the future workforce. However, the many barriers to study abroad faced by engineering and computer science (CS) students result in only 11-13% of bachelor degree recipients in these fields nationally having studied abroad. In contrast, at Vanderbilt University typically 20% or more of our engineering/CS students study overseas. Participation continues to rise with ~30% of current seniors having studied abroad. To achieve these results, strategies to address curricular integration, language barriers, and financial obstacles are used and are described in this report.


Abstract Multiresolution Analysis (MRA) wavelets have important applications in image processing and signal decomposition. In this article, we follow closely the approach in Hernandez and Weiss's seminal text [1] in describing the construction of an orthonormal wavelet from an multi-resolution analysis (MRA), a family of subspaces of L(R) satisfying certain properties. We assume the reader has a modest background in undergraduate analysis and measure theory.


The Ministry of Education has been investing on measures which attempt at guiding regular school teaching, taking into account academic studies developed in the teaching and learning area as well as the socio-cultural changes generated by globalization and technological advances. In spite of that, it is observed that there is a gap between the conceptions of education and language matters in the National Curricular Parameters (PCN), the Curricular Guidance for Secondary School (OCEM) and other initiatives, such as the National Plan for Didactic Books (PNLD), for example, and its implementation in Primary Education. In the path to be followed towards diminishing this gap, a crucial issue is raised: the theoretical-methodological conceptions which set up the referred initiatives must reverberate meaningfully in initial and continuing education in order for them to do so in the performance of teachers in regular school classrooms too. Therefore, starting from this assumption, this article aims at discussing the dilemmas and the implications of the incorporation of critical literacy practices in the initial education of foreign language teachers.


ABSTRACT Mutual exclusion mechanisms, like semaphore and monitor, are fundamental tools used by software engineers to solve the race condition problem, ensure barrier, and achieve other workflow patterns. Introductory teachings on how parallel and concurrent processes compete over shared resources have the underlying working principles of the operating system and computer architecture as a starting point for learning the mutual exclusion concepts. Conventional teaching method focuses on lectures and solving race condition problem with counting semaphore in C programming language. Before applying conventional teaching method, we advocate the introduction of a social game scenario in teaching basic concepts of workers concurrently competing over a shared resource. We also introduce a simplified mutual exclusion assignment in which the implementation complexity is reduced by application of a specially designed graphical mechanism for mutual exclusion. Compared to a conventional method, the proposed experimental teaching method has a 15% higher success rate in solving race condition problem in C programming language. Regardless of additional steps introduced to make students familiar with the concepts of mutual exclusion, the experimental method is slightly advantageous when median time-on-task results are compared.


Objective:To raise the detection rate of the antibody of hepatitis C virus(anti-HCV) and the accuracy of test results.Methods:Blood donation of 135655 copies specimens using two different reagent manufacturers,different operator for the detection of anti-HCV antibodies.Results:Beginning of the seizure of 481 cases of the Cosmos reagent number of positive samples,the positive rate was 0.36%,recheck Franc reagent number of positive samples of 773 cases,the positive rate was 0.57%.Conclusion:Double-reagents detection can enhance the anti-HCV detection rate and the accuracy of the results.


Air pollution levels have risen as an outcome of urban and industrial development in so many developing countries. People and governments all around the world are concerned about air pollution, which has a severe influence on both personal health and long-term global development. As a government, it is responsible for preventing and controlling air pollution, as well as monitoring the pollutant's impacts on human health. There are numerous computer models available, ranging from statistics to artificial intelligence. Pollution levels are still out of control in some parts of the world due to a wide range of sources and factors. Because of accurate estimates of future air pollution, the government can take necessary action. Forecasting air pollution levels based on environmental data is becoming increasingly relevant as people become more worried about global warming and urban sustainability. For replicating the complicated linkages between these variables, advanced Deep Learning (DL) algorithms hold enormous promise. The objective of this work is to provide a high level of accurate solution to the air pollution forecasting problem. Kaggle data will be employed to train a DL model that will forecast air pollution levels.


Chapter focuses discussion on Bob Law's exhibitions between 1969-1979 in monograph on Bob Law. Other contributors to the volume include Anna Lovatt, Richard Cork, Antony Bond, Giuseppe Panza and David Batchelor.


Multi-pass ECAP process of pure Al for square samples (Φ=90º, Ψ=37º, pressing speed of 1mm/s), was simulated by using 3D finite element method (FEM).The distribution of equivalent strain for two and four passes was compared. The results showed that route A leads to non-uniform distribution of equivalent strain during multi-pass ECAP. The distribution of equivalent strain is uniform in BC route, but the value of equivalent strain is larger in C route. The simulation results were compared with the experimental ones with previous work in the literature. The simulation also shows that equivalent strain and load increase with pass increasing.


Identity-based proxy signcryption combines the functionalities of identity-based cryptography and proxy signcryption,and allows an entity to delegate its authority of signcryption to a trusted agent.At the same time the public keys of the original sender,the proxy sender and the receiver are all determined by their unique identities.This paper constructs an identity-based proxy signcryption scheme based on bilinear pairings which does not need any secure channel and is much more efficient than the scheme proposed before.Analyze result shows that the proposed scheme is secure in the random oracle model.


The purpose of this work was to investigate the effect of minimally lethal Photodynamic therapy (PDT) in controlling fibroblast mediated contraction. Fibroblast mediated scar contracture is a complication of wound healing. PDT involves light irradiation of cells treated with a photosensitising agent to generate reactive oxygen species normally producing cell death. Previous studies have suggested that PDT treatment inhibits cellular attachment. We hypothesised that inhibition of cellular attachment can be used to control fibroblast mediated contraction by this mechanism. Materials and Methods: We have used tethered and un-tethered fibroblast populated collagen gels in combination with varying drug and light does (PDT). Tethered gels were used to quantitate contractile force generated over 24 hours, using the Culture Force Monitor (CFM). Cell viability and contraction profiles were assessed using MTT assay, image analysis and CFM outputs. Results: The optimal minimally lethal dose for the photosensitising agents {aluminium phthalocyanate (A1PcS2) and 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA)} was established using MTT assay (<35% cell death). A1PcS2 in combination with optimal light intensity/time exposure (70% viability) completely blocked contraction. (Untethered = 0%, control = 76% contraction after five days and tethered = 0dynes, control = 60dynes at 24hrs. 5-ALA also strongly inhibited cell-matrix contraction (90%). Having established proof of concept in vitro we are currently testing the effect in vivo using an established rat dermal injury model. Early results showed a reduction in wound contraction up to 50% over three days post treatment as assessed by image analysis. We have shown that minimally lethal PDT reduces fibroblast mediated contraction in vitro. Further work is needed to test the longer-term effects of this clinically applicable technique.


Poor communication is a leading cause of medical errors in this era of collaborative care. Effective communication strategies can help facilitate the continuity of care, prevent errors, and provide a safe environment for the patient.


Letter from Mrs. C. W. Peters to Texas State Representative Truett Latimer asking him to continue his support of SB 80 and HB 8, bills providing salary increases for teachers.


(1) Total freeboard (snow and ice) of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover is derived using Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data from two 35-day periods: one during the fall (OctoberNovember) of 2005 and the other during the winter (FebruaryMarch) of 2006. Three approaches are used to identify near-sea-surface tiepoints. Thin ice or open water samples in new openings, typically within 1� 2 cm of the sea surface, are used to assess the sea surface estimates. Results suggest that our retrieval procedures could provide consistent freeboard estimates along 25-km segments with uncertainties of better than 7 cm. Basin-scale composites of sea ice freeboard show a clear delineation of the seasonal ice zone in the fall. Overall, the mean freeboards of multiyear (MY) and first-year (FY) ice are 35 cm and 14 cm in the fall, and 43 cm and 27 cm in the winter. The increases of � 9 cm and � 12 cm on MY and FY sea ice are associated with the 4 months of ice growth and snow accumulation between data acquisitions. Since changes in snow depth account for >90% of the seasonal increase in freeboard on MY ice, it dominates the seasonal signal. Our freeboard estimates are within 10 cm of those derived from available snow/ice thickness measurements from ice mass balance buoys. Examination of the two residual elevations fields, after the removal of the sea ice freeboard contribution, shows coherent spatial patterns with a standard deviation (S.D.) of � 23 cm. Differencing them reduces the variance and gives a near random field with a mean of � 2 cm and a standard deviation of � 14 cm. While the residual fields seem to be dominated by the static component of unexplained sea surface height and mean dynamic topography (S.D. � 23 cm), the difference field reveals the magnitude of the time-varying components as well as noise in the ICESat elevations (S.D. � 10 cm).


The advancement of modern science and technology needs day by day smaller microprocessors, chips, sensors, machines and devices, as a result the existing method of fabrication are slowly becoming obsolete. The fabrication of devices at small scale by the help of self-assembly is an inexpensive and promising technique. Evaporation of sessile droplets containing Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose induces outward flow within the drop, which is commonly well known as "coffee ring" effect or a dense ring like deposition along the perimeter. In this work, the formation of self-assembled structure during drying of microliter drops containing Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose with different organic (oxalic, acetic, citric) as well as inorganic (hydrochloric, nitric, sulphuric, phosphoric) acids is investigated with the help of optical microscope. The structure formation is also influenced by evaporative flux and Marangoni flow inside the liquid drop. The different parameters such as sodium carboxymethylcellulose concentration, acid concentration, drying time, drying temperature, humidity, stirring velocity, stirring temperature, pH and drop volume strongly influences the structure formation.


This study reports the fatigue behaviour of 2.25Cr1MoV steel under low cycle fatigue (LCF) loading and creep-fatigue interaction (CFI) loading at 355, 455 and 555 °C. Various hold durations up to 600 s were introduced in the CFI tests at the peak/valley strain under strain or stress control. In LCF tests, the steel exhibited remarkable strengthening at 455 °C, which can be ascribed to the effect of dynamic strain aging. In CFI tests, tensile holds were found more damaging than compressive holds but considerably less harmful than the combined tensile-compressive holds. A modified plastic strain energy approach based on the damage mechanisms was proposed to predict fatigue life under LCF and CFI conditions. The predictions obtained compared very favourably with the experimental results.


To provide a characterization method of the spindle force of tire uniformity machine. And A upper spindle 50 and the rim 48, including accepting a tire to a device for capturing across the tire T between at and a lower spindle and the rim 30, both rim 48,30. Measurement data waveform is collected, the angular deviation between the rims 48,30 for defining the engagement position is determined. Measurement data waveform is specified as a tire result waveform, the measurement data waveform is added to the set of measurement data waveform for each engagement position. When a predetermined number of waveforms for engagement position is obtained, the average waveform of each engagement position is calculated, the characteristics waveform of each average waveform is generated. .FIELD 1


This is the third edition of this dictionary, whose second edition was completely revised and substantially expanded. The second edition of the dictionary was also largely rewritten with the assistance of a team of specialists from all the appropriate fields. The book provides clear and concise definitions of relevant terms in speech pathology, linguistics, phonetics and phonology, psychology and psychiatry, medicine, hearing, electronic devices and microcomputers. It also describes different types of therapy techniques, the use of particular tests to assist in making diagnoses, and the current theories in these fields. Though designed with students particularly in mind, the dictionary should also be of value to clinicians and practitioners seeking a guide to the terminology which has come into use since they qualified.


A novel transmitter for MC-CDMA has been proposed and excellent increase of user capacity has been confirmed by the numerical simulation. It became clear that 8 elements array for space diversity and 16 subcarriers for frequency diversity provide efficiency of 12 bit/s/Hz in case of Walsh-Hadamard sequence and MMSEC. We are to examine methods of estimating the response vector.


One hundred Negro ninth graders were matched with 100 Caucasian ninth graders on the basis of scores attained on the Multiple Aptitude Test. Aptitude scores were then correlated with vocational interest scores derived from the Picture Interest Inventory. When matched, correlations between aptitude and interest were found to be negligible and to be differentiating between the races to only a small degree. Vocational interests of the two races, on the other hand, were found to be significantly different. The Negro youth was interested in interpersonal, business, verbal, computational, and long training occupations; the Caucasian, in occupations concerned with nature and with machines.


and Technology T field of biomacromolecules has evolved rapidly in the past two decades. As a matter of fact, biomacromolecules have become indispensable to most advanced as well as emerging areas of biological and medical science and technology, which include but are not limited to medical implants and devices, drug and gene delivery, molecular diagnosis, immunotherapy, tissue engineering and regeneration, and antibacterial treatments. Biomacromolecules, inaugurated in 2000, has now become a full-grown flagship journal dedicated to serving the global biomacromolecules community and to promoting biomacromolecule research and development. Figure 1 shows the covers of Volume 1, Issue 1 published on March 14, 2000 and Volume 20, Issue 10 published on October 14, 2019. The first issue contained 18 articles from well-known scientists such as Professors Virgil Percec, Yoshiharu Doi, David A. Tirrell, Kazunori Kataoka, Charles L. McCormick, Kazukiyo Kobayashi, Jay-lin Jane, Richard A. Gross, and Buddy D. Ratner, which laid a solid foundation and set the tone for Biomacromolecules. Professor Ann-Christine Albertsson has been the Editor-inChief of Biomacromolecules from its birth up to today. Undoubtedly, Ann-Christine is the soul of Biomacromolecules. In the first issue of this year, Ann-Christine wrote a nice editorial "Celebrating 20 years of Biomacromolecules". As a fan of Biomacromolecules, I was very lucky and proud to join the Editorial Advisory Board in 2011, to receive the Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award in 2014, and to become an Associate Editor in 2015, thus having the opportunity to work closely with Ann-Christine and the entire editorial team. All editors are so specialized and dedicated that according to the report of our managing editor, Dr. Paulomi Majumder, Biomacromolecules is one of the journals with the quickest processing time. To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Biomacromolecules, Ann-Christine together with Professor Simona Percec organized an inspiring two-day symposium on "The Future of Biomacromolecules at a Crossroads of Polymer Science and Biology" during the ACS Fall National Meeting held in San Diego this year. Furthermore, a Special Issue on "The Future of Biomacromolecules at a Crossroads of Polymer Science and Biology" composed of 22 articles will be published in Biomacromolecules in January. On the occasion of Biomacromolecules 20th Anniversary, we have also assembled a Virtual Issue with a collection of 10 invited perspectives from representative scientists in distinct research areas. The topics broadly cover the development of biomacromolecules for advanced tissue engineering, bioperspectives of shape-memory polymers, controlled synthesis and biomedical applications of biomacromolecules hybrid materials, polymeric vectors for nonviral nucleic acid delivery and gene editing, and advanced nanomedicines for cancer therapy. In brief, Professor Antonios Mikos highlighted a few notable advances and techniques in the usage of biomacromolecules for advanced tissue engineering applications, including novel bioinspired macromolecules, biomimetic and clinically deliverable scaffold and hydrogel systems, and spatiotemporal control over biomacromolecule constructs. Professor Andreas Lendlein gave an overview of the stimuli-responsiveness and shape-changing ability of biological materials and biopolymerbased materials and discussed challenges and opportunities associated with the integration of several functions in a single material body to achieve multifunctionality. Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski highlighted the design and preparation of biomacromolecule hybrid materials by atom transfer radical polymerization. The research on protein−polymer conjugates is expected to achieve better synthetic approaches, characterization techniques, and understanding of structure− function relationships and to yield novel conjugated biomacromolecular products and breakthroughs in genetic and tissue engineering. Professor Thomas Davis highlighted the recent advances and future opportunities in the fabrication and biomedical applications of functionalized polymer/inorganic nanohybrids prepared using reversible addition−fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Professor Ernst Wagner reported recent advancement of polymeric carriers tailor-made for distinct nucleic acid cargos, including plasmid DNA; siRNA; and micro RNA, mRNA, or genome-modifying nucleic acids, and discussed the future directions employing dynamic bioresponsive polymers as components of nanomachines, multifunctional sequence-defined carriers for evolution-based selective optimization, and organic−inorganic multicomponent nanoassemblies. Professor Qiaobing Xu highlighted the recent developments in nonviral nanoparticles for CRISPR-based genome editing to treat genetic diseases, discussed their challenges for clinical translation, and proposed strategies to enhance the delivery efficacy. Professor Chao Deng presented the state-of-the-art design and fabrication of cancer nanomedicines based on synthetic polypeptides and discussed their future development for targeted cancer therapy and potential challenges for clinical translation. Professor Jan van Hest summarized the recent progress in adaptive nanomaterials employed for nanomedicine and trends in transient responsive self-assembly systems to envisage how these fields can be integrated for the formation of nextgeneration adaptive stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in nanomedicine. Professor Xuesi Chen underlined the development and future perspectives of polymer-mediated penetrationindependent cancer treatment as an advanced modality for treating various solid tumors. Professor Sei Kwang Hahn highlighted the state-of-the-art strategies for developing hyaluronic acid-based medicines, including chemical and biological conjugates, nanoparticles and hybrid systems, hydrogels, and nanogels, and discussed the technical hurdles for clinical translation and potential solutions. Over the past 20 years, Biomacromolecules has witnessed the maturation and rapid expansion of biomacromolecule research


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Ag–TiO2 nanocomposite films, based of Ag and TiO2 nanoparticles, were fabricated in a one-step aerosol route employing the simultaneous plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and physical vapor deposition systems. The as-fabricated films were subjected to different heating rates (3 to 60 °C/min) with a constant annealing temperature of 600 °C to observe the significant changes in the properties (e.g., nanoparticle size, crystalline size, crystallite phase, surface area) toward the photocatalytic performance. The photocatalytic activity was evaluated by the measurement of the degradation of a methylene blue aqueous solution under UV light irradiation, and the results revealed that it gradually increased with the increase in the heating rate, caused by the increased Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) specific surface area and total pore volume.


Make statics analyse of the wrench moment axis of the thin coal seam shearer which designed by a coal machine company with finite element software ANSYS,get the stress distributing and the max stress simulatate and analyse working process of the the wrench moment clutch base on dynamics simulate soft ware ANSYS/LS_DYNA with the active peak-value load,which got from the automatic dynamic analysis of mechanical systems software adams,and make the calculate obvious with LS_DYNA,and calculate the changing rule of stress,strain;compare the difference of the dynamic ang static method.


The in-situ stress field evolution process,formation cause,formation time and evolution trend of deep fracture is analysed.Combined with deep fractures characteristic,tectonic evolution,valley evolution and near surface action theory,the formation and evolution process are summarized by stress field change and strain energy release with numerical simulation.The results show that:deep fractures in-situ stress field is fundamentally changed after vertical unloading;but deep fractures are not formed in this in-situ stress environment;the primary reason of deep fractures formation is lateral unloading and residual tensile stress caused by difference resilience;the formation time of deep fractures is about after Ⅲ terraces appearance.


A blocking set in an affine or projective spaces is a set of points intersecting all lines of the space but containing none. In a projective plane of order q blocking sets exist if and only if q ≥ 3 (see [5]); for PG(3, q) it is known that blocking sets do not exist if q < 4 and exist if q > 4 : (see [2], [4], [6]): so the problem of existence of blocking sets in PG(3, 4) was still open. In this paper we explain the results of a search for blocking sets in PG(3, 4), done by means of a computer program and with the aid of the theoretic results of [1] and [3]. We found no blocking set, so, as the algorithm makes an exhaustive search, we can claim the non–existence of blocking sets in PG(3, 4). In §§1,2 we describe the searching algorithm and give a proof of its correctness; in §3 we describe how the program and the theoretic results have been employed for getting our results.


Conventional attitude algorithms have been improved for many years, but they still have attitude updating errors due to the coupling in the complicated angular motion of spinning bodies. A real-time angular motion decoupling and attitude updating method assisted by satellite navigation data is proposed in this paper. A compositive model of angular motion for spinning bodies is built to understand and analyze the trait of angular velocity. A detailed process of angular motion decoupling is addressed with the help of satellite navigation data, including a backward decoupling process and a forward decoupling angular process, to estimate angular velocity to guarantee real-time ability. A real-time attitude updating algorithm is presented in detail for determining the real attitude of spinning bodies, and the updating process of coning attitude based on rotation vector is provided. Simulations are carried out to show the coupling effect of angular motion on the conventional attitude algorithm and verify the validity of the proposed method, and flight data are used to verify the availability of engineering application. Results show that the angular motion is decoupled and attitude accuracy is improved successfully.


Abstract : Effect of protein-solvent interaction on the protein structure is widely studied with experimental and computational techniques. Despite this, molecular level understanding of proteins and some simple solvents is still not fully understood. This work focuses on detailed molecular dynamics simulations of solvent effect on lysozyme protein, using water, ethanol, and different concentrations of water-ethanol mixtures as solvents. The lysozyme protein structure in water, ethanol and ethanol-water mixture (0 12% ethanol) was studied using GROMACS molecular dynamics simulation (MD) code. Compared to water environment, the lysozyme structure showed remarkable changes in water-ethanol with increasing ethanol concentration. Significant changes were observed in the protein secondary structure involving alpha helices. A study of thermodynamic and structural properties indicate that increasing ethanol concentration resulted in a systematic increase in total energy, enthalpy, root mean square deviation (RMSD), and radius of gyration of lysozyme. A polynomial interpolation approach is presented to determine these quantities for any intermediate alcohol percentage, and compared with the values obtained from a full MD simulation. Results from MD simulation were in reasonably good agreement with those from the interpolation approach. The polynomial approach eliminates the need for computationally intensive full MD analysis for the concentrations within the range of 0 - 12%.


RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a non-contact automatic identification technology, without human intervention. It is convenient to apply and it can identify fast moving objects. Around the tool and the tool information, the problem of low operational efficiency and low degree of tool management information are still unsolved. In this paper, RFID technology is applied in the tool automatic identification and management system. The tool automatic identification and database management system based on RFID is built. The application model, tool information database design and Upper Computer management software of the RFID in tool identification and management are analyzed. The overall architecture and the software function module of the system are constructed. The database management system is developed by the LabVIEW software. The interface design between LabVIEW and Access database is completed by using ActiveX, as a result, the information of Access database can be written-in and read-out by the management system. Meanwhile, the communication protocol between the Upper Computer and Lower Computer is programed that based on VISA. The RS232 is applied to make the communication between the Upper Computer and Lower Computer come true. Finally, take the SECO's Solid Carbide Ball-end Milling Cutter as an example to have an experiment. Through the experiment, the system proved to be with high reliability and efficiency.


Of all Latin-American writers, Jorge Luis Borges may have been, according to Molloy (1987, p. 801), the grandest, the most apt for myth. Having written only essays, poems and short stories, Borges did more than produce literature that is both fantastic and abstract, besides being universally recognized. He was also able to create a particular world endowed with personal aesthetics and private concepts in which one can often find religious manifestations embedded in the Bible, in Kabbalah, in theology and in philosophy. The present work briefly analyses the singular attraction Borges felt towards the Bible, Kabbalah and the Jewish world. It also focuses on some recurring theological issues found in the author's different texts, mainly his fictional narrative.


MOBE than thirty years ago it was observed that the doctrine of estoppel * did not appear to have received much attention in the sphere of international law. A certain reluctance to invoke estoppel may have been justified at that time, but the marked increase since then in international judicial and arbitral activity has provided substantial grounds for the modern tendency to consider estoppel as one of the " general principles of law recognised by civilised nations."' The question whether the juridical basis of the doctrine of estoppel is to be found in customary international law rather than in the " general principles of law " is not free from difficulty; and it is not the purpose of this article to suggest that it can be satisfactorily answered/ It would seem that a convincing solution must wait on both a comparative investigation into the operation of the concept in municipal systems of law and a more widespread review of State practice than the present writer has been able to attempt. The scope of the present article is limited to drawing attention to some of the aspects of estoppel which have been noted or suggested by publicists and expressed in State pleadings before international tribunals, in diplomatic correspondence, and particularly in advice tendered to the British Government by the Law Officers of the Crown.


Around 1979, large scales of educated youths moved back to the cities. However, after years away from the cities, these educated youths faced many difficulties in life. Writers in the 80's expressed the lifestyle of the youths during that era. This thesis is to inquiry the collective memory of these youths, including adapting to the living environment, fitting in the work-family, the difficulties of material life, the swamp of marriage and academic studies, confusion of thoughts and emotions with other living conditions. In this thesis, "Text Analyzing" was applied, and Liang Xiao sheng's novel "Xue Cheng" served as base. This thesis first analyzed the lives of Youths that return to the city in "Xue Cheng," then referred it to other writer's text that presented the same issue; while quoting relevant historical researches, sociology researches, journal discussions, and statistics as strong supports to draw a conclusion of the collective memory of the educated youths who returned to the cities. The impact of the youths that returned to the cities on society, and family, has left the youths to confront the coldness of the city's residents, the crowded living space, and the estrangement among the family. Upon Marriage and Carriers, the youths had to face the pressure of older unmarried, broken marriage, or the loss of love. Some of the youths became unemployed youths, or physical labors. Due to their occupation or dreams, they were active in catching up with academic studies, but their poor basis and older in age has made it particularly difficult. Under the dilemma of different values and contradictions, the youths had to face new values, strict morality and the city's new standards, which made the Youths nothing to comply with. Collectivism and personal life has made it unable to choose for the Youths; while a big difference lies between idealism and realistic life. Among the uncertainty and pondering of the Youths that returned to the cities, some are content with it, some couldn't accept that they ought to live regular lives, and some upon missing the lives before chose to "return" to the suburban. The youths recalled and self-examined their lives in that "Educated Youth" era. To sum up, the lives of the educated youths who returned to the cities is said to be another form of the collective memory of the educated youths.


This chapter reviews literature related to the cognitive-motor impairments observed in older adults and considers these impairments in the context of driving a motor vehicle. Movement initiation and slowing movement initiation are considered including response preparation, response selection and complexity, response programming, the speed/accuracy trade-off, neuropsychological hypotheses and the reduction of age differences in movement initiation. Movement execution and impaired movement execution are discussed including movement time, movement trajectory, force, coordination, proprioception, muscle mass amd joint flexibility. Recommendations are made for vehicle and road designs which will benefit older drivers and contribute to improved safety. For the covering abstract see IRRD 857494.


OBJECTIVE To study the synthetic process for bretazenil. METHODS Bretazenil was synthesized from 3-bromoaniline by cyclization, oxidation and ring-enlargement reaction, etc.RESULTS The purity of the product was above 99%. The structure of bretazenil was verified by 1H-NMR. The overall yield was 12.4%, which was higher than reported yield(4.8%). CONCLUSION It is proved to be a method with mild condition, high quality and good yield.


This paper presents a novel method to estimate egomotion and detect obstacles in real-time, by using an image sequence taken from a moving observer. The method computes each compontent of optical flow by computation of one-dimensional optical flow. The authors have employed this method to build a motorcycle that moves around without falling down and avoids obstacles in real-time, without the aid of special hardware. (A) For the covering abstract see ITRD E106152.


With the water areas covering an expanse of 35,908 square miles, Indonesia, one of the largest maritime countries in the world, has two serious problems: economic inequality and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Considering fish products are marketable commodities in the international business, Indonesia's marine products often become the victim of IUU fishing, which is hugely detrimental to the economic aspects and law enforcement. Indonesia's decision to conduct shipsinking policy has attracted objections from countries whose vessels have been arrested and detained with proof that they were involved in IUU fishing activity; consequently, their vessels will be diminished and/or sunk deliberately. Such procedures trigger potential conflicts related to Indonesia's reputation as a sovereign country, whether Indonesia should ease penalties that will harm its internal economy or must accommodate the opinion of foreign countries who perceive that policy to be disadvantageous. This paper adopts the writing style of normative law. A review of legal regulations accompanied by theories regarding jurisdiction is carried out to present descriptive-analytic products. The results found that Indonesia should not be bothered over ship-sinking policy protests because Indonesia had clear jurisdiction as the primary attribute in international law. Indonesia has the desire and ability to fully implement its jurisdictional principles since the legal instruments in Indonesia are complete and fully support that policy. The executed procedure is not solely a reactive policy but a ripe thought with goals to achieve. Notwithstanding, the principle of Indonesia's jurisdiction in ship-sinking policy is also supported by international recognition because illegal fishing is deemed as a crime. Therefore, Indonesia's decision to stop the practices of illegal fishing is in line with the jurisdiction and legal instruments recognized by the international community.


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The ability of the locusts, Locusta migratoria and Schistocerca gregaria, to disseminate Colletotrichum graminicola, the fungal pathogen of maize anthracnose, were studied. The insects were fed with the diseased plants and spores were recovered in viable condition from the faeces. The spores recovered were able to grow on artificial media and were still infectious to the host plant.


He emerges from the doors of a crumbling church in Erice, a medieval hill village in Western Sicily, and steps into the small cobbled square where he lives. "Professore, per favore! Un attimo! Un attimo!...", comes the cry from the crowd who immediately mob the 69-year-old academic. Women especially want to be photographed with him – they brandish their cameras so that they and their family might be pictured with the famous man. He smiles and obliges a couple of his fans before escaping back into the church.


Apoptosis or programmed cell death is an orderly cascade that can be regulated and ultimately results in the demise of the cell. Induction of apoptosis can occur by various chemical and biologic agents. Initiation of apoptosis leads to activation of effector molecules particularly caspases. These proteases cleave distinct protein substrates, resulting in the morphologic changes seen in apoptosis. This form of cell death is involved in almost every physiologic and pathogenic process in the body. For this reason the ability to control apoptosis has important therapeutic ramifications.


Taking the strong cold resistance cucumber'Shandong No.5'as material,cold induced effect of transcription factor CBF1 gene on cold resistance of cucumber was studied.Cold-induced transcription activator CBF1(CRT/DRE binding factor)was amplified and cloned by PCR from the genomic DNA of cucumber'Shandong No.5'and fused with CaMV 35 Spromotor and Nos terminator to construct plasmid pROK2-CBF1.CBF1 gene was introduced into cucumber by pollen tube pathway method.The transgenic nature of the regenerants was demonstrated by plant growth on medium containing kanamycin.The results showed that,PCR analysis confirmed that CBF1 gene was incorporated into the genome of cucumber,seedlings of transgenic plant soluble sugar content,water content was significantly higher than that of the control;the MDA content and the relative electrolyte leakage of cucumber leaves was significantly lower than that of the control,transgenic cucumber has a strong cold resistance.


AbstractMicroturbojets are one of the main thrust sources in several high-performance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In many applications these vehicles operate in conditions that may demand perf...


Although Krantz and Wallsten (2019) claim that interval and ratio scales abound in psychology, they miss the opportunity to deliver specific evidence for their existence. Michell (2019), on the other hand, misconstrues my objection against the practical usefulness of conjoint measurement (Trendler, 2019). Furthermore, he underestimates the critical role humans play as measurement instruments—that is, as detectors of magnitudes of psychological attributes as derived quantities—and he also misunderstands the meaning of the Millean Quantity Objection. Finally, in answer to Krantz and Wallsten, I specify my position with regard to the connection between scientific stagnation, measurability, and reproducibility.


Lithium ion batteries have been the dominant power sources in portable electronics and electric vehicles due to their high energy density, long lifetime and environmental benignity. However, it is a big challenge for lithium ion batteries to be used at low temperature. Compared with the performance at room temperature, lithium ion batteries deliver much less capacity and energy at low temperature. The poor low temperature performance restricts the usage of lithium ion batteries for power electronics and electric vehicles in the winter. The results of previous research, suggest that the poor low temperature performance is attributed to the freezing of the liquid electrolyte which leads to low ionic conductivity and high interfacial resistance, especially on the anode side. Other researchers tried using a solvent with low melting point to partially replace ethylene carbonate or adding some additives to the electrolyte to enhance the ionic conductivity or modify the interface to reduce the resistance and then deliver more capacity and energy.
 In this research, we investigated the discharge capacity, energy, pulse power and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy at different depths of discharge of NCM622/Graphite lithium ion batteries at varied temperatures. We found that the discharge energy and pulse power are sensitive to the temperature decreasing. For the NCN622/Graphite cell (2.5 mAh cm-2) with commonly used LiPF6-EC/EMC electrolyte, at -20 oC the cell is able to deliver 65% capacity of that at 30 oC with C/3 discharge current rate, while the delivered energy is only 60%. The 30 seconds pulse power became much worse at -20 oC compared with the power at room temperature. In our research the poor low temperature performance is not from the low ionic conductivity and interfacial resistance. The dominant factor is the charge transfer impedance from the cathode side of the cell.
 To improve the low temperature performance, we explored the addition inexpensive nano-particles as the additive into the electrolyte. The cell composed of this electrolyte is able to release more than 70% capacity and energy at -20 oC of that measured at 30 oC. The charge transfer resistance in the fully charge state decreased almost 80% compared to a cell with baseline electrolyte. Meanwhile, the additive has no effect on the long-term cycling (1000 cycles) and stability at high temperature (55 oC)

 Fig.1. Normalized capacity and energy. Fig.2. The EIS of the full cell at 30 oC and -20 oC.

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This paper presents a mono visual odometry algo- rithm tailored for AUVs navigation. The main goal of the paper is to test different odometry solutions to find out which one is the most suitable for AUVs navigation. Two different features detector, SIFT and SURF, to compute the vehicle motion are compared. The algorithms were tested with a dataset acquired in September 2018 by the compact Zeno AUV in the Haifa bay, Israel, and the results were compared with the path followed by the vehicle, estimated exploiting GPS, IMU and DVL, that are more accurate than the camera. The achieved results are promising; the proposed strategy could support and enhance DVL-aided navigation or could represent an alternative, for instance, in DVL-denied scenarios or for low-cost AUVs (without a DVL on board).


Crystallization of hydrogenated amorphous germanium (a‐Ge:H) thin films deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition using the GeH4 and H2 precursors has been investigated. A comparative analysis of the kinetics of the thermal crystallization by annealing to 650°C and of the gold-mediated crystallization (Au-MMC) is carried out. The impact of the Au-MMC on the microcrystalline Ge film microstructure and electrical properties is discussed. The Au thin layer results in a more dense and ordered structure with lower roughness of the microcrystalline Ge films. In order to describe the Ge crystallization kinetics, the dielectric functions of a‐Ge:H and microcrystalline germanium μc‐Ge have also been determined by spectroscopic ellipsometry in the range of 0.75−6.0eV and parametrized using the Tauc-Lorentz dispersion equation.


It has always been a hot issue to develop students ' ability of autonomous learning in university educa tion in China.Taking a specific course as an example,this paper analyzes the differences between the author ' s col lege life in China and in York St.John University through three aspects including classroom teaching,out-of-class study and evaluation.The paper aims to explore a more effective model for improving college students ' autonomous learning ability.


This article analyses the corporate (stock split) announcement impact on stock price behaviour in India by using 10 samples from different capitalization and different industries which ex-split (Corporate action) date in 2017. Event study and student t test used to know the results. The empirical results shows that average abnormal return (0.93%), cumulative average abnormal returns (4.24) are positive on event day but statistically average abnormal returns are not significant at 5% level on event day. The large positive cumulative average abnormal return (6.30) on -1st day after the event and negative cumulative average abnormal return (-2.67) -9th day after the event, this results support the investor can earn positive abnormal returns till event day after that investor earn negative abnormal returns.


Summary The edema produced in the rat by ligation of the inferior vena cava and voluntary intake of 1% NaCl solution is studied as altered by adrenalectomy and nephrectomy. (1) The obligatory role of NaCl in the formation of edema fluid is reemphasized. (2) The venous congestion produced by ligation of the inferior vena cava is not a sufficient stimulus to cause edema formation in the nephrectomized rat, but does cause edema if the animal is nephrectomized and adrenalectomized. (3) Under these conditions, it is demonstrated that the kidney does not play an obligatory role in the formation of the edematous state in the adrenalectomized rat. (4) The evidence supplied by these experiments is discussed in relationship to the role of the adrenal cortex in conditions exhibiting generalized edema (congestive heart failure, nephrotic syndrome).


Based on the sound distinguishing characteristics of the tinnitus patients, an instrument of tinnitus treating which is combined with the acoustical theory is designed. The hardware capacity for speech in SPCE061A is used and the function of speech compression is embedded in software. Using the SPR4096 of SUNPLUS as an extent ROM, a large mount of data can be transformed to voice. The clinical test indicates the output signal is precise and can cure the tinnitus effectively.


Abstract: In the secure message transmission, transmitted information can only receive by the authorized group members. To achieve a secure communication, symmetric key (group key) is used to both encrypt and decrypt the information, that shared among the group members. This paper, proposes an efficient centralized group key management scheme (GKDP) for achieving a secure multicast communication between the group members that reduces the cost of computation of SERVER(S) and rekeying cost of group members. The group key (GK) generated in the multicast network is securely distributed with the help of the RSA cryptosystem. Whenever the new member joins the group, computation cost of S reduced by performing single addition, multiplication and encryption, for updating the group key (GK). Whenever the member leaves the group, S performs single subtraction, division and encryption, for updating the group key (GK). By comparing with existing group key management protocol, the proposed protocol has significantly reduced computation complexity and rekeying cost. The proposed protocol is tested on star topology, the test results compared with existing group key management protocol. The comparison results show that the proposed protocol is efficient in terms of reducing the computational complexity of S and rekeying cost of group members. Index Terms: Secure multicast, rekeying cost, computational complexity, centralized group key management.


Introduction/Hypothesis: The approach and glycemic target range for adequate glycemic control in the critically ill patient is a common challenge and the optimal insulin infusion protocol is still uncertain. Methods: We conducted a pilot study after implementing a multidisciplinary insulin infusion protocol for a glycemic target of 140-180mg/dL. We did a cohort retrospective study of ICU patients that required insulin infusion before (Jun/2016Jun/2017) and after (Jul/2017-Jul/2018) the implementation of the institutional protocol. Demographics, APACHE II & SOFA, total insulin dose (TID), hours of infusion (TINF), time to achieve glycemic range (Trange), hypoglycemia (HypoG), hyperglycemia values (HyperG), episodes of hyperglycemia (NHyperG), percentage of infusion-time inside range (%range), ICU stay (ICUS), vasopressor days (TVP), mechanical ventilation days (TMV) and mortality were obtained from medical charts. A sub-group analysis with SPSS v25 was done dividing the group they belonged to (protocol (P) vs no-protocol (NP)). Results: Baseline characteristics, APACHE II & SOFA scores of both groups were similar. TID (245,4 vs 136,6), TINF (65 vs 50,3), HypoG (6,7% vs 4,6%), NhyperG (6,7 vs 3,3), ICUs (12,2 vs 9,22), TVP (6,16 vs 4,79), TMV (14,1 vs 7,2) and mortality (40% vs 27,7%) were greater in the NP group compared to the P group. While Trange (5,8 vs 4,9) and HyperG (276,7 vs 259,9) were greater in P compared to NP. The means of said groups were compared by a two-tailed t-test after Levene's test for equality of variances was done. T-test of student or Welch t-Test was chosen accordingly. No statistically significant differences were found. A bivariate correlation test found the following associations with a p=<0,01: TID with ICUs (0,31), NHyperG with ICUs (0,27) and TID with TVP (0,49); while %range with ICUs (0,22) and TID with TVM (0,28) had a p=<0,05. Conclusions: While not having statistical significance, possibly due to small sample size (n=95), some variables show a trend towards difference between the P and NP groups. Also, there is a statistically significant relationship between said variables and relevant ICU outcomes (ICUs, TVP and TMV). We encourage implementing of institutional insulin infusion protocols for glycemic control between 140-180mg/dL as part of a quality improvement program in the ICU.


The implicit dimension of enthymemes is investigated from a pragmatic perspective to show why a premise can be left unexpressed, and how it can be used strategically. The relationship between the implicit act of taking for granted and the pattern of presumptive reasoning is shown to be the cornerstone of kairos and the fallacy of straw man. By taking a proposition for granted, the speaker shifts the burden of proving its un-acceptability onto the hearer. The resemblance (likeliness) of the tacit premise with what is commonly acceptable or has been actually stated can be used as a rhetorical strategy.


Fungi have been strategically used as molecule producers of economic interest in the last decades, such as: enzymes, antibiotics, vitamins, amino acids and steroids; and the search for new enzymes or enzymatic systems that have the potential of deconstructing integral starch, has been one of the targets of our research group. In this aspect, the objective of this study was the investigation of the secretome of Aspergillus sp in the search of hydrolytic enzymes, using cassava starch (Manihot sculenta Crantz) as substrate. Twodimensional electrophoresis technique was applied to investigate the enzymatic profile and to verify its potential application as an enzymatic cocktail. The best enzyme production occurred in 96 hours of microorganism cultivation, also obtaining better amylolytic activity during this period, verifying the deconstruction of the starch and the generation of reducing sugars, mainly glucose in the reaction medium. In the overall profile of the enzymes performed by 2D electrophoresis, 29 protein spots were detected and will be identified after soon.


This paper introduced technic characteristics of vehicle bogie of the second phase of Wuhan rail transit line 1,which included bogie structure,main characteristic and technic parameters.The calculation results of the strength on important components frame,axle,traction device and vehicle dynamics performance had been introduced.The result meets the standard requirements.


Poyang Lake area is a place where flood disaster occurs frequently,and the flood covered ground can make great economic loss to this area.In order to acquire the flood scope and evaluate the disaster loss directly and accurately,and to improve the level of disaster prevention and mitigation of Poyang Lake area,this paper analyzes the design and implementation of the flooded loss evaluation system in Poyang Lake area based on GIS and Visual Studio 2008,which adopt seed spread algorithm and loss assessment model based on spatial information grid.This system contains many functions,such as calculation of scope flood,statistics of flood distribution,flooded loss evaluation and so on.This system can provide basis for decision making for work of flood control in the Poyang Lake.


Aplication of lithological criterion into natural landscape typology of Polish Uplands T he presented paper is an atte m pt of adaptation of the polish uplands lithological classification for typology of natural upland landscape. T he m ain ele m ent diversifying the natural environ m ent is relief, dependent on lithological properties of substratu m rocks. In co m parison with for m er classification, changes about wide application of lithological criterion and division elaborating were proposed. T he following types of lithological relief, being si m ultaneously types of natural landscape, were allocated: siliceous, karstic (carbonaceous and gypseous), loessic and additionally alluvial. In every one of the m – on the basis of substratu m lithological diversity or relief – fro m two to four units of lower rank – landscape brands – were distinguished. T he relief types, appropriate to landscape units, were characterized and their distribution within geo m orphological regions were presented.


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heterogeneity and nonstandardization of the various scores and ultrasound classifications complicate the topic. Despite this, the article by Cho et al.1 suggests interesting findings on the lack of progression of subclinical varicocele in a clinical setting, justifying its conservative management. Therefore, the article to be commented is highly recommended to readers and we encourage the authors to provide in the future further data on a larger cohort with a longer follow-up, also including speculation about semen analysis and follicle-stimulating hormone levels of patients affected by subclinical varicocele.


Hybrid cement (H-Cement/HC) takes advantages of the material properties of cement and alkali-activated cement with the resulting benefit on utility properties so that hybrid cement can replace in large quantities ordinary Portland cement (PC) as follows: H-Cement is used by the same way as traditional cements; H-Cement is suitable for use in ready-mixed concrete up to C30/37 strength class; H-Cement has shrinkage-reducing and alkali-aggregate-mitigating property; H-Cement shows the same sulphate resistance with sulphate-resistant Portland cement with C 3 A = 0; H-Cement is a suitable binder for use in concrete containing the swelling steel slag aggregate as a full replacement of natural aggregate. This low-energy, low-cost and environmentally friendly hybrid cement belongs to the group of advanced cements, in which parameters predetermine it to overcome PC serviceability in certain applications. The objective of this chapter is to characterize fundamental properties and some durability aspects of H-Cement in concrete.