The behavior of medical worker embodys a kind of occupational spirit and represents hope,responsibility,duty, confidence and justice ,etc. Medical record and physical examination are regarded as basic skills of medical workers. But now more and more doctors despise these basic skills as clinical equipments are renewed continually. Some skills such as inspection,listening and smelling,inquery and feeling the pulse are neglected by medical workers. Medical recording and physical examination not only reflect clinical skills of docters but also include plenty of humanistic spirists and philosophical principles. It can facilitate confidence , cooperation and communication between docters and patients . It is a prerequisite for diagnosis and treatment as well.


Model-based approaches are commonly used to engineering software for safety-critical applications. Several artifacts, such as abstract specifications, formal refinements, and assertions at the implementation level require computational support for formal reasoning activities. Delivering formal verification tools that address such reasoning activities in an automated, trustable and flexible fashion remains a scientific challenge. Researchers from LORIA and UFRN have been collaborating to address this challenge and are now developing an automated theorem prover targeted at trustable software verification efforts.


Efficient control over the conversion of optical angular momentum from spin to orbital form in a metasurface system is achieved. Under coherent symmetric incidence, it can support nearly 100% conversion and unitary output, while it can support 50% conversion with 25% transmittance under one beam incidence.


Ischaemia–reperfusion‐induced intestinal injury requires both Toll‐like receptor 4 (TLR4) signalling through myeloid differentiation primary response gene (88) (MyD88) and complement activation. As a common Gram‐negative intestinal pathogen, Helicobacter hepaticus signals through TLR4 and upregulates the complement inhibitor, decay accelerating factor (DAF; CD55). Since ischaemia–reperfusion (IR) injury is complement dependent, we hypothesized that Helicobacter infection may alter IR‐induced intestinal damage. Infection increased DAF transcription and subsequently decreased complement activation in response to IR without altering intestinal damage in wild‐type mice. Ischaemia–reperfusion induced similar levels of DAF mRNA expression in uninfected wild‐type, MyD88−/− or TIR‐domain‐containing adaptor‐inducing interferon‐β (Trif)‐deficient mice. However, during infection, IR‐induced DAF transcription was significantly attenuated in Trif‐deficient mice. Likewise, IR‐induced intestinal damage, complement component 3 deposition and prostaglandin E2 production were attenuated in Helicobacter‐infected, Trif‐deficient but not MyD88−/− mice. While infection attenuated IR‐induced cytokine production in wild‐type and MyD88−/− mice, there was no further decrease in Trif‐deficient mice. These data indicate distinct roles for MyD88 and Trif in IR‐induced inflammation and suggest that chronic, undetected infections, such as Helicobacter, alter the use of the adaptor proteins to induce damage.


Objective:To determine the ultimate tensile strength(UTS) of molar coronal dentin and the dentin-enamel junction(DEJ) area,and analyze its fracture surface.Methods: A resin composite block was built up on the human third molar occlusal surface.Slice the teeth buccolingually to obtain slices about 1mm thick.Each slice was then trimmed to a dumbbell-shaped specimen with a fine diamond bur,and to reduce a cross sectional area of about 1mm×1mm.DEJ,superficial dentin,middle dentin and deep dentin specimens were obtained from the midcoronal for tensile testing vertically and horizontally.The fracture surfaces were observed by scanning electron microscope.Results:The UTS of dentin at different levels was anisotropic and decrease from superficial dentin to deep dentin(P0.05).The UTS of DEJ and middle dentin showed no significant difference(P0.05).SEM micrographs:Fractures did not occur in one single plane along the peritubular dentin and intertubular dentin.The direction of fracture crack was changed in the dentin and enamel.Most DEJ specimens fractured in the nearby enamel.Conclusions:The dentin of molar crown showed higher ability to resistant fracture in the horizontal direction.The dentin-enamel junction provided a crack-arrest barrier for flaws formed in the brittle enamel.


The neuronal morphology of the torus semicircularis of the northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens pipiens, was examined in Golgi‐impregnated material. Neurons in each of the five subdivisions of the torus semicircularis (Potter, '65a) have distinct morphologies which are characteristic of the subdivision.


Introduction: The e-Court system was created as a form of service for the community, especially justice seekers in terms of accommodating the online case settlement process.Purposes of the Research: To find out how the procedures for implementing e-Court are in accordance with applicable rules and whether or not there are obstacles in the implementation of this system, especially in the Ambon District Court. Methods of the Research: This research is a normative legal research supported by empirical data in the form of facts needed in the field, with a descriptive analytical research type, as well as legal materials which include primary legal materials, secondary legal materials and tertiary legal materials. The collection of legal materials is carried out through interviews and literature studies, which are descriptive and analytical in nature.his research is a normative legal research with analytical descriptive nature.Results of the Research: The results of this study, namely, first, that E-Court is a way to expedite the proceedings in the Court, as regulated in the principles of justice according to Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 of 2019 concerning Case Administration and Trial in Electronic Courts. Second, the electronic Court introduced by the Supreme Court allows several stages of the process in the Court to be carried out online. Third, the implementation of the e-Court system has various obstacles, one of which is the lack of public counseling and information regarding the application of this system, and there are still advocates who have not been verified or registered.


The application of composite materials in the aerospace and naval structures has increased enormously due to high specific strength and specific stiffness afforded by these materials. In this paper a formulation is developed based on Hamilton's Principle and laminated composite plate theory to study the elasto‐acoustical response of composite plates under heavy fluid loadings. The formulation starts by using Hamilton's principle in conjunction with shear deformable theory of laminated composite plates. The acoustic pressure described by wave equation is computed similar to Sandman and Nelisse. Using the Rayleigh Ritz method and symbolic mathematics for evaluation of integrals, the formulation provides efficient approach for the problem defined. Typical results include radiation impedance as a function of driving frequency, vibroacoustic indicators such as radiated sound power and mean square velocity for a model problem. Such results are very important in studying constrained layer damping when viscolasti...


This paper presents the development of the remote stand for the HSE MIEM CAD Laboratory, which allows students to do laboratory work asynchronously. Currently, there is not enough face-to-face work of students in educational laboratories; it is important to be able to use the equipment of laboratories at any time, not limited to the time of classes or opening hours of the university. In addition, distance learning and advanced training courses are being actively developed; providing online access to laboratories will significantly reduce the cost of the educational process and increase its coverage. It is important to provide students with remote access to equipment to increase the effectiveness of training and to facilitate work with FPGA boards. That is why it was decided to modify the existing synchronous laboratory for sequential processing of user firmware. A GUI interface for the program, providing convenient configuration and interaction with a remote stand for the administrator, was developed. The HSE MIEM CAD Remote Laboratory is a software hardware complex that combines several laboratory stands and one control stand. The user is given the opportunity to work with FPGA boards in an asynchronous format, as well as to perform firmware of varying complexity and the required operating time.


The nature of pre-human knowledge is facing a post-modern transformation, which will certainly bring new thinking and enlightenment. Therefore, the paper discusses the role of "youth" colleagues in the transformation of modern knowledge in China. Starting from the concept of knowledge-based transformation of modern science to knowledge-based transformation of post-modern culture, this paper discusses it. The research shows that we are in a special period of transformation from modern scientific knowledge to post-modern cultural knowledge, and the teaching concept and practice must be changed accordingly. At present, how to quickly change the concept of education and teaching and the content of curriculum content in the process of knowledge transformation will be more and more educators to participate in the research. At the same time, this will also promote the education of our country to adapt to the development needs of the current era.


Ideological education has the direct relation to the qualities of university graduates.The article says that some tasks are very important in strengthening ideological education in universities: 1) build a human-centered harmonious campus;2) establish the main position of students;3) advance the reform of ideological courses;4) increase the pertinence and effectiveness of ideological courses;5) set up inspiring mechanism for ideological teachers;6) intensify the management of campus network;7) develop mental health instruction.


Experiments have been conducted using a microwave interferometer to measure the direction of arrival of signals when the propagation path is obstructed by bare or wooded ridges. A number of paths with different ranges and scattering angles have been investigated. The receiver and transmitter sites were surveyed to provide accurate position information, relative to terrain features, and calibration of the interferometer over its field of view. An outline of the experimental procedure is given, together with a brief description of the equipment used. Results of mean bearing measurements and corresponding signal strengths are presented as a function of transmitter heading. The distributions of measured parameters are given in histogram form. These are interpreted in terms of a theoretical scattering model which explains the observed differences between propagation over bare and wooded ridges.


This paper introduces the structure characteristic of the mono planetary gear of the automatic transmission for vehicle and offers an equation of motion pattern through analysis of the equilibrium of acting forces.The transmission principles are illustrated by examples.


In 1999, the National Communication Association (NCA) embarked on a comprehensive effort to create a more engaged communication discipline focused on fostering research and addressing the most pressing public problems at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Critical parts of this effort involve advancing the role of the communication discipline in reducing prejudice and hateful acts based on racial, ethnic, religious, and other human differences and increasing society's ability to embrace the opportunities of diversity. Toward that end, in 1999, NCA engaged the Southern Poverty Law Center, Campus Compact, and the American Association for Higher Education as partners in Communicating Common Ground (CCG), a national service-learning initiative in multicultural education.CCG supports creation of local partnerships between those in college communication programs and community members to accomplish this goal. Thirty partnerships were created in August 2000. College faculty and students, in partnership with community groups, develop research and teaching programs designed to advance civic education, appreciation of diversity, and the creation of communities in which hate, hate speech, and hate crimes are rejected as antithetical to the values of a strong democracy.CCG has a four-pronged mission that reflects the interests of its sponsoring organizations:1. To educate people to the contributions of diversity to a strong democracy;2. To foster engagement between higher education and P-12 education and between schools and communities;3. To promote service-learning as an effective method for enhancing student learning and civic responsibility; and4. To promote research that identifies ways to reduce prejudice and the problems it presents to a democracy. (NCA, 2015)CCG projects team faculty and college-level communications students with elementary and secondary students to implement programs that foster respect for diversity and combat prejudice in communities across America. The project described in this article is part of a long-term study involving undergraduates at Coe College and Grade 5 students at Truman Elementary School. Coe's was the first public speaking class in the nation to join the CCG initiative.This partnership has shifted and changed through yearly analysis of the learning documented from the college students and the Grade 5 children. In the fall of 2015, the group of Grade 5 children described in the current study participated in a service-learning project by Coe students, who came to the elementary school and (a) taught a unit on writing a speech, (b) taught a unit on delivering a speech, (c) gave role model speeches, d) worked one-on-one with Grade 5 children to craft their presentations, and (d) provided critiques to Grade 5 children on their social studies presentations. In return, the Grade 5 students provided critiques to the workshop presenters on their content and delivery, as well as asked questions about the content of the presentations.In 2016, marking the sixteenth year that students of public speaking at Coe College partnered with Truman Elementary School and the sixth year that the children came to Coe for a field trip to learn about college life and culture, the same children came to the campus to learn about the life of a college student and about international culture from international students. The children received a broad introduction to college student life when they met ROTC cadets and the college mascot Charlie Kohawk, had a campus tour, and ate in the cafeteria. The 2016 program was the focus of the research described here.Twelve Coe students, under the direction of the author, created hands-on workshops for more than 50 Grade 5 students as an experiential learning project done as a segment of their public speaking curriculum to better understand research, creating presentations for a new audience, and community impact of their voices. …


Coir/silk fiber-reinforced polypropylene (PP) based unidirectional composites (40 wt.%) were manufactured by compression molding. Coir/silk fibers and PP sheets were treated with ultraviolet radiation at different intensities and then composites were fabricated. It was found that mechanical properties of irradiated silk/irradiated PP composites were found to increase significantly compared to the untreated ones and even higher than that of irradiated coir/irradiated PP composites. Soil degradation tests indicated that irradiated coir/irradiated PP composites significantly lost much of its mechanical properties, but irradiated silk/irradiated PP composites retained their strength of its original integrity. Scanning electron microscopy and water uptake of both types of composites were also investigated.


A 74-year-old man presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and underwent neck clipping of a left middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysm 10 years ago. This patient presented with SAH again due to rupture of a de novo aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (A-com. aneurysm). The A-com. aneurysm was clipped successfully. The "old" left MCA aneurysm was then inspected. A collapsed "old" aneurysmal dome and a previously applied clip were identified. The "old" aneurysmal dome was resected for histopathological examination. The wall of this aneurysmal dome varied in thickness and consisted of a thin layer of fibrous connective tissue. Fibroblasts were scattered in the aneurysmal wall and either the muscular layer or internal elastic lamina was absent. The aneurysmal dome collapsed to a certain degree, but the lumen of the dome was completely intact. In addition, neovascularization of microcapillaries was observed both inside and outside the aneurysmal dome. Some of these microcapillaries were filled with fresh erythrocytes. Thus the aneurysmal wall was apparently "vigorous." The previous orifice of the aneurysm did not fuse together at all and could be opened widely with ease during preparation for histopathologic examination. We speculated that the clipped aneurysmal dome survived for 10 years for the following reasons: 1) Although the mechanism of neovascularization of the microcapillaries is unclear, the clipped aneurysmal dome may have obtained nourishment from the microcapillaries. 2) The cerebrospinal fluid may have incubated the dome and provided optimal circumstances for its survival. Considering the radical cure for ruptured cerebral aneurysms by neck clipping or coil embolization, the findings described in this report will be valuable for neurosurgeons and neurointerventionists. Regardless of the time since treatment, ruptured aneurysms treated by either neck clipping and/or coil embolization are at risk of recurrent subarachnoid hemorrhage when the blood re-enters the aneurysms in cases such as clip slip-off or coil compaction.


In this demonstration, we present a prototype peer-topeer (P2P) application called PeerDB[2] that provides database capabilities. This system has been developed at the National University of Singapore in collaboration with Fudan University, and is being enhanced with more features and applications. The concept behind PeerDB is similar to the analogy of publishing personal web sites, except that it is now applied to personal databases. Unlike personal web sites which are usually hosted together in a central web server, personal databases are stored in the person's own PC. In addition, it is increasingly common for people to keep their data in common personal DBMS like MySQL, and MSAccess. Therefore, a PeerDB node allows an user to index and publish his/her personal database for other peers to query. PeerDB builds on and extends BestPeer [1] for DBMS applications. Briefly, BestPeer is a generic P2P system designed to serve as a platform to develop P2P applications easily and efficiently. It has the following features: (1) It employs mobile agents; (2) It shares data at a finer granularity as well as computational power; (3) It can dynamically reconfigure the BestPeer network so that a node is always directly connected to peers that provide the best service; (4) It employs a set of location independent global name lookup (LIGLO) servers to uniquely recognize nodes whose IP addresses may change as a result. In the PeerDB network, a set of PeerDB nodes communicate or share resources with each other. Each node comprises four components that are loosely integrated: (a) a data management system (we used MySQL in our implementation) that facilitates storage, manipulation and retrieval of the data at the node, and the associated local and export dictionaries that reflect the meta-data (schema and keywords); (b) a database agent system called DBAgent that provides the environment for mobile agents to operate on; (c) a cache manager for managing remote meta-data and data in secondary storage; and (d) a user-friendly user interface. PeerDB has several distinguishing features. First, it allows users to query data without knowing the schema of data in other nodes. To address this issue, we adopt an Informa-


Fully coupled process of Flow-Reaction with heat transfer in heap leaching is very complicated. the distribution of temperature,concentration of oxygen and concentration of target metal ions were analyzed,during heap leaching process through developing a fully coupled flow-reaction with heat transfer model. Numerical results show that the concentration of oxygen along the slope boundary is comparatively higher,and it is very low in the central part where the lixiviated-reaction rate is very slow,the temperature is the lowest along the slope boundary,and the highest at the bottom near the slope. The difference is more than 6 ℃,the concentration of target metal ions at the bottom near the slope is the highest. The method of mathematical modeling and simulation adopted is meaningful to simulate the process of floodwater evolution with storm tide in the city. 4figs.,1tab.,9refs.


The endemic argan woodlands cover large parts of South Morocco and create a characteristic landscape with areas of sparsely vegetated and bare soil surfaces between single trees. This unique ecosystem has been under extensive agrosilvopastoral management for centuries and is now at risk of degradation caused by overgrazing and increasing scarcity and variability of rainfall.


The oxidation kinetics of zirconium and Zr-alloys can be influenced essentially by the socalled breakaway phenomenon, depending on various exposure conditions and the medium. Mechanistic investigation results gained during decades up to now have not yet provided an agreement on the importance of several interfering parameters. However, recently performed sophisticated studies seem to have confirmed, that the growth kinetics of oxide scales in total depends on the aging conditions provided for the compound of scale sub-layers since their individual formation. Local variations of scale growth and mechanical failure are also known to occur under special conditions. This complex behavior is highly relevant for the nuclear industry in technical and commercial respect. A semi-mechanistic evaluation of experimental results is presented. This novel approach combines fitting to experimental data with an analytical treatment, allowing to describe a certain mechanistic fact in simplified form: The ongoing transformation of tetragonal oxide into the monoclinic modification during scale growth within the temperature range of observed breakaway anomalies is simulated by assumed cubic mass gain kinetics. Thus a pretransition regime is defined in advance of the post-transition regime, taken into account up to now. The formalism follows the simplification of a correlations concept, in order to facilitate temperature transient calculations. Instead of introducing additional and arbitrary oxidation rate coefficients, the breakaway anomalies are formally linked to the resulting regime boundaries, so that basic kinetics and breakaway response can be discussed separately. The evaluation procedure is offered as reference for Zry-4/steam, without claiming, that the optimum fit to all available experimental data has been found with the provided breakaway regime boundary data. The encouraged adaptation of the procedure to other alloys and exposure media requires sufficiently large data sets for reliable evaluations and cross comparison purposes.


Introduction: Health literacy is an essential factor for self-care of chronic conditions and maintenance of health and wellness. This research examines whether or not sociodemographic factors predict health literacy in community-dwelling elderly adults. Methods: The sample of this cross-sectional study consisted of 250 elderly individuals residing in Qazvin, Iran, who were selected by cluster sampling method. Data were collected using the sociodemographic and Health Literacy for Iranian Adults questionnaires. A multivariate regression model was used for analyzing the data. Results: The mean age of 250 elderly people participated in the study was 69.42 ± 6.81 years. Based on the findings of the current study, the majority of the elderly participants had insufficient (n = 79, 31.6%) or not enough (n = 69, 27.6%) health literacy. The results also indicated that good economic status (B = 5.75, standard error (SE) = 2.19, P = 0.009) and living with a spouse (B = −8.75, SE = 3.36, P = 0.010) were associated with higher health literacy. However, having no formal education (B = −26.73, SE = 3.42, P < 0.001) or under diploma education (B = −8.03, SE = 2.53, P = 0.002) and being homemaker (B = −10.58, SE = 3.02, P = 0.001) or unemployed (B = −5.22, SE = 3.13, P = 0.036) were associated with lower health literacy. Conclusion: The findings of this study highlight the importance of using appropriate strategies for promoting the health literacy of elderly people.


Mg, Ni, Co, Cu and Fe nanoparticles with a particle size of 30-300 nm were synthesized by hydrogen plasma metal reaction method. Nanostructured Mg-based hydrogen storage materials (Mg-H, Mg-Ni-H, Mg-Co-H, Mg-Cu-H and Mg-Fe-H systems) were synthesized from these metal nanoparticles. In this work, the kinetic and thermodynamic properties of these nanostructured hydrogen storage materials were studied. It was found that nanostructure could significantly enhance the hydrogen absorption kinetics but the thermodynamics (desorption enthalpy and entropy) does not change with downsizing in the size range of 50 to 300 nm.


We study the Fourier relationship between angular position and orbital angular momentum of entangled photons. We establish that the amplitudes of the angular position and the orbital angular momentum distributions are related as conjugate Fourier-pairs.


To the Editor. —The higher rates of prostate cancer reported in men who have had vasectomies 1 do not prove that vasectomies cause prostate cancer. I believe that the behavior of men who have had vasectomies is responsible for their higher rates of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is associated with human papillomavirus 2 and a high-fat diet. 3 Men who have vasectomies are more likely to be sexually active. Since they do not need to worry about impregnating women, they may be more promiscuous; they are far less likely to use condoms, and thus, they increase their risk of acquiring venereal warts. It would be interesting to see if they are also more likely to eat a high-fat diet.


The State of California created the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in 1928 to provide supplemental water supplies to the rapidly developing urban areas of the coastal plain. Today, Metropolitan's service area encompasses virtually all of the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan regions, with a population of nearly 17 million. In total, annual water demands placed on all sources within Metropolitan's service area were approximately 3.8 million acre-feet in calendar year 1997. Water supplies for this 5,200-square-mile area come from an array of sources, including local surface and groundwater supplies, as well as the imported supplies from the City of Los Angeles' aqueduct system and Metropolitan's supplies from the Colorado River and Northern California. About 47 percent or 1.8 million acre-feet of the total demand was met from Metropolitan's supplies. In addition, aggressive local programs among Metropolitan's 27 member public water agencies and over 300 subagencies heavily promote groundwater conjunctive use programs, and reclamation programs for reuse of supplies. Approximately 1.6 million acre-feet of local demands are met by these two sources.


Objectives:To determine knowledge, attitude and practice of medical students and interns towards research, to identify factors affecting research knowledgeand to improve research knowledge among a group of new graduates through a research methodology educational intervention course. Methodology: Both crosssectional study and intervention educational program were conducted in King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah in 2012. A total of 260 medical students and interns were selected usingmultistage stratified random sample. A pre-constructed,confidential, validated, self-administered questionnaire inquiring about research's knowledge, attitudes and practice was used. Pre-test and Post-Test assessment were done for 33 newly graduates. Results: The cross-sectionalstudy revealed that knowledge about research was generally low. Study participants who received research training and conducted researches had significantly higher knowledge score compared to others (p<0.05). Positive research attitude was present. Regarding practice, 38.1 % of medical students and interns participated in researches and 5.8 % published a scientific paper. Marked improvement of mean knowledge score occurred after the educational program (p<0.001). Conclusions: Low knowledge, positive attitudes and fair practice prevailed from the crosssectional part. Intervention program was successful in improving research knowledge. (Rawal Med J 2013; 38: 432-439).


Measurements of greenhouse gases (GHG) are essential to understanding the earbon (C), nitrogen (N), and sulfur (S) biogeoehemieal eycles and in evaluating climate ehange proeesses in warm climates. Permanent anoxia in Lake Vietoria, associated with pollution and eatehment degradation, may have direet linkages with GHG emissions in the Lake Vietoria basin. There have been relatively few GHG studies in East Afriea, espeeially dealing with aquatie eeosystems (ADAMS & ÜCHOLA 2002). ADAMS (2005) reported that fluxes of earbon gases were related to the trophie eonditions of aquatie system, with higher fluxes observed within eutrophie lakes. Gas flux pathways to the atmosphere in open waters ean be either through diffusion (ABE et al. 2005) or bubbles (ADAMS 2005). Even though further sediment eoring or bubble eolleetors will be required to address this issue, it is likely that bubbles will not form in the benthos of a turbulent river; therefore, diffusion at the river surfaee might be the major flux pathway. Anoxie eonditions promoting CH4 formation would beeome more ubiquitous as water eeosystems warm and C inputs inerease (LnKANEN et al. 2002). We assessed the diffuse flux ofGHGs aeross the water surfaee of a tropieal river and addressed any faetors affeeting this pathway, sueh as agrieulture and faetories.


The present invention provides a light emitting module system, comprising: a socket having a first contact and the second contact socket is mounted on a heat sink including a top surface, a socket having a ramp or shoulder; the LED assembly, comprising a frame , LED array, and a heat sink having an upper surface and a lower surface, the upper surface thermally connected to the LED array and supported by the frame; circuit provided in the LED assembly, the circuit configured to receive an AC input voltage to the LED array power; a first and second terminals, supported by the frame and connected to the circuit, and arranged to engage with the first contact and the second contact member of the socket member; and a cover, rotatably connected to the LED assembly, the cap having a ramp or shoulder the other portion, when the cap is rotated, the shoulder portion and the lid ramps engage each other such that the vertical movement and the vertical movement of the cover such that the heat dissipating device in vertical translation, the heat dissipation means is arranged to move without rotation to cause a heat sink thermally connected the top surface of the heat sink.


Single control loop based two schemes for regulation of voltage and frequency of Self Excited Induction Generator (SEIG) based stand-alone 3-phase 4-wire renewable energy conversion system (RECS), under perturbations in speed and balanced/unbalanced load are presented. For the regulation, a Generalized Impedance Controller (GIC), a PWM voltage source converter having battery storage at its dc bus, controls reactive and active power flow in each phase of the SEIG using, (i) 3-phase stator voltage feedback only and (ii) 3-phase PCC voltage feedback only. The SEIG is operated with isolated neutral, while load and the GIC neutrals are interconnected. A mathematical model of integrated system having 3-phase 4-wire configuration of SEIG-load in closed-loop with the GIC has been developed and simulated in MATLAB/Simulink, with each control scheme, under variety of source and load perturbations. The novel feature of these schemes is successful regulation of both the amplitude and frequency of SEIG terminal voltage using only voltage feedback loop and no frequency feedback.


Parallelization strategies are presented for Virtual Quake, a numerical simulation code for earthquakes based on topologically realistic systems of interacting earthquake faults. One of the demands placed upon the simulation is the accurate reproduction of the observed earthquake statistics over three to four decades. This requires the use of a high‐resolution fault model in computations, which demands computational power that is well beyond the scope of off‐the‐shelf multi‐core CPU computers. However, the recent advances in general‐purpose graphic processing units have the potential to address this problem at moderate cost increments. A functional decomposition of Virtual Quake is performed, and opportunities for parallelization are discussed in this work. Computationally intensive modules are identified, and these are implemented on graphics processing units, significantly speeding up earthquake simulations. In the current best case scenario, a computer with six graphics processing units can simulate 500 years of fault activity in California at 1.5 km × 1.5 km element resolution in less than 1 hour, whereas a single CPU requires more than 2 days to perform the same simulation. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Nowadays, data warehouse has already become the hot spot in database studies. Indexes can potentially speed up a variety of operations in a data warehouse. In this paper, we present several relatively mature index techniques in data warehouse. Then, we give a comparison between them on performance evaluations. This paper focuses on the performance evaluation of three data warehouse queries with three different indexing techniques and to observe the impact of variable size data with respect to time and space complexity.


The aim of this thesis is to examine the cultural significance of trees in Rome and its environs, with a focus on the early Principate. While arboreal studies are prominent in studies of the pre- and post-classical periods, discussion of trees in the Greco-Roman world have been concentrated primarily in a religious context. The thesis exploits the approaches established by post-classical history, geography, and classical studies to explore the role of trees outside of a religious context, focussing primarily on the role of trees as living natural monuments of the city's triumphal past.
Chapter One presents an overview of Roman attitudes to trees in Rome, from the origins of trees and their role in the establishment of civilisation to Roman interactions with them in the city. The second chapter focusses in from the broad overview offered in Chapter One and examines the discussion of trees in Pliny's Natural History, and how that discussion is influenced by Pliny's broader narrative purpose. Chapter Three continues the focussed discussion, and considers trees in the context of triumphal Trajanic architecture, which commemorates victories over heavily-forested territories. Chapter Four discusses the role of trees in the triumphal procession, and the use of trees and their constituent parts to communicate messages of conquest, fertility, and piety. The final chapter explores the key challenges of natural monuments, from their vulnerability to human intervention to their changing and mortal nature, and the thesis closes with a discussion of how the death of such a monument is approached in three examples of monumental trees. Through these chapters, this thesis aims to expose a nuanced relationship with trees in the Roman world, and to place this relationship in the context of the politics of victory and empire building that dominated the collapse of the Republic and rise of the Principate.


How can we build the capacity of adult educators to create inclusive classes within the context of student diversity? This article outlines a process through which adult educators can develop a better understanding of themselves in terms of their values, moral perspective, biases and prejudices and identify how these traits influence their interactions with their students. The assumption is that reflexivity, the willingness to self-reflect, enables instructor self-knowledge, which leads to better self-management and context management, resulting in turn in being better able to create an inclusive learning environment.


A multi-mesh strategy is employed to reduce the computational costs associated with incorporating correlated uncertainties into structural topology optimization problems. Uncertainty quantification is achieved through an existing perturbation-based method. This method transforms uncertainties in stiffness, such as geometric and material property randomness, into an augmented deterministic topology optimization problem. Although the approach has proven quite efficient in general, the uncertainty sources are tied to the finite element analysis mesh. Computational costs then rise significantly when refining the finite element mesh in the presence of correlated random variables. We therefore propose separating the analysis and uncertainty mesh. The technique is evaluated on problems of expected stiffness with uncertainties in elastic modulus and compared to solutions found using the standard perturbation and Monte Carlo topology optimization algorithms.


The author presents an improved method for estimating the parameters in the Weibull distribution with three parameters which is widely used in connection with high-reliability applications. Parameter estimation based on the optimum method of penalty function and direct searching is introduced, and a linear correlation coefficient of coordinate variables on modified probability paper is proposed as an objective function. The Monte Carlo test is conducted to evaluate the efficiency of this method. A general computer program is designed for this application.<<ETX>>


PURPOSE: To obtain NOX gas detection paper which is usable at a practical concentration level by using a specific compound as an electron donative color former. CONSTITUTION: The compound expressed by the expression, namely, a triallylmethane compound, diphenylmethane compound, xanthene compound, thiazine compound, or spirocompound is used as an electron donative color former and the compound is applied to a carrier at the rate of 5-1,000m/m 2 by using an ordinary coating machine. After applying the compound, the compound is dried. It is preferable to use acidic or neutralized paper composed mainly of cellulose fibers as the carrier. It is also preferable to contain the electron donative color former in microcapsules by using an interfacial polymerization method and the aromatic hydrocarbon, mineral oil, etc., used for ordinary pressure sensitive copying paper can be used as the hydrophobic medium used on the internal surface of the capsules. Therefore, the compound specifically reacts to the NOX gas and develops a blue color. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO&Japio


Significance: Terada and co-workers report a diastereoand enantioselective addition of azlactones to 3-vinylindoles catalyzed by chiral phosphoric acid 3. By employing α-aryl azlactones as nucleophiles, the desired products were obtained after ring opening with sodium methoxide. Various tryptophan derivatives 4, which have adjacent quaternary and tertiary stereogenic centers, were obtained with high stereoselectivities. Surprisingly, poor stereoselectivity was observed with rac1a under the same reaction conditions. Also, the obtained stereoselectivity of the reaction was strongly dependent on the olefin geometry of 1b. Therefore, the authors excluded iminium formation and proposed an ene-type reaction mechanism. Comment: Tryptophan, which contains indole as a functional group, has been known as a key component in protein stability and recognition. A number of strategies were developed to access enantioenriched 3-substituted indole derivatives by employing various leaving groups (see Review below). Herein, the authors demonstrate the use of 3-vinylindoles 1 as electrophiles in the presence of chiral Brønsted acid catalyst 3. Simultaneous activation of both nucleophile and electrophile in the transition state could explain the observed high diastereoand enantioselectivity. An azlactone moiety can easily be converted into a protected amino acid via a simple ring opening to afford tryptophan derivatives.


This study aims to determine the heavy metal content and vitamin E concentration of male Wistar rat testes exposed to Sarimukti landfill leachate. The research design used was a randomized block design. Rats were divided into four treatments, namely: aquabidestylates, 63% leachate, CdCl2, H2O2. The test substance was administered intraperitoneally for 14 days. Heavy metal concentrations were measured using the Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) method, while Vitamin E concentrations were measured using HPLC. The results showed that the concentration of heavy metal Zn in testicular tissue exposed to 63% leachate was 0.6 ppm, aquabidestylates was 0.5 ppm, while the other six metals had a concentration of 0 ppm. The measurement results of Vitamin E in the 63% leachate treatment were meager, namely, 1.06 ppm when compared to the aquabidestyl treatment of 7.92 ppm, CdCl2 and H2O2 were 0.53 ppm and 0.85 ppm, respectively. In conclusion, Sarimukti landfill leachate can cause an increase in ROS, which is indicated by a biomarker of decreased Vitamin E concentration in the testes, causing testicular damage.
Keywords: Leachate, Heavy Metals, Wistar Rat Testicles, Vitamin E


This meteorite, according to Professor Barrows's statement, was found by Mr. Ernest Ruppert, a small farmer and junk dealer, on his farm in Osceola county, near Reed City, Mich., while plowing in September, 1895. Later the meteorite was displayed in a hotel window in Reed City, where Professor Barrows saw it in December, 1898, and was told there had been a dispute as to the origin of the specimen, some claiming that it was a meteor from the skies, others that it was a lump of ordinary iron. Professor Barrows saw at a glance from its general character that it was a genuine meteorite and at that time made an unsuccessful effort to obtain it for the college museum. Other attempts.were equally unsuccessful, until recently when the iron was purchased by the college. In January of this year Professor Henry A. Ward, of Chicago, visited Professor Barrows to see if he could not make arrangements to obtain a portion of the mass for the Ward-Coonley Collection of Meteorites now on deposit in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In consequence of this visit, the mass was sent to Rochester, N. Y., for slicing. The meteorite before cutting was a semicircular or ham-shaped mass 10 X 2I X 263 cm in its greatest diameters. One side (Fig. I) has a comparatively smooth convex surface showing no distinct pittings; the opposite side is much more irregular in form, slightly concave, with three prominent and numerous small characteristic pittings. On the upper edge of this face is a hackly fracture oblong in shape 4Y2 x Iocm in diameter, where a piece of less than a pound, according to Professor Barrows, 'Read before Rochester Academy of Science, March 9, 1903.


The research presented combines Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy for analyzing, evaluating, and recommending appropriate solutions for integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the United States (US) National Airspace System (NAS). The discussion includes: Issues/interest surrounding UAS operations; Architecting the current state enterprise, Discussion of the future of UAS integration in the US NAS; leadership for success and future work. Technology Strategy coupled with Enterprise Architecting in an incremental systems approach emphasizes the development and application of ways of thinking that bring clarity to the complex co-evolution of technological innovation, the demand opportunity, systems architecture, business ecosystems, and decision-making and execution within the business.


The development of synthetic membrane had always been inspired by the challenge of material suitability and it properties modification in an appropriate technique to obtain a membrane structure with a suitable morphology for a specific separation. In membrane preparation, phase inversion is versatile technique that allow polymer to be transformed from liquid to a solid state in a controlled manner. The preparation and process involved various factors and parameters specifically in fabricating hollow fibre membrane. In this study, factors associated in the process of fabricating hollow were discussed. Furthermore, the effects of polymer concentration and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as additive in the dope solution on the morphology and separation performance were investigated. In addition to this by principle high porous membranes, well interconnected pores and surface properties are able to produce. By employing polyethersulfone (PES) as polymer, hollow fibre membranes were fabricated using N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) as solvent and using water as the external coagulant. Finally the fabricated ultrafiltration membranes based on solute transport concentration (sodium chloride) and pure water permeation properties were characterized and evaluated.


The taxi/minibus industry in South Africa serves approximately 65% of the South Africans using public transportation and has been a wellspring of black entrepreneurial activity. Yet, this industry suffers from a legacy of illegality - thanks to apartheid-era laws that restricted economic opportunities for black South Africans. It also suffers from continuing problems of violence and from safety concerns. In order to address these problems, the South African government created the Taxi Recapitalization Programme (TRP). The TRP requires taxi/minibus operators to trade in 16-seat minibuses and purchase larger, new vehicles. However, this policy will not address the underlying problems that continue to provoke taxi violence. In order for policies that address taxi violence to be as effective as possible, they must focus on official corruption and establishing mechanisms that determine the access to taxi routes and ranks. This can be achieved by creating secure, defendable, and tradable property rights over routes and ranks. Unless these policies are implemented, violence is likely to continue.


Abstract I argue for the claim that there are instances of a priori justified belief – in particular, justified belief in moral principles – that are not analytic, i.e., that cannot be explained solely by the understanding we have of their propositions. §1–2 provides the background necessary for understanding this claim: in particular, it distinguishes between two ways a proposition can be analytic, Basis and Constitutive, and provides the general form of a moral principle. §§3–5 consider whether Hume's Law, properly interpreted, can be established by Moore's Open Question Argument, and concludes that it cannot: while Moore's argument – appropriately modified – is effective against the idea that moral judgments are either (i) reductively analyzable or (ii) Constitutive-analytic, a different argument is needed to show that they are not (iii) Basis-analytic. Such an argument is supplied in §6. §§7–8 conclude by considering how these considerations bear on recent discussions of "alternative normative concepts", on the epistemology of intuitions, and on the differences between disagreement in moral domains and in other a priori domains such as logic and mathematics.


The utility model discloses an open flume type rainwater power generation system. The system comprises a house roofing, a collecting pipe, a diversion open channel, overflow holes, a volute, an exhaust water pipe, a generator, a rotating wheel, water guiding components, an output line, a control gate and a water retaining wall, wherein the house roofing is connected with the diversion open channel through the collecting pipe; the water retaining wall is arranged at the near end of the diversion open channel; the far end of the diversion open channel is connected with the volute; the control gate is arranged between the diversion open channel and the volute; the upper parts of the water retaining wall and the volute are provided with the overflow holes; a hydrogenerator is arranged in the center of the volute and comprises the generator, the rotating wheel and the water guiding components; the bottom of the hydrogenerator is provided with the exhaust water pipe; and the output line is arranged on the generator. The diversion open channel and the volute which are adopted by the system have the advantages of low investment, convenience for construction and the like, and the produced volute effect improves the velocity of water flow further to enhance power generation efficiency, so that the complexity of rainwater power generation and the investment cost of rainwater power generation facilities are reduced.


Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims) belongs to the family Passifloraceae, which have two distinct forms, the standard purple (Passiflora edulis Sims f. edulis) and the yellow (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa). The fruits are valued for its captivating flavour, nutritional benefits and medicinal properties.Three methods of juice extraction (enzymatic, mechanical and conventional methods) were compared to identify the most efficient method. Among the different enzymatic treatments tried pectinase 5 ml per litre incubated at 50° C for 90 minutes was found ideal. This treatment yielded more quantity of juice with high TSS, acidity and total sugars. The juice yield was comparatively less in mechanical and conventional method of extraction.


This research was aimed to investigate the effects of different doses of NPK fertilization on growth and productivity of Cichorium intybus. The study was carried out in the farm facility of Faculty of Animal Science Universitas Gadjah Mada. There were three treatments: 0 kg/ha (P0), 45 kg/ha (P1), and 60 kg/ha (P2) (3 replications for each). Seeds were planted in a plot of 1 x 1.5 m. Fertilization was performed once prior to cultivation period (day-15). The height and length of plants were recorded once a week for 30 d. Defoliation was conducted when the plant's height reached 5 cm (day-30). Data observed including plant's height and length, number of leaves, fresh production, dry matter (DM) and organic matter (OM) production. Data were evaluated by using one-way ANOVA and followed by Duncan's New Multiple Range test for significant difference. The results showed that P2 significantly increased (P<0.05) the fresh, DM, and OM of Cichorium intybus, resulting 260.8 tons/ha/year of fresh production, 35.53 tons/ha/year of dry matter, and 28.12 tons/ha/year of organic matter. To conclude this study, the increasing dose of NPK fertilized is able to increase the fresh, DM, and OM production of Cichorium intybus.


DNA polymerase θ (Pol θ) is implicated in various cellular processes including double-strand break repair and apurinic/apyrimidinic site bypass. Because Pol θ expression correlates with poor cancer prognosis, the ability of Pol θ to bypass the C4'-oxidized abasic site (C4-AP) and 2-deoxyribonolactone (L), which are generated by cytotoxic agents, is of interest. Translesion synthesis and subsequent extension by Pol θ past C4-AP or L and an abasic site (AP) or its tetrahydrofuran analogue (F) was examined. Pol θ conducts translesion synthesis on templates containing AP and F with similar efficiencies and follows the "A-rule," inserting nucleotides in the order A > G > T. Translesion synthesis on templates containing C4-AP and L is less efficient than AP and F, and the preference for A insertion is reduced for L and absent for C4-AP. Extension past all abasic lesions (AP, F, C4-AP, and L) was significantly less efficient than translesion synthesis and yielded deletions caused by the base one or two nucleotides downstream from the lesion being used as a template, with the latter being favored. These results suggest that bypass of abasic lesions by Pol θ is highly mutagenic.


An examination is made of the performance analysis of a transfer line with unreliable machines and finite buffers. All the machines have the same processing times. A new decomposition method is proposed which decomposes a line into a set of two-machine lines. A set of equations is established to find performance measures such as production rate and average buffer levels. A simple iterative algorithm is then proposed to solve these equations. It is proved that the set of decomposition equations has a unique solution and that the computation algorithm converges to this unique solution.<<ETX>>


We use analytical and numerical methods to investigate the equations for cohomogeneity one shrinking gradient Ricci solitons. We show the existence of a winding number for this system around the subvariety of phase space corresponding to Einstein solutions and obtain some estimates for it. We prove a non-existence result for certain orbit types, analogous to that of Bohm in the Einstein case. We also carry out numerical investigations for selected orbit types.


This article presents the findings of the research into improving design professional training by means of project activities alongside art and multimedia technologies (MTs). It discusses the role of artistic skills in the success of project activities, in particular, the skills of
 visual representation of the environment via MTs. It was confirmed that the development of media significantly changed the technological potential of design, as well as its artistic value. Therefore, professional training content became the primary focus of attention, since it appeared vital
 to involve new forms of creating artistic design projects with such modern methods as media fusion and motion graphics. The development of digital technologies promoted changes in teaching methods, adjustments in curricula according to the demands of modern design and those of introducing
 creative approaches in project activity teaching. The experimental part of the study demonstrates the dynamics of forming professional project skills on the authors' special course 'Multimedia Technologies'.


The article proved and tested method of determining the range of parts periodic and non-periodic type and form of supply as spare parts for forest machines of foreign manufacture. The problem of optimizing the supply of spare parts in shape and volume is examined. This method was tested on the example of the details forwarder company «John Deere» series 1010 and 1040. The analysis of the sensitivity of an optimal solutions is conducted.


Nipple‐sparing mastectomy (NSM) has known an exponential diffusion worldwide for prophilaxis and therapeutic mastectomies in selected candidates, being oncologically safe and improving reconstructive outcomes and patients' satisfaction. The two most common used skin incisions are the radial and inframammary fold ones, which represent an imperfect aesthetic solution. The aim of this work was to give insights on our surgical technique, which allows to perform the NSM, node surgery, and endoscopic direct‐to‐implant reconstruction using a cosmetic axillary incision.


A number of preparation methods of unsaturated higher alcohol have been reported, but the production of unsaturated higher alcohol on an industrial scale by these methods has not been susceeded in Japan.In this report, the authors report the results of a new method using the combined catalyst Cu-Cr-O and cadmium soap. This method can be expected to have the following merit on the industrial production; the Cu-Cr-O catalyst has been used for the preparation of saturated higher alcohol in factory for long time and the cadmium soap is soluble in raw fatty esters, then this new method can be performed with the equipment and the technique established for the preparation of saturated higher alcohol.From the result of this investigation, it was recognized that desirable unsaturated higher alcohol for detergent can be prepared over 93% yield under such conditions : reaction pressure; 218205kg/cm2, reaction temperature; 290±3°C, reaction time; 2hrs, used catalyst; Cu-Ba-Cr-O catalyst 0.4g and cadmium soap 1.5g, for 4g of raw methylester.


This paper collates research on global ranking through U.S.News.com in relation to Jiangsu University's non-appearance in global ranking of higher education institutions. The author critiques the Academic set up of the University in comparison with universities Ranked as World Class. The author navigates the study largely through descriptive and critical synthesis of published research and their variances. He explains how these measures improve the performance and ranking position of a Higher Education Institution (HEI). Looking at the international ranking systems in the world, and zeroing down to U.S.News.com; the author puts out the theory of all departments' focus on generating quality research, high quality publications and internationalization to meet the demands of World University ranking by addressing the Gap in Jiangsu University (JU) and how to close it Keywords: Higher education ranking, Jiangsu University, U.S.News.com, international, indicators, weights


The control of weeds in winter crops is done primarily with ALS-inhibitor herbicides. The intensive herbicide use in areas with wheat has provided selection pressure on R. raphanistrum resulting in biotypes resistant to these herbicides. The objective of this work was to determine the existence of cross and multiple resistance to ALS-inhibitors herbicides and alternatives to chemical control of this weed resistant to metsulfuron methyl. Treatments consisted of R. raphanistrum resistant (biotype R) and susceptible (biotypes S), with 12 herbicides: glyphosate, atrazine, bentazone, 2,4-D, sulfometuron methyl + chlorimuron ethyl, chlorimuron ethyl, cloransulam methyl, iodosulfuron methyl, nicossulfuron, imazethapyr, metsulfuron methyl, imazapic + imazapyr and a control without herbicide. It was applied the recommended dose of each herbicide at 3 to 4 true leaves stage. Control efficiency and reduction in dry matter of shoots were analyzed. The biotype S was susceptible to all herbicides used in the study. The biotype R has cross resistance to herbicides that belong to chemical group's imidazolinones, sulfonylureas and triazolopyrimidines varying degree of sensitivity between these groups. The biotype R was not diagnosed with multiple resistance and glyphosate, bentazone, atrazine and 2,4-D shown to be effective in controlling biotype R and can be used for chemical management of R. raphanistrum .


Honey a product of processing honey bees nectar or honeydew. Its quality determines GOST 19792-2001.Natural honey [1]. One of the indicators that determine its quality and safety, is etsya-pollen analysis.


Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) aim to translate the users cerebral activity into a control signal, allowing him to interact with an external device without the use of conventional muscled-based pathways. These alternative communication pathways have already been employed under various forms to allow severely handicapped people to use assistive devices. Given that most of currently developed BCIs only provide a visual feedback to the user, the aim of this study was to observe the result provided by an auditory feedback based on pitch. The BCI developed to this end classifies two different commands using sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) frequency features. The experiment consisted in sessions of trials during which the subjects were asked to perform motor imagery or to rest. Except for the first session, the system provided the subjects with a realtime feedback based on the learning data of the previous sessions. This feedback was generated by a control signal resulting of the classification of the extracted features by a Support Vector Regression (SVR) algorithm. Half of the 16 subjects were given visual feedback, consisting in a cursor movement, and the other half received auditory feedback, consisting in a pitch variation. Although the performance of the visual feedback BCI was superior during the first sessions, the final third session classification rates were 69.7 and 70.3% for respectively visual and auditory conditioning. These results tend to show that there might be no significant difference between the two types of feedback after long enough training. Moreover, this study also demonstrate the usability of a SVR classifier.


The purpose of this paper is to classify the knowledge works. Knowledge workers use information to create knowledge. In this paper we have classified the knowledge works based on the information they use for knowledge creation. We defined two characteristics for information, the amount and the variability of it. Then we divided knowledge works into four categories and discussed the characteristic of each. It can be used for better human resource management and work study in knowledge works for more productive results.


Agricultural production has influence on all areas of social activity. In the modern context of agro-industrial complex development, ensuring the economic security of the country directly depends on availability and suitability of the land, the degree of developed land. Land is a source of food, profits, economic independence of each region, the state of which depends on continuous monitoring and application of advanced technologies. The purpose of the work is to determine quantitative and qualitative state of arable land in the Volgograd region, the level of spread of degradation processes based on digital and remote sensing technologies, as well as the creation of graphic documentation necessary for making economic forecasts and plans. Availability and use of arable land in 33 municipal districts of the Volgograd region are unequal. The largest number of arable land is 5,4 % in Pallasovsky district, the smallest one is 1,3 % in Sredneakhtubinsky district. The differentiation of the region into five natural-agricultural and three land-assessment areas is caused by the necessity to register soil fertility during agricultural use of arable land, both in irrigated arable land and non-irrigated. According to the statistical records the irrigated arable land is used only in the amount of 20 %. 88 % of the region's territory is subject to degradation processes. The land with the cadastral number 34:21:040003:67and an area of 137,2 hectares is characterized by a high degree of territory blurring, degradation of soil cover, which led to the loss of humus and removal to the upper layers of the soil of salt marshes. Remote sensing techniques allow obtaining reliable information and making social and economic forecasts in large areas in a short period of time.


This paper adopts a aggregate demand- supply model to analyze the'New Economy'phe- nomenon in Am erica,and holds that the pull of demands and promotion of supply are two factors contributing to this phenomenon. Technological innovation and foreign demands- oriented strategy have promoted the aggregate demands.Inform ation technology(industry) ,globalization and the far- reaching effect of'Reagn Economies'have helped the continuous expansion of supply,some ex- periences are worth learning to develop our nation's economy.


The Nigerian health policy seeks to ensure adequate access of the population to affordable and quality healthcare services. The NHIS seeks to complement efforts already put in place for achieving this goal. This paper therefore analyzed the factors influencing awareness and willingness to pay for NHIS in rural Nigeria. The data were collected with structured questionnaires using multi-stage sampling method. Data were analyzed using Recursive Bivariate Probit model. Results show that 47.27 percent of the respondents were using general (public) hospital while 15.45 percent were not using medical treatments. Also, 54.55 percent of the households were aware of NHIS whereas 71.82 percent were willing to pay. Awareness and willingness to pay were negatively correlated although both were positively and significantly influenced by years of education and sick time (p<0.10). It was concluded that efforts to properly educate rural people can facilitate subscription into the program. [Abayomi Samuel Oyekale and Adedotun Adeyeye. Rural Households' Awareness and Willingness to Pay for National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ilesha West Local Government Area, Osun State Nigeria: A Recursive Bivariate Probit Approach. Life Sci J 2012;9(4):2086-2093] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 312


Mastery of this one article on the personality difficulties of the elementary school child will add immensely to the effectiveness of any teacher.


All-optical 40-GHz time-domain Fourier transformation is demonstrated by XPM with a dark parabolic pulse. Dispersion slope induced distortion is successfully eliminated. The time interval for eliminating distortions is expanded into a full bit slot.


PRODUCTION OF NANOCRYSTALLINE NITRAMINE ENERGETIC MATERIALS BY RAPID EXPANSION OF SUPERCRITICAL SOLUTIONS by Victor Stepanov Nanoteclmology is a rapidly evolving field and has been characterized as "the next industrial revolution". Nanostructured materials are receiving increasing amount of attention in fields ranging from electronics to metallurgy due to their novel and unique properties. This work was focused on exploring the benefits of nanofabrication of high density energetic materials. The work primarily focused on the feasibility and viability of recrystallization of nitramine explosives down to the nanometer crystal size (<100 nm). It is anticipated that properties of the high density energetic materials such as sensitivity, packing density, crystal quality, energetic performance will be benefited. Rapid Expansion of Supercritical Solutions was chosen as the process most appropriate to realize the objective. Solubility of CL-20 in supercritical solutions was studied. Nitramine crystals with sizes ranging from 100 to 3000 nm were produced having narrow size distribution. Effects of process conditions crystal size and shape were investigated. A continuous process was developed. Sum-gram quantities of nano-scale powders were produced. PRODUCTION OF NANOCRYSTALLINE NITRAIWINE ENERGETIC MATERIALS BY RAPID EXPANSION OF SUPERCRITICAL SOLUTIONS


This paper reported the synthesis of arbylthiosemicarbazides under the microwave irradiation. Compared with the conventional method, the reaction time was dramatically reduced and good yield was obtained.


Abstract Sustainable and profitable crop production practices are essential for intensification of crop yield and system profitability. The objective of this research work was to investigate the impact of peach remnants management along with P and beneficial microbes to enhance S-W system profitability and seed quality. Experiential findings reported that soybean seed quality and cropping system (S-W) profitability improved with the application of organic sources, phosphorus levels and beneficial microbes. Total-saturated fats were observed with biochar application, however promising oil-content, oil-yield, protein and protein-yield was dominated by peach biochar-amendments compared with peach-compost and dry-based residues application. Highest total polyunsaturated fats, oil contents, oil yield and protein contents and yield was found with soil application of Trichoderma than seed-inoculation with PSB. The highest total polyunsaturated fats were recorded with 100-kg-P-ha−1 application. Highest oil and protein content was produced by the transcendent rate of P application but concentration of total saturated fats was stagger with this rate. Highest net return (NR) and VCR for soybean was documented with biochar followed by compost application while in case of P application maximum NR was accomplished with 100 kg P ha−1. Soil application of Trichoderma enhanced NR and VCR than seed inoculation with PSB. Total profitability under S-W system when compared over the both years, soil application of Trichoderma produced maximum value coherent to PSB. Manifestation for quality seed yield and system profitability might be the transcendent integrated source is peach biochar with application of 100 kg P ha−1 laterally with soil application of Trichoderma.


Cationic palladium(II) complexes have been found to be highly reactive towards aromatic C–H activation of arylureas at room temperature. A commercially available catalyst [Pd(MeCN)4](BF4)2 or a nitrile-free cationic palladium(II) complex generated in situ from the reaction of Pd(OAc)2 and HBF4, effectively catalyzes C–H activation/cross-coupling reactions between aryl iodides, arylboronic acids and acrylates under milder conditions than those previously reported. The nature of the directing group was found to be critical for achieving room temperature conditions, with the urea moiety the most effective in promoting facile coupling reactions at an ortho C–H position. This methodology has been utilized in a streamlined and efficient synthesis of boscalid, an agent produced on the kiloton scale annually and used to control a range of plant pathogens in broadacre and horticultural crops. Mechanistic investigations led to a proposed catalytic cycle involving three steps: (1) C–H activation to generate a cationic palladacycle; (2) reaction of the cationic palladacycle with an aryl iodide, arylboronic acid or acrylate, and (3) regeneration of the active cationic palladium catalyst. The reaction between a cationic palladium(II) complex and arylurea allowed the formation and isolation of the corresponding palladacycle intermediate, characterized by X-ray analysis. Roles of various additives in the stepwise process have also been studied.


The real challenge for the Member States of the EU is to handle the growing demand in the area of road transport together with the decrease of harmful effects of road transport — reducing road transport casualties and congestions and also environmental effects. The paper shows the EU objectives related to road safety, the eSafety initiative aiming to reduce the number of accidents on Europe's roads by using advanced information and communication technologies and the in-vehicle eCall emergency call service, which makes it possible that in case of emergency an emergency call can be initiated. Moreover the so-called harmonized eCall European pilot project is also presented, which is granted by the European Commission to support the European implementation of eCall.


Wireless local area network in a fast switching method, comprising the following steps: Step 1 transmits one-way hash chain element in a second pre-established to the target wireless access point is a wireless station; Step 2 is determined as the second element is valid , is step 3 is performed, otherwise ending; step 3 establishes a connection with the wireless access point to the target wireless station. A wireless LAN fast switching system comprising a wireless access point, the authentication service unit, the wireless station, the wireless station comprising a first communication module connected to the wireless access point and the authentication service unit; wireless access point includes: a second a communication module connected with the authentication service unit; a storage module, connected with the second communication module; authentication module, connected to the storage module and the second communication module; authentication service unit comprises a third communication module, connected to the wireless access point and wireless stations . The present invention enables the wireless access point and wireless stations unidirectional and / or bidirectional authentication.


: Timber production and processing have the potential to significantly contribute to the economic de- velopment in "low-income" countries such as Lao PDR, which have suitable land and access to markets. Processing investment can include smaller-scale furniture or veneer manufacturing or large-scale, capital-intensive industries, such as pulp and paper production. A 300,000 tonne/yr bleached hardwood kraft pulp mill has recently been constructed in Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR and began operation in 2018. The pulp mill represents a potentially significant contribution to both regional and national economies and has changed the plantation wood market environment in Laos. To date, there has not been an investigation of the full economic impact of a pulp mill, and the potential flow-on benefits to the regional and national economy. This paper examines the impact of this mill on provin- cial and national economies using an input-output modelling approach. Input-output models provide a framework for analysis of the inter-relationships between sectors within an economy. The modelled scenario was a dramatic change in the wood industry sector exports due to the products from this pulp mill. Regional level analysis revealed that the gross outputs for all sectors of the economy are likely to increase by 39% (an equivalent of US$ 294 million), largely due to the impact of the pulp mill on demand from wood industry sector and other related sectors. The greatest beneficiaries from the mill are industries in other countries which purchase and use the pulp. At the national level, the gross production output of the national economy would increase by 2.3% (US$ 351 million). Currently, the log raw material for the mill is mostly coming from plantations in neighbouring Vietnam and Thailand. There is considerable potential for timber plantations on degraded land in Laos, that would greatly enhance the economic contribution of the mill to the local community. Increasing sustainable timber production from plantations in Laos needs enforcement of forestry and other laws, and supporting policies, guidelines and codes of practices relating to planted forests to ensure that forest processing industries are environmentally responsible and consistent with international best-practice standards.


A line x tester analysis in sesame was carried out with seven lines and four testers. Studies revealed the preponderance of non-additive gene action for days to 50 per cent flowering, days to maturity, plant height, number of primary branches, number of capsules/plant and seed yield/plant and additive gene action for 100-seed weight and oil content. Two parents. IS 184 and TNAU 2031 were good general combiner for earliness and parents namely, Si 66 and TMV 5 were good general combiner for seed yield per plant. Seven hybrids had superior per se performance for seed yield, its component characters and earliness. With regard to seed yield, six hybrids had one of the parent as desirable combiner. Among these crosses, TMV 5 x Si 66 recorded non significant sea effect and the gene action might be of additive nature. Hence, this cross can be utilized for pedigree breeding programme to evolve high yielding early maturing varieties. The crosses, CO 1 x IS 99, CO 1 x Si 66, TMV 5 x IS 184, TMV 5 x N 32 and TNAU 2031 x RT 105 and TNAU 2031 x IS 99 recorded significant sca effects and the gene action might be of additive type of epistasis. These crosses also can be utilized for pedigree breeding programme. However, selection should be postponed to later generation due to the presence of additive type of epistatic gene action.


Dysraphic states of the spinal column associated with neural-tube defects are not of recent origin in the history of the human .race. Figure 1 represents a preColumbian artifact dating from approximately 200 BC to AD 400 which was obtained from a Colima shaft tomb along the western coast of Mexico'. The frontal bossing of hydrocephalus and the kyphotic deformity of the thoracolumbar spine are evident and suggest the seated figure of a person with paraplegia, knees flexed and arms supporting the torso. The c h i cal findings and the history of such artifacts are veiled in antiquity. Varying degrees of dysraphism of the spine have been evident for centuries, as indicated in Figure 2, from Ferembach's anthropological report'. This figure illustrates Ferembach's detailed anatomical descriptions of over 80 adult and I 0 0 infant spines from a tribe in northern Morocco, discovered by Abb6 Roche. The spines were found to be at least I2000 years old by carbon14 dating and were obviously compatible with life, since there were numerous adult skeletons in the region of these late-Paleolithic findings. Through the centuries, many ind~viduals with severe teratoid features lived long enough to fuel the imagination of mankind to create images of satyrs and centaurs such as the satyr perched on the edge of a decorative vessel in the gardens of the palace at Versailles (Fig. 3). The cloven hooves are thought to be associatkd with talipes e q u i n o v ~ s deformities. On the side of the same vessel is a bas-relief of Pan playing his pipes (Fig. 4). Both figures have a hairy tuft at the base of the lumbar spine in the midline, which often accompanies diastematomyelia. From these early Greek mythological beings, bizarre concepts of mafernal impression and hybridization evolved in the Middle Ages in an attempt to Gsplain fetal ma l f~~a t ions3 . fi is only fitting that the first recorded treatise dealing with orthopaedic deformities in children would be that of Ambroise Pare. Pard, often referred to as the father of orthopaedic surgery, served as military ' surgeon to three kings of France and his surgical fame is legendary. However, his admonitions on the treatment of congenital deformities remain as true today as they were four hundred years ago when he stated: 'One is obliged to take away that which is supe~uous, to restore to their places


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Iran's Terrorist Proxy: The possibility of penetrating the United States with nuclear material as the trigger, setting off a US media explosion, is a reality. The US, as the dominant global force, has influenced the development of telecommunications, satellite, TV, internet, and wireless technologies. With the advent of nuclear arms, primed by the media threatening annihilation and destruction of the world, conditions are ripe for a catastrophic terrorist event. The impact of global nuclear terrorism to the citizens of the world has become a perceived reality. Iran's aggressive pursuit of a nuclear program has reignited the global media. The ability to initiate terrorist events using Hezbollah as a proxy in far-reaching areas such as South America has been demonstrated. Most recently, the narco-terrorist connections with FARC, Sinaloa, and Los Zetas, who control the travel routes, connections, and capabilities of entering the United States, has further expanded Iran's reach. This global network now presents a plausible case for Hezbollah's entry into the United States. Al-Qaida has demonstrated that media can be the ultimate weapon of the terrorist. By coupling the media with terrorists having access to nuclear material, a plan for casting widespread global fear is complete. This paper analyzes the plausibility of Hezbollah obtaining nuclear material from Iran, routing it undetected into the United States via South America, and deploying it as a trigger to activate a US media explosion. Unleashing the perception of nuclear fallout within the United States will create complete chaos and mass hysteria, having far-reaching effects well beyond the nuclear material itself. The concept of safety and security, as people know it, will be changed forever in the minds of citizens.


This paper re-examines the effect of leverage on firm performance by looking at the moderating effect of international orientation. This study uses data of manufacturing 93 firms listed in the Indonesian Stock Exchange over the period of 2011 – 2014 resulting in 372 observations. Results show that financial leverage has negative and significant effect on firm performance. Second, international orientation does not significantly moderate the relationship between financial leverage and performance. The more internationally oriented the firms; it does not imply that the effect of leverage on performance should be stronger.


This paper discusses an attitude synchronization problem for multi-agent systems in 3-D spaces and proposes a synchronization control law based on the quaternion representation of 3D rotations. The proposed control strategy takes advantage of the geometry of the unit quaternion space and synchronizes agents to have representative quaternions that map to the same physical 3D rotation. Each agent's attitude state is represented by a unit quaternion, and the attitude synchronization law ensures the states remain in the unit quaternion space. We show that this control law is stable for the desired equilibrium using a Lyapunov approach, and provide a simulation of nine agents interacting in an undirected graph to justify our results. We also provide a detailed analysis of the two-agent system to provide intuition behind the control law's operation.


Photoconductive semiconductor switch (PCSS) allowing side illumination was fabricated on high purity semi-insulating (HPSI) 4H-SiC. A 532-nm pulsed laser with variable optical energy was used to trigger the PCSS. The performance of the PCSS was characterized under the two different load conditions, 50-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> load and 0.05-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, with a current viewing resistor (CVR). The PCSS exhibited significantly different output characteristics for the two different loads. The equivalent resistance of the PCSS with the 50-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> load, which was calculated from the output voltage and current, was inversely proportional to the optical energy, but the one with a 0.05-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> load exhibited saturation behavior with the optical energy. While the times at peak output with the 50-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> load were similar at various optical energies, the times at peak output with the 0.05-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> load were dependent on the optical energy. Output current oscillation was also observed after the PCSS was turned off in the case of 0.05-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> load condition. The different output characteristics for the different load resistances were analyzed using the transient response of the equivalent circuits. The PCSS exhibited a minimum on-state resistance of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.27~\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> with the optical energy of 8 mJ and a maximum output current of 657 A at the bias voltage of 4.8 kV. The operating voltage of the PCSS was limited by surface flashover, which caused an additional output pulse following the first output pulse.


The ultimate goal is to evaluate patient satisfaction with autologous versus implant breast reconstruction, as well as the influence of these surgeries on the quality of life and body image of women who have had a mastectomy for breast cancer.

 A multicenter, retrospective, cross-sectional study included 117 patients who underwent mastectomy and subsequent breast reconstruction surgery at El Demerdash University Hospital and Alexandria Main University Hospital between January 2017 and March 2021. A BREAST-Q 2-0 Reconstruction module questionnaire was given to each patient.

 117 patients were divided into two groups: autologous breast reconstruction ABR (n = 77) and implant-based breast reconstruction IBR (n = 40). The ABR group was operated on using Transverse Rectus Abdominis Myocutaneous (TRAM) or latissimus Doris (LD) flaps. The average age of the participants in the study was 44.51 ± 6.88. Patients with silicone implants were younger on average than those with LD or TRAM flaps.
 The patient's quality of life in the two areas evaluated (psychosocial and physical well-being) was excellent in implant repair but poor in TRAM flap, according to our findings. In TRAM flap, we also discovered that overall satisfaction with the breast was low.

 TRAM flap produces a low quality of life and overall satisfaction with the breast, whereas implant reconstruction provides a high quality of life.


lizabeth Wurtzel presentb a breakthrough moment near the end of her memoir Prozac Nation (1994). Throughout much of the narrative Wurtzel describes her ongoing struggle with depression, experienced as a state of constant inquietude and self-criticism, as well as an isolating sense that "I feel like a defective model" (1994, 1). This condition is largely unresponsive to talk therapies. Then, however, the author takes Prozac and for an evanescent moment in the text realizes a sense of liberated actualization: "And then something just changed in me.... It happened just like that.... It was as if the miasma of depression had lifted off me, gone smoothly about its business, in the same way the fog in San Francisco rises as the day wears on. Was it the Prozac? No doubt.... It took a long time for me to get used to my contentedness. It was so hard for me to formulate a way of being and thinking in which the starting point was not depression" (329). In this article I examine the posttreated Prozac self, the self in whom Prozac makes possible a new way of being and thinking, as it is presented in American fictional and autobiographical accounts of women suffering from mental illness in the 1990s. Wurtzel's coming to terms with the momentary lifting of an otherwise intractable depression through treatment with Prozac, and her subsequent discovery of a sense of connectedness, is a narrative convention mirrored in a number of literary works, four of which I examine in this article: Lauren Slater's essay "Black Swans" (1996), Pagan Kennedy's and Gary Krist's short stories "Shrinks" (1994) and "Medicated" (1994), respectively, and Persimmon Blackbridge's novel Prozac Highway (1997). Each text embraces Prozac specifically, and biological psychiatry more generally, to treat both the "symptoms" of "mental illness" and a set of gender conventions in which that illness is embedded. At the same time, the very escape that these texts celebrate, the sudden lifting of a miasma through a chemical cure, is incompletely sustained. And, in each


Identifying the drag force coefficient and the rolling resistance coefficient of a vehicle is not an easy task, especially when not using a wind tunnel. This paper proposes an easy method using light experimental means to assess these coefficients in the case of a cargo-bike. Free deceleration measurement is performed. An identification method based on the least squares method is then proposed and discussed.


Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, written while the poet was in an insane asylum from 1757 to 1763 and first published in 1939, is often read as a record of struggle against an oppressive order. David Morris has noted the way Smart revels in his own "strangeness," how he works against a "neoclassical emphasis upon 'general nature'" by celebrating oddity. In his groundbreaking treatment of the poet, Clement Hawes places Smart in a tradition of enthusiastic rhetoric fueled by "class resentment," manifested in lines like the following: "Let Huldah bless with the Silkworm—the ornaments of the Proud are from the bowells of their Betters." Smart heremocks the vanity of the proud, not only by calling attention to the source of their pride— insect bowels—but also by elevating those insects (and the laborers who weave their silk) above their worldly superiors. Hawes's readings argue for Smart's discontent, his desire to erase the hierarchy that has left him in poverty and judged his practice of Christianity insane. Hawes joins Morris in showing Smart responding to a normative, hierarchical society by celebrating eccentricity. But as Smart's use of the word "Betters" indicates, his poetry and his theology rely on a scale of valuation, one that does not always question the existing order. Peter Stallybrass and Allon White note that "for all its political potential, inversion, at least in most forms, shares with demonization the acceptance of the existing binary categories of high and low."


Аnnotation: The article explores the extensive polysemantic spectrum of the image of the house used by J. Steinbeck in the novel «The Winter of our Anxiety». Based on the results of the observations of the predecessor scientists (N.E. Leonova, I.V. Gorobchenko, S.S. Savinich, M.E. Obnorskaya, A.A. Kremneva), the author of the work analyzes the archetypal essence of the image of the house, through which the American writer models the micro- and macrocosmic idea of the American mentality – from the search for «personal refuge» to an individual understanding of the «American dream». Close attention is paid to the connection of a person with the history of the country, the realities and traditions of which form a personality or, at least, leave a deep mark on consciousness. It is revealed that the house in the perception of the hero, and with it the reader, can be interpreted as a toponym and have a direct relationship to the concepts of «family» and «genus». In conclusion, brief conclusions are given concerning the archetypal polysemantics of the image of the house and its ideative function.


The purpose of the research was to develop a strategic development plan that aims to achieve the certification of good tourism sustainability practices at San Lorenzo beach, Manta. This work was of a mixed type with a descriptive approach, for which several methodologies related to sustainable development had to be analyzed, among them the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (2014), Garduno (2009), Ten (2011) and Sonaglio and Da Silva (2009). In addition, to the use of the criteria established for the tourist certification of beaches endorsed by the Ecuadorian Institute of Normalization INEN (2018), for the development of this proposal. Therefore, four research phases were defined, beginning with the multidimensional evaluation of the territory through the application of information collection cards, the current status of the tourism offer in the study area was determined, together with the evaluation of the demand through Surveys related to the consumption of tourism services in spaces destined to the conservation of natural heritage, guidelines were defined to establish the foundations of the development plan, a zoning study was developed that allows geospatial distribution in an efficient and sustainable way in the long term and that allowed to define the key points for the creation of strategic planning. Emphasizing that the zoning could determine the need to establish three areas for environmental recovery, public use and sustainable use. As a result of the Strategic Plan, the need to implement three projects aimed at the administrative, touristic and environmental management of the study area was determined; the implementation of Tourist Signaling and Facilities and Continuous Technical Instruction.


Three scalar AMT campaigns were conducted in the mid-summer, late-fall, and late-winter seasons of 1990 in two nearby localities of southern Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Comparisons of the results obtained at each season highlighted the problem of seasonal variation in the apparent resistivity measurements in the area. From 1-D inversions, the most striking fact in this temporal variation is the presence, in the last two campaigns, of a new deeper conductive layer (conductance of 6 to 7S) at depths of the order of 500m, which was not observed in the midsummer campaign. Careful observation of the regional rainfall data indicated that the seasonal conductive layer could be generated by the occurrence of a transitory deep aquifer that would grow or wane in time in accordance to the climatological conditions. Another likely explanation could be in terms of a misinterpretation of the geoelectrical section due to the distortion of the MT curves by induction effects generated by a saturated surficial layer.


Based on the social capital theory,gender development theory,and the modern occupational social work model,this paper compared the gender differences in the staff relations between the '80 hou',and discussed the application and development of occupational social work.Because of the differences in social capitals,position and networks of relationship,it should add gender empowerment skills to occupational social work model,to promote '80 hou' employees of self-empowerment,and to improve staff relations and management efficiency.


N 1980 THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY published I guidelines for the cancer-related checkup. A survey performed 5 years later indicated that many physicians do not follow the guidelines, even though most agree that they are useful.' Particularly notable was the lack of acceptance of the recommendations relating to mammography. Only 1 1 % of all practitioners followed or exceeded the guidelines for this procedure and the major reason cited was the expense of the examination. Other areas of concern included the possible carcinogenic effects of radiation and the reliability of the procedure. The complaint about the cost of mammography for an asymptomatic patient is widespread. The average charge is between $100 and $125 and may be more if physical examination and/or ancillary imaging procedures are added. Since the primary purpose of the survey mammogram is to detect cancer in its subclinical stage, it is often difficult to persuade patients-or their physiciansthat it is prudent to spend this amount of money when, to the best of their knowledge, they are well. The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Amencan College of Radiology have taken these concerns seriously. They believe that the reliability of mammography has been adequately demonstrated by the results of the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Program (BCDDP) program and that technical advances have minimized the potential carcinogenic effects of radiation. The question of cost remains and it is the intent of this presentation to explore and define methods by which cost reduction may be achieved. To some extent these methods have been tested in the screening centers organized under the Breast Cancer Detection Awareness program of the ACS. The participating centers agreed to perform reduced cost mammography for specified periods of time and, in many instances, postprogram charges have remained significantly below those previously in effect. Nevertheless, doubt persists that substantial reductions in cost are pos-


This article presents a method for detecting defects and assessing their size in soft magnetic composites (SMCs) based on magnetograms obtained from a magnetic field camera and a numerical analysis of the magnetic field around them. For the purpose of the experiment, toroidal samples of a metal–polymer composite were made, in which holes and gaps simulating defects were prepared. The magnetic camera allowed for registering the magnetic flux density image near the surface of the samples. As a result, magnetograms with information about the location and geometry of defects were obtained. A numerical analysis was used to investigate the influence of various factors, such as defect depth, its size and material permeability. Theoretical changes in magnetic field over defects stay in good agreement with measurements, which is a strong indication that surface field magnetograms can be useful in a quality assessment of the considered composites. The effectiveness and usefulness of the method in detecting surface and shallow subsurface defects in SMC materials was confirmed. The influence of a possible tangent component of the exciting field was demonstrated and discussed.


The invention relates to the technical field of agricultural product processing, and specifically relates to a manufacturing method of a blueberry large particle jam. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) pre-treating fresh blueberry fruits; (2) preparing blueberry large particles; (3) preparing blueberry pulp; (4) preparing blueberry large particle jam. The fresh blueberry fruits are hardened and dried, so the prepared blueberry large particle is chewable, the intact shape of blueberry can be still maintained after sterilization, the anthocyanin content is high and is improved by 74% to 141% compared with that of conventional blueberry jam, and moreover the prepared blueberry jam is chewable and can fully meet the requirements of modern consumers on large particle jams. The technology is improved, the prepared blueberry large particle jam contains syrup and is rich in blueberry large particles, and the provided blueberry large particle jam can be used to manufacture downstream products such as egg tarts, cakes, western cookies, ice creams, and the like.


The rainbow structure of rotationally inelastic differential state‐to‐state cross sections for anisotropic interaction potentials with an attractive well is investigated within the semiclassical infinite order sudden approximation. The typical structural features of the rainbow catastrophes are closely related to the topology of the potential surface. The observed cusped rainbow singularities can be tamed by two‐dimensional Airy and Pearcey uniformization techniques.