Abstract The merits of technology in general and of educational technology specifically are well documented. The use of educational technology has been shown to improve teaching and learning and the overall educational quality of schools. However, the successful integration of educational technology in schools hinges on school administrators' technology leadership abilities. The purpose of this study was to investigate aspiring school administrators' perceived ability to meet technology standards established by ISTE Standards for Administrators (formerly known as the NETS·A) and to determine which standards they wished to pursue for future professional development. Utilizing the ISTE Standards–A as a framework, a survey was created to decipher how aspiring school administrators perceived their own abilities to become leaders with foundational technology leadership skills. The findings showed that (a) the aspiring school administrators were more likely to indicate a need for professional development in technology utilization to meet the standards than they were to indicate their perceived current competence in meeting the technology standards and effectively utilizing technology in their schools; (b) when interests were examined by race, African American aspiring school administrators were more interested in pursuing professional development to enhance their abilities to perform the tasks than were Caucasian aspiring school administrators; and (c) there was a statistically significant difference between aspiring school administrators' average Perception and Interest scores. It appeared that in general, the participants perceived a greater need for professional development in technology standards than their perceived current ability to perform the standards.


Abstract Reliable values of thermal conductivity of molten silicates are strongly requested to establish a model which can describe the relationship between thermal conductivity and structure of the molten silicates. Thermal conductivity of R-Na2O-SiO2 (R = Al2O3, CaO) molten slags has been measured by using the novel laser flash method. A thin platinum crucible was filled with silicate melt and the bottom surface of the platinum crucible at high temperature was irradiated by a pulsed laser. After irradiation, a temperature decay of the bottom surface of the platinum crucible was measured with an InSb infrared detector. The value of the thermal conductivity was determined by fitting the measured temperature response curve to theoretical one with a least square method. Measured thermal conductivity slightly depends on temperature in molten state with the chemical compositions of the slags presently investigated. On the other hand, the thermal conductivity was found to decrease with increasing NBO/T (Non-Bridging Oxygen ions / Tetrahedrally coordinated cation) values.


Hydrodynamically unstable plasma flows driven by intense laser radiation are described in which an interface between two materials of dissimilar densities is subjected to a very strong shock and then decelerated over a longer time scale. Preimposed perturbations on this interface are unstable to a combination of the Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) and Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities. Overall target dimensions for these experiments are of the order of 1 mm, and length scales of the unstable perturbations of interest can be as small as a few microns. At such small spatial scales, the effects of dissipative processes such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and mass diffusion begin to affect instability growth rates. In this article, estimates are presented of the spatial scale at which viscosity and mass diffusion begin to affect the growth of a perturbation due to the RM and RT instabilities. Time dependent values for the plasma kinematic viscosity and interfacial binary mass diffusivity are estimated for the conditions occurring in laser-driven instability experiments recently conducted on the Omega laser. These are used together with several models in the literature for estimating the reduction in the growth rate dispersion curves of the Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities due to the presence of these small-scale dissipative effects.


Joanna Trollope began her career writing historical novels in the early 1980s, but it is for her contribution to the Aga-saga genre that she is best known. Trollope is synonymous with this popular category of women's writing, selling approximately 500,000 copies per title. Despite Trollope's popularity (and that of the Aga-saga more broadly) little research has been done on these novels. As part of a renewed interest by feminist critics in 'women's genres', Janine Liladhar (2000) and Deborah Philips (2006 [2007]) have done something to remedy this absence of scholarship, discussing Trollope and the Aga-saga in relation to romance and melodrama respectively. They characterize Aga-sagas as 'reassuring' narratives that, whilst often depicting women's dissatisfaction and frustration, always offer a contented image of domesticity. This article, however, argues that these accounts of Trollope's work have overlooked the negative depictions of women that run beneath the novels' celebration of domestic femininity. I maintain that at the heart of these novels is the suggestion that the price of women's pursuit of self-fulfilment is damage to children, the emasculation of husbands, and the dissolution of relationships.


A group of SRI International scholars looks beyond the technical difficulties of the energy crisis to determine the basic reasons for the severity of our energy and environmental problems, and finds them in our individual choices of life style. The authors depict two detailed energy-use scenarios for the year 2050, using California as a model. One scenario portrays a future that is a result of our present habits in which we have squandered nearly all of the world's nonrenewable energy resources and neither conserved nor developed renewable resources. The other envisions a slower economic progress that serves long-range human goals and values. As a pacesetter, California illustrates what is possible for the entire country. 82 references, 11 figures, 64 tables.


Progress in Inertial Fusion (IF) is hampered by several plasma phenomena which limit the coupling and transport of energy into the targets. Unraveling the physics of IF target interactions is complicated by the fact that highly convoluted data are generated by the simultaneous occurrence of these plasma phenomena from a narrow spatial region. Gas jet targets offer an alternate approach to study some of the basic plasma physics of IF. The stable density profiles and relatively large spatial extent of gas jets provide experimental opportunities which are not available with conventional IF targets. The authors discuss the requirements, basic design, construction and characterization techniques for gas jet targets.


InterOil has complemented the use of seismic data in its PNG petroleum exploration licences with both ground and airborne gravity/gravity-gradient and aeromagnetic data. Potential field methods may be used to significantly reduce exploration costs in jungle-covered areas due to the relatively high effort and helicopter support required to deploy seismic equipment. Airborne gravity gradient and aeromagnetic data are used to interpolate and extrapolate reprocessed seismic data in InterOil's PPL 236. They confirm and extend fault correlations on widely spaced seismic lines. Seismic data acquired in PPLs 237 and 238 show that faults do not, as suspected by some, sole out at shallow depth (eg 1 to 2 km). Instead, steeply dipping faults continue to several kilometers Surface geological mapping, together with Landsat TM and digital terrain model data, greatly assist in planning, acquisition and interpretation of seismic data. Ground gravity data acquired along seismic lines shows good character which can be correlated with the seismic data interpretation. Relatively low effort (shallow holes, small charges), optimally located seismic data acquisition is shown to be effective in substantially resolving ambiguous structure and extending interpretation from surface dip and lithology data. Potential field data, once calibrated with seismic data, is demonstrated as a method capable of substantially extending the seismic interpretation.


Business Process Simulation (BPS) is widely acknowledged as an effective technique to increase the chance for success of Business Process (re-)Engineering projects and, in general, to drive strategic business decisions. Business Processes are complex entities resulting from the coordination of several users and software systems, potentially spanning across different organizations. Simulating a Business Process is then not just about modeling the structure of the process but also its logic (the decisions that have to be taken during a process), the structure of the interested organization(s) and the environment the process operates in.
 Most of the existing BPS tools, however, assume rather simple models which can turn out to be a limiting factor when they do not fit the real world Business Process that has to be simulated.
 In this paper we present a tool that can be used to simulate business processes with complex structure and logic and eases the interaction with complex organizational and environment models, addressing the limitations of the existing simulation tools.


Abstract International law has not traditionally recognised individuals as victims of the crime of aggression. Recent developments may precipitate a departure from this approach. The activation of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over the crime of aggression opens the way for the future application of the Court's regime of victim participation and reparation in the context of prosecutions for this crime. The determination by the United Nations Human Rights Committee in General Comment No. 36 that any deprivation of life resulting from an act of aggression violates Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights serves to recognise a previously overlooked class of victims. This article explores these recent developments, by discussing their background, meaning and implications for international law and the rights of victims.


While lacking the ferocity and seemingly tireless aggression of Temur himself, Shah Rukh and Ulugh Beg had maintained a degree of Timurid authority in Iran, Mawarannahr and Afghanistan for four decades. However, Timurid power quickly atrophied after Shah Rukh's death in 1447 and Ulugh Beg's assassination in 1449. During this second half of the Timurid century that concluded with the Uzbek occupation of Samarqand in 1501 and Herat in 1507, Temur's heirs not only dissipated their collective power in internecine struggles, but by that time also groups whom Temur had terrorized and cowed, recovered and reasserted themselves. The outer boundaries of the Timurid Empire began to shrink as Uzbeks (Ozbeks), Turkmen and Mongols moved on the principal centres of Timurid wealth and power in Mawarannahr, Fars, Iraq-i ʿAjam and Khurāsān. Meanwhile these weakened rulers of territories, whose kingdoms by the late fifteenth century had shrunk to little more than a congeries of Timurid city-states, competed for cultural precedence, creating a fin-de-siecle era of literary and artistic florescence. Among these states Herat particularly resembled a dying star that flashed out briefly but spectacularly in the Islamic world before its extinction. Still, despite the disintegration of the late Timurid world, the idea of a Timurid revival survived in the minds of its protagonists, one of whom, Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur, laid the foundation in 1526 for a Timurid renaissance that became known later as the Mughal Empire of India.


In this paper, we propose to exploit the benefits of full-duplex (FD) massive MIMO relaying technique to significantly improve the secrecy performance of transmissions, so as to solve the challenging issue caused by short-distance interception under very practical assumptions, i.e., no eavesdropper channel state information (CSI). First, we give a secrecy performance analysis, and derive an explicit expression for the ergodic secrecy rate in terms of transmit powers, antenna numbers, and interception distance. Then, we propose an optimal power allocation scheme at the relay for maximizing the ergodic secrecy rate. Moreover, we present some clear insights for secrecy performance optimization through asymptotic analysis. Finally, simulation results validate our theoretical derivations.


This article analyzes the international requirements being taken in to account when building a system of aviation specialists training whose activities are related to the sphere of aircraft airworthiness and aviation safety. The content of normative and technical documentation is considered, provisions related to the international standards requirements and a set of documents on the certification of aviation specialists training are analyzed.


mmHg; pulse rate, 97/min; respiration rate, 20/min; body temperature, 38.8C. His laboratory data were white blood cell count, 11,800/μL (neutrophil count, 9,995/μL); hemoglobin level, 14.7 g/dL; and CRP level, 3.09 mg/dL. Abdominal CT showed focal wall thickening with infiltration around the terminal ileum to the cecum (Fig. A). He was diagnosed with diverticulitis and treated with antibiotics. He was discharged without complications. At follow-up at the outpatient department a week after discharge, he had no residual symptoms except mild right lower quadrant tenderness. He had never Question: A 49-year-old man visited an endoscopic center for screening colonoscopy. The patient had experienced an episode of diverticulitis 5 weeks before the colonoscopy. At admission for that episode, he reported a 2-day history


Analysis of oven stones collected from more than 30 pre-European archaeological sites in the western Bay of Plenty has revealed that volcanic rock types were almost exclusively used for cooking purposes. These were readily available from local rivers, streams and coastal headlands. An overall trend in stone composition is evident from west to east, with andesite and dacite being more widely used in the west and rhyolite and ignimbrite in the east, which closely reflects the geology of the region. Small quantities of greywacke, which almost certainly came from the eastern Bay of Plenty, were also used at some sites in the Tauranga area. Measurement of 220 oven stones indicates that most are pebble to small cobble sized, although larger stones were used at some sites. There is some evidence for selection of particular sizes and rock types, perhaps in recognition of their better thermal qualities and performance in the ovens.


The mapping model of film thickness of micro-arc oxidation(MAO) on magnesium alloys is built on BP neural network with three layer structure.Based on experimental results of magnesium alloy MAO under the pulse power supply with discharge loop,the affecting relations between film thickness and several main parameters of MAO were put forward,thus causing the input parameters of neural network to be determined.Then the training and testing samples were constructed through technical experiment.Finally,the testing results of BP neural network which was got through training proved that the method of dynamic monitoring of film thickness of MAO based on neural network was feasible.


This doctoral Thesis defines and develops a new methodology for feeder reconfiguration in distribution networks with Distributed Energy Resources (DER). The proposed methodology is based on metaheuristic Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms. The methodology is called Item Oriented Ant System (IOAS) and the doctoral Thesis also defines three variations of the original methodology, Item Oriented Ant Colony System (IOACS), Item Oriented Max-min Ant System (IOMMAS) y Item Oriented Max-min Ant Colony System (IOACS). All methodologies pursue a twofold objective, to minimize the power losses and maximize DER penetration in distribution networks. The aim of the variations is to find the algorithm that adapts better to the present optimization problem, solving it most efficiently. The main feature of the methodology lies in the fact that the heuristic information and the exploitation information (pheromone) are attached to the item not to the path. Besides, the doctoral Thesis proposes to use feeder reconfiguration in order to increase the distribution network capacity of accepting a major degree of DER. The proposed methodology and its three variations have been tested and verified in two distribution networks well documented in the existing bibliography. These networks have been modeled and used to test all proposed methodologies for different scenarios with various DER penetration degrees.


The invention discloses a load balancing method used in a cellular cooperative relay network, a device thereof and a base station, wherein, the method comprises the following steps: selecting a cell cluster consisting of non-hotspot cells adjacent to hotspot cells; determining the traffic volume transferred from the hotspot cells to the non-hotspot cells according to load conditions of various cells in the cell cluster; and determining users transferring the traffic in the hotspot cell, relay stations and transmission channels used by the traffic users. By dynamic establishment of the cell cluster, the load balancing method, the device and the base station can timely adapt to the burst and the uneven distribution of the traffic in a network, thus effectively balancing the load; the traffic load balancing ensures real-time traffic QoS in the hotspot cells, and minimizes the blocking rate of the whole cell cluster system; and the resource scheduling based on the transfer efficiency meets the load balancing requirements, and effectively improves the spectral efficiency of cell cluster systems.


The purpose of this study is to investigate how an internal social media tool impacts new hire socialization. Using an interpretive case study of a financial services company, this study finds that social media use helped the new hires experience social acceptance, role clarity, self-efficacy, and knowledge of organizational culture. The social media system provided both socialization affordances and constraints. Both social bonding and social struggle were observed to result from the social media use.


The synthesis of 1,c-2- and 1,t-2-dimethyl-4-phenylpiperidin-r-4-ols and derived esters is reported. Configurations and preferred conformations are assigned on the basis of reactivity of the alcohols towards thionyl chloride and Raney nickel, 1H n.m.r. characteristics, and the observation of epimeric conjugate acids in cis-derivatives. The stereochemistry of the hydrogenolysis products is confirmed by comparing N-methyl chemical shifts of methiodide derivatives with those calculated from the shielding influence of 2eq- and 2ax-methyl substituents. The hot-plate ED50 values (for mice) of acetate and propionate esters of the piperidinols are reported and compared with those of analogues lacking 2-methyl substituents.


This study describes the performance of the apparatus in the Sub Division General in the Department of Agriculture in East Kalimantan Province. Data were collected through library research, observation, interviews, and questionnaires.  The results of the study will be analyzed from the results of the questionnaire and the analysis begins by describing the general picture agencies, the profile of respondents was then followed by a description of each variable analysis Apparatus Performance Department of Agriculture in East Kalimantan Province. The findings in this study is seen that the performance of employees at the Department of Agriculture in East Kalimantan Province, in general, the result of work that has been achieved in the quality and quantity of work achieved by one's employees in carrying out their duties are in accordance with the responsibilities given as expected by an Organization. Keywords : Performance, Apparatus


The process of triplet—triplet annihilation in crystalline anthracene has been investigated at low‐excitation intensities using a cw xenon‐arc‐lamp source. Bimolecular annihilation is observed by means of a subsequent fluorescence decay from the first excited singlet state to the ground state. The dependence of this fluorescence signal upon excitation power and excitation wavelength has been measured, as well as the temperature dependence, in the range from 80° to 500°K, of the cw fluorescence power and the fluorescence decay constant. The variations of fluorescence power and fluorescence decay constant with temperature can be explained by assuming the presence of two distinct trap levels for the triplet excitons.


Make a reliable forecast model for stock market indices using Immune Programming(IP) algorithm and Gene Expression Programming(GEP).Experiment results show that the model considered can represent the stock indices behavior very accurately.


Abstract: In dealing with filled steel pipe columns, the column strength is governed by the composite actionof both steel and concrete. Furthermore, the steel pipe will produce a confinement to the concrete core due tothe hoop stresses in the pipe material. This study presents the effect of both composite and confinement f oconcrete for filled steel pipes. The lab results of several specimens at different aspect ratios and various ratioof steel to concrete areas are investigated. The results of this study has an important significant n iunderstanding the behavior of filled steel pipes. Key words: Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP), composite material, concrete confinement, filled steel pipes INTRODUCTION affects the dilation of concrete due to the uniaxial load.The aim of this study was to reveal and enhance the tubular columns .properties of concrete in compressive strength, flexural The ultimate compression strain of unconfinedstrength, tensile strength and heat resistance by addinga cheap fiber polymers.It is well known, that concrete is a perfect buildingmaterial. It is cheap, durable and easy to use. However,it's bad behavior in tension arise the necessity of findinga new technique to overcome and enhance concretecharacteristics. Thinking of using composite material o tenhance and overcome the bad behavior was of n ainterest to many researchers nowadays. Studies show thatthe presence of fiber polymers in concrete mass acts s acrack arresters, resisting the development of crack andtransferring a brittle matrix into strong composite withbetter ductility


: A Schiff base namely N-(2-thiophcnyl methylene)-2-aminobenzoic acid (HNT A) has been prepared by con densation of thiophcne-2-carboxaldchyde with 2-aminobenzoic acid in 1 : I molar ratio. Manganese(lll), iron(lll) and cohalt(m) complexes of this Schifr base have been synthesized and characterized on the basis of elemental analysis, molar conductance, IR, UV-Vis, 1 H NMR, FAB mass, magnetic measurements, thermogravimetric analysis and XRD studies. The IR spectral data show that the ligand is coordinated to the metal ion in a tridentate manner with ONS donor sites of the carboxylate oxygen, azomethine nitrogen and thiophene ring sulphur atom. Magnetic moment measurements and electronic spectral data suggest a distorted octahedral geometry for manganese(lll) complex and six-coordinated octahedral geometry for iron(lll) and cobalt(lll) complexes. Proton NMR spectral data reveal that the carboxylate proton displaced during complexation. The thermal decomposition studies of iron(lll) complex show three stage decomposition and for each stage, kinetic parameters have been evaluated using Coats-Redfern equation. XRD patterns of the ligand and its cobalt(lll) complex show orthorhombic crystal system. The ligand and the metal complexes are evaluated for antibacte rial and antifungal activities against various and strains.


This study was designed to grasp the flocculation characteristics of natural organic matters by continuous monitoring using optical techniques. It was also designed to present a method for maximizing the removal efficiency of harmful organic matter which is contained in raw water. As for this, the Jar-test was used together with PDA2000. PDA2000 is an optical analysis system, which produces the size of flocs every second by numbering the growing process of flocs. By applying PDA2000, the optimal coagulation conditions and changes of flocs depending on the change of conditions can be discovered by analysing the derived curve of coagulation characteristics. In the case of inorganic suspension, the characteristics of flocculation is able to be investigated by both Jar-test and PDA2000. In order to efficiently remove colloidal matters contained in raw water, inorganic coagulants are more favourable than inorganic polymeric coagulants, which are widely used in water treatment plants. It can also be suggested that high molecular organic polymers are more efficient than low molecular organic polymers in removing organic matter. However, in the case of organic suspension, the characteristics of flocculation can be investigated by PDA2000, but not by the Jar-test. In this research, surface active agents were inserted to grasp the characteristics of flocculation for the role of an auxiliary coagulant. The efficiency of surface active agents as an auxiliary coagulant will be studied in further researches.


The steady two-dimensional free convection flow of a viscous fluid in a vertical double passage wavy channel has been investigated analytically. The channel is divided into two passages by means of a thin, perfectly conductive plane baffle and the velocity and temperature will be individual in each streams. The governing equations of the fluid and the heat transfer have been solved subject to the relevant boundary conditions by assuming that the solution consists of two parts; a mean part and disturbance or perturbed part. To obtain the perturbed part of the solution, the long wave approximation has been used and to solve the mean part, well known approximation used by Ostrach [1] has been utilized. Results are presented graphically for the distribution of velocity and temperature fields for varying physical parameters such as baffle position, Grashof number, wall temperature ratio and product of non-dimensional wave number and space-coordinate at different positions of the baffle. The relevant flow and heat transfer characteristics namely, skin friction and the rate of heat transfer at both the walls has been discussed in detail.


Abstract : A backend multi-minicomputer database system, known as MDBS, has been proposed. MDBS utilizes one minicomputer as the master (or controller) and a varying number of minicomputers as slaves (or backends) which are configured in a novel and parallel fashion. MDBS is primarily designed to provide for database growth and performance enhancement by the addition of identical backends. The software architecture allows the backend addition without the need of new programming and reprogramming. Instead, the backend system software is replicated on the new backends for concurrent and parallel operations which in turn allow the database to grow and the performance to improve without an increase in software complexity. Prototype of MDBS are being implemented in order to carry out design verification and performance evaluation of MDBS. The types of design verification and performance evaluation of MDBS. The types of design verification and performance evaluation of MDBS to be conducted are discussed in the report. The prototypes will be developed in versions starting with a very simple version, i.e., MDBS-I, that is described in detail in this report. Four more versions are envisioned. The rationale for each of the subsequent versions is also given. As the first in a series of reports on the implementation, this report discussed the choice of the hardware and operating system software. It also discusses the choice of the system programming language.


Ajala, M.O. & Asaolu, S.O. Efficiency of the salt flotation technique in the recovery of Ascaris lumbricoides eggs from the soil 1 Akufongwe, P.F., Onwuliri, C.O.E., Titanji, V.P.K. & Okwuosa, V.N. Prevalence of schistosomiasis and other intestinal helminth infections among senior primary school children in Makenene Sub-Division, Cameroon 103 Ali, Q.M. see Mattison, R.G. et al. Andrews, S.J., McGonigle, S., Smith, A.M., Dalton, J.P., Clery, D. & Mulcahy, G. A bolus for the administration to cattle of metacercariae of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica 165 Asaolu, S.O. see Ajala, M.O. & Asaolu, S.O. Ashour, A.A., Hassan, N.H.A., Ibrahim, A.M. & El-Kabbany, A.I. The karyotypes of Calicophoron microbothrium and Carmyerius gregarius from Egyptian ruminants 107


Compared with other transportation system, smooth, comfortable and noiseless represents the advantages of maglev transportation system. Whereas, in some cases a kind of low frequency oscillation of the levitation gap in small amplitude can be obviously observed, which greatly decreases the total performance of the levitation control. In order to suppress the low frequency oscillation, the principle of the oscillation is firstly analyzed in this paper, and then an adaptive vibration control algorithm using a virtual damper is put forward based on the principle; a nonlinear oscillation observer that used in the vibration control algorithm is also studied. Both the nonlinear oscillation observer and the vibration control algorithm proposed in this paper are small and effective, which can be easily embedded in the digital levitation controllers that are limited in computational resources. Numerical simulation and experiments undertaken on maglev vehicle CMS03A prove the effectiveness of this algorithm.


Digital media literacy impacts not only the education sector but also the religious field, as in the case with the development of digital da'wah. On the other hand, the pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2 has affected various activities, including religious activities. Specifically, Ustaz Hanan Attaki's (UHA) podcast emerged as an option to replace conventional religious activities, which were hampered by the ban on crowding during the pandemic. Not many preachers manage and produce their podcasts, one of which is UHA. The da'i , famous for his distinctive youth style, has been active in podcast digital da'wah since June 2020. For this reason, this study aims to determine whether there is an effect of UHA's podcast digital da'wah on religious behavior. The research population was UHA podcast listeners. The sampling was determined by a simple random sampling technique. The samples used in this study were 110 people. This study also employed quantitative analysis with a correlational approach. The results uncovered that the regression coefficient was positive with the equation Y = 7.027 + 0.276X, so the direction of the influence of the UHA podcast digital da'wah variable on religious behavior was positive. UHA podcast digital da'wah had an effect of 24.4% on religious behavior, while the remaining 75.6% were influenced by other factors outside this research. Regarding religious behavior in the category of behavior towards Allah and His Messenger, oneself, family, neighbors, and society, the category more likely to be affected by the UHA podcast was the behavior towards Allah and His Messenger, with the percentage reaching up to 96%.


Islamic boarding schools not only produce Islamic students but also begin to promote entrepreneurship to live independently and creatively in the community. This study aimed to determine the influence of personality, environmental culture, and entrepreneurial orientation on the performance of Santripreneur through entrepreneurial motivation in the Jombang Islamic Boarding Schools. This research was quantitative by using random sampling—the primary data by distributing questionnaires. The samples were 152 Santripreneurs—the method using SEM. The results confirmed all proposed hypotheses as well as the mediating effects. The finding confirms the role of enhanced-organizational culture in the Islamic setting in driving the creative business orientation of Santri in Indonesia.


Current research outside the field of journalism may give newspaper editorial writers and teachers of opinion writing new tools to help them in their work. Authors ranging from composition teachers, to linguists, to philosophers, to speech researchers are trying to understand better how one creates and analyzes effective arguments. Some recent work of that diverse group promises to shed light on the way good editorial writers intuitively create clear, compelling arguments. One of the most promising efforts is a model that describes five related kinds of statements, called claims. Each kind of claim can play a specific role in the creation of an editorial or other type of persuasive writing. Understanding the kinds of claims and their uses helps reveal the process of creating and supporting well-reasoned arguments. A writer can also use the claims model to judge whether an argument is logical and well-supported. Teaching editorial writing now consists largely of studying finished editorials the products. The claims approach offers an opportunity to shift some of the teaching effort to an examination of how editorials may have evolved into their published form the process.


Theroleoftrypsin inplaqueproduction bysimianrotavirus SA-11inmonolayers ofMA-104cells wasinvestigated. Initial trypsin treatment ofthevirusaloneorits presence onlyduringtheearlyphasesof virus-cell interaction wasfoundtobeinsufficient forplaqueproduction by the virus. Presence oftrypsin (5,tg/mL) in theagaroverlay throughout thefiveday incubation periodwas essential forthe optimal development ofthevirusplaques. Production ofplaquesbytheincorporationoftrypsin intheoverlay wasnotdue to theenzymatic degradation of any plaque-inhibitors intheagarused.Experiments usinghigh(4PFU/cell) andlow (35PFU/106cells) multiplicities ofinfection suggest thattrypsin addedtofluid maintenance mediumfacilitates thecellto-cell spreadofprogeny virusparticles. Therefore ,the enzymeincorporated inthe agaroverlay appearstoplaya similar roletherebv assisting intheformation of SA-11plaques.


A method for selecting a graphical object, which on a screen; is shown, the method comprising (121 201): displaying at least one graphical object (309; 313; 317) into motion on the screen; collecting input data from a mobile input device (117; 125, 127; 129, 131; 133; 203) which is controlled by a user, over a predetermined period of time; detecting whether a match between the direction of movement of a graphical object on the screen and the direction of movement of the input device is present on the basis of input data; and selecting the graphic object on the screen if a correspondence between the direction of movement of the graphical object and the direction of movement of the input device has been detected.


Swissair's rapid decline from one of the industries' most renowned carriers into bankruptcy was the inevitable consequence of an ill-conceived alliance strategy that also diluted Swissair's reputation as a high-quality carrier as well as the company's inability to coordinate effectively its own operations with those of Crossair, its regional subsidiary. However, we hold that while yearlong mismanagement was indeed the driving force behind Swissair's demise, exogenous factors both helped and compounded it. These include, first and foremost, the Swiss people's rejection of the European Economic Area Treaty in a 1992 referendum, Switzerland's protectionist aviation policy, and media failure.


In this study, I analyze a hiring mechanism prevalent in the coal mining industry in the first decade of the 1900s by investigating 'job applications', which are assumed to have functioned as employment contracts. These job applications include the names, ages, addresses, and previous occupations of 775 applicants, as well as the names of respective referrers, all of which have been compiled in a database. It is noteworthy that some of the applicants affixed personal seals to their job applications. At the time, the use of seals—a traditional Japanese practice—was not pervasive throughout the entire citizenry, as it is now. Coal miners of that era tended to be rustic people with little formal education who were accorded a relatively low socio-economic status. In this article, we explore possible motivations underlying their use of seals. Our results indicate a statistically significant tendency toward the use of seals among these relatively low-skilled workers, as well as a tendency for applicants who used seals to be hired directly by the mining company, rather than through referral hiring, even though the latter was widely used at the time. These trends are consistent with the supposition that the company sought disciplined and diligent workers to hire people who owned seals. This is also consistent with the supposition that low-skilled workers employed seals as a signal to project an image of diligence.


Objective To know the prevalence of hyperuricemia and gout among 1482 subjects for health check in Guangzhou,and the connection among hyperuriccmia and hypertention,diabetes and hyperlipermia.Methods 1482 subjects of 19~87 years old were studied.Resulds The mean age in the male was 42.5 and 48.2 in the female.The mean of serum uric acid was(472.94±51.67)μmmol/L in male and(412.36±48.97)μmmol/L in female.The prevalence of hyperuricemia was 23.68%,28.32% in male and 16.29% in female.The prevalence of gout was 1.62%.Conclusions The prevalence of hyperuricemia and gout increased gradually,and the mean age of hyperuricemia had a forward tendency.The prevalence of over-weighed,hypertension,hyperlipemia and diabete in hyperuricemia group.were higher than compare group .It should be paid attention on diat habit and way of life.


Traditional equation of steam quality is improved based on definition. Rate of wellbore heat loss is calculated with both depth step and time step. Drift-flux model of two-phase flow by Hasan is used to estimate pressure drop in wellbore. It indicates that results of modified model and new algorithm agree well with field date. They are more accurate than Beggs-Brill method. In addition,steam pressure,temperature and quality are almost unchanged at the same depth. However,rate of wellbore heat loss decreases with injection time. The algorithm provides a reference for accurate calculation of wellbore heat loss.


It is shown, that selection of several types of filtration-capacitive properties according to lithologic-and-petrographic characteristics of rocks with the subsequent determination of reservoir framework classes in conditions of concrete development objects allows to take into account the basic features of productive reservoirs framework. It is marked, that in a combination with the analysis of efficiency of non-stationary action technology use at pool sites it allows to predict a success of the method application.


The utilization of recycled cutting materials in AWJ technologies belongs to the important questions in clean technologies. At the same time there is a question of decreasing of waste material after finishing of cutting operations. The contribution deals with the recycling methods and influences on working environment.


Summary Sugar deficiency is the persistent challenge for plants during development. Trehalose‐6‐phosphate (T6P) is recognized as a key regulator in balancing plant sugar homeostasis. However, the underlying mechanisms by which sugar starvation limits plant development are unclear. Here, a basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) transcription factor (OsbHLH111) was named starvation‐associated growth inhibitor 1 (OsSGI1) and the focus is on the sugar shortage of rice. The transcript and protein levels of OsSGI1 were markedly increased during sugar starvation. The knockout mutants sgi1‐1/2/3 exhibited increased grain size and promoted seed germination and vegetative growth, which were opposite to those of overexpression lines. The direct binding of OsSGI1 to sucrose non‐fermenting‐1 (SNF1)‐related protein kinase 1a (OsSnRK1a) was enhanced during sugar shortage. Subsequently, OsSnRK1a‐dependent phosphorylation of OsSGI1 enhanced the direct binding to the E‐box of trehalose 6‐phosphate phosphatase 7 (OsTPP7) promoter, thus rose the transcription inhibition on OsTPP7, then elevated trehalose 6‐phosphate (Tre6P) content but decreased sucrose content. Meanwhile, OsSnRK1a degraded phosphorylated‐OsSGI1 by proteasome pathway to prevent the cumulative toxicity of OsSGI1. Overall, we established the OsSGI1‐OsTPP7‐Tre6P loop with OsSnRK1a as center and OsSGI1 as forward, which is activated by sugar starvation to regulate sugar homeostasis and thus inhibits rice growth.


Almost 20 years since the fall of authoritarianism, Indonesia is yet to deliver justice on the human rights violations the country witnessed during the New Order (1966–1998). As such, the Indonesian transitional justice process can be described at best as 'delayed' (Suh 2016, 241) or at worst as 'failed' (Kimura 2015, 73). This raises the question of how Indonesian civil society actors have responded to this situation, particularly regarding arguably the most complex of past human rights violations in the country: the 1965–1966 violence (henceforth the 1965 violence) during which more than half a million were killed and hundreds of thousands were detained for long periods of time without trial. This chapter focuses on the recent emergence of digital activism on Indonesia's 1965 violence in which the non-witness generation, who were not physically present at the event (Jilovski 2015, 11), has taken a prominent role. I will discuss why these platforms have emerged and what the stories disseminated through them can tell about processes of transitional justice, taking a particular interest in the societal legacies of the violence.


The temperature and density dependence of the 19F NMR frequency has been measured for CH3F gas. The NMR chemical shielding for 19F nucleus in the isolated CH3F molecule was obtained from 280 to 380 K by extrapolating the frequencies to zero density. This temperature dependence is interpreted in terms of the thermal average of powers of the normal coordinates. The linear term in this expansion is due to centrifugal distortion and anharmonic vibration. Using the cubic force constants and other molecular constants which have been reported for CH3F, an estimate of the dependence of the 19F shielding on the CF bond extension has been obtained.


Reactions of 1, 10-phenanthroline, sodium succinate and CuCl2' 2H2O in CH3 OH-H2O solution yields the title complex [Cu2 (phen)2(OH)Cl(C4H4O4)]' 8H2O. Single X-ray crystal structure determination indicats that the title complex crystallized in the monoclinic space group P21 (No. 4) with the cell dimensions a = 0. 7708(1) nm, b = 1. 7861(3) nm, c = 1. 2489(2) nm,β= 96. 89(1)° V = 1.7070(5) nm3, Dc = 1. 557 g/cm3,Z = 2,F(000) = 824,R = 0.062, wR2 = 0. 1634 for 3 348 observed reflections (F20 2o(F20) out of 4 282 unique reflections. The complex [Cu2 (phen)2 (OH) Cl(C4 H4 O4 ) ]' 8H2O is composed of dinuclear [ Cu2 (phen)2 (OH) Cl(C4H4O4) J complex molecules and lattice H2O molecules. The Cu atoms are each coordinated by one Cl atom, two N atoms from the same phen ligands, and two O atoms, respectively, from the OH- group and the succinato group to form consider ably distorted trigonal bipyramids. Through Cl atom, OH- group and mono- bidenta tesuccinato group, two adjacent trigonal bipyramids form a scorpion-like dinucl ear [ Cu2 (phen)2 (OH)Cl(C4H4O4 ) ] complex molecule. On the basis of the intermolecular π-πstacking interactions, the resultant dinuclear complex mole cules form 2D layers parallel to (001), between which the lattice H2O molecule sare sandwiched. The intermolecular π-π stacking interactions and intermolecular hydrogen bondings play an essential role in the supramolecular assemblies (d(Cu - O) = 0. 189 -0. 1975 nm, d(Cu - N) = 0.197-0. 204nm, d(Cu - Cl) = 0. 2625,0. 2639 nm).


A technique for the examination of atrial septal defects of primum, secundum and sinus-venosus type of defect and the presence of abnormally emptying veins is discussed. The technique of flow reversal by means of controlled increase of the intrabronchial pressure previously introduced by one of the authors is followed up in a series of 18 cases with sinus-venosus defect and abnormal venous drainage. This follow-up study has clearly demonstrated the value of this technique, which is accordingly recommended in cases in which these anomalies are suspected.


The structural phase transition in Pb1-xGexTe was examined using Raman scattering by soft transverse optical phonon modes (q to 0). An infrared laser ( lambda =1.064 mu m) was employed to increase the scattering volume. The results are consistent with a second-order type of phase transition, which can occur in this pseudo-binary system according to a group theoretical analysis. Samples with Ge content x where 3.5<or=x<or=13.4% were studied.


Inclusion removal using ceramic foam filtration in the casting industry is well known, howeverthe effect of ceramic foam filters on removing inclusions from 'clean' metal is not so well documented. This communication provides a preliminary report of the findings to date. Ceramic foem filters have been used in the production of approximately 3.3 tonne casts using the newVl DPfurnace at Special Melted Products Ltd. Clean metal is supplied by the use of a specially designed launder system preheated to 900'C prior to teeming. Examination of impregnated filter cross sections from an alloy 718 and FV458casts have revealed the ability of ceramic foam filters to remove inclusions in the size range. The types of inclusion that are removedusing this method include, from alloy 718, Titanium Nitride and Primary deoxidation products containing aluminium and magnesium. Examination of FV458 shows deoxidation products containing aluminium and calcium.


From the realization of the non-culturalrelic historical buildings' value,the paper analyzes the difficulties and contradictions of the non-culturalrelic historical buildings in the renewal construction of old cities,and points out the strategies and methods for the protection and reutilization,so as to play the positive role in protecting the historical landscape of old cities and displaying the unique attraction of the cities in the old cities' construction.


Stroke may be one of the results of heart disease. Stroke victims returning from the hospital face obstacles they did not imagine even during rehabilitation therapy in the hospital.


In 2018, East Asia accounted for accounted for 31% of gross world product (GWP). A global forecasting model developed by Hooke and updated by Hooke, Alati, and Kaur for the first three chapters of this book suggests that the region's share will remain at about this level until 2050, with the effects of global labour productivity convergence more than offsetting East Asia's relatively slow work force growth. Thereafter, the share will decline to 18% by 2100 due mainly to more rapid productivity and work force growth in West Asia and Africa. China is expected to retain its position as the world's largest economy until about the middle of this century, at which time its GDP will be more than 2.5 times that of the United States. An important driver of growth in East Asia during the coming decades will be Indonesia, whose share of GWP is forecast to rise from 2.6% in 2018 to 3.8% by 2050.


Based on principle of incident chain, the process and relevant techniques of synthetical forecast are studied given business requirement of emergency management. Synthetical forecast is a kind of approach which is supported with GIS, database and artificial intelligence etc. As one of the most important components of construction of emergency platform of public safety, its implementation and improvement is extremely meaningful to manage incidents scientifically and effectively and enhance function of emergency platform.


Methods for preparing and isolating polymer conjugates that include a recurring unit of Formulae (I) and (Ia) are described herein. The polymer conjugates can include an anti-cancer drug.


Objective. Retinal prostheses have been developed to restore vision in blind patients suffering from diseases like retinitis pigmentosa. Approach. A new type of retinal prosthesis called the Okayama University-type retinal prosthesis (OUReP) was developed by chemically coupling photoelectric dyes to a polyethylene film surface. The prosthesis works by passively generating an electric potential when stimulated by light. However, the neurophysiological mechanism of how OUReP stimulates the degenerated retina is unknown. Main results. Here, we explore how the OUReP affects retinal tissues using a finite element model to solve for the potential inside the tissue and an active Hodgkin–Huxley model based on rat vision to predict the corresponding retinal bipolar response. Significance. We show that the OUReP is likely capable of eliciting responses in retinal bipolar cells necessary to generate vision under most ambient conditions.


The influence of solution and aging treatment on the mechanical properties of a new type of Ti-Nb-Cr-Al system titanium alloy was studied.The relationships between microstructure,fracture images and mechanical properties were analyzed by environment scanning electron microscope (ESEM).The results show that the microstructure of hot rolling state is not changed by aging treatment,but there are lots of micro-size dispersion phase precipitate along the rolling fiber direction so that the strength and Young's modulus of the alloy significantly increase,and its plastic property obviously decreases.Ti-Nb-Cr-Al system titanium alloy can acquire good integrated mechanical property by optimum solution and aging treatment processing.The Young's modulus is very sensitive to the microstructure.


Saraph et al. systematically attempted to organize and synthesize the various perceptions offered by other authors on the critical factors of quality management. The authors provided a synthesis of the quality literature by identifying eight critical factors of quality management in a business unit. They stated that the measures were both valid and reliable. In the light of this, empirically tests their resulting instrument to a greater extent and from an international perspective. The instrument of the operational measures of the developed factors is tested for reliability and validity using data collected from 424 general managers and quality managers in the United Arab Emirates. Results provide strong evidence that the measures are judged to be both valid and reliable. The empirical replication on a more broadly based sample provides further corroboration of Saraph et al.'s results. Examines the level of practice of factors of quality management in the UAE. Suggests that better use of the instrument is...


For many of us, a life-long engagement with the historic environment is nurtured in childhood and has a near-spiritual dimension which transcends working life. As a child growing up in Newport in South Wales, long before the term 'historic environment' was in use, within an hour's walk there were Iron Age hillforts, a Roman Legionary fortress, early Welsh religious sites, medieval castles and churches, and industrial monuments. A Ministry of Works season ticket (then 2/6d — the equivalent of 25p — for a child) enabled me to extend my horizons to the castles of North Wales, both Edwardian and Welsh. I felt the sense of landscape. Upland Wales contrasted dramatically with adjacent England, which helped to explain why the Romans struggled initially with the Silures, the scarcity of Saxon and English settlement names, and why the conquest of Wales took 200 years. History seemed alive. I knew that the Chartists had marched past the end of our road from the industrial valleys of South Wales to the riot in Newport in 1839. In the town, the development of streets and houses could be traced from the medieval period, through massive expansion generated by the industries of iron, steel, and coal, to the local authority estates of the 1950s. To a child, all evidence from the past seemed part of a common narrative. Later, when I started working with the historic environment, I found that archaeology and historic buildings were distinct in terms of management, documentation, and discipline. Archaeologists did not always interact with art or architectural history. Many buildings historians did not use aerial photographs or geographical information systems regularly, often reflecting a focus on individual buildings and structures. It has taken longer than a generation for the more holistic concept of the historic environment to be adopted, partly fuelled by multi-disciplinary programmes and projects looking at broader contexts which target evidence from all sources. This was difficult in the early days of information systems seemingly designed more for the inputting of data than for its use, beyond a priestly few. More sophisticated and interactive technologies and networks which engage specialist and general audiences help to demonstrate the power of more integrated access. 1 When we define the elements of the historic environment which require protection and management, we must include resources such as local historic environment records and the national collections of information and archives. These are often


Judicial precedent as a source of procedural law of Ukraine. The aim of this study is to analyze the current status of use of precedent in legal proceedings in Ukraine, as well as ways to improve the procedural legislation of Ukraine through the introduction of the institution of judicial precedent in the system of sources of procedural law of Ukraine. Judicial precedent, procedural law, judicial proceedings in Ukraine, the law.


In this contribution we introduce a new Late Triassic archosaur, Incertovenator longicollum gen. et sp. nov., with an unusual combination of character states that are present in certain early avemetatarsalian and pseudosuchian archosaur clades. The holotype consists of a partial postcranial skeleton, preserving most of the axial skeleton and displaying a marked anteroposterior elongation in the cervical vertebrae. We include I. longicollum gen. et sp. nov. into one of the most comprehensive early archosaur phylogenetic data sets available, and recover it as either an early diverging avemetatarsalian, closely associated with the clade Aphanosauria and Ornithodira, or as an early diverging loricatan closely related to Mandasuchus tanyauchen in the most parsimonious trees. We further evaluate which alternative phylogenetic positions can I. longicollum gen. et sp. nov. take in the suboptimal trees, and determined which character states support those alternative positions in comparison with those of the unconstrained analysis. The analyses recover the new taxon in three main general phylogenetic placements within Archosauria, as well as one position outside this clade, highlighting widespread morphological evolutionary convergence towards neck elongation in several clades of Triassic archosauriforms.


The communication to which the present paper refers is the flow of information in and out of the human operator while he is performing a well-defined task. The steps in this process, the types of measures required in its analysis, and some recent data in human information processing are outlined. The paper ends with a brief evaluation of the function and the future of computer simulation in improving man-machine communications.


For nearly 30 years we have been using a special hook for reattachment of the trochanter. Its use has been evaluated in 80 hip replacements. Non-union was seen in one case. Loss of trochanteric position occurred in 9% of the hips. Trochanteric bursitis was a frequent complication (10%) and six patients had the hooks removed on that account.


The ninth volume of this series on arms control addresses the policies and approaches of successive postwar presidents. It focuses on the individuals in both the United States and foreign nations who have played crucial roles in the shaping of these policies. Finally, it considers the institutions that participate in the arms control debate and provide resources to the negotiators.


A mathematical model of the liquid‐membrane coupling response of the submersible electrostatic acoustic transducer (ESAT) [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 50, 31 (1979)] is presented. The model predicts that the ESAT responds to an incident ultrasonic wave of frequency ω and a constant displacement amplitude ξ0 with an output that is proportional to 2ξ0[1+(σω/Z)2]−1/2, where σ is the membrane areal density and Z is the acoustic impedance of the immersion fluid. Measurements taken over the frequency range from 1 to 11 MHz are in good agreement with the model.


............................................................................................. 2 Acknowledgements ............................................................................ 3 Declaration on plagiarism ................................................................... 4 Declaration of funding ........................................................................ 4 Review of the literature ...................................................................... 7 1.1. Tooth wear ..................................................................................................... 7 1.1.1 Epidemiology .................................................................................................... 8 1.1.2 Aetiology .......................................................................................................... 9 1.1.3 Clinical features .............................................................................................. 11 1.1.4 Management .................................................................................................. 12 1.2. Tooth wear measurement ............................................................................. 15 1.2.1. Clinical measurement using indices ............................................................... 15 1.2.2. Surface texture measurement of worn human enamel ................................ 15 Aims of the study .............................................................................. 19 Materials and Methods ..................................................................... 20 2.1 Sample preparation ....................................................................................... 20 2.2 Cyclic erosion model ...................................................................................... 22 2.3 Measurement techniques .............................................................................. 24 2.3.1 Knoop Microhardness .................................................................................... 24 2.3.2 White-light confocal profilometry ................................................................. 27 2.3.3 Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy ............................................................. 28


A position analyzing the specific multi-parameter data set to provide a graphical user interface to compare. Graphic Interface A computer analyzes the location specific data, and presents the analysis results for visual comparison by a user. Analysis results are visually presented as an icon, which is subdivided into regions, the user is arranged so that it can associate each icon data position. Results By visually presented to the icons and regions, the user, the analysis results in two or more data sets can be visually compared based on the position. Also, the graphic interface, the user defines the analysis by interacting with the graphic representation of the analysis adjusted. Results By visually presenting things, tracks the adjustment of the analysis, the user can visually observe the effects on adjustment result. .The 17


This book contains studies on quantum groups, knot theory, statistical mechanics, conformal field theory, differential geometry and differential equation methods and so on. It contains contributions from renowned experts and covers most of the recent developments in these fields. Key speakers include: L.D. Faddeev, L.C. Biedenharn, A.S. Foka, J-L Gervais, V.G. Jones, V.G. Kac, L.H. Kauffman, P.P. Kulish, T. Miwa, N. Yu Reshetikhin, H.J. de Vega, J. Wess, W.J. Wu, L.L. Chau, Y.S. Wu, T. Curtright, D. Fairlie, Y.M. Cho, and others.


This study also presents interview questions suggested by the European Guidelines (2016) to estimate negative emotions related to coronary heart diseases.


ABSTRACT Application of a direct-current electrical field for very short times can serve as a practical nonthermal procedure to reduce or modify the microbial distribution in gel beads. The viability of Escherichia coli and Serratia marcescens entrapped in alginate and agarose beads decreases as the field intensity and duration of electrical field increase.


In smart grid, critical data like monitoring data, usage data, state estimation, billing data etc are regularly being talked among its elements. So, security of such a system, if violated, results in massive losses and damages. By compromising with security aspect of such a system is as good as committing suicide. Thus in this paper, we have proposed security mechanism in Advanced Metering Infrastructure of smart grid, formed as Mesh-Zigbee topology. This security mechanism involves PKI based Digital certificate Authentication and Intrusion detection system to protect the AMI from internal and external security attack.


Background: Advanced imaging in patients with shoulder instability can be variable. MRI offers visualization of soft tissue injuries including capsulolabral injuries, however may not be ideal to assess osseous injuries. CT examination may often be desired as the accepted standard for assessment of glenoid and humeral bone loss, the extent of which can dictate surgical management in the adolescent age group in which bone loss is common. Hypothesis/Purpose: Our hypothesis, MRI bone sequence/method (FRACTURE: FFE Resembling A CT Using Restricted Echo-spacing) can provide measurements comparable to standard CT for glenoid bone loss. The objective of this study was to validate this technique in a cadaveric glenoid bone loss model using 2D-CT as the reference standard. Methods: Glenoid fractures of varying sizes were arthroscopically created in 10 cadaveric shoulders. 2D-CT and MRI FRACTURE on 3T Philips Ingenia; Philips Healthcare, Best, Netherlands) were performed on all 10 shoulders. FRACTURE is a 3D-gradient echo pulse sequence with restricted echo-spacing combined with an automated post-processing is a technical innovation which provides superior cortical and trabecular bone contrast on MRI. The CT and MRI were presented in a blinded fashion to 2 experienced musculoskeletal radiologists for independent measurement of the glenoid fracture length, width, as well as % glenoid bone loss using the best-fit circle method. Paired t-tests were performed to compare the measurements obtained on CT with those obtained on the MR FRACTURE images. Intraclass correlation coefficient was used to measure interobserver reliability. Results: There was no statistically significant difference between CT and MRI in terms of the measured glenoid fracture length(P-value=0.54) or fracture width(P-value=0.86). The mean length measured on CT was 23.40 mm ± 6.87 and on MRI was 22.96 mm ± 7.38. The mean width on CT measured 7.96 mm ± 3.51 and on MRI measured 7.89 mm ± 3.18. There was also no statistically significant difference between CT and MRI in terms of measured glenoid bone loss (P-value=0.65). Intraclass correlation coefficients for interobserver reliability ranged from 0.95 to 0.99 for measurements performed on CT and MRI. Conclusion: Measurements of glenoid fracture and associated % bone loss on CT were comparable with measurements obtained using the MR FRACTURE technique. Inter-observer reproducibility for these measurements was excellent. MRI FRACTURE technique may obviate preoperative CT in patients with anterior shoulder instability.


Multi-robot systems (MRS) working in open and dynamic environments are expected to deal with uncertain arrival of new tasks and environment changes, by repeatedly adapting the current task allocation and schedule, in order to maintain its performance (e.g., total utility, balance, etc.). This paper presents an adaptive approach to multi-robot task allocation (MRTA), which combines two adaptive measures corresponding to different levels of a MRS: (1) re-allocating at inter-robot level, for balancing task allocation, and improving total utility of the MRS, and (2) re-scheduling at intra-robot level, for maintaining each robot's utility against the influence of both re-allocating and environment changes. Our approach is expected to have significantly higher adaptation power than both re-allocating only and re-scheduling only cases. An experiment is conducted to evaluate our approach's capability of improving balance and total utility of the MRS, under different environment settings and different combinations of re-allocating and re-scheduling.


A prospective study was conducted on the efficacy of Ketotifen a benzocycloheptathiophene derivative, for oral prophylaxis of bronchial asthma in children. Of 19 children who fitted the criteria for drug trial, the drug was very effective in reducing the number of attacks in 12 and moderately effective in 7 cases (P< 0.001). Side effects of the drug were not severe enough to require withdrawl (JPMA 34: 90, 1984).


This collection on how the act of consumption can be understood as a form of social activism at a time when the deregulated market dominates the power of the state is a unique addition to the recent literature that examines political consumerism and critical consumer studies. The 14 case studies included offer a broad variety of ways that consumers, celebrities, and corporations are using commodities, brands, and the media to challenge conventional standards of beauty (Dove's Real Beauty Campaign); build communities (ABC's Better Community campaign, Brad Pitt's Post-Katrina Home-building efforts); raise awareness of global problems, like blood diamonds (Kayne West) and poverty in Africa (Angelina Jolie); and participate in sexual politics through purchasing sex toys from feminist retailers (Comella). Many authors engage the theory of Michel Foucault to explain how the triumph of the market does not necessarily subdue individual autonomy, but encourages personal empowerment through the freedom of choice and increased responsibility. For example, Hearn describes the self as 'enterprising' or 'entrepreneurial,' Comella focuses on the 'care of the self' through sex toys as 'tools of liberation,' Ouelette suggests that we are 'governing ourselves' through brands, and Littler uses the concepts of 'responsibilization' and 'green governmentality' in her analysis of green consumerism. However, while the exclusive theoretical framework of neoliberalism provides a strong cohesiveness between all of the case studies, it leaves the reader with numerous tensions and contradictions, which the editors and several contributing authors readily admit. Perhaps the most imperative tension of commodity activism is that between citizen and consumer, especially in relation to 'how we "do" citizenship' and 'what counts as "politics" in neoliberal times' (Mukherjee and Banet-Weiser, p. 195). If corporations and celebrities are the most powerful actors shaping commodity activism, what role, if any, can traditional social movements and grassroots community actors play? Does walking for a cure for breast cancer in a corporate-sponsored 'thon' or signing up for Verizon wireless service because it supports programs that help victims of domestic violence constitute civic action? The idea of voting for a brand at the store counter or through the television network we watch is attractive at first glance. After all, we can vote with our so-called consumer 'power' on a daily basis compared to the ballot box. But, there is a certain resignation to commodity activism – if we cannot fight the dominance of the market, we might as well just join it. This is related to the tension surrounding what constitutes Social Movement Studies, 2015 Vol. 14, No. 6, 745–750


According to constitute of flexible manufacture system,the paper firstly defines the flexibility of flexible manufacture system.And then it presents the evaluation model of dynamic and stochastic planning in flexibility of FMS.The model aims to provide the foundation to evaluate the flexibility of a production system quantitatively.Also,the model makes it possible to measure the FMS system in the prime stage,to confirm the prospective investment and technology.Therefore,this paper is of great significance to some extent.


Degenerative muscle diseases characterized by loss of strength and dexterity in the human hand significantly affect the physical, emotional, and social well-being of affected individuals. An assistive hand exoskeleton was designed to amplify residual muscle strength and improve functionality by assisting pinching and grasping motions. The device featured three movable finger components: thumb, index, and middle-ring-small (MRS). The exoskeleton and support structures were 3D printed using ABS thermoplastic. Feedback from embedded flex sensors and a force-sensing resistor were analyzed by a microcontroller, which individually commanded three linear electrical actuators. Actuators produced flexion through a cable-driven system, where monofilament polymer cables on the palmar side of the fingers, simulating the tendons of the human hand. The exoskeleton was lightweight, portable, and customizable.


In the paper,the approach of near - infrared spectroscopy to predict olefinic hydrocarbon and aromatic hydrocarbon in gasoline has been studied. Olefinic hydrocarbon and aromatic hydrocarbon of thirty-six gasoline samples from different petroleum storage depot petroleum storage and service stations have been predicted by using the full cross validation test. Research result has shown that near - infrared spectroscopy is credible in determining olefinic hydrocarbon and aromatic hydrocarbon in gasoline and the predict result can satisfy the national standard error demand for olefinic hydrocarbon and aromatic hydrocarbon analysis.


Artificial neural networks (ANN) have been successfully applied to a wide range of problems. However, most of the ANN-based models do not attempt to model the brain in detail, but there are still s ...


Objective To study the influence of neuroprotective effect and the content of myelin basic protein(MBP) in serum and cerebrospinal of Edaravone in the treatment of diffuse axonal injury(DAI).Methods 60 patients accord with diagnostic criteria were selected and randomly divided into Edaravone treatment group and the control group,30 cases in each group,the content of MBP in serum and cerebrospinal of patients were measured by enzyme immunoassay at 1,3,7,14 days.Results After treatment,the serum MBP levels of two groups had decreased to varying degrees, after 3,7 days,the serum MBP levels of treatment group were significantly lower than the control group(t = 2.536,P 0.05;t = 2.472,P 0.05).After treatment,the cerebrospinal MBP levels of two groups had decreased to varying degrees,after 3,7,14 days,the cerebrospinal MBP of treatment group were significantly lower than the control group(t = 2.285,P 0.05;t = 2.472,P 0.05;t = 2.731,P 0.01);followed-up 3 months after the end of treatment,the obvious effective rate of treatment group was significantly higher than that in the control group(P 0.05).Conclusion Edaravone can significantly reduce the DAI patients′ serum and cerebrospinal MBP level,and has clear neuroprotective effects,can promote recovery of brain function and improve long-term quality of life;it has high safety and good efficacy in the treatment of DAI.


The present invention, in an amount effective to cause coagulation and flocculation, sodium acrylate, sodium salt of methacrylic acid, or 2-Akuriroamido-2-methyl-1 anionic copolymer comprising propane sulfonic acid sodium salt was added to the solid, the step of forming a mixture of water and coagulated and flocculated solids; and, using a dewatering device, from the coagulation and aggregated solid stillage corn comprising the step of separating the water the solid relates to a method for dehydration.


Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (M&M) are one of the most popular means to cope with one of medicine's pressing problems: potentially deadly errors. Preventing future failures through learning ...


A designing and realizing microcontroller AT89S51-based greenhouse plant watering system has
been successfully done. The result was obtained as resistance of varied soils which function was as
setting point in monitoring and measuring resistance of soil, and also determining water-need rate of soil.
The result was shown on seven segmens and computer monitor using Borland Delphi 7.0 interfacing
program.
Ths system consists of hardware and software set. The hardware consists of sensor made of a
pair of electrodes which function is to detect excistance of soil resistance. The electrodes measure
resistance based on variable setting point and the soil property. Output signal of the sensor is transferred
to ADC system and then processed by microcontroller. The microcontroller has function to process data
to control pump movement according to given setting point and then transfer the data to computer for soil
resistance monitoring need.
This system has been realized and able to work well, able to detect soil resistance according to
given setting point.


Several 5(or 4)-(3-alkyl-3-methyl-1-triazeno)imidazole-4(or 5)-carboxamides (III-X) were prepared from 5-diazoimidazole-4-carboxamide and the appropriate N-alkyl methylamine. Most of these derivatives significantly increased the life span of leukemic (L1210) mice. Inhibition of the growth of sarcoma 180, adenocarcinoma 755, and Walker carcinosarcoma 256 was observed, but inhibition of solid tumors was generally accompanied by large, adverse, host-weight changes. Qualitative observations of the sensitivity to light of aqueous alcoholic solutions of the dimethyltriazeno (NSC-45388) and the butylmethyltriazeno derivatives indicate a pronounced variation in stability with the kind of light exposure.


ABSTRACT Mobile work has been found to offer the benefits of flexibility and empowerment to employees as well as improved savings, productivity, and employee retention to organizations. Nevertheless, challenges and risks associated with mobile work can erode acceptance and continuance of mobile work. Drawing upon the theoretical work on information system (IS) continuance and using data collected from 238 knowledge mobile workers, this study develops and validates a model of mobile work continuance. Our findings suggest: (1) the expectation-confirmation framework provides strong theoretical support for explaining mobile work continuance, and (2) outcome construct and experiential constructs affect knowledge workers' mobile work continuance intention.


EULAR has traditionally been a strong advocate of training and education in rheumatology, which has made EULAR the pre-eminent provider and facilitator of high-quality educational offerings for physicians, health professionals in rheumatology, and people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. Indeed, the international rheumatology community is set to benefit from high levels of education in rheumatology, with the aim of delivering significant relief to the lives of people with musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases worldwide. In June 2017, the EULAR School of Rheumatology was launched at the Annual EULAR Congress. This is as a fully integrated operational entity contained within EULAR which combines all educational offers, whether they are live courses, online courses, books, webinars or any other material, under one roof. This new system has the aim of greatly facilitating access to all products, giving personalised overviews and allowing, for those who sign up for a membership, to use the various incentives and special offers. The School will also provide the members a secure means of storing their gained certifications and other personal information. In addition, members of the EULAR School of Rheumatology will be able to benefit from a new accumulative credit point system, which adds points according to educational hours spent in EULAR courses, either live or on-line. Members will also be regularly informed regarding the developments of the School and new educational and training materials. With the purpose of optimising and improving the already very solid educational offerings of EULAR, during the last two years, seven groups of eminent experts in education actively worked to develop new products to be added to the existing educational material of EULAR. Many different projects are currently being developed by these "classrooms" and are addressed to the whole rheumatology community (i.e. rheumatologists, undergraduates, trainees, teachers, researchers, health professionals, and people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases). Indeed, in today's digital era, education and training possibilities are undergoing constant changes with new approaches, products and technologies coming up. Thus, the EULAR School of Rheumatology represents a model of future learning, reflecting the changing needs of the rheumatology community through offering new educational materials across this medical discipline and the greatest levels of access to the highest quality of education in the field. With the modern developments of the rheumatology discipline, EULAR School of Rheumatology is today taking its educational offerings, services and products to a global audience worldwide. For information about ongoing and new initiatives of the EULAR School of Rheumatology, please go to www.eular.org/school_of_rheumatology.cfm. Disclosure of Interest None declared


This paper proposes a novel magnetic levitation transmission system using a linear induction motor alone. In this system, two frequency components are superimposed to perform simultaneous control. One controls the propulsive force and the other controls the levitation force. The proposed system is expected to save space and cost.


The utility model provides a bedsore oxygen therapy device. The bedsore oxygen therapy device comprises a cover, wherein an oxygen-in pipe is arranged at the top of the cover, the cover is connected with an annular air cushion covering the lower edge of the cover, and an oxygen-out pipe is arranged on the side surface of the cover. The bedsore oxygen therapy device is simple in structure, practical, reliable and convenient in use, and can effectively inhibit the survival of anaerobic bacteria and promote the incrustation of surfaces of wounds.


We report the dependence of magnetic properties on the crystalline disorder in ${\mathrm{Li}}_{2}{\mathrm{RuO}}_{3}$ with Ru honeycomb lattice. This oxide exhibits unconventional Ru-dimer transition below ${T}_{\text{d}}\ensuremath{\sim}540$ K. We demonstrate that the cell parameters, related to the coherence of the dimer formation, are strongly dependent on the synthesis procedure. We show that the magnetic behavior at the dimer transition is closely related to the lattice parameters. In particular, we revealed that samples with well-ordered dimers exhibit a first-order magnetic transition with the onset exceeding 550 K, higher than that reported previously. We discuss possible dimer configurations leading to this magnetolattice coupling.


Calcification of anterior longitudinal ligament of spine is commonly seen in ankylosing spondylitis and is also noted secondary to spondylosis, trauma and infection. Calcification of posterior longitudinal ligament is rare. Though calcification and ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament have been described in the past (Ongi and Akiyama 1967), no clinical manifestations were recognized until in 1960, when Tsukimoto (writing in Japanese), described how ossified posterior longitudinal ligament could compress the cord and produce severe cervical myelopathy. Since then several similar Cases have been described in Japan. It is claimed to be more frequent in the Japanese for some unknown reason. It forms about 0.7 percent of spinal disorders in the Japanese. In 1969 Minagi and Groner reported 2 cases in Caucasians. So far hardly a dozen cases have been reported in non-Japanese races. On account of the paucity of cases in English literature and to the best of our knowledge there being no reports from our country, this report of 26 cases is presented and its incidence, pathogenesis and treatment discussed.


Self-driving cars have developed rapidly in the last decade, owing to advances in deep learning. The primary purpose of this research work is to provide an overview on the implementation of deep learning applications in autonomous driving systems. This research work has been initiated by analyzing the self-driving architectures that use deep learning and neural network combinations, as well as the deep reinforcement learning method These methods form the basis for self-driving scene perception, path planning, and algorithm behavior regulated by motion. Also, this research work analyzes how self-driving architecture is perceived, as well as path planning by implying that each module will be built using deep learning technologies and end-to-end systems. This permits all the self-driving directives to be mapped to the sensory data right away. Also, this research work studies the current challenges involved in designing the self-driving cars with AI-based designs. For example: safety standards, training data and computational hardware. The proposed research study also helps in determining the advantages and disadvantages of deep learning and AI techniques for developing autonomous driving systems.


In this article the features of the wear mechanisms of woodworking machinery parts functional surfaces is investigated. Mechanical, thermal and chemical effects in sliding systems "knife shaft wood" is shown. The requirements for the choice of a way to improv-ing durability and theoretical basis of structural-phase composition of the knife shaft surface layer is formulated.


The shallow water caridean shrimps Heptacarpus pictus and H. paludicola are polymorphic in colour pattern. Populations of these species collected over colour‐variable substrates showed the greatest degree of coloration in terms of the proportion of individuals displaying a distinct colour pattern. The frequencies of H. Pictus colour morphs varied significantly between most sampling periods. Apostatic selection by fish predators is suggested as one hypothesis which could explain these changes in morph frequency. Experiments with Heptacarpus pictus on rapid colour change showed that, although some pigment migration did occur in the chromatosomes studied, the macroscopic appearance of the colour patterns was not altered when shrimps were shifted from black to white backgrounds or vice versa. The results of background choice experiments with H. pictus suggest that these shrimp do not seek out colour backgrounds that would seem to be a matching background in a concealing coloration. This behaviour is consisten...


5 Gauld R, Mays N. Are New Zealand's new primary health organisations fit for purpose? BMJ 2006; 333: 1216-1218. 6 Georgiou A, Burns J, McKenzie S, et al. Monitoring change in diabetes care using diabetes registers: experience from Divisions of General Practice. Aust Fam Physician 2006, 35: 77-80. 7 Zwar NA, Hermiz O, Comino EJ, et al. Do multidisciplinary care plans result in better care for type 2 diabetes? Aust Fam Physician 2007; 36: 8589. 8 O'Halloran J, Ng A, Britt H, Charles J. EPC encounters in Australian general practice. Aust Fam Physician 2006; 35: 8-10. 9 Georgeff M. E-health and the transformation of health care. Melbourne: Australian Centre for Health Research, 2007. http://www.achr.com.au/ pdfs/ehealth%20and%20the%20transofrmation%20of%20healthcare.pdf (accessed May 2007). 10 Hickie IB, McGorry PD. Increased access to evidence-based primary mental health care: will the implementation match the rhetoric? Med J Aust 2007; 187: 100-103. 11 Byles J, Young A, Wheway V. Annual health assessments for older Australia women: uptake and equity. Aust N Z J Public Health 2007; 31: 170-173. 12 Wilkinson D, McElroy H, Beilby J, et al. Characteristics of general practitioners that provided health assessments, care plans or case conferences, as part of the Enhanced Primary Care program. Aust Health Rev 2002; 25 (6): 137-144. 13 Beilby J, Holton C. Chronic disease management in Australia: evidence and policy mismatch, with asthma as an example. Chronic Illn 2005; 1: 7380. 14 Medicare Australia. Statistics. http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/providers/health_statistics/statistical_reporting/medicare.shtml (accessed May 2007). 15 Burgess T, Beilby J, Zwar N, et al. Evaluation of the Asthma 3+ Visit Plan. Final report. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, 2004. 16 Harris MF, Zwar NA. Care of patients with chronic disease: the challenge for general practice. Med J Aust 2007; 187: 104-107. 17 Bodenheimer T, Wagner EH, Grumbach K. Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness. JAMA 2002; 288: 1775-1779. 18 United Kingdom Department of Health. Investing in general practice. The new medical services contract. London: DH, 2003. http:// www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4071966 (accessed Jun 2007). 19 Freeman GK, Horder JP, Howie JGR, et al Evolving general practice consultation in Britain: issues of length and context. BMJ 2002; 324: 880882. 20 Ofman J, Badamgarav E, Henning J, et al. Does disease management improve clinical and economic outcomes in patients with chronic disease? A systematic review. Am J Med 2004; 117: 182-192. ❏


In this paper, we introduce simply partitioned DP (dynamic programming) matching and threshold equalizing into the verification process in DWT (discrete wavelet transform) domain on-line signature verification in order to improve the performance. The simply partitioned DP matching divides both data series (verification and template data) into several partitions and calculate sub DP distance every partition. Even if mismatched pairs are caused in each partition, they are initialized at the beginning of the next partition and matching errors could be reduced. The threshold equalizing suppresses the variation range of optimal thresholds for all users (signatures), so that it prevents the verification performance from degrading by common use of single threshold for all users. In particular, we propose two equalizing methods in which the relation between the number of sampled data and optimal thresholds in signatures are approximated and adjusted by linear and nonlinear functions. In verification experiments using the signature database: SVC2004, it is confirmed that the proposed methods are effective for improving the performance.


From the second half of the sixteenth century to the last decades of the seventeenth, the peoples �both Indian and Spanish? from the pacific lowlands of the Popayan and Antioquia Provinces were submitted to long periods of war. First, the pressure exerted by the Christians from a long rosary of cities which extended from Pasto to the city of Antioquia, provoked struggles among the Indian Nations over the control of the lands, the men and the gold. Second, the Spanish incursion from the Western Mountain Range to the lowlands, led not only to the extension of the Spanish and Mestizo frontier, but also to regression that kept threatened communication between the urban centers and forced the un-settlement of some regions important to the Imperial Geopolitics.


The main focus of modern Translation Studies seems to be the ever changing challenges of successful cross–cultural communication. With globalisation of society, limitations in mutual understanding are surfacing, which are usually followed by the communicator's failure to meet the other party's expectations. Such expectations are not only linguistically, but culturally embedded and might prove difficult to grasp for those who are not closely connected to the particular culture. Mastering linguistic abilities is an inevitable requirement and represents an important aspect of cross–cultural communication, but achieving a high level of acceptability of (translated) texts proves to be just as important, while not always directly related to the traditional linguistic aspects of the text. It requires meeting the expectations of the target audience which exceed the scope of grammar and vocabulary. Prior cultural and discoursal experience with relevant texts proves to play an important role in producing translations which meet the target audience's expectations in terms of linguistic, but more importantly in terms of discoursal characteristics.


In order to improve the ionic conductivity of solid polymer electrolyte by controlling ion(alkali metal ion)–dipole(ether oxygen) interaction, two kinds of modification were adopted on oligo(oxyethylene) (OOE). One is the capping of terminal hydroxyl groups of OOE with methyl or acetyl groups. The other is the replacement of the center ethylene group of OOE with methylene or propylene group. Ion–dipole interaction was analyzed by measuring the ion dissociation, ion conduction and Tg of Nafion/modified OOE composite films. The modification of the end groups was more effective than that of the center group in increasing ionic conductivity. The methyl group is superior to the acetyl group as the end group of OOE for lithium ion conduction.


Copyright: © 2012 van Zyl-Smit R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The tuberculosis epidemic is under control in most of the developed world. Incidence rates for new cases in Eastern Europe and North America are less than 10 per hundred thousand of the population [1]. In developing countries the situation is far from controlled: South Africa has an incidence rate of 1170 (per hundred thousand of the population) closely followed by Zimbabwe (799) Mozambique (746) and Cambodia (506). India and China however share the biggest burden of cases accounting for over one third of the global caseload [1]. With the advent of MDR and XDR TB [2,3] and increasing global migration, rates of TB are increasing in low incidence countries like the UK.


The musculoaponeurotic architecture of the human lower limb has not been previously investigated in three-dimension (3D) at the fiber bundle (FB) level. As musculoaponeurotic architecture is a primary determinant of muscle function, the lack of architectural data has limited our understanding of functional characteristics of lower limb musculature and the development of high-fidelity simulation and biomechanical models. The overall objective of this thesis is to capture the 3D musculoaponeurotic architecture of all of the lower limb muscles, and to use this data to elucidate functional capabilities of muscle groups, individual muscles, and/or intramuscular partitions. In the first study, 48,000 FBs and all of the tendinous/aponeurotic components of 59 lower limb muscles were digitized and modelled, as in situ, to construct an architecturally comprehensive 3D lower limb muscle model. A detailed architectural analysis of three lower limb muscles demonstrated that each had unique spatial arrangement and morphology of the musculoaponeurotic elements resulting in functionally relevant intramuscular partitioning. The second study captured the 3D musculoaponeurotic architecture of vastus medialis obliquus (VMO) and longus (VML) in 12 specimens. The comparison of architectural


The invention relates to a nutritive Suzhou style mooncake and a preparation method thereof. The mooncake is prepared from a filling and a covering. The filling comprises the following raw materials by mass: 1 to 3.5 kg of cooked flour, 1 to 6 kg of fried glutinous rice flour, 2.5 to 4 kg of oil, 1.5 to 9 kg of white sugar, xylitol or maltitol, 1.5 to 4 kg of semen juglandis, 0.5 to 3 kg of green prune, 1 to 4 kg of red and green melon, 0.5 to 2.5 kg of kumquat cake, 0.5 to 3 kg of sugared orange peel, 0.5 to 2.5 kg of candied melon, 0.5 to 1.5 kg of sweet-scented osmanthus, sesame and shelled melon seed, 0.25 to 1.5 kg of sesame oil, and 0.5 to 1.5 kg of water extract of seaweed. The preparation method has easy operation, can not only reduce the sugar and the content of grease and introduce the water extract, but also keep the taste of traditional mooncakes. The quality of the nutritive Suzhou style mooncake accords with the product industrial standard, so the market demand for the nutritive Suzhou style mooncake is good; and the price and the taste of the nutritive Suzhou style mooncake are particularly popular with middle-aged and elderly people.


How do reality television programs shape our view of the world and what we perceive as real and normal? This book explores the bizarre and highly controversial world of reality television, including its early history, wide variety of subject matter, and social implications.
 In recent decades, reality television shows ranging from Keeping up with the Kardashians to Duck Dynasty have become increasingly popular. Why are these "unscripted" programs irresistible to millions of viewers? And what does the nearly universal success of reality shows say about American culture? This book covers more than 100 major and influential reality programs past and present, discussing the origins and past of reality programming, the contemporary social and economic conditions that led to the rise of reality shows, and the ways in which the most successful shows achieve popularity with both male and female demographics or appeal to specific, targeted niche audiences.
 The text addresses reality TV within five, easy-to-identify content categories: competition shows, relationship/love-interest shows, real people or alternative lifestyle and culture shows, transformation shows, and international programming. By examining modern reality television, a topic of great interest for a wide variety of readers, this book also discusses cultural and social norms in the United States, including materialism, unrealistic beauty ideals, gender roles and stereotypes in society, dynamics of personal relationships, teenage lifestyles and issues, and the branding of people for financial gain and wider viewership.


The main method of data-base transplantation,characters and functions of the data pipeline of PowerBuilder are introduced.The methods and key technologies of data-base transplantation using data pipeline in PowerBuilder environment realizing with an example from PowerBuilder ASA to SQL Server 2000 are described.The method shows it can serve as an instance of data-base transplantation.


The Deep Learning Processor (DPU) programmable engine released by the official Xilinx Vitis AI toolchain has become one of the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) inference on Xilinx FPGAs. While modern FPGA devices generally have enough hardware resources to accommodate multi-DPUs simultaneously, the Xilinx toolchain currently only supports the deployment of multiple homogeneous DPUs engines that running independent inference tasks (task-level parallelism). In this work, we demonstrate that deployment of multiple heterogeneous DPU engines makes better resource efficiency for a given FPGA device. Moreover, we show that pipelined execution of a CNN inference task over heterogeneous multi-DPU engines may further improve overall inference throughput with carefully designed CNN layers-to-DPU mapping and scheduling. Finally, for a given CNN model and an FPGA device, we propose a comprehensive framework that automatically determines the optimal heterogeneous DPU deployment, and adaptively chooses the execution scheme between task-level and pipelined parallelism. Compared with the state-of-the-art solution with homogeneous multi-DPU engines and network-level parallelism, the proposed framework shows an average improvement of 13% (up-to 19%) and 6.6% (up-to 10%) on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU104 and ZCU102 platforms, respectively.