: Small ruminants in the humid tropics are strongly affected by gastrointestinal parasitism, with losses exceeding 50% of the production potential. Weather conditions (temperatures around 25°C, range 15-35°C, high humidity) allow rapid development of parasitic nematodes during most of the year (about one week from the egg to the infective larva). The high stocking rate allowed by the forage production (up to 100 goats of 15-20 kg per ha), results in a high level of recontamination. Routine administration of anthelmintic drugs has led the selection of parasite populations resistant to most drugs used. The sustainability of small ruminant therefore requires the adoption of integrated control methods designed to reduce the probability of parasite development at every stage of their life cycle. This may be achieved by a combination of: 1) reducing the rate of installation and reproduction of adult worms through the selection of resistant hosts, a food protein supply meeting the animal needs, the use of anthelmintic properties of forage resources, 2) decreasing the level of infestation of pastures through the reduction of the hatching and development rate of free-living stages of parasites, the design of the rotational grazing according to the survival duration of infective larvae, the association of herbivores susceptible to different parasites and 3) preserving the efficacy of latest available anthelmintics through targeted drenching (i.e. FAMACHA© method) coupled with comprehensive management of pest populations (weaned and adult small ruminants grazing the same paddocks in a "leader-follower" design). These methods should be adapted to each farmer constraints. Their interest will be illustrated by some examples.


This study aims to demonstrate the impact of banking risk management on the quality of disclosure in the financial reports of a sample of Lebanese commercial banks by addressing the subject in its theoretical and practical framework and its relationship with internal and external auditing.

To achieve this goal, the study relied on the descriptive and analytical approach, and a sample of directors of the risk management department and directors of internal audit departments in the banks under study was selected, in addition to a sample of account auditors affiliated with the Association of Certified Public Accountants in Lebanon. For the purposes of statistical processing, appropriate statistical methods were used and the statistical analysis necessary to complete the current study was carried out, using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program to process the data and extract the frequencies, arithmetic means and standard deviations according to the study page, and to test the study hypotheses at a significant level (0.05 ≥α).

The study found a positive correlation between the level of disclosure of financial risk and each of currency risk, interest risk, credit risk, market risk and operational risk, in addition to the existence of a close relationship between audit and risk management, and is reflected in the quality of disclosure so that the efficiency and effectiveness in banking work leads to controlling these risks and avoiding them in the future.


The support vector regression (SVR) is applied to investigate the relationship between the properties and formulation of (Zr0.7Sn0.3) TiO4 dielectric ceramic. The models for predicting dielectric constant and loss angle tangent are proposed respectively. Using the leave-one-out cross-validation method, the mean relative errors (MRE) of dielectric constant in SVR, back-propagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR) models are checked, with the results of 1.083%, 1.632% and 1.931% respectively. Similarly, the MRE of loss angle tangent in SVR, BP-ANN and MLR are 0.999%, 1.746% and 1.414% respectively. It is therefore demonstrated that support vector regression is a useful tool in dealing with multi-variable problems with non-linearity or small size of data set in the formulation design of dielectric ceramics.


With the rapid development of the Internet, applications such as video and audio on the internet is also rapidly developing, IP video monitor and IP video conference is now widely used in various fields. These applications play an important role in the national economy and our daily lives, Video conferencing system is a multimedia communication system based on the packet switching network. According to the characteristics of multimedia network communication with TCP-Like protocol, a system objects oriented implementation architecture is proposed and the objects in the system are described in detail. Finally, a detailed implementation process of the terminal was designed. Introduction With the development of computer communication technologies as well as the increasing of Internet bandwidth, videophone and video conferencing system based on packet switching network have been widely used in various fields.In order to make different products manufacturers circulating, the international telecommunications union (ITU) created video conference communication standards to run on packet switching network. Real-time multimedia streaming will be the main transmission objective on the next generation network, which could have large effect on our lives. There exist many advantages such as reliable transmission, rapid reaction to network congestion, TCP friendliness, acceptableness to fire walls, convenient for implementation and maintenance and so on while using TCP to transmitting real-time multimedia streaming. However, on the other hand, the disadvantages are obvious as follows. The sending rate is unable to be adaptive to the available network bandwidth. The re-transmission arisen from TCP would likely increase the delay fitter and confusion of multimedia packet. These disadvantages decrease notablely the quality of service of real-time multimedia streaming. Armed at the above problems, performance analysis of real-time multimedia streaming transmission, sending-delays prediction model, rate adaptive transmitting scheme and its application are researched in this thesis and the main creative achievements included are the following five aspects.In this paper, video conference system has been successfully applied in the actual network data processing based on the TCP algorithms, it proved that this technology is a feasible audio and video flows capturing technology Average Delay Jitter Model The end-to-end delays of real-time video are dissected by deriving and simulating, and it is discoveried that the waiting-delays are the main part of end-to-end delays of real-time video and the sending-delays are the critical factor impacting on the end-to-end delays. Two ways to decrease the end-to-end delays and jitters are presented, which are reducing the waiting-delays and cutting down the sending-delays. Since the sending-delays are straightly and rigidly managed by the TCP stack, it is impossible for applications to control it. Therefore, a method to decrease the end-to-end delays by predicting and judging the sending-delays is proposed as follows. Predict the sending-delays of a video frame and if it can not achieve the requirement mentioned above, then the video frame will be selectively discarded. Utilizing the method of predicting and judging, the sending-delays of all the video frames deliveried are little. The simulation results show that the end-to-end delays of real-time video can be cut down notablely by using the method. International Conference on Information Sciences, Machinery, Materials and Energy (ICISMME 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 892 The delay jitter of TCP-like algorithm is set as the variation of RTP data frame arrival time. Set Di as the arrival time of i frame and the jitter is expressed by formula (1): | | 1 − − = i i D D Jitter (1) During the transmission of TCP-like algorithm, define two adjacent times between package loss with the sign of r≠b, as TD, in which, r is the total number of actually received and lost frames, b is the feedback rate. The window variation of TD period is similar with standard TCP model period of receiving repeated acknowledgment frame. Assuming that Y is correctly received frames during TD period, we can obtain the expected value of Y according to standard TCP model, shown in formula (2): bp p p Y E 3 8 1 ) ( + − = (2) The expected value of W, which is the last window during TD period, is shown in formula (3): bp W E 3 8 ) ( = (3) It can be conclude that the delay of each frame is RTT/2 and the jitter delay is 0. When the TD period ends, the average delay of received frame will increase if has frame loss, what is similar with standard TCP receiving repeated acknowledgment? Through standard TCP model analysis we can know that the average delay jitter is RTT/ (2b) at this time. Therefore, the delay jitter of first frame at the beginning of TD can be set as RTT/ (2b) in the time of starting TD period. The expected value of average jitter can be obtained based on above model analysis, assuming that the transmitted lost frame is up to E (W) actually in Tout period, shown as formula (4). ) ( ) ( 1 ) ( ) )( ) ( 1 1 ( | 0 2 | ) ( 1 ) ( W E n E Y E b RTT n E RTT T n E Jitter E − − + − = (4) In the formula, 1/E(n)can be understood as the timeout probability of TD period, set Q=1/E(n) and (4) can be expressed as (5): ) ( ) ( ) )( 1 ( ) 2 ( ) ( W E Q Y E b RTT Q RTT TO Q Jitter E ⋅ − − + − = (5) It will be obtained from standard TCP model that, when p->0, 8 3 ) ( 1 ) ( bp W E Q E = = (6) Substitute formula (2) (3) (6) into (5), the estimated value of jitter can be obtained as formula (7) after finishing: b p p bp b RTT b b RTT bp T p Jitter E 3 8 2 1 ) 8 3 ) 1 ( 8 3 0 2 ( ) ( + − + − + = (7) When p is small, the denominator of formula (1) is about 1, and then the estimated value can be expressed as formula (8): ) 8 3 ) 1 ( 8 3 0 2 ( ) ( bp b RTT b b RTT bp T p Jitter E + − + = (8) Principle of TCP-like Algorithm TCP-like algorithm is composed of receiving acknowledgment module, window control module, transmission control module and clock control module, etc. The size of window is adjusted by the


C# is a relatively new language often seen as a direct competitor for Java. Although C# has been strongly influenced by Java it has also been strongly influenced by C++ and is best viewed as a descendent of both C++ and Java. C++ is a mature language which is evolving slowly; Java and C# are evolving much faster and are borrowing freely from each other. Since C# is much newer than Java, C# design is somewhat leaner A C++ or Java programmer will find much of the syntax familiar and can quickly get started in C# but soon discovers that it is a different language which is interesting, has its own unique expressiveness, and is full of pleasant surprises.


Greywater is a wastewater generated in a house except toilet and kitchen wastewater. It is grossly contaminated but reuse and recycling is possible in water scarcity areas but greywater couldn't use for drinking purpose. To know the quality of greywater in various seasons specific parameters have to be checked i.e. pH, Acidity, Alkalinity, Hardness, Conductivity, Turbidity, BOD and COD according to "Standard Methods for determining water and wastewater quality, 2000". Greywater generation from a house contributes 59 % from bath, basin and shower, and 41 % from laundry wastewater. Characteristics of greywater changes due to the number, age, lifestyle, health status and water usage pattern of occupants. In this paper, seasonal variation in quality of greywater will be shown. Here, greywater is mainly used for toilet flushing and gardening purpose. Greywater should be colorless, odorless and should not be acidic. So to get idea of greywater quality, continuous evaluation and proper maintenance is required.


In vitro storage techniques have been developed over the past 10-20 years, and are now firmly established as an alternative for those species for which ex situ storage as seed is either not viable or optimal for the particular application. This includes crops which are vegetatively-propagated, species with recalcitrant or intermediate seed, species with highly heterozygous seed, or situations in which elite genotypes need to be maintained. In vitro techniques are also important in the collection, propagation, and distribution of germplasm. This paper summarises the current status of in vitro conservation and scientific and management issues of importance to the future development and application of these techniques. Some of these issues are further emphasised by reference to the status of in vitro conservation in a number of tropical and subtropical species. Information is also included on the development and maintenance of in vitro collections in South East Queensland.


Using the example of intimate relations between ethnic Albanian men and ethnic Macedonian women in the Republic of Macedonia, I explore the utility of Michael Herzfeld's invaluable insights into the interconnections among state power, cultural intimacy, and subversive disorder in states where different groups compete for state power. In these states, the absence of conditions that are conducive to the production of cultural intimacy points to the articulation of the state with socially constructed and embedded understandings of what might count as just, proper, and legitimate official response to violations of moral canon.


Based on a systemic analysis of the factors which might influence building energy efficiency, a cluster of corresponding indicators are proposed and screened for different stages in the whole life-cycle of buildings. A questionnaire survey was conducted to confirm the weights of the selected indicators and identify critical control objects for building energy saving. This research provides the methodology for selecting appropriate control objects for building energy-efficiency under various management scenarios.


Global and regional studies of the data abstracted from the POGO satellites have demonstrated the utility of satellite magnetometer measurements in geological studies. However, detailed examination of these data reveals that there exists a considerable amount of noise resulting from external fields and data reduction techniques. Such noise inhibits more detailed studies with the POGO data and could similarly affect the utility of data from the Magsat mission. Correlation of POGO satellite data with ground observatory records and geomagnetic indices was employed to identify the existence of external field effects and document the data reduction problems. Significant effects of the Sq current system, including the equatorial electrojet, are shown to be still in the data despite the local time screening. Such effects are totally in agreement with theoretical models of this current system and should be considered in Magsat data reduction, as the theoretical model predicts that the Sq current may at times have significant effects even at the dawn/dusk local times of the Magsat orbit. The state of inflation and deflation of the magnetosphere is vividly portrayed in the POGO measurements and is well correlated with the Dst index. The ring current correction applied to the POGO data was seen to be of varying quality depending upon the state of the magnetosphere and the length of satellite track data reduced. These effects combined with the irregular distribution of data from the individual POGO satellites can result in pseudo anomalies as evidenced by a comparison of satellite data reduced in a fashion to minimize them with those previously published over the same area.


: Visual impairment and blindness are two tasks of significant mobility difficulties in the people they affect. In an attempt to lighten the burden of these difficulties, various assistance devices have been imagined, designed, tested, and sometimes adopted. To make it easier for visually impaired people to get around, researchers have developed smart glasses. They integrate sensors, a geo-location system, and a camera responsible for collecting information on the nearby environment. The glasses are connected to a tablet which allows the person to be guided in their movements, to avoid static or moving obstacles or to recognize places, objects or even inscriptions. In this paper, we are thinking of adding technology that helps identify things and inform the blind user. Many studies and many recent projects tend the development of recent techniques by using the internet of things (IoT) to facilitate the communication of blind people with their environment and essentially the detection of things in front.The aim of our project for the visually impaired is an innovation that helps blind people navigate with speed and confidence by detecting nearby obstacles using ultrasonic waves and warning them with an audible or vibration signal. They only have to wear this portable device like a band or a cloth.


Source Citation Barr EL, Zimmet PZ, Welborn TA, et al. Risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in individuals with diabetes mellitus, impaired fasting glucose, and impaired glucose tolerance...


To transform some two- year higher specialized colleges into advance vocational- technical colleges is an important part of Chinese education reform. This paper aims to find out the distinction and association between the two through a comparative study of their conceptions educational goals and forms.


Food security and climate variations are the major concerns affecting global community in adverse manner. Climate change is one of the greatest challenges faced by the global community today. Impact of climate change is severe. Each degree of rise in the global mean temperature is associated with threat to life, economy and also food security. This paper reviews the literature conducted by researchers focusing on climate change and its impact on Food security. The review has shown that myriad of studies focuses on the impact of climate change on food security. The paper urges for a need to study the adaption and approaches for climate change which includes climate smart agriculture. The approaches will manage the landscapes, improve productivity, enhanced resiliency and reduced emissions of greenhouse gases. Ensuring food security in the face of climate change will be challenge and hence suggests the practice of sustainable agricultural practices along with climate smart agriculture.


In this paper, we numerically demonstrate a two-layer circular lattice photonic crystal fiber (PCF) biosensor based on the principle of surface plasmon resonance (SPR). The finite element method (FEM) with circular perfectly matched layer (PML) boundary condition is applied to evaluate the performance of the proposed sensor. A thin gold layer is deposited outside the PCF structure, which acts as the plasmonic material for this design. The sensing layer (analyte) is implemented in the outermost layer, which permits easy and more practical fabrication process compared to analyte is put inside the air holes. It is demonstrated that, at gold layer thickness of 40 nm, the proposed sensor shows maximum sensitivity of 2200 nm/RIU using the wavelength interrogation method in the sensing range between 1.33–1.36. Besides, using an amplitude interrogation method, a maximum sensitivity of 266 RIU−1 and a maximum sensor resolution of 3.75 × 10−5 RIU are obtained. We also discuss how phase matching points are varied with different fiber parameters. Owing to high sensitivity and simple design, the proposed sensor may find important applications in biochemical and biological analyte detection.


With the help of thin barrier nickel coatings on steel AISI 4140 compact boride layers with a composition of (Ni 1 Fe) 2 B und Fe 2 B were generated in a plasma-assisted boronizing process, using trimethyl borate, B(OCH 3 ) 3 . The influence of the thickness of the nickel coating, the nickel deposition method as well as both the boronizing process pressure and time on the formation of the boride layer were investigated. Depending on the process time the boride layer has a thickness up to 160 μm and a maximal hardness of 2150 HV 0.025 using a 2 μm thick nickel coating as barrier coating.


Earth fault management in medium voltage networks involves assessing of customer interruptions, challenges in fault clearing processes and safety issues. The major advantage by allowing sustained earth faults is the avoidance of customer interruptions. However, the network operation with sustained earth faults does not only include welfare. The paper will generally discuss the advantages and disadvantages of operating the network with sustained earth faults. In addition, in the paper, the Helsinki medium voltage network and the developments in neutral point treatment and network operation during earth faults will be outlined. The paper presents the earth fault analysis in the Helsinki 10 kV network and compares the results to a reference analysis. Based on the analysis, the paper presents the possibilities and limitations of a sustained operation with earth faults. The paper also presents the strategy steps of managing sustained earth faults as well in the 10 kV and 20 kV areas and the required long term development steps.


Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism's Millennium Science Initiative
IC120009
FONDECYT project
1171208
1161218
BASAL CATA
PFB-06
Millennium Science Initiative, Chilean Ministry of Economy
IC120009
CONICYT-PFCHA/Doctorado Nacional, Chile
21140646
NASA Science Mission directorate
European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programme
0100.C-0487(A)


Almost at the end of this interesting symposium I have been asked to present you with a patient's point of view on the subject of scoring and data-basing of Multiple Sclerosis. Please allow me to introduce myself to give an impression of the kind of patient you will be listening to. I was diagnosed 6 years ago as having Multiple Sclerosis and now rate about six on the EDSS scale. Together with my wife, I manage a small rural general practice in the Netherlands. I am the father of four young daughters and my active hobbies are cooking and singing. It used to include walking and climbing. Although of course I have studied this disease and especially its possible treatment from the onset, as a patient, my foremost feeling about the whole situation has been as a bit of bad luck with no known cause or cure and with an unpredictable course; philosophically on par with a hurricane or a war, to be preferred over a bad marriage or a dictatorship. My aim has always been to try to function as normally as possible, as a father, a husband and a doctor. Any treatment, with its side-effects and its possible bene®ts, I have always measured to this functional objective. As long as there is no cure and only an uncertain outcome out of this situation, I score myself on what I can do today and not what I have lost yesterday or in a dim future. Little things can be more important for me than a walking distance with or without a cane. As a GP, with a duty of 24 h care for his patients, getting to them is important, but also in what kind of condition I arrive there. And that can depend on the amount of exercise I have to perform, the height of the staircase, but also the severity of the side-effects of a drug I have to take for it. Conquering a ̄ight of steps can take a bit more time, but fatigue and ̄u-like symptoms are much more dif®cult to shake off. And even unsurmountable obstacles can be bypassed given time and careful planning, but unforseen performance dips can be more annoying and even dangerous. As a father, I luckily enough very much shape the world of my children. They have never known a father who can make long walks or who enjoys skiing. In their world, a mother takes you out for a bicycle ride and your father plays chess and conquers Bill Gates and his computers. The most desirable thing in the world to play with are his cane and his wheelchair. But for me it is the area of greatest concern and ambition to give them all the experiences and challenges other children have. If I can still manage to take them to a Zoo or a theatre, I feel my small moments of glory. So on the matter of scoring, I score myself all the time. On a short time basis several times a day to foresee problems in the coming hours and to assess if I have to call in help for the duties I have to perform. This scoring is done on a very subtle level, even the most minute changes of lifting power in my legs can mean the difference between tripping over my shadow or sliding over it. It also determines if I will or will not try to make a social housecall to one of my patients. In the long term I score myself on recurring activities throughout the year. Every year for example, a friend of mine invites me to join him on a sailing expedition, a tricky activity for someone with diminished strength and sense of balance. And although I always feel very happy being able to join him, it does make one acutely aware of the amount of deterioration that progresses steadily during the year. On the other hand, the number of voluntary activities, like addressing a group of neurologists in the south of France, put the degree of disability, or better, the degree of ability in a different, perhaps a more favourable perspective. Professionally, as a general practitioner, I also score my patients all the time. Patients with diabetes, high blood pressure and high blood lipids. We score them all the time and have agreed on cut-off points when to start or intensify treatment. Of course, due to such things as the Framingham studies, and more recently, the UK Prospective Diabetes study, we now know that this is worth the effort, to prevent future disease and disabilities. But when these studies were started many years ago, the outcome was not so sure, and a lot of work has been done then, without knowing how important this work would become. We now have good treatment for these ailments, and I do hope that in time this will also apply to Multiple Sclerosis. At least diabetes and MS have in common, that there is emerging an understanding of these chronic progressive diseases, all with possible multifactioral causes and that there is now a slight hope that in time we can prevent or at least postpone disabilities. But as I think we are all too much aware, assessing the activity of Multiple Sclerosis can be dif®cult. Not only is it a ®ckle disease, many of the important symptoms can only be assessed subjectively, by asking the patient. And to make things worse, the doctor and the patient very often have quite different ideas on what is important in ones health. Doctors are more interested in physical parameters, I presume because *Correspondence: AR van Overstraten Multiple Sclerosis (1999) 5, 302±305 ã 1999 Stockton Press All rights reserved 1352 ± 4585/99 $15.00


The paper presents the results of studying the effects of droplet diameters on the NACA0012 airfoil ice accretion, which have been obtained in the 3D numerical simulation of icing. To simulate the motion of water droplets as a multiphase medium, the Eulerian approach is used, which assumes that water droplets have spherical shapes, do not undergo deformation and breakup, do not interact with each other, and that coalescence/fragmentation of droplets does not take place. Both monodisperse (of the same size) and polydisperse (of various sizes) droplets are considered; they are represented by the spectral Langmuir distributions. These spectral distributions take into account the polydisperse nature of droplets and provide a higher efficiency in predicting ice shapes. The obtained ice shapes on an airfoil are compared with the available experimental and calculated data. It should be noted according to the simulation results that the use of the standard size of droplet diameter equal to 20 μm does not allow for obtaining correct shapes of ice on the leading edge of the wing profile not at all temperature regimes. For temperatures from −20 °C to −10 °C, there is a noticeable difference compared to the experimental data. At the same time, for this temperature range, the use of the Langmuir spectral distribution of droplet diameters relative to 15 μm provides a better agreement of the formed ice forms with the experiment.


The iodide distribution in the silver iodobromide grains of a high-speed ammonia-cal emulsion is investigated in relation to the instant of time of iodide uncorporation into the emulsion during double-jet precipitation. The X-ray photoelectron spectro-scopic study confirms the general concept that the earlier the iodide incorporation, the less the possibility for the ions to come out to grain surface, and vice versa. However. as shown by X-ray diffraction analysis, with the shift of the instant of iodide incorporation from the end of the precipitation toward the beginning of the process, there occurs an increasingly narrowing of the diffraction profile of the grains, which implies an increasingly more uniform distribution of the iodide, ions through the grains. This "homogenization effect" in the grains, associated with an early iodide incorporation, is believed to be a consequence of a relatively long recrys'tallization and, hence, redistribution process of the silver iodide or silver iodobromide grains formed at the early stages of precipitation. The iodide-containing grains formed by the end of the precipitation are offered less chance of recrystallization and, therefore, a more uneven distribution of the iodide ions in the grains results. In all cases, the surface layer of the grains shows an iodide content considerably higher than might be expected based on a uniform distribution. One of the reasons for the surface enrichment with iodide ions could be the tendency of the grains for a reduction of the lattice distorsion which would arise to a greater extent with more iodide ions incorporated in the grain bulk.


Objective To review the technicality of living related, reduced size pediatric liver transplant. Methods The authors successfully performed a living related liver transplantation in June. 1997. The recipient was a 10 year old girl (weight 24?kg, height 121?cm) with Caroli's disease and recurrent cholangitis. The donor was her father who aged 40 years. The left lateral segment (segments Ⅰand Ⅱ) was used for the graft. Transection was mapped by intra operative ultrasound. The parenchymal resection was carried out with an ultrasound dissector and double electro coagulator without vascular occlusion. The warm ischaemic time was zero. Results The donor had no operative complication. The early complications of the recipient were effectively managed. Conclusions Successful donor hepatectomy is crucial in living related liver transplant. The initial success is promising for the future of pediatric liver transplantation in China.


In this work, a Teflon AF-2400 tube-in-tube microreactor is investigated for the continuous, solvent-free, catalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohol with oxygen. The semi-permeable Teflon AF-2400 tube acts as the interface between the gaseous oxidant and the liquid substrate. Due to the inherent safety of this contacting method, the use of pure oxygen is possible. The semi-permeable tube was packed with 1 wt% Au-Pd/TiO2 catalyst particles and placed inside a PTFE tube to provide an annular region which is pressurised with pure oxygen. This design allowed continuous penetration of oxygen through the inner tube during the reaction, resulting to higher oxygen concentration in the catalyst bed and significantly improved conversion compared to a reactor operating with an oxygen pre-saturated feed. The amount of oxygen available for reaction in the tube-in-tube microreactor was two orders of magnitude higher, as compared to the non-permeable reactor with oxygen pre-saturated feed. The semi-permeable tube reactor performance in terms of both conversion and selectivity was enhanced by increasing the gas pressure, the average residence time of liquid in the bed and by dilution of the catalyst. The highest conversion of benzyl alcohol obtained for the range of conditions investigated was 44.1 %, with 73.0 % selectivity to benzaldehyde, at 120 oC, catalyst contact time 115 gcat·s/galcohol and catalyst dilution factor 4.


GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Fuel cell (FC) test results have been obtained for the first time with the bis-ligand nickel(ii) complex of 1,4-diaza-3,7-diphosphacyclootane heterogeneous catalyst. Using AFM technique the [Ni(PPh2Np-Tol2)2](BF4)2 self-assemblies morphology on pyrolytic graphite has been studied. By the method of rotating disk electrode the mechanism of FC cathode side reaction has been investigated


The invention discloses a grid node resource consumption control method and device. The method comprises the following steps: monitoring the resource consumption in the process of operating a grid task in real time to acquire the current consumption rate of the grid task; and controlling the consumption rate of the grid task based on the current consumption rate of the grid task. The device comprises a rate acquisition module and a consumption control module. By using the technical scheme of the invention, the consumed resources in the grid task operating process of a grid node can be effectively controled, and the successful operation of the task of the grid node in the grid task operating process can be effectively ensured.


Cerebral microbleed (CMB) the small vessels in the brain which is one of the major factors used to facilitate in the early stage diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease detection. In traditional, CMBs detection can be done manually by the neurologists, doctors or specialists. However, the process is time-consuming and the results are not accurate depending on the doctor experiences. Therefore the efficient and reliable of the automatic detection of CMB is needed. This paper proposes a new framework for CMB detection which employs segmentation of the region of interests (ROIs), detection of the CMBs and identification of the area from SWI scan images. Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) is applied to generate the desired models for later prediction. Shape matching mechanism is also applied to identify locations of CMB in the brain. The experimental result shows that the CMB can be classified with a recorded accuracy value of 95.45%. The CMBs were discovered from three different locations include (i) cortical region, (ii) cerebellum and (iii) brainstem with an accuracy value of 100%.


Gerhard Richter is deeply committed to the exploration of the life of images in his practice and in the world at large. Even at its most abstract or minimal, his work examines how images are generated - their circulation across artistic mediums, and between art and the wider dissemination of images, from family photographs to news media and the popular press, digital media and the internet.
It is this recognition of the reprise of artworks as generative that is central to understanding Richter's influence on, and importance for, contemporary art. He has helped us recognise the way in which images are repeated and reproduced, while maintaining themselves across iterations and making something new through this process.


We examine the effects of diversity in the board of directors on corporate policies and risk. Using a multidimensional measure, we find that greater board diversity leads to lower volatility and better performance. The lower risk levels are largely due to diverse boards adopting more persistent and less risky financial policies. However, consistent with diversity fostering more efficient (real) risk-taking, firms with greater board diversity also invest persistently more in research and development (R&D) and have more efficient innovation processes. Instrumental variable tests that exploit exogenous variation in firm access to the supply of diverse nonlocal directors indicate that these relations are causal.


There are many factors that affect the success of students in university entrance examination. These factors can be mainly categorized as follows; social factors, environmental factors, economical factors etc. The main aim of this study is to find whether there is a relation between these factors and the success in the university entrance examination. To achieve this goal, we use radial basis functions (RBF) network which is one of the artificial neural networks approach used to find a relation between input and output variables nonlinearly. From the experimental results, we observed that the relation between the input variables that corresponds to social, economical and environmental factors and the output variable can be modeled nonlinearly using radial basis functions network. Most of the studies about the impact of the factors on academic success of students attempted to estimate the statistical relationship linearly. However, the relationship between factors and academic success are not examined by using nonlinear techniques. One method for this nonlinear approach that can be used is Artificial Neural Networks (ANN's). Artificial Neural Networks are systems that are deliberately constructed to make use of some organizational principles resembling those of the human brain (Lin and Lee, 1996). We decided to use one of the modeling technique of ANN approach which is called as Radial Basis Function in this work. In this study, our aim is to check whether the relation between several factors and university examination success can be modelled nonlineraly or not by means of the Artificial Neural Network modeling technique. METHOD Participants The population of the research consists of all freshman students studying in Girne American Univertsity. A sample of 206 were collected from the students and only 154 of them were considered to be used in analysis. 52 of the questionnaires were not answered properly, hence they were excluded from the study. From these collected data some of them were selected randomly to be used as training data and the rest were used for testing our model. Apparatus In order to analyze the relation, a questionnaire was structured to collect data. This questionnaire used in this study consists of three sections. In the first section several questions related with the social factors that can affect the education were asked. In the second section some questions were asked which aims to see the effect of economical conditions on success. In the third section, questions related with the environmental factors were prepared. Also the point taken in university entrance examination were asked.


This paper reports the responses of Special Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) in primary schools to a survey undertaken in three local education authorities in the north-east of England. The role of the SENCO has been subject to increasing prescription and guidance. Although policy-makers would like SENCOs to take a more proactive role in the process of curriculum and school development, it has become clear that in making this transformation many are experiencing a number of difficulties. In comparing these difficulties to ones reported in a previous study the existence of a number of problems are highlighted which apparently remain stubbornly resistant to current advice and guidance.


An antenna design is presented for Ultra Wideband (UWB) applications. Initially a rough design is made on the basis of lower frequency band of proposed design. The Transmission line modeling of the prototype is done and a staircase profile is introduced to obtain the upper frequency limit. To increase the impedance bandwidth slot etching has been employed. The antenna was designed using CST Microwave Studio simulator and the final results meet the requirements of UWB.


DISEASE Brian MMilllan Shoemake Dr. Brian Vander Ley, Thesis Supervisor ABSTRACT The purpose of this two part project was to determine if (1) beef cattle could secrete iodine into the upper respiratory tract in the airway surface liquid (ASL) after the administration of a single oral bolus of sodium iodide (NaI). Sixteen apparently healthy, weaned beef calves were utilized. The second (2) study was performed to determine if a single oral bolus of NaI on arrival at a background feedlot operation would effectively reduce the mortality due to bovine respiratory disease (BRD). Six hundred twenty nine high risk beef calves were included in the second study.


Objective To probe into the feelings of the full-time nursing teachers in the clinical practice for exploring their present status and influencing factors and providing corresponding measures.Methods Twelve full-time teachers were interviewed with the method of in-depth interview of qualitative research.The whole interviewing process was recorded.The data was analyed,managed and summarized for the themes.Results Two themes were identified and described as the status of the clinical practice(good understanding of the importance but poor enthusiasm in participation)and the influential factors(including uncertainty of effect,role conflict,lack of belonging,patential occupational hazard and economic pressure.Conclusion It is widely considered by the teachers that the clinical practice is an important component of the nursing teaching.The present status of the clinical practice is not ideal due to the lack of the needs of self-actualization,the need of respect and self-esteem,etc.


Research subject. The article presents the results of studying 500 diamond crystals from the core of exploration boreholes of crater and diatreme facies of the upper part of V. Grib kimberlite pipe. Crystals from tuffs and tuffites (crater), tufobreccia, autolith kimberlite breccia and porphyry kimberlite (diatreme) were analyzed separately. aim. To carry out a morphological and spectroscopic study of diamonds from V. Grib pipe. Materials and Methods. An VERTEX-70 spectrometer with a Hyperion 1000 microscope was used to determine the total nitrogen concentration and the share of nitrogen in the form of B defects (NBS), the absorption coefficients of the "platelet" bands B', 3107 cm-1. Images of photoluminescence (PL) were recorded at 360 nm excitation by an ALROSA VIEW PRO device, in order to detect inhomogeneities and color of PL. The PL spectra were recorded by a Horiba FL-3 spectrometer with an excitation of 350 and 450 nm at 300 K and by an InVia Renishaw spectrometer with an excitation of 405, 488 and 787 nm at 77 K. Results. The distribution of diamonds in terms of nitrogen concentration and NBS is specific; about 50% of the crystals are located along one isotherm, the proportion of low-nitrogen crystals is 5%. The PL spectra of 25% of crystals showed the lines of 883/885 nm of an elementary Ni-containing defect. Most crystals with this defect have less than 400 ppm of nitrogen, but they occupy the entire range according to NBS. This system is found in the spectra of 76% of twins and intergrowth; the latter are of 36% of diamonds with the lines 883/885 nm. The studied diamonds differ from those found in M.V. Lomonosov deposit in terms of a much lower content of crystals of cubic habitus (2 and 15%), a lower degree of dissolution (octahedra, respectively, 33 and 15%), a low proportion of colored stones, as well as a wide range of nitrogen concentration and NBS. Conclusion. The revealed features indicate the specific growth conditions of diamonds from V. Grib deposit, which differed from those of diamonds from other kimberlitic bodies of the East European, Siberian platforms and the Urals. The high proportion of low-nitrogen crystals and Ni-containing diamonds is a possible indicator for the presence of large CLIPPIR-type crystals.


The world is witnessing Climate change. This change has already started affecting air quality, food production, water supply, coastal settlements and human health. Vector-borne diseases account for over 17% of all infectious diseases. There is increasing evidence about the impact of climate change on Vector Borne Diseases. We collected secondary data in September 2017 from published articles, journals, reports, and books on this major issue to discuss the effects of climate change on VBDs in India through this article. This paper will briefly review the changing epidemiology of the most important vector-borne diseases in India.


For 4 days, a 58-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes mellitus had had increasing right vulval pain that spread to the suprapubic area and abdomen. She reported that swelling and a "heavy feeling" in the lower abdomen had developed during the last 24 hours; these symptoms were associated with fever and chills.


Multiple descriptions provide a mechanism for graceful degradation in open-loop lossy source coding over a lossy-packet network. Two well understood extreme cases are successive refinement (fully asymmetric) and symmetric descriptions. Existing solutions for the general asymmetric case are, however, cumbersome. We present a framework for designing an efficient asymmetric two-description scheme, based on dividing many symmetric descriptions into two groups, and encoding each group jointly. Using this framework, we present a sum-rate optimal solution based on oversampling and dithered delta-sigma quantization, which was previously applicable only for the symmetric descriptions case.


. Sequential reactive systems represent programs that interact with the environment by receiving signals or requests and react to these requests by performing operations with data. Such systems simulate various software like computer drivers, real-time systems, control procedures, online protocols etc. In this paper, we study the verification problem for the programs of this kind. We use finite state transducers over semigroups as formal models of reactive systems. We introduce a new specification language LP-CTL* to describe the behavior of transducers. This language is based on the well-known temporal logic CTL* and has two distinguished features: 1) each temporal operator is parameterized with a regular expression over input alphabet of the transducer, and 2) each atomic proposition is specified by a regular expression over the output alphabet of the transducer. We develop a tabular algorithm for model checking of finite state transducers over semigroups against LP-CTL* formulae, prove its correctness, and estimate its complexity. We also consider a special fragment of LP-CTL* language, where temporal operators are parameterized with regular expressions over one-letter alphabet, and show that this fragment may be used to specify usual Kripke structures, while it is more expressive than usual CTL*.


Abstract: Rapid response teams (RRTs) have been in existence for nearly 25 years.1 The team's purpose is to assess and manage patients who experience acute clinical deterioration. The critical care nurse performs a vital role in the function of the team. This article reviews the composition, responsibilities, and common challenges of RRTs.


Problem Some members of the Augusta First Seventh-day Adventist Church felt the writings of Ellen G. White were irrelevant and thus had no influence in their spiritual life. The church members had dismissed her writings in their spiritual journeys and instead read the works of more contemporary authors. This group seemed to be apathetic to the matter of Ellen White as a prophet, and some avoided her written work all together. A contributing factor to this indifference might have been a lack of devotional reading of her books on the Bible story. By addressing this lack of devotional reading, I thought some might find Ellen G. White's writings more relevant. Method A strategy was implemented to preach a series of sermons, implement small group discussions and create a supplemental reading plan to effect changes in the reading habits and patterns of the members of the Augusta First Seventh-day Adventist Church regarding their reading of Ellen G. White's writings on the Bible. Patriarchs and Prophets was the book of choice, and a reading plan was shared with members of the congregation to guide them in their regular reading. A survey conducted before and after the sermon series was used to gauge changes in reading behavior. Results The overall reading of Ellen G. White's works on the Bible story increased during the course of the project. Although attitudes toward Ellen G. White as a prophet remained unchanged, there was in fact a significant increase in the congregation's reading of Patriarchs and Prophets. There were only slight changes and impacts on the congregation's overall devotional patterns or in their Bible reading habits because of the sermon series. A positive result of the project was getting those who had never read Ellen G. White to give her a try. A shift in reading patterns of the congregation was demonstrated from non-Seventh-day Adventist Christian writers to the works of Ellen G. White. Conclusions The project was a success because the key goal was achieved. At the end of the project, more people within the congregation were reading the works Ellen G. White wrote about the Bible story and there was a significant increase in those reading Patriarchs and Prophets. More research is merited and needed in the area of understanding reading patterns within the works of Ellen G. White and who is reading them. There is a glaring absence of research in the area of seeking to understand potential benefits and effects of reading the writings of Ellen G. White.


We construct a new theory for transient aspects of the shear rheology of entangled chain liquids. Within an established tube model constitutive equation framework, four new physical features are introduced: a tension blob scaling derivation of the interchain grip force that generates chain stretch, a force imbalance condition for the termination of affine stretch deformation, a delayed chain retraction process that after loss of grip is accelerated for fast deformations, and a distribution of tube diameters. Nonclassical predictions are made for the stress-strain curve to just beyond the overshoot, the existence of a master curve, and fractional power law scaling of the overshoot strain and stress at high shear rates, all in good agreement with experiment and simulation. Testable new predictions are made for chain stretch dynamics.


On the basis of Kane's band model the authors apply the envelope-function method to calculate the superlattice states. Inserting these results into Kubo's formula the dynamical conductivity for interband transitions is derived. Adding the lattice contribution of the dielectric function they obtain the complex refractive index. Their results are compared with experimentally determined absorption coefficients, measured with Fourier transform spectroscopy on MBE-grown superlattices fabricated on a Riber 2300 system at the authors institute.


Traditionally, test cases are executed sequentially due to the dependency of test data. For large system level test suites, when a test session can take hours or even days, sequential execution does not satisfy any more the industrial demands for short lead times and fast feed-back cycles. Parallel test execution has appeared as an appealing option to cut down on the test execution time. However, running tests in parallel is not a trivial task due to dependencies and constraints between tests cases. Therefore, we propose an approach to parallelize test execution based on the available resources, constraints between tests, and the duration of tests that creates parallel test execution schedules that can be run in multiple testing environments simultaneously. We formulate and solve the problem as Ant Colony System, in order to find a nearoptimal solution.


This study discussedXue Shao Hui's feminist point of view by analyzing her ten poems on Lessons for Women. Comparing Xue's ten poems and Commandments for Women, authored by Ban Zhao, a female role model whom Xue highly praised, and this study demonstrated the internal change of education for women in late Qing Dynasty, when the society was confronted with the challenge of modern thinking. Reflecting on the problem arising from intellectuals advocating for feminist studies, Xue renewed the affirmation for traditional education for women, and she constructed her ideal qualities of women: being talented, wise and virtuous, and valiant. She acclaimed both female talents and Confucian etiquette. However, the image of women that Xue constructed was no longer the oppressed and the weak in Ban Zhao's historical conditions. Rather, she believed that women chose to meet traditional expectations on them because they affirmed the value of families. Furthermore, she drew on the concept of self-cultivation from Confucianism to regulate herself. Judging from Xue's attitude toward Confucianism, this study concluded that women started to have subjective perspectives, rather than adopting a mere objective role.


Multi-Agent system (MAS) is used to control the radiation noise in a rectangular enclosure, which is surrounded by two flexible plates and four rigid plates. The noise is generateded by the vibration of the exciting flexible plane. A MAS is established to coordinate the active noise control method, and these agents are controlled by a coordination object which includes compete and cooperative rules. These agents are competitiveness, so the MAS can provide fault-tolerant capabilities for the control mechanism. Meanwhile, these agents are independent and modular, and can be used in "Plug-and-Play" control field. The formula is derivate to calculate the sound pressure in the enclosure when there some point forces applied on the flexible plates, and the simulation shows using MAS to control the noise in the cavity is effective.


Intravenous injections of sedative drugs had the following effects on the pial arteries of anesthetized animals:

1. Dial caused chiefly dilation, but the effect was neither constant nor large.

2. Avertin fluid (avertin crystals plus amylene hydrate and water) caused dilation. This response was fairly consistent and of large extent.

3. Avertin crystals (aqueous solution) caused dilation. Occasionally this was followed by a slow constriction of relatively long duration.

4. Amylene hydrate caused dilation, but this was usually complicated by a change in blood pressure.

5. Acetanilide caused no change in calibre, but a definite change in color of the blood in the pial vessels. This change was from red to brownish red with a purple tint—suggestive of cyanosis.

6. Sodium bromide (injected intravenously at ordinary rate) caused no change in diameter of the pial arteries.


Biographical factors related to academic achievement in college were identified. Academic achievement in high school was positively related to both grade in educational psychology class and college grade-point average for females and to college grade-point average for males. For women, popularity with the opposite sex was negatively related to college grade-point average. For men, parental warmth was negatively related to college grade-point average. Athletic participation was negatively related to grade in educational psychology for both sexes.


We have analyzed in this study the selectivity of an overoxidized polypyrrole/superoxide dismutase (SOD) coated platinum electrode towards the biosensing of superoxide anion in phosphate buffer solution (pH 7.4). We have dismanteled the different steps involved in the construction of this biosensor to provide a technical examination of its way of working. Our investigation showed that if the overoxidized polypyrrole coating is not permeable to hydrogen peroxide from the bulk solution, no amperometric signal due to the oxidation of hydrogen peroxide formed within the coating by catalyzed disproportionation of O2− by SOD is observed. This may be explained in terms of anion-exclusion behavior of the overoxidized polypyrrole coating.


The impacts of climate change, including sea level and wave climate changes, may increase future erosion risks. Thus, it is important to improve knowledge of the dominant physical processes controlling medium- to long-term shoreline evolution, as well as the performance of beach evolution models reproducing past observations and predicting future changes. Empirical equilibrium beach change models may be an optimal choice at these spatial and temporal scales. Here, morphological changes at Vougot Beach (Brittany, France) are analyzed by evaluating the cross-shore evolution of contour elevations (-1 to 6m) along six intertidal beach profiles using observations and an equilibrium beach change model, and then three methods for estimating the impacts of climate change are applied and compared.Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/p70KuzjR1kU


During the last decade a number of advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions have been developed to assist in the management of business processes and working environments. Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) tagging technology and mobile computing are two such technologies which have been adopted for use in hybrid systems because they can monitor and manage industrial health, safety and welfare activities. Set within a construction plant and machinery context, this research paper presents some critical reflections for addressing soft issues pertaining to customer-focused sitesafety applications. The objective being to embed soft issues within the very design of emerging technology applications, for proactive health and safety management system. While emerging disruptive technologies have opened a pavilion for growth and innovation for site safety,the optimum diffusion of these technologies have clearly reiterated the need for soft-factors to be addressed at a broader perspective. This research thus endeavors to address industrial sitesafety risks by rendering critical reflections of the soft issues capitalized through scenario planning. Soft factors present an area that requires further in depth research in the domain of social informatics, ergonomics and industrial psychology. These critical reflections reside in the domain of system effectiveness, proactive nature of the system, practicality of the system, system usability and financial feasibility. Scenario-planning in these domains is expected to enhance the ICT diffusion and optimum the utilization of emerging technologies so as to minimize risks through realistic-proactive-system for plant (and site safety). This would boost the practical and proactive ICT based systems with far-reaching advantages that could for example help to reduce accidents on construction sites. The design and operation of this hybrid system is entitled SightSafety and is based on end-user needs identified through requirement analysis and scenario generation.


Objective. To describe the sonographic features of diastrophic dysplasia in 2 second‐trimester index offspring.Methods. Real‐time sonography was performed on 2 second‐trimester fetuses with no risk factors for skeletal dysplasia.Results. Each fetus had severe bilateral upper and lower extremity long bone shortening, hitchhiker thumbs and great toes, and clubbed feet, indicating a diagnosis of diastrophic dysplasia.Conclusions. Index cases of diastrophic dysplasia may be correctly diagnosed on the basis of second‐trimester sonography.


Fog collectors have gained increasing attention as an efficient solution to overcome the water scarcity concerns in arid and semiarid environments. Besides the rapid advances made in various collector designs, the role of geometrical characteristics of the fog collector meshes is not fully understood. Therefore, the main objective of the present research is to address this issue and investigate the effects of textile features on the efficiency of conventional meshes which has not been discussed in previous works. The collection efficiencies of various conventional structures (plain-woven, plain-knitted, and 3-D spacer) with different characteristics (fiber diameter, fiber spacing, fiber arrangement, shading coefficient, and test direction) were investigated using a custom-made fog collecting device. The weight of collected water over time and the onset time were measured to assess the performance of different samples. Moreover, a simple simulation of a plain-woven structure was developed using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to perform further analysis. The results revealed that in the woven structure, the collection efficiency was improved by changing the shading coefficient to an optimum value and simultaneous decreasing fiber diameter. In the spacer fabrics, the position and arrangement of the spacer fibers posed considerable effects on the collection efficiency. 3-D spacer meshes showed highest value of collection efficiencies and onset time in comparison to the other examined meshes. The results of simulation of woven structures were also validated by comparing computed and measured collection efficiencies.


Breast cancer is the most common type of malignant tumor and the main cause of cancer mortality in women worldwide1. In general, a multidisciplinary therapeutic approach comprising surgical, medical, and radiation oncology is needed for the optimal management of breast cancer; this combination is correlated with improved overall survival rates2. After breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy, post-operative radiation therapy decreases cancer mortality and loco-regional relapse rates in most breast cancer patients3,4. Historically, conventionally-used radiation doses ranged from 50 to 50.4 Gy in fractions of 1.8 to 2.0 Gy over the course of 25 to 28 days. This dose was empirically confirmed based on the hypothesis this schedule was safe and effective. This idea was enhanced by studies that assessed early skills of the moderately hypofractionated whole breast irradiation practice; however, these reports used obsolete and incorrect radiobiological models and outmoded devices of treatment delivery and calculation, hence exhibiting unacceptably high rates of side effects5,6. Nonetheless, other groups posteriorly provided assessments of normal-tissue damage and fraction size in breast tumors developing the current protocols of moderately hypofractionated wholebreast irradiation which involved fraction ranges up to nearby 3 Gy pooled with an abridged total dose delivered over a shorter period of time (e.g., three weeks). This schedule attained radiobiological equivalence to the conventional radiation doses7,8. Long term follow-up in large clinical trials sustained the efficacy and safety of the moderately hypofractionated whole breast irradiation practices9-11. In fact, the all-purpose engagement of hypofractionation can serve to reduce the therapeutic period, decreasing the total number of fractions, and offering a more convenient treatment schedule for patients. Moreover, hypofractionation can also increase patients` access to oncology centers (particular importance for countries with limited resources with restricted radiation therapy assets), decrease indirect costs associated with work breaks and travel to the medical care center, and reduce treatment costs12,13. Now, the first tumor-results associated endpoint assessment from the FAST Forward trial was published, which offers a treatment extreme hypofractionated schedule of just five fractions in five consecutive days for patients with early breast cancer14. In this timely, multicenter, non-inferiority, prospective phase 3 randomised trial, 4,096 patients (pT1–3, pN0–1, M0) were randomly allocated into three groups to receive moderated hypofractionated RT (15x2.67 Gy; over three weeks) or two schedules of ultra-hypofractionated RT over one week (5x5.2 Gy – 26 Gy or 5x5.4 Gy – 27 Gy) directed to the whole breast or chest wall. No statistically significant difference in the 5-year cumulative incidence of breast tumor relapse among the groups was found (2.3% in moderated hypofractionated RT versus 2.0% in 27 Gy versus 1.5% in 26 Gy). Likewise, the acute and late adverse events were similar in the groups, apart from a higher late normal tissue effect in the 27 Gy RT arm. We would therefore certainly not consider the highlighted results for 26 Gy versus 40 Gy for breast distortion and breast/chest wall oedema clinically relevant. The other highlighted result, the one for breast induration outside the tumor bed, is statistically significant at p<0.0001; however, it is hard to maintain for clinical significance with the demonstrated 5-year moderate/marked events rates only 0.1% in 40 Gy and 1.9% in 26 Gy. In fact, the side effects are properly low across all of the endpoints, regardless the treatment schedule14. Hence, it should be recognized that the clinical outcomes of this trial could support the adoption of 26 Gy in 5 consecutive daily fractions as a treatment option for most of early breast cancer patients in the near future.


Nowadays, power electronics-based renewable energy sources gradually replace conventional fossil fuel-based energy generations. Therefore, to quantitatively analyze the complex grid-converter interactions brought by this ongoing global grid transformation, impedance-based methods have been found increasingly accepted and adopted in recent years. With the help of harmonic linearization, in this paper, the input impedance of a grid-connected three-phase voltage source converter with dc-link voltage control is investigated. The derived impedance expressions consider the dynamics of dc-link voltage regulation, operation modes, and PLL dynamics. Additionally, the frequency coupling effects brought by grid-converter interactions are also been effectively described. At last, a point-by-point frequency scanning is conducted by Matlab/Simulink, whose results are consistent with the theoretical analysis.


To broaden magneto-optical disk application, the most important issue is a remarkable increase of recording density. This paper firstly opens magnetic multi-valued (MMV) MO disk. Especially, here, quadri-valued MO recording was studied by a field modulation overwriting method using a new layer structured disk. Such attempt gives very attractive approach to make double or more higher capacity disk not depending on laser wavelength.


Based on the system performance comparison among some kinds of satellite mobile communication systems and the consideration of the cost and the extent of realization,the GEO system is more propitious to regional satellite mobile communication system.Vehicle-mounted station of satellite mobile communication is the key device to realize land mobile satellite communication system.The calculation methods of occupancy rates of bandwidth and power of satellite transponder in mobile communication system design are described in this paper.How to choose the size of antenna and the type of the station is analyzed and discussed.Some suggestions are given for choosing antenna and type of the station.


The ring closing metathesis reaction has become a powerful and, thus, ubiquitous method for preparing medium and large ring systems. 1 Ruthenium-based catalysts such as 1 and2 (Figure 1) have been employed to produce a diversity of compounds including natural products, 2 artificial polymers, 3 and mechanically interlocked compounds. 4 Macrocyclic systems using the ring-closing metathesis (RCM) reaction such as metallomacrocycles, 5 nanotubes, 6 monomolecularly imprinted dendrimers (MIDs),7 and a triply threaded molecular bundle 8 have been described. A monometallic complex has been used as a template to ensure the desired geometry in the synthesis of metallomacrocycles, 5 catenanes, 9 molecular knots, 10 and molecular wires. 11


Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) could extend the shelf life of the meat products 'cevapcici'. Gas mixtures with higher level of oxygen (O2) have favourable impact on maintenance of bright red color as most important sensory characteristic of fresh meat in the retail. Modified atmosphere packaging of 'cevapcici' is rarely present on Serbian market. The aim of this study was to determine the microbiological, sensory and chemical changes of MAP packaged 'cevapcici' in gas mixture consisting of 70% O2 and 30% CO2. Such packaged samples were stored for 10 days at +3oC. Microbiological examination comprised determination of pathogenic microorganisms (Salmonella spp, coagulase positive staphylococci, E. Coli and Listeria monocytogenes) as well as indicators of hygiene and spoilage (Total Viable Count, Psychrotrophic Bacteria, Enterobacteriaceae, Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bronchothrix thermosphacta). The samples were examined every day. Using quantitative-descriptive test with grading scale from one to five sensory properties of 'cevapcici' were asessed (color and odour in raw condition and odour, consistency and taste after roasting) on 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th day. Regarding the chemical parameters, every day during the experiment pH value was examined and on 4th and 8th day examination included acid value and peroxid number. On the basis of the optained results, as well as based on the recomanded Total Viable Count, which should not be higher than 7 log cfu/g, and taking into consideration sensory properties, we can conclude that 'cevapcici' packed in the modified atmosphere containing 70 % O2 and 30% CO2 had shelf life of 7 days.


The present invention discloses a disinfectant and its preparation method and application. The disinfectant and B comprises the following components Component A: Component B: the organic acid and / or an organic borate; Component A: a quaternary ammonium salt type cationic surfactant, wherein the hydrophobic group containing at least 10 carbon atoms the hydrophilic group is a cationic nitrogen atom. Strong bactericidal disinfectant of the present invention provides a sterilization efficiency up to 99.9999%; the surface of the object disinfectant corrosive and human, are less irritant and toxic. And the surface of the object may be disinfected with this body surface disinfectant for contact lenses and medical devices sterilized to prevent transmission of microorganisms by contact between people and objects, and can overcome the existing products on human bactericidal intensity and low irritation the drawback to fill gaps in the market.


Differences in regional cerebral autoregulation (CA) may be responsible for localized vulnerability of cerebral ischaemia. This study was aimed to assess the anterior and posterior CA seperately an...


The article investigates the nature of "spectral" or ghostly writing by retracing notions of loss and mourning from Jacques Derrida's "Memoires" in Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room." It analyzes notions of name, naming, and absence of the named in Woolf's text. The author suggests that Jacob's room shows the possibility of a certain text, outside the coordinates of which Jacob's name does not make any sense.


Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1) plays a pivotal role in tissue remodeling processes, such as inflammation, wound healing and cancer invasion. Experimental results have pointed to a role in angiogenesis, cell proliferation, apoptosis and in malignant transformation. In clinical investigations high tumor tissue or plasma levels of TIMP-1 have been shown to have a strong and independent association with shorter survival time for breast and colorectal cancer patients, respectively. The purpose of this study has been to develop and characterize new anti-TIMP-1 monoclonal antibodies that may be useful in future development of TIMP-1 immunoassays.Peptide-based epitope mapping reveals linear epitopes. Surface plasmon resonance was used to determine antibody affinity and ability of antibodies to sandwich with each other. Antigen recognition was tested using ELISA and a chemiluminescence microtiter immunoassay format. Three antibodies recognized linear peptides. Estimated antibody affinities for TIMP-1 ranged from 6.6 × 108 to>1010 1/M. Antibodies demonstrated different abilities in 'capture' and 'detection' positions in the sandwich experiment. All antibody pairs bound TIMP-1:ProMMP-9 complexes. TIMP-1:MMP-9 complexes were marginally reactive with five antibody pairs. The results suggest that the antibodies are unique. They may be useful in designing assays that recognize various forms of TIMP-1. Future studies will clarify whether the use of different combinations of antibodies will increase the clinical value of TIMP-1 measurements in the treatment of cancer patients.


894 Glomus tumors (GLTs) or glomus gliomas are benign tumors which often appear as bluish nodules. In our clinic, we have seen a 16-year-old man who had a total of nine bluish soft nodules on his trunk and arms, which, on biopsy, were shown to be GLTs (Figs 1-2). The lesions ranged from 0.2 to 0.6 cm in diameter with the largest ones being somewhat painful. His family history was significant for a younger sister who had seizures secondary to an arteriovenous malformation, but no GLTs. The patient's computed tomography (CT) scan of the head was negative for any vascular abnormalities. This patient's presentation stimulated us to review the current literature on multiple GLTs and to present a survey of the various cases listed in the literature. ' '•! ; \v ,• • 1


Introduction Part I. America: The Land of Promise The Game of Jewish Demography Out of the Faith Orthodoxy Resurgent Republicans, Democrats and American Jews Part II. Israel: The Promised Land Haredim and Emunism: Religious Extremism and Israeli Life Settlers from the New World The Insoluble Dilemma Part III. Zionism: Keeping the Promise Alive American Zionism: Continuity and Change Yordim: Zionism in Reverse Whither Soviet Jewry Bibliography Index About the Author


This paper presents a feedback control design for an isolated freeway ramp that utilizes a hybrid dynamical model for the traffic using Godunov's numerical technique. Feedback ramp metering designs in the past have relied on either discretized linearized method such as ALINEA, or nonlinear feedback designs based on ordinary differential equations for the traffic model. However, lumped parameter models fail to represent the rarefaction wave phenomenon of the distrbuted model. This paper uses Godunov based hybrid lumped model based on which feedback control design is proposed, and simulation results for the model are presented.


The presence and nature of surface species formed on a nickel electrode after polarisation in 0.5 mol dm–3 sulphuric acid and 0.5 mol dm–3 sulphuric acid + 0.005 mol dm–3 nickel sulphate has been investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The film produced in the active, prepassive, passive and transpassive regions was studied. Nine different species were detected including two sulphur species. In all cases the electrode was transferred to the spectrometer under nitrogen to minimise air oxidation of the metal or film.The binding energies and intensities of the photoelectron peaks were analysed and showed the presence of NiO and Ni(OH)2. The thickness of the film in the passive and transpassive regions was calculated, assuming a continuous layer, as 10–20 A.


Probability of occurrence of three kinds of iron atoms is measured using Mossbauer spectroscopy at room temperature in commercial silicon steels. Probability obtained shows a marked deviation from binomial distribution of random solution. The deviation is observed after the heat treatment of steel disordered by plastic deformation during manufacturing process of grain oriented steel. Two phases of ordering of Fe15Si type with more Si concentration than 6.25at% and with less Si concentration are suggested to exist in commercial steels.


Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with bearing target tracking capability are fundamental and essential. However, they face the problems of high nonlinearity, difficult target trajectory initialization, and poor multi-target tracking (MTT) performance. Consequently, we adopt a novel MTT method for multi-AUV based on the fast Labeled Multi-Bernoulli (LMB) filter. In this method, the LMB filter uses belief propagation (BP) to solve the data association problem quickly and effectively approximate the LMB during the update step. And a Gaussian mixture approximation is used to determine the new potential target trajectory based on individual AUV-bearing measurements. Furthermore, we employ the iterator-corrector strategy to perform the fast LMB filter for multi-AUV. The simulation results show that the method performs well in MTT for multi-AUV using bearing-only measurements.


Abstract—A scheme of single-line-to-ground fault location in neutral non-effectively grounded distribution systems is proposed in this article. The characteristics of phase current traveling waves and line-to-line voltage traveling waves are analyzed. The wavelet transform technique is used to extract the information of the arrival times, polarities, and amplitudes of the recorded traveling waves. The fault location scheme can simultaneously realize faulty feeder identification, fault section location, and fault position location even if only two-phase current transformers are installed in the Phases A and C and feeder terminal units only to provide line-to-line voltage information. The effectiveness and practicability of the proposed scheme have been verified by PSCAD/EMTDC simulation results.


Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Conflicts of interest: there are no conflicts of interest to declare. Abstract Objective: To identify and analyze knowledge about the relationship between leadership and nursing job satisfaction. Methods: An integrative review of the MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed, Web of Science, and LILACS databases to answer the guiding question: What knowledge was produced about the relationship between leadership and nursing job satisfaction in the period from 2011 to 2016? Searches were made to obtain articles, theses, dissertations, and reviews (systematic, narrative and integrative); opinion articles and editorials were excluded. The searches were carried out between October 2016 and January 2017, using the inclusion criteria: primary articles; full text available; written in English, Portuguese or Spanish; and published in the last six years (2011-2016). The extraction of study results was carried out by two reviewers, who defined four thematic categories, with the purpose of analyzing the data obtained in the articles and comparing them with the literature. Results: Out of a total of 582 articles, 15 were selected; four categories were established: the use of the theoretical reference of leadership in the construction of the articles; the use of instruments to measure leadership and job satisfaction, and the correlation between these variables; the predominance of nursing leadership in the hospital setting; and the direct and indirect relationship between leadership and job satisfaction. Conclusion: The results showed that nursing leadership has a positive and significant impact on job satisfaction, and the need to develop this competency in nursing professionals was demonstrated.


Hepatitis E(HE)is one of the common cause of acute,fecally transmitted hepatitis in many developing countries with high incidence in young adults,and high mortality in pregnant women,which causes waterborne or food-borne infection and occurs sporadically or as epidemic outbreaks.HE becomes one of the major problem of global public health.This article will review the epidemiological progress of HE,such as character of distribution,reservoir of infection,route of transmission,population susceptibility and related issues.


The topic of nation-building is of enormous significance to both scholars and policymakers. Path dependence, a key theory of historical institutionalism, yields a great deal of insights into the extent to which conditions are favorable for outside actors to impose an institutional framework on a given society. Path dependence reveals several important variables that should be considered carefully in nation-building research. These variables include the effects of conflict on an occupied society, surviving institutions drawn upon by an occupier undertaking a policy of imposed nation-building, and the presence of a clear, salient national identity among the occupied society. This essay explores these variables with respect to four cases of outside-imposed nation-building to show the clearly divergent outcomes and their relationship to the variables of concern to a path dependence approach to the concept. Conclusions here are firmly in line with critiques of liberal peacebuilding as a universal template for imposed development.


Medical certification of cause of death (MCCD) is being issued on every death insident in every hospital of Indonesia. MCCD consists of two part; part 1 would record with those conditions in the causal link that leading to death and part 2 would fill with other condition that significant in contributing to death. Leading cause of death are defined as Underlying Cause of  Death  (UCoD). The quality of it may varies considering to a medically qualified doctor who record it. This study aims to determine the completeness of MCCD and the accuracy of UCoD. The research design used was non experimental with retrospective approach. The sample in this study is Medical certification of cause of death in January to April 2017; 106. Large MCCD classified as incomplete that is equal to 45,28% and from 55,17% categorized not accurate. The conclusion of this research is that the incomplete SMPK will not apply.


Germanium was deposited on Si(111) 7×7 by the adsorption and thermal decomposition of diethylgermane [(CH3CH2)2GeH2] (DEG). The DEG reaction products were CH2■CH2 and H2, which desorbed at 700 and 800 K, respectively, as observed by laser‐induced thermal desorption and temperature programmed desorption techniques. The desorption of atomic Ge was also monitored at approximately 1200 K. The production of ethylene was consistent with a β‐hydride elimination mechanism for the surface ethyl groups, i.e., Ge—CH2CH3→GeH+CH2■CH2. The initial sticking coefficient of DEG decreased with increasing surface temperature and a saturation coverage was obtained after exposures of E≳700 L at 200 K. This saturation behavior indicates that DEG may be useful for the controlled growth of Ge atomic layers on silicon surfaces.


"Exposing the penalty,combined with Confucianism" directly highlighted the penalty doctrine,far less the effect of "ethics-based,supplemented by the penal code" whitewashed the ruling class"benevolent" and therefore difficult to obtain the favor of the ruling class before the Song Dynasty.In order to strengthen the political functions of the feudal state,Zhu Xi had been paying close attention to the specific structure of the ancient legal system,giving a new annotation of the Confucian tradition "ethics-based,supplemented by the penal code",making a further elucidation of the principles of the rule of law on "exposing the penalty,combined with Confucianism",and adding many new connotation to it.


Experimental data obtained at the Yakutsk array after the modernization in 1993 are analyzed. The characteristics of EAS longitudinal and radial development found from the charged particle flux and EAS ˇ Cerenkov light registered at the Yakutsk complex array are presented. The energy spectrum of EAS obtained from ˇ Cerenkov light and an estimate of the PCR mass composition are presented.


A new registration algorithm based on pseudo-log-polar Fourier transform (PLPFT) for estimating large translations, rotations, and scalings in images is developed. The PLPFT, which is calculated at points distributed at nonlinear increased concentric squares, approximates log-polar Fourier representations of images accurately. In addition, it can be calculated quickly by utilizing the Fourier separability property and the fractional fast Fourier transform. Using the log-polar Fourier representations and cross-power spectrum method, we can estimate the rotations and scalings in images and obtain translations later. Experimental results have verified the robustness and high accuracy of this algorithm.


We thank Chuah et al 1 for their interest in our study reporting on the course of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a case series of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) under long-term treatment with hydroxychloroquine.2 Chuah et al point to an indirect consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reluctance of patients to come to the hospital because of the fear to contract COVID-19 that is reinforced by the awareness of the contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2. The experience of Chuah et al is instructive in this regard. The authors observed a decline of 65.4% in the SLE hospitalisation rate in their medical centre during the containment period, as compared with the same period in 2019. Moreover, five out of the six new patients with SLE presented to the hospital long after the first clinical manifestations. This finding should be put into perspective with the increase in the number of in-hospital deaths of patients with SLE related to infections apparently independent of SARS-CoV-2, which suggests a harmful increase in the diagnostic delay and/or in the …


The TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite altimeter mission has measured sea level on a global basis over the last 4 years at 10 day intervals. After correcting for a recently discovered error in the measurements, the estimated rate of global mean sea level change over this time period is −0.2 mm/year. Comparisons to tide gauge sea levels measured in spatial and temporal proximity to the satellite measurements suggest there is a residual drift in the satellite measurement system of −2.3±1.2 mm/year, the origin of which is presently unknown. Application of this rate correction yields a "calibrated" estimate of +2.1±1.3 mm/year for the rate of sea level rise, which agrees statistically with tide gauge observations of sea level change over the last 50 years. Since the contribution of interannual and decadal mean sea level variations cannot presently be isolated, a longer time series is required before long‐term climate change signals can be detected. In addition, an improved understanding of the T/P measurement system performance with time is needed.


Introduction: The Return of Feminist Liberalism 1. The Feminist Critique of Liberalism PART I The Feminist Liberalism of Susan Moller Okin 2. Injustices, Gender, Families 3. Defining Okin's Liberalism 4. He Said, She Said: The Rawls/Okin Debate 5. When Liberal Meanings are not Shared 6. Going Global PART II The Feminist Liberalism of Jean Hampton 7. Contracting for Feminism 8. Kantian Feminism PART III The Feminist Liberalism of Martha Nussbaum 9. An Original Position 10. What Women Want 11. Capabilities for Care PART IV Contemporary Feminist Liberalism 12. In the Company of Critics 13. Persuasive Universalism and Political Liberalism 14. Transformative Liberalisms Conclusion


This article manly talks about the atomic state formed by jj coupling of the non-electrons on the subshell and the atomic state formed by jj coupling of the electrons on the subs hell. It also shows that the numbers of the atomic state formed by the two way of coupling are same.


Experimental information-retrieval systems for telephone directory assistance and for filing office correspondence utilizing a superimposed-coded partial-match-retrieval scheme have been implemented. This extended-hash-code methodology permits the integration into the system of such user-oriented features as overlapping the query input and database search processes to give rapid apparent response, continual feedback to the user of the progress of the search, and abbreviation of keys by truncation. Simple coding and retrieval logic allow updating and rapid response to be achieved easily in either software or hardware realizations. The flexibility of the technique offers special advantages when casual users with fragmentary and ill-formulated queries need to approach a computerized information-retrieval system.


[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].ABSTRACT The actual task of the current stage of adaptation of organizations to the requirements of a market economy is the scientifically based design of management structures. The structure adequate to the market becomes the most important condition for effective functioning and development of any autonomous subject of the transformations taking place in society. This is especially indicative for such a dynamic branch of the economy as transport. The article is devoted to the research of scientific approaches to organizational and staff policy in the organizations of transport and transport education. The system of trends influencing organizational changes is proposed, the range and structural features, levels of system complexity of the project solutions being prepared are determined. Keywords: organizational and staff policy, design of organizational structure, transport company, optimization, system, management structure.


In the current work the changes in a crystalline structure and the change of magnetic and resonant properties occurring in the powder of fullerite, deformed under conditions of free upsetting at room temperature have been investigated. The analysis of the ratio of the discovered broadening of x- ray reflexes allows believing that broadening is caused by microstresses, which have rather a great value. According to ESR research data the supposition has been made that torn off valence bonds of atoms of carbon, which appear because of mechanical damages under the deformation, are responsible for the changes of magnetic properties observed.


Examination sociology is an emerging subject.A lot of research has been made in this area.Some sociologists in west countries exam the origin and function of examination from the angle of sociology,such as Foucault and Hawkins.Research of scholars in China mainly focuses on the topics:the relationship between examination and social control and social classification and justice and social life and so on.Examination sociology has a long way to go.


This systematically researched book, authored by a leading authority in international and in U.S.-Canadian relations, examines, inter din, major challenges to liberal democracy posed by divisive nationalisms, and US. perspectives on the post1995 referendum developments of Quebec nationalism. Doran continues with the likelihood of Quebec independence, and of the subsequent unraveling of the Rest of Canada (ROC), comparisons of Quebec nationalism with that in other democratic industrialized states, probable economic costs of "separation" to Quebec and the ROC, and impacts of such Canadian developments on the basic interests of the US. Doran's analysis projects generally more negative developments and consequences for Quebec, Canada, and the US. than do most Canadians of either official language and other North Americans who follow US.-Canadian affairs, including this reviewer. Nevertheless, he systematically copes with the basic phenomena involved and posits potential outcomes generally ignored by others. Those interested in US.Canadian relations and the larger U.S. foreign-policy community would very much profit from reading this book. Doran's book is far too wide ranging for a brief review to summarize and critique more than its central arguments, and will therefore focus on fundamental policy issues the author raises re Quebec, the ROC, and the U.S. Doran repeatedly describes Quebec supporters of sovereignty, special status for the French-speaking province within the Canadian federation recognizing politically and constitutionally its distinct language and culture, and others who prefer to remain part of a constitutionally reformed Canada as separatists, secessionists, independentists, and the like. The one unfortunate public use of "separatist" by then Premier Lucien Bouchard (before a business audience in New York, where that term has been widely adopted from English Canadians) notwithstanding, for nearly thirtyfive years polls have documented that such terms have been descriptive of and accepted as applying to themselves by only a rather limited minority of Quebeckers, mostly among a radical minority of PQ (Parti Quebecois) activists. Of those who expressed a preference,successive Quebec majorities have preferred either the constitutional status quo, or that Quebec remain within a somewhat asymmetrical Canada that recognized politically and constitutionally their obvious cultural and linguistic uniqueness (42 percent in summer, 2002). I believe that had the Newfoundland and Manitoba parliaments accepted the Lake Meech Accord, even that minimal, mostly symbolic Canadian recognition of Quebec's distinctiveness would have been enough to have put that issue on the backburner of Quebec and thereby of Canadian politics


The standard degree analysis of gradability in English holds that the function of degree morphology, such as the comparative, measure phrases, and degree adverbs, is to bind a degree variable located in the lexical semantics of gradable predicates. In this paper, I investigate gradation structures in Washo (isolate/Hokan), and claim that this language systematically lacks degree morphology of this sort. I propose that this gap in the functional inventory of Washo stems from a parameter on whether languages are able to introduce degree variables into the logical form that can be bound by such operators, providing further cross-linguistic support for a similar proposal made by Beck et al. (2009) for Motu (Austronesian). Specifically, I argue that gradable predicates in Washo do not introduce a degree variable. Consequently, if we assume that gradable predicates in English are type ⟨d, ⟨e, t⟩⟩, then Washo and English must differ in their lexical semantics for gradable predicates. Alternatively, if we want to maintain lexical uniformity between the two languages (i.e., that gradable predicates in English don't themselves introduce degrees), then we must place variation at the level of a grammatical mechanism that introduces degrees in English for degree operators to bind, but which is lacking in Washo. The results of this investigation thus inform questions about the nature of cross-linguistic variation, specifically the division of labor between variation in functional categories and the lexicon.

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The differential resistance of an avalanching p+nn+junction is used to obtain the electron drift velocity at electric fields where significant avalanching is occurring (2 × 105< E < 4 × 105V/cm). The velocity is also obtained as a function of temperature and is consistent with energetic phonon scattering.


For conventional clustering segmentation of a color image, it is necessary to predetermine cluster number and centers of the color image. If they are not appropriately predetermined, results of segmentation may become considerably worse. To fulfill unsupervised clustering segmentation of visual color images for a mobile robot, this paper proposes a multiprototypes-take-one-cluster (MPTOC) strategy and splitting-merging competitive learning (SMCL). Based on MPTOC, SMCL can adaptively detect the appropriate cluster number of color images. An experiment on the mobile robot CASIA-1 validates MPTOC and SMCL.


This paper present an adaptive predictive functional control algorithm based on Laguerre model. Performance of the closed-loop system is discussed and stability condition is given based on Lyapunov stability theory. A parameter adjusting method depended on chaotic optimization is introduced. Proposed in this paper reduced online computation significantly and presented strong robustness. The effectiveness tested by simulation


Anomalous infrasound waves were recorded at five infrasonic monitoring stations four days before a small earthquake which happened in Beijing on 12 October 2011. Waveforms of these five signals are consistent, which are N-shaped impulse waves with same duration of about one hour. Using the Wigner-Ville distribution method, time-frequency analysis of the signals suggests that waves' energies concentrate mainly below the frequency of 0.025 Hz. Correlation coefficients between two signals are all up to about 0.8. The infrasonic source is imaged and located by the method of beamforming, and the results show that distance between the source and epicenter is about 5 km. This study proves that low-frequency atmospheric infrasonic waves may appear before earthquakes, so valuable information could be provided by studying this kind of infrasonic waves.


Objective quanti fi cation of aesthetic outcomes has long proven challenging in craniofacial surgery given the complexity of patient presentations, diversity of procedures performed


The cold drawing of fibers spun from a melt blended mixture of nylon and certain linear thermoplastic polymers provides a soil resistant, soil hiding fiber that is particularly suitable for use in carpets.


Globally, breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. Thermography, a functional examination that considers the body temperature variation, emerges as an alternative to monitor cancer during the neoadjuvant treatment. Few studies investigate the feasibility of this examination to assess tumor response. This study works in this context. We analyzed if there are significant differences in the temperature data of a group of patients when evaluating the pre and post-treatment under four different scenarios and two different regions of interest. Our results revealed that thermographic examinations are a promising alternative for monitoring breast cancer, with statistical differences for all analyses and scenarios addressed in this study.