An initial flowsheet for the dissolution of sand, slag, and crucible (SS{ampersand}C) was developed for the F- Canyon dissolvers as an alternative to dissolution in FB-Line. In that flowsheet, the sand fines were separated from the slag chunks and crucible fragments. Those two SS{ampersand}C streams were packaged separately in mild-steel cans for dissolution in the 6.4D dissolver. Nuclear safety constraints limited the dissolver charge to approximately 350 grams of plutonium in two of the three wells of the dissolver insert and required 0.23M (molar) boron as a soluble neutron poison in the 9.3M nitric acid/0.013M fluoride dissolver solution. During the first dissolution of SS{ampersand}C fines, it became apparent that a significant amount of the plutonium charged to the 6.4D dissolver did not dissolve in the time predicted by previous laboratory experiments. The extended dissolution time was attributed to fluoride complexation by boron. An extensive research and development (R{ampersand}D) program was initiated to investigate the dissolution chemistry and the physical configuration of the dissolver insert to understand what flowsheet modifications were needed to achieve a viable dissolution process.


A comprehensive study of $\ensuremath{\simeq}2.5--10\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{MeV}$ electron-irradiated Czochralski Si has been conducted using positron lifetime and Doppler broadening spectroscopies. Eight samples, ranging from heavily doped $n$ type to heavily doped $p$ type, were irradiated simultaneously at room temperature to facilitate quantitative comparisons between the samples. The influence from the oxygen impurity was also investigated by comparison with oxygen-free Si. For lightly doped materials (dopant concentration less than $5\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{16}/{\mathrm{cm}}^{3})$ the irradiation damage is dominated by free, and negatively charged divacancies for the dose employed in this work $(1.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{18}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}/{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}).$ For the heavily doped materials (dopant concentrations larger than $5\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{17}/{\mathrm{cm}}^{3})$ vacancy-dopant complexes dominate, some of which involve divacancies, and in these samples very high introduction rates $(1--4{\mathrm{cm}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}1})$ are estimated. In heavily B-doped materials evidence is found for thermally activated trapping by boron divacancy complexes. Association of divacancies with P, Sb, and B dopants was found to modify significantly the Doppler $S$ parameter relative to the value for free divacancies.


Abstract "Centering Marginalized Voices" is the second of nine Christian life rhythms explored in the upcoming book tentatively titled Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers (Chalice Press). Author Rev. Tyler Sit explains how his multiethnic, Millennial church plant in South Minneapolis (New City Church, https://GrowNewCity.church), follows Jesus in opposing racism and constructing a diverse community. Staying Awake is written to be lay-accessible and models how pastors can communicate core theological themes in the Gospel.


The enterprise information model is applicable to the establishment of the enterprise information system and can increase the success ratio.The process to establish the information model of the cadre estimation system is studied. The function model,the information model and a realization method are given.


This paper discusses on the influence of the information superhighway on the traditional library, probes into the problem of how the library to utilize and develop the information resources on the information superhighway, analyzes and forecasts the developing mode and process of the future library, and puts forward some practicing procedures and countermeasures for the construction of the future library.


We remark that Pearl's Graphoid intersection property, also called intersection property in Bayesian networks, is a particular case of a general intersection property, in the sense of intersection of coverings, for factorisation spaces, also coined as factorisation models, factor graphs or by Lauritzen in his reference book Graphical Models as hierarchical model subspaces. A particular case of this intersection property appears in Lauritzen's book as a consequence of the decomposition into interaction subspaces; the novel proof that we give of this result allows us to extend it in the most general setting. It also allows us to give a direct and new proof of the Hammersley-Clifford theorem transposing and reducing it to a corresponding statement for graphs, justifying formally the geometric intuition of independency, and extending it to non finite graphs. This intersection property is the starting point for a generalization of the decomposition into interaction subspaces to collections of vector spaces [7]. MSC2020 subject classifications: Primary 62H22, 00X00; secondary 06F25


Topical Diphencyprone Immunotherapy for Painful Nodular Acral Recurrence of Kaposi Sarcoma Goals of classic treatment of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) without visceral involvement are to control symptoms and improve function. Localized lesions are managed by surgical excision, cryotherapy, intralesional chemotherapy, or radiotherapy, which can be painful and are physician-applied treatments. Recently, less demanding treatments based on topical drugs have been proposed.1-4 We describe 2 patients who underwent successful topical immunotherapy with diphencyprone (DPCP), each for a single painful nodular localization of KS, histologically confirmed and without visceral localization, that had recurred after surgical excision. The patients were both HIV-negative, and their CD4positive lymphocyte counts were greater than 200/μL. After signing an informed consent form, patients were sensitized in the physician's office by application of a 2% DPCP solution, and the area was then occluded for 48 hours. Thereafter, the patients self-treated once weekly at home by applying a 0.2% solution and occluding the area for the following 24 hours.


In this thesis it is discussed a new class of X-ray sensors based on organic semiconductors. The detectors here presented are organic photodiodes coupled with an inorganic scintillator layer. It is discussed, how photodiode characteristics such as dark current or external quantum efficiency are influenced by the semiconductor, cathode or interlayer material, the active area of the diode, the thickness of the active layer or the solvent used during the fabrication process.


We study M(n), the number of distinct values taken by multinomial coefficients with upper entry n, and some closely related sequences. We show that both pP(n)/M(n) and M(n)/p(n) tend to zero as n goes to infinity, where pP(n) is the number of partitions of n into primes and p(n) is the total number of partitions of n. To use methods from commutative algebra, we encode partitions and multinomial coefficients as monomials.


Grain ion-exchangers, as well as ion exchange — membranes are known as crosslinked polyelectrolytes. Ion exchange membranes have been recently used as selective separators in stacks of electrodialisiss and as solid electrolytes in membrane fuel cells. Few years ago, the ion exchange membranes were used in the electrochemical converter and as model substances in biophysics. Now, the mechanism of injection and colletion of ions in dielectric liquids using either ion-exchange membranes is being studied. Controlled injection and collection processes are needed in the field of fundamental research on liquid dielectrics (conduction breakdown, electrohydrodynamics), electrooptics and liquid crystals, as well as in the field of electronic or electric engineering. Ion-exchange membranes are used as ion-collectors or as injectors.


An investigation of the hydrochemistry, macro - invertebrates fauna and fish production of three selected acadja fishing sites was carried out for six months (April - September, 2004) in the Lagos lagoon. Depth, Total suspended solid, total dissolved solid, nitrates, phosphates, sulphates, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand and chemical oxygen demand recorded high or increasing values during the rainy season while transparency and salinity showed progressively lower values. The biological oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) ranged from 70.0 to 115.0mg/l and 20.0 to 75.0mg/l respectively. A total of twenty species and eighteen genera of Macro - invertebrate were recorded. The mollusks were the most abundant and diverse phyla, followed by the crustacean and annelids. The dominant species throughout the study were Tympanoyonus fuscatus var radula, Balanus pallidus, Aloidis trigona and Mercierella enigmatica. A total of 89.80kg (38.52%) fish was harvested in Site A, 71.30kg (30.59%) in Site B and 72.0 kg (30.89%) in Site C. Sarotherodon melanotheron and Tilapia guineensis contributed 36.75% of the total weight in Site A, 34.64% in Site B and 38.75% in Site C. Twelve fish species occurred in the Site A and C while eleven fish species occurred in fishing Site B with least species diversity. The profitability indices show that 'acadja' brush park fishing practice is a profitable business in the lagoon. (Journal of American Science 2010;6(1):42-48). (ISSN: 1545-1003).


Abstract We have investigated the charge transport properties in smectic photoconductive liquid crystal of 2-phenylnaphthalene derivatives in focus on the electrical nature of the boundaries at the phase transition from liquid crystalline phase into the crystal phase. With systematic studies of charge transport and collection by transient photocurrent measurements and molecular alignment by X-ray diffraction at the phase transition, it was revealed that the defective nature of the crystalline boundaries takes the shape of shallow traps at the initial stage and of deep traps successively, and finally the polydomain allowance for the carrier transport in mesophases disappears completely when the phase transition takes place into the crystalline phases.


Background Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) was highly prevalent among developed countries and caused numerous deaths. Based on the Global Burden of Disease 2019, this study was designed to present comprehensive epidemiological information, attributable risks, and relevant factors. Methods All data were available online via the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx). In this study, we analyzed the global incidence, prevalence, deaths, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of CAVD across different regions from 1990 to 2019. We applied the estimated annual percentage changes (EAPCs) to evaluate the change trends and their attributable risks. In addition, we explored several relevant factors. Results From 1990 to 2019, the incidence cases, prevalence cases, CAVD-related deaths, and DALYs of CAVD gradually increased globally. However, the age-standardized death rate (ASDR) was relatively stable, and the age-standardized DALYs rate gradually declined during the past 30 years. Males and elderly individuals were more likely to suffer from CAVD. High systolic blood pressure (SBP) was the predominant attributable risk of disease burden that presented a global downward trend (death: EAPC = −0.68, 95% CI −0.77~−0.59, P < 0.001; DALYs: EAPC = −0.99, 95% CI −1.09 to −0.89, P < 0.001). Alcohol consumption (R = 0.79, P < 0.001), smoking prevalence (R = 0.75, P < 0.001), and calcium (R = 0.72, P < 0.001) showed a positive correlation with the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR), whereas classic monsoon region (R = −0.68, P < 0.001) and mean temperature (R = −0.7, P < 0.001) showed a negative correlation with age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR). Besides, medical and healthcare resources presented a positive correlation with ASIR. Meanwhile, similar relationships were found in age-standardized prevalence rate (ASPR), ASDR, and age-standardized DALY rate (ASDALYR). Conclusion CAVD displays widely varied spatial distribution around the world, of which high SDI regions have the highest burdens. Age is a powerful factor and hypertension a predominant attributable risk factor. Moreover, controlling blood pressure, avoiding smoking, reducing alcohol consumption, and so on, could effectively reduce the burden of CAVD.


In the present paper, we introduce a generalization of Ho-Lee's binary tree interest rate model, which can be regarded as a Bayesian type extension, by combining the technique used by Akahori-Aoki-Nagata with a randomization by a Polya urn type reinforcement. Moreover, a multinomial extension of the generalization of the Ho-Lee model is also discussed.


The Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR), which is located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a Superfund site currently listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Since it was placed on the NPL, remediation activities have been ongoing at the MMR. This report presents the results of a project to assess the environmental impacts of the groundwater plume emanating from the MMR Main Base Landfill (LF-1). In addition, this report details an in-depth study into management and public interaction surrounding activities at the MMR Installation Restoration Program (IRP). Public involvement in IRP activities has had a somewhat sordid history. Beginning with the first announcements of contamination on the base, public outcry and distrust for the military led to an adversarial relationship between the public and those responsible for cleanup. And while IRP officials have increased the amount of participation and input the public has in the process over the past several years, this effort has not been as successful in speeding up the remediation process as the government might have hoped. Remnants of the adversarial relationship fostered by attitudes in the early stages of the IRP, to a degree, still exist. the MMR, and the way public was mistreated and seen as a problem rather than a potential source of solutions early on in the process, has been used by other bases as a "negative model". The individual study detailed here probes these and various other issues surrounding public involvement at the Massachusetts Military Reservation. Thesis Supervisor: Professor David H. Marks Title: James Mason Crafts Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering


It provides a method for wireless communication, apparatus and computer program product, wherein the radio signal information is received by at least one wireless wide area network technology. Further, the data associated with the wireless signal information is polymerized. Further, provided to the wireless node through the at least one wireless wide area network technology different wireless WAN technology the data.


This study addresses the state-of-charge (SOC) estimation problem for a lithium-ion battery system with time-varying parameter. Although many methods have been proposed for the SOC estimation, the time-varying parameter problem has not been solved perfectly up to now. In this study, by introducing a novel physical meaning for that the battery terminal current is ℒ
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Significance Theoretical efforts to understand the superconducting cuprates have focused on a few simplified but challenging models: notably the Hubbard and the t-t′-J models. Using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations on width-8 cylinders, we study the ground-state phase diagram of the t-t′-J model. The next nearest-neighbor hopping t′ allows one to distinguish between hole (t′<0) and electron doping (t′>0). We find for the magnetic, charge, and single-particle properties that this model roughly captures the differences between the electron- and hole-doped cuprates. However, the superconducting properties differ. For hole doping (t′<0), there is an absence of superconductivity, while for electron doping (t′> 0), we find d-wave superconductivity coexisting with antiferromagnetism and a secondary triplet p-wave pairing component. We report results of large-scale ground-state density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations on t-t′-J cylinders with circumferences 6 and 8. We determine a rough phase diagram that appears to approximate the two-dimensional (2D) system. While for many properties, positive and negative t′ values (t′/t=±0.2) appear to correspond to electron- and hole-doped cuprate systems, respectively, the behavior of superconductivity itself shows an inconsistency between the model and the materials. The t′<0 (hole-doped) region shows antiferromagnetism limited to very low doping, stripes more generally, and the familiar Fermi surface of the hole-doped cuprates. However, we find t′<0 strongly suppresses superconductivity. The t′>0 (electron-doped) region shows the expected circular Fermi pocket of holes around the (π,π) point and a broad low-doped region of coexisting antiferromagnetism and d-wave pairing with a triplet p component at wavevector (π,π) induced by the antiferromagnetism and d-wave pairing. The pairing for the electron low-doped system with t′>0 is strong and unambiguous in the DMRG simulations. At larger doping another broad region with stripes in addition to weaker d-wave pairing and striped p-wave pairing appears. In a small doping region near x=0.08 for t′∼−0.2, we find an unconventional type of stripe involving unpaired holes located predominantly on chains spaced three lattice spacings apart. The undoped two-leg ladder regions in between mimic the short-ranged spin correlations seen in two-leg Heisenberg ladders.


Tannin containing aqueous extract of Terminalia belerica leaves was tested in vitro for its effect on protein degradation using gas production technique. It was found that degradation of feed protein was decreased by the addition of extract. This confers that tannins at low levels has bypass effect on the feed proteins.


The target bridges in this study were constructed during the Safavid era in Isfahan city and are considered as one of the most important components of the urban structure; during history. They have shown various functions in addition to their role as a connecting route, which has varied from individual scale to collective spaces over time. This research study is trying to find out the architectural components affecting the public presence in these urban buildings, specifically in two bridges called, Allahverdi Khan (Si-o-se-pol) and Khajoo bridge in the contemporary era, to see if they would correspond the needs of today's urban residents.To get this aim, the qualitative research approach was adopted based on an interview framework. To answer the questions was arranged based on three functional, physical, and structural aspects of these bridges, and a significant result was achieved by applying qualitative content analysis. The architectural components influencing the public presence were included eight general components and sub-components. These items were either in line with or opposite to each other, including the social functions and the contemporary space of bridges, the bridges' cultural and physical structure, the shaping context of the bridges and the memorability of them, the environmental psychology and the related aesthetics aspects. According to the content analysis outcomes, a functional review of the space of these bridges in the future can lead to the qualitative improvement of architecture and space of them.


The existence and subduction of the eastern Mianlue oceanic basin in the south Qinling belt are keys to understand the Qinling orogen. Based on geological mapping, several volcanic slices have been identified in Tumen, Zhoujiawan, Xiaofu and Yuantan areas, which distribute in the northern margin of the Dahong Mountains (DHM), and thrust into the Sanligang-Sanyang fault. These slices consist mainly of diabases, basaltic-andesitic lavas, pyroclastic rocks and a minor tuff. The geochemistry of the basalts, andesites,and diabases is characterized by depleting in Nb and Ta, enriching in Th and LILE (e.g.K, Rb, Ba), and undifferentiating in HFSE. These geochemical characteristics suggest that the original magma of these rocks was derived from a mantle wedge above a subduction zone, and formed in an island-arc setting in Carboniferous-early Triassic. Comparing with the ophiolites and island-arc volcanic rocks in Mianxian-Lueyang area to the west, it is reasonable to consider that there had been an oceanic basin connecting with the Mianlue ancient ocean to the westward, distributing along the south edge of the Tongbai-Dabie block. In view of the ophiolite in Huashan area and these island-arc volcanic rocks along the north of the Dahong Mountains, it is suggested that there had been a plate tectonic evolutionary history with oceanic basin rifting and subduction in this region.


In the implementation process of great infrastructure engineering, the structural safety of supply chain in coping with infectious risks (IR) is of important significance to operation of the whole project. Moreover, infectious risk can influence safety of supply chain of mega project (MP). Therefore, this study constructed a function of infectious risk stress, calculated the infectious risk stress value of supply chain of mega infrastructure project (MPSC), and analysed influences of random variables on infectious risk. Results demonstrate that the maximum infectious risk stress is at the end of supply chain of mega infrastructure project. Research conclusions provide references to anti-risk integrated design of supply chain of mega infrastructure project.


The use of science and relevant innovative technologies for the development of tools and techniques for detecting and investigating crimes is an urgent task of increasing the effectiveness of fighting crime at the current stage. It is shown that in order to identify a person by a DNA molecule, it is sufficient to study and encode only a half of the body's chromosomes, that is, its haploid set. However, only the complete (diploid) genome determines the phenotypic and other biological characteristics of the organism.  Purpose: to emphasize the erroneous use of information on the reference (artificially collected) quasi-haploid human genome, including in DNA-forensic science. Another purpose is to prove the necessity of conducting universal DNA (genomic) registration of the population only on the basis of neutral DNA markers (arguments are made for this view). Ethical issues arising from DNA phenotyping as part of investigations are addressed. Methods: empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic; specific scientific methods: comparative-legal, system-structural, analysis, modeling, social survey and interpretation of legal norms. Results: the research identifies the possibilities of establishing more complete characteristics of a person in genome-wide studies (diploid genomes); the advantages of SNP-loci (SNPs) studies in relation to STR-loci studies are considered. The article shows the possibilities of using new technologies for DNA identification of the person as a result of universal genomic registration of the population of the Russian Federation.


The geomorphic evolution of the Piedmont Zone of the Ganga Plain is not well understood, since the identification of various morpho-tectonic features in the field is very difficult because of the t...


We discuss copulas for incorporating dependence in the input distributions to a simulation model. We start by motivating the need for incorporating dependence in the primitive inputs to a simulation. Copulas are then introduced as a convenient and flexible model to incorporate dependence. We rigorously define copulas, introduce some of their basic properties, illustrate popular copula families, and discuss methods for copula estimation. Since this is an introductory tutorial, we have attempted to keep all exposition at a basic mathematical level without omitting important technical details. The oral presentation of this tutorial will include additional discussion on random variate generation, copula inference, and tail dependence.


We propose a scheme for a parametric amplifier based on a single suspended carbon nanotube field-emitter. This novel electromechanical nanotube device acts as a phase-sensitive, variable-gain, band-pass-filtering amplifier for electronic signal processing and, at the same time, can operate as a variable-sensitivity, tuneable detector and transducer of radio frequency electromagnetic waves. The amplifier can exhibit infinite gain at pumping voltages much less than 10 Volts. Additionally, the amplifier's low overhead power consumption (10–1000 nW) make it exceptionally attractive for ultra-low-power applications.


Applications such as demining and planetary exploration require locomotion over unstructured terrain. A suitable approach to solve this problem is to use legged robots, because of the flexibility that they can offer, together with a compact size. Deciding on the gait patterns of the robot that optimizes such criteria as energy consumption, walking speed and providing a good stability margin against falling over, are important problems that need to be solved. A myriapod robot is advantageous because the large number of legs contributes to the margin of stability and provides robustness against the failure of each individual leg. However, the choice of a suitable gait pattern becomes a more difficult task since more combinations of patterns arise. In this paper, we introduce a myriapod robot with ten legs, which was built with the purpose of investigating algorithms for generating gait patterns. The gait pattern generator contains nonlinear oscillators. Various gait patterns emerge through the mutual entrainment of these oscillators. The work presented here is preliminary and contains a small amount of experimental data. This paper is intended to give information about research that is planned on the subject.


Bisfenol A (BPA) is a chemical compound commonly used in industry. It is generally used as an element and/or component in the manufacturing of plastics and epoxy resins. These plastics and resins are used in the manufacture of containers with different purposes, for example; in the packaging of food and drinks, crockery, thermic paper, devices used in the medical field etc. Human beings are commonly exposed to BPA, being the diet (food and drink packaging) the highest exposure factor and therefore a key contamination spot. For this reason it is necessary that the usage of materials which are in contact with food is properly evaluated and regulated. BPA is considered a endocrine disruptor, with the capacity to alter functions and systems in the organism. Several studies have recently proposed a relation between the exposure to BPA and the appearance of adverse effects for the health. However, the EFSA recently concluded in their latest scientific opinion on the topic, that this compound does not imply any risk for the health of the exposed population. Therefore the EU considers BPA an authorised product to be used as material to enter in contact with food. However research on BPA and its potential negative effects is still ongoing. This review contains the latest ´´in vitro`` and ´´in vivo`` studies about BPA toxicity, these studies are grouped in the following categories (regarding different implications); cellular proliferation and cancer, alterations in development and cellular maturation, oxidative stress, damage to genetic material and finally alterations at a metabolic, reproductive, cardiovascular or neuronal level.


An important task of in vivo polarimetric glucose sensing is to find an appropriate way to optically access the aqueous humor of the human eye. In this paper two different approaches are analyzed theoretically and applied to the eye model of Le Grand. First approach is the tangential path of Cote et al., and the second is a new scheme of this paper of applying Brewster reflection off the eye lens.


Aim To investigate the pharmacokinetics of magnolol and honokiol in Wistar rat tissue and body fluid.Methods The magnolol and honokiol were simultaneous determined within 15 minutes by a RP-HPLC method on the column C 18 ,a mobile phase consisted of methanol-water-acetic acid glacial(70∶30∶1) with 1ml/min,a detector 294nm with sensitivity 0.005 Aufs.Results There was good linear relationship between both the two drugs' concentration in serum and urine and chromatogram peak area.Two drugs were found to conform to a two compartment open-model with C max 0.974mg·L -1 and 0.522mg·L -1 ,T 1/2β 3.136h and 3.284h,T 1/2ka 0.160h and 0.261h.The drugs were found in many tissues after a single oral dose and the top-level tissue were stomach and intestine.The distributions of the drugs were most in liver,lung and kidney.68.54% of magnolol and 53.81% of honokiol in plasma were shown to be bound to protein.The two drugs were no good assimilation since the total excretion of the parent compound in faces were more than 50% of the dose,and in urine and bile less than 5%.Conclusion Magnolol and honokiol were not up to absorption,metabolized in liver and drained from kidney first.


It is shown that nickel-copper-magnesium alloys, the compositions of which lie above isobar 1,67 atm, must dissolve in cast iron with pyroeffect and with lower assimilation of magnesium than alloys, the compositions of which lie below indicated isobar.


2 Abstract: Coping is a way thinking and behaving accordingly, which helps to reduce stress effects and the caused emotions. Religious coping is expressed as benefit from religious beliefs and concepts, in order to cope with problems of the life. This research was done in descriptive method. The aim of this study was to determine the religious coping and the rate of anxiety, presence or absence of correlation between these two variables in students. 316 samples were collected through stratified random sampling method. Questionnaire containing 15 questions, Spiel Berger (overt and covert) anxiety test contatining 40 items and religious coping inventory comprising 31 items were filled. Collected data were analyzed by the methods of descriptive and t test, variant analysis, Schefe test and X test. The results of this study indicated that 10.4, 85.8 and 3.8% of the cases 2 under study had high, moderate and low religious coping respectively. The findings revealed that 10.1 and 7.9% of the cases suffered of severe and very severe overt and covert anxiety. Statistical analysis showed significant relationship between overt and covert anxiety and religious coping P<0.001 df = 10 X = 30.54, P<0.001 df = 10 2


This manuscript reports on an observational study that compares blood pressure levels among adolescents representing four separate ethnic groups in Suriname. Two groups Creole and Maroon are of West Africa origin. The other two groups are of Asian origin; Hindustani from South Asia (India) and Javanese from East Asia (Indonesia). BP screening was conducted at school sites on a total sample of 885 adolescents. The data show an increase in BP associated with age, higher BP in boys than girls, and a strong association with BMI. Slight differences were detected between the ethnic groups in boys. Of interest is the differences in BP between Maroon and Creole, ethnic groups of African origins but with different lifestyles. There is a suggestion that the authors may have identified a heightened risk among the Asian groups wherein the BP levels were somewhat higher among these groups, where in adults it is the African origin groups that have higher rates of hypertension.


Repeated mesoscale surveys of a 40-km-wide, 100-km-long, coastal region near Point Arena, California, were conducted during the upwelling season (April–August) in 1981 and 1982. Each survey included conventional conductivity-temperature-depth casts at standard locations over the continental shelf and slope between 38°N and 39°10′N, and continuous operation of a Doppler acoustic log to obtain velocity profiles in the 20- to 150-m depth range. "Synoptic" surveys covered the entire grid in 2–3 days. Winds were strongly favorable for upwelling during the three 1981 surveys and were weak or variable during the three 1982 surveys. Surface temperature and salinity fields reflect the influence of both the seasonal winds and day-to-day variations in the wind. Persistently low surface salinities offshore reflect the general southward advection of subarctic waters, and sporadic low salinities over the inner shelf reflect north-ward advection of local runoff through an intermittent narrow countercurrent along the coast. Circulation patterns during all but one of the surveys were very complex and included meandering equatorward flow, cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies, and inshore countercurrents. The simple two-dimensional, equatorward, baroclinic coastal jet usually associated with coastal upwelling was observed during only one of our surveys. Overall average fields are relatively simple. They show broad equatorward surface flow, a very weak inshore countercurrent, and a definite poleward undercurrent at the shelf break. Average temperature, salinity, and density fields are generally congruent with the average flow pattern. Average isotherms and isohalines are not strictly parallel to the coastline: south of the coastline bend at Point Arena, they diverge gradually from the coast. Comparison of average sections calculated from 10 matched pairs of Central and Arena lines (separated by 50 km) shows there are systematic differences between them. Warmer, fresher waters lie nearer shore (and in shallower water) off Point Arena than on the Central line; this suggests that the surface waters flowing past Point Arena have sufficient southward momentum to cross isobaths. Comparison of average velocity sections on these two lines shows some differences in structure; since the variability is large, these may not be significant. Comparison of the measured and geostrophic average shears suggests there is a significant ageostrophic component in the upper layers above 40 m; it may be the signature of an average wind-driven Ekman spiral.


New compounds consisting of two different electropolymerizable aromatic groups (pyrrole/thiophene 1, pyrrole/dimethoxybenzene 2, and dimethoxybenzene/thiophene 3) linked together by a polyether subunit have been synthesized and their electrochemical behavior has been investigated. At relatively low anodic potential values, the oxidation of these monomers led to electroactive homopolymer films containing pendant aromatic moieties. The oxidation of the preformed polymers by applying more positive potentials promoted further anodic couplings within their structure. The efficiency of this solid-state electropo ymerization reaction was found to be strongly dependent on the film thickness. So, electroactive copolymers possessing controllable size pseudo-crown ether cavities were thought to be obtained.


In the last five years, research on memristive devices has been under ever increasing interest. Additionally, recent development in printed techniques provides new approaches to fabricate also memristive devices in inexpensive and flexible manner. Thus their research is an important effort towards fully printed electronics applications. In this work, an organometallic precursor solution for a memristive layer was synthesised and formulated for inkjet-printable form. Layers of the solution were determined with surface profilometry in order to find feasible layer thickness for memristive behaviour. Memristors were inkjet-printed on copper- and titanium-coated glass sheets, and various heat-treatments were carried out. The influence of the heat-treatments on the durability and resistance values of the memristors was evaluated. Microstructural and phase changes in the memristive layer were observed with X-ray diffraction and field emission scanning electron microscopy analysis.


Contraposing the controller made up of fixed-plus proportion and intelligent integral can not achieve the expectant dynamic and static characteristic,the control strategies of seasoned manipulators are simulated in different phases of step response curve of the system,a nonlinear PID Human-simulated Intelligent Control algorithm is presented by importing P,nonlinear I and fixed-plus D into Human-simulated Intelligent Control.The algorithm's validity has been approved by three-order model simulation.


The Ansys software is applied to calculate cycle stress of front screen superheaters for 600 MW generating sets which is simulated by three different models,and evaluate its security with Goodman diagrammatize methods.The results show that screen superheaters are secure under the conditions that the shake single peak value is less than 0.3 m then its Von Mises stress is no more than 60.3 MPa.In the view opinion of boiler total life period if screen shake over 0.4 m or stress exceeds 80 MPa,there is a risk of tube explosion or other serious fault.Therefore,an improvement scheme is proposed to limit the screen shaking.Then its stress achieve the margin for safety through calculates.


Mechanical behavior of geosynthetic-reinforced soil retaining wall is investigated and the reinforcing mechanism by geosynthetics is discussed through two-dimensional laboratory model tests and their corresponding finite element analyses. A series of mode tests and simulations are carried out varying arrangement, length and number of the reinforcements. It is revealed that the effectiveness of the geosynthetics mainly depends on the increase of internal stability, which is local stability within the reinforced ground, and external stability, which is overall stability of the surrounding backfill and subsoil. It is also indicated that the results of the numerical analyses show good agreement with the results of the model tests.


To the issue of temperature management on microprocessor,a round robin scheduling algorithm as well as an improved threshold-based algorithm at OS level are proposed and implemented in Linux Kernel.SPEC2K benchmarks are classified and combined into different kinds of workload according to their thermal behavior and are tested on an Intel dual core processor.The results show that Linux baseline scheduler lacks effective thermal management in scheduling.Threshold-based scheduling algorithm migrates hot tasks to cool cores so as to alleviate peak temperature on processor.Round robin algorithm regularly rotates tasks to each core for equal amount of time,therefore,it balances temperature between cores more effectively.Moreover, it has little impact on throughput.


This report provides a co-designed framework and methodology for evaluating the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health's flagship integrated program, the Family Wellbeing Service.


This work shows a time series study of the average monthly flow using stochastic model of the SARIMA class (Seasonal Autoregressive Moving Average). The hydrology model is an important tool in the planning and management of water resources programs. This article aimed to analyse, comparatively, time series models, as well as to realize forecasting of average monthly flow taken Doce River as watershed, it's situated in Colatina municipality/ES. The applied methodology in this work was based in the proposal by Box and Jenkins. The identification of the order of the models was made by graphic analysis of the autocorrelation function (ACF) e partial autocorrelation (PACF). Among possible models was selected those that obtained minor value of the following parameters: AIC, BIC, EQM and EAM. The chosen model was SARIMA(1,1,1)(1,1,2)12, that represented well the dynamic of the series studied and showed the best numerical results in both calibration and validation stages. The chosen model was used to make forecasting to months of 2014 and 2015. The average monthly flow forecasting showed, obtained with the considered models, can be used to analyse hydrology regime of the Doce river, mainly to the critical months of 2015, as well as it can propose preventive measures to reduce both environmental and economic impacts in this municipality.


The invention belongs to the technical field of building bricks and in particular relates to a lean hematite tailing concrete light body building block brick and a preparation method thereof. The hematite tailing concrete light body building block brick is manufactured by dry raw materials by weight percentage: 20%-30% of portland cement, 35%-45% of lean hematite tailing, 10%-20% of ceramsite and 15%-25% coal ash. The preparation method comprises the following process flows: pretreating the dry raw materials, mixing and stirring the materials, preparing wet material slurry, pressing and forming and obtaining end product building block green bricks. The preparation method turns to utilization of lean hematite tailing from earth excavation and field destroy, achieves comprehensive utilization and turns waste into wealth. The light body building block brick manufactured by lean hematite tailing can be used for building tailing ponds, thereby eliminating pollution of tailing on the environment, achieving comprehensive utilization of resource and protecting ecological environment.


Time is critical to military operations and it is of great importance to guarantee temporal consistence of the operational plans. However, there always exist lots of temporal conflicts in a plan. To manage these temporal conflicts manually is irritated, especially when the size of a plan is large and many kinds of complex temporal constraints are involved. This paper presents a method to check and restore the temporal consistency of plan automatically. The STN is used to represent and reason temporal constraints and a conflict resolution method based on constraint relaxation is presented. We prove that the proposed method can eliminate all of temporal conflicts in polynomial time. Results of the experiment demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.


This case study reveals that age-related areas are the least desirable professional future options for many university students in social work degree programmes. One of the possible causes is the negative social labelling of older age, especially pronounced in respect of older women. Additionally, there is a poor and limited educational approach towards later life and growing older inside and outside the educational settings. This article focuses on the social construction of older age from gender and double theoretical perspectives. In particular, it centers on the pillars of education and profiguration. For educational and analytical purposes, these aspects are approached in the classroom setting from a critical perspective by using the in-depth reading of a book that is set in the local context, in particular, the city of Lleida (Spain). It presents the results of the content analysis and reflections written by 170 first-year university students taking a degree course in social work, and the outcomes of the subsequent classroom discussions with the author of the book. The study results show that better knowledge about the complexities of ageing and later life can lead to the reconstruction of the students' viewpoints about older age, help foster critical thinking, and defy age-related stereotypes, beliefs, and prejudices.


Aerosols may influence cloud formation through two pathways: One is the effect on cloud microphysics by forming smaller and more numerous cloud droplets reducing precipitation and consequently enhancing cloud lifetime. The second is referred to as the aerosol dynamic‐hydrological effect in which the aerosol direct, semi‐direct, and indirect effects can modulate atmospheric radiation, which perturbs atmospheric circulation, leading to redistributions of clouds and precipitation. Here this study examines climate sensitivities using a general circulation model coupled with an aerosol transport‐radiation model. The model is run first with prescribed meteorology in order to isolate the cloud microphysical effect. It is run in a separate experiment with internally generated meteorology that includes dynamic‐hydrological effect as the aerosols modify clouds and interact with the radiation. We find in some regions that the dynamic‐hydrological effect in the free model runs counteracts the microphysical effects seen in the prescribed runs.


The paper focuses on recent developments in tunnelling and deep excavations in London and it draws on the experiences of the Jubilee Line Extension project which has just been completed. A brief historical review is given of the first tunnels and deep excavations undertaken in London some 150 years ago. Construction methods recently used for bored tunnelling include sprayed concrete linings and closed face pressurised tunnelling machines. Ground movements observed for these various tunnelling operations and for deep excavations are reviewed, and their effects on buildings are discussed. The most extensive protective measure used on the Jubilee Line Extension to control defonnations and potential damage to historic buildings has been the relatively nev,' technique of compensation grouting. Examples of its use are presented.


Using the workshop model, participants explore elements of assignment design that create a framework for students to successfully navigate the cognitive demands of research writing without plagiarizing. After analyzing an assignment, participants discuss revisions that implement design strategies presented in the workshop.


When data is being read off a optical disc, the light beam can lose the data track if it encounters a dirty or damaged spot on the disc. A tracking circuit steers it back on to the correct track some distance after passing the dirty or damaged spot. In order that the light beam (L) is steered back on to the correct track (B) as soon as possible after passing a dirty spot (SK), the invention calls first for the address of the point (1) at which the light beam (L) leaves the track (B) to be stored. From the control signal necessary to bring the light beam back on to the correct track, a first modified control signal is then calculated and also stored. When, during subsequent plays, the light beam (L) comes to the point (1) on the disc, now stored in the memory, the first modified control signal is fed to the tracking circuit. In order to produce an optimum modified control signal, the light beam (L) is taken several times past the point (1) stored in the memory, and each time a new modified control signal is calculated and stored. The invention is of use in CD players, video disc players, DRAW disc players and magneto-optical recording and replaying devices.


Let $L$ be a homogeneous divergence form higher order elliptic operator with complex bounded measurable coefficients and $(p_-(L),\, p_+(L))$ be the maximal interval of exponents $q\in[1,\,\infty]$ such that the semigroup $\{e^{-tL}\}_{t>0}$ is bounded on $L^q(\mathbb{R}^n)$. In this article, the authors establish the non-tangential maximal function characterizations of the associated Hardy spaces $H_L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)$ for all $p\in(0,\,p_+(L))$, which, when $p=1$, answers a question asked by Deng et al. in [J. Funct. Anal. 263 (2012), 604-674]. Moreover, the authors characterize $H_L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)$ via various versions of square functions and Lusin-area functions associated to the operator $L$.


Under the guidance of Marxist anti-poverty thinking, my country has gradually formed an anti-poverty system with Chinese characteristics suitable for itself. This article takes the anti-poverty thoughts of Marx and Engels as the theoretical origin, and systematically summarizes the course of the sinicization of Marxist anti-poverty thought and its contemporary value. This article discusses the optimization path of Marxist anti-poverty thinking in the current poverty alleviation work in China, in order to guide my country's socialist poverty alleviation practice, and smoothly promote my country to complete the poverty alleviation task as scheduled.


We prove large deviations for $g(t)$-Brownian motion in a complete, evolving Riemannian manifold $M$ with respect to a collection $\{g(t)\}_{t\in [0,1]}$ of Riemannian metrics, smoothly depending on $t$. We show how the large deviations are obtained from the large deviations of the (time-dependent) horizontal lift of $g(t)$-Brownian motion to the frame bundle $FM$ over $M$. The latter is proved by embedding the frame bundle into some Euclidean space and applying Freidlin-Wentzell theory for diffusions with time-dependent coefficients, where the coefficients are jointly Lipschitz in space and time.


An agricultural product laser marking device provided with an image identifying system is composed of a laser marking machine, a conveying belt, the image identifying system and a master control computer. The agricultural product laser marking device is characterized in that the image identifying system is in electrical connection with the master control computer, and the state of the laser marking machine is changed according to changes of instructions of the master control computer. The agricultural product laser marking device has the advantages that the laser marking resolution ratio for agricultural products is high, marked contents are easy to read and not easy to disappear, tracking is convenient to achieve, marking manufacturing speed is high, cost is low, moving articles can be marked, and no unfavourable results can be brought to consumers. To-be-marked agricultural products are differentiated and analyzed through the image identifying system, and the agricultural product laser marking device is suitable for the agricultural products which are irregular in size, shape and color. Concave portions matched with the to-be-marked articles in appearance are formed on the surface of the conveying belt, and the conveying belt is suitable for conveying of spherical articles. Besides, the to-be-marked articles are located in the same straight line, and the fixed laser marking machine which is low in price can be adopted.


A stand diameter distribution model was described by using artificial neural network modeling technology,in a Masson pine forest.By training and optimization,an ideal model was developed,with a model structure of 3:6:6:1,a training error of 0.000281 and a 98% accurate fit.For the 82 training plots,the accuracy of accumulated frequency fitting ranged from 95% to 100%,with a mean of 98%.The accuracy of frequency fitting ranged from 75% to 96%,with a mean of 87%.For the 18 test plots,the accuracy of accumulated frequency prediction ranged from 97% to 99%,with a mean of 98%.The accuracy of frequency prediction was between 76% and 96%,with a mean of 88%.Due to its high fitting accuracy and strong prediction ability,the model created by us can be used to predict stand diameter distributions in Masson pine forests,aged 10 to 30 years.The results indicate that an artificial neural network is an effective prediction technology for stand diameter distribution.


Freezing of Gait (FOG) is one of the most disturbing symptoms in advanced stage of Parkinson's disease (PD) that is strongly associated with recurrent falls and reduced functional independence. The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of FOG on mobility in terms of risk of falls, walking aids utilization and assistance-seeking behaviour by comparing freezers (FRs) and nonfreezers (NFRs). Clinical and demographic data, including disease duration, stage and characteristics, cognition, edication, history of falls, walking aids utilization, and assistanceseeking behaviour was collected from 102 subjects with PD from three medical centres in Belgium, Israel, and UK. Association between FOG and other disease characteristics, medication, falls, walking aids, and need for carers' assistance was investigated. Comparing FRs and NFRs showed significant difference in history of previous falls, walking aids utilization, and need for carers' assistance. More than half of the FRs reported previous fall and a need for walking aids for mobility compared to 20% in NFRs group. A vicious cycle exists among subjects with PD who experience FOG. Gait freezing induces increased risk and frequency of falls as well as increased fear of falling, which in turn increases the tendency towards higher reliance on carers' assistance and more utilization of walking aids.


Averaged responses evoked by frequency modulation (FM) of tones were recorded from different points on the surface of AI zone of the cat auditory cortex and response thresholds in terms of modulation depth (△ fm) for different carrier frequencies (f) were determined. FM-evoked potentials were similar in wave form to those evoked by tone bursts. They appeared either as on-, or as off- (in correspondency to the beginning or termination of the rectangular modulating wave), or as on-off-type of response. △ fm varied greatly with f and with the site of recording. The majority of the △ fm-versus-f curves were marked by the presence of deep valley or valleys, where the location of the nadirs, which represented the characteristic f's of PM-responses f's of best △ fm), differed with recording points in the auditory cortex. High, middle and low characteristic f points of PM-responses intermingled in the AI zone, a distribution entirely different from the tonotopic mapping of the auditory cortex in tuning responses. Comparison of △ fm with the tuning threshold for the same f and for the same recording point revealed that best △ fm were obtained mostly for those f's whose tuning sensitivity was in the middle range (threshold-40-60 dB).
The smallest △ fm obtained in cats with the FM-response method were less than 0.01 f for f 1000 Hz, and below 10 Hz for f 1000 Hz, quite comparable to the smallest frequency differential thresholds of cats determined by some authors in conditioning avoidance experiments .
The divergence in topographic distribution ,of characteristic f's of both FM- and tuning responses in the cat auditory cortex is discussed in the view that there is fine neuro-struc-tural differentiation at the cortex level for these two kinds of functions.


The increasing proportion of outpatient allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplants (HCTs) coupled with increased access of once‐daily broad‐spectrum antibiotics and evidence that outpatient antibiotic treatment may be safer and less costly than inpatient treatment, suggest that allogeneic HCT recipients with Gram‐negative rod bacteremia (GNRBs) are increasingly being treated in ambulatory care settings.


A brief outlining the findings of a study of whether universal design for learning (UDL) improves how students with mild disabilities perform in general education. The study's findings illustrate how students perceive individual interventions anchored by three key UDL principles - multiple ways of representing course content, multiple options for student expression and control, and multiple options for engagement and motivation. These individual interventions were used in standard-track high school algebra and biology classes.


Electroluminescent nanoporous silicon is investigated by accelerator techniques. Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS) and Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA) are used to measure the oxygen content. The stoichiometry is Si 1 O 1.8 in the top layer and Si 1 O 0.8 in 6 μm depth. Channeling experiments show that only very weak channels are present.


This paper reviews difficulties with the interpretation and use of the prior parameter u required in the Dirichlet approach to nonpararnetric Bayesian statistics. Two subjective prior distributions are introduced and studied. These priors are obtained computationally by requiring that the experimenter specify certain constraints.


The suppression of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist-related outgassing is one of the challenges in high-volume manufacturing with EUV lithography (EUVL), because it contributes to the contamination of the EUV scanner mirror optics, resulting in reflectivity loss. Witness sample pragmatic outgas qualification has been developed into the general method for clarifying commercially available, chemically amplified resists. Preliminary results have suggested a linear correlation between contamination thickness in the electron-beam-based and the EUV-based evaluation systems. In fact, a positive relationship was observed between contamination thickness and exposure dose. However, recent experiments indicate that in some resists, this relationship is not linear. In the present study, a resist outgas model is proposed and tested to investigate the contamination thickness' dependency on exposure dose. The model successfully explains the experimental outgas phenomenon. It is estimated that increasing exposure dose, in resists with low activation energies (Ea) in deprotection reactions, results in extreme increase in contamination thickness. Furthermore, the low-Ea resists have high contamination risk when exposure is extensive.


The paraxial regime of scalar wave optics has the same structure as non-relativistic quantum mechanics, with wavelength taking the place of the Planck constant. The Wigner function is a central tool to explore the phase space of a system; in optics, moreover, it can be produced by purely optical means. In this first part, we present a matrix-based formalism for the study of paraxial optical systems, and apply it to the description of a setup that, as will be seen in the second part, produces the Wigner function.


The research aims at investigating the use of rotoscoping in animation, to explore a deepe understanding of it. Throughout this report you will also find related matters to articles and interviews that I have researched, I will identify the techniques used and different definitions of true animation, an real animation, as well as special effects used. During these articles I will also build upon my ideas of how the concept works from notes throughout class. I will also explain why I have agreed with the authors, their ideas and their reasons. I will also look into criticisms of rotoscoping and further dialogue surrounding the issue.Animation has developed over a long period of time. This led to many varied techniques for anim


In order to estimate the image restoration capability of discrete type Hopfield neural network having an associative memory effect, some simulation experiments were performed. The memorized patterns to the network are binary dot alphabet capital characters consisting of 10/spl times/10 pixels. On the other hand, artificially degraded binary dot patterns of those original characters are used as the input patterns for the neural network to recall the original characters. As a result, the rate of success to recall the correct pattern is strongly related to both degradation degree of input patterns and number of patterns previously memorized in the network.


In this paper, the goal is to reconstruct a tensor, i.e., a multi-dimensional array, when only subsets of its entries are observed. For well-posedness, the tensor is assumed to have a low-Tucker-rank structure. To estimate the underlying tensor from its partial observations, we first propose an estimator based on a newly defined balanced spectral <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(k,p)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-support norm. To efficiently compute the estimator, we come up with a scalable algorithm for the minimization of the spectral <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(k,p)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-support norm. Instead of directly solving the primal problem which involves full SVD in each iteration, the proposed algorithm benefits from the Lagrangian dual through minimizing the dual norm of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(k,p)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-support norm which only computes the first <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula> leading singular values and singular vectors in each iteration. To explore the statistical performance of the proposed estimator, upper bounds on the sample complexity and estimation error are then established. Simulation studies confirm that the error bounds can predict the scalable behavior of the estimation error. Experimental results on synthetic and real datasets demonstrate that the spectral <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(k,p)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-support norm based method outperforms the nuclear norm based ones.


Objective:To compare the therapeutic effects of cluster acupuncture therapy on head with the common acupuncture for treating the vertigo caused by blood-supply insufficiency of vertebral-basilar artery.Methods:Select 48 patients who have vertigo caused by blood-supply insufficiency of vertebral-basilar artery and divide them into 2 groups at random.Each group had 24 patients.The treatment group was treated by cluster acupuncture therapy on head and the control group was treated by common acupuncture.Judging the clinical effect between two groups.Results:The effective rate in treatment group was 91.7% and it is obviously better than that of the control group which was 75.0%(P0.05).Conclusion:It is an effective therapy for the treatment of vertigo caused by blood-supply insufficiency of vertebral-basilar artery,and it has a better curative efficacy than that of common acupuncture.


This ongoing positioning in the agora, so intentional at the local level, becomes more nebulous and problematic when the broader issue of the entire media's role in a democracy is considered. The Press, a collection of essays written by some 35 scholars and journalists and edited by Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, is a systematic attempt to grapple with a number of basic questions on this daunting topic. For example, from the book's introduction: is journalism necessary for an informed citizenry? What kind of journalism is essential to democracy? What are the responsibilities of the big media powers? How do we measure how well the press is doing? The Press is part ofa five-bookseries, titled the Institutions ofAmerican Democracy, The bear hugs included outreach to the schools, a commitment to zoning editions and local news, readers' representatives, citizens' advisory panels, a speakers bureau, sponsorship of community events, and highlight boxes urging that all comments and concerns be directed to your friendly local bureau chief, here pictured. Aside from being good for business, the pitch to readers essentially was one of democracy: this is your public forum and we want you to join in. When I last worked in a newsroom, more than 10 years ago now, democracy was, as ever, a working principle struggling to be born. Within the paper's corporate hierarchy, run mostly by white-shirted white men of a certain age and outlook, was a growing editorial cadre of women and blacks and outlanders and mid-career transfers and overeducated baby boomers of various stripes, many of whom, it turns out, didn't mind speaking up at story meetings with an alternative and often insubordinate view. The irritable and jocular anarchy that typically would ensue generally was accepted as part ofa healthy trend; the news staff needed to be a dynamic mix, the thinking went, the better to reflect and understand our diverse and contentious community. This sunshine-law attitude was flaunted in other areas of the paper as well. Readers were relentlessly wooed with a neighborly charm offensive. The Press


Ten title compds. RCONHCH2N(CH2CH2Cl)2 (I, R = Ph, 4-ClC6H4, 3-ClC6H4, 2-ClC6H4, 4-BrC6H4, 4-FC6H4, 4-O2NC6H4, 3-O2NC6H4, 4-MeC6H4, and CCl3 were prepd. by reaction of RCONHCH2Cl and NH(CH2CH2Cl)2 in Et2O at 0 Deg. All I had a higher carcinostatic activity on Yoshida sarcoma of rats and sarcoma 180 of mice than bis(2-chloroethyl)amine and were at least as effective as bis(2-chloroethyl)methylamine.


Background: With the growing prevalence of obesity, bariatric surgery has become increasingly popular. Despite this, studies have shown that a number of patients fail to achieve successful weight loss. However, there still remains limited


With assistance from the European Social Fund, Malardalen University started the JamBredd project to offer an education in equality and diversity issues. Part of this project has been education in ...


This paper analyzes the reasons for the drift of hydraulic control butterfly valve in Yonghu Pump Station of Dongjiang Water Source Project of Shenzhen. It is informed that the drift was caused mainly by the inappropriate design of the manufacturer, especially, the rotary vane valve actuators is not suitable for Yonghu Pump Station. The new-rebuilt plans for the automatic replacement device of the valve and dishing arrester are presented. The drift of hydraulic control butterfly valve is eliminated.


(1955). Civic Leadership - The Architect's Blind Spot? Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 10, Panel Discussions of the Annual Meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 12 & 13th, 1954, pp. 13-15.


Based on the field survey for the self-thinning of Pinus kesiya var.langbianensis population,its density change,the relative DBH dispersion and self-thinning destiny were analyzed.The study indicates that the management of the pure Pinus kesiya var.langbianensis forest should follow the natural regeneration,supplemented by the artificial thinning for caring.


Adolescence is an important period in the life span and in view of its characteristics and vulnerability, various efforts by different means are needed to have sound interpersonal relationships and function well in society. The present study was focused to assess and improve the interpersonal relationship of rural adolescent girls. The sample comprised of 150 adolescent girls in the age range of 11–18 years randomly selected from five villages of Udaipur district in Rajasthan state (30 from each village). A schedule to measure interpersonal relationship which was developed by the team of scientists under All India Coordinated Research Project on Home Science was used for data collection. Data was collected through interview of girls. One pre test was conducted to know the pre interventional level of interpersonal relationship of girls and after providing interventions one post test was conducted to know the effects of interventions. Results revealed that in all the components (interpersonal relationship with parents, siblings, friends, neighbours and within group) at pretest and post test majority of respondents fall into average category of interpersonal relationship. It was also noted that in case of interpersonal relationship with parents and friends nobody fall into high category of interpersonal relationship. On the basis of their scores few respondents moved from low category at pretest to average category at post test. Though improvement in the scores was observed as a result of interventions in case of interpersonal relationship with siblings and within group but frequency distribution in different categories (low, medium and high) remained unchanged. It can be concluded that interventions which were given through lectures, role plays, games, stories and exhibitions proved effective in improving the interpersonal relationship of rural adolescent girls and there is need for more interventions to improve this essential life skill.


Cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere allow for the probing of fundamental interactions at ultra-high energies. We thus obtain limits on strongly coupled new physics models via their imprints on cosmic-ray air showers. Using the Monte Carlo event generators Herwig and HERBVI, and the air shower simulator CORSIKA, to simulate such processes, we apply machine learning algorithms to the simulated observables to discriminate the events arising via new physics from the QCD background. We then use the signal and background discrimination performance to set potential limits on the cross-sections of the new physics models.


This paper analyzes two accounts books: a manual and a ledge, used to record the transactions of cash deposited in the safe of the Cathedral of Valencia. Following to de Roover, the mere existence of a


In comparison with cluster analysis,the classification method on Principal component analysis has more rich results which are easier to be understood.In this paper,with the classification method based on principle component analysis,we studied the issue on classification of China's inbound tourism.In accordance with the final results and intermediate results of the principal component analysis by SPSS,China's 31 provincial-level administrative region are divided into four destination types on the basis of their scores of principal component and 13 major countries from which the tourist come into China are divided into four types too on the basis of their common factor loading values,and it is made that further analysis on the formation reasons of these types.On this basis,we discuss the issues on the market development of China's inbound tourism.


Thick electrophoretically deposited (EPD) films of ligand-capped colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) typically crack when removed from the deposition solvent due to the loss of residual solvent. We report the suppression of fracture in several micrometers thick EPD films of CdSe NCs by treating the wet, as-deposited films with solutions of polymer precursor monomers, followed by UV-initiated polymerization. The monomers diffuse into voids and, for several monomers, dissolve the NCs to form a uniform dispersion in the film.


Mass media have functions of communication and connection. How mass media function in society directly promotes or frustrates the propaganda and exchange of opinions within social groups. An important standard to examine their function is the dynamic equilibrium among government, mass media and the public. Mass media are a double-edged sword: on the one hand, they are controlled by the country; on the other hand, they are part of national power, controlling society and people by means of news report and guidance of public opinion. Mass media are often tested by this double-edged sword. A qualified news organ must construct a smooth information exchange platform between the public and the government.


Anyone trying to understand the relationship between African studies and study abroad in Africa faces a daunting task. One must analyze a diversity of ideas and issues emanating from various professional publications and organizations, as well as research specific initiatives within numerous institutions, that have helped define and shape the field of African studies over at least the last half century. Moreover, it soon becomes evident that the development of African studies, including study abroad in Africa, cannot be understood in isolation but must be placed within the larger context of the development of, as well as debates about, international and area studies and study abroad in U.S. higher education. These must be placed in the even wider context of the interplay of forces shaping higher education in the United States, and increasingly abroad in Africa and the African diaspora, especially at the undergraduate level. Finally, while the fortunes of African studies and study abroad in Africa have been inextricably connected, drawing direct or even indirect causal relationships is ambiguous in many aspects. In brief, the inquiry into the connections between African studies and study abroad in Africa is at a very rudimentary stage, scarcely as yet receiving the attention by the scholarly community inside and outside of Africa that it deserves.


Calculations are given for Halo satellite orbit control. Previous truncated analytical descriptions were limited and lead to an acceleration error averaging about .000001, which is the 'cost' of a very tight control to the nominal path. The stationkeeping problem is posed so as to permit a looser, optimal three-axis control.


Silicon is a promising anode material with high capacity for lithium ion batteries (LIBs), but suffers from poor conductivity and large volume change during charge/discharge. Here, using two-dimensional conductive MXene as a multi-functional binder instead of the conventional insulative polymer binder, a freestanding, flexible Si@C film is fabricated through simple vacuum filtration, and directly used as anode for LIBs. In the MXene-bonded Si@C film, MXene constructs a three-dimensional conductive framework with Si@C nanocomposites embedded in. Its loose and porous structure provide much spaces to buffer the large volume expansion of Si@C nanoparticles, leading to significantly superior cycle stability to the conventional CMC- and PVDF-bonded Si@C electrodes. Moreover, the porous structure and the metallic conductive MXene offer fast ion transport and outstanding conductivity of the MXene-bonded Si@C film, in favor of its rate performance. These performances promise good potential of the MXene-bonded Si@C film as anode for flexible LIBs.


Summary Interferon prepared from influenza virus infected eggs or mouse lungs when intranasally administered protected mice against a mouse-adapted Type B influenza challenge. To be effective, the interferons had to be given before virus, and treatments delayed 24 hours after virus exposure served only to aggravate the infection. The concentration of virus used in the challenge was critical. The effect was best observed when the dosage was approximately 10 LD50.


A key issue in developing pendular Fabry-Perot interferometers as very accurate displacement measurement devices, is the noise level. The Fabry-Perot pendulums are the most promising device to detect gravitational waves, and therefore the background and the internal noise should be accurately measured and reduced. In fact terminal masses generates additional internal noise mainly due to thermal fluctuations and vibrations. We propose to exploit the reflectivity change, that occurs in some special points, to monitor the pendulums free oscillations and possibly estimate the noise level. We find that in spite of long transients, it is an effective method for noise estimate. We also prove that to only retain the sequence of escapes, rather than the whole time dependent dynamics, entails the main characteristics of the phenomenon. Escape times could also be relevant for future gravitational wave detector developments.


The condensation reaction of iPr2PCl with hexamethyldisilazane, HN(SiMe3)2,
followed by oxidation with sulfur, selenium or hydrogen peroxide yields
Pr2P(E)NHP(E'),iPr2, where E = S, Se or 0. Single crystal X-ray experiments give a
hydrogen bonded chain in all cases. Analogous PhO, EtO, Et and Ph substituted
compounds were synthesised via condensation reactions between R2P(S)NH2 and
R'P(S)CI yielding R2P(S)NHP(S)R'2 (R =PhO, Ph; R' = iPr, Et, EtO). Further
crystallographic studies revealed iPr2P(S)NHP(S)(OPh)2 and Et2P(S)NHP(S)Ph2 to be
hydrogen bonded dimers and iPr2P(S)NHP(S)Ph2 and Et2P(S)NHP(S)(OPh)2 to be
hydrogen bonded chains. Reacting these compounds with Zn, Cd, Pd and Pt chlorides
led to the formation of tetrahedral and square planar coordination complexes.
Crystallographic studies on the complexes of R2P(E)NHP(E')R'2 revealed surprising
ME2P2N ring geometries, some adopting pseudo "boat" conformations and others
adopting pseudo "chair" conformation. Reactions of R2P(S)NHP(S)R'2 with CuC12
yielded trimeric copper(I) complexes of the type CU3[R2P(S)NP(S)R' 2]3. The
trimeric system was found to be fluxional in solution. Crystallographic studies on the
complexes show the trimer to have CU3S3 core. Further reactions of
R2P(S)NHP(S)R' 2 with various tellurium (H) and (IV) salts yielded complexes of the
types Te[R2P(S)NP(S)R' 2]2 and Te[R2P(S)NP(S)R' 2]Cl2,C6H4.0CH3.
Crystallographic studies on the complexes show the tellurium to adopt pseudo two
coordinate, four coordinate (square planar) and five coordinate (square based
pyramid) arrangements.
Tetradentate ligands of the type R2P(S)NHP(S)Ph(CH2)3P(S)PhNHP(S)R2 (where R =
Ph or OPh) were synthesised by the condensation of NH2P(S)Ph(CH2)3P(S)PhNH2
with R2P(S)CI. Preliminary coordination studies suggest the formation of ML
complexes were M = Zn, Cd and Ni. Molecular modelling techniques were used to
investigate the optimum size of the "spacer groups" which links the two
dithioimidophosphinate ligands. Using MNDOd and DFT optimisations, and with
comparison to unlinked examples, the size of the ideal group was determined with
respect to each particular metal.


M. Brett Deaton, Matthew D. Duez, Francois Foucart, Evan O'Connor, Christian D. Ott, Lawrence E. Kidder, Curran D. Muhlberger, Mark A. Scheel, and Bela Szilagyi 1 Department of Physics & Astronomy, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA; firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com 2 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada 3 TAPIR, MC 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 4 Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA Received 2016 April 21; accepted 2016 May 2; published 2016 June 13


Nine insecticidal treatments were evaluated to determine their effects on Mexican bean beetle, bean leaf beetle, and spiders. Insecticides were applied on Sep 2 on 'Essex' soybeans grown on the F.F. Chandler Farm in Westmoreland County near Montross, VA. Individual plots were 4 rows 25 ft long and spaced 6 ft apart. A randomized block experimental design with 3 replications was utilized. Each spray concentrate was applied to the soybean foliage with a CO2 powered backpack sprayer at 32 psi that delivered 29 gal of finished formulation per acre. Individual treatments were evaluated 1, 3, 6, and 14 days after application by comparing the number of Mexican bean beetle, bean leaf beetle, and spiders per 20 sweeps in the treated plots to those in the untreated plots.


In this paper, a new control stra¬tegy is deve¬loped; an adaptive fuzzy controller based on Lyapunov's stability theory (AFLC) recalculates the real-time PI-fuzzy gains and combines ...


The author examined important factors and student outcomes in action research courses taught via distance in a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction program. Over the three years of the study, communication used in the program evolved from primarily mail and phone correspondence to primarily e-mail and online discussion groups. Following a systematic analysis of faculty meeting notes, syllabi, letters, statements of professional growth from student portfolios, comments on student and alumni surveys, and archived online discussions, the author identified technical and human aspects that appeared to have fostered the courses' success. Technical aspects included preproposal coaching; consistency between text, syllabus, and online materials; use of progress reports for monitoring and feedback; working with groups doing collaborative projects; choosing an appropriate mode of communication for feedback; electronic editing options; and effective uses of the online discussion group. Human aspects included providing constructive criticism, adapting the research timetable, and fostering supportive working relationships. Findings suggest that, as a result of the research experience, many students were more inclined to use inquiry and reflection in their approach to teaching and had taken new leadership roles in the school setting. Recommendations for teaching action research via distance are provided. ********** Action research has taken its place in the educational setting as a valuable process for teacher development and institutional change. Through action research, teachers have developed confidence in their ability to improve their own teaching (Ernst, cited in Zeichner & Klehr, 1999; Webb, 1990), developed a more questioning and reflective stance toward their practice (Kember, 1998; Webb, 1990), become more proactive in effecting change within their classrooms (Goswami & Stillman, 1987; Webb, 1990), and gone beyond the classroom to effect institutional change (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1993; Zeichner, 1993). Action research by teachers is also expected to help shape the research agenda for education and the way educational issues are framed (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1993; Zeichner, 1993). Studies of teachers' action research experiences suggest that control over and ownership of the research questions is essential for significant action research to take place (Jaworski, 1998; Squire & Barkins, 1999). Those facilitating the research need to have the utmost respect for teachers and what they bring to the research project (Caro-Bruce & Zeichner, 1998). They need to help teacher researchers understand that flexibility is an important component of action research, that design can change as the project unfolds (Kember, 1998). The opportunity to work with colleagues in a critical yet supportive environment is also essential (Kember, 1998; Squire & Barkins, 1999). Finally, presenting one's research to an audience (Kosnick, 2000) and receiving feedback from diverse perspectives (Ernst, cited in Zeichner & Klehr, 1999) support the successful action research experience. Action research is typically conducted in face-to-face contexts and is frequently part of a graduate program. Yet, increasingly, teachers are enrolling in distance education programs as a means for professional development. Distance education offers teachers convenience and flexibility, but can action research, which is such a collaborative process, be taught via distance? The literature indicates that some aspects of distance education may interface well with action research. Distance learning lends itself to self-directed learning and learner control over educational decisions (Meyer, 2001), factors that have been cited as important to successful action research projects. Problem-based learning, which also requires learner self direction, has been successfully taught via distance (Taplin, 2000). …


The purpose of this study was to standardize a brand image scale into a sport context in Korea and to examine its adaptability. To achieve the purpose of this study, Brand Personality Scale(BPS) developed by Aaker(1997) was used to translate and analyze its adaptability in Korean. The BPS was consisted of 15 facets with 5 sub-domains. A total of 273 sample was used and asked about FIFA`s brand image. Results indicated that 9 facets among original 15 original facets significantly represented brand image in sports contexts of FIFA. Also, four sub domain among original five were statistically fit with proposed model for Korean version of brand image scale. In detail, sincerity, excitement, competence, and ruggedness were shown as good sub domain for the scale. Validity and reliability were also checked to confirm the availability of the scale. In compared to a previous research studied by Hong(2002), brand image scale was shown different facets with same sub domain. The results indicated that brand image scale was needed to be differently applied in different sport contexts.


In this paper, a methodology using Differential Evolution algorithm is proposed for the definition of the discourse universe of the fuzzy PID controller structure variables, for the load/frequency control in power systems, with this eliminating the need of the expert in systems speed control of hydraulic turbines. This controller uses the fuzzy system to tune the PID controller in real time. A mathematical model, based upon constructive information and where nonlinearities are taken into account, of a hydroelectric plant belonging to the Brazilian Interconnected System is presented as a test benchmark to analysis the proposed controller performance under various loading conditions. Simulation results are introduced to show the performance of the developed controller in comparison with a PID controller tuned by a Differential Evolution Algorithm and with a PID algorithm similar to the one actually used in the field. These results denote that the proposed controller offer better performance over others in terms of settling times and oscillation of the frequency.


Insight in psychotherapy is an epiphenomenon; other sources of gain must be identified. Wilson's discussion neglects the central thesis of this author's earlier paper, but offers a promising lead in Piagetian constructs. This commentary suggests drawing on age-old and universal concepts that are powerful sources of change in human conduct.


Background: Systematic reviews are important sources of evidence in health care research. These reviews may or may not include meta-‐analysis as a statistical assimilation of the results of several studies in order to acquire a pooled estimate. Systematic review with meta-‐analysis is considered as a robust method of evidence synthesis. The methodology concerned with traditional meta-‐analysis does not incorporate external prior information. Hence, Bayesian methods are essential due to the natural process of incorporating the past information and updating the belief. Bayesianmethods to meta-‐analysis have been developed with a motivation from the limitations of traditional meta-‐analysis such as dealing with missing data, problem with limited number of studies and problem with sparse event data in both the groups. The present article aims to unearth as to what extent Bayesian methods have been used in systematic reviews, evolution and its applications. This article also highlights the existing challenges and opportunities.
Methods: The literature search was performed in databases such as Cochrane, PubMed, ProQuest and Scopus using the keywords "Bayesian Meta-‐analysis" and "Bayesian Meta-‐analyses". All the methodology and application oriented papers specific to Bayesian meta-‐analysis were considered relevant for this review.
Conclusion: Bayesian meta-‐analysis has gained popularity in the field of evidence synthesis of clinical trials. However, it did not pick up momentum in summarizing public health interventions, owing to the fact that public health interventions are targeted to highly heterogeneous population, multi-‐component interventions, and multiple outcomes and influenced by the context.


Middle-aged career women are confronted with pressures and vexation during their work life.They face all kinds of pressures in this period: household pressure such as their children's education and job-hunting,supporting and taking care of their parents;pressure from their own work such as the updating of knowledge,promotion in their position and interpersonal relationship problems;physiological and mental pressure such as climacteric syndrome.All these factors force them to enter into career burnout early.This paper focuses on the analysis of the physiological and psychological features of middle-aged career women with career burnout and seeks ways to help middle-aged career women to solve the problem of career burnout and promote the health in their professional psychology through social,organizational,family and personal means.


Wake-induced laminar-turbulent transition is studied at the leading edge of a C4-section compressor stator blade in a 1.5-stage axial compressor. Surface hot-film sensor observations are interpreted with the aid of numerical solutions from UNSFLO, a quasi-three dimensional viscous-inviscid flow solver. The passage of a rotor wake, with its associated negative jet, over the stator leading edge is observed to have a destabilizing effect on the suction surface boundary layer. This leads to transition closer to the stator leading edge than would have occurred under steady flow conditions. The strength of this phenomenon is influenced by the rotor-stator axial gap and the variability of individual rotor wake disturbances. A variety of transition phenomena is observed near the leading edge in the wake path. Wave packets characteristic of Tollmien-Schlichting waves are observed to amplify and break down into turbulent spots. Disturbances characteristic of the streaky structures occurring in bypass transition are also seen. Examination of suction surface disturbance and wake-induced transitional strip trajectories points to the leading edge as the principal receptivity site for suction surface transition phenomena at design loading conditions. This contrasts markedly with the pressure surface behavior, where transition at design conditions occurs remotely from leading-edge flow perturbations associated with wake chopping. Here, the local receptivity of the boundary layer to the wake passing disturbance and turbulent wake fluid discharging onto the blade surface may be of greater importance.


The project was designed to get a better sense of the phenomenon referred to as Earthing. Earthing is defined as the process where the human body is in contact with the earth and can freely transfer ions between the Earth and itself. Those promoting the idea of earthing say that this transfer of ions is important in maintaining a healthy immune system, and they claim that the recent increase in autoimmune diseases is the result of humans being insulated from the ground because of the shoes they wear and the places in which they live.


Fall report of birds and locations contributed by Beth Proescholdt and other observers. Also included are the results from a Hawk watch held at Grammer Grove County Wildlife Area from September 9 through November 25, 1998. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of fall 1998.


Under the constraint of fixed pulse distortion, the nonlinear response of coupled-resonator slow light waveguides fails to improve with increasing number of resonators, even though improvement in bandwith-delay product is obtained.


Abstract : Approximately $117.9 billion of the $292.9 billion annual DOD budget is allocated to acquisition programs. It has been estimated that for every $1.44 expended, the government receives only $1.00 of goods and services in return. In other words, inefficiencies account for in excess of $36 billion in lost purchasing power each year. The Congress has attempted to cure the ills of acquisition by legislating the DOD process to perfection . But like earlier DOD initiatives, the Congress attempted cures through piecemeal legislation. As a result, the acquisition process is still an inefficient bureaucratic mess. Major problems with the process were solicited from a cross-section of key players in the acquisition community--from industry, project management offices, and government agencies directly affiliated with defense acquisition. Based on recommendations, insights, experiences, and research, the author provides recommendations for how to improve the acquisition process. Success of this proposal rests with the willingness of the Executive and Legislative Branches to commit jointly to a comprehensive program of reform. There is precedence--in 1990 the Administration and the Congress negotiated a cap to the FY1991-1995 budget to reduce the effects of the national deficit.


PURPOSE: To acoustically analyze the stop consonants /p, b, t, d, k, g/ and the fricatives /f, v, s, z,∫, / from Brazilian Portuguese, regarding the variables duration, frequency and octave variation per second. METHODS: The production of words with the target phonemes was analyzed by using an imitation task. Each participant, with age between eight and ten years, repeated a series of isolated words selected from a phonetically balanced list for Brazilian Portuguese. Words were acoustically analyzed considering duration of the target sound (stop or fricative consonant), and initial and final frequency values of F2, measured in Hz. Based on these values, the variation of octaves per second present in each consonant's F2 was calculated, as well as the average value considering all consonants analyzed. RESULTS: Consonants' duration varied from 31 ms to 170.5 ms. Values of F2 varied from 2617 Hz, for the initial frequency of the voiced stop /b/, to 4557 Hz, average value for the initial frequency of the voiced fricative /z/. Regarding the variation of octaves per second present in F2, the higher variation was found for the unvoiced stop /p/ (16.23 octaves per second), and the lower variation, for the unvoiced fricative /S/ (1.624 octaves per second). The average value found for all target-sounds analyzed was of approximately 6.8 octaves per second. CONCLUSION: The values observed in the study will be useful to the elaboration of auditory tests and trainings including nonverbal stimuli analogous to the temporal characteristics of speech in Brazilian Portuguese.


tiia but returns to his survey of eighteenth-century historiography, which is less original and significant than part 1. Among other new materials of particular interest to specialists is the journal, from the Muller portfolios, in which the beleaguered German historian records the discussion (in 1749-50) of his thesis concerning the origins of the Russian people, a dramatic episode which has most often been described from the tendentious viewpoints of Miiller's antagonists, especially Lomonosov. Of interest also is the comparison of Catherine's published Notes on Russian History with the manuscripts and the detailed treatment of V. V. Krestinin's relations with A. R. Vorontsov, the latter based on correspondence between 1787 and 1794. This work may be found in part 2. Diffuse presentation of material, references to individual historians scattered across three volumes, and the author's device of interpreting his subject often in the form of observations on views of others rather than independent formulations— all render hazardous an evaluation of his judgments on individual historians. Peshtich began his serious work shortly before World War II . He prepared for two decades and published over yet another decade. The author owed his readers a clarification of the seeming ambiguities and contradictions in his judgments. He might have ended his long labor not by describing local history in the second half of the eighteenth century but by giving a thorough recapitulation of his conclusions. An index is also needed. Peshtich in text and footnotes demonstrates a formidable acquaintance with the primary materials concerning his subject. Owing to his untimely death in 1972, readers must now look to his students for further analysis of individual topics raised but not fully developed in this work—for example, the role of sectarian writings in the formation of eighteenth-century historical thought, the uses of Petrine history as a form of opposition after 1725, a consecutive history of state intervention in historical writing, and the nature of the Russian enlightenment.


Mixed metal oxides pigments of TiO2.ZnO, 2TiO2.ZnO, Zn2TiO4, MgTiO3, CaTiO3, TiO2.ZnO.MgO, and TiO2.ZnO.SrO were synthesized from corresponding oxides or carbonates at high temperature. The obtained metal mixed oxides were characterized by means of X-fray diffraction analysis, measurement of particle sizes and scanning electron microscopy. The synthesized metal mixed oxides were used to produce epoxy-ester coatings with PVC = 10 % for a synthesized pigment. The coatings were tested for physical-mechanical properties and in corrosion atmospheres. The results of corrosion tests were compared with standard alumino zinc phosphomolybdate. © 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of [Tomas Wagner]


In this report, the authors describe preliminary results of DC current measurements in the ICP ion sampling portion of the instrument. One goal of this work is to compare these measurements with similar measurements on a conventional ICP/MS instrument. The authors will also compare these currents with the number of ions detected by the ITMS. The authors hope to acquire a semi-quantitative understanding of where the sampled beam current ({le} mA at the base of the skimmer) is lost on its way to the trap. If there is a selective reduction in the Ar{sup +} current relative to the analyte current, as suggested in earlier work, these measurements may provide clues as to the mechanism responsible for such selective neutralization.


Today there is general agreement that global change is ongoing, rapid and that it affects us all. The scientific knowledge underpinning this change is surprisingly recent. In this talk I locate glo ...


Axial loading of the lower leg during short-duration impulsive events, such as ejection seat and parachute landings, or in-vehicle landmine blasts, can cause significant lower limb injuries. To date, most of the research investigating the axial injury tolerance levels of the lower limb has been conducted by the car crash industry [1]. The previously mentioned short duration events achieve higher forces over less time than car crashes, and as such, investigation into the applicability of the current injury criterion is required.


Recall that if A ∈ R m×n and B ∈ R m×p , then the augmented matrix [A | B] ∈ R m×n+p is the matrix [A B], that is the matrix whose first n columns are the columns of A, and whose last p columns are the columns of B. Typically we consider B = ∈ R m×1 R m , a column vector. We also recall that a matrix A ∈ R m×n is said to be in reduced row echelon form if, counting from the topmost row to the bottom-most, 1. any row containing a nonzero entry precedes any row in which all the entries are zero (if any) 2. the first nonzero entry in each row is the only nonzero entry in its column 3. the first nonzero entry in each row is 1 and it occurs in a column to the right of the first nonzero entry in the preceding row Example 0.1 The following matrices are not in reduced echelon form because they all fail some part of 3 (the first one also fails 2):   1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1     0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1   2 0 0 0 1 0 A matrix that is in reduced row echelon form is:   1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1


This paper is concerned with singular stress distribution near a crack tip yielding by two inclined slip planes. Based on the method of eigenvalue expansions of Williams, the mode I near crack tip singular stress field is obtained in the form with an undetermined constant similar to the stress intensity factor. It is found that unbounded stresses occur near the crack tip with the strength of the singularity being somewhat weaker than for the case without slip planes. Finally, in the case of mode III crack, the results from the closed form solution are compared with the present study.