Economic and political development is contextual nevertheless there are some general elements in the process of institutional persistence and change. We present a framework which allows us to better understand development in the modern world by which we mean that there exist developed countries and that the developing countries are aware of and can potentially learn from the developmental paths of the already developed countries. We focus on middle income countries where it is a puzzle that a greater number have not transitioned to more open economic and political societies, given that there are role models they could emulate.


A picture frame is like a passage con necting art and reality.It is also li ke a window for people to observe reality.However,modern art seems to be clearing up"picture frame ",driving people out of the land of art.The cultural ecology of art is being p olluted.Art needs"picture frame "so as to maintain the healthy functio ns of artistic ecological system.


The objective of this paper is to study post folklore as a phenomenon intermediated by the modern communication practices. Methodology of the research lies in the applying of general scientific principle of objectivity, culturological, structural semantic and analytical methods to research post folklore as a phenomenon shaped by daily communication practices belonging to the type of social practices conditioned by the evolution of information technologies and communication means and facilities. Scientific novelty of this paper lies in the cohesion between modern communication practices as the key factor and the origin and development of Web-based post folklore texts. Conclusions. Based on the research findings, it was discovered that modern Web-based post folklore is primarily connected with its perception as a communication system, which basis is formed by messages and senses. Responding to socially significant events of current interest and in tune with the collective consciousness of the contemporaries, post folklore works act as means of objectivation of the world in certain categories and images that can appeal to the symbolic and sign nature of various cultures present in the daily socialisation space both at the intellectual and mundane levels. The post folklore, born and circulated in the internet space, reflects those trends of public consciousness that dominate it in the given period. The use of folklore forms of the past and resorting to the meta-language is spontaneous and, sometimes, is of an entertaining nature. In perceiving the reality Web users tend to use folklore forms, which intrinsic metaphoricity enables anonymous creators of internet folklore impart general significance to the up-to-date events.


We prove the existence of weak solutions to a one‐dimensional initial‐boundary value problem for a model system of partial differential equations, which consists of a sub‐system of linear elasticity and a nonlinear non‐uniformly parabolic equation of second order. To simplify the existence proof of weak solutions in the 2006 paper of Alber and Zhu, we replace the function |p|κ:=|p|2/|p|2+κ2 in that work by |p|κ:=|p|2+κ2 . The model is formulated by using a sharp interface model for phase transformations that are driven by material forces. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Frequency response of a fiber ring resonator (FRR) composed of an ordinary optical coupler and a segment of optical fiber is theoretically and experimentally investigated. The frequency response equation based on small‐signal modulation is derived and studied in detail. It is shown that the shape of the frequency response curve is very sensitive to the wavelength; as a result, the FRR can be applied to measure the wavelength of a lightwave source with high resolution. With this method, we demonstrate the measurement of tiny changes of wavelength of a DFB laser. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 2444–2448, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24608


Objective: To assess the role of pharmacist to improve the patient economy in regard to treatment of diabetes mellitus (DM).
Methodology: Total 150 Questionnaire were distributed among diabetic patients and 83 were male (55.4%) and 67(44.6%) female. Out of 150, 27(18%) patients had type 1 and 123(82%) had type 2 DM.
Results: Glimperide (1mg) revealed maximum price variation of 655.38% while glipizide (10mg) showed difference of 38.88%. Metformin (500mg) and pioglitazone (15mg) showed profound price variation of 308.33% & 542%, respectively.
Conclusion: The study has shown that the pharmacist can be very helpful in decreasing the substantial cost incurred by patients. The beneficiary is not only the patient, his family but the whole society and the whole country is beneficiary of pharmacist intervention


Abstract Smectic isotactic polypropylene films were annealed at different temperatures for different times. Density, wide-angle x-ray scattering (WAXS), differential scanning calorimetry, and the transport properties of methylene chloride vapor were used to follow the transformation of the smectic phase into the monoclinic phase. The results of WAXS diffractograms indicate different saturation levels of crystallization with the maximum order attained progressively more quickly at higher temperatures. Density measurements, however, show that, after a first saturation level, a further increase of this parameter occurs after long annealing times; and this second step is lower, the higher the temperature. Sorption and diffusion, analyzed to investigate the amorphous component, show that annealing the smectic phase at 50°C results in a decrease of amorphous fraction without transformation of the smectic phase. The transition from smectic to monoclinic phase occurs at temperatures higher than 60°C. During the a...


The problem of the influence of Brownian diffusion of nanoparticles on their sedimentation remains relevant [1]. Since the experiment of Robert Brown (the movement of pollen particles in a liquid drop), many scientists have studied the behavior of particles in different types of environments. The method of nanoparticle synthesis plays an important role in the distribution of nanoparticles' sizes [2]. Theoretical investigation of the sedimentation of nanoparticles is described in [3, 4], Brownian motion of nanoparticles is described in [5–7]. In this work, we discuss the effect of the nanoparticles' diffusion on their sedimentation along the lower boundary of the vessel bottom, called the boundary layer [8]. To find the solution of the diffusion equation, the Newton polygon method is used – a method allowing one to find the solution of the equation with perturbed coefficients.


Differences in host ACE2 genes may affect the host range of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses (SC2r-CoVs) and further determine the tropism of host ACE2 for the infection receptor. However, the factor(s) responsible for determining the host tropism of SC2r-CoVs, which may in part be determined by the tropism of host ACE2 usage, remains unclear. Here, we use the pseudoviruses with the spike proteins of two Laotian SC2r-CoVs, BANAL-20-236 and BANAL-20-52, and the cells expressing ACE2 proteins of eight different Rhinolophus bat species, and show that these two spikes have different tropisms for Rhinolophus bat ACE2. Through structural analysis and cell culture experiments, we demonstrate that this tropism is determined by residue 493 of the spike and residues 31 and 35 of ACE2. Our results suggest that SC2r-CoVs exhibit differential ACE2 tropism, which may be driven by adaptation to different Rhinolophus bat ACE2 proteins.


The article presents the results of field studies aimed at expanding the species composition of herbs and the search for adaptive cereals with a high sugar content in the Upper Volga region in 2015-2020.


One of the most promising new information technologies is analytical databases that allow us to analyze the dynamics of the behavior of the control object in the historical aspect. The introduction of analytical databases increases the efficiency of information systems. In particular, one of the criteria for effectiveness is the security of an information system, on which analytical databases have a fairly significant impact, which at first glance is not obvious. In the material of this article, the problems of organizing and implementing security in analytical databases will be considered, as well as the method of logical design of information support for distributed information systems of critical application under the prism of ensuring the security of this system.


The present invention relates to their use as active ingredients in a transdermal therapeutic system (TTS), and agitation, sleep disorders, anxiety, and nervousness, in particular prevention of excited and / or treatment containing lavender oil. The invention also relates to a method for producing the TTS, the TTS has been manufactured by using a supporting material from the fiber component is supported as an active component by a printing process.


Abstract-Themaximal (A, B) invariantsubspacecontained in kernel C', where (A, B, C') is associatedwith the standard linear system (l), is shown to be equal,when (A, B, C') saW~es condition (6), to theintersec- tion of themaximal (A ,B ) invariant subspaces contained in kernel C;, i=l:.-,m,C,'denotingtheithrowofC'.


World-class author events, discussions, debates and creative workshops in the historic buildings and grounds of the Old Royal Naval College.


Energy absorbing composite joints can be effective in noise and vibration suppression of marine and aerospace structures. The vibration suppression in a typical Top-Hat stiffener structural joint, with viscoelastic insert is presented in this paper. Using FEM modeling, the damping performance of this composite joint is predicted. Experiments are carried out to validate the numerical analysis.


The Neotropical spider genus Thaumasia Perty, 1833 is revised. Seven of the known species are redescribed andillustrated: Thaumasia senilis Perty, 1833 (type-species); T. abrahami Mello-Leitao, 1948; T. annulipes F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903; T. argenteonotata (Simon, 1898); T. heterogyna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936; T. scoparia (Simon, 1888)and T. velox Simon, 1898. Ten new species from the neotropical region are described and illustrated: T. caxiuana sp. nov., T. onca sp. nov., T. diasi sp. nov., T. xingu sp. nov., T. acreana sp. nov., T. caracarai sp. nov., T. peruana sp. nov., T. hirsutochela sp. nov., T. lisei sp. nov. and T. oriximina sp. nov. The types of Thaumasia senilis are assumed tobe lost and neotypes are designated. The males of Thaumasia heterogyna, T. annulipes, T. abrahami and the female of Thaumasia senilis are described and illustrated for the first time. Thaumasia annecta Bryant, 1948 and T. decemguttata Mello-Leitao, 1945 are synonyms of Thaumasia velox. Thaumasia argyrotypa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 issynonymized with Thaumasia heterogyna. Thaumasia argentinensis Mello-Leitao, 1941 is transferred to Lycosidaeand Thaumasia benoisti Caporiacco, 1954 is a junior synonym of Architis spinipes (Taczanowski, 1874). The types of Thaumasia argyrura Mello-Leitao, 1943, Thaumasia brunnea Caporiacco, 1947, Thaumasia strandi Caporiacco, 1947and Thaumasia rubrosignata (Mello-Leitao, 1943) are juvenile specimens, and those species are considered as species inquirendae. The type of Thaumasia niceforoi Mello-Leitao, 1941 was not found and is this is species is considered a nomen dubium.


This study was conducted to know characteristics of Runoff Non-point Source(NPS) Pollution discharge from a coal mining area in korea. Study Area is location at Jeonduri, Dogyeup, Samchuck, Gangwon province where there is a coal mining workplace. Monitoring system was installed at a drainage channel and flow rate and water samples were collected from Sep. 2007 to Sep. 2008. Two and Five rainfall events were monitored in 2007 and 2008, respectively. collected water samples sere analyzed with respect to SS, BOD, CODCr, CODMn, T-N, T-P, and TOC. It was obesrved that the runoff and water quality were largely influenced by mine drainage. As the study progresses in the future, runoff and pollution loads will be updated.


Cancer patients undergoing interleukin (IL)-2-based immunotherapy frequently experience dose-limiting side effects believed to be caused by the actions of such cytokines as IL-1 beta, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and -beta, and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) or monocyte-depleted peripheral blood lymphocytes were stimulated for up to 7 days by either of 2 IL-2 analogues (R38A or F42K) that bind to the intermediate-affinity IL-2 beta gamma receptor but have reduced abilities to bind the high-affinity IL-2 receptor. We previously reported that these IL-2 analogues retain the ability to generate lymphokine-activated killing by PBMC. In this study, we analyzed the cytokine content of supernatants from stimulated PBMC and peripheral blood lymphocyte cultures by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The secretions of IL-1 beta, TNF-alpha, and -beta, and IFN-gamma induced by either R38A or F42K were markedly reduced compared with secretions produced in response to recombinant wild-type IL-2. In 4 experiments, secretion was reduced an average of 39% for IL-1 beta, 57% for TNF-alpha, 83% for TNF-beta, and 86% for IFN-gamma. Polymerase chain reaction analysis of recombinant wild-type IL-2 or analogue-stimulated PBMC did not reveal the presence of IL-2 mRNA; thus, differential production of endogenous IL-2 could not account for these findings. These data suggest the interaction of IL-2 and the high-affinity IL-2 receptor on human PBMC or peripheral blood lymphocyte is required for maximal secretion of IL-1 beta, TNF-alpha, TNF-beta, and IFN-gamma. Because such cytokines are believed to mediate the toxicity seen with IL-2-based immunotherapies, IL-2 analogues with reduced binding to the high affinity IL-2 receptor may prove to be an effective and less toxic means of cancer treatment.


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Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS) syndrome is a newly described immune-mediated, treatable and inflammatory CNS disease first reported by Pittock et al. (2010). The authors concluded that the characterized features of CLIPPERS are punctate and curvilinear pattern 'peppering' lesions within the pons on post-contrast T1-weighted images, together with an initial responsiveness to steroids therapy. Three of eight clinic patients in the original article were described foci of punctate gadolinium enhancement lesions extending down to spinal cord. To the best of our knowledge, the enhancing lesions distributed in pontine and peripontine regions, and some cases may additionally extend to the spinal cord, thalamus, basal ganglia, capsula interna and the cerebral white matter (Pittock et al. , 2010). However, cases with lesions predominantly distributed in spinal cord have not been reported, now we present a patient with lesions distributed mainly in the spinal cord and with lesions extending up to the medulla oblongata.

A previously healthy 53-year-old man noticed general weakness and abnormal fatigue for 2 weeks before admission. He then developed numbness of bilateral lower limbs, walking difficulties and incontinence for urine. There was no evidence of diplopia, gait ataxia or dysarthria. The past medical history and family history were negative. Neurological examination on admission revealed muscle strength score of bilateral lower limbs was 2 of 5 (Medical Research Council scale), tendon reflexes were decreased in the knees and ankles, hypoaesthesia of bilateral lower limbs, bilateral pathological reflexes were positive. The rest of the neurological examinations were normal.

Laboratory investigations revealed complete blood …


We examined the effects in vitro of the ionic composition and pH of the medium on the acquisition of motility by testicular spermatozoa of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica. We obtained milt from the genital pore and testicular milt from the testes of artificially matured cultivated eels. About 45% of milt spermatozoa were motile when they were diluted with hyperosmotic solution. By contract, 1.4% of testicular spermatozoa were motile. We produced an artificial seminal plasma (ASP), which corresponded in terms of ionic constituents to the seminal plasma obtained from the milt, and incubated immotile testicular spermatozoa with the ASP. The spermatozoa showed increased motility (44.0–60.7%) after a 60-min incubation at all pH values examined (pH 7.5–8.7). Absence of bivalent cations from the ASP did not impede the acquisition of motility at pH 8.1. However, testicular spermatozoa incubated with potassium-free ASP (pH 7.8–8.4) did not become motile, and the motility increased in proportion to the concentrations of potassium ions (0–30 mM) in ASP at pH 8.1. When testicular spermatozoa were incubated with HCO3--free ASP at pH 8.1 (the ASP including 15.2 mM KCI), spermatozoa did not become motile. Motility of the spermatozoa increased in proportion to the concentrations of HCO3-ions in ASP. Thus, acquisition of motility required potassium and bicarbonate ions and their concentrations regulated the percentage of motile spermatozoa. The pH of testicular milt (pH7.5) was significantly lower than that of milt (pH 8.0), and the concentration of potassium ions in testicular plasma (44.3 mM) was significantly higher than that in seminal plasma (15.2 mM). Thus, it appears that immotile testicular spermatozoa become motile upon transfer from the testicular lumen to the sperm duct, with increases in pH and in the concentration of bicarbonate ions. J. Exp. Zool. 277:171–180, 1997. © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.


This paper discusses an optimal memory system to realize a high performance integrated Prolog processor, the IPP. First, the memory access characteristics of Prolog are analyzed by a simulator, which simulates the execution of a Prolog program at a micro instruction level. The main findings from this analysis are that: the write access ratio of Prolog is larger than that of procedural languages; and performance improvement requires the memory system to process concentrated, large write accesses effectively. Then the Prolog acceleration strategies for conventional cache memories are discussed. Comparison is made of cache memories (store-swap, store-through) and a stack buffer, regarding not only performance but also reliability, complexity and effects on procedural languages. The advanced store- through cache with a multi-stage write buffer and an interleaved main memory are seen to have the same performance level as the store-swap cache. When considering data reliability, the advanced store- through cache is judged more suitable for the IPP than the store-swap cache. In a comparison between stack buffer and advanced store-through cache, the stack buffer is found to achieve higher peak performance, but this is affected by the program features. On the other hand, the advanced store-through cache constantly gets high performance for Prolog and procedural languages. As a result, it is concluded that the advanced store-through cache is best suited to the IPP.


The patient was a 64-year-old man with a history of high blood pressure and left orchidectomy at age 14 years for a scrotal injury. In May 2001 he consulted for intermittent macroscopic haematuria of 2 months' duration, with a 1year history of a right inguinoscrotal mass that decreased in size with voiding. A physical examination disclosed a right testicle occupying the left scrotal pouch and displaced by a painless right inguinoscrotal mass that could not be reduced by palpation. A DRE showed an innocent grade II/ IV prostate mass of adenomatous consistency. With a suspicion of a bladder neoplasm associated with probable inguinoscrotal bladder hernia, several studies were undertaken. Functional cystography confirmed the inguinoscrotal bladder herniation (Fig. 1), and showed filling defects in the herniated and pelvic bladder that were suggestive of multiple bladder tumours. CT showed a 1.5-cm mass


Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive neuroimaging technique that recently has been used to measure changes in cerebral blood oxygenation associated with brain activity. Numbers of research groups have applied general linear model (GLM) based method to analyze the NIRS data. However, classical GLM based method cannot provide on-line analysis. Therefore, its usage is constrained in processing NIRS data where real-time feedback is required. In the present paper, we are proposing a framework for NIRS based on-line brain activation mapping. The framework employs an extended GLM with coefficients updated by an extended Kalman particle filter for on-line brain activation mapping. A set of data recorded in a finger tapping experiment was studied using the proposed framework. The results so obtained, suggested that the method can effectively locate brain activation areas on-line with the noisy NIRS signal, thereby demonstrating its potential for real-time NIRS-based brain imaging applications.


The negative memories which come from tragic events such as war, terror or various conflicts in modern cities have been threatening the mental health of city-dwellers. This thesis focuses on 'healing public space' that will help recover the life of city-dwellers who sustain various trauma. For this, the author investigated the significant memorial space through 1980-2010 from site visits, interviews, and related theses and books and then extracted necessary information from each period. This thesis aims to find the changes of the memorial concepts and visitor's reaction for last 30years. 1)1980-: Healing concept and visitor's positive response 2)1990-: Healing by emotional experience approaches to the memorial museum such as narrative approach, exhibition media using 5senses, interactive display and preserving trace, 3)early 2000- : Healing by architectural experience 4)2002-present: Healing projects by various programs. Steady advances in memorial design for healing trauma are due to the efforts for emotional design approach to deeply move the visitors and the efforts have to be continued. The study emphasize the importance of attracting people by experimental, emotional design contents not just by aesthetic and functional public design ideas.


Sigma-Point Kalman Filters (SPKFs) are popular estimation techniques for high nonlinear system applications. The benefits of using SPKFs include (but not limited to) the following: the easiness of linearizing the nonlinear matrices statistically without the need to use the Jacobian matrices, the ability to handle more uncertainties than the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), the ability to handle different types of noise, having less computational time than the Particle Filter (PF) and most of the adaptive techniques which makes it suitable for online applications, and having acceptable performance compared to other nonlinear estimation techniques. Therefore, SPKFs are a strong candidate for nonlinear industrial applications, i.e. robotic arm. Controlling a robotic arm is hard and challenging due to the system nature, which includes sinusoidal functions, and the dependency on the sensors' number, quality, accuracy and functionality. SPKFs provide with a mechanism that reduces the latter issue in terms of numbers of required sensors and their sensitivity. Moreover, they could handle the nonlinearity for a certain degree. This could be used to improve the controller quality while reducing the cost. In this paper, some SPKF algorithms are applied to 4-DOF robotic arm that consists of one prismatic joint and three revolute joints (PRRR). Those include the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), the Cubature Kalman Filter (CKF), and the Central Differences Kalman Filter (CDKF). This study gives a study of those filters and their responses, stability, robustness, computational time, complexity and convergences in order to obtain the suitable filter for an experimental setup.


A fraction of galaxy clusters host diffuse radio sources whose origins are investigated through multi-wavelength studies of cluster samples. We investigate the presence of diffuse radio emission in a sample of seven galaxy clusters in the largely unexplored intermediate redshift range (0.3 < z < 0.44). In search of diffuse emission, deep radio imaging of the clusters are presented from wide band (1.1-3.1 GHz), full resolution ($\sim$ 5 arcsec) observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The visibilities were also imaged at lower resolution after point source modelling and subtraction and after a taper was applied to achieve better sensitivity to low surface brightness diffuse radio emission. In case of non-detection of diffuse sources, we set upper limits for the radio power of injected diffuse radio sources in the field of our observations. Furthermore, we discuss the dynamical state of the observed clusters based on an X-ray morphological analysis with XMM-Newton. We detect a giant radio halo in PSZ2 G284.97-23.69 (z=0.39) and a possible diffuse source in the nearly relaxed cluster PSZ2 G262.73-40.92 (z=0.421). Our sample contains three highly disturbed massive clusters without clear traces of diffuse emission at the observed frequencies. We were able to inject modelled radio halos with low values of total flux density to set upper detection limits; however, with our high-frequency observations we cannot exclude the presence of RH in these systems because of the sensitivity of our observations in combination with the high z of the observed clusters.


The structure and the control requirements of lithium-ion battery casing machine and the processes of casing were analyzed, and the automatic control system of cylindrical lithium-ion battery 18650 casing machine was designed based on Mitsubishi PLC. The control program of lithium-ion battery casing machine was designed using GX Developer programming software, and the man-machine interface program of the equipment was designed using GT Designer software, in order to operate and monitor the equipment.


Wittgenstein's remark in section 304 of the Investigations that a sensation "is not a something, but not a nothing either" has often been connected with his critique of the "picture of an inner process", and there is a temptation to read "something" as meaning "something private". I argue that his remark should be taken more at face value, and that we can understand its purport via a consideration of the notion of consisting in. I explore this multi-faceted notion and its connection with (an extended version of) the Context Principle, beginning with the case of certain "propositional attitudes" and moving on to sensations. Wittgenstein was right to think it a philosophical prejudice to say that X's being in pain, say, must consist in, be constituted by, something.


INTEREST in the operative treatment of periotic deafness, and in particular of otosclerosis, dates back at least as far as 1876-—when Kessell tried to fenestrate the labyrinth by extracting the stapes from the foramen ovale. His efforts ended in failure either because the crura of the stapes fractured, owing to fixation of the stapes footplate by the ossified annular ligament, or because sepsis invaded the labyrinth in those cases in which the stapes was successfully removed complete. In 1896 Passow tried trephining the promontory ; but either infection of the labyrinth occurred or any improvement in hearing soon relapsed. In 1904 Barany tried fenestrating the posterior vertical canal. His cases, after temporary improvement, soon relapsed. The same fate attended Jenkin's cases, when in 1914 he tried fenestrating the external semicircular canal. Holmgren attempted fenestration of the anterior vertical canal in 1917, but was no more successful. Barany tried fenestrating the external semicircular canal in 1918, but was again unable to secure lasting benefit. In 1920 Holmgren met with some success with his fenestrations of the external semicircular canal. In 1924 Sourdille was able to report some success as the result of fenestrating the external semicircular canal and employing a tympanomeatal flap to cover the fenestration. He too, however, had many failures. In 1932, however, he was able to report a fair proportion of successes out of 150 operated cases. In 1935 Holmgren reported further successes. Meanwhile he had been trying many different approaches and employing a variety of materials to cover the fenestration—including Thiersch grafts, Stent, fat, gold leaf and paraffin. His latest technique would appear to follow the same principles and to be in many respects closely similar to that adopted by Sourdille ; but he says that it is as yet too early to report as to success or failure. Those interested will find a most intriguing


protocol. Our study included clinical and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) measures of PD patients from the initial sample of 16 newly diagnosed, drug-na€ıve patients (11 men, 5 women; mean age: 59 years; with 1 patient age 34). As such, our sample reflects typical demographic characteristics of PD, which more commonly affect males and may start in younger age. We are not surprised that no group-level differences in most TMS measures were found between baseline and 1year assessment or between treated and nontreated patients in our study. We believe that this apparent lack of the change in the mean data is caused by two sources of between-subject variability. First, there is variability in neurophysiological response to TMS protocols depending on various factors, such as genetic background, subject's age, hormonal levels, physical activity, as well as methodological factors, to name only a few. Second, clinical evolution of PD depend on demographic and baseline clinical variables, such as sex, age at disease onset, disease subtype, or cognitive status. These factors complicate the interpretation of the group results and significantly reduce the statistical power to detect differences between patients and healthy subjects or between groups of patients. It was for these reasons that we focused on within-subject correlations, which turned out to be more informative in addressing the relationship between TMS and clinical measures with disease progression. We appreciate that comparing select groups of PD patients, that is, males to females or young onset to "typical age" of onset PD would have enabled us to study whether sex and age (or other factors) may affect the asymmetry of electrophysiological measures of PD. We suggest this be done in further specially designed studies.


elude those in the social sciences, life sciences, education, humanities, and professional programs such as library and archival sciences, social work, public administration, nursing, and public health. The content of the test will focus on precollege algebra, basic geometry, and elementary statistics. There will be decreased emphasis on routine computation and algebraic manipulation, while the emphasis on data interpretation and reasoning will increase. As with the new Mathematical Reasoning Test, examinees will be required to generate their own response for some questions.


Abstract: This article aims to demonstrate that the new right of child and adolescent, which was included in the Child and Adolescent Statute and in 1988 Brazilian Constitution, deserved special attention in Blumenau City, Santa Catarina State, when a law project of implementation mechanisms to guarantee such new law was being elaborated.

Key words: Child and Adolescent Right. Law Implementation. Collective Participation. Municipal experience. I-politic.


In this paper, we propose a novel segmentation algorithm based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on superpix-else CNNs are powerful methods for several computer vision tasks, but spatial information disappears through the pooling process. Moreover, since pooling compresses different types of pixels into a single value, pooling sometimes negatively affects the results of inference in segmentation task. We use superpixel pooling instead of general pooling to resolve this problem. However, general CNNs can't use superpixel images in which the adjacency relationships between pixels are broken. Therefore, we define CNNs and Dilated Convolution on superpixels. Finally, we show the effectiveness of proposed method on an HKU-IS dataset.


According to the terrain features of the tailings dam, the water boundary image of the tailings dam is obtained by the acquisition of the water. The contour recognition, threshold segmentation, and watershed algorithm can be used to retrieve the boundary between dry beaches and water surface. Analyze and deal with the image pixel coordinates, the most accurate pixel coordinates of waterline can be real-time measured. According to the terrain characteristics of tailings pond, through camera monocular visual to calculate the waterline pixel coordinates and the actual length of beach geometric conversion formula, and real-time monitoring of dry beach length. Based on monocular vision with the fixed dry beach slope, the algorithm is proved to meet the requirements of dry beach length measurement.


and was graded as C4. Excisional biopsy revealed a partly haemorrhagic firm greyish lesion, measuring 45 · 40 · 30 mm. Histologically it showed irregular infiltration of the breast substance by loosely cohesive haematopoietic cells, including many abnormal megakaryocytes. These were set in a fibrous stroma (Figures 1 and 2). The atypical giant cells were periodic acid–Schiff positive. The remaining cells were positive for CD43 (MT1) antibody, indicating that the tumour cells were of myeloid lineage. Extensive areas of haemorrhage with fat necrosis were also seen. Myeloid metaplasia presenting as an isolated breast mass is extremely rare and develops several years after the diagnosis of myelofibrosis. In our case the breast lump appeared 4 years after the development of myelofibrosis and 2 years following splenectomy. Extramedullary haematopoietic tumours may be mistaken for carcinoma, sarcoma, or Hodgkin's disease, especially if the clinical picture is not known. In the breast, due to their rarity, these tumours are very easily misinterpreted as a malignant process, especially when dealing with limited material obtained by fine-needle biopsy specimens and in the absence of supportive clinical history. This is highlighted in this case as the fine-needle aspirate suggested C4 as possible diagnoses. It is important to diagnose extramedullary haematopoietic tumour accurately in patients with a clinical history of myelofibrosis. This is to avoid unnecessary operative procedure, which may include sampling of the axillary lymph nodes.


Diphenylspirocyclopropaneanthrones [(1c) and (1d)] thermally rearranged with ring expansion to 1,10b-dihydro-2H-aceanthrones (2), whereas the phenyl analogue (1b) did not rearrange under comparable conditions. Phenyl-spirocyclopropeneanthrone (3a), prepared by the carbenic reaction of 10-diazoanthrone (6) with phenylacetylene, thermally rearranged to 10bH-aceanthrone (11). By contrast, the diphenyl analogue (3b), from the reaction with diphenylacetylene, was thermally stable. The diazoketone (6) reacted with 9-methylenefluorene to give directly the rearrangement product (2g), instead of the dispirocyclopropaneanthrone (1g). Spirocyclopropane- and spirocyclopropene-anthrones [(1) and (3)] reacted under acidic conditions to yield cyclopropyl or cyclopropenyl ring-opened products. In these reactions, the ring was shown to open from the more substituted side. These reactions are discussed in mechanistic terms.


Numerous and disorderly background is the background which has multiple moving targets. Specific moving targets detection and anti-interference technology are the key technologies in recognition of posture under the numerous and disorderly background. For the case that the identifying target is easily affected by other moving targets, an anti-interference method that can identify specific body gestures in numerous and disorderly scene is proposed. This method combines inter-frame difference method and LK optical flow method. Eventually this anti-interference method is realized and proved to be efficient at the platform of Kinect.


Compared with passive fault diagnosis (PFD) techniques, the research on active fault diagnosis (AFD) techniques is insufficient. The existing AFD methods generally include set-based method, Bayesian approach, and so on. Few AFD results within the framework of signal processing have been published. In this article, a new AFD framework, which is composed of auxiliary input generation, fault diagnosis observer, and signal analysis unit, is introduced into AFD analysis for the first time, within the signal processing framework. Auxiliary signal generation unit is used to generate appropriate auxiliary input signal according to the requirements of fault diagnosis. Then, a set of fault diagnosis observers are designed to generate residuals corresponding to the input channels one to one. Two signal processing methods, correlation analysis and ESPRIT algorithm, are applied to extract the relationship between auxiliary signal and residual signal for fault diagnosis. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


A 200-MHz 11-tap FIR (finite-impulse response) digital filter for compensating the sin(x)/x spectrum distortion introduced by D/A (digital-to-analog) converters has been designed and fabricated in a 1- mu m CMOS technology. This filter chip was designed mainly to operate with a high-speed all-digital QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) modulator chip for digital radio applications. A bit-level pipelined transpose-form carry-save architecture using simple powers-of-two coefficients was used to achieve high throughput. The filter design and VLSI implementation issues, which play important roles in determining the maximum throughput as well as the chip complexity, are discussed. The features of the filter chip are summarized as follows: >200-MHz maximum sampling rate (tested): 3.45*4.25-mm/sup 2/ die area (1.91*3.28-mm/sup 2/ core area); 14000 transistors; 2-W power dissipation at 200 MHz; 14-b maximum input wordlength; 16-b internal wordlength; 8 approximately 14-b selectable rounded output wordlength; two's complement data format; and 15-clock-cycle pipeline latency.<<ETX>>


The effect of 12 Thai corn populations on combining abilities was analyzed and their heterotic groups were clarified in order to lay the scientific base for their utilization in breeding in Guangxi.The results revealed that the differences among 12 Thai corn populations were most significant or significant for variance of GCA and SCA for yield.The correlation between the total combining ability and the performance of the combinations for yield were positively significant.Twelve Tai corn populations were classified into two heterotic groups.and group Ⅰ has the populations Q9 and Q11,which show higher SCA with such inbred line like Dan340 belonged to Lu-da-hon-gu heterotic group.Group Ⅱ include Q1 and the left populations,which have higher SCA with such inbred line like Ye 478,7239 confined to Reid heterotic group.The groupⅡcould be further divided into three heterotic sub-groups.Sub-group Ⅰ include Q1,Q2 and Q10,which has the highest SCA with Ye 478;Sub-group Ⅱ contains Q3,Q4,Q6,Q8 and Q12,which show the highest SCA with Huangzaosi clarified to Sipintou heterotic group;Sub-group Ⅲ include Q5 and Q7,which express the highest SCA with 7239.Among the 72 combinations with the average yield performance ranked between first to tenth in order,two combinations are from each population Q1,Q10 and Q11 used as parent respectively,one combination is from each population Q2,Q5,Q7 and Q8.Populations Q1,Q10 and Q11 have the highest breeding value in Guangxi,which can be suitable for direct use as source populations for line development or for improvement for other elite maize materials.


The first task of a programmer who wants to understand how a certain feature is implemented is to localize the implementation of the feature in the code. If the implementations of a set of related features are to be understood, a programmer is interested in their commonalities and variabilities. For large and badly documented programs, localizing features in code and identifying the commonalities and variabilities of components and features can be difficult and time-consuming. It is useful to derive this information automatically. The feature-component correspondence describes which components are needed to implement a set of features and what are the respective commonalities and variabilities of those features and components. This paper describes a new technique to derive the feature-component correspondence utilizing dynamic information and concept analysis. The method is simple to apply, cost-effective, largely language-independent, and can yield results quickly.


An isomeric series of NS2-macrocycles, incorporating ortho- (o-L), meta- (m-L), and para-xylyl (p-L) groups in their backbones between the sulfur donors, have been synthesized. A comparative investigation of the coordination behavior of these macrocyclic ligands with silver(I) salts is reported. The X-ray structures of six complexes (1–6) were determined, and a variety of structural types that range from cyclic oligomers to zigzag or helical chains is shown to occur. Reactions of o-L with silver nitrate and perchlorate afforded three complexes with different topologies: the cyclic hexamer [Ag6(o-L)6](NO3)6·0.5DMF·7H2O (1), the cyclic hexamer with two terminal complex units [Ag8(o-L)8](ClO4)8 (2), and a one-dimensional (1D) zigzag coordination polymer of type {[Ag2(o-L)2](ClO4)2·2CH3CN·CHCl3}n (3). Reaction of m-L with silver(I) perchlorate gave the 1D zigzag coordination polymer, {[Ag(m-L)]ClO4·CH2Cl2}n (4). Reaction of p-L with silver perchlorate yielded a crystalline product whose X-ray analysis confirm...


In the emerging data networks, session initiation protocol (SIP)-based voice over IP (VoIP) is gaining wide-scale acceptance as a means of transporting voice over the packet data networks. With the emergence of interoperability between various third-generation (3G) cellular technologies such as 1xEV, 1xEV-DO, 1xEV-DV, and the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) on one hand and wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies such as 802.11a/b/g, HiperLAN/2, and Bluetooth∗ on the other, multimedia applications would have to interoperate seamlessly among several air interfaces. Mobile IP, a layer 3 protocol, maintains the data session across heterogeneous air interfaces but does not guarantee minimal or no packet loss when handing over a mobile node from one air interface to another. This paper first discusses a network architecture that supports seamless interoperability between 3G and WLAN and proposes autonomous layer 2 enhancements at the client side to support SIP-based multimedia applications in general and voice applications in particular. Finally, it discusses some other network issues that pose a challenge to providing VoIP in commercial networks in general, such as using SIP with network address translation (NAT) over mobile IP, and it specifically addresses the problem of performing VoIP in CDMA2000∗ 1XRTT.


As part of an ongoing commitment to ensure industry-wide distribution of its revolutionary seismic data compression technology, Chevron Petroleum Technology Co. (CPTC) has entered into licensing agreements with Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG) and other seismic contractors for use of its software in oil and gas exploration programs. CPTC expects use of the technology to be far-reaching to all of its industry partners involved in seismic data collection, processing, analysis and storage. Here, CGG--one of the world`s leading seismic acquisition and processing companies--talks about its success in applying the new methodology to replace full on-board seismic processing. Chevron`s technology is already being applied on large off-shore 3-D seismic surveys. Worldwide, CGG has acquired more than 80,000 km of seismic data using the data compression technology.


This paper expounds the operational principles and structure of new-style retractable hydraulic capstan which can be placed underwater continually, gives an introduction of gists of choosing main parts and solutions of critical techniques of the equipment and sums up its main characteristics.


Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were found to be as susceptible as coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) to Maine–New Hampshire strains of Vibrio anguillarum used in both injection and water transmission exposure. Exposure to 1–2.5 × 105 organisms/mL of one strain (569) in the water for 1 h killed 80–100% of Atlantic salmon at 10 and 15 °C. Should similar water exposure conditions occur in Maine estuaries, newly released Atlantic salmon smolts may encounter lethal levels of V. anguillarum. Key words: Vibrio anguillarum, Salmo salar, Atlantic salmon, susceptibility, marine bacteria.


Online social network especially Facebook has recently been perceived by the lecturer of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as an alternative media for teaching writing. The aims of this study are to examine the kinds of writing teaching and learning activities in English for accounting class which carried out via Facebook and to describe the use of FB group in facilitating writing teaching and learning for English for accounting class based on the students" perception. Facebook (FB) group is a feature that is available on Facebook social networking site. This feature allows for an unlimited number of members to participate, communicate and interact via post and chat style especially for supporting ESP teaching and learning process. The FB groups which were created by the chief of the classes were usually used by the lecturer and the students in the class. Using Facebook (FB) group in teaching writing of English for Accounting class in Polytechnic of Kediri was very useful for the lecturer and the students of accounting.


1 Olu Ajakaiye 2 1.0 Introduction The concept of data has been defined in various ways depending on the context and purpose. For the present purposes, data can be defined as " factual information used as basis for reasoning, discussion or calculation " (Merriam-webster Dictionary). Correspondingly, data generation for development can be conceived as the process of gathering a body of factual information about the aspects of development of interest for the purposes of reasoning, discussion and calculations around the development status, process and prospects of the society. In this presentation, attention is focused on data generation for the purposes of reasoning, discussing and calculating the status, process and prospects of economic development. Economic development has also been defined in various ways. Again for the present purposes, economic development will be conceived as the process of economic growth and structural transformation (Ajakaiye, 2002). Clearly, data, as a gathered body of facts about the economy, is a basic requirement in the process of economic growth and transformation. Foremost, facts about the economy are necessary in order to appreciate the current state of the economy in terms of growth and structural change. It is also required to understand the functioning of the economic system and how the growth and structural changes are occurring. On the basis of the knowledge of state and functioning of the economic system, plausible, realistic and attainable targets of growth and structural change can be set for the economy over a specified period of time, be it short (annual or quarterly or monthly), medium (typically 5 years) and long term (usually 10 years and beyond). For these purposes, some form of formal and/or intuitive model would have been constructed and simulated to inform the targets


In 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and in a control group of 100 test persons with healthy joints who were exactly equal concerning age and sex with the help of a simple method (back-weighing of a sponge after defined retention time in the oral cavity) the secretion of the saliva was measured. According to the test variant in 9-10 patients and 0-1 controls, respectively, pathologic values were found. In comparison to other symptoms which are characteristic for the presence of a Sjogren syndrome, an average sensitivity and high specifity could be ascribed to the test for the evidence of a functional disturbance of the salivary glands.


Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the recognition of achievement and importance of nursing program outcome among nursing students. Methods: The survey was performed with 439 nursing student and recruited from 3-year or 4-year nursing students, scheduled to graduate from university. The data was collected by questionnaires and was analyzed with SPSS statistics 19.0. Results: The achievement of nursing program outcome was 3.28. and the important of that was 4.38. The achievement of nursing program outcome on critical thinking and communication of 4-year nursing students were higher than 3-year nursing students. Achievement of program outcome were significantly different according to satisfaction of curriculum, club activity and voluntary activity. Conclusion: These findings indicate that outcome-based nursing curriculum is need to consider the importance and achievement level of program outcome for nursing students.


Malignant granular cell tumors (MGST) are extremely rare, high-grade sarcoma of schwann cell origin. They often metastasize and are associated with short survival. We described a patient with recurred MGST after wide marginal excision followed by chemotherapy. The histologic findings revealed relapsed MGST containing rich vascular structure. The patient was treated with sunitinib ma late (50 mg/day) for three weeks. Because sunitinib malate has a potent antiangiogenic property, we surmised that it might be effective against this type of malignancy. However, he died due to progression of tumor after six weeks. Here, we report it along with the corresponding literature.


From the conception and natural character of personality, this thesis expounds the theoretical basis, the methods and general principles to develop students' personality.


The present invention, multi-relates to a method for improving the voice channel audio signal, the method comprising the multi-and generating a damping factor as compared to the first feature and the second feature of the audio signal, wherein first feature is voice and non-corresponds to the first channel of the audio signal, the second characteristic is a non-multi-including voice audio, and for the second channel of the audio signal, the multi including voice audio preferentially , the method further comprising the step of further comprising the step of generating the attenuation factor adjusted by adjusting the attenuation factor according to a speech likelihood value, and the attenuation of the second channel using the adjusted attenuation factor method It shall be.


The paper deals with the evolution during a period of over 60 years of the investment policy of the European Union, pointing out the main moments that marked the steps taken towards the progressive shaping of an increasingly unitary character of this policy. The increase of the interest of foreign investors for strategic, sensitive sectors of the economy of the member countries determined, after 2017, a change in the philosophy of establishing and applying the Union's investment policy, materialized in the more precise definition of "foreign investor" and in implementing a more rigorous mechanism of control of foreign direct investment. Further on are presented the main effects of foreign investment in the Community economy, resulting from empirical studies on this topic, the conclusions reached by these studies being sometimes divergent.


The pholcid spider,Crossopriza lyoni (Blackwall 1867) is a common inhabitant of home s in a rural village in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand. Studies on the spider were initiated because it s microhabitat closely coincided with that of adult Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus 1762), mosquito vectors of dengue virus. Laboratory observations showed that females deposited eggs 4-6 days after copulation. Females held the egg sac in their mouthparts for 11-13 days, until all spiderlings (mean = 34) had lef t the sac. Spiderlings did not feed until they had molted, but as soon as feeding commenced they were capable of overpowering a mosquito many times their own size . Sometimes spiderlings would sharea single mosquito or eat a mosquito wrapped by the mother spider . Spiderlings separated from their mothe r grew more rapidly than those left with the mother and reached maturity in as little as 74 days . The spiders ' principal means of capturing prey was to throw silk with the aid of the hind legs . Spiders used this metho d to immobilize mosquitoes which were entangled in the standing web or to catch flying mosquitoes . The mosquito was not bitten until the time of feeding, up to six days after capture . Feeding occurred on onl y 34-48% of the days, and spiders ate about one mosquito per day . Cannibalism was a significant mortalit y factor, accounting for 67—84% mortality in a cage of spiderlings . An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assa y (ELISA) was adapted to test spider tissue for presence of dengue virus. The ELISA was used to sho w that spiders did not become infected when fed dengue-infected mosquitoes. The results of the stud y suggested that C. lyoni could form an important component of integrated control of Aedes aegypti mos- quitoes in foci of dengue transmission .


Nitrite ion (NO2 -) is an important targeted analyte that is widely exists in environment and industry, and can cause serious hazards to human health. In this work, metal-free carbon nitride photocatalyst was accomplished for oxidation of NO2 - under UV light irradiation. The carbon nitride was successfully synthesized through a thermal polymerization technique by using urea as the precursor. X-ray diffractometer (XRD), Fourier transform infra red (FTIR), diffuse reflectance UV-visible (DR UV-Vis), and fluoresence spectrocopies were used to analyze the prepared material. The XRD pattern showed two diffraction peaks at 2?? of 13.10 and 27.3° which were corresponding to the in-planar repeating units and graphitic structure, respectively. The FTIR spectrum for carbon nitride shows four important bands namely v(N-H), v(C=O), v(C-N heterocyclic) and v(1,3,5-triazine). From the DR UV-Vis spectra, it shows the presence of p-p* and n-p* electronic transitions, which were attributed from the C=N, C=O and C-N chromophores. In addition, only one emission peak was observed at 455 nm from the fluorescence spectrum. The performance of the carbon nitride was then investigated as the heterogeneous catalyst for oxidation of NO2 - under UV light irradiation for 1 hour. The percentage conversion of NO2 - to NO3 - was determined to be 15%, indicating that the carbon nitride can act as a potential heterogeneous photocatalyst for the oxidation process.


An algorithm is developed for the retiming of single phase sequential circuits with level sensitive (transparent) latches. A set of constraints that permit retiming and optimal clock cycle computation are also developed. It is shown that a design with edge-triggered latches may be tested for speed-up using transparent latches.<<ETX>>


Abstract
 A description is provided for Urocystis fischeri, which parasitizes living leaves and leaf sheaths. Some information on its associated organisms and substrata, dispersal and transmission, habitats and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (Asia (China, Russia) and Europe (North America (Canada (Alberta, Manitoba)), USA (California, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)), Asia (China, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug)), Europe (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark (including Greenland), Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK)).


Monograph Specialization Postgraduate Course in Physical Rehabilitation Motor Federal University of Santa Maria FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SUPERIOR MEMBERS PAIN SYNDROME WITH TEACHERS IN AUTHOR: EMILYN BORBA DA SILVA SUPERVISOR: AMARA LÚCIA HOLANDA TAVARES BATTISTEL JOINT SUPERVISOR: MIRIAM CABRERA CORVELO DELBONI Date and Place of Defense: Santa Maria, July 09, 2014. The labor causes the individual to feel useful, productive and valued. However, labor activity associated with injuries due to unsuitable conditions for work, awkward postures and performing repetitive movements. Among the major new organizations related to occupational diseases, are the repetitive strain injuries / work-related musculoskeletal disorders (RSI / WMSD). The characteristics of teaching form a network of factors that can result in pains in upper limbs. Occurrences of pains associated with disabling injuries may hinder the achievement of functional activities in daily life influencing quality of life. This research aimed to identify the incidence of musculoskeletal pains in upper limbs teachers. As an instrument for data collection was used socio-demographic interview and assessment of disorders of the shoulder, arm and hand (DASH). The research is characterized as a cross-sectional study. The Shapiro-Wilk test was used to verify the normality of the data, the Spearman correlation (p) was applied to the data with asymmetric distribution and the rate of alpha error of 5% (P <0.05) considered significant. The results of this research show that there is high prevalence of upper limb pain syndrome in teachers, which may be associated with various factors of job execution of this class. The pains submitted interfered in the functional activities of these workers, impaired quality of life and labor. Thus it is understood that the results presented were relevant to the teaching category, it was possible to alert them and guide them as RSI / WMSD and discuss possible preventive measures.


Trade shows offer an excellent opportunity to show off your product to buyers from outside the U.S. or to distributors who can help you sell your products in foreign markets. How can you make the most of this opportunity?


On the basis of the experiments of EFP penetrating target in air,EFP formed in air penetrating target underwater through a layer of water,EFP formed in water penetrating simulation target of ship underwater and pulse X-ray photograph of the course of EFP moving in water,the operating performance of EFP warhead underwater is studied.The result show that the hole diameter in target in air penetrated by EFP formed in air is 1.85 times EFP diameter,the hole diameter in target underwater penetrated by EFP formed in air is 10 times EFP diameter,the hole diameter in target underwater penetrated by EFP formed in water is 20 times EFP diameter.The shockwave and ballistic wave have obvious reinforcing effect on the destructive result in target formed by EFP.


How a diabetes clinic that includes a collaboration between an endocrinologist and a pharmacist can produce thousands of dollars in health-care savings.


Simple Summary Cold hardiness is critical to the ability of insects to survive in cold climates and expand their geographical distribution. The molecular mechanisms underlying insect cold tolerance have been well-studied, but many potential genes that may impact these responses, including MRLC-sqh, have not been thoroughly evaluated. We first cloned and characterized the MRLC-sqh from Ophraella communa, an effective biological control agent of Ambrosia artemisiifolia, and found that the protein sequence was highly conserved across various Coleoptera insects. The relative expression of MRLC-sqh was tissue- and stage-specific, with high levels of expression in the gut and pupal stage of O. communa. In addition, the expression of MRLC-sqh was shown to decrease after cold shock between 10 and 0 °C and ascend between 0 and −10 °C, but these did not show a positive association between MRLC-sqh expression and cold stress. Silencing of MRLC-sqh prolonged the chill-coma recovery time in these beetles, suggesting their cold hardiness was reduced in the absence of this protein. Therefore, these results indicate that MRLC-sqh may be partly responsible for the regulation of cold-tolerance responses in insects. Abstract Ambrosia artemisiifolia is a noxious invasive alien weed, that is harmful to the environment and human health. Ophraella communa is a biocontrol agent for A. artemisiifolia, that was accidentally introduced to the Chinese mainland and has now spread throughout southern China. Recently, we found that upon artificial introduction, O. communa can survive in northern China as well. Therefore, it is necessary to study the cold hardiness of O. communa. Many genes have been identified to play a role in cold-tolerance regulation in insects, but the function of the gene encoding non-muscle myosin regulatory light chain (MRLC-sqh) remains unknown. To evaluate the role played by MRLC-sqh in the cold-tolerance response, we cloned and characterized MRLC-sqh from O. communa. Quantitative real-time PCR revealed that MRLC-sqh was expressed at high levels in the gut and pupae of O. communa. The expression of MRLC-sqh was shown to decrease after cold shock between 10 and 0 °C and ascend between 0 and −10 °C, but these did not show a positive association between MRLC-sqh expression and cold stress. Silencing of MRLC-sqh using dsMRLC-sqh increased the chill-coma recovery time of these beetles, suggesting that cold hardiness was reduced in its absence. These results suggest that the cold hardiness of O. communa may be partly regulated by MRLC-sqh. Our findings highlight the importance of motor proteins in mediating the cold response in insects.


In the following lines explain the coeducational experience developed in a secondary school, from a workshop which aimed to promote and enhance the education of children as people, educating and compensating for deficiencies in socialization pigeonholed us women and men in roles, behaviors and values "male" and "feminine." To achieve this objective and to plan the various interventions that would be developed in successive courses, would be based on knowledge, skills, attitudes and preconceptions of students and their families. The information gained from the experience reveal relevant data on stereotyped attitudes still exist in different generations and the need to intervene to promote responsibility and equality between men and women.


I am grateful to both commentators for their remarks on my article. B. L. Strayer takes a major thesis of it to be that initial expectations are often confounded by later events. Perhaps they are. However, the debate surrounding passage of the Supreme Court Act, 1875 disclosed conflicting expectations and opinions on the role of the proposed tribunal. Some saw it as an instrument of the federal government, one admirably designed to deal with provincial legislative pretensions. For them it posed no challenge to Parliament's ultimate interpretive authority on constitutional matters and therefore no challenge to the principle of parliamentary supremacy. Others supposed it spelled the end of that supremacy by substituting in its place judicial supremacy. In the event the latter supposition was borne out to the extent that the courts took on the role of "umpire" of the federal system and parliamentary sovereignty became "divided sovereignty," limited by the test of jurisdictional competence. Obviously the advent of the Charter, which supplies an additional test or set of limitations on legislatures, marks another very important step in the shift away from a form of government embodying the concept of parliamentary supremacy. What interests me, however, and what I have tried to argue, is that despite the clear direction of Canadian constitutional development, the earlier debate on the issue of parliamentary versus judicial supremacy has not been resolved decisively in favour of the latter. Doubts linger, as indicated by the recent debate on the Charter. And the Charter itself actually embodies some of them.


It's very important for an engineer to choose a reasonable stirling analysis methods to design a stirling engine or optimize its performance.In this paper,an advanced method is introduced :one dimensional nonstable nonconstant flow analytical method.The numerical results are discussed under its work conditions.This analytical method provided an effective measurement for the optimal design of the stirling engine and its operation.


The complexities of iterative belief propagation decoding techniques for randomly constructed low-density parity-check (LDPC) block codes and nonrecursive convolutional self-doubly-orthogonal codes (CSO2Cs) are analyzed and compared on the basis of their decoding latencies expressed in the number of code symbols. Although, in principle, they have the same computational complexities, the pipeline decoder structure for CSO2Cs has a much smaller implementation complexity than the block decoder structure for LDPC block codes, but at a cost of small loss in the error performance of decoding.


Hot excitons have been attempted to utilize the triplet excitons in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Due to the transient and dark nature of high-lying triplet states (Tn, n ≥ 2), the normative methods to characterize the hot exciton mechanism have not been thoroughly developed. Here, a normal technique combining transient photoluminescence and magneto-electroluminescence (MEL) measurements has been proven to visualize the reverse intersystem crossing process from T2 to S1 states in 5,6,11,12-tetraphenylnaphthacene (rubrene) molecules. Rubrene is chosen as a model system since its T1 is far below S1 and T2 is resonant with S1. This hot exciton process opens an additional route, marked as Dexter energy transfer channel ([Formula: see text], DET channel), together with the well-known Förster resonance energy transfer channel ([Formula: see text]) to transfer the host energy to the guest. With proper approximates, the DET channel assisted by the hot excitons process can contribute about 46.6% excitons to rubrene S1 and 83.4% rubrene emission in rubrene-doped devices. These studies set an in situ normative characterizing frame to visualize the hot excitons process in OLEDs.


By circumventing the resolution limitations of optics, coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) and ptychography are making their way into scientific fields ranging from X-ray imaging to astronomy. Yet, the need for time consuming iterative phase recovery hampers real-time imaging. While supervised deep learning strategies have increased reconstruction speed, they sacrifice image quality. Furthermore, these methods' demand for extensive labeled training data is experimentally burdensome. Here, we propose an unsupervised physics-informed neural network reconstruction method, PtychoPINN, that retains the factor of 100-to-1000 speedup of deep learning-based reconstruction while improving reconstruction quality by combining the diffraction forward map with real-space constraints from overlapping measurements. In particular, PtychoPINN significantly advances generalizability, accuracy (with a typical 10 dB PSNR increase), and linear resolution (2- to 6-fold gain). This blend of performance and speed offers exciting prospects for high-resolution real-time imaging in high-throughput environments such as X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) and diffraction-limited light sources.


We studied 761 patients admitted to hospital with viral hepatitis between 1971 and 1974, and 53 patients with viral hepatitis seen in general practice in Sydney, following up some of them for one to two years. We evaluated factors contributing to each type of hepatitis. We noted differences in the patterns of hepatitis A, B and non‐A non‐B between Anglo‐Saxon and non‐Anglo‐Saxon sectors of the community. All patients with hepatitis A regained normal liver function within 20 months of the acute illness. Of 115 hepatitis B patients seen at 12 months, 6% had chronic hepatitis Bs antigenaemia, 60% had developed anti‐HBs antibodies, and 7.3% still had abnormal liver function. Of 20 non‐A non‐B patients followed for 12 months, liver function was still abnormal in three, but one of these had developed hepatitis B. The case fatality rate for the whole series was 0.66%.


A new modification of the UV ionization difference method has been used to determine the amount of free phenolic hydroxyl groups in isolated residual lignins from kraft pulps. The method offers a simple and rapid way to determine both the type and amount of phenolic hydroxyl groups in lignin. The lignin samples were also subjected to aminolysis, a reliable but time-consuming method for the determination of free phenolic hydroxyl groups. The results obtained with aminolysis were about 15–20% higher than the results obtained with the UV-method, but the correlation between the results obtained with the two methods was good.


It should be given a method for accurately and clear fluorescent staining of a tissue for simple procedures and a coloring agent for this procedure. The present invention provides a method for fluorescence staining of a tissue before, in which a fabric is treated with a solution containing fluorescein or a salt thereof, and in which then monitors the fluorescence of the treated portion under acidic conditions with a pH below 7 becomes.


This edited collection is a novel synthesis of international research, evidence-based practice and personal reflections, providing an overview of the current state of knowledge in the field of teaching geography in contemporary higher education. Student transitions are the organising framework for the handbook, acknowledging that students require different pedagogic approaches as they progress through university / college. Student identities, learning approaches, capabilities, competencies and preoccupations vary significantly throughout the student journey within higher education, and our pedagogic approaches can help to support the transitions that students go through. Student engagement is central to the handbook and a wide range of learning contexts relevant to the breadth of spaces and places in which geography teaching takes place are used to provide examples of how this can be enhanced. The handbook identifies key principles including working in partnership and acknowledging the whole student, calling for the adoption of courageous pedagogy.


Cloud expansion radius in FAE explosive field has been deduced with the similarity laws in explosions and the dimension analytic technique. By analyzing the experimental data and using least squared criterion, an accurate curve fitting equation of cloud radius is found, it provides a condition to research of explosive principle and estimation of explosion power in the future.


Nitrates are very toxic matters, which are stimulant methemoglobinemy and produce carcinogenic matters like nitrosoamines and nitrosoamides. The purpose of our research is to find out content of nitrates in different kinds of food products, which are produced in territory of the Republic of Macedonia and from import. Investigations were providing by an enzymatic method (reducing nitrates to nitrites) and after that, determining contents of nitrates spectrophotometricaly. All products are investigated by bioquant nitrate test. It was found that the medium values for nitrates in investigated products are less then maximum levels for nitrates in our country and less then regulation in WHO


Purpose
In real manufacturing systems, schedules are often disrupted with uncertainty factors such as random machine breakdown, random process time, random job arrivals or job cancellations. This paper aims to investigate robust scheduling for a two-stage assembly flow shop scheduling with random machine breakdowns and considers two objectives makespan and robustness simultaneously.

Design/methodology/approach
Owing to its structural and algorithmic complexity, the authors proposed imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), genetic algorithm (GA) and hybridized with simulation techniques for handling these complexities. For better efficiency of the proposed algorithms, the authors used artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the parameters of the proposed algorithms in uncertain condition. Also Taguchi method is applied for analyzing the effect of the parameters of the problem on each other and quality of solutions.

Findings
Finally, experimental study and analysis of variance (ANOVA) is done to investigate the effect of different proposed measures on the performance of the obtained results. ANOVA's results indicate the job and weight of makespan factors have a significant impact on the robustness of the proposed meta-heuristics algorithms. Also, it is obvious that the most effective parameter on the robustness for GA and ICA is job.

Originality/value
Robustness is calculated by the expected value of the relative difference between the deterministic and actual makespan.


In the present paper we consider a von Neumann algebra M with a faithful normal semi-finite trace $\t$, and $\{\alpha_ t\} $ a strongly continuous extension to $L^p(M,\t)$ of a semigroup of absolute contractions on $L^1 (M,\tau)$. By means of a non-commutative Banach Principle we prove for a Besicovitch function b and $x\in L^p(M,\t)$, the averages \frac{1}{T}\int_0^Tb(t)\a_t(x)dt converge bilateral almost uniform in $L^p(M,\t)$ as $T\to 0$.


The logic behind the development of the new BCI was not persuasive. The introduction appeared to lead to a different study from the one reported. The background to the paper indicates that there are evidence-based interventions such as GRASP that have been successful in promoting upper limb recovery and have been implemented rapidly into routine practice, but that the implementations lost key components of the BCI. The authors then argue that a new BCI should be developed which pays attention to changing the behaviour of health professionals during the process of development of the BCI. Why was the more logical approach not to investigate better methods of implementing a published successful intervention?


Dugesia gonocephala s.l. is often considered to be a "superspecies" comprising numerous component "microspecies" which are morphologically, karyologically, and reproductively delimited. We have studied populations of D. gonocephala from France, Belgium and The Netherlands and found them to be fairly uniform in respect of most features studied. Nevertheless, discrepancies between them and the "classical" concept of this species as embodied in the literature have raised doubts as to the status and identity of D. gonocephala s. str. A proper understanding of the relationships of the D. gonocephala group can not be obtained without resolution of this problem.


Water is the prime necessity of life and survival is not possible in the absence of water. No life without water is a common saying. Water may be present in rivers, ponds, lakes and in ground reservoirs. Due to its unique properties water is of multiple uses for all living organisms. Water is absolutely essential for life. Most of the life process takes place in water contained in the body uptake regulation of temperature, and removal of wastes are all mediated through water. Water has the property to dissolve many substances in it therefore it can get easily polluted. The wide expanse of phosphate engender from various applications to these limited sources. Therefore there is need to search an effective low cost adsorbent for economical waste water treatment.


Due to the inherent hysteresis characteristics and saturation characteristics of ferromagnetic materials, it is difficult to accurately establish a simulation model for a voltage transformer. In order to study the harmonic response of voltage transformers considering the hysteresis effect of iron core, a method for studying the harmonic transformation characteristics of voltage transformers is proposed. Based on the Jiles-Atherton model, the voltage transformer model is built. The hysteresis loop of the voltage transformer is measured by the RC integration circuit. The Jiles-Atherton model is used to identify the parameters and replace it into the built-in voltage transformer model. Compared with the harmonic transformation characteristics of the voltage transformer obtained by the experiment, the accuracy of the model is verified. Finally, through the experiment and simulation, the linear relationship between the ratio error of voltage transformer and the harmonic order is obtained. Compared with the traditional voltage transformer model, this model can more accurately reflect the excitation characteristics of the voltage transformer.


This paper presented a hybrid discrete bacterial colony optimization algorithm to solve the combination optimization problems,and designed novel coding method and evolution mechanism for each individual. According to such coding way,every individual was assigned a discrete value that represented a feasible combination of the problems. So the whole searching behaviors of the colony were executed in the discrete space directly. In order to improve the performance of the individual, each bacterium was given an adaptive adjustment factor that could adaptively reinitialize the position of individuals when all of them gathered together. This algorithm added the taboo searching to enhance the local searching simultaneously. It verified the performance of the algorithm by some Taillard's benchmark problems. Simulation results show that all optimal solutions can be found in experiments and it can effectively avoid the search being trapped into local optimum and achieve satisfactory result.


e13109Background: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is resistant to classical hormone-based therapy, prone to relapse and aggressive metastasis. Oncolytic viruses (OVs) when injected into the tu...


Peritoneal tuberculosis may lead to delayed diagnosis because of the nonspecific features such as fever, abdominal distension, abdominal tenderness, ascites, and weight loss. Here, wereported a case of prolonged fever and abdominal pain which was due to peritoneal tuberculosis. Initial examinations including acomplete blood test and serologic tests did not lead to the diagnosis. A final diagnosis was made by abdominal CT-scan and laparoscopy combined with histopathological studies. Antituberculous medications provided a good clinical response in this patient.


With the expansion and differentiation of human knowledge,the department instruction is becoming an efficient approach to knowledge mastering.Yet it in the same time brings forth the alienation of academic instruction and moral education.Moral education that has little to do with subjects teaching then is left to be the only duty for specialized moral education courses.It is not so congruent with human's morality growing mechanism.In criticizing such problems in China school moral education,this thesis put forward an idea of poetic curriculum,meaning to integrate academic subject teaching with moral cultivation in school curriculum.


This article chronicles the path o/a student teacher with a disability and the efforts r~f'his n1entoring teacher and u11iversity supervisor to assist hiln in learning how to teach. The researcher inter1Jrets journal entrie.Y ma<le by both the nientor and the student teacher as lvel/ as conversations, coriferences and ccnn1nunications ivith each a/ them in order to construct eight steps along the path lo build successfitl elfucational CXJJeriences.fiJr beginning teachers with liisabilities. In the fall of 1999, a Special Education mentor teacher with fifteen years of experience agreed to supervise Phil through his student teaching experience at an clcn1cntary school in eastern Montana. She knew that she had a considerable challenge ahead. Phil was a delightful pre-service teacher who had cerebral palsy. His acadc1nic record was excellent and he had an admirable work ethic. His university advisor, in collaboration with his 1ncntoring teacher, offered Phil an internship for a full academic year prior to his student teaching because he had special social needs. These profossionals needed to prepare Phil to work with the school community and they needed to prepare the school community to work with Phil. As an intern he was well prepared, worked hard and expressed a fervent desire to bccon1c a teacher. As his student teaching approached this researcher asked the mentor teacher and Phil to journal their progress through the semester which eventually became a year of student teaching for him. This researcher has interpreted journal entries from both sources to provide the following helpful hope40 NORTHWEST PASSAGE fol hints for those university professors and public school teachers who arc supervising student teachers with disabilities. l. Check your attitude: The mentor teacher reported that she needed to change her attitude about student teachers with disabilities. She, like so many others, found hcrsclfwondering, "I'm not sure he can make it." She faced the sobering reality that she had preconceived ideas about the limitations of an individual with cerebral palsy even though she was a Special Education teacher' This pathway had to be cleared before she could create an atmosphere of confidence for her student teacher. As time went on, Phil's caring, perseverance, determination, and unbelievable dedication was very apparent. He did not look at his multitude of disabilities as a handicap; rather this was a part of him a unique part of his identity. Jn researching the area of educators with disabilities, the area of job placement for this group of minorities is under represented. (Keller, Karp, and Somali, 1992). This is due in part to 1 McEnany and Barthuly: Cycling Paths For Mentor Teachers: Building Successful Paths For Published by PDXScholar, 2002 our perception of these individuals. Wendell .I.Lewis is an administrator for the Disability Determination Referral and Services. He is an African-American man with muscular dystrophy. In an interview addressing the perception of label he said, "The majority of non-disabled people view persons with disabilities as needing help, they cannot do anything for themselves, and they cannot accomplish much." (Obiakor, 1994) This quote brought to mind Phil's response to this researcher's inquiry, "How was your junior field experience? What do you feel you wonld like to learn more about?" His response was, "I feel I didn't gel as much as I would have liked .. My mentor teacher felt she had to pull my chair out for me." The negative impact that the environment plays in these individuals' lives was becoming clear. "A more educationally-relevant conceptualization of self concept of persons with disabilities is that self concept is multidimensional and situation-specific. It changes as contexts change ( Obiakor & Algozzine, 1994 ). This was a grand opportunity for the mentor to be a part of special education coming full circle, and she was courageous lo be a part of this experience. Phil had so much to offer, coupled with an intense desire to succeed and each participant wanted to do everything to foci li late his growth. Phil'sjournal was abundant with learning experiences he had with individual students. He cited examples of his successes and expressed excitement and anticipation in his journey to become a teacher. 2. Identify the characteristic strengths, and weaknesses. The first step is to begin creating an informal Individualized Educational Plan, with long term goals, short term objectives, and modifications, adaptations, and accommodations: a) Daily observations revealed that Phil was a loner, very affable always smiling, but always on the outside looking in. He had limited eye contact and seemed set apart. b) The physical set up oflhe classroom had to be modified to meet Phil's specific needs c) Unique health related situations required n1odifications of program assign1nents Even though he demonstrated very capable teaching skills, Phil was not assigned to the fourth grade collaborative which had been originally planned. This class was located on the third floor ofa ninety year old building which meant he would have to climb six flights of stairs several times a day. Arrangements were also made for his work area to accommodate his unique physical needs for his individualized groups of learners. Each student teacher acquires his/her teaching skills at varying rates. For Phil, it was evident that the higher level modeling was not working. He was not able to make the transfer from theory to practice. He needed to have the components of teaching a lesson broken down into small increments. The mentor initially asked Phil to write extensive thorough lesson plans for each lesson. Phil had the typical diflieulties that most student teachers have: pacing the lesson, redirecting questions for clarity, n1onitoring students work, classroom 1nanagc1ncnt, time n1anagement, and transitions .His mentor modeled the lesson to have him complete the lesson with the assignment and assessment. This would carryover and proved successti.tl for one or two lessons, and then they would be back at the bcg1nn1ng. The mentor teacher found some success in attempting a multisensory team approach to assist Phil in making the transition from theory to practice. She used cooperative planning, team teaching, and shared responsibilities as strategies. Phil was open to all assistance. At times he expressed self doubt in his journal. He was however eternally positive and willing to work. Giving up was not an option. 3. Encourage autonomy At times the mentor teacher expressed frustration indicating she had offered her student teacher all she knew. Her next pathway was allowing for him to head down the path alone. She needed to step back to allow for stumbles, bumps, and falls. This was very difficult for her. She watched her student teacher fail and she didn't understand what was happening. After they had worked so hard neither could understand \\/hat was wrong.


Method and system for digital data transmission in which a modulated signal (r (t)), which contains at least a useful signal or noise or interference signals, is received and at least one relevant for the demodulation of the useful signal parameter of the received signal (r (t)) is repeated is appreciated. Changes (Δξ, Δζ; Δθ) of the repeated estimated parameters are monitored and a useful signal detected using a criterion according to which a useful signal is detected when one or more changes in the repeated estimated parameters satisfy at least one specific, predetermined condition.


In this article I highlight the of Rosa Luxemburg's fundaments of political thought about rights of workers and the dilemmas of the Marxist formulation about the constitution process of power in Socialism. Since the dawn of the nineteenth century Rosa defended the need to establish the field of disagreements and criticisms as tools for the Social Revolution. Her disagreements with Bernstein were methodological as the debate allows the formulation of the theories of what to do. This debate, which importance is indisputable at the moment, can illuminate the dangers of forced consensus by not reflected information like what occurred with the Movement of Landless in Brazil.


Point of interest (POI) recommendation, a service which can help people discover useful and interesting locations has emerged rapidly with the development of location-based social networks (LBSNs), like Foursquare, Gowalla and Wechat. The large number of check-in histories make it possible to mine the preference of each user and then to provide accurate personalized POI recommendation. In real-world applications, apart from check-in data, there are some other useful information available for making better POI recommendation, such as social relationship among users and geographical influence. In this paper, a new POI recommendation method called Social and Geographical Fusing Model (SGFM) is designed. The basic idea is summarized as follows. Firstly, the users' check-in records and social influence are integrated in a combinative model. Then the global user impact factors generated by the PageRank algorithm are used to improve the combinative model. Secondly, a geographical influence measurement is used to capture the users' physical check-in characters. Finally, the enhanced combinative model and geographical influence are combined together to form a new framework. Extensive experiments have been conducted on a famous dataset, namely Gowalla. The comparison results confirm that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art POI recommendation methods significantly.


This is a description of a simple system that is able of performing abductive reasoning over fuzzy data using a back-propagation neural net for the hypothesis generation process. I will rst outline and exemplify the notion of abduction as a process of building hypotheses on the basis of a given set of data, evaluating them to nd the best hypothesis and give explanation for the made selection. I extend this notion to account for abductive reasoning over fuzzy data. As an example I describe the classiica-tion of objects according to fuzzy sensory features into previously learned categories that were represented by a set of objects described by feature-value-pairs from which prototypes are detected which form the center of a category. In the following a brief description of the back-propagation algorithm and a design of a demonstration system that is capable of carrying out abductive reasoning in a small example domain is given. The system is able to learn to classify kinds of fruit given certain feature-value-pairs and to detect the most prototypical feature-value-pair-clusters within a category. The trained neural net is used for the hypothesis generation process. It also provides very critical information for the evaluation and explanation of hypotheses. I then discuss the implementation of an evaluation and explanation component using the speciic capabilities of the neural net.


Presentation of a spreadsheet program providing an inexpensive solution to problems posed by quick evaluation of steam balance in complex processing plants. The program provides pictorial view of the system and allows the user to readily visualize exactly what is happening. It can be run on a PC and is an excellent training tool.


The selection of more informative instances from a dataset is an important preprocessing step that can be applied in many classification tasks. Since databases are becoming increasingly large, instance selection techniques have been used to reduce the data to a manageable size. Besides, the use of test data in any part of the training process, called data leakage, can produce a biased evaluation of classification algorithms. In this context, this work introduces an instance selection methodology to avoid data leakage using an early subject, volume, and slice dataset split, and a novel percentile-position-analysis method to identify the regions with the most informative instances. The proposed methodology includes four stages. First, 3D magnetic resonance images are prepared to extract 2D slices of all subjects and only one volume per subject. Second, the extracted 2D slices are evaluated in a percentile distribution fashion in order to select the most insightful 2D instances. Third, image preprocessing techniques are used to suppress noisy data, preserving semantic information in the image. Finally, the selected instances are used to generate the training, validation and test datasets. Preliminary tests are carried out referring to the OASIS-3 dataset to demonstrate the impact of the number of slices per subject, the preprocessing techniques, and the instance selection method on the overall performance of CNNbased classification models such as DenseNet121 and EfficientNetB0. The proposed methodology achieved a competitive overall accuracy at a slice level of about 77.01% in comparison to 76.94% reported by benchmarkand-recent works conducting experiments on the same dataset and focusing on instance selection approaches.


The aim of this research was to obtain information about students' perceptions concerning the importance of multiple representations including macroscopic, sub microscopic and symbolic level in chemistry teaching materials, the difficulties in learning voltaic cell, and the ability to present voltaic cell material through those three level of representations. Participants of this study was twenty one students of chemistry education program at the fifth semester, who are taking the subject of school chemistry in the one of the university in Indonesia. The instruments used ware qquestionnaires and interview. They are utilized to gather the students' perceptions about the characteristics of voltaic cell material, the students' knowledge of multiple representations and those representations in chemistry teaching materials, and the rubric assessments of teaching materials based on those representations. This study indicates that the students consider the voltaic cell subject as difficult material. Even though they do not understand the multiple representations, they encourage to involve those representations in the teaching materials. Furthermore, the students' ability of presenting the multiple representations are considered in the low category. They are not be able to apply those representations and associate one and another.


At present,unlawful administration in farm land expropriation mainly involves unlawful approval and unlawful implementation after lawful approval.It results in serious consequences: the abuse of land expropriation right by administrative organs,severe rent seeking,corruption,dramatic decrease in cultivated land,apparent contradiction between people and land,deteriorating ecological environment,abrupt rise in land-lost farmers,and rapid growth in cases of visitors from the localities appealing to the higher authorities.Therefore,it is imperative to strengthen administration by law,and the available path choices include: transforming conception of expropriation and enhancing awareness of expropriation by law;improving farm land expropriation system;strengthening legal procedures for expropriation;and improving law enforcement and severely punishing by law those involved in unlawful administration.


In this paper, we present three new methods to evaluate the ellipticity of polarized signals generated by seismic ambient vibrations. Classically, the estimation of Rayleigh wave ellipticity is performed using a spectrum ratio approach [15]. Here, we propose to use two single-sensor techniques (based on ellipse fitting [8] and random decrement [2]) and one multi-sensor technique (based on quaternion-MUSIC [12]) to substitute the existing algorithm. Rayleigh wave ellipticity is an important geophysical parameter because its estimation as a function of frequency leads to velocity vs. depth estimation, i.e. identification of the underground structure. We illustrate the three algorithms on simulation data and compare them to the existing approach.


The last two decades has followed an increase in interest from a large number of researchers interested in investigating the ergogenic potential of different resources that might assist in improving the physical performance of athletes in different sports. Most studies have focused on the mechanisms underlying the development of fatigue as this complex phenomenon is a limiting factor in sports performance. Thus, ergogenic resources that are effective in delaying the development of fatigue may improve athletic performance. Despite many discussions about fatigue, its exact cause is still a controversial subject. However, it has been suggested that cortical mechanisms may be involved and studies that have tried to modulate specific brain regions can provide valuable answers to better understand this phenomenon. Currently, (tDCS) has been used as a noninvasive tool that can modulate the excitability of specific regions of the cerebral cortex. Preliminary data have shown that tDCS anode is able to increase the excitability of motor cortex for up to one hour after its application and also increase the time until exhaustion in isometric exercise. These data suggest that tDCS can probably be used as a tool in research on mechanisms involved in the development of fatigue and perhaps as a potential ergogenic aid for athletes.


It analyses the quality problems frequently appear in highway construction,puts forward detailed corresponding control measures and emphasizes the importance of protecting the ecological environment along highways,so as to guarantee highway project quality and improve the development of highway construction.


No generally accepted and widely adopted condition monitoring method currently exists for power electronic converters. Several failure precursors have been proposed for power electronic components. In this paper the authors investigate the requirements for a condition monitoring system for different applications and consider the applicability of previously proposed failure precursors.


A novel portable laptop control experiment is presented, which does not require the space and expense typically required for undergraduate control laboratories. Interactive experiments are designed to cover all of the topics required for an introductory course in controls, as well as a haptics experiment. It is believe that the system is useful for practicing engineers who wish to update their control knowledge and skills.


The present invention discloses a water solbule paint comprises (wt%) acrylic resin 12-22%, butyl etherified melamine resin 3-9%, polyol polymer 6-11%, levelling agent 0-3%, dryer 0.3-1.55, pigment (titanium pigment) 27-33%, ammonia water (28% ) 2-6%, and water 30-44%. It can be used for painting the surface of metallic flexible material including aluminium material, terne alloy and aluminium alloy, etc., and possesses strong adhesive force, excellent flexible toughness and colour. Besides, it is not inflammable and its toxicity is less.