Indoor object tracking based on RFID is becoming increasingly prevalent. RFID is very attractive because of reasonable cost and its reliability. This paper presents a cell planning method for indoor object tracking using RFID systems. While previous studies focus on localization method, we focus on the deployment of RFID systems in terms of deployment cost, tracking coverage and accuracy.  In this paper, we call such approach "cell planning" and propose mathematical models to tackle cell planning problem. We give four formulations which capture different criteria based on given settings. In order to evaluate the quality of the proposed models, we obtain their near-optimal solutions using well-known heuristics and investigate the result of tracking simulation with obtained solutions.


The subject of the study is to analysis the impact of Demonetization and GST in the banking sector in India. The analysis focuses on the stock price of these banks. BSE listed public and private sector banks of bank index are used for this study. Hereby we found that there is no significant impact of Demonetization and GST on the public banks and private banks. Therefore we conclude that there is no impact caused due to Demonetization or GST on the banking sector, of companies listed in BSE. We used market return model for making the result more accurate.


Crystal chemistry of a hydrous phase [AlOOH-MgSiO2(OH)2] in the deep lower mantle: a multigrain approach LI ZHANG, HONGSHENG YUAN, YUE MENG, ITARU OHIRA, EIJI OHTANI, HO-KWANG MAO Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), Shanghai 201203, China (firstname.lastname@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com) High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT), Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Argonne, IL 60439 (email@example.com) Department of Earth Science, Graduate Schoolof Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan (firstname.lastname@example.com; email@example.com) Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC 20015 (email@example.com)


Based on the survey in Nanning city and Heng County where are the major production area of jasmine in Guangxi, that 72 species, which belonged to 39 families, 9 orders and 3 classes, of the pests of jasmine were confirmed. Out of them, 68 species of 36 families of 7 orders were the harmful insects. Some of them haven't been reported by others. Meanwhile, 24 species, which belonged to 11 families and 4 orders, of the insect's natural enemy were found.


Background: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have difficulties inhaling as the diaphragm becomes flattened and weakened due to lung hyperinflation. This weakened respiratory function is compensated for by the increased activity of the accessory respiratory muscles, such as the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM). Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the difference in the SCM thickening fraction (SCM TF) of each respiratory phase (end-expiration, resting inspiration, and end-inspiration), as measured using ultrasonography (US), between patients with COPD and control subjects. We also evaluate the correlation between the SCM TF of each respiratory phase and exercise tolerance in patients with COPD. Methods: Patients with COPD (n = 44) and age-matched controls (n = 20) underwent US for determination of the SCM TF. Ventilation parameters, including the peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2) and the change in the inspiratory capacity, were measured during cardiopulmonary exercise testing. The SCM thickness and TF was measured during end-expiration, resting breathing, and end-inspiration. Results: The SCM was significantly thinner in patients with COPD than in controls at end-expiration. The increase in the SCM TF from end-expiration to end-inspiration in patients with COPD did not differ significantly from that in control subjects. In contrast, the SCM TF from end-expiration to resting inspiration was significantly greater in patients with COPD than in control subjects. The peak VO2 was strongly positively correlated with the SCM TF from end-expiration to end-inspiration in patients with COPD (r = 0.71, p < 0.01). Conclusions: The SCM may be thinner in patients with COPD than in controls. The SCM TF may also be associated with exercise tolerance.


To study the cadmium accumulation characteristics of Solanum nigrum with different ploidies, the biomass, cadmium content and cadmium accumulation of diploid (Solanum photeinocarpum), tetraploid (Solanum photeinocarpum) and hexaploid (Solanum nigrum) were measured by a pot experiment. The results showed that the biomass of roots, stems, leaves and shoots of S. nigrum plants with different ploidy all ranked as follows: hexaploid > tetraploid > diploid. Cadmium content and cadmium accumulation in stems, leaves and shoots of hexaploid plants were significantly higher than those in tetraploid and diploid plants, and the cadmium translocation factor and translocation accumulation factor of hexaploid were the largest, too. Therefore, hexaploid S. nigrum had a highest ability to extract and transport cadmium, which can be used as an ideal plant for remediation of cadmium-contaminated soil.


The purpose of the research is to create a dry preparative form of a microbiological product that allows producing and storing the preparation for a long time. The objective of the study is to determine the viability of spores in the preparation over various periods of preparation storage. To determine the spore titer, colonies were counted using digital images when sowing various dilutions in samples on the nutritive medium. The article presents data on the viability of Bacillus subtilis spores in a dry preparation, depending on the shelf life of the fungicide. The titer of viable spores in the initial preparation was 9.1*10 9 spores per gram, after 5 months of storage - 8.6*109 spores/1g, after 36 months - 5.7*109 spores/1g, after 72 months - 2.7*109 spores/1g. After 6 years storage of the dry preparative form, the titer of viable spores was comparable with the liquid form of the fungicide currently used and not storable for a long time.


In the present investigation, the role of rhizobacteria in alleviating the deleterious effects of drought on mustard was assessed. The plants were exposed to short-term water shortages, during the vegetative and reproductive growth stages. Drought stress in both stages had a negative effect on growth, physiological and biochemical parameters of mustard. Both the root and shoot biomass were significantly reduced in plants exposed to drought, but rhizobacterial inoculation resulted in better plant biomass than uninoculated plants. The ameliorative effects of inoculation were also indicated by improved relative water content, membrane stability index, total chlorophyll content and photosynthetic parameters. Similarly, inoculation resulted in enhanced activity of antioxidative enzymes superoxide dismutase, ascorbate peroxidase and catalase in both stages of growth which possibly increased stress tolerance by maintaining reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis. There was significant reduction in the accumulation of H2 O2 , proline and total soluble sugar in rhizobacteria treated plants under drought, suggesting that the treated plants did not encounter much stress and could maintain better plant health than uninoculated plants. Expression analysis of the BjP5CS and BjFeSOD genes was conducted during both the growth stages. Expression of the BjP5CS gene was significantly down-regulated in inoculated plants under drought, while BjFeSOD gene transcript levels were upregulated. The vegetative stage was more responsive to rhizobacterial inoculations than the reproductive stage under drought. PCA analysis indicated a differential response by the two growth stages to inoculation. Hence, results indicate that these rhizobacteria reduce the negative impacts of drought in mustard by maintaining ROS homeostasis.


Exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) in the Turkish economy appeared again, especially after mid-2018 when policies to re-balance and soft-land the economy failed to a wide extent. Such re-appearance of the feedback from exchange rates to domestic prices deserves investigative efforts, having recalled that part of the stabilization success of the Central Bank of Turkey in early 2000s directly stemmed from its ability to reduce ERPT. In this paper, we aim to contribute to current policy discussions on Turkey by presenting our nonparametric kernel-based density function and regression estimates of the pass-through effect. Our findings are indicative not only of a sizable level of ERPT but also of its dependence on the size of currency depreciation.


In our country the family and marriage is of great importance due to the specific cultural and worthwhile issues. Thus, the efforts for stability and continuity of the family and satisfying the emotional and psychological needs of the members within the family are of the utmost importance. Divorce and family breakdown in addition to disturb the mental-emotional balance of the people lead to the social harm such as children escape from the family, theft, murder and crime. Today, it seems that family; the basic foundation of society has been exposed to collapse. The past two decades studies considered the negative marital interactions as the most powerful factor in the marital dissatisfaction. It should be noted that marriage is not a static and stagnant state between two unchangeable people. There are disputes with the various degrees in some marriages. Although no couples get married with the aim of separation and almost all couples get married in the hope of a long-term life with peace and happiness, many marriages reached an impasse and leads to the separation over the time. According to the evidences, in today society, the couples have severe problems in establishing and maintaining the friendly relations. In fact, the problem of marital distress is one of the most reasons for referring the clients to the health centers. Marital adjustment which has been traditionally considered by the psychologists and sociologists is one of the most widespread concepts for determining the happiness and the stability of the relationship. Marital adjustment is a situation in which a couple feel happiness and satisfaction and enjoys being together. From Lieder point of view, adjustment is effective behavior in accordance with the physical and psychological environment so that it does not match against environment changes and it does not suffice for unconscious conformity. The studies show that the couples who are experiencing marital disputes and marital incompatibility are experiencing the defects in the communication skills and are involved in ineffective communication patterns. If the couples do not acquire communication skills and conflict solution, the conflicts will continue verbally and then behaviorally. Thus, the gradual destruction in the marital adjustment will begin.


Electrolytic iron of a purity of 99.97 to 99.98 per cent was melted in fused magnesia crucibles in a modified Arsem furnace, forged into rods, machined, and annealed in an electric furnace according to various heat cycles. The magnetic properties were obtained by the Burrows double bar method. Determinations were also made of the electrical resistance, chemical composition, and physical properties, including microstructure and critical temperatures as well as tensile tests. A few commercial iron and steel samples were tested for comparison. The following valuable results were obtained: 1. Pure iron melted in an atmosphere of carbon monoxide under atmospheric pressure will absorb both carbon and oxygen with the result that the iron thus produced is of an inferior magnetic quality. 2. Low carbon iron melted in vacuo will lose 50 to 90 per cent of its original carbon content. 3. The magnetic quality of electrolytic iron melted in vacuo is decidedly superior to any grade of iron thus far produced, the maximum permeability obtained being 19,000 at a flux density of 9500 gausses. The average hysteresis loss obtained is less than 50 per cent of that found in the best grade of commercial transformer steel, due to the fact that the coercive force is very much lower than for silicon steel, although the retentivity is higher. 4. The specific electrical resistance of pure iron melted in vacuo is 9.96 microhms per centimeter cube. 5. Swedish charcoal iron melted in vacuo has a magnetic quality approximating that of electrolytic iron melted in vacuo, chiefly due to the reduction of the carbon content. The author suggests that the high electrical conductivity and hence large eddy current losses in this material may possibly be greatly reduced by the addition of silicon or aluminum without very materially affecting the magnetic quality.


Subtitle: Chinese companies, particularly ZPMC, are dominant in the STS crane sector, but there are still plenty of markets where European and Korean manufacturers are making headway.


This paper aims to describe the other side of the management of the internal quality assurance system (IQAS) in improving the quality of university graduates. Quality improvement management based on university graduates is a new alternative in education management which emphasizes more on independence and creativity. The development of the quality assurance system management is designed to improve the community's ability to manage educational change in relation to the overall objectives, policies, planning strategies, curriculum initiatives that have been determined by the government and education authorities. Therefore, the output of education demands a change in the attitudes and behavior of all components that involve all people, both the community, in viewing, understanding, helping as well as observers who carry out monitoring and evaluation. This study uses a descriptive analysis method approach. A method approach that is used to analyze, describe and summarize various conditions, and situations from various data collected from observations regarding the problem under study during the research. The problem of the low quality of higher education is the reason for the government to provide a policy by presenting an internal quality assurance system (IQAS) in universities. The internal quality assurance system (IQAS) is managed independently by the university concerned. Then in the management of higher education quality is carried out on an ongoing basis. This study aims to analyze the role of the internal quality assurance system (IQAS) in improving the quality of higher education.


To examine the possible effects of maternal characteristics and obstetric and medical history on maternal cardiovascular parameters at 35–37 weeks' gestation.


Decreased fossil fuels available in recent years and increased effect of gaseous fuels on the environment. This problem occurs because of the increased demand for electric power. This leads to a search for new sources of energy to extract electric power from it without pollution. The use of biomass energy to produce electricity reduces our dependence on fossil fuels. In this paper Biomass energy has been used as a source for operating an induction motor. The field-oriented controller (F.O.C) used to control an induction motor. The effect of the proposed controller algorithm is confirmed by the simulation results, which will be implemented using the MATLAB/SIMULINK environment. The proposed system was built in the laboratory and tested by the DSP-DS1104 digital control panel of the induction motor. Experimental results are consistent and coincide with simulation results.


© 2008 Japan Pediatric Society In our report we described a premature infant diagnosed as having hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) associated with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. This report focused on clinical and pathological manifestation of HLH caused by CMV infection in a premature infant, therefore mode of transmission of the virus was not investigated. The patient's laboratory fi ndings and the collected data on the patient's mother and sibling could not identify how the patient was infected with CMV. It is true that serum CMV IgM antibody has limited sensitivity and specifi city in diagnosis of CMV infection of newborn infants. 1 But as well as CMV-DNA, serum CMV IgM antibody is often examined in patients suspected to have CMV infection in Japan, and we tested serum CMV IgM antibody before urinary CMV-DNA was examined. In this patient, serum CMV IgM antibody, which was negative at birth, had turned to positive by 59 days of age, therefore this suggests that the patient was infected with CMV either at birth or after several weeks of the birth. In Japan, congenital CMV infection and symptomatic periand postnatal infection with the virus has been relatively rare because many young women have immunity to CMV. But the number of young women with immunity has been decreasing in recent years, so that the incidence of congenital or symptomatic CMV infection in Japanese newborn infants may increase and approach the level seen in other developed countries. 2 As Dr Lanari described, more attention should be paid to CMV infection of newborn infants in Japan.


This article - which includes a full analysis of the Buddhist Monk riddle, including technical proofs - concerns a central human mental ability: the ability to blend two different conceptual arrays so as to produce an emergent outcome in the blend. The centrality of this mental operation is widely and robustly confirmed by the empirical data. But as far as I have found, there are no tests proposed in the literature to detect the presence or to measure the extent of this ability across the human lifespan (development, maturity, senescence), or under deficit (post-stroke or trauma), or across members of other species (mammalian, aviary). This working paper sketches some of the difficulties encountered in trying to devise such a test. These difficulties have not yet been surmounted. No completely worthy test has yet been found.


My thanks to Antonio Puente (1995) for his letter calling attention to Bekhterev Institute and a neglected aspect of Russian neuropsychology. He says, "The question of why this psychometric approach is not known outside the former Soviet Union is an interesting one," and I agree. Like the Purloined Letter, this secret has been right under the noses of INS members since 1989!


This book was edited by Garth Stevens, Vije Franchi, and Tanya Swart, and published by Unisa Press in 2006. It is rather uncommon to now have to conduct a review of a book published more than three years ago. This unusual step requires justification since it may be argued that the points of view as well as the claims made in the book are obsolete. It may also be submitted that within the three year period, readers have made their own critical evaluation of the content of the book and the review is accordingly belated. There is merit in both lines of argument.


Since 21 st century,the protection and rational utilization for the environment and resources have become important strategic issues in China.As a basic task,the investigation and research of urban geology should focus on the environmental geological problems including urban construction and development,and there are different emphasized points in accordance with different development stages and national demands.At present,facing the impetuous urbanization in China,the major task for the urban geology is to focus on controlling the damages by the geotechnical engineering and geological disasters under the condition of urban environment.So,in order to prevent disaster and promote sustainable development,urban environmental geological safety,especially urban civil engineering safety is a key task for the urban geology.


Co–Sn alloy films were electrodeposited from choline chloride (ChCl)–ethylene glycol (EG) and choline chloride (ChCl)–urea (U) eutectic mixtures. The deposition of Co–Sn alloy on a copper electrode was studied by cyclic voltammetry, which demonstrates that the coelectrodeposition was achieved. For comparison of properties, Co–Sn alloys were deposited from electrolytes with different Co/Sn ratios. The X-ray diffraction patterns (XRD) showed that the phase structure was affected by the Co/Sn ratio; nevertheless, Co3Sn2 was always the predominant phase. Traces of metallic cobalt were also detected. The nature of the electrolyte used and the metallic composition affected the morphologies of the deposits and their corrosion resistance. The best corrosion resistant coating, with a corrosion potential of −617 mV, was composed by 44.4 wt % of Co and 55.6% of Sn, and it was obtained from the ChCl–EG electrolyte. The magnetic properties of the analyzed samples did not present an evident relationship with the metall...


Wavelet and support vector machine are combined to solve automatic detection of power electronic fault diagnose.Wavelet analysis is used to extract the fault signal characteristics of the power electronic equipment.The energy characteristics exacted are the input data of the fault classifier,and the classifier identifies and diagnoses the faults.The simulation results of three-phases bridge circuit model and twelve-pulse rectifying circuit model show that the method is effective.An improved multi-fault SVM sortting algorithm is researched.And a fault diagnosis method of the power electronic equipment is presented based on SVM.The experiment results of twelve-pulse controllare rectifying circuit thyristor open fault show that the method can diagnose faults accurately and the dignosis precision is high.


In order to reduce the date access conflicts and improve the memory access efficiency in radar signal processing, a linear varying step-size data management strategy combined with a hierarchical memory structure is proposed. By proposing the logical mapping strategy between the reconfigurable arrays and the multi-bank memory, the memory access performance of reconfigurable processor is improved and the reconfigurable system achieves higher throughput. Simulated on the SMIC 40nm CMOS technology, the experimental results show that the memory access performance can be improved by nearly 35%, in comparison to the representative PMA at a 500MHz operating frequency. For example, the access performance of 256-point to 64k-point FFT can be improved by 26.09% to 54.60%.


A multi input bidirectional DC-DC converter (MIBC) is proposed to integrate various DC sources with different voltage levels with bidirectional power flow capability. The structure of multi input bidirectional DC-DC converter simpler to design compare with single input converters. Battery and ultracapacitor are energy storage elements. In addition, the slower response of renewable energy source problem is solves by the integration of energy storage elements. Here input source is photo voltaic source. The voltage from the photo voltaic (PV) cells is fed to the cuk converter to step up the voltage before feeding to inverter providing the power to propulsion of three phase induction motor. The multi input bidirectional converter can deal with ultracapacitor and battery individually or simultaneously with proper control mechanism. The proposed circuit is validated through the simulation results presented in the paper.


Measurements of field-dependent ionization currents in nine tetra-alklyl liquids have been used to determine the average electron-thermalization lengths and total initial-ionization yields.


This paper presents results obtained during a series of bench and pilot plant experiences on the utilization of ozone technology to treat sanitary wastewater coming from boats. Data on ozone solubility in soft water and sea water in a bench reactor were obtained. The analysis of the abatement of BOD, Total Coliforms, UV-absorbance and other parameters were performed on simulated saline and soft on-board wastewater considering increasing batch reactor retention time. The results indicated that the best abatement was obtained in saline wastewater with about 70% BOD and a 95% Total Coliform reduction in 30 minutes; further UV spectra have shown a sensible abatement of the absorbance readings. Pilot plant experiences on a saline wastewater confirm the potential possibility to treat hygienic on-board wastewater with ozone technology.


Abstract This article follows some tracks of an animal (the bear) in the work of jurisprudence. Starting with the common law of civil liability for keepers of bears, this article explores the significance of the bear in nineteenth-century case law and legal philology, showing that the animal itself does not leave the historical contours of legal doctrine unmodified. Reflecting in particular on the work of nineteenth-century Swiss jurist and philologist, Johann Jakob Bachofen, the article examines the imprint that the bear leaves in legal literature and the implications to be drawn from the historical attempts to search for an elusive maternal symbolic in jurisprudence. To speak of an animal in its relation to 'right' requires attention first of all to be paid to the distinct shape and the distinct gender this animal has acquired in the thought and discipline of law.


Key Points Question Can adolescents in gun-owning homes access loaded firearms, and how often are parent's reports of access discordant with their child's? Findings In this nationally representative survey study of 280 parent-child dyads who live in households with firearms, more than one-third of adolescents reported being able to access a loaded household firearm in less than 5 minutes; this proportion fell to nearly one-quarter when all firearms were locked. Although 70% of parents reported that their adolescent could not independently access a household firearm, more than one-third were contradicted by their child's report. Meaning Approaches to reducing firearm injury should focus on adolescents' access to firearms, not solely on firearm storage.


The problem of stabilization of an object with delay on the state vector, when it is under the impact of the limited external perturbations and the parameters of mathematical model are unknown, is solved. The algorithm of control allowing compensation of the parametric and external limited perturbations is derived. The numerical example and the results of modeling are given.


Appendicitis is a common cause of acute abdomen in pediatrics. Periappendiceal abscesses are frequently found in the pediatric population. Acute appendicitis in children can, at times, be a difficult clinical diagnosis because of its highly variable history? and physical manifestations and its unpredictable course. Despite the uncertainty of the diagnosis, appendicitis demands prompt treatment because of the risk of perforation, which occurs in approximately one third of cases. Urological manifestations of appendicitis and appendiceal abscess can vary. Acute appendicitis presenting with ureteral stenosis and hydronephrosis is very rare. Here, we report a case of acute appendicitis with perforation and left hydronephrosis in a 3-year-old female. This case presents a 3-year-old girl with dysuria having hydronephrosis that originated from a perforated appendix.


The value theory and educational viewpoint from Max Scheler's phenomenological intuition not only laid the foundation for philosophical ethics but also provided a new angle to examine the theory of educational value and its evaluation from phenomenological perspective.According Scheler,value can be divided into sensory value,life value,spirit value and holy value,and correspondingly the education value,as a being category,can also be divided into educational sensory value,educational life value,educational parictice value and educational holy value.The educational evaluation cannot merely be stuck at the lower level of educational life value,because man is the isomorphic being of life and spirit.Therefore,educational evaluation should make value judgment on education in the aspects of both life and spirit based on person and education.


Reservoir architecture since has been proposed, the scope of the study from fluvial depositional system gradually extended to the various depositional system. So far, the meandering river sedimentary system, the formation of the abandoned channel positioning, configuration interface regularly, type relationship between the quantitative research ideas; for braided river sedimentary system, and gradually improve the braided river and beach combination relations and heart beach internal configuration mode; for alluvial fan sedimentary system for underground storage reservoir configuration classification and pattern recognition; in delta front sedimentary system, fine water diversion channel internal accretion body, mouth bar interior accreted body configuration element division.


In multiagent systems the action that an agent chooses depends on the state of other agents. It is therefore important to have an accurate representation of the current world state. In case the world is only partially observable, an agent does not continually perceive the state of the other agents. It is then essential to model the actions of the other agents to predict their future state. In this paper, we introduce " Mutual Modeling of Teammate Behavior " (MMTB). This model simulates the executed action of a teammate. In combination with the known world dynamics this action can be used to determine the teammate's future state. In this model, we assume that all teammates are homogeneous and follow a policy that is common knowledge among them. Furthermore, we will describe how MMTB is implemented in our RoboCup soccer simulation team UvA Trilearn and give empirical results about its effectiveness.


It is very necessary for the improvement of weld quality and the realization of robot automatic production to detect multi-pass weld profile parameters automatically.Automatic detective system of multi-pass weld profile parameters by band laser visual sensor was developed.The procedure of image process is as follows: smoothing,center recognition by longitudinal grey gradient,twice slope smooth process,and multiple peaks search by laser seam image analysis.It is very important for seam tracking,arc length control and torch attitude adjustment to obtain four character points of weld seam profile.And the recognition results agree with the experimental results.


The work of the media is intimately linked with some fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, the right to information and the right to communication. However, in some cases and in developing their function, they may cause harm to individuals, either by massifying information in a wrong way, deficient, inopportune, distorted, or violating a fundamental right. These damages must be compensated to those affected, in order to do so it is possible to go to the civil jurisdiction in order to interpose the different actions of extracontractual civil liability and / or go to the contentious-administrative jurisdiction, through an action of direct reparation against the State for being responsible for the control and monitoring of these means of communication.


We examined the effects of location within a swamp-stream ecosystem on colonization rate and community structure of the macroinvertebrate assemblages of submerged wood. Uniform-sized sections of freshly cut wood from water tupelo trees (Nyssa aquatica L.) were suspended below floating platforms at swamp and stream sites for periods of 1-8 weeks. The location of wood substratum affected community structure to a large degree and patterns of colonization to a slight extent. Logs in the swamp-tributary site held almost three times as many individuals and twice as many taxa as did logs in the swamp and outflow stream sites. Stream sites, however, were similar in proportions of various functional and taxonomic groups. Except for the abundance of true midges (Chironomidae), the densities of most major taxonomic groups were significantly affected by location within the swamp-stream ecosystem. Recruitment of individuals and species were extremely rapid and reached a rough steady state at most sites within 1 week. Filter-feeding taxa were numerically dominant early but soon were subordinate to gatherer and scraper functional feeding groups. This trend resulted primarily from the progressive increase in abundances of riffle beetles and mayflies. Current velocity, seston particle size, dispersal capacity and competition for space may be important factors affecting community structure and colonization patterns in this aquatic ecosystem.


Substitution, in part or totally, of the β-receptor antagonist, oxprenolol, for clonidine in 187 hypertensive patients resulted in significant reduction in blood pressure levels, particularly of systolic pressure. The incidence of unwanted side-effects was markedly reduced, with an accompanying improvement in the quality of the patient's life.


ABSTRACT: Ibogaine, an alkaloid extracted from Tabemanthe iboga, is being studied as a potential long‐acting treatment for oploid and stimulant abuse as well as for alcoholism and smoking. Studies in this laboratory have used animal models to characterize ibogaine's interactions with drugs of abuse, and to investigate the mechanisms responsible. Ibogaine, as well as its metabolite, noribogaine, can decrease both morphine and cocaine self‐administration for several days in some rats; shorter‐lasting effects appear to occur on ethanol and nicotine intake. Acutely, both ibogaine and noribogaine decrease extracellular levels of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens of the rat brain. Ibogaine pretreatment (19 hours beforehand) blocks morphine‐induced dopamine release and morphine‐induced locomotor hyperactivity while, in contrast, it enhances similar effects of stimulants (cocaine and amphetamine). Ibogaine pretreatment also blocks nicotine‐induced dopamine release. Both ibogaine and noribogaine bind to kappa opioid and N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate (NMDA) receptors and to serotonin uptake sites; ibogaine also binds to sigma‐2 and nicotinic receptors. The relative contributions of these actions are being assessed. Our ongoing studies in rats suggest that kappa agonist and NMDA antagonist actions contribute to ibogaine's effects on opioid and stimulant self‐administration, while the serotonergic actions may be more important for ibogaine‐induced decreases in alcohol intake. A nicotinic antagonist action may mediate ibogaine‐induced reduction of nicotine preferences in rats. A sigma‐2 action of ibogaine appears to mediate its neurotoxicity. Some effects of ibogaine (e.g., on morphine and cocaine self‐administration, morphine‐induced hyperactivity, cocaine‐induced increases in nucleus accumbens dopamine) are mimicked by a kappa agonist (U50,488) and/or a NMDA antagonist (MK‐801). Moreover, a combination of a kappa antagonist and a NMDA agonist will partially reverse several of ibogaine's effects. Ibogaine's long‐term effects may be mediated by slow release from fat tissue (where ibogaine is sequestered) and conversion to noribogaine. Different receptors, or combinations of receptors, may mediate interactions of ibogaine with different drugs of abuse.


Photovoltaic system has a high potential in the future, since it is clean, environmental friendly and has secure energy sources. However, the intermittence behavior in photovoltaic resource due to their strong dependency on climatic and meteorological conditions made the essential of having energy storage as a backup power supply. This paper proposes a design steps in obtaining the optimal sizing of standalone photovoltaic system, which able to meet a pre-determined power load requirement close to its point of utilization. The keys of system design were, primarily, to satisfy a specific load demand that depends on the power generated from installed PV system and also to maintain hydrogen storage state of charge. A case study was conducted using Kuala Lumpur's meteorological data and typical rural area daily load profile of 2.215kWh. An economic analysis on the system was performed in order to determine system feasibility. The finding shows that the levelized cost of energy for proposed system is RM 1.98/kWh. However, the results of the study showed that if the same configuration is using AGM battery as back-up supply, the system cost is lower and more economically viable, unless the cost of hydrogen storage technologies significantly reduced in the future.


Two RCTs found no survival benefit for completion lymphadenectomy after positive sentinel lymph node biopsy compared with observation with ultrasound in patients with melanoma. Recurrence patterns and regional control are not well described for patients undergoing observation alone.


Due to two major and outstandingly generous donations made in the last six months, from the Monument Trust, the Foyle Foundation, and the Weinstock Trust, and a number of other individual private donations, we have now raised £231,000. We are thus only £6000 short of our target of £237,000 for the essential programme of reclamation of all unused space in the House and the expansion of the museum area to another floor.


A comparative study on lives,ideals,aesthetic pursuits,artistic styles of famous idyll poets,MENG Haoran and WEI Yingwu in Tang Dynasty,is made.It is pointed out that they share some similarities in choice of subjects,styles,techniques and trends in poem writing and,at the same time,manifest their individuality in the writing process.


This paper investigates the interaction of word stress and phrasal prosody in Georgian by studying the distribution of acoustic cues (duration, intensity, F0) in controlled data. The results show that initial syllables in Georgian words are marked by greater duration than all subsequent syllables, regardless of syllable count and phrasal context. After excluding domain-initial strengthening as an alternative explanation, this finding provides evidence in favor of fixed initial stress. Likewise, initial syllables are marked by greatest intensity, but the consistent gradual drop in intensity throughout the word suggests that this effect may not be stress-related. The F0 results align with the existing accounts: individual lexical words form ACCENTUAL PHRASES, marked by a low pitch accent on the initial syllable and a high final boundary tone on the final syllable. Additionally, new evidence for a phrasal accent, aligned with the penult, is presented. F0 targets are shown to be completely absent in the context of post-focal deaccenting, which shows that F0-marking in Georgian is reserved for phrasal prosody and is not intrinsic to stress-marking. These results help account for the facts related to word stress, phrasal intonation, and their interplay in Georgian, the object of debate in the literature.


Traditional statistical models as tools for summarizing patterns and regularities in observed data can be used for making predictions. However, statistical prediction models contain small number of important predictors, which means limited informative capability. Also, predictive statistical models that provide some type of pseudo-correct regular statistical patterns, are used without previous understanding of the used data causality. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms as area in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provide the ability to interpret and understand data in more sophisticated way. Artificial Neural Networks as kind of ML methods use non-linear algorithms, considering links and associations between parameters, while statistical use one-step-ahead linear processes to improve only short-term prediction's accuracy by minimizing cost function. Disregarding that designing an optimal artificial neural network is very complex process, they are considered as potential solution for overcoming main flaws of statistical prediction models. However, they will not automatically improve predictions accuracy, so several artificial neural networks and traditional statistical methods are evaluated and analyzed through accuracy measures for prediction purposes in various fields of applications. Based on gained results, couple of techniques for improving artificial neural networks are proposed to get better accuracy results than statistical predictive methods.


A general model is introduced which describes a system with cubic nonlinearities, in a situation when the linear dispersion relation has three branches which nearly intersect. The system consists of two waves with a strong linear coupling between them, to which a third wave is coupled. This model has are two gaps in its linear spectrum. A nonlinear analysis is performed for zero-velocity solitons, disregarding selfphase-modulation. We nd that there simultaneously exist two di erent families of generic gap soliton solutions: regular solitons, which may be regarded as smooth deformations of the usual gap solitons, and a family of cuspons, which have nite amplitude and energy, but a singularity in the rst derivative at their center. Even in the limit when the linear coupling of the third waves to the rst two vanishes, the family of solitons remains drastically di erent from that in the uncoupled system: regular solitons whose amplitude exceeds a critical value are replaced by cuspons, which in this limit take the form of peakons. PACS numbers: 05.45.Yv; 42.65.Tg; 42.81.Dp; 47.55.Hd


This article underlines the specificities of public–private mergers by presenting the interactions between the institutional logics at stake and the cultural dynamics during the integration process of a public–private merger. The article presents a longitudinal case study of a public–private merger of two listed French companies over two years. Our study completes and enriches Schultz's model by showing its dynamic nature and highlighting the crucial role of the state as a trigger for the interactions between institutional logics and cultural dynamics. Points for practitioners By highlighting the interactions between cultural dynamics and institutional logics, we trace how cultural dynamics influence the decision-making process and how institutional logics influence integration by becoming dominant. We demonstrate how the state influences the interactions between these forces during the integration process.


Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine sex effects in evaluations of transformational and transactional leaders.Design/methodology/approach – A total of 459 part‐time (evening) MBA students, most of whom worked full‐time, read a vignette of either a male or female leader who exhibited either a transformational or transactional leadership style and then evaluated the leader's behavior.Findings – Female‐transformational leaders received more favorable evaluations than male‐transformational leaders, especially from female evaluators. However, evaluations of transactional leaders did not differ according to leader sex, and male evaluators did not evaluate male and female leaders of either style differently.Research limitations/implications – Evaluators were enrolled in a part‐time graduate program in management; hence, results may not be generalizable to other populations. In addition, the study focused on evaluation of hypothetical rather than actual leaders. The results suggest a female advantage...


Wheel–rail contact is more complex in railway a turnout than in ordinary track and, thus, necessitates an advanced model to simulate dynamic interaction and predict rail wear. The main aim of the present work is to assess the application of several wheel–rail rolling contact models in railway turnout. For normal contact problems, wheel–rail contact models based on four different methods are compared: Hertz theory, the semi-Hertzian method, CONTACT, and the finite element method. The assessment is based on the results of contact patch shape and size and contact pressure for several wheelset lateral displacements. The load is set to a constant and equal to static wheel load. Calculations are performed at the section of switch rail head with width 35 mm in CN60-1100-1:18 turnout; both standard and worn rail profiles are accounted for. For tangential contact problems, four corresponding methods are assessed, based on the calculation of creep forces, distribution of the stick/slide region and computational efficiency: Shen–Hedrick–Elkins theory, FASTSIM, improved FASTSIM based on semi-Hertzian method, and CONTACT. It is found that the normal contact problems solved by the semi-Hertzian method and CONTACT correlate well with the finite element method, and the tangential contact problems solved by improved FASTSIM and CONTACT are quite favorable. The conclusions of this work can provide some guidance for contact model selection in the dynamic simulation and wear prediction of railway turnout.


Because human beings are emotional, social and psychological creatures, human beings have prejudice, racism and historical images. Foreign policy is activities of human beings based on human cognition. Therefore, historical legacy and emotional feeling are strongly relevant to a direction of foreign policy. Therefore, it is difficult to understand Russia`s foreign policy without understanding of Russian people`s history, identity, emotion and humiliation. Because of this, constructivist approach is a very useful tool to analyze a diversity and complexity of foreign policy. In this paper, I argue that materialist explanations of Russia`s foreign policy toward Korea are insufficient and constructivism presents a better account of Russia/Korea relations viewed through the prism of intersubjective understanding of Russian role in Asia-Pacific, particularly, what I refer to as "Russo-Japanese War complex." The term `Russo-Japanese war complex` will be defined in this paper as a psychological shock or a collective memory of humiliation to Russian people due to an invasion of Asian people. Russians` fear, insecurity and humiliation from their history in the Northeast Asia function as a point of reference to shape their foreign policy today. Russians` history and identity left its imprint on the Russian perception of "Self" in that region.


Joseph Hall is professor of reading at West Chester (Pa.) State College. This article is adapted from Hall's presentation at the 1972 IRA Convention in Detroit. | What should be the role and function of the Black reading specialist? To answer this question one might first consider the role and function of the typical reading specialist. According to Dietrich (1967), a work conference in St. Louis decided upon five categories of reading specialists: 1) reading teacher, 2) reading consultant, 3) reading coordinator, 4) reading clinician, and 5) college instructor.


This book is divided into three main parts. The first part describes the development of transport policy for the transport system as a whole. The second part considers the application of transport policy within specific markets and modes. The third part of this book summarizes the views of the authors on what should be the optimum policy for transport systems and gives an outline sketch of the characteristics likely for a transport system based on the recommended policy from the two previous sections. The book concentrates mainly on transport systems in Great Britain but also presents European Union's transport policy. Transport policy in developing countries and countries in transition are also discussed. The book is a wealth of knowledge for those studying transport economics and presents a description of the development of transport policy and the critique of current policies.


So far, downsizing in organizations is still a popular management strategy all over the world. However, the question of whether downsizing strategy eventually improve firms' performance is frequently asked and is never satisfactorily answered. The consequences have not always materialized for years. The possible answers could be the ignorance of some important mechanisms (black boxes) between them. After reviewing the literature on organization change, strategy, and strategic human resource management research field, we found that firm's dynamic strategic capabilities is the key mechanism between firm's downsizing strategies and firm performance. We used 129 downsized firms as the sample to empirically test this concept. The result proves that one way a responsible downsizing strategy leads to higher firm performance is through developing and enhancing firm's dynamic strategic capabilities. This finding helps to solve the issue which bothered organization change field and management practice for years.


An on-line stage detecting and monitoring system comprises: a data acquisition terminal, comprising a camera for data acquisition and various sensors; a server terminal, comprising a server for storage, classification and processing of various types of information data; a display terminal, which is connected with the server terminal via the network and is used to display video monitor screens collected by the data acquisition terminal; a multi-point touch operation terminal, for calling, by the multi-point touch mode, the video monitor screens stored in the server and randomly routing to all work-type display terminals; and an internal communication system, for setting levels of members of the internal communication system via a communication control instrument, so as to realize internal communication. The invention integrates various technologies such as infrared photograph monitoring, internal communication monitoring, multi-sensor fusion monitoring, visualized operation monitoring and so on, thereby breaking the current situation of single monitoring means and low monitoring degree of the conventional stage performance monitoring technology, and guaranteeing the effect and the safe reliability of stage performance.


The paper presents a nonlinear design approach drawing from singular perturbations, feedback linearization, and variable structure control, that leads to regulators with automatic gain scheduling which exhibit similar dynamic behavior over the entire flight envelope of the aerospace plane. Additionally, design approach provides for a systematic way to counter disturbance effects as well as modeling uncertainties. The unifying feature of the three nonlinear feedback control methodologies is that they all have a geometric interpretation. First, the translational dynamics are decomposed into reduced-order slow and fast dynamics by way of a formal singular perturbation analysis. After feedback linearization the fast dynamics are robustly stabilized via a variable structure control approach. The slow dynamics are stabilized using conventional proportional-integral compensation based on the nominal slow dynamics. A number of sample command and disturbance responses at opposite ends of the flight envelope are presented for a nonlinear aerospace plane model.


The guard zone computation problem is of utmost importance in the domain of VLSI physical design automation as one of the major purposes is to find an optimized way to place a set of two-dimensional blocks on a chip floor. Beyond this, it has huge significance in the field of robotic motion planning, Geographical information system, automatic monitoring of metal cutting tools and design of any embedded systems. In VLSI layout design, the circuit components (or the functional units / modules or groups / blocks of different sub-circuits) that may be viewed as a set of polygonal regions on a two-dimensional plane, are not supposed to be placed much closer to each other in order to avoid electrical (parasitic) effects among them. Each (group of) circuit component(s) Ci is associated with a parameter δi such that a minimum clearance zone of width δi is to be maintained around Ci. If the guard zonal regions overlap, we have to remove the overlapped regions in order to compute the resultant outer guard zone (sometimes inner guard zones are also an issue to be considered). The location of guard zone (of specified width) for a simple polygon is a very important problem for resizing a (group of) circuit component. In this paper, we have developed an algorithm to compute the guard zone of a simple polygon as well as to exclude the overlapped regions among the guard zonal segments (if any) in O(nlogn) time, where n is the number of vertices of the given simple polygon.


In the past, many conventional algorithms, such as self-adaptive dynamic differential evolution and asynchronous particle swarm optimization, were used to reconstruct buried objects in the frequency domain; these were unfortunately time-consuming during the iterative, repeated computing process of the scattered field. Consequently, we propose an innovative deep convolutional neural network approach to solve the electromagnetic inverse scattering problem for buried conductors in this paper. Different shapes of conductors are buried in one half-space and the electromagnetic wave from the other half-space is incident. The shape of the conductor can be reconstructed promptly by inputting the received scattered fields measured from the upper half-space into the deep convolutional neural network module, which avoids the computational complexity of Green's function for training. Numerical results show that the root mean square error for differently shaped—circular, elliptical, arrow, peanut, four-petal, and three-petal—reconstructed images are, respectively, 2.95%, 3.11%, 17.81%, 15.10%, 14.14%, and 15.24%. Briefly speaking, not only can circular and elliptical buried conductors be reconstructed; some irregular shapes can be reconstructed well. On the contrary, the reconstruction result by U-Net for buried objects is worse since it is not able to obtain a good preliminary image by processing only the upper scattered field—that is, rather than the full space. In other words, our proposed deep convolutional neural network can efficiently solve the electromagnetic inverse scattering problem of buried conductors and provide a novel method for the microwave imaging of the buried conductors. This is the first successful attempt at using deep convolutional neural networks for buried conductors in the frequency domain, which may be useful for practical applications in various fields such as the medical, military, or industrial fields, including magnetic resonance imaging, mine detection and clearance, non-destructive testing, gas or wire pipeline detection, etc.


Aim – to identify criterions and parameters for classification of higher education institutions, using research method – qualitative content analysis. The following tasks are defined for reaching the aim: to conduct qualitative content analysis and define categories and their frequency; to describe and analyse defined categories; to compare different classifications of higher education institutions; to summarize the analysis results and draw conclusions. Research methodology – overview of literature and qualitative content analysis. Findings – qualitative content analysis helps to structure the information gathered, to select the relevant and applicable, and leads to the development of new categories; higher education institutions are classified in many ways, using different criterions and parameters; classifications made by individual researchers are available, as well as universally known and applied classifications of higher education institutions such as Carnegie Classification and European classification of higher education institutions. Research limitations – the classification of higher education institutions is analysed only from Europe and the United States of America.


Climate change has both causes and consequences over agriculture. This paper focuses on the first element and presents scenarios for ASOLAGO -an onion cropper's association in Colombia with 250 members- to reduce their carbon footprint. It evaluates a case study at "La Primavera" farm using a methodology approved by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Land preparation and crop irrigation were analyzed as stages in order to propose energy efficiency alternatives for both the farm and the association. They include field efficiency, fuel economy and energy efficiency from biofuels for the first stage as well as solar and wind energy supply for the second. A cost-benefit analysis to generate additional income selling additional power produced by the system to the National Grid was done.


During th is new era of reform and open ing-up to the outside w orld and in the construction of socialist m odern ization,it is of utm ost im portance to further prom ote socialist hum an istic sp irit to ensure the sustainab le developm ent of society and reform in Ch ina,especially to further prom ote the construction of a harm on ious society.The rich hum an istic feature in M arx ism determ ines the inev itab ility of M arx ism as the gu id ing ideo logy in the prom otion of socialist hum an istic sp irit.M eanw h ile,w e m ust pay close attention to the tendency of"de-M arx ism"during th is course.Besides,w e shou ld clearly understand the relationsh ip betw een M arx ism and the prom otion of socialist hum an istic sp irit,and grasp the rich M arx ist hum an istic connotation.


This article mainly studies a new type of compound effervescent tablet for hot pot soup base, which is made of mangosteen as the main material, adding mangosteen glycoside and kumquat to improve the taste, and adding starch slurry and PEG-6000 as a granulating agent. A single factor test was used to select the optimal level of each factor, the sensory score was used as the response value, and the response surface analysis method was used to optimize the formulation of the compound effervescent tablet, and the moisture absorption rate and sensory condition of the finished tablet after several days of placement were determined. The results showed that the optimized main formula of mangosteen compound effervescent tablets was: mangosteen powder 5.3%, kumquat powder 1.3%, mangosteen glycoside 1.3%, effervescent disintegrant 90.7%, of which citric acid: bicarbonate Sodium is 1.6:1. In this process, starch slurry and PEG-6000 are used as the granulation agent for the semi-dry tableting method. The composite effervescent tablet prepared after drying at 50°C for 3 hours is sweet and sour, rich in special aroma, short in foaming time, and has the lowest moisture absorption rate. The sensory score was 94.96 points.


An electromechanical method for determining the strains in non-embedded carbon fibers is developed. The method is extended to carbon fibers in polymer based composites and verified through Raman spectroscopic measurements. In the electromechanical method a correlation between the strain and change in resistance in the fiber is found through tensile test of single nonembedded fibers. This correlation is used for estimating the quality of the interface between a carbon fiber and a polymer matrix. Through a number of experiments it has been found that the developed method is reliable, cheap and easy to use. The results obtained from the electromechanical measurements are shown to correlate well with results obtained from Raman measurements.


In underwater applications, acoustic scattering from the sea surface must be considered in any system that utilizes surface-reflected acoustic energy. In this paper, we obtain spherical wave reflection coefficient approximately by expansion of a spherical wave into plane waves and using the method of stationary phase. The obtained spherical wave reflection coefficient depends on various parameters such as frequency and incidence angle of the spherical wave, the length of the path that connects the source to the receiver, and the root-mean-square (RMS) displacement of the rough sea surface. We verify that the spherical wave reflection coefficient approaches to the plane wave reflection coefficient in far field approximation. Finally, the statistical distribution of the spherical wave reflection coefficient is obtained considering statistical characteristics of the source and receiver positions.


The distribution and siting of barrows within the landscape of south-east England is considered, and it is observed that clustering occurs on certain geological units and in specific topographical positions. A socio-economic explanation for the distribution of those in Sussex is possible, and the concentrations can even be considered in terms of territorial units. However, distribution across the south-east is nodal, and the clusters present on the South Downs are not matched on the North Downs, and it is necessary to consider other explanations. A cosmological approach provides a fresh insight into the siting of barrows and helps explain siting within cemeteries as well as within the wider landscape.


Objective To observe the changes of brain natriuretic peptide(BNP) in children with rheumatic fever(RF) disease,and explore its diagnostic value in rheumatic heart disease. Methods Twenty RF children(RF group) were collected,including 11 patients combined with heart disease(heart disease group) and 9 patients without heart disease(non-heart disease group);Twenty healthy children were obtained as healthy control group.The plasma level of BNP and cardiac troponin I(cTnI) were measured by using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay;Two-dimensional echocardiography and ECG were used for all the patients.The plasma levels of BNP and cTnI were randomly measured once in healthy control group.SPSS 11.5 software was used to analyze the data. Results BNP and cTnI were significantly higher in RF group than those in healthy control group(Pa0.01).The BNP level was significantly higher in heart disease group than that in non-heart disease group(P0.01);The difference of cTnI level between the 2 groups was significant(P0.05).The percentage of patients with increased BNP was significantly higher than that with increased cTnI(χ2=14.19,P0.01) and that with abnormal ECG(χ2=10.23,P0.01),while there was no significant difference between the latter two(χ2=1.37,P0.05).In heart disease group,the BNP level was significantly positively correlated with cTnI(r=0.32,P0.05). Conclusions The plasma level of BNP is drastically increased in rheumatic heart disease,and is positively correlated with cTnI;BNP has higher sensitivity than cTnI and ECG.Detection of plasma BNP and cTnI levels have important clinical significance for diagnosis on rheumatic heart disease.


In this article, we study symmetric $(v, k, \lambda)$ designs admitting a flag-transitive and point-primitive automorphism group $G$ whose socle is a projective special unitary group of dimension at most five. We, in particular, determine all such possible parameters $(v, k, \lambda)$ and show that there exist eight non-isomorphic of such designs for which $\lambda\in\{3,6,12, 16, 18\}$ and $G$ is $PSU_{3}(3)$, $PSU_{3}(3):2$, $PSU_{4}(2)$ or $PSU_{4}(2):2$.


The article touches upon certain aspects of consumer protection in international private relationships. Special attention is paid to the international dimension of consumer protection and supranational level of consumer protection with regard to EU and MERCOSUR approaches. General principles of consumer protection are being considered, conclusions on the application of international and supranational documents are made. Thus, in Part 1 international documents (1985 United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection, 2007 Lugano convention, etc.) are in focus. The trend now is to draft national consumer rules many of which are considered mandatory as well as the harmonization of national consumer rules within the framework of economic integration organizations, such as the European Union and the MERCOSUR. That`s why in Part 2 supranational level of consumer protection (EU and MERCOSUR) is under study with regard to the idea how choice of law rules should be designed in order to protect consumers in an efficient way.


significance, nor a particular approach, nor to the thoughts of ancient or modern philosophers. Rather, it is the philosophizing and the creation of concepts.


The general objective of this thesis was to study the effect of inclusion of different co-products from the bioenergy industry in poultry diets on nutrient digestibility, growth performance, and production. To this end, the influence of glycerin, lecithins, and re-esterified oil from soy oil industry, were developed in three studies.
In the first study (chapter 2), the influence of source and level of inclusion of raw glycerin (GLYC) in the diet on growth performance, digestive traits, total tract apparent retention (TTAR), and apparent ileal digestibility of nutrients was studied in broilers from 1 to 21 d of age. There was a control diet based on corn and soybean meal and 8 additional diets that formed a 2 × 4 factorial with 2 sources of GLYC and 4 levels of inclusion (2.5, 5.0, 7.5, and 10%). The GLYC used were obtained from the same original batch of soy oil that was dried under different processing conditions and contained 87.5 or 81.6% glycerol, respectively. Type of processing of the GLYC did not affect any of the variables studied except DM and organic matter retention (P < 0.05) that was higher for the 87.5% glycerol diet. From d 1 to 21, feed conversion ratio (FCR) improved linearly (L, P ≤ 0.01) as the GLYC content of the diet increased, but ADG was not affected. On d 21, the relative weight (% BW) of the liver and the digestive tract increased (L, P < 0.01) as the level of GLYC in the diet increased, but lipid concentration in the liver was not affected. The TTAR of DM and organic matter increased quadratically (Q, P < 0.05) and the AMEn content of the diet increased linearly (L, P < 0.01) with increases in dietary GLYC. Also, the apparent ileal digestibility of DM (L, P < 0.05; Q, P = 0.07) and gross energy (L, P < 0.01) increased as the GLYC content of the diet increased. It is concluded that raw GLYC from the biodiesel industry can be used efficiently, up to 10% of the diet, as a source of energy for broilers from 1 to 21 d of age and that the energy content of well-processed raw GLYC depends primarily on its glycerol content.
In a second study (chapter 3), the effects of the inclusion of raw glycerin (GLYC) and lecithin in the diet on egg production, egg quality and total tract apparent retention (TTAR) of dietary components was studied in brown egg-laying hens from 23 to 51 wk of age. The experimental design was completely randomized with six diets combined as a 2 × 3 factorial with two levels of GLYC (0 vs.70 g/kg) and three animal fat to lecithin ratios (40:0, 20:20 and 0:40 g/kg). Each treatment was replicated eight times and the experimental unit was a cage with ten hens. Production was recorded by replicate every 28-d period and cumulatively. For the entire experiment, the inclusion of GLYC in the diet hindered feed conversion ratio per kilogram of eggs (2.071vs. 2.039; P < 0.05) but did not affect any of the other production or egg quality traits studied. The replacement of animal fat by lecithin (40:0, 20:20 and 0:40 g/kg) increased egg weight(60.1, 60.7 and 61.8 g, respectively; P < 0.001) and egg mass production (56.8, 57.5 and58.8 g/d, respectively; P < 0.01) and improved yolk color as measured by the DSM color fan (9.2, 9.2 and 9.5, respectively; P < 0.001) and feed conversion ratio per kilogram of eggs(2.072, 2.068 and 2.027, respectively; P < 0.05). Feed intake, egg production and body weight gain, however, were not affected. The inclusion of GLYC in the diet did not affect nutrient retention but lecithin inclusion improved TTAR of dry matter (P < 0.05), organic matter (P < 0.05), ether extract (P < 0.001) and gross energy (P < 0.001). In summary, the inclusion of 70 g glycerol/kg diet hindered feed conversion ratio per kilogram of eggs but did not affect any other production or digestibility trait. The replacement of animal fat by lecithin improved egg weight, egg yolk color and nutrient digestibility. Consequently, lecithin can be used as a lipid source in laying hen diets with beneficial effects on egg production.
In the third study (chapter 4), the apparent metabolizable energy (AME) of traditional and re-esterified lipid sources and the effects of its inclusion in the diet on nutrient retention and broilers performance were studied in two experiments (Exp) from 7 to 21 d of age. In Exp 1 there was a control diet without any supplemental fat and three extra diets that included 25 g/kg of soy oil (SO), re-esterified monoacylglycerol (RMAG) or re-esterified triacylglycerol (RTAG) at the expense (wt:wt) of the control diet. The gross energy (GE, MJ/kg) of the oils was 39.66, 38.06 and 38.56, respectively. The AME of the lipid sources was determined by two methods: a) multiplying its GE by the digestibility of the ether extract (EE) of their respective diets and b) by difference between the AME of the control and the corresponding experimental diet. Nutrient retention was not affected by fat supplementation, except for EE that was higher for the oil supplemented diets than for the control diet (P < 0.001). The AME of the SO, RMAG and RTAG was 35.44, 33.89 and 34.05 MJ/kg when measured directly from digestibility data and 37.70, 35.68 and 35.83 MJ/kg when calculated by difference between the control and the oil containing diet. Fat supplementation improved feed to gain ratio (P ˂ 0.01) from 7 to 21 d of age, with effects being more pronounced for SO than for RMAG or RTAG. In Exp 2, the design was the same than in Exp 1 but the experimental diets included 50 g/kg of SO, acidulated soapstocks (ASO), lard, RMAG, RTAG or a 20:80 mixture of SO and RMAG (SO-RMAG). The AME of the supplemental fats was greater for the SO, SO-RMAG and lard than for the RMAG, with RTAG and ASO being intermediate (P < 0.01). Fat inclusion improved the retention of all nutrients. The AME content of the supplemental fats was higher when calculated by difference between the AME of the control and the fat containing diet than when measured directly from the GE and EE digestibility data and higher when included at 50 g/kg than when included at 25 g/kg. Supplemental fat improved ADG and F:G of the broilers, irrespective of the lipid source used (P ˂ 0.001). In conclusion, the re-esterified monoacylglycerol and triacylglycerol oils were well digested by broilers, with AME values within the range of those of traditional fat sources.


Sexual isolation between dioecious isogamous syngens of the clade Chlamydomonas moewusii can be ascribed to the nonoccurrence of initial contact between noncompatible gamete types. As demonstrated by its sensitivity to enzymes and concanavalin, sex-cell contact depends on a molecular complementarity between glycoproteinaceous components on the gametic flagella tips, the mating-type substances. In related syngens gamete contact is mediated by a carbohydrate ligand on one gamete type interacting with a trypsin-sensitive, sugar-binding component on the other. Modulating features render this basic complementarity taxon specific and account for cell-to-cell recognition and the gametic isolation between syngens. The polymorphism of the bipolar contact mechanism seems to be conditioned by a specifying complexity of the carbohydrate compound on the (+) substance and its selective recognition by a discriminating contact site on the (-) substance. A comparative study between several related taxa suggests a simple concept on the evolution of complex breeding systems, i.e., on speciation, by mutative alterations on either side of the contact-causing complementarity. The model presented explains readily (1) the frequent coexistence of sexually compatible and incompatible taxa within species with asexual reproduction; (2) the common occurrence of strains without a known sex partner; and (3) peculiarities in the geographic distribution of syngens and of individual sexual strains.


Mercury in the environment deserves serious concern because of the mobility of volatile elemental mercury (Hg0) in the atmosphere, in combination with the harmful effect of Hg compounds on human health and the ecosystem. A major source of global atmospheric mercury is presumed to be oceanic Hg0 emission. However, available Hg0 surface water data to reliably estimate the ocean's mercury emissions are sparse. In this study, high‐resolution surface water and air measurements of Hg0 were carried out between Europe and South Africa in November 2008 and between South America and Europe in April–May 2009. On each cruise a strong enrichment of Hg0 in tropical surface water was determined that apparently followed the seasonal shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). A combination of a high Hg0 production rate constant and the actual low wind speeds, which prevented emission, probably caused the accumulation of Hg0 in surface waters of the ITCZ. Hg0 emissions in the tropics were significant only if wind speed variability on a monthly scale was considered, in which case the observed significant decline of total Hg in tropical surface waters during the northern winter could be explained. In the midlatitudes, increased autumn Hg0 emissions were calculated for November in the Northern Hemisphere and for May in the Southern Hemisphere; conversely, emissions were low during both the northern and the southern spring. Mercury removal from surface waters by Hg0 emission and sinking particles was comparable to its supply through wet and dry deposition.


We propose an approach for automatic text line detection on binary handwritten documents. Our algorithm is based on the Watershed transform to localize components of the same lines. The analysis of the neighbouring regions of each connected component, allow us to link those that satisfy some constraints such as linearity in order to group them in the same line. The preliminary results are promising and show that the proposed approach is language independent.


From an attorney's point of view, the answer to the question, 'Who Pays for the Unexpected?' in construction depends upon several considerations. First must be considered the entity making the claim and the entity against whom the claim is being made, as well as the subject matter of the claim. Only then may the identity of the payor (the person paying) be determined.


An approximated formula representing the vibration characteristics of a shell structure with finite curvature is proposed. The model is based on the dynamic analogy between a cylinder and a flat plate. In order to derive the formula, the dynamics of a shell with and without the curvature effect is introduced. Then, resonance frequencies, constant frequency loci, and number of modes in a flat plate and in a cylinder are also examined. After that, a simplified driving point mobility function of a shell with the plate mobility is derived. An experimental verification is conducted in order to examine the proposed formula. Cylinders having two different ring frequencies of 5.9 and 13.8 kHz are used as test structures. Comparisons are done for the resonance frequency and for the mobility function. The accuracy of the analysis falls within 6% error when resonance frequencies are compared with those of experimental data. The results show that the proposed mobility function predicts the vibration behavior for the ...


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We construct an effective Lagrangian for new strong interactions at the LHC, including as a first step the two lightest triplets of spin-1 resonances. Our parametrization is general enough to allow for previously unstudied spectrum and couplings. Among available frameworks to describe the spin-1 sector, we rely on an extra-dimensional description. Our approach limits the number of parameters yet is versatile enough to describe the phenomenology of a wide range of new scenarios of strong electroweak symmetry breaking.


This paper is dedicated to the investigation of single-event effects (SEEs) in different types of silicon Schottky diodes using heavy ions and laser pulses. The objectives are both to progress in heavy ions and laser correlations using simple devices and to further understand the impact of optical and electrical parameters on photogeneration in Schottky diodes to contribute to the use of pulsed lasers for single-event sensitivity studies. Heavy ion test results on planar and trenched commercial Schottky diodes are presented. Based on these results, pulsed laser tests and transient measurements were performed on the sensitive devices. Destructive single events were evidenced with both techniques. Significant parameters of the laser tests, such as backside aperture of the device, electrical and optical configuration are discussed. These investigations show the potential of laser testing for Schottky diode SEE sensitivity study.


Amici di Facebook: tra empatia mediatica ed individualismo di massa - Social networks are a new communication tool on the Net; they're uncreaslingly, developing modifying the concept of "social network", the perception of geographic distance and of the emotional closeness. Virtual space can be personalized and anyone can choose his friends for sharing and enricing. The topic of this paper is the use of Facebook and its implication on the interpersonal relation- ship in the post-modern society. It faces the theme of the "mediatic empaty" and of the "emotional consumerism", integrating also the opinions of a group of users wich has been contacted by our research group. Key words: social network, virtual friendship, empathy.


The paper describes features of the plasma spraying by a hybrid water-argon DC arc plasma torch. In the torch there are two parameters to be changed to modify properties of generated plasma namely arc current and secondary gas flow rate argon. Primary gas is steam and its flow rate is determined mainly by arc current. Modification of both arc current and argon flow rate result in modification of particle temperature, velocity and oxidation rate.


Abstract13C- and water proton-nuclear magnetic relaxation times were measured as functions of temperature and pH to study the interaction of Cu(II) with poly(D-glutamic acid) (PGA) in aqueous solution. In the pH region from 4.5 to 8, the addition of Cu(II) significantly influences the relaxation times of Cγ and Cδ carbons, while those of Cβ, Cα, and peptide C′ are not influenced. The relaxation times of Cγ and Cδ increase with increasing temperature, indicating that a fast exchange between the complexed and uncomplexed states occurs. The scalar relaxation is dominant to line broadening, suggesting that a significant amount of electron spin density is transferred from Cu(II) to Cγ Above pH 9, no paramagnetic effects of Cu(II) upon 13C spectra of PGA were observed. The water proton relaxation of Cu(II) aqueous solution is markedly enhanced by the addition of PGA at an acidic pH, but suppressed at an alkaline pH. These results show that carboxylate groups of PGA and water molecules are bound to Cu(II) at pH≤8, but excluded from Cu(II) at pH≥9.


The article deals with the general theoretical aspects of information security, the author analyzes existing threats in this area, scientific approaches to their definition and classification. Based on the results of the author's study and based on departmental specifics the author identifies the key components of the organizational and legal mechanism for information security guarantees in the sphere of activities of the border authorities with due regard for the specific properties of information circulating in the information environment of the border authorities.


-T :H E R E L AT I O N of queer theory and lesbian and gay studies has been a site of contention from the moment queer began to be used to define a field of critical study. In the special issue of differences titled "Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities," edited by Teresa de Lauretis (one of the first places where the term queer theory was used), the two fields are separated with a colon to mark what de Lauretis called a "certain critical distance from the latter" (1991, iv). That colon marks an ambiguity in the multiple meanings of queer as it is currently used: a tension between the substantive queer (as a label for a person, thereby implying the constitution of identity) and what Robyn Wiegman has neatly summed up as the "anti-identity critique of queer theory" (1995). The existence of queer theory would be unimaginable without the preceding decades of work in lesbian and gay studies and politics; yet the goal of queer theory as defined by many critics in their work is precisely to interrogate the identity positions from which that work is produced. Using the same word to refer to both fields has produced confusion and even some bitterness on the part of those who fear that queer theory's critique of the subject undermines their visibility and political ground. To set up the distinction between queer theory and lesbian and gay theory in such crude binary opposition is, of course, to oversimplify grossly much of the major work in both fields, which carefully avoids reproducing such oppositions. Yet that polarization keeps reappearing in


Objective: A few number of in vitro and in vivo experimental is underway in identifying an effective drug against Epstein Barr virus. This study is an attempt in identifying an effective drug against this virus by in silico analysis of more than 100 bioactive compounds derived from plants. The BMRF1 gene is a DNA polymerase processivity factor that has a prime role in lytic replication and DNA synthesis. Methods: The physical, chemical and molecular characteristics of each compound were studied by Chemoinformatics tools and docked against BMRF1 gene. Result: From this study, it was found that Astragaloside-V and Astragaloside-III showed the best interaction value against BMRF1 protein. Conclusion: Further analysis of these compounds against this protein will lead a new pathway to drug discovery.


DISCUSSION The lesions observed in this case were, first, the fistulous communication between the oesophagus and the left lower lobe and, secondly, the area of tissue within the lower lobe which presented the features more usually seen in intralobar sequestration of the lung. The fistula communicated only with this abnormal tissue and not with the normal bronchial tree, and at no time in the past had there been any episode suggestive of such a communication. The haemoptyses were regarded as due to infection spreading from the abnormal tissue. The only previous case which we can trace was that of Das and others (1959). In this instance a man of 31 years complained of a cough with green sputum dating from an attack of whooping-cough in infancy. During the preceding z years there had been an increase in the amount of sputum. At operation a hollow circular structure 10 x I cm. was found arising from the infra-diaphragmatic part of the oesophagus and reaching up to an area of lung which comprised numerous thick-walled cysts lined by cubical epithelium. The fistula itself was lined by epithelium of respiratory type and the whole structure was supplied by an artery that transversed the diaphragm beside the fistula. Both of these cases could be regarded as an accessory lobe of lung deriving from an outpouch of the oesophagus in which there is anatomical contiguity between the normal and abnormal lung, with the inclusion of both within a common pleural investment. The primordial oesophagus retains the potentiality for differentiating into epithelium of respiratory type. Intramural cysts of the oesophagus lined by ciliated epithelium have been described (Myers, Bradshaw, and Winston-Salem, 1951) and similar cysts have been observed behind the oesophagus in cases of foregut reduplication associated with the failure of fusion of dorsal vertebral bodies (Fallon, Gordon, and Lendrum, 1954; Goldberg and Johnson, 1963). These latter, however, are related to anomalies in the development of the neural axis seen in its most severe form in some cases of diastematomyelia in which the split spinal cord surrounds an enteric cyst. In the present case and in that of Das and others (1959) no vertebral anomaly was noted, and the developmental anomaly should rather be referred to the development of the trachea, bronchi, and lungs from an anterior pouch of the foregut.


Legal publishing has for the most part remained immune to the phenomenon of what could be called title proliferation—the continual appearance (often followed quickly by their disappearance) of new journals, sometimes of dubious quality, in specialized fields for which there may not be a demand, or even a likely niche. This is not to imply that new law journals are not being published. On the contrary, there is at least anecdotal evidence for the view that new law journals are being published at a faster rate now than a decade, or five years ago. Fortunately, it can be said that those of international and comparative interest are of high quality and deal with emerging fields of law that fully deserve to have new entrants. This column is intended to bring journals of this kind to the attention of our readers. Mention of a journal here should not be taken as an unqualified recommendation for acquisition. Given the number of factors that go into the acquisition decision, it must remain for each person or law library to weigh them.


ABSTRACT Index-funds are one of the most popular investment vehicles among investors, with total assets indexed to the S&P500 exceeding $8.7 trillion at-the-end of 2016. Recently, enhanced-index-funds, which seek to outperform an index while maintaining a similar risk-profile, have grown in popularity. We propose an enhanced-index-tracking method that uses the linear absolute shrinkage selection operator (LASSO) method to minimize the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) of the tracking error. This minimizes the large downside tracking-error while keeping the upside. Using historical and simulated data, our CLEIR method outperformed the benchmark with a tracking error of . The effect is more pronounced when the number of the constituents is large. Using 50–80 large stocks in the S&P 500 index, our method closely tracked the benchmark with an alpha .


Continuous carbon nanofibers are of great interest in research nowadays due to their outstanding properties. But synthesis of cost effective, stable and straight carbon nanofibers from low cost polymeric precursor is still a challenge. In this direction, in the present study efforts are made to prepare stable and straight carbon nanofibers from low cost polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). The PVA nanofibers are drawn by electrospinning technique from the solution of PVA and stabilization of nanofibers was carried out in the presence of iodine vapors for different time interval with applying the load. The stabilized nanofibers were carbonized at 1000 °C and semi-graphitized at 2200 °C. The resultant nanofibers were characterized by analytical and spectroscopic techniques. The microscopic study reveals that there is not much difference in stabilized, carbonized and semi graphitized nanofiber diameter, derived from PVA nanofiber stabilized with the application of load. The XRD and TEM study reveals the presence of amorphous as well as crystalline phases in semi graphitized nanofibers with different interlayer spacing. The higher value of electrical conductivity obtained as a consequence of alignment of carbon layer in the case of nanofiber stabilized with applying load and further increases in conductivity due to crystallinity and decreases in sp3 content.


Use of sevelamer hydrogen chloride for the manufacture of a medicament for the purpose of reducing serum glucose in an individual in need.


Background. Standard-of-care treatment for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (HER2+ mBC) patients has traditionally included targeted therapies such as trastuzumab and/or pertuzumab in first line (1L) and ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in the second line (2L). In 2021, fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (T-DXd, Enhertu®) was approved following DESTINY-Breast 03 trial results, demonstrating a significant reduction in the risk of progression compared to T-DM1 in 2L. Contemporary data on treatment patterns and clinical outcomes for HER2+ mBC patients after their 1L therapy in a real-world setting is limited and would help understand whether all eligible patients receive optimal and timely targeted therapies. This study aimed to report 2L treatment patterns and outcomes among HER2+ mBC patients in the United States (US). Methods. Adult HER2+ mBC patients with ≥2 lines of therapy were identified from the Syapse Learning Health Network (LHN) database; a longitudinal US oncology database integrating data from community health systems, labs and other external sources. Included patients initiated 2L treatment for metastatic disease between January 2014-February 2021 (index date), allowing for 12-months of follow-up. Descriptive statistics for patient characteristics, treatment patterns including prior metastatic treatments, time to treatment discontinuation (TTD), and reasons for 2L discontinuation were reported. Results. Of the 15,241 breast cancer patients in the LHN with abstracted data, 312 HER2+ mBC patients received ≥2L treatment. The patients were mostly White (69%) or African American (21%), median age of 59 years (interquartile range [IQR], 50-66) at start of 2L. The African American population was typically diagnosed young (median age 50 [IQR, 44-61] vs. 54 [IQR, 46-62] years) with stage IV disease at initial diagnosis (69% vs 62%) versus Whites. Majority of the 312 patients had stage IV disease at initial diagnosis (62%); most common sites of metastasis at mBC diagnosis were bone (52%), distant lymph node(s) (38%), liver (36%) and brain (10%). The median length of follow-up was 22 months (IQR, 13-37), 54% had initiated their 2L therapy since 2018. Majority of the 312 patients had received a trastuzumab-based (T-based) regimen in 1L (78%). Among the 312 patients, 37% had received only 2 lines of therapy in the metastatic setting, 28% received 3 and 35% received ≥4 lines of therapy. In 2L, 89% of the 312 patients received a HER2-targeted treatment (monotherapy or combination); the most frequent 2L regimens included T-DM1 monotherapy (29%), trastuzumab/pertuzumab/taxane (10%) and T-DM1/trastuzumab (8%). Subsequently, 197 of the 312 patients (63%) received 3L therapy. Among these 197 patients, T-DM1 monotherapy (19%), T-DXd monotherapy (10%) and capecitabine/lapatinib (8%) were the most frequently reported 3L regimens. Around 88% (n=274) of the 312 patients discontinued their 2L therapy. Median TTD of 2L from index date was 7.2 months (95% CI, 6.5-8.9); median TTD was 10.6 months (95% CI, 7.4-14.0) among a sub-group of patients who received a T-based regimen in their 2L (N=116). Approximately 47% of patients discontinued their 2L regimen due to progression/worsening of cancer, 17% discontinued from intolerance/toxicity in the absence of progression. Conclusions. This study suggests the treatment trajectory of US HER2+ mBC patients is variable in the real world clinical practice. Approximately two-thirds of the 2L patients had to receive a subsequent therapy and disease progression was the most common reason for 2L treatment discontinuation, reflecting a remaining need to improve outcomes for patients in 2L HER2+ disease.
 Citation Format: Della Varghese, Giovanna I. Cruz, Colden Johanson, Liz Toland, Miguel Miranda, Eleanor C. Faherty, David Harland, Henry G. Kaplan. A real-world evidence study of treatment patterns in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who have received at least 2-lines of therapy [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2022 Dec 6-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(5 Suppl):Abstract nr P1-11-19.


Summary: This study is to clarify the ethical dilemmas among nurse researchers in Japan. After qualitative and inductive analysis of the descriptions of 35 respondents, three categories were identified.


The change of accusation embodies the court's authority of judicature alteration.But in practice,it has attracted wide range of censure.Whether the court has the authority to change the accusa- tion or not should depend on the case in question.A simple negation is not a reasonable attitude.A better way to the understanding of the issue is that we may use foreign cases for reference in combination with our judicial interpretation and practice.


Services are becoming more interrelated with the product where one product consists of services that integrated with each other. These services are monitored and need enhancement and evolvement based on new user's requirements, upgrading the services or maintaining the quality of services. Service-oriented systems need to be enhanced through the dynamic adaptation process during runtime to sense and react to user's context in order to provide a better user experience (context awareness). There has been an increased interest in the use of ontologies for context descriptions, and reasoning mechanisms to support discovery and matching of services according to context behavior due to the importance of Semantic Web technologies. The approaches considered the functional requirements while performing service adaptation process, but most of them did not take user's non-functional requirements (NFRs) into consideration. This paper describes our review from recent researches on dynamic adaptation in context aware systems.


Service sector companies frequently use products or services of external suppliers to provide their own products or services. Tour operators, for example, are frequently subcontracting catering, cleaning, room management, and technical services. Especially when a companies' service involves face-to-face interaction between customer and employees of external organizations, the effective management of all human resources involved in the service delivery process across organizational boundaries may have a crucial influence on the quality of the service and ultimately customer satisfaction. The analysis and discussion of this phenomenon, especially with respect to the management of the human resources and employment relations involved, is still in its early stages. The issues of vertical integration and vertical boundaries have featured prominently in the strategic management literature, but the topic of managing human resources across organizational boundaries has only recently attracted the attention of academic research (Baron/Kreps 1999, Ashkenas et al. 2002, and the contributions in Marchington et al. 2005). This explorative case study investigates organizational structures and human resource management and employment relations practices of Lummerland Express Tours (LET Co), a tour operator specialized in train tours, and the multinational value network of organizations involved in the production and delivery of LET Co's services. The first part of the paper introduces the core concepts related to the issue of fragmented work across organizational boundaries. The second part introduces the research methodology and the case study value network. The third part describes and discusses the employment policies and practices involved in the service delivery process. The final section of the paper discusses the human resource management and labor relations implications that arise from such complex organizational forms.


Abstract : This thesis describes the different methods used to teach leadership to cadets at the United States Military Academy and midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. Based on historical information and interviews with cadets and midshipmen, and the faculty and administrators at each institution, this thesis explains how the respective philosophies have developed and influenced the current approach to leadership development, how the effectiveness of the leadership curriculum is measured, and discusses the future development of the leadership programs. Finally, this thesis provides recommendations to enhance the leadership development programs at each academy.


This article reviews the pioneering work in biblical exegesis of the Form Criticism School in the early part of this century. It is suggested that the generic structures identified by this 'school' implied a line of thought that went beyond traditional 'literary criticism' to an approach that has more in common with social theories of language as proposed by Kress, Threadgold, Fairclough, Halliday, Martin and others. There was a focus on texts as dynamic processes, reflecting the life of the community and a concern with the 'conventional', the typical rather than the individual and this was based on an understanding of the various genres that emerge from society as reflecting not just the prevailing ideology of the community, but also the changing ideologies.


Pierre Janet (1859–1947) was professor of philosophy at the College de France but also, as a doctor, the director of Charcot's laboratory at the Salpetriere hospital. His book is of interest, not o...


Ten different fly ashes from various locations in India were mixed with OPC to produce mortars at three different water to cement ratios. All cements and fly ashes were characterised and strengths of mortars were measured at various ages. A model of the development of strength of the mortars on the basis of the physical and chemical properties of fly ashes and cements was developed. The coefficients in the model were fit using one of the fly ashes and were used to predict the strengths for the other nine fly ashes. It was found that the model was able to make good predictions of the strengths of mortars at all ages.


FIELD: electricity. SUBSTANCE: invention includes power accumulating device (150) identified as object for power supply, and secondary self-resonating coil (110) receiving electric power that should be supplied to the said load from external primary self-resonating coil (240). The secondary self-resonating coil (110) is capable of switching between the first condition and second condition. The first condition is selected in power receiving mode, in which the secondary self-resonating coil has magnetic link with primary self-resonating coil (240) by way of magnetic field resonance. The second condition is selected in power receiving stop mode, in which magnetic link of the secondary self-resonating coil with primary self-resonating coil by way of resonance is weaker than in the first condition. EFFECT: possibility to stop power receiving. 15 cl, 12 dwg