Based on fatigue test of the reinforced concrete beams strengthened with aramid fiber reinforced plastics(AFRP),this paper anaiyzed the strain cycling regularity of concrete and steel,concluded the relation between the rigidity reduction of the strengthened beams and cycling number and proved the reliability of AFRP used for strengthening the structures under the fatigue loads.


Increasingly complex load requirements of electric vehicles (EV) can be fundamentally divided into propulsion and non-propulsion loads. Further segregation of the non-propulsion loads into multi-priority, multi-time constant electrical burdens presents a compelling case for a real world negotiation environment in which the negotiation issues are meeting the power requirements under constrained power resources. This paper discusses the formulation of a negotiation framework, in which agents can learn and adapt when making deals on behalf of classified EV loads to meet their power requirements. The agents can use genetic algorithms to maximize the payoff in a highly dynamic negotiation environment according to certain attributes. Simulation results are presented to show that the proposed scheme offers a promising framework towards ongoing investigations into intelligent agent-based vehicular power and energy management schemes.


In this paper, we mainly investigate the tridimensional incompressible axisymmetric Euler equations without swirl in the whole space. Specifically, we prove the global existence of weak solutions if the swirl component of initial vorticity $w_0^\theta$ satisfies that $\frac{w_0^\theta}r\in L^1\cap L^p({\Bbb R}^3)$ for some $p>1$. To achieve this goal, we establish the $L_{\rm loc}^{2+\alpha}({\Bbb R}^3)$ estimate of velocity fields for some $\alpha>0$, which is innovative to the best of our knowledge. Our result extends previous work in the literature.


【Objective】To overall find out the disease status and epidemic characteristic of mumps from 2005 to 2007 in Shunde District,and provide the scientific basis for future measures taken for the control and prevention of mumps.【Methods】Descriptive epidemiological analysis was conducted to analyze the data about epidemic status of mumps in the past three years in whole district.【Results】The number of cumulative cases about mumps were 3514 in the past three years in Shunde district without any death case,which was 60.99% of the total number of notifiable disease in class Ⅲ.The incidence rate of yearly average was 63.93/100,000,among which the highest was up to 119.16/100,000 in 2005,and the incidence rate tended to decrease year by year.The difference of incidence rate with different years had a statistical significance(P0.001).Each year there were cases in each town(street).The peak period was January and April-August,in which the number of cases were 61.41% of the total number of cases with mumps.The major mumps cases were students(42.74%),kids(32.41%),kids without permanent residence(8.51%) and workers(7.14%).The ages for disease were mainly between 3~15 years old(76.29%).The incidence rate for male was higher than the female(P0.01),and sex proportion was 1.83:1.After improvement of inoculation rate of MMR vaccine in 2006,the incidence rate of mumps apparently decreased in the whole district.【Conclusion】Enforcing the disease monitoring and improving vaccine coverage of susceptible population should be our emphasis for preventing and controlling mumps in Shunde district.


Mobility" is a term which newly acclaimed with the increased used on mobile devices. To support business application on remote places this proposed architecture helped by a mobile intelligent agent. By using mobile devices, buyers or sellers can create a mobile intelligent agent; the ability of mobile migration (mobility) on internet agents can do the business on behalf of buyers & seller. Mobile agents are beneficial to do the business anytime and anywhere. Searching for appropriate trader and negotiating with the trader is handled by mobile agent which reduce the time consuming task of the user. As we know that mobile devices owns the limited bandwidth connections with greater expenses. The proposed system architecture can address the problem of expensive connection with limited bandwidth. After launching mobile intelligent agent through network, seller/buyer can disconnect from mobile devices and later on can reconnect to devices for the results. For moving across the network; FIPA standardization provides flexibility & increase interoperability among other agent systems and scalability is provided by proposing system architecture. As per market survey; with compared to other mobile operating system, Android captured 80% market share worldwide for that reason the proposed system is designed for Android mobile devices. For delegating of human users (Buyers / Sellers) on the distributed system environment agents are created and by the migration process on the internet the agents can handle the shopping job on behalf of them and generate the results. The proposed system is demonstrated by C# (Server side) and Android application development tool (Client side). The proposed article helps to understand the proposed system architecture and operation of mobile agents in the system.


The results obtained allow us to conclude that vaccination of gilts with UNISTRAIN® PRRS ID using a Hipradermic® device enabled the gilts to clear the virus and reduced its vertical and horizontal transmission to piglets. UNISTRAIN® PRRS, when administered via the ID route, is a safe and useful tool to reduce the transmission of PRRS virus within and between pig populations. Furthermore, vaccination reduced vertical transmission in the piglets that died during the study (18.5% of dead piglets were positive for PRRSV in UNISTRAIN group vs 61.9% in the non-vaccinated group). Vaccination with UNISTRAIN® PRRS resulted in a statistical reduction in the nasal shedding period (0.9±2.5 days vs 22.3±13.0 days), decreasing the possibility of horizontal transmission during lactation.


In order to improve taro seedling-raising technique system and nurture healthy seedlings,we studied the effects of some key factors such as substrate composition,organic fertilizer addition ratio and nutritional bowl volume on the seedling growth and corm yield of taro. Three experiments were conducted in the native taro cultivar"Hongxiangyu",involving five substrate composition ratios,three organic fertilizer addition ratios and four nutrition bowl volumes. The seedling growth status and corm yield of taro after transplanting were investigated. The results indicated that the compound substrate( peat volume∶ vermiculite volume = 1 ∶ 1) presented the highest water-holding porosity ratio and the best water-holding capacity. Thus the taro seedling on this compound substrate had significantly higher plant height,plant dry weight and root activity than that on other substrates. The emergence speed of taro seedlings declined with the increase in organic fertilizer addition ratio. Adding 5%( v / v) of organic fertilizer into the compound substrate could enhance the root activity,total leaf area and biomass accumulation of taro seedlings. Along with the increase in nutrition bowl volume,the plant height,root activity,total leaf area and dry matter accumulation all increased. The transplanted taro seedlings with stronger growth vigor could be harvested higher corm yield. These results suggest that taro seedlings will present strong growth vigor and high corm yield after transplanting under the following cultivation conditions: compound substrate( peat∶ vermiculite = 1∶ 1),5 percent of organic fertilizer addition ratio,nutrition bowl volume 1500 cm3( diameter × height = 12 cm × 13 cm).


The Mpemba effect refers to the counterintuitive relaxation wherein a hotter system equilibrates faster than a cooler system when quenched to a cold temperature. Even though the effect has been illustrated for isotropically driven granular gases, a prototypical system far from equilibrium, its existence requires non-stationary initial states, limiting experimental realisation. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of the Mpemba effect in anisotropically driven granular gases, even when quenched from initial states that are stationary. Our theoretical predictions, based on kinetic theory, for the regular, inverse and strong Mpemba effects agree well with results of event-driven molecular dynamics simulations of hard discs.


Environment design contains a rich content.It can be divided into indoor environment design and outdoor environment design according to the environment it concerns.At present,flower area design is mainly used outdoors.With the development of economy,science and technology,and in the trend of outdoor environment coming indoors,we should break restrictions and bring the flower area design with natural and original sense into the indoor environment.We can improve and develop it from both aspects of design demand and objective demand.


Virtual path provisioning has gained wide acceptance as an effective resource management technique for improving transmission efficiency in ATM network. A suggested control method provides fairness among the traffic and confirms the effectiveness for integrating of multimedia traffic [4] over ATM network. ATM is currently considered the primary WAN technology with internet protocols providing the routing and transport requirements. To fully understand the end to end quality of service as each layer [5], quality of service parameters [6] and the current research are surveyed. Further research on quality of service architecture performance methods for TCP enhancements internetworking functions, interoperability and standardization effort is included. The performance effort of TCP enhancements for UBR over ATM for large bandwidth delay environments with end system policies and drop policies and drop policies for several buffer sizes are presented. In this paper we summarize basic issues underlying this subject and describe a particular approach to achieving a multilayer broadband congestion, flow control and error control architecture based on a core congestion and control strategy that we term bandwidth management.


Maternity - Supporting women in their Next Birth After Caesarean section (NBAC) , This Guideline provides direction to NSW maternity services to support staff in providing consistent evidence-based information to support women making an informed choice about their next birth after a caesarean section (NBAC).


This paper explores American racism in 19th century by analyzing ethnic narrative ethics of novel,and Mark Twain's ethics on Native American Indians and Chinese,pointing out Native American Indians and Chinese experienced extremely racial discrimination in 19th century. Mark Twain has deeply embedded racist ideas on Native American Indians. Though he shows the sympathy and admiration for the Chinese,he creates negative images of Chinese from his own racial superiority perspective.


The invention provides a low-temperature radiation air-conditioning module wall based on a capillary network structure. The low-temperature radiation air-conditioning module wall comprises an organic glass veneer, a connecting supporting column, a PE-RT (Polyethylene of Raised Temperature Resistance) tube, a welding steel wire mesh, an aluminum foil reflecting film, a heat preserving layer, a structural layer and a mounting bracket, wherein a plurality of ports are formed in the organic glass veneer; a space of which the thickness is 1-3mm is supported for the organic glass veneer by the connecting supporting column; the PE-RT tube is arranged in the space; an in-line type PE-RT tube is adopted as the PE-RT tube; a heating medium circulates in the PE-RT tube and supplies kinetic energy by virtue of circulating equipment; the aluminum foil reflecting film is arranged under the welding steel wire mesh and cooperates with the heat preserving layer to control the radiation direction of the PE-RT tube to be a single direction. The module wall is higher in thermal conversion rate and high in indoor thermal comfort, can be tightly combined with a building wall without the occupation of an indoor space, meets requirements of a building modular system and can be prefabricated, and an indoor warming effect is controlled by increasing or decreasing the quantity according to actual requirements.


The present study investigates the effect of two anti-oxidant supplements including vitamin E and Q10 coenzyme on
 the maximum strength, flexibility and power of Karateka girls. 36 karate player girls between 15 to 17 years old
 from the statistical population (N=275) have voluntarily enrolled in the present study and were randomly placed
 into 3 groups (vitamin E supplement group, Q10 coenzyme supplement and control group). The experimental groups
 of 12 subjects: experimental group1 consumed vitamin E supplement (400 IU daily) and experimental group 2
 consumed Q10 supplement coenzyme (100 mg daily) for 14 consecutive days with dinner while the control group
 consumed no supplementary or placebo. The tests related to maximum strength, flexibility and power were hold
 before and after consuming supplement. Data were analyzed by the use of one-way ANOVA for measuring the
 difference between groups and Tukey follow up test for determining the difference between groups at significant
 level of α ≤ 0.05. The findings indicated that no significant difference was seen in maximum strength of muscles of
 back and lower body, flexibility, peak power and average power in all three groups, but just the maximum strength
 of lower body muscles significantly increased after consumption in two supplementary group rather than control
 group (p ≤ 0.05). It can be concluded that 14 days of consumption vitamin E supplement and Q10 coenzyme can be
 effective on the maximum strength of lower body muscles in female karateka.


A near field artifact often leads to poor demonstration of superficial structures. Over the past several months we have evaluated a new standoff product, Kitecko'" Ultrasound Standoff Pads (


The articles is devoted the problem of professional identity crisis faced by the students of psychological bachelorship. The empirical research results in professional identity crisis typology.


Purpose: To evaluate the stereoscopic acuity in patients with unilateral or bilateral visual field defects. Methods: Stereoscopic acuity was measured using the Titmus stereo test for 36 subjects with visual field defects (VFD). VFD was assessed by sum of MD (mean deviation, MDsum) and PSD (pattern standard deviation, PSDsum) of both eyes in Humphrey visual field test and presence of central VFD (within 30° isopter) in Goldman visual field test. 25 glaucoma subjects and 11 optic neuritis subjects were included. Patients with strabismus or ocular motility disorders which could affect stereoscopic acuity were excluded. Results: The mean of MDsum was -20.10 ± 12.31 dB (-45.13~-10.64 dB) and PSDsum was 13.10 ± 8.76 dB (9.62-25.47 dB). The mean stereoscopic acuity was 710 ± 922 arc sec (40-3000 arc sec) with Titmus stereo test. The associations between stereoscopic acuity and PSDsum (r = 0.400, p = 0.016), presence of central VFD within 30 degrees (r = 0.428, p = 0.03) were statistically significant. There was positive trend between stereoscopic acuity and duration of VFD, but with no statistical significance. Conclusions: Decreased stereoscopic acuity was associated with PSDsum and VFD in the central 30 degrees. We should consider this decrease of stereoscopic acuity as well when evaluating visual function of the patients with VFD. J Korean Ophthalmol Soc 2014;55(5):734-739


Previous research demonstrated a contradiction effect: although text currently being processed was locally coherent, readers were aware of inconsistencies between a protagonist's actions and characteristics of the protagonists that were described earlier in the text and subsequently backgrounded. In the present experiments, not only the critical characteristics but also the protagonist were backgrounded. When the protagonist was reintroduced into the narrative in the context of carrying out an inconsistent action, the contradiction effect again occurred. In experiments 1-3, we examined the effects of several variables on the onset of the effect. In Experiment 4, we presented probes at various points in the passage with results tha supported he conclusion that the critical characteristics had been backgrounded before the sentence that contradicted them


A critical problem to gather data in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is energy hole. Sensor nodes transmit their data towards the static sink in a multi-hop manner. Sensor near the static sink contains all data of other sensors and its own data and thus it drains their energy very fast. So balancing energy throughout the network is important. Efficient utilization of energy is the main objective in WSN for maximization of a network's lifetime. For reducing the energy-hole problem in WSN a mobile sink approach is used. Mobility in WSN contains movement of the node around the network which consumes energy efficiently. However frequently changing the sink topology, determines the energy consumption. Moving the sink node is an effective solution for improving the lifetime of WSN. There are different methods in the literature schedule sink movements and determine sink stay points. Here the mobility of sink node can be considered based on distance of the Cluster Head (CH). Here mobile sink node checks the distance from the all CHs and moves the mobile sink to less distance CH. It also finds out the intersection points of two CHs. Depending on the intersection points mobile sink will move in between and collect data from the both CHs. Hence using this approach mobility will reduce and efficiently consumes more energy in network.


The progress of our culture influences the systems that control our knowledge's, skills and behaviour. Our educational system has been influenced by this rapid change, and technology, is more and more used in learning systems. Our interest is particularly focused in e-assessment. It is the most fundamental operation of teaching and training in e-learning. It aims to increase the quality of education and teaching and seeks to heal problems and to determine until which it would be possible to carry out the objectives recommended by the process of teaching and the training. In this paper, we define a fundamental model of e-assessment in e-learning based on the analysis of the needs of learners and teachers using UML activity diagram. Therefore, we describe an innovative approach to specify a personalized e-assessment system using workflow. It aims to create an adapted workflow pattern for individual learner.


ABSTRACT A real-time PCR assay with the ability to rapidly identify all pathogenic bacteria would have widespread medical utility. Current real-time PCR technologies cannot accomplish this task due to severe limitations in multiplexing ability. To this end, we developed a new assay system which supports very high degrees of multiplexing. We developed a new class of mismatch-tolerant "sloppy" molecular beacons, modified them to provide an extended hybridization range, and developed a multiprobe, multimelting temperature (Tm) signature approach to bacterial species identification. Sloppy molecular beacons were exceptionally versatile, and they were able to generate specific Tm values for DNA sequences that differed by as little as one nucleotide to as many as 23 polymorphisms. Combining the Tm values generated by several probe-target hybrids resulted in Tm signatures that served as highly accurate sequence identifiers. Using this method, PCR assays with as few as six sloppy molecular beacons targeting bacterial 16S rRNA gene segments could reproducibly classify 119 different sequence types of pathogenic and commensal bacteria, representing 64 genera, into 111 Tm signature types. Blinded studies using the assay to identify the bacteria present in 270 patient-derived clinical cultures including 106 patient blood cultures showed a 95 to 97% concordance with conventional methods. Importantly, no bacteria were misidentified; rather, the few species that could not be identified were classified as "indeterminate," resulting in an assay specificity of 100%. This approach enables highly multiplexed target detection using a simple PCR format that can transform infectious disease diagnostics and improve patient outcomes.


The Internet provides scholars with an ever-expanding variety of ways to interact with the public. Crowdsourcing, or putting one's research tasks online and asking for help from volunteers, is perhaps one of the most rewarding things an academic can do. The assistance one gets is not only free labor, but it is also reassurance that others are interested in the things that we find fascinating. Crowdsourcing, as I learned from the Ukraine Folklore Audio project, also provides researchers with valuable information about the public. When I first developed the idea for this project, my goal was to have prospective users help me select which of the many types of folklore materials that I had recorded during my fieldwork in Ukraine should be processed for non-academic consumption. By choosing to transcribe and translate one type of audio file as opposed to another, the volunteers would reveal their interests while simultaneously doing some of the work needed for the publication of the texts. As my team and I worked with our contributors, we discovered that our site could also be used to glean information about the dynamics of heritage and ethnicity. Our volunteers came largely from the Ukrainian Diaspora, so we were crowdsourcing the audio files to a limited demographic rather than the public at large. We discovered that we could "experiment" with this group by adding select content to our site and watching volunteer reactions. Some of our results confirmed findings in other heritage situations while others were specific to Ukrainian culture and influenced by Ukraine's political history. The understanding of the Diaspora that we gained through work on this site could not have been possible through other means. Ukrainian Folklore Audio (http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/folkaudio/)is a site where the public can listen to songs, stories, and beliefs recorded in Ukraine and among the Ukrainian Diaspora of Kazakhstan. Volunteers who wish to transcribe the recordings or translate them can "check out" the item that interests them and work on it. All completed transcriptions and translations are available for public use. Thus, when an item has been completely processed, the user can listen to a recording, see it written out in Ukrainian, and also view the parallel English translation. Anyone can use the site passively but, to avoid frivolous posts, we have required people submitting transcriptions and translations to register. Because of the registration requirement, we consider our site a modification of crowdsourcing and call what we do "groupsourcing." The registration requirement also helps with quality control. Submissions made by a volunteer are visible only to that volunteer and to the person monitoring the site (usually me) and are posted for general viewing only after they have been checked for accuracy.


An operational amplifier (OPAMP) for portable devices with dual supply voltage is presented in this work. The design is realized with a 600[Formula: see text]mV supply for the core design and a 1.8[Formula: see text]V supply for the biasing circuit to improve input common mode range (ICMR), gain, and common mode rejection ratio (CMRR). The designed amplifier is implemented with dynamic threshold voltage MOSFET (DTMOS) transistors to decrease power consumption and increase the performance of the design. The power consumption of the core design is obtained as 2[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]W while the biasing circuitry consumes 7.38[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]W. The application of different supply voltages has greatly increased the gain of the circuit, where the circuit exhibits 100.2[Formula: see text]dB DC gain and 3.41[Formula: see text]MHz gain bandwidth product (GBW). CMRR of the designed circuit is 84.22[Formula: see text]dB. The simulations are performed in Cadence environment with 0.18[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m CMOS technology.


goat of a King's and a Queen's Chamber (Stockwell ; zs. 6d. net), informs us that Israel means ' seed of God,' Elijah I am,' and Elisha Woman of God' (from El, God, and Isha, ~uoman) ! vtti'~t~ from ~t4 and i1~N. So much for E.L.I.O.'s philology. The exegesis and theology are on the same level. Job 19 is ' a true prophetical description of suffering of Jesus and Jerusalem,' and the four Beasts of Daniel are not kings or nations but Wars (!)-the first Beast being the Spanish Armada (was this a war ?). This will perhaps be enough to indicate the quality of the book.


APB Opinion No. 18, on reporting interests in joint ventures, is frequently criticized and seldom defended. But are the current rules really "broken?"


The weight has a loop attachment (1) that is detachably fastened to a weight body (9) for fixation at a fishing line. The attachment has a loop for the fishing line, and a fastening body that is connected with the body (9). The fastening body extends into a recess of the body (9) and is supported in a wall of the recess of the body (9). The body (9) has several plate-shaped or tube-shaped individual weights.


Recovering residual oil reserves and reducing the level of water cut in produced wells at minimal cost are urgent tasks for mature fields. In such conditions, the use of tertiary methods of reservoir stimulation is relevant, among which a significant share is occupied by chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery. The principle of using flow diverting technologies is to supply small rims of chemical reagents to the reservoir through the reservoir pressure maintenance system, aimed at reducing the permeability of water-flushed zones by installing a waterinsulating barrier in them and redirecting water filtration flows to reservoir zones that were not previously covered by flooding.
In this paper, we consider the possibility of using the technology of water-swellable preformed particle polymer systems as flow-diverting reagents to increase oil recovery from reservoirs with complicated geological and physical conditions that limit the use of many reagents used in EOR.
On the example of a reagent sample, which is a pre-crosslinked acrylamide polymer, which contains particles of clay powder (up to 40% wt.), The paper shows the results of laboratory study and experience in applying the technology based on the preformed particle polymer systems at one of the objects of the Ural-Volga region, the reservoirs of which are presented carbonate rocks. The filtration experiment showed that the injection of the preformed particle polymer systems leads to a significant redistribution of fluid flows from a more highly permeable model to a less permeable one. As a result of the research, the main features of the applicability of technology based on the preformed particle polymer systems have been identified. The analysis of the conducted field work was carried out by determining the change in the injectivity profile of the treated injection wells and estimating the additionally produced oil from the reacting production wells. Based on the results of the analysis, additional laboratory studies were carried out, on the basis of which ways were proposed to increase the efficiency of injection well treatments with preformed particle polymer systems.


Purpose: The aim of this research was to examine the use of data island method for creating metadata records based on DCXML, MARCXML, and MARC21with indexability and visibility of element tag names in the Web search engines environment.
Methodology: 600 metadata records were developed in two groups (300 XML-based records as the control group with the normal structure, and 300 HTML-based records in an experimental group with special structure embedded in the tag of HTML based on the data island strategy). These records were analyzed through an experimental approach. The records of these two groups were published on two independent websites and were introduced to Google and Yahoo! search engines for indexing.
Findings: Findings show that all the element tag names of the metadata records created based on the data island method relating to the experimental group indexed by Google and Yahoo! were visible in the search results. But the element tag names in the control group's metadata records were not indexed by the search engines. Based on this study, it is possible to retrieve the metadata records by their element tag name in search engines. But the records of the control group are accessible by the element values only. The research suggests some patterns to metadata creators and end users.


We address the problem of distributed convex unconstrained optimization over networks characterized by asynchronous and possibly lossy communications. We analyze the case where the global cost function is the sum of locally coupled local strictly convex cost functions. As discussed in detail in a motivating example, this class of optimization objectives is, for example, typical in localization problems and in partition-based state estimation. Inspired by a generalized gradient descent strategy, namely the block Jacobi iteration, we propose a novel solution which is amenable for a distributed implementation and which, under a suitable condition on the step size, is provably locally resilient to communication failures. The theoretical analysis relies on the separation of time scales and Lyapunov theory. In addition, to show the flexibility of the proposed algorithm, we derive a resilient gradient descent iteration and a resilient generalized gradient for quadratic programming as two natural particularizations of our strategy. In this second case, global robustness is provided. Finally, the proposed algorithm is numerically tested on the IEEE 123 nodes distribution feeder in the context of partition-based smart grid robust state estimation in the presence of measurements outliers.


Abstract. An optical calibration system for refractometers was designed and built using a singlet lens and a translatable detector that induces spherical error, making it a simple and easy-to-use system. The system was calibrated using spectacles and then validated by correcting blurred images created by a series of ophthalmic test lenses. A linear regression model of the correction of the ophthalmic test lenses showed nearly direct correlation with an offset of 0.12 D and an R2 value of 0.9998. An updated version of the system was designed in Zemax OpticStudio with a singlet lens, which could induce spherical error accurate to that of the human eye within   ≤  0.05  D. In future work, this system will be manufactured and tested in the lab.


Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study without a control group. The study population included all children aged 5 to 12 years old affected with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders in Tehran, Iran who were referred to psychiatric clinics and given the diagnosis. The sample included 12 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who were selected based on their availability (non-random sampling). They received 30 sessions of neurofeedback treatment, 2 times per week. Before and after neurofeedback training, the children were evaluated and compared with the use of cognitive assessment system test. Data were analyzed using dependent T-test.


The isobaric heat capacities of novel nano-sized cobalt-cuprate-manganite of lanthanum and barium LaBaCoCuMnO6 and nickel-cuprate-manganite of lanthanum and barium LaBaNiCuMnO6 were investigated by dynamic calorimetry over the temperature range of 298.15‒673 K. It is found that a λ-shaped effect is observed on the curve of the heat capacity dependence on temperature of LaBaCoCuMnO6 at 523 K, while LaBaNiCuMnO6 also has a similar effect at 473 K. Equations for the temperature dependence of the heat capacity of cobalt(nickelite)-cuprate-manganite of lanthanum and barium are derived with allowance for the temperatures of phase transitions. Based on the experimental data, the fundamental constants ‒ the standard heat capacities of the compounds under study were found. Irrespective of the experimental data, we also calculated the standard heat capacities of the mentioned compounds using the Debye theory using the characteristic temperatures of the elements, their melting points, the Koref and Nernst-Lindemann equations. The obtained calculated data on C0p (298.15) of the compounds were in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data on the standard heat capacity. The standard entropies of LaBaCoCuMnO6 and LaBaNiCuMnO6 were calculated by the ion increment method. We calculated the temperature dependences of the enthalpy Ho(T)- Ho(298.15), entropy ΔSo(T), and the reduced thermodynamic potential ΔФ**(Т).


The memory block 5 the memory plane (4) comprising multiple arrays to the one or comprising a plurality, it decodes a block address signal for selecting the memory block (5) from the memory plane (4) separately a memory block in addition, and it outputs a block selection signal (BSEL0~3) for selecting off, in the predetermined test mode, the signal of the block decoder circuit to be output to the block selection signals in a selected state in all, block selection signal (BSELO~3) a level and a block selection signal inversion circuit for inverting or non-inverting.


It is accepted that digital models simplify the physical reality that is the object of the modeling. Hydrodynamic modeling is an approach with high uncertainties in this context. Indeed, the deterministic modeling approach assumes the existence of a functional relationship between the observed variables. The variables are observed by a series of measurements riddled with errors. Because of this, there is always a significant amount of uncertainty associated with a hydrogeological model. This uncertainty can be associated with the conceptual model or with the data and parameters associated with the different components of the model. Some model parameters such as hydraulic conductivity and recharge are particularly susceptible to uncertainty. Stochastic modeling of the hydrodynamics of a groundwater reservoir is an adequate response to allow us to take a step back on the significance of the results. The study is based on the development of a direct problem-solving model which represents the best estimate of the real hydrodynamic system. This model is used to make predictions. With a stochastic approach, a set of models is constructed where each model, as a whole, is considered to be equally likely. Each model is then used to make the prediction or simulate a given scenario. The MODFLOW-STOCHASTIC-GMS code allows us to do randomization simulations (Latin Hypercube method) and with parameter indicators.


In order to determine the movement trajectory and characteristics of puncture needle in tissue, a series of puncture is selected for the puncture of PVA prosthesis. The image captured by CCD camera is preprocessed, and the starting coordinate point and target in the image are extracted. A fitting model based on least squares method is proposed to fit the radius of puncture needle. Comparing the simulation trajectory of forward kinematics and experimental trajectory, the experimental results show that the fitting model has a high success rate over 93% in the trajectory radius of the prosthesis puncture needle, and has a high success rate, stability and accuracy. It has a certain reference significance for the future path planning and guidance process.


Dynamical Faraday rotation measurements with pulsed magnetic fields up to ~16 T have been carried out to investigate magnetic interactions between Tb3+ ions in highly Tb2O3-concentrated borate glasses (25-40mol%). These glasses were completely paramagnetic around room temperature, while a cooling down below 100 K began to produce antiferro-couplings of magnetic moments (J = 6) of Tb3+ ions in local areas of the glasses due to the superexchange interactions via oxygen atoms. The modification of the magnetic structure by doping with divalent manganese ions increased the magnetic correlation temperature. It will be also given that a novel glass matrix of 5B2O3-3Ga2O3-3SiO2-P2O5 has been developed in order to increase Tb2O3 content up to 40 mol.% in glasses.


In order to provide a method with a simple control system for controlling the compressibility of a circulating molding sand, the invention proposes that the molding sand is divided into several batches and the preparation parameters, such. B. amount of water to be added, Neosandmenge and / or amount of sludge, based on the measured at the previous batch after processing difference between actual compressibility and target compressibility of the molding sand to be corrected.


A micromechanical model based on the theory of elasticity has been developed to study the configuration of self-assembled secondary phase oxide nanostructures in high-temperature superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ films. With the calculated equilibrium strain and elastic energy of the impurity doped film, a phase diagram of lattice mismatches vs. elastic constants of the dopant was obtained that predicts the energetically preferred orientation of secondary phase nanorods. The calculation of the nanorod orientation and the film lattice deformation has yielded excellent agreement with experimental measurements.


A firm seeking a business partner, or an individual searching for a life partner, can use an online matching platform not only to efficiently search for available candidates, but also to address two related challenges. First, a match-seeker may not know what candidates would be compatible with them. And second, particularly in the online setting, candidates may misrepresent their credentials. In this paper, we model and analyze whether an online matching platform's decisions should enhance search with a positioning capability that helps match-seekers determine the subjective compatibility of potential matches (horizontal differentiation), and also whether it should offer an authentication service that enables match-seekers to reliably signal their objective quality (vertical differentiation). We analyze the equilibrium behavior of match-seekers in the presence of uncertainty about both compatibility and quality of potential matches, and show how this behavior impacts the optimal strategy of the platform with respect to positioning and authentication. For instance, positioning and authentication reinforce each other (act as complements) for some levels of market quality and the platform's positioning capability, while they detract from each other (act as substitutes) in others. These results also help us develop guidelines for the platform's pricing decisions. Our findings provide valuable practical insights for owners and operators of match-making platforms, by helping them understand the interplay between these two important and orthogonal features in online matching. .


Emerging 3G services necessitate the convergence of information processing, multimedia content, communication and networking technologies and infrastructure. The introduction of 3G services and networks introduces newer levels of technical complexity coupled with the need for cost-effective services. The NGOSS programme is a TM Forum initiative to deliver frameworks that guide development, deployment and application of Operations and Business Support Systems in the telecommunications industry. This White Paper is aimed to present how NGOSS work has been reified in AlbatrOSS 3G environment, and how the principles defined by the NGOSS program have been fulfilled within AlbatrOSS.


Technological advances resulting in reduced size of nonacoustic devices and professional concern about cochlear implants in young deaf children appear to be two prime factors stimulating increased interest in the application of tactile devices for teaching oral language. As cost is reduced and wearability improved, parents and school systems will be able to afford nonacoustic instruments. Teachers and clinicians will be expected to determine the most appropriate device to use in the clinic, the classroom, and the home. This comprehensive bibliography on tactile aids was prepared to serve as a resource guide for teachers and clinicians who must make informed decisions about the relative benefits of tactile aids for hearing-impaired individuals.


Research has shown that physically distinct impurities in shredded ferrous scrap can be removed, and that metallic values can be recovered from the removed impurities. Although the closing of the U.S. Bureau of Mines terminated this research, it should be continued by others. Areas for continued research consideration could include further scrap testing to optimize process parameters, among others.


Egeria densa is a South American aquatic plant species considered highly invasive outside of its original range, especially in temperate and warm climates and artificially heated waters in colder regions. We report the first occurrence and the spread of E. densa in Southeast Europe, along with physicochemical and phytosociological characteristics of its habitats. Flowering male populations were observed and monitored in limnocrene springs and rivers in the Mediterranean part of Croatia from 2013 to 2017. The populations inhabited clear, slow flowing, oligohaline water with high alkalinity and conductivity. Over the course of our research, the species displayed its invasive potential forming monospecific stands and surpassing the native flora in particular localities, while being obviously codominant with indigenous species in others. Although we cannot specify the exact path of introduction, we presume two possible scenarios: release from aquaria or epizoochory through water birds. The current situation in SE Europe, including Croatia, seems satisfactory regarding the number of aquatic alien species; nevertheless a careful and systematic approach to research into the management of invasive alien species is needed.


The sizes of spray droplets delivered by 3 different nozzles on 2 types of orchard air sprayers were measured. All spray droplet distributions contained a wide range of droplet sizes and fit the log normal upper limit distribution fairly well. At all distances from the nozzles, all nozzles delivered the greatest proportion of droplets in either the smallest (7.5-22.5 µm) or next to the smallest (22.5-37.5 µm) size classes. Spray droplet distributions which passed through foliage contained a greater proportion of small droplets than those which did not pass through foliage.


OBJECTIVE To prepare tashinone ⅡA solid lipid nanoparticles(TA-SLN) and investigate its properties and the absorption character in rat intestine in situ. METHODS Solvent emulsification/ evaporation method was used to prepare tashinone ⅡA solid lipid nanoparticles. Its morphology was examined by transmission electron microscope. A HPLC method for the determination of tashinone ⅡA in the nanoparticles and intestinal flux was established. RESULTS The mean diameter of TA-SLN was 119.7 nm .The Zeta potential were 31.6mV.The drug loading and entrapment efficiency were 3.8% and 87.7% respectively.The result of TA-SLN absorption in small intestinal indicated that Ka was decreased and the absorption t1/2 increased gradually with the increase of dosage. The rat small intestinal absorption of TA-SLN was better than that of tashinone ⅡA solution. CONCLUSION TA-SLN can improve the absorption of tashinone ⅡA in rat small intestine. The transport mechanism may be active transport or facilitated diffusion.


Since the initiation of the policy of reform and opening up,thanks to one-sideness of the banking operation, the characteristics of the private economy itself and the relative backwardness of the development of the non-state-owned financial institutions, the exterior financing of the private economy does not match the development of the private economy and its contributions to the national economy, the difficulty of the private economy in financing no only constitute the restriction to the development of the private economy itself, but also weakens its supporting force in the development of the national economy. Therefore, the measures, such as further opening the capital market,strengthening the policy guidance to the financinig of the private economy and developing the non-state-owned financial institutes, should be taken, to achieve the aim of heightening the financial support forprivate economy.


Using a series of equations connecting experimental and theoretical values, it is possible to discuss the origin of the N-methylation effect in azoles dissolved in water and dimethyl sulphoxide. The existence in the azoles studied of a linear relationship between the gas → solution transfer enthalpies and the charge on the pyrrole hydrogen atom demonstrated the fundamental importance of the loss of an active centre for solvation. For the imidazole–N-methylimidazole pair, the complete thermochemical cycle has been determined, allowing the apparent lack of an effect of N-methylation on the basicity in solution to be discussed.


With the increasing degree of information integration between new generation information technology and management applications, overall energy services are ushering in a period of opportunity for very fast development. Combining the actual needs of energy system operation and control, in the Beijing Speed Skating Stadium scenario, the interaction and visualization design of the energy management control system is carried out. We will further analyze and design the core functions of the energy control system for the Beijing Speed Skating Stadium. The system platform is built to make the system more intelligent, more powerful, more efficient and flexible in operation, and more convenient for users to interact and use. By building an energy control system, we can realize energy detailed management, improve comprehensive energy utilization level and reduce energy consumption effectively.


The stock abundance of the chub mackerel Scomber japonicus -- a very important species for fisheries, particularly in Japan -- in the Pacific Ocean off Japan has remained at a low level. For studying the population genetics of the chub mackerel, we isolated nine polymorphic microsatellite loci (12-31 alleles/locus; expected heterozygosity, 0.762-0.983) from this species. Cross-species amplification indicated that eight of the nine microsatellite loci in the blue mackerel S. australasicus were polymorphic and functional.


Many processes in the chemical industry have modest nonlinearities; i.e., linear dynamics play a dominant role in governing the process output behavior in the operating range of interest, but the linearization errors may be significant. For these types of processes, linear-based control may yield a poor performance, while nonlinear-based control results in computation complexity. We propose to model this type of process with a composite model consisting of a linear model (LM) and a multilayered feedforward neural network (MFNN). The LM is used to capture the linear dynamics, while the MFNN is employed to predict the LM's residual errors, i.e., the process nonlinearities. Effective off-line and on-line algorithms are proposed for the identification of the composite model. With this model structure, it is shown that a simple analytical predictive control law can be formulated to control a nonlinear process. Simulation examples are also given to illustrate the effectiveness of the model identification and th...


In this paper,the authors present a multilayer feedforward neural network(MFNN) based approach to vehicle license plate extraction.This approach adapts to both color and gray image for the reason that it is a kind of texture-based image segmentation method.Experimental results show that vehicle license plate can be extracted from image correctly using the proposed algorithm.


Abstract In magnetron sputtering systems, lead-zirconium-titanium oxide (PbZr1−xTixO3 or PZT) thin films were prepared in a mixture atmosphere of Ar and O2 with various oxygen partial pressures (0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2% oxygen). About 600 nm PZT ferroelectric thin films were deposited on substrates, and then annealed at 600°C for 35 s. The structural, electrical and ferroelectric properties of PZT films were studied. As the oxygen partial pressure increased, the remanent polarisation rose first and went down later, and the leakage current density decreased first and then increased. At the oxygen partial pressure of 0.5%, we obtained the largest remanent polarisation and the minimum leakage current density. The XRD diffraction spectrum of all films displayed predominant (111) preferred orientation, and there was a weak XRD diffraction peak of pyrochlore phase in the PZT films deposited in pure Ar.


As trains are getting faster rapidly, it is necessary to adjust RC railroad viaducts and their components for coping with structure noise. In this study, the authors conducted a train running test to grasp the vibration characteristics of the slabs of actual RC beam viaducts and RC rigid frame viaducts, in order to clarify the vibration characteristics of the components of RC railroad viaducts, which are necessary for evaluating and predicting structure noise. Then, it was found empirically that an RC beam viaduct has a vibration mode of the intermediate slab around 130Hz, and this mode becomes remarkable when a train passes. It was also revealed that in the case of an RC rigid frame viaduct, several vibration modes of the intermediate slab are excited in the frequency range over 50Hz and the second-order mode of the middle slab becomes significant around 60Hz


BACKGROUND

Monitoring blood glucose is an important part of integral management of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients with diabetes. Nowadays, several systems of glucometers are commercially available, and practically all are based on 3 enzymatic reactions. The two systems used most often are glucose oxidase (GOD) and glucose dehydrogenase using pyrroloquinolinequinone cofactor (GDH/PQQ). On the other hand, icodextrin (Extraneal) is an isosmotic PD solution containing glucose polymers. Accumulation in the systemic circulation of icodextrin metabolites may lead to a disparity between fi nger-stick and formal blood glucose measurement.

METHODS

We analyzed the possible interference of icodextrin metabolites with various glucose assays in 9 diabetic patients undergoing PD using icodextrin.

RESULTS

The simple regression test showed a good association between central laboratory values and the Ascensia Breeze II (Bayer) glucometer:GOD (r = 0.928; p < 0.0001), the One Touch Ultra (Johnson and Johnson): GOD (r = 0.911; p < 0.0002), and the Glucocard Memory 2 (Menarini):GOD (r = 0.966; p < 0.00001). Nevertheless, the Accu-chek Aviva (Roche):GDH/PQQ showed poor correlation (r = 0.353; p = 0.317) with the laboratory results. It has been suggested that maltose interferes with glucose assays that use glucose dehydrogenase with GDH/PQQ, leading to falsely increased readings. Our results confirmed that GDH/PQQ devices overestimated glucose levels in these patients

CONCLUSIONS

We concluded that patients with diabetes mellitus treated by icodextrin-PD are at risk of having erroneous blood glucose measurements using GDH/PQQ-based glucometers. Careful attention needs to be given to checking that the glucose devices used in these patients are based on GOD, GDH with a different PQQ cofactor, or hexokinase methods in order to minimize the risk of hypoglycemies due to an overdose of insulin.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between components of the psychological contract, organisational justice, and negative affectivity (NA), with key employee outcomes (i.e. organisational commitment, job satisfaction, depression, and psychological distress) among allied health professionals. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 134 (response rate of 46 per cent) Australian allied health professional completed a questionnaire. Findings – Multiple regressions revealed that higher NA was associated with lower organisational commitment, lower job satisfaction, and higher levels of depression. The psychological contract variable, breach, was associated with depression. Informational justice was associated with organisational commitment. Distributive justice was associated with job satisfaction. Research limitations/implications – This research is limited by its cross-sectional design and that the data were self-reported. The results obtained suggest the potential utility...


As every commercial banker, savings banker and credit union officer knows Basel III will be phased in over the 2015-2019 period. These regulations will affect not only Spanish banks but banks from over 100 countries worldwide -- in large part because of IMF and World Bank "conditionality" for loans. In this paper I briefly discuss the major features of the new Basel III accord. I will also discuss the two key factors that will have severe effects on future bank profitability, in particular, as I will argue in more detail later, they can be expected to radically reduce the ability of banks to leverage their equity and to engage in traditional forms of "financial intermediation," i.e., borrowing short-term and lending long term so as to earn a borrowing-lending spread. As I will argue in the next few years, bank ROE's can be expected to be reduced to the 8-10% range, a range common among "safe" public utilities such as gas and electric companies. Indeed, this raises the questions as to how will banks make a profit in the Basel III era?


Identification of missing genes or proteins participating in the metabolic pathways as enzymes are of great interest. One such class of pathway is involved in the eugenol to vanillin bioconversion. Our goal is to develop an integral approach for identifying the topology of a reference or known pathway in other organism. We successfully identify the missing enzymes and then reconstruct the vanillin biosynthetic pathway in Aspergillus niger. The procedure combines enzyme sequence similarity searched through BLAST homology search and orthologs detection through COG & KEGG databases. Conservation of protein domains and motifs was searched through CDD, PFAM & PROSITE databases. Predictions regarding how proteins act in pathway were validated experimentally and also compared with reported data. The bioconversion of vanillin was screened on UV-TLC plates and later confirmed through GC and GC-MS techniques. We applied a procedure for identifying missing enzymes on the basis of conserved functional motifs and later reconstruct the metabolic pathway in target organism. Using the vanillin biosynthetic pathway of Pseudomonas fluorescens as a case study, we indicate how this approach can be used to reconstruct the reference pathway in A. niger and later results were experimentally validated through chromatography and spectroscopy techniques. Background: The identification of metabolic pathway's genes and proteins is an emerging area of great interest. The accumulation of data from different origins and the development of methods to mine that data create an opportunity to bridge the gap between the fragmentary view of genes and proteins and the more integrated approach of Bioinformatics [1]. Moreover, increasing amounts of experimental data that can be mined for information about how proteins in cells assemble as metabolic and signal transduction pathways circuits are generated each day [2-6]. Datasets available for such tasks include the primary literature, whole genome two hybrid screenings, large scale microarray experiments, full genome sequences and the patterns of conserved/non-conserved homologues and orthologues in them. Theoretical and experimental methods are being developed and used to analyze these different types of data and infer networks of proteins or genes that are involved in the similar type biological processes [7]. In general, the networks derived by the computational analysis of these data are static, in the sense that they provide little information [8]. This can be an important problem while assembling the network structure of either novel pathways or complex pathways with an unclear reaction network. Thus, it is a challenge to identify the correct …


The properties of polydimethylsiloxane-polyvinyltrimethylsilane-polydimethylsiloxane ternary block copolymers with different concentrations of components are studied. Two temperature regions of dielectric losses are found near -120 and +200°C, which correspond to the T g s of the components. The concentration dependence of the maximum values of tanδ max corresponding to the α-relaxation process in PDMS is S-shaped. At concentrations W less than 0.2, PDMS forms a dispersed microphase; at W> 0.6, PVTMS forms a dispersed microphase. In the intermediate region 0.2< W< 0.6, both microphases form partially interpenetrating continuous structures


The literature on recovery of function contains arguments for and against the advantages for recovery when a cerebral lesion is sustained early in life. This paper evaluated the argument that it is prognostically more advantageous for a lesion incurred earlier than later in life by reviewing studies on recovery of function after brain damage. The empirical evidence showed that it is not necessarily better to have a brain injury earlier in life for the following reasons: First, recovery following an early lesion is not complete and only occurs under certain circumstances. In addition, a substantial price is paid for the recovery to occur under some circumstances. Second, some animal studies found that while behavioral deficits may not be apparent following brain damage during infancy, such deficits may develop and persist later in life. Third, cumulative evidence from research on the relationship between age of onset and brain damage suggests that plasticity in central nervous system are not always beneficial. Fourth, while the infant brain may have more capacity for recovery from neural trauma than the adult brain, the infant brain has been found to be more susceptible to a variety of pathological conditions than the adult brain.


The invention relates to an intelligent pre-installed transformer substation for rail transit. The transformer substation comprises a high-voltage ring main unit, a rectifier transformer, a rectifier cabinet, a direct-current distribution cabinet, a rail potential protecting cabinet, a current drainage cabinet, an alternating-current and direct-current screen and a communicating management machine. The alternating-current and direct-current screen provides a secondary control power source for the high-voltage ring main unit, the rectifier transformer, the rectifier cabinet, the direct-current distribution cabinet, the rail potential protecting cabinet and the current drainage cabinet. The communicating management machine manages and controls communication and remote control over the high-voltage ring main unit, the rectifier transformer, the rectifier cabinet, the direct-current distribution cabinet, the rail potential protecting cabinet, the current drainage cabinet and the alternating-current and direct-current screen. The standard functional modules are adopted and spliced through fixing modules to manufacture the modularized and standardized transformer substation, the fixed factory technology is used for replacing site installation, and the occurrence probability of mistakes is reduced; meanwhile, the quality can be supervised, checked and controlled easily; operation and maintenance personnel can master all transformer substations by being familiar with one transformer substation.


Large-Scale Data Acquisition Systems are an essential part in many scientific experiments, and the processing of the large amount of data, represents a challenge in designing systems capable of managing such volume of data. Owing to the nature of this type of experiments, the processes responsible for gathering the data from devices which measure real-world phenomena, and those processes in charge of distributing the data to monitoring and/or controlling systems, shall communicate with accuracy and reliability. By running those processes concurrently in a multi-processor computer system such requirements of accuracy and reliability can be achieved. In this paper, we present the design of a C++ framework which implements a ring-buffer by using shared-memory as a fast mechanism of data communication among processes. Likewise, the framework controls the access to data in the shared ringbuffer by implementing inter-process synchronization objects in shared-memory. The effectiveness of the proposed solution is evaluated by evaluating the latency time from when a new data is written into the shared ring-buffer and the longest instant when such a data is gathered. After the experimental test, the results show that it is possible to develop a C++ framework for helping programmers to create data acquisition system when a large-scale data-stream is involved, getting suitable performance by using shared-memory.


Although a comprehensive on-site gearbox inspection is desirable in many situations, there may be constraints that limit the extent of the inspection such as cost, time, accessibility and qualified personnel.


A two dimensional thermographic nondestructive testing (NDT) model of a polymeric composite sandwich panel containing a planar discontinuity within its core is presented and the model's surface temperature distributions in the discontinuity's thermographic transition zone are obtained via the finite element method. A characteristic length of the surface temperature transition zone is defined for discontinuities that can be modeled as semiinfinitely long. The effect on the characteristic length of varying the geometrical and thermal discontinuity parameters is investigated numerically. Thermographic NDT procedures are devised to characterize the geometrical and thermal parameters of the discontinuity.


Objective: To develop a new kind of software suitable for clinical use and to improve the accuracy and reliability in measuring and analyzing dental model. Methods: Use Visual Basic 6 0 and Auto CAD R 14 as main platforms. Results: The computer assistant software was built. Conclusion: The software was easy to be operated and analyzing result was accurate and reliable, which was of great value in clinical use.


Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) field enhancement effects of noble metallic nanoparticles can be exploited to enhance the performance of diverse luminescent materials and devices, in which the spectral proximity plays an important role in increasing near-field enhancement-induced excitation (NFEE) and surface plasmon-coupled emission (SPCE) efficiencies. In this work, we propose a scheme simultaneously utilizing the transversal and longitudinal SPR bands of elongated gold nanocrystals to match with the excitation and emission wavelengths of emitters, respectively, to achieve the most efficient enhancement. To demonstrate the idea, four types of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs, diameter = 20 nm), gold nanorods (AuNRs, length/width = 80/40 nm; 90/30 nm), and gold nano-bipyramids (AuNBPs, length/width = 80/40 nm) were employed as the plasmonic nanoantennas, according to spectral characteristics of the classic poly(2-methoxy-5-(2′-ethyl-hexoxy)-1,4-phenylene-vinylene) (MEH-PPV) chosen as the emitter. Due...


With the development of commercial fish farming in Kazakhstan the need for high-quality feed for fish has greatly increased. There has been carried out extensive monitoring of using unconventional raw materials in the production of feed for valuable fish species. Most promising sources of raw materials for valuable fish species are soy, pea isolates and concentrates, wheat and corn gluten, meal and cake (soy, flax, rapeseed). The physicochemical composition and nutritional value of the non-traditional, secondary raw materials and waste of processing industries were defined, the norms of their introduction into feed were determined, the methods of their processing were analyzed, the probiotic preparations used in the feed industry and their effect on the digestibility of nutrients were considered and proposed. Taking into account the physiological needs of fish, the formulations for domestic feeds for valuable fish species were developed using non-traditional raw materials and a probiotic preparation Biocons containing lactic acid bacteria. Experimental starter and production compound feeds for valuable fish species were produced at the plants
of the Republic of Kazakhstan using feed components of domestic production and non-traditional raw materials by extrusion. The probiotic preparation Biocons was added into the ready-made feed by spraying. The developed compound feeds for valuable fish species have passed a production test on the effectiveness of their use by fish in the fish farms of the Republic of Kazakhstan. AllerAgua compound feed was used as a control. The growth rate of larvae was estimated using the method of volumetric counting (weighing control and final samples), and the method of expert errors was used to assess the fish-breeding and biological parameters of fish. The experiments were carried out in duplicate, then all the data were processed according to the statistical processing according to G.F. Lakin. It has been stated that the feeds developed at the enterprises of the Republic of Kazakhstan are not inferior in quality to foreign ones, while their cost is much lower, which makes it possible to recommend them for use in aquaculture enterprises.


Introduction:
 Given the increasing age and comorbidity burden of HFrEF patients, there are questions regarding whether the net risk/benefit of guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) varies across the age spectrum. The aim of this study was to use Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure data linked with Medicare claims to determine whether the association between selected GDMT and outcomes in HFrEF varies across the age spectrum.

 Methods:
 We identified 48,711 eligible patients from 330 different centers admitted with HFrEF between 2008 and 2016 using GWTG-HF and Medicare. We created two cohorts: those prescribed evidence-based beta blockers (BB) and/or renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RASI) and those prescribed neither. We used overlap weighting to match the patient populations within age strata (65-74, 75-84 and 85+). We then used Cox proportional hazard models to determine the association between use at discharge and 30-day and 1-year mortality and readmissions.

 Results:
 The average HFrEF patient in this dataset was 79 (95% CI 72, 85) years old and 41% were female. Eighty percent were white. Ninety-seven percent (=47,299) received BB and/or RASI; 3% (n-1,412) received neither. The hazard ratio (HR) for BB and/or RASI vs. no BB or RASI for 1-year mortality or readmission among those aged 65-74 was HR=0.82 (95% CI 0.70-0.95); for those aged 75-84 HR=0.86 (95% CI 0.78-0.95) and for those aged 85+, the HR=0.78 (95% CI 0.71, 0.86). The p-value comparing HR across the age strata was 0.41. Similar results were observed for 30-day outcomes
 (Table 1)
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 Conclusions:
 The association between use of BB and/or RASI at hospital discharge and lower 30-day and 1-year mortality or readmission does not appear to vary across the age spectrum. Absent a contraindication, BB and/or RASI should be prescribed for all patients at discharge regardless of age.


Objective To explore the clinical effect of amlodipine atorvastatin calcium tablets combined hyperlipidemia for treatment in hypertension. Methods 100 patients with hypertension combined and hyperlipidemia were randomly divided into a control group and an observation group,the control group received atorvastatin treatment,the observation group received amlodipine atorvastatin calcium treatment,the therapeutic effects of two groups were observed. Results The improvement of blood pressure,blood lipid between the two groups were compared,the difference was statistically significant(P 0.05). Conclusion Amlodipine atorvastatin calcium for treatment in hypertension combined hyperlipidemia effect is exact,safe and no serious adverse reactions,is worthy of clinical use.


The K5/VSSP software correlator (Figure 1), located in Tsukuba, Japan, is operated by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI). It is fully dedicated to processing the geodetic VLBI sessions of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry. All of the weekend IVS Intensives (INT2) and the Japanese domestic VLBI observations organized by GSI were processed at the Tsukuba VLBI Correlator.


Non-classical logicians have significantly expanded the traditional field of using logical methods. The first of them was the three-digit logic of Y. Lukasevich. Next came the three-digit logic of A. Bochvar, the "quantum logics" of G. Reichenbach and P. Detush-Fevrier, infinite-valued, probabilistic and other logics. The possibilities of non-classical logics have become widely used in various branches of scientific knowledge. Polysemantic, fuzzy, intuitionistic, modal, relevant and paranoherent, temporal and other non-classical logics are widely used today in physics, computational mathematics, computer science, linguistics, jurisprudence, ethics and other fields of natural science and socio-humanitarian knowledge. The recently increased interest in non-classical logics is explained, first of all, by the fact that various philosophical, syntactic, semantic and metalogical problems that were previously discussed in the scientific community are being replaced by practical interests. The main source of such interest is their wide application in computer science, artificial intelligence and programming. The logic of causality is used in the interpretation of the concepts of "law of nature", "ontological necessity" and "determinism"; temporal modal logics - for modeling, specification and verification of software systems of logical control; logics with vector semantics, combining the features of fuzzy and para-contradictory logics - in solving problems of dynamic verification of production knowledge bases and expert systems.


Population is one of the most important resources in any territory. The overall territorial development and every other particular socioeconomic process depend to the greatest extent on its quantitative and qualitative characteristics. The spatial movement of population generates the size of the settlements, creates their development opportunities and influences the planning processes. This study aims to show the changes in demographic resources in a selected territory and analyze their current state so as to reflect the territorial effects of these changes in the populated areas. The territory selected as the case study is Blagoevgrad municipality in Bulgaria, in which we also find a city of great importance for the Bulgarian standards having an important administrative and educational function. 2. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY


This manual was written by Death Penalty Worldwide, a project affiliated with the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law, and the law firm of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. The manual aims to provide lawyers with legal arguments and strategic guidance in their representation of individuals facing the death penalty around the world. It sets forth the best practices in the defense of capital cases, based on the experiences of advocates around the world, international human rights principles, and the jurisprudence of both national courts and international tribunals.


Results are presented of an investigation of the heterogeneous photochemical reaction between Ge and Br2, the Br2 molecule being excited by λ = 514.5 nm high-poiwer argon laser radiation in the predissociation range. The dependence of the reaction rate on the irradiation intensity has a well-defined nonlinear character. The explanation of this effect is found by analyzing the chemcal kinetics of this reaction. The possibility of utilizing the heterogeneous photochemical reaction between Ge and Br2 for laser separation of bromine isotopes is discussed.


The problem of prescription drug abuse in the United States began more than 100 years ago and became epidemic in the last decade producing many tragic consequences with incredible societal costs. Drug overdoses have doubled over the last 10 years and now surpass deaths from motor vehicle accidents (DHHS, 2013). Congress reacted to this ongoing tragedy in 2012 by mandating the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) promulgate guidelines for the development of abuse-deterrent formulations (ADFs) for prescription opioid medications as one of the approaches to reducing this problem.The FDA responded in 2013 by issuing a draft guidance to industry for assessment of ADFs (FDA, 2013). The 2013 guidance expanded initial guidance proposed in 2010 (FDA, 2010).FDA is expected to issue final guidance for industry in the latter part of 2014.


Author for correspondence : S.S. SOLANKEY Department of Horticulture, Bihar Agricultural College, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, BHAGALPUR (BIHAR) INDIA Email : firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT : The effect of bio-fertilizer was studied in banana accessions intensively collected from ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Mizoram Centre, Kolasib, Mizoram during 2009-2010. To assess the efficacy of different bio-fertilizer viz., Azospirillium, Azotobacter and phosphorus solubilizing bacteria (PSB) either alone or in combination was applied 20g per plant with recommended dose of FYM. The six treatments were arranged in a Randomized Block Design in three replications and spaced at 2.5 × 2.5 m in order to study its effect on growth, yield and quality attributing traits. All the characters were significantly increased except number of suckers and number of leaves due to application of each of the two-bio fertilizers either separately or in combination. Moreover in combination of Azotobacter + PSB 20g per plant showed that more effective than either combination or in separately of another bio-fertilizers. This might be due to because biological nitrogen fixation depends appreciably on the available form of phosphorus. So the combined inoculation of nitrogen fixers and PSB may benefit the plant better (by providing both nitrogen as well as phosphorus) than either alone.


High field stressing during program/erase cycles in flash EEPROM operation can lead to a significant increase in low-level leakage current in tunnel oxides. Stress induced leakage current (SILC) has received a lot of attention recently due to its significance to the data retention and endurance characteristics of flash memory cells. In this paper, the mechanisms and transient characteristics of hot hole stress and FN stress induced excess leakage currents in tunnel oxides are investigated. Hot hole SILC is found to have a more pronounced transient effect. The transient is attributed to positive oxide charge detrapping and thus annihilation of positive charge-assisted tunneling current. The positive charge assisted tunneling current can be annealed by substrate hot electron injection. The DC and transient components in FN SILC are also discussed.


: The present research aims to analyse the thematic diversity of the exhibition activities in the Aparte Gallery of "George Enescu" National University of Arts (UNAGE) in Iaşi, respectively artistic projects carried out by students, teachers or guest artists of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design (FAVD), between 2005 - 2020. Furthermore, we will place heavy emphasis on a multitude of formats of artistic events (exhibitions, workshops, conferences, symposia, artistic residencies), associated with various artistic mediums, such as painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, etc. The gallery has become, over time, an authentic space for contemporary art projects, which encourages the experiment and artistic research of all specializations within the faculty. All in all, the purpose of this article is to relate the diversity of artistic event formats, themes and their media variety, in the institutional context of art education, analysing the course and evolution of the Aparte Gallery space.


A key limitation on the use of two-wavelength DIAL or its multi-spectral generalization is the unknown spectral structure of the topographically backscattered lidar signals in the absence of the target materials. Although some of the factors responsible for the background spectral structure can be measured in advance, others, such as the terrain differences are highly variable and usually unknown. For applications to tactical reconnainssance and high-altitude surveillance where the background is continuously changing, the inability to account for the background can seriously degrade sensor performance. This study describes a method for estimating both the spectral dependence of the background as well as the path-integrated concentration, or CL, from the same data set using dual Kalman filtering. The idea is to run parallel filters that estimate the background and CL using input from the other filter. The approach is illustrated on a variety of synthetic data sets and signal injections into background data collected by the U.S. Army WILDCAT sensor at Dugway Proving Ground.


This study aims to analyze the factors that affect tax aggressiveness in LQ-45 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2018-2020 period. The type of data in this study is quantitative data. This study uses secondary data from the LQ45 company annual report for the 2018-2020 period. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling, namely the technique of determining the sample with certain considerations/criteria. The data analysis method used is multiple regression analysis, classical assumption test, and hypothesis testing. The results of this study indicate that company size, capital intensity and positive influence on tax aggressiveness in LQ45 companies.


We report on the opto-mechanical design of the MROI fringe tracker. This instrument, currently under development in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, will be a dedicated fringe tracking beam combiner and spectrographs. I will utilize the "Y" geometry of the array to stabilize fringes on shorter "nearest neighbor" baselines, and thus allow for increased integration times on the longer baselines and the buildup of signal to noise. The beam combiner has been designed to accommodate light from a maximum of ten telescopes (three in each array arm, one at the "Y" vertex), but can operate with fewer without having to change the overall layout. A single spectrograph will multiplex up to five nearest neighbor combinations onto a single detector. Identical spectrographs are located at opposite sides of the combiner outputs to simultaneously sample combination pairs that are Π radians out of phase with respect to one another.


The paper expounds the reform process of three electro-systems,namely synchro exciter control,device detector control and relay control under low voltage using full numerical controller,PLC technology and industrial control bus on site PROFIBUS DP.


European Commission renders legally binding commitments on Rio Tinto Alcan* On 20 December 2012, the Commission issued a press release stating that it has made legally binding the commitments…


Purpose: This study explored the conceptual framework and procedures of course design and then optimal evaluation tools for blended learning in social work education in the Chinese context. Method: Fifteen courses of five social work programs in Hong Kong are used to create a blueprint for blended learning in the social work curriculum in the Hong Kong Chinese context. Videos, virtual tours, online games, and an e-forum are components of the course design while pre-test and post-test multiple measurements are used for course evaluation. Parameters are provided for the blended learning blueprint and framework that integrate face-to-face instruction and virtual learning elements. Results: A prominent conceptual framework and important protocols in social work higher education in China is introduced. Discussion: The results of this study contribute to current understanding of the applicability and pedagogical aspects of blended learning in social work in the Chinese context, especially in the post-pandemic era.


This report attempts to elucidate the potential of plant seed extract assisted synthesis of Graphite based zinc oxide nanoparticles (C-ZnO NPs) towards removal of chromium (VI) ions from the water samples. The Graphene-zinc oxide composites were characterised using TGA, XRD, FTIR and SEM. The C-ZnO nanocomposites have found to remove chromium from the sample through adsorption process. The sensitivity of chromium removal through adsorption is found to be in the range of 40-240 mg. The adsorption behaviour was found to be fitting with Langmuir isotherm model and the adsorption reaction follows pseudo second order kinetics.


Jewish music has been closely related to the experiences of the Jewish people. Throughout the ages the Jews have been plagued by numerous disasters, and have been scattered all over the world since the time of the Diaspora. As a result, Jewish music is characterized by melancholy, grief, passionateness and dynamic vigor, which manifest themselves in the age-old holy songs, natural minor scale of the folk songs, and the varieties of the marches, culminating in the musical works of Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler and others.


The duration of the operations can represent an important factor for a series of postoperative complications, especially in the aged. OBJECTIVE: study the repercussion in the lungs, of operations of different duration. METHODS: Twenty aged rats (18 months old) and 20 young (3 months old) were randomly separated in groups A and B respectively. The groups were divided in A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, B2, B3 and B4, with five rats each. The animals were anesthetized with pentobarbital (20mg/Kg) intraperitoneal. In the group A1 and B1 a 30 minutes operation was done, in the groups A2 and B2 60 minutes, in the A3 and B3 the operation was done in 120 minutes and in the A4 and B4 control groups the animals were not operated. The procedure consisted of laparotomy that was opened and closed so many times as necessary to reach the operative times. After the 5th postoperative day the animals were killed with anesthetic's overdosis and biopsies of both lungs were performed. The biopsies were processed and colored by HE. The histologic findings were transformed in scores for each group. RESULTS: the following results were seen: The groups of the young rats had the scores: A1= score 6, A2=11; A3=28; A4=5. Old rats had the following scores: B1=12; B2=34; B3=51 e B4=6. The statistical analysis revealed significant difference among the scores of the groups A and B. CONCLUSION: the prolonged time of surgery in rats contributes to significant histopatologic alterations in the lungs. As larger the operative time, larger and more frequent the pulmonary complications.


Trimeric, tetrameric, and pentameric oligolides are formed preferentially from (S)-βbutyrolactone, or from methyl (R)-3-hydroxybutanoate, upon prolonged treatment with catalytic amounts of tetraoxadistannacyclodecane (Shanzer's macrolactonization catalyst) in refluxing xylene. The crystal structure of the tetramer is described. Substructures of the larger folded oligolides are used for the construction of a left-handed 21-helix, as found in the biopolymer PHB, and a heretofore unknown right-handed 31-helix.


Laboratory experiments have established that exposure to certain endocrine‐active substances prior to and/or during the period of sexual differentiation can lead to skewed sex ratios in fish. However, the potential long‐term population impact of biased sex ratio depends on multiple factors including the life history of the species and whether the ratio is male or female‐biased. In the present study, we describe a novel multidimensional, density‐dependent matrix model that analyzes age class‐structure of both males and females over time, allowing for the quantitative evaluation of the effects of biased sex ratio on population status. This approach can be used in conjunction with field monitoring efforts and/or laboratory testing to link effects on sex ratio due to chemical and/or nonchemical stressors to adverse outcomes in whole organisms and populations. For demonstration purposes, we applied the model to evaluate population trajectories for fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) exposed to prochloraz, an aromatase inhibitor, during sexual differentiation. The model also was used to explore the population impact in a more realistic exposure scenario in which both adult and early life stages of fish are exposed concurrently to prochloraz, which, in addition to altering sex ratio during development, can decrease vitellogenin and egg production in adult females. For each exposure scenario, the model was used to analyze total population size, numbers of females and of males, and sex specific recruitment of the F1 generation. The present study illustrates the utility of multidimensional matrix population models for ecological risk assessment in terms of integrating effects across a population of an organism even when chemical effects on individuals are manifested via different pathways depending on life stage. Environ Toxicol Chem 2022;41:1066–1077. Published 2022. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.


Social media has a significant impact on our daily life, and the popularity is increasing rapidly because of the ability to be attached to people around the world and share feelings, photos, videos, etc. So, it bears a high-security concern. However, most of the social media user does not know the security level of their account, including what features of social media should consider if the account is in a risk situation. The posting, friendship, etc. sometimes brings unfortunate events like identity theft, sexual harassment, cyber-crime, etc. To overcome such kind of unexpected issues, this research proposes a classification via clustering algorithm based predictive model by which one can know his safety level in the social media. A dataset is formed through a closed-ended questionnaire. Essential features are selected via gain ration method as high dimensional data is costly to train a model. An unsupervised algorithm, hierarchical clustering, cluster the users into three groups that are labeled for further analysis. The various classification algorithm is chosen to train the predictive model. From the model evaluation result, "Logistic Regression" predicts the safety level of a social media user with high accuracy. So, this model will bring an extra dimension in social media user account safety.


The basic public services' equalization and regional economies coordinated development are necessarily to rationalize the regional difference of the relation of public services supplying and economic development.This study is based on China's eastern and western provinces data,uses panel unit root test and cointegration test to study long-term relations of the capital construction expenditure and science,education,culture,hygiene expenditure with economic growth between eastern and western areas.The results show that the relation of eastern and western capital construction expenditure and the science,education,culture,and hygiene expenditure with the economic growth has the obvious difference: the western capital construction expenditure has higher contribution than the eastern;But the eastern science,education,culture,and hygiene expenditure has higher contribution than the western.Therefore,in different regional restriction conditions,the relationship of regional public service supplying with the economic growth is not stable.Based on the result of study,we propose suggestion for Chinese economic system reform and the financial policy.


Eduard Schwartz's assessment of St. Meletius of Antioch as one of the most obscure personalities of fourth-century church history has become almost a cliché. Questions abound about the personal conduct of the bishop of Antioch as much as his theological orientation. That St. Basil of Caesarea showed him unswerving loyalty must count for something, but despite Meletius's charismatic and spiritual qualities it is indisputable that he was also divisive. Some sources describe him as a saint, whereas others emphasize his opportunism; his supporters saw him as staunchly Nicene, whereas others cast considerable doubt over his orthodoxy. It is therefore warmly to be welcomed that Thomas Karmann has devoted, for the first time, a full monograph to this important figure, even though his treatment is limited to the crucial years after 360 when Meletius organized a group of Eastern bishops in support of the Nicene Creed. However, Karmann does not break radically new ground in his treatment of the subject matter. The bulk of his study is largely owed to his scrupulous discussion of all the evidence that exists for the events of these years. Rather than, for example, give his own version of Meletius's election to the see of Antioch in 360, Karmann offers a detailed comparative account and assessment of the information provided by Theodoret, Sozomenus, Epiphanius, the historia acephala, and Socrates.


Purpose: This paper aims to use such standards to contribute to strengthening the accounting profession at the global level and provides financial disclosure that is easy to understand, treat and deal with, and hold government officials accountable for its basis.

Theoretical Framework: Rapid developments in the field of information technology and the trend toward global trade relations imposed the use of new tools to address the government accounting system applied in Iraq to improve the quality of financial information. In addition, reducing the manipulation of public money and rationalize the state's economic policies.

Design/Methodology/Approach: To achieve the research objectives, a questionnaire was designed and Distributed to an intentional sample of accountants, whose number reached (60) accountants.

Findings: The findings show the importance of IPSAS standards in presenting financial reports to help accountants obtain them quickly and thus achieve the efficiency and effectiveness of accounting work, correcting and strengthening decisions and ensuring their effectiveness systems.

Research Practical& Social implication: The contribution of our paper relies on investigating the General Accounting System (IPSAS) in the government accounting system in the field through doing a survey of the opinions of specialists at the University of Al-Muthanna as a field for conducting research, as well as an indication of the adequacy of laws, legislation and principles that regulate government accounting to ensure good practice of ( IPSAS ) standards.

Implications/Originality/Value: the possibility of applying international accounting standards in the public sector to its accounting systems.


CONTEXT
Wrist fractures are common among postmenopausal women. Associations of bone mineral density (BMD) and 10-year predicted risk of major osteoporotic fracture (MOF) with wrist fractures are poorly characterized.

OBJECTIVE
The objective was to examine associations between the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX)-predicted risk of MOF, BMD, BMD change, and wrist fracture.

DESIGN
This was a prospective observational study with a mean follow-up of 8.5 years.

SETTING
This study included 40 US centers.

PARTICIPANTS
A total of 11 392 participants from the Women's Health Initiative BMD Cohort aged 50-79 years at baseline were included in this study.

INTERVENTIONS
None.

MAIN OUTCOME
The goal was to measure incident wrist fracture.

RESULTS
A FRAX-predicted MOF risk ≥9.3% identified 17% of the women aged <65 years who subsequently experienced wrist fracture. Each one standard deviation lower BMD was associated with higher wrist fracture risk, with adjusted hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) of 1.66 (1.42-1.93) for femoral neck (FN) BMD and 1.45 (1.28-1.64) for lumbar spine BMD. Compared with FN BMD T score ≥ -1.0, wrist fracture adjusted hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) were: 1.51 (1.06-2.16) for a T score between -1.01 and -1.49; 1.93 (1.36-2.72) for T score between -1.50 and -1.99; 2.52 (1.77-3.60) for a T score between -2.00 and -2.49; and 2.65 (1.78-3.95) for a T score ≤ -2.5. Decrease in FN BMD between baseline and year 3 was associated with increased risk of subsequent wrist fracture; however, change in lumbar spine BMD was not.

CONCLUSIONS
Lumbar spine and femoral neck BMDs were associated with incident wrist fracture, but the FRAX threshold recommended to identify screening candidates did not identify the majority of women who subsequently experienced wrist fracture. Improved understanding of determinants of wrist fractures is warranted.


Fiberoptic systems based upon two different forms of miniature Fabry-Perot interferometer have been developed to measure the oscillatory motion generated in a commercially available vortex shedder flow meter. The results of a comparative study of the performance of the optical systems with the previously used piezoelectric detector are given for a range of water and air flows.


OBJECTIVE?To compare the state of metabol ic syndrome in the Korean-Chinese and Han nationality of yanbian area.? M ETHODS?Survey was carried out among 447 persons aged 50~60 years. The data were gathered by face to face questionnaire.?RESULTS?The prevalence rates of hypertension, high FBG, dyslipidemia and metabolic s yndrome in the male and female of Korean-Chinese nationality were significantly higher than that in Han nationality. The rate of fat in female was significa ntly higher in Han nationality than in Korean-Chinese nationality.?CO NCLUSION?There was a significant difference in the rate of metabolic sy ndrome between the Korean-Chinese and Han nationality.


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This paper seeks to explain the future tense forms of the verb fágbhaidh found in Classical Modern Irish. In the process, an explanation is proposed for the verb's shift from an e-future to an f-future in Middle Irish and for a peculiar verbal form found in the Milan Glosses.


The invention discloses a horizontal-moving movable frame delivery device, which comprises a rapid movable frame and a matrix type storage frame, wherein the rapid movable frame is arranged in front of a delivery end of the matrix type storage frame and can horizontally move along a guide rail; the matrix type storage frame is formed by a plurality of storage grooves, wherein each storage groove comprises two side plates and a base plate; an incoming end of each storage groove is higher than the delivery end so that goods can slide toward the delivery end along the corresponding base plate; check blocks are respectively arranged on the delivery ends of the storage grooves; a resetting piece which can jack up the goods is arranged under each check block; and the resetting pieces are arranged on the base plate and can turn over under the action of a power source; and the horizontal-moving movable frame delivery device is suitable for controlling stored solid-state goods with regular shapes on the storage frame to be delivered. The horizontal-moving movable frame delivery device can realize the automatic delivery of the single stored goods or several stored goods in a storage position conveniently and has the advantages of controllable delivery number, high speed, reliable performance, no adjustment when the stored goods are changed, simple structure, low noise and the like.


Two new species of the small carpenter bee genus Ceratina (Calloceratina) Cockerell, 1924 are described and illustrated. Ceratina (Calloceratina) mourei new species, and Ceratina (Calloceratina) silveirai new species, form the silveirai species-group, a very distinct set within the subgenus C. (Calloceratina). The taxonomy of South American species was approached, being redescribed and illustrated the species Ceratina (Calloceratina) chloris (Fabricius, 1804) and Ceratina (Calloceratina) triangulifera Cockerell, 1914, proposing the chloris species-group for them. The diagnosis for the subgenus Calloceratina is presented and an identification key for the South American species is also proposed.


This study was conducted to determine the effects of dietary supplemented with L-arginine(Arg) or N-carbamylglutamate(NCG) on intramuscular contents of fatty acids and the gene expression levels related to lipid metabolism in Huanjiang mini-pigs.Tweety-four Huanjiang mini-pigs with initial body weight(BW) of(28.14 ±3.45) kg were randomly assigned into 3 groups with 4 replicates in each group and 2 pigs per replicate,representing Arg,NCG and control groups,and pigs were supplemented with 0.83%L-Arg + 0.88%rice bran,0.08%NCG +1.71%L-alanine,and 1.71%L-alanine in a basal diet,respectively.After a 45-day feeding period,the liver and longissimus dorsi were obtained for determining intramuscular contents of fatty acids and the gene expression levels related to lipid metabolism.The results showed that compared with the control group,dietary supplemented with Arg significantly decreased muscle content of C18:0(P 0.05),as well as the expression levels of acetyl-CoA carboxylase a(ACCα) mRNA in liver,and ACCa and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ(PPARy) mRNA in muscle(P 0.05),while significantly increased the expression level of PPARy mRNA in liver(P 0.05);dietary supplementation of NCG significantly decreased the expression levels of ACCα and lipoprteinlipase(LPL) mRNA in liver(P 0.05),as well as ACCα,fatty acid synthetase(FAS) and LPL mRNA in muscle,while significantly increased the expression level of PPARy mRNA in muscle(P 0.05).These results indicate that dietary supplemented with Arg or NCG have a regulating effect on gene expression related to lipid metabolism in the liver and longissimus dorsi,and decrease the content of C18:0 in longissimus dorsi.