subsistence agriculture is replaced by more remunerative medicinal crops". The paper also assesses the socio-economic and administrative factors that influence the local people in Uttranchal to go for cultivation of medicinal plants, which is economically remunerative and ecologically sustainable as medicinal plants grow wildly in the natural surroundings of the hill state. The paper also evaluates the perception of people on changing the current cropping pattern to grow medicinal crops on a commercial basis and the constraints they face and discusses the possible strategies for sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants both in community and private lands.


This article provides an evaluation of the applicability of the evaporative cooling system of air supplied to the cooling tower in order to reduce the temperature of the cooled water at the outlet from the cooling tower in the conditions of the third climatic zone of the Russian Federation.


THE COLLEGE analyzed here is small-approximately 600 students and 50 faculty -rural, and prides itself on two things; its existence as an integrated community in the deep South, and its academic worth (unquestionably the best predominantly Negro college in the state). In its existence as a black community with a white minority, the College is a rather unique laboratory for our time. Although in 1966-68 approximately twothirds of the faculty were white, blacks dominated the administration and positions of ultimate decision-making power; in a student body of nearly six hundred students, there were only 12 to 13 whites per semester. There was no question in anyone's mind but that this was a black community whose power it was to accept, reject, and judge the white minority. The main body of this study is the product of anonymous written responses to a series of questions on attitudes toward white students received from 58 percent of the students and 71 percent of the faculty. (The 343/595 or 58 percent student response represents 69 percent of the freshmen and sophomores and 37 percent of the juniors and seniors-a difference that reflects a change in the students' response to "compulsory activities" during their four years at the College, such as the College assembly at which the questionnaires were completed. By class the students responded as follows: freshmen, 174/234 or 74 percent; sophomores, 88/145 or 61 percent; juniors, 51/104 or 49 percent; seniors, 30/112 or 26 percent. Thirty-four out of 48 faculty members responded.) The study was begun formally in the Spring of 1967, in connection with an intensive "Self-Study" undertaken as part of the College's application for reaccreditation. It reflects aspects of black attitudes during a period of transition. At the start of the 1966-67 academic year, there were only the vaguest beginnings at the College of the upsurge of black separatism and anti-white nationalism which on the national level came to be loosely called "black power." By the end of the 1967-68 academic year, these feelings were the accepted litany among the students, although the number of those who had ever stood up for them as a principle of action was as yet small indeed. Although one of the major results of this study was the discovery of the presence of a minority of approximately 10 percent of black students who were hostile toward their white colleagues, the prime finding was that during the transition period the overwhelming feeling of blacks about whites at the College was one of difference, of foreignness. Although the great majority of the College community saw the white student as, essentially, a foreign student, one-third were committed to substantial integration of the student body (i.e., felt that ideally there should be at least 100


This study has tried to bring out the rate of utility of library resources. The researcher identified for this study only the Anna University constituent College Library Dindigul. The study reveals that the required library sources not available, recent sources not available, lack of number of copies and current edition not available are very most problems met by users while using library resources. An empirical data collected from the undergraduate students and staff for this study


: Today's handball game is undergoing intense development, similar to other sectors of social life. The specialists in the field, through their studies and experience, are concerned with the continuous improvement of the handball game such as increasing the efficiency of the attack phases and improving the finalization. In handball, speed, regardless of its form of manifestation, represents the motor quality with the greatest influence on the quality of the game. Following the initial testing, we analyzed the results obtained, elaborated the team's training program and established the game model in attack and defense. At the end of the training period, the team players again took the samples from the initial testing. The system of standardized means, adapted to the age particularities of the students, used in the training process, has led to an increase of the motor potential, which is demonstrated by the progress obtained in the final test.


ABSTRACT Many rice cultivars and hybrids have unique physical characteristics that affect milling performance. The purpose of this study was to quantify the rate of bran removal during milling for several rice cultivars and hybrids common to the southern United States, and compare the quantity of lipids remaining on the kernel surface to that located throughout the kernel. This was accomplished by analyzing two sample sets. The first comprised cultivars Cocodrie, Cypress, and Lemont, and hybrids XL7 and XL8, which were milled for 0 (brown rice), 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 sec in a laboratory mill. In the second set, cultivars Cocodrie, Cypress, and Wells, and hybrids XL7 and XL8 were milled for 0, 20, 40, and 60 sec. The surface lipid content (SLC) and color of head rice samples were measured as indications of the degree of milling (DOM). The total lipid content (TLC) of ground head rice was also measured to determine the total amount of lipids present throughout the entire kernel. Results showed that at ...


The present study explored participants' experiences of attending Hearing Voices Network groups. We interviewed 11 participants about their experiences of the groups using semistructured interviews. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Five themes emerged: (1) Discovery, relating to initial group attendance; (2) Group structure, consisting of the key ingredients of the group; (3) Acceptance, reflecting an acceptance of their experiences; (4) Hope, exploring hope in the group; and (5) Group benefits, focusing on benefits derived from the group. The study extends previous research about the role of peer facilitation in hearing voices and supports existing research on the importance of hope, acceptance and coping in recovery within voice-hearing.


In this paper, we study the preparation of environment-friendly cushioning packaging materials using cropsstraw as main raw material. The products molded out of mixture of corn straw core and adhesive display better cushioning performance. Adhesive, pretreatment and size of corn straw core have great effects on cushioning performance. The results show a bright prospect of this product's application.


Current needs in the design and optimization of complex protective structures lead to the development of more accurate numerical modelling of impact loadings. The aim of developing such a tool is to be able to predict the protection performance of structures using fewer experiments. Considering only the numerical approach, the most important issue to have a reliable simulation is to focus on the material behavior description in terms of constitutive relations and failure model for high strain rates, large field of temperatures and complex stress states. In this context, the present study deals with the dynamic thermo-mechanical behavior of a high strength steel (HSS) close to the Mars® 190 (Industeel France, Le Creusot, France). For the considered application, the material can undergo both quasi-static and dynamic loadings. Thus, the studied strain rate range is varying from 10−3–104 s−1. Due to the fast loading time, the local temperature increase during dynamic loading induces a thermal softening. The temperature sensitivity has been studied up to 473 K under quasi-static and dynamic conditions. Low temperature measurements (lower than the room temperature) are also reported in term of σ − ε | ε ˙ , T curves. Experimental results are then used to identify the parameters of several constitutive relations, such as the model developed initially by Johnson and Cook; Voyiadjis and Abed; and Rusinek and Klepaczko respectively termed Johnson–Cook (JC), Voyiadjis–Abed (VA), and Rusinek–Klepaczko (RK). Finally, comparisons between experimental results and model predictions are reported and compared.


Whole-body exposures of mice and humans show no harm from low doses of ionizing radiation. Forty reports show statistically significant, p < 0.01, beneficial effects when cancer and total mortality rates were examined in mice. In vitro experiments indicate that radiogenic metabolism, adaptive repair mechanisms, such as DNA repair enzymes, and the essential nature of ionizing radiation are responsible for part of this activity. However, overwhelming evidence shows that low-dose irradiation increases immune competence. Such data negate the linear concept, which has no reliable whole-animal data to support it in the low-dose range. Cell culture data are not pertinent; such cells do not have a complete immune system.


In this article, the event-triggered output regulation problem is investigated for a networked flight control system with a switched system approach. By properly scheduling triggered times of periodic sampling associated with continuous event-triggering and switching instants of each subsystem, an alternate event-triggered mechanism based on the subsystem model is proposed to transmit the triggered information to the candidate controller. Since the subsystem may switch between two adjacent events while the corresponding controller does not switch, asynchronous switching may occur. Meanwhile, an event-triggered switching signal caused by asynchronous switching is designed with the mode-dependent average dwell time approach and event-triggered instants. By constructing multiple Lyapunov functions in the framework of the input delay approach and designing an error feedback controller, the sufficient condition for event-triggered asynchronous output regulation problem is solved. Finally, the proposed methods are proved to be effective by the F-18 aircraft model.


Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism. Ed. Douglas A. Noverr and Jason Stacy. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2014. xxxvi + 281 pp.Looking back on the numerous editions of Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman exclaimed to his friend Horace Traubel in 1889, "Editions! Editions! Editions! Like the last extra of a newspaper: an extra after an extra: one issue after another." The poet's analogy effectively captures not only the iterative nature of the book's publication-his on-going attempt to fit his body of work to his particular historical moment-but it also points to the considerable influence Whitman's early experience writing for the antebellum press had on his life and writing. As Douglass A. Noverr and Jason Stacy's welcome new volume Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism reminds us, Whitman was a prolific writer well before the publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855. This outstanding collection, covering writing from 1839 to 1865, demonstrates that far from representing a radical departure from his early journalism, Whitman's poetry in many ways expands on ideas and issues that had interested him for many years, offering him another way of expressing his sentiments and forging connections with his readers. The editors have organized the material thematically into four sections: "Democracy and Politics," "Moral Suasion," "The Arts," and "Come Closer to Me." Each features selections ordered chronologically, and, as the headings indicate, treat both the subject matter or, in the case of the final section, the style of the poet's journalism. In their introduction to the volume, Noverr and Stacy not only trace the ups and downs of Whitman's early career as a writer and editor, but they also provide an overview of the twentieth-century publication history of and scholarship on Whitman's journalism, providing helpful context for this latest collection.The selections in the first section present a picture of the roughand-tumble political world the young Whitman inhabited, the local and national controversies that fueled his journalism and that in some cases, as with the Wilmot Proviso, presaged the Civil War to come. Noverr and Stacy provide important context and thoughtful analysis for these pieces, particularly those responding to people and disputes that may now be long forgotten. In doing so, the editors also effectively address the disturbing nativist rhetoric of some of the poet's earliest journalism, without dismissing it. In their discussion of Whitman's editorials criticizing a push to fund Catholic schools in the early 1840s, for example, the editors note, "though Whitman claimed to be a universalist against religious bigotry, he was also a proponent of cultural assimilation," and that in some of his early editorials, Whitman used "terms that make us cringe today." The portrait of Whitman that emerges from these early works is complex and at times troubling; however, later selections demonstrate the emergence of the poet's more inclusive democratic vision as the years passed.Indeed, one of the primary strengths of this collection is the opportunity it provides for exploring the relationship between the more familiar "Walt Whitman" of Leaves of Grass and the "Walter Whitman" of such papers as the Brooklyn Daily Eagle or the New York Aurora. Whitman's enthusiasm regarding the laying of the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, for example, expressed in a series of editorials in August 1858 and collected in the "Moral Suasion" section, reflects the poet's fascination with technology and its ability to connect people, and the series foreshadows his celebration of these topics in numerous poems. In "The Cable Laid! …


ICT-services are only interesting to ICT and law research insofar they support law systems, or are law systems themselves. One of the tasks of ICT and law research is providing knowledge on what the quality of law systems is and how addition or removal of a rule will influence a law system's quality. In this paper the quality of a law system is related to its rules, to the willingness to participate in it and to the values it delivers to its participants. Willingness to participate is compound of several variables that can be observed and counted, leading to the suggestion that there may be a general 'Radbruch'-function that relates willingness to participate in a law system to its quality. It is impossible to find a general public-choice function for rationally deciding on one singular set of values, that represent the optimal collective value for a law system, as these values are only observable as opinions, relative to whom holds them in context. It nevertheless seems obvious that individual willingness to participate to a specific law system at a specific time is motivated by a set of individual values, and that the quality of a law system thus indirectly depends on them. Analysis of an estimated dataset with variables for willingness to participate in, and for values returned by three ICT services with law-system character leads to at least one etiologic hypothesis:


A directional dual blade-shaped microstrip array antenna (MPAA) is proposed in this paper for upper 5G application. The operating frequency of the proposed MPAA is 26.4 GHz covering 24.14 GHz–29.069 GHz bandwidth. The wideband width of the antenna is 4.929 GHz. The full ground plane helps to make the antenna directional. Rogers RT 5880 ($\varepsilon_{r} =2.2,\ \delta=0.0009$) is used as dielectric substrate layer. For the dual blade-shaped patch and ground plane, copper (annealed) material is used. The volume of this antenna is $28 \times 20\times 1.575\ mm^{3}$. At resonance point 26.4 GHz, the gain, directivity and VSWR are 7.7 dB, 8.85 dBi and 1.0038, respectively. The maximum radiation efficiency of the proposed MPAA is 82.7%. The CST microwave studio suite has been used for designing and analysing all the performance matrix of the dual blade-shaped MPAA.


The traditional evaluation system of physical education reform in colleges and universities is usually designed with I/O module. This evaluation system is not real-time and it is difficult to meet the requirements of many evaluation indexes. In order to solve the problem of weak anti-interference and real-time performance of the evaluation system, this paper designs the evaluation system of College Physical Education Reform Based on wireless sensor network from two aspects of hardware design and software design. The hardware part mainly designs the evaluation interface, evaluation circuit, processor and display; The software part analyzes the principle of software evaluation, develops a new evaluation system and a new software evaluation process, and completes the work through three steps: communication information collection, communication information evaluation processing and information display. Compared with the traditional system, the experimental results show that the system can complete the accurate evaluation in a short time, and can quickly transmit the evaluation results to the LCD, which has strong real-time performance, effectively solves the problem of long delay in the traditional system, ensures the evaluation effect, and improves the quality of teaching reform.


The bottleneck bandwidth is an important parameter to describe a path bandwidth in TCP/IP network.In this paper,in the linux environment model based on the subtraction of the non-symmetric algorithm package(Asymmetric Packet Pair Under Subtraction Module,APP) a measurement procedure was developed.Then according to actual needs,the NS2 environment symmetrical package proved the reliability of symmetrical packet sequence algorithms.


Putnam's semantics, against traditional one, denies the idea that meaning is a kind of fixed object, which can be understood only by mind and determines reference, and suggests that reference determines meaning. Related to this, Putnam proposes a series of points such as the theory of division of linguistic labor, the causal theory of reference and scientific essentialism, which have had a strong impact on Anglo-American philosophy and won a high reputation for him. This essay is an interpretation of Putnam's theory of semantics and an analysis of its gain and lose.


Ignored in their psychomotor and affective aspect, not long ago educational institutions beheld only the cognitive aspect of the learner. Today through a pedagogical vision, the subjectivity has become the starting point of this theorical and practical research which presents experiences and proposals of a psycopedagogical project, referring to the arts, in special music, as an instrument to enable the learner go through and beyond their difficulties in learning. Also in search of a subject constitution that strengthens their self-esteem and increases their capability to build itself and knowledge in relation to the others. The reflections involving theory and practices reveal how the music as a therapeutic resource and educational functions as a libertarian agent.


Meteorological measurement in Murmansk started in 1918. The weather station was relocated in 1924 and 1934. For this reason, homogeneous time series of air temperature in Murmansk began in 1935 only. However, there are long-running temperature records from other sites in the Northern Europe (Kola, Vardo, Tornedalen), that had been started before the observation in Murmansk. Linear regression relationships for temperature data from various sites were obtained for periods with overlapping observations. These relations were applied to periods with no data in Murmansk and corresponding data for other sites. This method permits reconstruction of temperatures in Murmansk back to 1802. These early data has been combined with the temperature series from the weather station in Murmansk, which began in 1935. All four seasons of reconstructed time-series show evident warming trend between 1802 and 2013. Magnitude and rate of the temperature rise vary with time as local temperatures depend on changes in patterns of the large-scale atmospheric circulation. The rise of winter temperatures reached culmination in the 1930s. During following years, temperatures were falling until the 1970s. The new warming began in the late 1980s, but it does not exceed the level of the 1930s yet. Average spring, summer, autumn temperatures calculated for the periods 1984-2013, 1994-2013 and 2004-2013's years were the warmest ones among any similar periods during the past 211 years.


The article discusses the technical solutions of sound-absorbing and sound-insulating enclosures for devices that are sources of ultrasonic noise (sound frequencies range of 10-40 kHz). Due to the high health risk of employees operating ultrasonic technological devices and the fact that they are in close proximity to these devices, it is necessary to use an effective measure to reduce this risk, i.e. sound-insulating enclosures. So far, however, the rules for the use of such casings and the sound-insulating and sound-absorbing properties of their materials (in this frequency range) have not been defined. The article presents the results of own research on the impact of the materials used to make enclosures, linings of casings and the presence of openings (hole) in casings on the level of noise emitted by ultrasonic devices that penetrates into the environment.


Little is known about how environments might support or hinder children's developing ability to engage executive functions (EFs) in a self-directed way, without reminders from adults about what they should do, and when. Parents spend a great deal of time with their children early in development. One possibility is that specific parenting behaviors support children's autonomous decision making facilitating improvements in children's self-directed EF. To test this possibility, this study investigated the relationship between parenting behavior and children's self-directed EF using the Colorado Longitudinal Twin Sample. Maternal intrusiveness, detachment, and affective involvement were coded from a co-play construction task that mothers completed with their children at age 5. Selfdirected EF was measured when the same children were ages 4 and 7 via a semantic verbal fluency (VF) task. In this task, children attempt to generate examples of a category and can decide on their own when to switch from one subcategory to another. In a series of linear regression models, no significant relationships were observed between children's self-directed EF and maternal intrusiveness, detachment, or other affective behaviors. These null results are interpreted in light of questions related to construct validity for the present measures of maternal autonomy support. Future research addressing these complex questions regarding environmental influences on child selfdirectedness may benefit from attention to methodological and measurement


The nonuniformity of an infrared focal plane array(IRFPA) has an influence on the performance of an imaging system with the IRFPA.The two point correction method based on the response of a detector has a low veracity.To reduce the error resulting from the nonunifornity and hence to improve the correction accuracy,the multiple point correction method and the piecewise linear interpolation method are used in linear correction.An embedded IRFPA nonuniformity correction system based on a digital signal processor(DSP) is designed.Experimental results show that the features of this system are fast operation and good correction effectiveness.


Crystallographic properties such as polymorphs and crystal orientations of calcium carbonate formed in biological systems can be controlled by interactions between organic matrices and inorganic substances. We have attempted to reveal such control mechanisms, using a polymerized Langmuir-Blodgett film of 10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid (PDA) as an organic matrix with highly regulated molecular alignment. Only calcite crystals were precipitated on the polymerized PDA film, even though in presence of Mg 2+ ions which were reported to enhance aragonite formation in previous works. The calcite precipitates were aligned on the PDA film with their a-axes in parallel to the polymerization direction. Calcite structure does not give a reasonable match over the molecular alignment of the PDA film along its a-axis. A concerted mechanism of geometric matching and stereochemical effect should determine the polymorphs and directions of calcium carbonate crystals on the organic matrices.


Multimode fiber (MMF) is attractive for a variety of applications requiring a large number of spatially overlapped modes including biophotonics and telecommunications. Superimposing these modes at the input by controlling the amplitude and phase of each individual mode can form arbitrarily structured light at the distal end of the MMF, which provides the possibility for ultra-thin fiber endoscopy, miniature multi-photon microscopy, and remote beam forming. Realistic deployment of this technology for example in a flexible endoscope would require a technique to continuously calculate the proper input modal superpositions over a large bandwidth as the fiber is perturbed without access to the distal end of the fiber. Here, we propose a single-ended channel estimation scheme which can measure broad-band MMF transfer matrix $\mathbf {H}$ at the transmitter employing reflective spatial pilots at the distal end of the MMF. Broadband multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) preprocessing is realized through electro-optic modulation for undoing mode scrambling, mitigating modal dispersion and achieving remote coherence control. We demonstrate spatial and temporal mode focusing at the receiver over an MMF guiding six spatial and polarization modes.


In this demonstration, we show our ongoing work called MOVi+ that extends MOVi (Mobile Opportunistic Video-on-demand) for improving the scalability in terms of number of mobile clients. By exploiting sustainable segment-based caching-enabled switch, MOVi+ increases the opportunity of peer-to-peer connectivity, which can eventually service more number of mobile clients than original MOVi with shorter startup time, better video quality, and playout continuity.


Wind and mini/micro hydro electric generation systems are gaining popularity due to their self sustaining attributes. The Self Excited Induction Generators (SEIGs) are most viable generating machines for such applications due to certain merits of these machines. However, in-spite of carrying excellent fault tolerant and rugged construction, their biggest drawback is an inherently poor voltage regulation. This paper presents a simple method for voltage control of a single phase, capacitor excited induction generator. The voltage control strategy adopted for the modeling is based on series connected static capacitor compensation in the main winding of SEIG. The excitation (shunt) capacitance is accommodated in the auxiliary winding to facilitate voltage buildup of the generator. The simulations are carried out by generating programs in MATLAB M-file to get various performance characteristics of SEIG. In order to verify the optimality of the derived model, experimental verification of results of shunt model is carried out on a 1 hp, 220/230 V, single phase induction motor working as SEIG. Reasonable agreement between simulated and experimental results is observed. The obtained results explicitly exhibit the improved voltage regulation and substantially enhanced steady state loading limit of SEIG.


The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2002, came to the end of its first phase in 2010. Thus we felt that this was an appropriate theme for a discussion meeting jointly sponsored by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Royal Society of London (in June 2010). Adoption of the GSPC – by the parties to the CBD and implemented through international organizations – as a framework to address the importance of plants in sustaining biodiversity of all organisms is unique; it was also much more ambitious than any other conservation measure ever adopted. It consisted of 16 outcome-oriented targets across five major objectives and tried to describe the targets in ways that could be measured, to one degree or another. Like many international agreements, it was subject to varying interpretations and retained flexibility for implementation at national and local levels, so that interpretations were uniform in neither content nor intent. The GSPC nonetheless stands as a remarkable document and at least a limited success. The problem of bringing together scientists (from botanical gardens, museums and universities), conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and politicians to develop policies that then need to be implemented by national governments was a major challenge. The limitations imposed by this process are reflected in the ambiguous wording of some of the targets in the GSPC. The flexibility of the targets also made the Strategy easier to promote and more adaptable to local conditions, so they were not necessarily a disadvantage. However, if the second phase (2011– 2020) is to succeed, there needs to be improved dialogue between all parties in both planning and implementation. Again, this process is pushing back the barriers that have previously prevented such concerted international activity, and so these too are worth considering further to determine how they can be minimized in the second phase. The successes of the GSPC were partly due to the formation of networks that promoted the Strategy and guided its implementation and the identification of a facilitating organisation that would be responsible for progress towards each target. Little or no progress was often a symptom of lack of engagement between, or availability of, appropriate actors and passive facilitation. Many botanical gardens and conservation NGOs accepted the challenges of the GSPC and played major roles in promoting it internationally and within their own respective spheres of influence, and without this involvement, successes would have been limited. One could argue that a document such as the GSPC really was not necessary for action to occur, but just having a formal, internationally agreed strategy provided a common focus for activity and made it more likely that governments would accept it and put resources into local implementation, so it acted as a nucleating agent, precipitating action when there would have been little or none without it. Having realized the enormous challenges facing the plant conservation community, scientists in the movement worked hard to translate their priorities into targets that governments could understand and believe to be tractable, thus making compromises but increasing the likelihood of broad adoption and implementation. It was an opportunity seized, and a timely evaluation of the GSPC in terms of the general process of combining science and policy could benefit not only phase II of the GSPC, but also the general process with the possible outcome of increased incorporation of science into policy-making. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 166, 213–216.


Objectives The purpose of this study was to look at the exhibitions that are naturally expressed in children's play, and to see how children-led exhibitions appear and what their meanings are.
Methods From November 21, 2019 to February 21, 2020, 18 children in a 4-year-old class participated and observed at a workplace daycare center located in Seoul. Data was collected. Based on the collected cases, meaningfully described dialogues were extracted through the process of 'transcription-coding-topic generation', and analyzed by categorizing them into 5 areas according to context.
Results Depending on the purpose and intention of the children, children's exhibitions are 'exhibits without an audience only for me', 'exhibits that I want to show to someone', 'exhibits to play afterwards', 'exhibits to keep safely and to possess'. It was categorized as 'Exhibition'. From secret private exhibitions that only oneself knows, to the types of exhibitions that change and expand while communicating with the members of the daycare center (children, teachers, parents, etc.), they appeared in a new and colorful appearance as they gradually changed. Children's play was exhibited as a single scene, and as time passed and the exhibition changed again, the circulation of play and exhibition was meaningful as a way for children to communicate with the world.
Conclusions Children's exhibitions were not simply intended to show the outcome of the work, but were a process that contained experiments and challenges that followed by play. Through exhibitions expressed in play, children expressed what they were interested in as a representation, and exhibited them in their own way to establish their own identity. By paying attention to the value of exhibitions led by children as a process of play where children's learning takes place, teachers should support children so that they can exhibit them in any way they want.


1/12 This article aims to reflect, based on Winnicott's theory of maturation, on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and measures of social isolation in the adolescents' mental health. Some of the adolescents' paradoxical experiences when facing the pandemic are: need for separation from parents or caregivers and confinement; need for group coexistence and social isolation; need for continued care by society and blockage or changes in service priorities. This population experiences the impossibility of carrying out the healthy processes of maturation, inserted in an invasive and scarcely supportive environment, which may result in a generation of sick adults and adults characterized by the development of a false self. This study sheds light on the ideo-affective life of a population that has been overlooked during the pandemic and brings important reflections on interprofessional practices aimed at adolescents.


Brief survey of book cover illustration art by Maritime artists dating from 1979 to 1986. The organizers comment on the state of book publishing and printing in Nova Scotia as well as on the pairing of book and image.


The integration of local wisdom in learning is still lacking. Teachers are still not able to integrate local wisdom into learning. This study aims to create digital teaching materials oriented to Balinese local wisdom for fifth grade elementary school. This research is development research with ADDIE model. Data is classified into two, namely qualitative data and quantitative data. Data collection techniques using a questionnaire technique. Questionnaires were used to measure the validity and practicality of digital teaching materials. Validity was tested by two experts, namely material experts, media experts, and design experts. Practicality was assessed by 8 teachers and 8 fifth grade elementary school students. The data were analyzed descriptively quantitatively. The results of this study indicate that the analysis of the validity test shows that the overall average validation is 3.84 and is in the very valid category. The practicality of these digital teaching materials shows that the average teacher assessment of the practicality of digital teaching materials is 3.78 and is in the very practical category. The student's assessment was obtained at 3.65 which was in the very practical category. The t-test shows that the value of Sig.(2-tailed) <0.05 is significant. So, digital teaching materials oriented to Balinese local wisdom to improve students' cultural literacy on the Ecosystem material for grade V elementary school which is very valid, very practical, and effective.


The purpose of this study was to catch the present conditions of foreign school in Gyeonggi Province and to analysis the needs assessmemt of foreign school. The result of this research will be a help to improve the educational environments of foreigner and to attract foreign capital and to create a highly competitive and successful business environment increase investment of foreigner. Based upon a research, foreigners dwell in Gyeonggi Province were increased but quality school run short. It was necessary to found an additional foreign school in Gyeonggi Province. A foreign school is a key element in the investment decision for foreign employees as they seek quality education for their school-age dependent children. These employees expect good facilities, excellent curriculum and professional instruction for their children. Gyeonggi Province should be committed to establishing all the infrastructure elements necessary, including an exemplary foreign school, to attract foreign capital and to create a highly competitive and successful business environment. An additional foreign school will be a help in providing a better environment for foreign education in Gyeonggi Province.


Educational development of a nation is determined by the quality of school education imparted by the teachers to the students as it is a significant stage of education that helps in a child's overall development. At this level, teachers perform their teaching responsibilities and they serve as a role model for their students. As far the school administration is concerned, school principal work as a supervisor, controller and coordinator for the speedy completion of all the activities within the school. It is pertinent to acknowledge here that the democratic environment of the school represents a creative role in providing desirable education to the students. In a school, teachers are responsible to advance the activities school education through fullest use of their capabilities. However, school authorities are equally liable to ensure everyone's involvement in taking decisions, encourage teaching staff for mutual cooperation and ensure availability of adequate number of teachers in the school for promoting coordinated school environment and attaining the objectives laid down by the government. Every organisation is controlled by its environment. Therefore, it is urgent to understand the nature of organisational environment which has become the top most priority in the modern days. In the present scenario, government schools are the main providers of school education in the country, therefore, it is the matter of fact that the teachers in these schools are overburdened with 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Evening Studies-Multi Disciplinary Research Centre, Panjab University, Chandigarh, ISSN: 2249-2496Impact Factor: 7.081 855 International Journal of Research in Social Sciences http://www.ijmra.us, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com work as they are assigned large numbers of extra duties to perform which lead them to the job dissatisfaction. Apart from it, the environment of the school also influences the level of job satisfaction of teachers. This paper is an attempt to check the impact of organisational environment on job satisfaction of school teachers. This paper is divided in to four sections: Section-I deals with the objectives, hypotheses, importance and research methodology of the study, Section-II discusses about job satisfaction and school environment, Section-III presents the responses of teachers regarding their satisfaction and Section IV focuses on the suggestions and conclusion.


As one of the most important food resource,wheat plays a significant role in food security of China.Studying the consumption of wheat and analyzing its trend can provide a reliable data for making suitable policies to realize the balance between supporting and consumption and further to ensure food security in China.Data on Chinese wheat consumption was obtained from FAO-food balance sheet and China statistical yearbook from 1980-2013,and was analyzed by SPSS 12.0software.The results showed that total wheat consumption in China was steadily increasing over the past 30 years,but the trend of food consumption of wheat per capita was obviously different between urban and rural areas;with the ration of food usage decreased,the rate of wheat for feed and processing increased;consumption structure of wheat reflected the diversification of consumption coexisted with competition with multi-choice at same time.In the future,food manufacturers should improve the production of convenience food made from wheat and tailored flour to cater to the needs of people based on nutrition and health.


The introduction and rapid development of drone technology have resulted in several practical applications and new avenues for investigation. But just as there are two sides to every coin, there are also two sides to every technological advancement. Drones are being used in a variety of criminal endeavors, from drug trafficking to arms smuggling. Here, we'll be focusing on the criminal drones used near borders or other places where security is a concern. Our goal is to examine multiple drone technology both FPV and NON FPV and conduct drone forensic operations on captured or downed drones, with the goal of developing a standardized operating procedure for drones.


Indonesian citizens who use motorized vehicles are increasing every year. Every motorcyclist in Indonesia must wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. Even though there are rules that require motorbike riders to wear helmets, there are still many motorists who disobey the rules. To overcome this, police officers have carried out various operations (such as traffic operation, warning, etc.). This is not effective because of the number of police officers available, and the probability of police officers make a mistake when detecting violations that might be caused due to fatigue. This study asks the system to detect motorcyclists who do not wear helmets through a surveillance camera. Referring to this reason, the Circular Hough Transform (CHT), Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG), and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) are used. Testing was done by using images taken from surveillance cameras divided into 200 training data and 40 testing data obtained an accuracy rate of 82.5%.


Machine reading comprehension is a natural language understanding task where the computing system is required to read a text and then find the answer to a specific question posed by a human. Large-scale and high-quality corpora are necessary for evaluating machine reading comprehension models. Furthermore, machine reading comprehension (MRC) for the health sector has potential for practical applications; nevertheless, MRC research in this domain is currently scarce. This article presents UIT-ViNewsQA, a new corpus for the Vietnamese language to evaluate MRC models for the healthcare textual domain. The corpus consists of 22,057 human-generated question-answer pairs. Crowd-workers create the questions and answers on a collection of 4,416 online Vietnamese healthcare news articles, where the answers are textual spans extracted from the corresponding articles. We introduce a process for creating a high-quality corpus for the Vietnamese machine reading comprehension task. Linguistically, our corpus accommodates diversity in question and answer types. In addition, we conduct experiments and compare the effectiveness of different MRC methods based on the neural networks and transformer architectures. Experimental results on our corpus show that the MRC system based on ALBERT architecture outperforms the neural network architectures and the BERT-based approach, an exact match score of 65.26% and an F1-score of 84.89%. The best machine model achieves about 10.90% F1-score less efficiently than humans, which proves that exploring machine models on UIT-ViNewsQA to surpass humans is challenging for researchers in the future. Our corpus is publicly available on our website: http://nlp.uit.edu.vn/datasets for research purposes.


EDITOR—Schwitzer reviewed the media and evidence.1 One of my favourite sections of the UK National Electronic Library for Health site (www.nelh.nhs.uk) is Hitting …


Computer activities to enhance your K 2 classroom Aligned with NCTE standards. Enliven, enhance, and update your lessons by integrating the resources and tools found on the Internet and on the classroom computer. This book is full of fascinating ideas and resources that will inspire both teachers and students. Includes Tips and Shortcuts; A quick reference for Microsoft Excel basics and Power Point tips. Grades K-2. Includes instructions for Microsoft Office 2007. CD contains Web resources and example files from PowerPoint, Excel, Inspiration and Kidspiration. Tips & Shortcuts: * PowerPoint Layout and Printing * PowerPoint Graphics and Lines * PowerPoint Special Effects * Using Google to find PowerPoint Presentations Teacher Tools: * Desktop Links * Flash Cards * Greeting Card * Poster * Predicting the Plot * Sticky Notes * Table Tents * Uncovering the Story Slide Show Activities * Circle Challenge * I m Thankful For... Publishing Activities: * ABC Quilt * Acrostic (Weather) * Animal Classification * Building Healthy Bodies * Class Zoo * Counting Flipper * Design Your Own Flag * Farm City T-Chart * How Much is 100? * Mini Book * Pizza Glyph * T-rrific Web Resources * K 2 Teacher * Language Arts * Math * Science * Social Studies Spreadsheet Activities: * Eye Color Column Graph * Pizza Pie Graph * Temperature Graph * Pet Pictograph Part 1 * Pet Pictograph Part 2 Inspiration/Kidspiration Activities: * Brainstorming * Category Corners * Glyph * Number Autobiography * Patterns * Wouldn't It Be Cool If... * Venn Diagram CD contains examples from Powerpoint,Excel, and Web resources. Each activity specifies: * Grade Level * Appropriate Software * Materials/Equipment Needed * Web Resources * Teacher's Role * Student Instructions


Introduction Although representing a major goal of antihypertensive treatment, blood pressure control is far from being achieved in current clinical practice [1]. Epidemiological surveys carried out in different parts of the world have shown that no more than 25–29% of treated hypertensives display blood pressure values 140/90 mmHg [1]. The situation has been shown to be not so much different in clinical trials, in which patients' and doctors' motivation to reduce blood pressure at goal is greater than that usually displayed in daily clinical practice [2]. In addition, data collected in the context of a subproject of the European Lacidipine Study on Atherosclerosis (ELSA) have recently shown that not only is it difficult to achieve blood pressure control, but also it is problematic to maintain it throughout time [3]. Finally, a further element that makes the whole matter even more complex refers to the evidence that an uncontrolled home and/or ambulatory blood pressure carries a risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality similar to (and in some instances even greater than) that found for sphygmomanometric blood pressure [4].


The Davitt Awards for crime writing by Australian women were established by Sisters in Crime Australia in 2001 in response to the low number of women winning awards within Australia's crime-writing Ned Kelly Awards. In the 17 years since their establishment, the Davitts have garnered greater recognition for women crime writers. However, it is less clear what impact they have had on, if indeed they have wounded, the masculine nature of the crime genre itself in which solo, tough-guy private eyes solve crimes through a combination of reason and violence. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the winners of the Ned Kelly Awards Best Fiction winners and the Davitt Awards Best Adult Novel winners. It provides a quantitative comparison of the gender of the authors within each award as well as of three narrative elements relating to the main protagonist of each novel: their gender, their occupation and their family status. These three elements, the paper argues, are useful signifiers of gendered approaches to the genre. It concludes that the Davitt Awards have provided spaces for less masculine crime fiction within Australia through the greater recognition of female writers and protagonists and through formulating protagonists with professional and personal experiences that fall outside the limitations of hegemonic masculinity. The wounding of masculinity, however, is non-fatal, with the persistence of masculinist tropes in both the Ned Kelly and Davitt adult fiction winners.


Survey data are a valuable source of archaeological information for tracing shifting patterns of human settlement, and they permit interpretive reconstructions of the changing organizational structure of regionally defined communities. In the semiarid highlands of central Jordan, Early Bronze Age survey data from the Madaba Plain region reveal a shift from a pattern of isolated site clusters concentrated along wadi systems or around perennial springs during the Late Chalcolithic/EB I to a more dense pattern configured in the form of a settlement hierarchy during the EB II-III. Models calculating the sustaining areas and rank-size distribution of known EB II-III sites, however, indicate a settlement system with a low level of integration and centralization. Rather than a truly urban culture, what emerged was a rural landscape composed of communities that remained self sustaining and sociopolitically autonomous while participating in limited production intensification. The settlement density reached during the EB II-III was reversed in the EB IV, with sites again confined to the principal wadi systems and springs in the region.


Spinnaker Tower is the focal point of the revitalised harbour at Portsmouth. Intended as an international landmark on the south coast, the tower will be 165 m high.


On the basis of two sets of strings ,which are produced by symbol representation of time series, an algorithm for finding pattern of non synchronous time series is put forward. The main idea of the algorithm is to obtain fleetly a pattern which can distinguish two sets of strings completely by the use of pruning method. So every time series including this pattern can be find quickly. The experiment result demonstrates that the algorithm has a good application foreground in the area of search device fault pattern and flight state pattern of aircraft from large numbers of flight data.


The concept of quality of life broadly encompasses on how an individual measures the goodness of multiple aspects of their life, as there are number of challenges to develop a meaningful understanding of the quality of life. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that contribute to the quality of life among undergraduate SQS students. The respondents of this cross-sectional study were 273 undergraduate students from School of Quantitative Sciences, which was selected via convenient and snowball non-probability sampling method. The collection of the primary data was performed using a questionnaire including demographic and quality of life questions. Analysis of the data was conducted through Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 2.6. All the 32 items are tested for its' reliability using the Cronbach's alpha, and KMO's. The values are 0.891 and 0.876 respectively. According to the results, there are six factors that contribute/ influence the QoL for the undergraduate SQS students that involved in this study, which are family, friends, academic, social wellbeing, physical and financial, and environment. The value of Cronbach alpha for each factor indicates that the reliability of internal consistency is high and reliable and the KMO's value for the factor pattern is meritorious and the Bartlett's test of sphericity also resulted with a significant value of p < 0.05.


The present invention relates to a method and a signal distribution system to subscribers in order and it comprises: (a) storing at least a valid identification code for the subscriber terminal to the central station, (b) broadcasting promotions of services available to subscribers, each of which is associated with a specific promotion code, (c) selecting one of said services and entering a selected code service promotion in a terminal where the subscriber resides, (d) automatically reading an identification number associated with the terminal in response to the input of a selected promotion code, (e) treating the identification number and the code promoting selected following an encryption algorithm, and the generation by one of an encrypted code event query, (f) sending the event request code to a verification center, (g) decryption decryption center request code of event, the verification number with valid identification codes, and sending a unique password to the terminal and the selected promotion code, (h) the entry of the password in the terminal where the subscriber resides and ...


Time is currently considered a negative factor, including our inexorable aging. The question is therefore worth asking. To answer, we must describe the nature and properties of time, and determine if it was discovered or invented. The contribution of ancient authors will help us all along our investigation. Thanks to archaeology we shall specify when, where and how time emerged, and we shall find out if it poses a physical threat.


A case of traumatic femoral arteriovenous fistula in a 3-year-old female is reported. The fistula is thought to have resulted from venipuncture at a level distal to the inguinal ligament where the femoral artery is immediately anterior to the vein.
 This case emphasizes the importance of performing femoral venipuncture at a level near the inguinal ligament where the artery is lateral to the vein. Arteriovenous fistula is demonstrated to be a potential hazard of attempts at femoral venipunctures.


The subject of this thesis is architecture that inspires fantasy and the important role that various buildings play in helping us understand and gain insight into both the physical and social contexts in which they exist. A collection of five fantasy-inspiring buildings, constructed during different decades and in different cities will be examined. Each will be the subject of both a short story revealing one viewer's fantasy, and a critical analysis that reflects upon the story by discussing specific building characteristics that spark the viewer's imagination. From these narrative studies will emerge design criteria and strategies for architecture that inspires fantasy to then be utilized in a design of a restaurant for the nuclear age. Thesis Supervisor: William Lyman Porter Title: Professor of Architecture and Planning


Smart grids are cyber-physical systems that integrate an information and communication technology (ICT) network with the existing power system infrastructure. As smart grids become more mature, the interdependency between the cyber and physical systems becomes stronger. Because of this, the traditional reliability assessment, power grid operations, and power system security assessment techniques, where the physical layer of the power system is considered in isolation and without considering the impact of the communication network, are not sufficient for providing a comprehensive picture of the system anymore. Hence, an interdependent study is needed where both the physical layer and the communication network are taken into account. The objective of this paper is to provide a survey of some of the latest studies and findings in the literature about the impact of communication imperfections on smart grid reliability and operation. Also, a brief overview of some of the recent cyber security studies related to power grid operation has been presented. Finally, some current research questions and future trends in smart grid communications and cyber security are discussed.


This paper presents the VLSI architecture for the MacroBlockIP module of video encoding according to the MPEG-4 standard.The pixel compression module,which consists of the repetitive padding,the motion compensation,the texture padding,2D-DCT/IDCT,Q/IQ,the AC/DC prediction,supports the tools for the texture processing part in MPEG-4 codec.The VLSI architecture and implementation in terms of VHDL are designed in the Xilinx ISE6.1i environment and some simulations are carried out in tools of electronic design automation (EDA).The experimental results show that the VLSI processor designed in this paper can perform correct logic functions and can achieve a real-time coding for MPEG-4 Core Profile and Level 2.


Inulin is a complex carbohydrate that belongs to a class of compounds known as fructans. Inulin has been consumed from plant sources by mankind for centuries, and is most concentrated in chicory, jerusalem artichoke, garlic, leek and onion. This review summarizes and categorizes the nutritional benefits of its intake as part of the human nutrition. Inulin is thought to share many of the properties of soluble dietary fibers, such as the ability to lower blood lipids and stabilize blood glucose. Additionally, inulin has been shown to enhance the growth of bifidobacteria and lactobacilli and enhance the gut environment by inhibiting growth or activities of some pathogenic bacteria. There is some scientific evidence that inulin decreases risk of coronary heart disease and haves immunomodulation effects. Because of its properties inulin-type fructans are gaining attention in recent years. This review focuses on nutritional properties of inulin as functional food and prebiotic, and health benefits from its inclusion in daily diet. In conclusion the


In 2011 researchers at Edinburgh Napier University, supported by the UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition, investigated the extent to which funded research projects in the domain of library and information science (LIS) influence practice in the UK. The Research in Librarianship Impact Evaluation Study (RiLIES) focused particularly on identifying factors that increase or hinder the impact of research findings on those who deliver library and information services. This paper presents the main findings of the RiLIES project as derived from: (1) a review of the LIS literature on impact; (2) a practitioner poll; (3) case studies of five LIS research projects identified as "impactful"; (4) three sector-specific focus groups; and (5) a validation survey. The findings highlight the evident disconnect between the LIS research and practitioner communities. They confirm that the level of impact that a research project enjoys depends on a number of factors, most importantly how it is planned and conceived, the extent to which practitioners are involved in its execution, and how its findings are reported. This work also demonstrates how organisational factors related to institutional and infrastructural support can engender receptive target audiences for research output. The paper offers new insight into the influence that research leadership and sponsorship, as well as choices related to the involvement of practitioners in research, play in the determination of research impact. In particular, these findings highlight a preference for face-to-face channels for the dissemination of research results that is greater than has been previously reported, and reveal the role of social media in raising awareness of research for the first time in work on this theme. The presentation is of particular interest to those keen to enhance the impact of their LIS research projects, and to practitioners who would like to become more engaged in LIS research. Conference web site at http://www.isast.org/importantdates/qqml2012.html


This paper explores the literature review on 1:1 laptop initiatives in America's digital schools and school district efforts to integrate technology into classroom instruction to maximize student learning. The findings indicate that the much needed instructional integration has not kept pace with the increase in available instructional technology tools. Therefore, there is need for school districts to focus on appropriate technology development activities that could help teachers and students to overcome the barriers in technology integration. Further, school leaders must make sure that the technology integration practices translate to proactive laptop implementation to enhance effective student-centered learning in the digital age.


ObjectiveTo explore the clinical curative effect and safety of Allitrid injection curing deep mycosis infection.MethodsBased on 23 inpatients with deep mycosis infection in our hospital.Therapy with Allitrid injection,dosage with 60 mg·d~(-1),vein dripping injected,period of treatment was 7 to 14 days.And evaluated the clinical curative effect,bad response and bacteriology,respectively.ResultsTotal efficiency and mycosis infection changed negative after therapy were 73.9% and 56.5%,respectively,there were not badness,and not damage on liver and kidney.ConclusionAllitrid injection curing deep mycosis infection is safe and effective.


(Z)-N-[5-(3-Aryl)-[1, 2, 4]oxadiazoly]-N-[(methylcarbamoyl)methyl]benzamidoximes (3) were synthesized through the reaction of 3-methylglycociamidine (2) with primary nitroalkanes (1) and acetyl chloride. The structural determination of 3 by single crystal X-ray analysis is reported.


Corporate defence represents an organisation's program for self defence or self protection. This paper explains the concept in more detail and explores where business continuity fits into the corporate defence paradigm. The changing nature of corporate defence in the 21st century is discussed and the resulting opportunities which present themselves for those involved in business continuity initiatives are identified. The paper is designed to provoke a certain degree of thinking outside the box and encourage future progress in this area.


Abstract I propose a theory of punishment that is unfamiliar in the West, according to which the state normally ought to have offenders reform their characters and compensate their victims in ways the offenders find burdensome, thereby disavowing the crime and tending to foster improved relationships between offenders, their victims, and the broader society. I begin by indicating how this theory draws on under-appreciated ideas about reconciliation from the Global South, and especially sub-Saharan Africa, and is distinct from the protection and retribution theories that have dominated the Western philosophy of punishment for about 250 years. Then I argue that it neatly avoids objections to them and is prima facie plausible in its own right. I conclude that this reconciliation theory of state punishment should be taken seriously by philosophers of law and policy makers.


Pedagogy of the Primate of the Millennium, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński

An analysis of source texts and selected biographical studies of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński was carried out from the perspectives of the processes of secularization taking place in Poland in the year AD 2020, the radical attacks of left-wing politicians on the Catholic Church and its relationship with the current governing coalition known as the United Right [Zjednoczona Prawica]. This strikes at the foundations of the Second Vatican Council and the role of the Polish Church in regaining the nation's freedom from socialist domination in 1989. The author therefore recalls not only the exceptional merits of the Polish Primate during the period of totalitarianism of the "People's Poland" [Polska Ludowa], but also his message to educator-practitioners, parents, and scientists.


A method for estimation of volume of alkyl bonded phases for high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is presented. It is based on application of macromolecular probes, which are able to elute from the HPLC column without entering the bonded groups and thus to monitor their volume. The appropriate mathematical expression of results were looked for and it was concluded that the optimum represent polynomials of second degree.


OBJECTIVE To establish and evaluate a co-culture model of blood-brain barrier(BBB) using primary rat brain capillary endothelial cells(BCEC) and astrocytes.METHODSPrimary cultures of BCEC and astrocytes were prepared from SD rats.Two kinds of cells were identified through cell morphology and immunohistochemistry.No-contact co-culture BBB model in vitro was developed and transendotheliar resistance and permeability of fluorescein sodium were measured.Additionally in vitro BBB permeabilities of six compounds were measured by LC-MS and compared their results with in vivo from literatures.RESULTS The cultured BCEC possessed the spindle-shaped morphology and expressed factor Ⅷ antigen.The cultured astrocytes possessed cell process morphology and expressed GFAP antigen.Transendothelial electric resistance(TEER) and permeability of fluorescein sodium were(373±41)Ω·cm2 and(0.34±0.14)×10-3 cm·min-1,respectively.These values were consistent with literatures.The correlation(R2=0.7679,P0.05) between in vitro permeability of selected six compounds and the in vivo published data was calculated.CONCLUSION TEER and permeability of in vitro BBB model have similar properties as that of in vivo BBB model.This model can simulate environment in vivo BBB and be used for drug screening study.


Human ritual behaviour involves a component of sign-symbolism which notably heightens the complexity of its analysis. For participants and observers alike, the meaning of ritual may be ambiguous and arbitrary. Furthermore, the meaning of ritual and its content may change independently of each other with time and circumstance. Using the Nkula ceremony of the Ndembe people of Central Africa as his data, Professor Turner has amply demonstrated for this Symposium the internal coherence of ritual behaviour and the complexity of its discovery (this Symposium, pp. 295- 303). The present paper is written from a different point of view—it emphasizes the external coherence or 'fit' of ritual with other aspects of a way of life. The data presented here include the behaviour observed during some of the ritual events by means of which (and at a very generalized level of meaning) the Pokot of East Africa anticipate the summer solstice (1).


A new genus and three new species of Charopidae (Pinwheel Snails) from differing habitats in Queensland and New South Wales are described: Bindiropa irwinae gen. et sp. nov. from the Carnarvon Gorge Section of Carnarvon National Park, south-central Queensland; Stanisicaropa covidurnus sp. nov. from St Bees Island, mid-eastern Queensland; and Gyrocochlea occidentalis sp. nov. from the western Border Ranges, south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales. An additional putative Gyrocochlea species from the Richmond Range, north-eastern New South Wales, represented by a single damaged shell, is figured but not described.


Abstract UAV autonomous landing refers to the UAV lands on only depending on airborne navigation equipment and flight control system, and ultimately achieves a safe landing. To achieve self-landing, UAV must have the ability to self-navigation and positioning, so that the high-precision visual navigation positioning technology is the key to achieve UAV self-landing technology.This paper concentrating on the noise effects on the pictures obtained during visual landing process of UAV, it has introduced the gravity of classical physics to image pixel, come up with a mathematical expression for the strength of gravity between pixels, then conformed the adaptive window by the gravity between pixels and performed corresponding filtering processing. It is shown by the experimental results that this algorithm has a great improvement on image denoising and detail preserving when compared with the traditional median filtering and switching median filtering algorithms.


Data warehouse (DW) is the basis of systems for operational data analysis (OLAP-Online Analytical Processing). Data extracted from different sources transforms and load in DW. Proper organization of this process, which is called ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) has important significance in creation of DW and analytical data processing. Forms of organization, methods of realization and modeling of ETL processes are considered in this paper.


The development of community library is an important target for the construction of international metropolis.It is of great importance to the metroplitan economical,political,cultural and educational construction.


Abstract Dinosaur Provincial Park, located in the Red Deer River valley 180 km ESE of Calgary, exposes the upper 60-90 m of the Judith River Formation - the penultimate wedge of foreland molasse. Within the Plains, this unit is the youngest hydrocarbon producer and contains significant sub-bituminous coal reserves. Twelve km of continuous N-S outcrop profiling across the western tract of badlands have revealed two distinct paleochannel types; each contains abundant vertebrate fossils. The more common paleochannel type contains clear evidence of fining-upward lateral accretion outlined by alternating beds of slightly bentonitic sandstone, carbonaceous mud/siltstones and less commonly, extensive thin ironstones. Their meanders, 2-16 m thick, expanded preferentially to the NNE and SSE before abandonment. A tidal origin is suggested by the complete coverage of mud-silt drapes on point bar surfaces and scarce evidence for high-energy events in overbank areas, although channel geometry closely resembles modern high-sinuosity rivers. Micropaleontological analyses are underway to help elucidate their origin. In contrast, the other paleochannel type comprises virtually mud-free, well-sorted sandstones that aggraded vertically in ribbon form. Up to 13 m thick, these channel sequences comprise co-sets of trough cross-beds up to 19.5 m wide representing lunate bar-forms and dune-size planar cross-beds; both structures generate SE sector means. These channels are envisaged as the hinterland drainage system, although a supplementary ebb-tidal influence cannot be ruled out. Both channel types display distinct vertical trends in their geometry and/or directional properties. Such trends, which are the focal point of ongoing regional subsurface studies, are predictive aids in locating fossil fuels.


The new approach to the anticancer agent rhizoxin D described herein does not cohere with the conventional logic of metathesis, according to which macrocycles are best closed at a disubstituted olefinic site; rather, the trisubstituted C11-C12 alkene flanked by an allylic -OH group served as the pivot point for synthesis. This motif was attained in good yield and excellent selectivity by a sequence of alkyne metathesis, trans-hydrostannation and cross coupling. Because the exact same substructure is prominently featured in numerous other natural products, the underpinning strategy, though unusual, might bear more general relevance.


An approach to continuous online detection and diagnosis of sensors multiple simultaneous faults with various degrees of deviations is presented. The FDD system is composed of a feature detector, a novel artificial neural quadruple network capable of performing rule-based operations and a modified ART-1 that can memorize the faults' history. An additional backward intermediate term flush memory is employed in the ART-1 to memorize faults history to eliminate external disturbances and noise. The feature detector is developed such that it is capable of providing a set of vectors of digital residuals over a full range and for various combinations of simultaneous faults. The system is successfully employed for a nuclear power plant waste treatment system's sensors FDD.


This paper sought to explore the dissemination of Covid-19-related information through websites in tertiary institutions in KwaZulu-Natal. The paper adopted a qualitative content analysis research method to collect Covid-19-related data from universities' websites. The paper sought to identify patterns in recorded communication, thus it systematically collected data from a set of texts. The paper targeted all the universities in KwaZulu-Natal, namely: the University of Zululand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mangosuthu University of Technology, and Durban University of Technology. Therefore, a census sampling was adopted to include all of them. The paper found that universities used their websites as pioneers for disseminating Covid-19-related information resources to their communities. The information posted on the universities' websites was used to educate staff and students about how to prevent themselves from contracting the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the paper noted that universities were playing a crucial role in protecting students and staff members, and slowing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic by encouraging vaccinations within the institutions. Therefore, the paper concluded that universities were strategically positioned to help the country in the fight against the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic by increasing vaccine uptake among students and staff members, providing relevant and crucial information about Covid-19 vaccination, promoting vaccine trust and confidence, and establishing supportive policies and practices that made getting vaccinated as easy and convenient as possible.


The following research is based on a strengths perspective for analyzing the effects of adaptation resilience on parenting stress. The subject were 170mothers whose children have developmental disabilities and attend pre-school and social welfare centers for early education. The results were following: 1) The order of dimensional scores from highest to lowest were social resources, structuralization of personality, social achievement, personal strengths, perception of future, strength of family cohesion. 2) The parenting stress of the subjects came out to be lower than average scoring 2.71 out of 5. Dimensionally, grief of parents came out to be the highest. 3) Adaptation resilience and parenting stress for subjects exhibited a negative correlation. Within adaptation resilience, the dimensions of perception of future, personal strengths, social resources came out to be factors that have significant effects on parenting stress. 4) factors relating to the mother's adaptation resilience were more important than general characteristics belonging to handicapped children and their mothers for the purpose of explaining and predicting parenting stress. ■ keyword :∣Mother of Developmental Disability∣Adaptation Resilience∣Parenting Stress∣ * 본 논문은 2012학년도 숭의여자대학교 학술연구비 지원에 의해 연구되었음. 접수일자 : 2013년 10월 01일 수정일자 : 2013년 10월 28일 심사완료일 : 2013년 11월 13일 교신저자 : 양심영, e-mail : email@example.com 학령 전 발달장애아 어머니의 적응유연성과 양육스트레스의 관계 281


After recalling some milestones (starting with the celebrated 'great debate' of April 26, 1920) which were laid on the way towards our understanding the origin and evolution of the Universe, we concentrate on some different and independent evidences that have been now collected of the fact that its expansion is accelerating. We then discuss a number of common problems of the postulated models to explain dark energy in a natural way, and finish by considering a family of non-local models which seems to exhibit quite nice properties. More specific details on the results obtained with this model will be given in the contribution by S. Vernov to these same proceedings.


Through the use of multiple methodologies and analytical approaches, this dissertation combines (1) sales control; (2) call center service; and (3) motivational theory to extend sales control literature beyond its current state, to consider the conflicting motivational perspectives an inside sales agent has to experience. To achieve this unification, this dissertation consists of three essays intended to: (1) identify the influence of autonomous and controlled motivation on operational sales outcome controls and performance; (2) explore the influence these motivators have on sales controls and sales performance; and, (3) understand the impact of autonomous and controlled motivation on sales agent tenure.


Background There are almost 4800 guide dog owners in the UK. If veterinary staff are not used to working with visually impaired clients their reactions can be awkward and show a lack of confidence and more work is needed to improve these skills. On this basis Guide Dogs Scotland were invited to spend a day with 2nd and 4th year veterinary nursing students to enable a greater understanding of visual impairments and enhance employability skills.


ATLAS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE. By BYROm BRAAMWELL, M.D. Vol. iii, Part III. Folio. (Edinburgh: Constable. I897.) THIS, the concluding part of Dr. BYROM BRAMWELL'5 great enterprise, contains fifteen plates, with title and index to the third volume. The subject most fully treated in this part is Pseudo-hypertrophic Paralysis and other Forms of Progressive Muscular Dystrophy, illustrated by reports of seventeen cases and five plates. The value of the reports is enhanced by histological examinations of the muscles and nervous system by Dr. Muir, Professor Sherrington, and others, so that they form a very valuable contribution to our knowledge of these rare diseases. In the plates are excellent photographs and drawings of the external configuration of the patients, and minute figures of the histological appearances. Other subjects treated are chlorosis and pernicious anaemia, in which diseases clinical investigation and therapeutics receive due attention, as well as pathology. There is a chapter on cyanosis and congenital heart disease, and, finally, one on alopecia areata, of which some excellent pictures are given. Among the plates are three most characteristic portraits of forms of insanity, and one of a case of mitral disease. There is also a good plate of lupus. Dr. Bramwell has well maintained the character of his work as being not merely an Atlas, but a splendidly illustrated treatise on clinical medicine. As such it is an achievement of which the British school of medicine may well be proud. We heartily congratulate the author upon the energy and perseverance which have brought this fine book to a successful termination. In conclusion, we would only express the hope that Dr. Bramwell's venture may receive due support from the profession. There is no similar work in any language which so well deserves to find a place in the library of the practitioner, not only for its scientific interest but for its practical value. When we want to refer to what is known about any important disease, it is refreshing to find, instead of the generalised statements of textbooks, always more or less one-sided, the salient features of the subject brought before the mind and the eye in this graphic and instructive manner. To those especially who live far from hospitals and museums such a collection as this will supply the place of oral and practical demonstration. This is in fact teaching by direct representation-far more really efficient than teaching by description.


Purpose – This study is an exploratory study aiming to explore whether different groups of manufacturing firms with similar business characteristics and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation approaches would experience different business outcomes from ERP implementation. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Cluster analysis with data collected from 256 Korean manufacturing firms was employed to identify groups of manufacturing companies having similar business characteristics and adopting similar ERP implementation approaches. Then, the differences in business outcomes from implementing ERP systems among these groups of companies were examined. Findings – Company size and production approaches are useful variables for grouping manufacturing firms into clusters of companies with similar characteristics. Additionally, large manufacturing firms with make-to-order production approach have significantly higher perceived benefits from implementing ERP systems regardi...


Abstract Using field data collected in northern Canadian communities between 1991 and 1995, this paper explores recent attempts by Canadian aboriginal peoples to determine and re-discover, on their own terms, what is meant by the expressions "traditional life" and "traditional culture." Faced with the infiltration into the north of rationalized and commercial "southern" sports and the values they imply, aboriginal Canadians have attempted to consolidate their cultural integrity through the staging of games-festivals. An examination of these games-festivals demonstrates a number of tensions or colliding identities not only between "outside" and aboriginal communities but also within aboriginal communities over the place and meaning of traditional forms of sport, games and other contests.


In the 21st century the traffic congestion is common problem. Due to traffic congestion the accident happened every day. In this paper I proposed to detect the accident on the CCTV camera through video statistics acquisition and image processing and provided the security through the block chain. Now these days it is very important to detect accident video and provided security. Many time people did for own purpose. So always need to provide the security for this kind of CCTV footage in real time. Anyone try and control the video integrity, due to this reason the hash value of the video also change. The hash value is mismatched with the value secure stored inside the blockchain. By using this method, the integrity of video proof cannot be disputable. In this paper, we applied trusted timestamp for verifying the video integrity. Trusted timestamping is an efficient method for verifying unmodified virtual information in a fixed particular point in time. CCTV videos have come to be a valid form of proof in court. Also this method to overcome some of those issues is to get admission to independent facts that such kind of events improves knowledge of what truly occurred in accident. It provides the more and clear information about the accident. After the detecting accident footage decentralized or distributed over the cloud. The security cell gets the data footage or video from cloud. There are the many technique to find detect the accident detection, ex-image processing accident detection, statistics acquisition and image processing ,Adaptive algorithm, Based on the object detection using the machine vision technique


Coaching as an approach to improving people's lives is based on a positive relationship and the philosophy that the learner is responsible for their own change. In a coach approach, the educator serves as a coach; a person to help the client succeed by "challenging and supporting a person or a team to develop ways of thinking, ways of being and ways of learning" (Berg & Karlsen, 2007). This article suggests the need for extension education to embrace the philosophy and practice of coaching as an approach to meeting the educational needs of the clients served.


Objective To assess the effectiveness of an activity programme in improving function, quality of life, and falls in older people in residential care. Design Cluster randomised controlled trial with one year follow-up. Setting 41 low level dependency residential care homes in New Zealand. Participants 682 people aged 65 years or over. Interventions 330 residents were offered a goal setting and individualised activities of daily living activity programme by a gerontology nurse, reinforced by usual healthcare assistants; 352 residents received social visits. Main outcome measures Function (late life function and disability instruments, elderly mobility scale, FICSIT-4 balance test, timed up and go test), quality of life (life satisfaction index, EuroQol), and falls (time to fall over 12 months). Secondary outcomes were depressive symptoms and hospital admissions. Results 473 (70%) participants completed the trial. The programme had no impact overall. However, in contrast to residents with impaired cognition (no differences between intervention and control group), those with normal cognition in the intervention group may have maintained overall function (late life function and disability instrument total function, P=0.024) and lower limb function (late life function and disability instrument basic lower extremity, P=0.015). In residents with cognitive impairment, the likelihood of depression increased in the intervention group. No other outcomes differed between groups. Conclusion A programme of functional rehabilitation had minimal impact for elderly people in residential care with normal cognition but was not beneficial for those with poor cognition. Trial registration Australian Clinical Trials Register ACTRN12605000667617.


Metallic glasses are materials that present absence of periodic atomic order of long scale and seem to be promising to application in the fields of science and engineering. They were first obtained in 1960 through the technique of rapid cooling with thinner thickness, but the development of new production techniques and the combination of elements allowed the production of amorphous condition in millimeter-thick alloys, which received the denomination of bulk metallic glasses. Two alloys of metallic glasses, with the Cu47.5Zr45.5Al5Er2 and Cu47.75Zr47.75Al4.5 compositions, were here studied. Their production was made through arc furnace, and the characterization through X-ray diffraction (XRD), with Cu Kα radiation, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), ultra-microhardness tester, and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), from Nanoscope IIIA. The analysis of the atomic structure of the Cu47.5Zr45.5Al5Er2 alloy showed great structural disorder, and the Cu47.75Zr47.75Al4.5 sample presented peaks arising from crystalline phases, like Zr4Cu2O (big cubic phase) formed due to the affinity between zirconium and oxygen, in the amorphous matrix. Using the AFM, the Cu47.5Zr45.5Al5Er2 sample presented the values of 2.15 nm from Ra (roughness average) and 3.14 nm from RMS (Root Mean Square). Another sample has shown better results of roughness, where Ra was 1.88 nm and the RMS was 2.53 nm. As it is known, roughness is an import tribological parameter in materials and lower values allow that less surface area is exposed to harmful atmospheric effects such as corrosion, as evidence of the advantage of the sample with erbium.


Further proliferation of products based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) relies on a better understanding of the various mechanisms that control the performance and failure of these devices.Adhesion, friction andwear at the nanometer size scale become critical and can be detrimental to the efficiency, power output and reliability of MEMS/NEMS devices. For example, adhesion is themajor cause of the failure of accelerometers used in automobile air bag triggering mechanisms and in micromirror components of commercial digital light processing (DLP) equipment. Wear has been found to compromise the performance of NEMS-based atomic force microscopy (AFM) data storage systems. In order to improve tribological performance, lubricants are applied to the MEMS/NEMS device surfaces. The ideal lubricant should be molecularly thick, easily applied, able to chemically bond to the micro/ nanodevice surface, insensitive to environment, and highly durable. An ionic liquid (IL) is a synthetic salt with a melting point below 100 C. A room temperature ionic liquid is a synthetic molten salt with melting points at or below room temperature. One or both of the ions are organic species. At least one ion has a delocalized charge such that the formation of a stable crystal lattice is prevented and the ions are held together by strong electrostatic forces. As a result of the poor coordination of the ions, these compounds are liquid below 100 C or even at room temperature. Ionic liquids are considered as potential lubricants. Their strong electrostatic bonding compared to covalently-bonded fluids, leads to very desirable lubrication properties. They also possess desirable properties such as negligible volatility, nonflammability, high thermal stability or high decomposition temperature, efficient heat transfer properties, low melting point, broad liquid range, as well as compatibility with lubricant additives. Unlike conventional lubricants that are electrically insulating, the cations and anions of the ionic liquid provide a continuous path for charge conduction. Thus, they can minimize the electrical contact resistance, and conducting lubricants are needed for various electrical applications. These liquids can also be used to mitigate arcing, which is a cause of electrical breakdown in sliding electrical contacts. In addition, ILs have high thermal conductivity which helps to dissipate heat during sliding. The use of ionic liquids instead of hydrocarbon base oils (such as highly reformed mineral oils) has the potential to dramatically reduce air emissions coming from by-products of hydrocarbon oxidation. They are being considered for MEMS/NEMS applications because of their high temperature stability, electrical conductivity, and superior lubrication properties. The durability of ionic liquid films on various metal and ceramic substrates has been investigated from the standpoint of film formation (wettability) and film removal (friction and wear),where itwas found that certain cations andanions exhibit better wetting, friction reduction and wear resistance properties. In general, ionic liquids exhibit better wettability on noble metal and ceramic surfaces than on non-noble metal surfaces. The flat imidazolium cation shows poorer wettability compared to bulkier cations such as ammonium and sulfonium. Among salts with the imidazolium cation, the presence of longer organic side chains lead to a reduction of the coefficient of friction. An anion effect is also observed, where oxygen-rich anions show better substrate wettability and lower wear compared to other imidazolium salts. Ionic liquids with the hexafluorophosphate anion have been evaluated extensively using conventional friction andwear tests and were found to exhibit improved friction and wear properties compared to conventional lubricants. The ionic liquid containing the octyl sulfate anion has been developed more recently and is of interest due to its resistance to hydrolysis. Basedon these findings, the ionic liquids of interest in this study are 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (BMIM-PF6) and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium octyl sulfate (BMIM-OctSO4). Their chemical structures are shown in Figure 1.The immobilization of the ionic liquid on the silicon substrate occurs by reaction of the anion with the hydroxyl groups present on the silicon surface, as shown in Figure 2 for BMIM-PF6. A similar mechanism is responsible for the attachment of BMIM-OctSO4. A potential lubricant should exhibit low adhesion, friction and wear. To date, the friction behavior of materials coated with ionic liquids is known only at the microscale from studies using conventional ball-on-disk or pin-on-disk [*] Prof. B. Bhushan, Dr. M. Palacio Nanotribology Laboratory for Information Storage and MEMS/NEMS (NLIM), The Ohio State University 201 W 19th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 (USA) E-mail: email@example.com


We present a report of a boy born with a myelomeningocele who underwent several attempts at closure of the defect, each complicated by wound dehiscence and/or cerebrospinal fluid leak. Successful closure was ultimately achieved using a combination of collagen matrix (Duragen) and dermal matrix (Alloderm) substitutes as covering of the defect beneath the adjacent skin flaps. The literature on the use of collagen and dermal matrix substitutes for myelomeningocele is also reviewed.


High quality lattice matched III-V semiconductor material, boron gallium phosphide (B2.8%Ga)P and boron gallium arsenide phosphide (BGa)(AsP), layers were deposited on exact oriented (001) 300 mm silicon (Si) substrates by metal organic chemical vapor deposition. An industrial Aixtron Crius R (CCS close coupled showerhead) 300 mm system was used. The material compositions were varied systematically to keep the lattice match to the silicon substrate on one hand, but to change the optical properties and thereby investigate the relationship between the refractive index and different material compositions on the other hand. By in situ measurements, the reflectance was measured during growth, and the refractive index for the wavelength of λ = 950 nm was determined. The results are compared and confirmed with the measurement results of Rogowsky et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 109, 053504 (2011)] which had been achieved by ellipsometry and show a linear dependence in relation to the arsenide and boron content. The refractive index of B2.8%GaP is found to be 3.14, and therefore is larger than the refractive index of GaP of 3.13. This confirms former investigations which lead to the conclusion that the direct band gap of B2.8%GaP is smaller than the direct band gap of GaP. The refractive index of B6.2%GaAs15%P is found to be 3.20, which is a change of 2.3% in comparison to GaP. Based on the measurement results of the direct band gap of BGaP samples with a boron content of up to 6% by surface photo voltage, the direct band gaps of the (BGa)(AsP) samples were calculated and related to the refractive index values. As a result, a change of 2% in the refractive index relates to a reduction of 400 meV in the direct band gap of (BGa)(AsP).High quality lattice matched III-V semiconductor material, boron gallium phosphide (B2.8%Ga)P and boron gallium arsenide phosphide (BGa)(AsP), layers were deposited on exact oriented (001) 300 mm silicon (Si) substrates by metal organic chemical vapor deposition. An industrial Aixtron Crius R (CCS close coupled showerhead) 300 mm system was used. The material compositions were varied systematically to keep the lattice match to the silicon substrate on one hand, but to change the optical properties and thereby investigate the relationship between the refractive index and different material compositions on the other hand. By in situ measurements, the reflectance was measured during growth, and the refractive index for the wavelength of λ = 950 nm was determined. The results are compared and confirmed with the measurement results of Rogowsky et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 109, 053504 (2011)] which had been achieved by ellipsometry and show a linear dependence in relation to the arsenide and boron content. The refrac...


Transport modelling of plasmas with internal transport barriers in JT-60U and JET tokamaks has been carried out using integrated modelling codes TOPICS and CRONOS for the prediction of high-beta steady-state scenario in JT-60SA, which shares important characteristics with both tokamaks. Typical models of anomalous heat transport, which is one of major uncertainties in the prediction, have been validated for the experimental data in JT-60U and JET, and TOPICS and CRONOS equipped with the models are used for the model verification. It is found that CDBM model predicts temperatures close to experiments or underestimates them, and thus can be used for the conservative prediction, which considers a lower bound of plasma performance. By using the CDBM model, a JT-60SA high-beta steady-state plasma has been conservatively predicted within the machine capability. The conservative prediction shows that the JT-60SA has enough capability to explore high-beta steady-state plasmas and their controllability. Model modifications related with an E  ×  B shear effect to improve the prediction capability are discussed.


A semiconductor device includes a first coil (110) is monolithically integrated in a first part (191) of a semiconductor body (190) and having a first winding (112) wound around a first core structure. A second coil (120) is monolithically integrated in a second portion (192) of the semiconductor body (190) and comprising a second winding (122) wound around the second core structure. The first and second coils (110, 120) are magnetically coupled together. An insulator frame (135) in the semiconductor body (190) surrounding the first part (191) and closes the second part (192) of. A high dielectric strength between the first and the second coil (110, 120) is achieved to pattern without a back-side for connecting the turns of the windings, and without being limited to thin substrates.


The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council aimed, in the words used by Pope John XXIII, the aggiornamento of the Catholic Church. The inseparable complementariness between the concept of resourcing and of openness to a new world led to a change of the paradigm of the church temple to the house for the living stones. It is in this context where it comes to light the opportunity to explore the contributions of two non-Christians architects: Aldo van Eyck, and Lina Bo Bardi. In their works and especially in their thoughts it is possible to recognize an elective affinity with the spirit of the Christian aggiornamento.


Advances in lidar and radar technology have potential for providing new and better information on climate-significant parameters of cirrus. Consequently, the NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory is commencing CLARET (Cloud Lidar And Radar Exploratory Test) to evaluate the promise of these new capabilities. Parameters under investigation include cloud particle size distribution, height of cloud bases, tops, and multiple layers, and cloud dynamics revealed through measurement of vertical motions. The first phase of CLARET is planned for September 1989 at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) near Erie, Colorado.


I have been shocked by the allegations of abuse by Sir Jimmy Savile and how he got away with it for so long (letters October 24).SAVILE I have been shocked by the allegations of abuse by Sir Jimmy Savile and how he got away with it for so long (letters October 24).