We present for the first time a fully integrated silicon photonic circuit technology. III-V on Si amplifiers are monolithically integrated at the backside of advanced Silicon photonic wafers comprising SiN passive devices, Si based phase shifters and Ge waveguide-photodetectors.


Total synthesis of (–)-L-batzellasides A, B, and C has been achieved in 13 steps from known lactone 2 in 12.6, 13.2, and 13.8 % overall yields, respectively. The key steps in this synthesis were the stereoselective introduction of an allyl group at the C1 position by acyliminium chemistry and Brown's asymmetric allylation of the corresponding aldehydes to construct a stereocenter on the side chain.


The incidence of soilborne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV) and Polymyxa graminis in four resistant (Hart, Purdue, IL 87-7394, and IL 85-2655) and four susceptible (Cardinal, Rosette, Michigan Amber, and Maryland 75-266-46) soft red winter wheat cultivars was investigated in field experiments during 1989-1990. Soilborne wheat mosaic virus antigen in roots and shoots was detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). P. graminis root infections were assessed with bright field microscopy. Both resistant and susceptible cultivars became infected with the virus shortly after planting in the fall


A strong small and medium enterprises (SMEs) sector contributes highly to the country's economy, contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP) by reducing the level of unemployment, reduction in poverty levels and promotion of entrepreneurship activity. They have ability to make a meaningful reduction in the high level of unemployment and contribute to the GDP of the local economy in Ethiopia. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the internal and external factors influencing the performance of small and medium sized enterprises in Yeka sub-city Addis Ababa. In order to meet the objectives of the study, data collected through questionnaires were analyzed using statistical analysis such as descriptive and inferential analyses by STATA V-13 & SPSS-V20 software. Mean and Standard deviation explained the descriptive statistics while multiple linear Regression was applied to Show prediction of independent variables on dependent variable (performance).Information was gathered using a five point Likert scale questionnaire from a sample of 90 respondents. The sample operators were selected using stratified sampling and simple random sampling techniques. The empirical study elicit eight major independent variables which seem to affect performance of SMEs in Yeka sub-city which include: Inadequate finance, Lack of working premises, Marketing problem, inadequate infrastructure, Poor management practices, Technological, Entrepreneurial and macroeconomic factors. The findings further indicated that among the independent variables financial factors, working premises, Entrepreneurial and marketing factors were the major factors that significantly affected performance. Based on the findings it was recommended that Formal financial institutions like banks and micro finance institutions should improve access to finance through offering a better lending terms and conditions and government to establish a centrally managed marketing sites that will equally give access to market in order to improve performance of SMEs in Addis Ababa.


This article discusses the overview of proposed, designed module intervention for supporting students' problem solving skills in Technical Vocational Education and Training. The proposed framework used is the combination of Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory by David Kolb and Theory of Inventive Problem Solving originated by Genrich Altshuller. The designed module will be implemented at one of higher Technical College in final year project course for Industrial Mechatronic Programme.


The goal of this study was to develop and use a modified coding system and model of argumentation to investigate and characterize fourth-grade students' mathematical arguments during an eight-lesson, whole-class teaching experiment regarding the arithmetic number properties. Sixty-seven instances of student arguments were identified using a model adapted from Toulmin's (1958) model of argumentation and Stylianides' (2007) elements of argumentation. In this paper, I document the development of the modified coding scheme and model, present the relevant elements of the model of argumentation, and briefly interpret the characteristics of students' early arguments, which will be further discussed in the presentation.


Purpose: In the world of intense economic challenges, striking a healthy balance of work and life outside the work offers potential for tremendous growth – both personal and professional. The article is aimed at examining the work-life balance of software professionals that are impacted by the demographic variables: gender, age, marital status, managerial/ non-managerial level, and salary level among employees of the company from IT sector. The empirical study also tries to understand the weaker areas amongst the six components of work-life balance (WLB) index that needs improvement. Methodology: Secondary research followed by quantitative research using work-life balance scale by Udai Pareek. Findings of the study: Based on the respondent sample of 144 IT employees, it was found that gender has no impact on work-life balance index. Marital status of an employee has an impact in lowering the WLB index while unmarried employees show better WLB index. Age and managerial levels were found to have a strong influence in the WLB index scores. Interestingly, salary levels were found to have no impact on work-life balance on the employees. Organisational implication: The coping strategies provided in the study, tailor-made for the specific situation can be adapted by many more IT companies operating in Bangalore. The findings of the study have major implications for formulating and implementing newer HR strategies and policies.


BACKGROUND: Myxopapillary ependymomas usually occur in the filum terminale of the spinal cord. OBJECTIVE: This report summarizes our experience treating myxopapillary ependymomas. METHODS: The records of 34 patients (14 men, 20 women; mean age 45.5 years; age range, 14-88 years) who underwent resection of a myxopapillary ependymoma between 1983 and 2006 were reviewed for age, sex, tumor location, symptoms at diagnosis, duration of symptoms, treatment before presentation, extent of surgical resection, adjuvant therapy, length of follow-up, evidence of recurrence, and complications. Neurological examinations performed at presentation, immediately after surgery, and last follow-up were graded according to the McCormick grading scale. RESULTS: The average duration of symptoms before diagnosis was 22.2 months. The most common symptom was pain followed by weakness, bowel/bladder symptoms, and numbness. The rate of gross total resection was 80%. All patients with a subtotal resection (20%) underwent postoperative radiation therapy. Presentation and outcomes of patients who underwent subtotal resection followed by radiation therapy were compared with those who underwent gross total resection. There was no significant difference in neurological grade between the groups at presentation or final follow-up. The overall recurrence rate was 10% (3/34 patients). CONCLUSION: The goal of surgical treatment of myxopapillary ependymomas is resection to the greatest extent possible with preservation of function. In cases of subtotal resection, postoperative radiation therapy may improve outcome. If neurological function is maintained at treatment, these indolent lesions allow years of good function.


Measurements of consumption whether we talk about gas, water or electricity are becoming more digitized every day. Distribution companies want to be able to read the state of a meter without the need of the physical presence of the employee in the place of interest. This leads to development and implementation of smart grids using smart (embedded) devices as a part of the Internet of Things (IoT) or Industry 4.0 vision. In the first part of our paper, we discuss the evolution of smart grids and summarize the wireless technologies used nowadays for data transmissions from the sensors towards the remote nodes, where the data processing takes place. Afterwards, we propose an IoT platform for non-invasive measurement of electric current. Our design is based on current transformer measurements and works well for values of alternating current up to 30 A with extension to 100 A which significantly increases the impact for smart grid use-cases. Processing of measured data is done within the utilized Arduino board. Current readings can be displayed on attached LCD panel or sent to developed web server application which takes a part of our proposed solution. To verify the stability and accuracy of our newly designed platform, we conducted measurements for current transformer linearity and measurements on off the shelf meter from Meazon as also on AC power source from Keysight company. Maximum measured deviation of our system was 2.35 % and average calculated deviation was 1.5 %. Maximum linearity deviation of the current transformer during measurements was 1.34 %.


This work highlights the development of an array of oscillator-based sensors suitable for the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) was leveraged to monitor the oscillation frequency of 16 sensing elements in parallel. It was shown that three functional chemistries can be deposited via inkjet printing and subsequently used to identify various analytes of interest. This response is valuable for identifying sample air makeup using techniques such as principle component analysis. Additionally, this system utilized an array of sufficient scale to incorporate several functional chemistries with intentional redundancies. Ultimately, this work demonstrates a low-cost oscillator-based sensing array capable of simultaneously monitoring chemical processes with single second resolution using 16 independent channels.


Chitosan was extracted from the chitin of crab shells. The process of deacetylation removes acetyl groups from the molecular chain of chitin. The yield of chitosan was 37.5%, moisture content was 64.32%, water binding capacity was 58.44%. This study concluded that the FT-IR, NMR method is one of the best methods of determination of deacetylation. The crab shell extracted chitosan had significantly inhibited the pathogenic Escherichia coli, Proteus sp., and Klebsiella sp., isolated from UTI infected patients.


The article presents the first, earlier not investigated data on bone marrow cytologic composition of Siberian roe (Capreolus pygargus), the prospects of its use as antigenic population stimulator.


Agricultural waste is rich in cellulosic material that is difficult to de grade but can be decomposed by cellulase enzymes. Cellulosic material is an organic component abundantly in nature in the form of cellulose and hemicellulose polymer. Utilization of microbes in the process of waste bioconversion can be done to get added value from the waste material into other products such as organic fertilizer. Cellulase-producing microbes can be isolated from various sources, one of which is from termite nests. The use of microbes from termite nests as decomposers for composting high-yielding agricultural waste was carried out in this study. Cellulolytic microbial isolates (combination of bacteria and fungi and without decomposers) were applied to agricultural wastes high in cellulose content: rice straw, bagasse, and oil palm empty fruit bunches. Randomized Block Design was applied and each treatment was and repeated 3 times. The composting process was carried out for 1 month indoors. The results showed that cellulolytic microbial consortium obtained from termite nests reduced the compost cellulose content of bagasse agricultural waste in one month. Whereas rice straw and oil palm empty fruit bunches showed a tendency to decrease cellulose content because cellulose degradation by decomposer microbes still continues after one month of incubation.


A new species of the bromeligenous Scinax perpusillus group is described from Serra do Brigadeiro, state of Minas Gerais,southeastern Brazil (20o43'13.5´´S; 42o28'48.7´´W). Scinax cosenzai sp. nov. is diagnosed by a combination of traits:moderate-size within the group (17.29–20.97 mm in males and 22.65–24.02 mm in females); head longer than wide; snoutprotruding in lateral view and slightly acuminated in dorsal view; prominent medial process between the nostrils; few tu-bercles scattered throughout the dorsal surface, including the head; ventral skin granulated, more intensively near the clo-acal region; dorsum different tones of gray with dark bands; transversal dark bars along limbs; gular region with irregulardark pigmentation; in life, hidden portion of the thigh and tibia region with some irregular bright yellow colored patches;and a distinct advertisement call with 2–14 notes/call, call duration 177.62–2066.75 ms, 1–33 pulses/note and dominant frequency of 3375.91–4571.21 Hz. Additionally, notes on natural history are provided.


Contact tracing apps have magnified the potential usefulness of mobile media and communication technologies for responding to disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Their efficacy and ethical debates have become the focus of recent studies in the Global North. Reasons for using contact tracing apps among users with disability living in the Global South, however, seem to be understudied. Through cases from Indonesia and Vietnam, this study found that nationalistic values were among the reasons for using contact tracing apps as reflected in the users' faith in the state and inclination to support its collective objective to control the pandemic. The users believed the state would be accountable in managing the personal and mobility data the contact tracing apps collected. Using contact tracing apps represented the users' sense of capabilities to individually partake in the existing efforts to control the pandemic.


The author deals with the reasons which determined the form of the telescope - a Cassegrain reflector of 36 inches aperture and 54 feet focal length, serving a spectrograph of one, two or three prisms - and indicates the problems to which it is intended to apply it. These are, generally, the intensity of stellar light for different parts of the spectrum. It is pointed out that even an empiric treatment of this question led Adams to a method that had doubled our knowledge of stellar distances. A theoretical treatment, comprising a discussion of the behaviour of the photographic plate, led to fixing the temperature sequence. A slit spectrograph is required in order to deal with the lines. The state of the lines, combined with that of the continuous spectrum, conveys all the information that reaches us of the star's constitution and atmosphere. Subsidiary but highly interesting questions are those of selective absorption of light by the atmosphere of the earth. Behind these are the theoretical and laboratory investigations of the relation between intensity of light and the density of silver deposit on the photographic plate. The whole presents an attractive field.


Social confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic lead to inevitable changes in everyday life which may have an impact on people ́s psychological wellbeing. This work aimed to evaluate these potential effects on the Portuguese population. Immediate emotional and occupational impacts as well as changes in key health-related behaviors were evaluated with a brief self-report survey in 1819 respondents. Several changes in daily habits, family functioning, and psychological well-being were observed. There were significant differences regarding gender and type of household, even after controlling for confounders. Parents living with their children report a significantly higher negative impact on their lives in this period of domestic confinement. There were also statistically significant results when assessing occupational status and psychiatric history. Health care professionals and persons with current mental health assistance also reported more negative consequences. There seems to be a balance between losses and improvements in quality of family life, behavioral and emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic for the majority of the studied population. However, some subgroups may be particularly affected, namely women, health care professionals, couples with children at home, and individuals with current mental health assistance. Further studies are needed to assess the potential impact of long-term confinement.


Address-event-representation (AER) is a communication protocol for transferring asynchronous events between VLSI chips, originally developed for neuro-inspired processing systems (for example, image processing). Such systems may consist of a complicated hierarchical structure with many chips that transmit data among them in real time, while performing some processing (for example, convolutions). The information transmitted is a sequence of spikes coded using high speed digital buses. These multi-layer and multi-chip AER systems perform actually not only image processing, but also audio processing, filtering, learning, locomotion, etc. This paper present an AER interface for controlling an anthropomorphic robotic hand with a neuro-inspired system.


The quality of metallic materials depends on their composition and structure and these are determined by various physico‐chemical and technological factors. To effectively prepare materials with required composition, structure and properties, it is necessary to carry out research in two parallel directions:


The interactions of dendritic cells (DCs) with the gastric epithelium are thought to play a role in shaping DC function and thus the adaptive immune response to Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. We have shown that DCs are recruited to the H. pylori-infected gastric epithelium, positioning them for uptake of bacterial antigen from the gastric lumen. Using a gastric organoid model of H. pylori infection, we sought to define how the interactions between gastric epithelial cells and DCs regulate the antigen-presenting cell capacity of DCs. Supernatants were collected from organoids microinjected with H. pylori (infected) or PBS (mock), and monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MoDCs) were incubated with these supernatants. Flow cytometry data showed that the supernatant from infected organoids drove the DCs toward a tolerogenic state, as the expression of CD40, CD83, and CD86 was significantly decreased compared to incubation with supernatants from mock infected organoids, whereas CCR7 expression was increased consistent with a more tolerogenic phenotype. DCs treated with supernatants from infected, but not mock-infected organoids suppressed the proliferation of naïve autologous T cells. We also assessed T cell polarization using a cytokine array and found an increase in Th1, Th17 and Treg cytokines, but a decrease in Th2 cytokines in T cells that were challenged with DCs pre-treated with supernatants from infected organoids compared to mock-infected organoids. In summary, we have shown that H. pylori-infected gastric epithelium drives the DCs toward a tolerogenic state, resulting in reduced expression of maturation markers and CD4+ T cell proliferation while maintaining the DCs' ability to induce T cell cytokine secretion.


Structuralized oral quiz has already become an effective method for open selection of cadres in China.In this paper,the author,on the basis of pointing out the major problems in oral quiz question setting,makes some qualitative analyses and puts forward some optimized countermeasures for improvement of structuralized question setting. The author also thoroughly analyzes some commonly-used questions with combination of practical cases of cadre selection in the construction system.This paper can be used as a practical guide for candidates to take part in the oral quiz of open cadre selection in construction system and can be used for reference for specialists and scholars to produce structuralized oral quiz questions.


AbstractIn the present work, the dynamic stress-strain responses of three types of rock, compact basalt, metadolerite, and granite, are tested under high loading rates using the 38-mm-diameter spli...


Mice were kept continuously intoxicated by ethanol inhalation for periods of 3 to 12 days. Blood alcohol levels were stabilized by daily injections of pyrazole and by adjusting the alcohol vapor concentrations to offset metabolic tolerance. The magnitude of physical dependence was estimated by scoring the convulsions elicited by handling during the withdrawal period. Physical dependence increased progressively for about 9 days of intoxication, then leveled off. Dependence also varied with the blood alcohol level maintained during intoxication. To measure the rate of decay of physical dependence, mice were given four successive 3-day periods of intoxication separated by brief intervals. If the interval was as long as 24 hours, the withdrawal seizures were no more severe after the fourth cycle of intoxication than after the first, indicating that the dependence accrued within each cycle had decayed completely in 24 hours. When intervals of 3.8 or 12 hours were allowed between cycles, there was partial carryover of dependence into the next cycle. The results indicate that physical dependence develops only during episodes of continuous intoxication and that even 1 day of sobriety suffices for recovery.


In rapid prototyping system application, any large digital circuit can be implemented onto Multi-FPGA Board(MFB). Key MFB architectural feature is its inter-FPGA connections consisting of fixed connections(FC) i.e. FPGA-FPGA connections and programmable connections(PC) i.e. FPGA-programmable switch like FPID-FPGA. MFBs consisting of both the types of connections are known as hybrid MFBs. Since, PC requires two wires as against one wire in FC, MFB must have minimum number of PCs to keep fabrication easy. In partitioned circuit, multi-terminal nets (MTNs) are distributed over one or more circuit parts. When each circuit part is implemented over one FPGA, the MTNs between circuit parts will be routed over PCs and FCs between corresponding FPGAs. Multi-hop routers are used to minimize the use of PCs, but they increase source to sink delay with increasing number of hops. A generic multi-hop router to route two-terminal nets, which obeys the given limit on hops, was presented in our previous work [2002]. In this paper, we extend the same to route multi-terminal nets.


Aiming at the low speed of Java program,this text summarizes some methods and precautions how to optimize Java source code,which can improve the performance of Java program effectively.


The study sought to investigate 1) the relationship between marital satisfaction and value crisis among women, 2) the mediating role of differentiation of Self. The sample consisted of 220 married women. Marital satisfaction was found to be inversely correlated with value crisis. Greater marital satisfaction coincided with better differentiation of Self, while lower level of differentiation (less emotional reactivity, greater I position, less emotional cutoff and fusion with others) was significantly associated with higher difficulties in valuing. Differentiation of Self also mediated the linkage between marital satisfaction and value crisis among women. The results support searching hypothesis.


Small perturbations of training pattern pairs may cause some disadvantage to performance of a fuzzy neural network (FNN), so a new concept is established for the robustness of an FNN to perturbations of training pattern pairs. As a typical instance, this kind of robustness of fuzzy bidirectional associative memory (FBAM) is analyzed, and the theoretical studies in this paper show that the FBAM using the Hebbian learning algorithm has good such robustness, however, the FBAM using another learning algorithm presented recently has poor such robustness. A method to control perturbations of pattern pairs is proposed in order to make such robustness of FBAM be good when the latter learning algorithm is employed. Finally, some theoretical results in the paper are also confirmed by the given experiment in which the FBAM associates an image with another image. The work in the paper is of some benefit to the performance analyses, the choice of learning algorithms, and the guidance to pattern pair acquisition for FBAM.


Four dosages of bendiocarb were compared with an Orthene standard. Caterpillars were 0.75 inches long on treatment date, April 12 at La Crosse, Virginia. Individual colonies were counted, labelled and then treated by use of hydraulic manual sprayers. Materials were applied to the point of runoff. Caterpillar counts were made before application and at periods of 24 and 48 hours post treatment. A control was sprayed with water.


No one can question that we gain much in every step we make towards fuller and clearer ideas of the nature of the great morbid actions with which, variously combined, we have constantly to deal. This knowledge, it seems to me, is what we want more than any other at the present time. Our diagnosis is not very often at fault; we can name a disease well enough, but we lack a full inspection into the nature of the process we observe, which alone could enable us to oppose it by a truly rational treatment. How much we need to know what it is that makes tuberculosis, rheumatism, pyrexia, inflammation, etc., so that we might be able, on recognising these morbid changes, to perceive with the mental eye the fundamental state from which they originated! The following review of one group of diseases may perchance aid some in obtaining a clearer view of their pathology, of the meaning of the various morbid pheno-


This Article On Campus Only is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Faculty Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact email@example.com. Repository Citation Mailloux, Steven J., "Reviewed Work: Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism by Jane P. Tompkins" (1981). English Faculty Works. 29. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/engl_fac/29


Beef loins (n = 40; M. longissimus lumborum) were randomly selected from commercially processed carcases typical of prime grass-fed cattle in Australia from the boning room of a commercial abattoir. Loins were divided into 8 equal portions, vacuum-packaged and assigned to 1 of 72 temperature-time combinations (TTC), using ageing temperatures set at 0.5°C (control; average 0.62 ± 2.08°C), 3°C (average 5.04 ± 1.27°C), 5°C (average 5.86 ± 0.95), 7°C (average 8.2 ± 1.11°C) and ageing time intervals of 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 12d, and 14d (control). Each sample's temperature remained constant over each interval with at most one variation of treatment temperature within the total time. At 6d, 8d, 10d, 12d, 14d, samples were analyzed for particle size (PS); a determination of myofibrillar degradation using laser diffraction peak, ultimate pH (pHu), and cooked to an internal temperature of 71°C for shear force analysis (SF); measured in Newtons, and). SF and PS data were analyzed with pHu as a covariate, using a linear mixed model fitted with the fixed effects of TTC and random effects of repeat and loin, as well as their interactions with TTC.


Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that can have a major impact on patients' quality of life with functional and psychological impairment.We aimed to investigate feelings of shame and guilt among patients with PsA and to determine its associated factors.We conducted a cross-sectional study including patients with peripheral PsA according to the CASPAR criteria. Sociodemographic data, clinical, and therapeutic modalities were collected. Patients were asked to respond to the Experience of Shame Scale (ESS) [1] and to the Test of Self Conscious Affect- Version 3 (TOSCA-3S) [2]. ESS is a self-report scale assessing 3 areas: (1) characterological shame (2) behavioral shame and (3) bodily shame. Each item was rated in a 4-point Likert scale. Higher scores indicate higher levels of shame. TOSCA-3S is composed of 11 scenarios, each followed by 4 possible responses. Each item was rated in a 5-point Likert scale. This score measures shame-proneness, guilt-proneness, detachment and externalization (blaming others). Only the shame and guilt subscales of the TOSCA-3S were used for the statistical analysis. A p<0.05 was considered significant.We included 30 patients with PsA: 12 females (40%) and 18 males (60%). The mean age was 51±14years [21-80]. Five percent of patients were illiterate and 95% of them had an educational level. Twenty seven percent of patients were unemployed, 50% were employed, and 23% were retired. Seventy seven percent of patients were married. The mean disease duration was 13±5 years [2-20]. The mean DAS28 ESR and DAS28 CRP were 5.34±1.84 and 4.75±2.06, respectively. The mean Psoriatic area severity index (PASI) was 10.2 [0-70].For the ESS, the mean total score was 63 [31-98] with mean subscale scores of: 28 [14-45] for characterological shame, 25 [12-35] for behavioral shame and 9 [5-20] for bodily shame. For the TOSCA-3S, the mean "shame self-talk Total" score was 33 [17-44], and the mean "guilt self-talk Total" score was 47 [37-55].A significant correlation was found between guilt self-talk Total score and disease activity: DAS 28 ESR (p=0.028) and DAS28 CRP (p=0.039). The guilt self-talk Total score was significantly higher in women (49 vs 46, p=0.025) and among unemployed patients (p=0.08). The shame self-guilt Total score was associated with educational level (p=0.027). The Bodily shame subscale was associated with the educational level (p=0.028). A significant positive correlation was noted between the PASI and the bodily shame score (p<0.001, r=0.673).Feelings of guilt and shame were frequent among PsA patients. Associated factors were mainly disease activity, PASI, and sociodemographic parameters.[1]Andrews B, Qian M, Valentine JD. Predicting depressive symptoms with a new measure of shame: the Experience of Shame Scale. Br J Clin Psychol 2002;41:29-42.[2]Tangney JP, Dearing RL, Wagner PE, Gramzow R (2000) The Test of Self-Conscious Affect-3 (TOSCA-3). George Mason University, Fairfax.NIL.None Declared.


The Coles inhabit a great extent of country. In former times they possessed the whole of Chota-Nagpore, which may now be said to be divided between them and the Dhangars or Ouraons, who came from Rotasghur. The chief men in most of the villages are still however of the old Moonda or Cole tribe, and they do not intermarry with the Dhangars. The greater part of Singhboom is inhabited by Coles, and we find them numerous in Bamanghotty, and dispersed to the vicinities of Cuttack and Midnapore. The Lurka Coles, as they are termed, inhabit those extensive tracts as yet but little known, which go under the name of the Colekans. Part of these wilds is situated iri the Singhboom district, and the inhabitants pay a nominal obedience to the Maharajah of that province, but the greater proportion of this population is more under the influence of the Rajah of Mokurburj than of any of the other powerful chiefs in that part of the country. But even his orders are obeyed only where they are supposed to tend to the advantage of the Coles themselves. Upon the whole it may be said of this singular people that, living in a primeval and patriarchal manner under their Moondas and Mankies, they have managed to preserve a sort of savage independence, making themselves dreaded and feared by their more powerful and civilized neighbours. They have always been ready to fly to arms at the call of any enterprising and desperate adventurer.


Electric Vehicles (EVs) have a lot of advantages over cars that run on gas or diesel. Also, making transportation systems run on electricity would make it possible to make more electricity from CO2 free and Renewable energy sources like wind energy, solar energy, and hydro energy because EVs are spread out and move around a lot and need a lot of power to charge and discharge, it is important to figure out how to control how they charge and discharge so that the future smart grid can make the most use of renewable resources. In this study, a new way to control two-way chargers for electric vehicles is shown. The charger is made up of two power converters that can work in both directions. Two types of converters are described here: one is an AC-DC converter that provides a constant DC link voltage and the other is a buck-boost converter. The Buck-boost converter is responsible for both charging the vehicle from the grid (known as G2V charging) and discharging the vehicle back into the grid (known as V2G charging). The charging station's bidirectional DC-DC converter modules handle battery charging and discharging. A model designed in MATLAB Simulink and analyzed the battery output it's proved that the bidirectional controller prototype works well with this control method. Dynamic charging and discharging are components of the control strategy.


28 Spillback transmission from humans to animals, and secondary spillover from animal hosts back 29 into humans, have now been documented for SARS-CoV-2. In addition to threatening animal 30 health, virus variants arising from novel animal hosts have the potential to undermine global 31 COVID-19 mitigation efforts. Numerous studies have therefore investigated the zoonotic 32 capacity of various animal species for SARS-CoV-2, including predicting both species' 33 susceptibility to infection and their capacities for onward transmission. A major bottleneck to 34 these studies is the limited number of sequences for ACE2, a key cellular receptor in chordates 35 that is required for viral cell entry. Here, we combined protein structure modeling with machine 36 learning of species' traits to predict zoonotic capacity of SARS-CoV-2 across 5,400 mammals. 37 High accuracy model predictions were strongly corroborated by in vivo empirical studies, and 38 identify numerous mammal species across global COVID-19 hotspots that should be prioritized 39 for surveillance and experimental validation. 40 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license available under a (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted February 19, 2021. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.18.431844 doi: bioRxiv preprint


Molecular simulations were performed to study the effect of the nanoporous structure on the selectivity of carbon materials for the adsorption of carbon dioxide from mixtures of carbon dioxide and hydrogen at 298 K and for fluid compositions: xCO2/xH2 = 1/9 and 2/8. Both carbon dioxide and hydrogen were studied using classical Lennard-Jones intermolecular potentials. Typical pore geometries such as slit-shaped pores and nanotubes were considered, along with a hypothetical foam-like structure and a carbon model exhibiting a random porous structure with a wide pore size distribution. Simulation results show that selectivity for carbon dioxide is sensitive to pore structure and composition; the solid/fluid interactions play a decisive role in the selectivity and most of the effects can be explained by the independent analysis of the interactions of carbon dioxide with the pore walls. In the range of pressure and composition studied, nanotubes have the highest selectivity towards carbon dioxide (100–313), followed by slit (9–63), foam-like (29–35) and random porous carbon (8–30). Molecular simulations further indicate that predicting the adsorption behavior for a CO2/H2 mixture from pure component isotherms is inadequate due, to the competing effects of the molecules with the pore walls.


To fundamentally solve the problem of deterioration of concrete structures, it has been researched that the high durable concrete structure reinforced with the FRP rebar can be one of major solution to the newly-developed concrete structure. FRP rebar has lots of advantages such as non-corrosive, high performance and light weight against the conventional steel rebar. Among these kinds of FRP rebars, GFRP rebar has usually been considered as the best reinforcement because of its economic point of view. Even though the material capacity of the GFRP rebar was already investigated, there are some problems such as low modulus of elastic that will be cause for degrade of the serviceability of flexural concrete member reinforced with the GFRP rebar. Thus, the deflection characteristics of the GFRP rebar reinforced concrete structure should be considered then investigated. In this study, ACI 440 guideline (2003), ISIS Canada Design Manual (2001) and Toutanji et al. (2000) was considered for predicting the moment of inertia of the concrete beam reinforced with the GFRP rebar. And it was also evaluated that load-deflection relationship had a good accordance with the test and analysis result. In the result of this study, it could be estimated that the load-deflection relationship using the suggested equation of moment of inertia in this study indicated better accordance with the test result than that of the others until failure.


Abstract— The endogenous activities of the RNA polymerases A and B are higher in nuclei isolated from slow‐twitch soleus and fast‐twitch extensor digitorum longus muscles which have been denervated for 2–3 days than in nuclei isolated from sham‐operated, contralateral muscles. This stimulation is not observed immediately after denervation and declines by the fifth day. The results suggest that some neural influence is exerted upon the contiguous muscle cell at the level of gene transcription.


The author concludes that mitigation is the focus of conflicting opinions regarding responsibility, strategy, and effort. There are no hard, fast, or tried and true rules for company involvement in mitigation efforts. Each mitigation effort must be tailored and negotiated to match the unique characteristics of individual projects and circumstances of specific locales. Companies must assume financial responsibility for the temporary impacts and area needs created by their projects. They must also offer financial and technical assistance to impact areas, not just the host political jurisdiction, when local, state, federal, and special fund sources of revenue or technical assistance are not available or insufficient. But, local, state, and federal governments must also recognize their responsibilities and make adjustments in tax jurisdiction boundaries and disbursement formulas so that impacted areas are properly defined and receive an adequate share of lease, royalty, severance tax, permit fee, special use and service charges, and sales tax payments. Laws need to allow innovative uses of tax pre-payments, housing mortgage bonds, changeable debt and bounding limits, industrial loans with delayed prepayment, and revised revenue assistance formulas. Enabling legislation is required in most states to allow impact areas to negotiate the mitigation efforts. A review of 7more » types of mitigation effort is presented: transportation; housing; public utilities; health, public safety and recreation; miscellaneous; and company-community interaction. (PBS)« less


The utility model pertains to the gas, liquid and solid three-phase separating device technical field. Aiming at the problems that circulating fluids such as nitrogen, natural gas and carbon dioxide can not be recycled during the process of gas well drilling operation at home and abroad, the utility model sends the gas, liquid and solid three-phase (or gas and liquid, gas and solid two-phase) fluid to a device filled with specialized separating medium through a pipe-line, after the process of the flocculation and sedimentation, the gas is quickly separated from the liquid phase and the solid phase, then after the dehumidification process, the separated gas can be directly sent to a compressor for recycling. The utility model has the advantages of quick separation of gas, liquid and solid, high purity of gas, simple processing technique, low cost and high efficiency for processing gas, along with environmental protection and wide range of use.


This paper analyzes the research background and theoretical basis of the flipped teaching mode. Based on the autonomous learning center and online course of college English as sharing platforms for English learning, the paper constructs the flipped teaching mode which accords with the characteristics of students in non-governmental college, expecting to improve the effect of college English teaching and students' learning efficiency.


Objectives : The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Shinmun-acupuncture stimulation on the relationship of change in electrocardiopgraphy (ECG). Methods : For this purpose, 11 healthy volunteers were acupunctured at Shinmun acupoint using the reinforcing or reducing by inserting the needle in the same direction as the channel runs or in the opposite direction (迎隨補瀉). Then, we measured and observed the change of standard leads I, II and III in ECG. Results : In lead I , acupuncture treated groups were increased the activity of PR interval and PR segment compared to the control group. In lead II, during the acupuncture treated group by inserting the needle in the opposite direction as the channel runs was increased the activity of T wave duration, and after the acupuncture group by inserting the needle in the same direction as the channel runs was increased the activity of PR interval. In lead III, acupuncture treated groups were increased the activity of ST duration, PR interval and QT interval. Conclusions : These results suggested that Shinmun acupuncture stimulation plays an important role on the activities of ECG.


The paper substantiates the interrelation between an enterprisei's economic safety and its innovation activity. It is stated that while making managerial decision for innovations it is reasonable to estimate the level of its economic safety. In order to ensure the target level of economic safety of innovation activity there was proposed the complex of specific requirements to management. Based on the monograph analysis as well as on the case-method some imperfections of national accounting approach to innovation expenses are revealed and discussed. In conclusion the paper proposes specific features, tasks and techniques for accounting, implementation of which can assist in economic safety management of an enterprise's innovation activity.


It has been noted that in large solar energetic particle (SEP) events, the peak intensities show an East‐West asymmetry with respect to the source flare locations. Using the 2D improved Particle Acceleration and Transport in the Heliosphere (iPATH) model, we investigate the origin of this longitudinal trend. We consider multiple cases with different solar wind speeds and eruption speeds of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and fit the longitudinal distributions of time‐averaged fluence by symmetric/asymmetric Gaussian functions with three time intervals of 8, 24 and 48 hr after the flare onset time respectively. The simulation results are compared with a statistical study of three‐spacecraft events. We suggest that the East‐West asymmetry of SEP fluence and peak intensity can be primarily caused the combined effect of an extended shock acceleration process and the evolution of magnetic field connection to the shock front. Our simulations show that the solar wind speed and the CME speed are important factors determining the East‐West fluence asymmetry.


Objective To observe the levels of serum adiponectin in patients with essential hypertension,and the relationships between adiponectin and blood pressure(BP),insulin resistance.Methods Sixty-five patients with essential hypertension and forty normotensive healthy subjects were studied.Fasting plasma adiponectin was assayed by ELISA technique,and related parameters such as BP,body mass index(BMI),waist circumference(WC),fasting blood glucose,and insulin were measured.According to the typical HOMA model,insulin resistance index(HOMA-IR)and insulin sensitivity index(ISI)were calculated.Results The level of serum adiponectin was significantly lower in essential hypertension group than that in normotensive healthy subjects [(10.30±0.93)μg/ml vs(12.83±1.66)μg/ml,P=0.000].Plasma adiponectin in essential hypertension group was negatively related to systolic blood pressure(SBP,r=-0.304,P=0.032),BMI(r=-0.496,P=0.000),WC(r=-0.539,P=0.000),fasting insulin(r=-0.291,P=0.040),HOMA-IR(r=-0.334,P=0.018),while positively to ISI(r=0.297,P=0.037).Multiple regression analysis showed that SBP and WC were the independent risk factors of serum adiponectin in patients with essential hypertension.Conclusion The serum adiponectin was significant lower in patients with essential hypertension,and there were significant negative correlations between adiponectin and systolic blood pressure and insulin resistance.


Keeping the cultural context of Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics,Chinese Academy Sciences,abiding the function and condition of the site,the environment of the institute is improved after reconstructed the landscape of it.Meanwhile,the image of the institute is promoted after the process.The methods of inheritance and the protection,planning and management in reconstruction of the landscape in the institute are brought forward after the analysis of the case in the paper.


This study aims to find out how to develop an online learning module to increase the capacity of nurses and midwives in promoting preconception health in primary health care services at Tiara Kasih Sejati Hospital Pematangsiantar. This type of research is classified into descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The sample of this study amounted to 93 samples consisting of midwives and nurses. Data was collected by using counseling methods and giving questionnaires. Data analysis using univariate. The results showed the difference in the increase in respondents' knowledge of 4.34 so that the average score of respondents' knowledge before and before being given the online learning module increased from 9.52 to 13.86. The benefit of the module is to increase the perception of midwives and nurses in improving health preconceptions in primary health care settings by 75.3% of midwives and pediatric nurses increasing the promotion of health preconceptions in primary health care settings. The ability level of midwives and nurses in accessing online learning modules regarding preconception is 55.9% the best and 44.1% not good. The assessment of the quality of the online learning module given to midwives and nurses, midwives and nurses who rated it good was 77.4% and those who rated it bad were 22.6%. The nutritional needs needed during the preconception period are macronutrients and micronutrients.


Observing a phenomenon that the pre-image set of nonzero Hadamard spectra of the composition of a function and a trace function is independent of the function, a construction of multiple bent function signal sets using different bent functions is given. Their correlation and high-order shift-distinct property are discussed. As a by-product, the union of the multiple bent function signal sets produces a signal set with low correlation zone and much larger size of the other known constructions.


Tubercle bacilli infects approximately one-third of the world's population as per the World Health Organization. New cases of the active disease developing each year constitute eight million of which three million people die. Tubercular lymphadenopathy is often rare compared to pulmonary tuberculosis. We present a case of a 29-year-old Indian female, who was immunocompetent and HIV negative, with a 3-month history of recurring fever, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, vomiting, and loss of weight. On examination, she had disseminated lymphadenopathy including supraclavicular lymph nodes. Fine-needle aspiration cytology of the right supraclavicular node showed acid-fast bacilli along with caseation necrosis and was consistent with tubercular lymphadenopathy. Disseminated tubercular lymphadenopathy is extremely rare in immunocompetent individuals. The crux in the approach to disseminated lymphadenopathy lies in the diagnosis of tubercular lymphadenopathy, confirmed by histological and microbiological findings since it has a good prognosis with an active antituberculous treatment regime resulting in a favorable outcome.


The story of the income tax is one of the most interesting in California fiscal history. Despite original constitutional authorization for such a measure,1 discussion persisted for many years before its final adoption in 193 5. 2 After enactment of the law, strong agitation arose for its repeal. The purpose of this paper is in part to trace the development of the income tax concept in California and in part to relate that development to a consideration of the principles of income taxation in general. The purpose in view can best be achieved by reviewing and attempting an evaluation of the various arguments pro and con that have enlivened the struggle in the state. This survey of opposing views will be followed by a summary analysis of the principal features of the Personal Income Tax of 1935. The technical details are available to those who wish to read the law itself. The article will close with some brief observations upon state income taxes in general. The modern state income tax movement began with the Wisconsin law of 1911. At the present time some thirty-three states have personal income tax laws upon their statute books. We need go back no farther than 1914 to observe California's interest in this direction. In its report for that year the State Board of Equalization, after commenting upon certain difficulties of double taxation of income and property and effective enforcement of an income tax law, remarked that it " remained for Wisconsin to discover the solution of both these difficulties." 3 The board quoted extensively rom the 1911-1912 report of the Wisconin tax commission,4 which outlined the salient features of the Wisconsin measure that marked it as different from any other law up to that time adopted in this country. Our own board then concluded that " the


The management and mechanism of higher education are discussed in the paper from the perspective of market economy. It is proposed that higher education should focus more on its quality and benefits and solve both the management problems within universities and the problems in the relationship between government and universities. Competition mechanisms should be adopted.


Let G be the adjoint group of the simple real Lie algebra g, and let KC ! Aut(pC) be the complexified isotropy representation at the identity coset of the corresponding symmetric space. We classify the spherical nilpotent KC orbits in pC.


This study aims to determine the relationship between emotional maturity and verbally aggressive behaviour in class XI students of SMKN 1 Anyer. The method used in this study was associative quantitative with a correlational approach, with a population of 360 students and a sample of 90 students using the Probability Sampling Technique, namely that each people has the same opportunity to be sampled without any sampling criteria. The data collection tool used is the questionnaire instrument. Test the hypothesis using the Product Moment From Pearson correlation test with a value of -.465, decision making with a significance value of 0.04 <0.05 is correlated or has a relationship. The calculation results show that there is a relationship between emotional maturity and verbally aggressive behaviour in class XI students of SMKN 1 Anyer in a negative direction or the opposite direction, the hypothesis is accepted Ha: (accepted) there is a significant relationship between emotional maturity and verbally aggressive behaviour in class XI students SMKN 1 Anye, Ho: (rejected) there is no relationship between emotional maturity and verbally aggressive behaviour in students of SMKN 1 Anyer, by concluding that the higher the level of emotional maturity, the lower the verbal aggressive behaviour, conversely, the higher the level of emotional maturity, the higher the verbal aggressive behaviour.


The Huaniushan skarn-type gold deposit is located in the southern Beishan area. The ore bodies occur in the contact zone between the Huaniushan granite and the marble. Re-Os dating of a molybdenite sample yields a model age of 221.0±3.4 Ma, which is consistent with the zircon U-Pb age of the granite(225.6±2.2 Ma) within errors. The gold mineralization is therefore considered to be genetically related to the Huaniushan granite. Four main types of fluid inclusions are recognized:(1) two-phase liquid-rich inclusions,(2) two-phase gas-rich inclusions,(3) three-phase CH4-CO2-H2O inclusions, and(4) monophase vapor inclusions. Fluids associated with Au-bearing quartz veins(the early stage) have medium-high temperatures(285℃ to 436℃) and moderate salinities(6.59% to 16.14% NaCl equivalent); whereas fluids associated with calcite veins(the late stage) have low temperatures of 121℃ to 182℃ and low salinities of about 4.34% to 8.01% NaCl equivalent. The temperature and salinity of the ore-forming fluids decrease progressively. Fluid boiling happened during the main Au mineralization period at the temperature of about 300℃ to415℃. Oxygen and hydrogen isotopic compositions of the ore fluids range from –0.01‰ to 0.29‰ and –116‰ to–109‰, respectively, which is compatible with mixing between the magmatic and meteoric components. Measured δ34S values for sulfide minerals are 4.21‰ to 6.53‰, indicating a magmatic sulfur origin. Considering the regional geology,we further propose that the Huaniushan skarn-type gold deposit was probably formed in the post-orogenic extensional setting.


Iraq suffers from pollution of the air with many gases, such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, ozone and others. Baghdad governorate was used as an example to measure the amount of air pollution and distribution in the areas of Baghdad and used data for three measurement stations in Baghdad is the station Jadiriya, Andulos and Alwaziriya, which are available only and for three gases are carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and ozone and 2011 and 2012 and for all months. The study used three methods of mathematical induction (IDW, Kriging and Spline), one of the methods of mathematical induction in GIS programs. Analytical maps of the distribution and distribution of gases were obtained in Baghdad and it became clear that the IDW method is the most accurate of the three methods.


This paper is intended for looking into the inevitability of the internationalization of higher education with the prime causes of it resting in the facts that given such large-size Chinese population, the resources allocated to higher education in China remain insufficient to meet the demand for higher education and that universities in the UK, USA, Australia, and Canada enjoy comparatively "sufficient" or surplus resources on one hand and on the other many of them have sustained a cut in the revenue from the government of ten percent in real terms in the past five years and they will face a further ten percent cut by the end of the decade. Also lassoed in the focus in the paper are the subsequent reciprocity arising from the internationalization of higher education and the various forms of collaboration between the International College, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and its partners overseas.


This commentary is in response to the article, "Imbalance in the Taiwan Strait" by Dennis V. Hickey published in the Autumn 2013 issue of Parameters (vol. 43, no. 2). This is a timely discussion of US arms sales to Taiwan. The author has done a great job drawing attention to the evolving security situation across the Taiwan Strait and placing the debates in the US policy and analyst circles about America's options on this thorny issue in perspective. While well presented, this article would have been better had the author been more straightforward on Option 1 and included recommendations for Chinese policymakers regarding predicaments with the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 (TRA) and US arms sales to Taiwan. With respect to this option, the author should have stated that though it is worthwhile to call for the United States to terminate arms sales to Taiwan, there is practically no chance of this happening as long as the Taiwan issue remains unresolved. As for recommendations, the author could have pointed out that the main driver for US arms sales to Taiwan comes not from the alleged American ill intent and economic interests, as many Chinese analysts have long charged, but from Taiwan's need for security. The reason is as simple as Business 101: if Taiwan wants more weapons, the United States is obliged to sell, although not unconditionally; if Taiwan does not want more arms, the United States cannot force Taiwan to buy. The fact is that the Taiwan government, whether under the administration of the pro-independence party (the Democratic Progressive Party) or the pro-eventual unification one (the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party), has repeatedly asked for more arms from the United States. Nations seek arms when they are concerned with the specter of war; they lay down arms when peace is secured. China should see that the solution to the issue of US arms sales to Taiwan lies in cross-Taiwan Strait relations. China should have a better chance to affect the arms sale business with its efforts on cross-Taiwan Strait relations. Demanding the United States to abandon this business is like putting the cart before the horse--the efforts are not going anywhere. China's insistence on terminating US arms sales to Taiwan as one of the three preconditions for improving United States-China military-to-military relationship is a prime example (the other two preconditions are stopping US military reconnaissance operations in the Chinese-claimed maritime exclusive economic zones and removing US restrictions on military exchange and technology transfers to China). The setbacks following each US authorization of arms sales to Taiwan (i.e., Chinese suspension of military-to-military contacts with the United States) have been counterproductive and dangerous at a time when the two nations have a high "trust deficit" regarding each other's strategic intent, and a low understanding of each other's operational rules of engagement. It is time to make adjustments. The Author Replies Dennis V. Hickey A number of interesting points are raised in this commentary; however, I disagree with others. Let me explain. First, with respect to Option 1 (terminating arms sales to Taiwan), Dr. …


Kinetic energy release distributions (KERDs) were obtained experimentally for unimolecular decomposition of small carbon ion clusters C n + , n=10-13 and 18, made by dissociative ionization from perchloro conjugated hydrocarbons. A model-free approach due to Klots, based on the application of thermal kinetics to small systems, allowed the extraction of binding energies for these clusters. The results were found to be in very good agreement with literature values for collisionally activated dissociation (CAD) threshold energies. The ion C 11 + demonstrates a particularly high binding energy in agreement with its magic character in C n + mass spectra, while C 13 + has a relatively low binding energy, reflected in its low abundance in such spectra


Objective To investigate the bystander tumoricidal effect mediated by HSV-TK/GCV system on the bladder cancer cells and the possible mechanisms of bystander effects. Methods HSV-TK gene-transduced BIU 87 cells (BIU 87-TK) were cocultured with the human bladder cancer cells (BIU 87,T 24)and a mouse bladder carcinoma cell line (T 739).In the presence of ganciclovir,the cell survival rate was monitoried.In addition the influence of the conditioned media from cultures of BIU 87-TK and G 418-induced cell lysis on cocultured cells was studied. Results When the proportion of BIU 87-TK cells is about 50%,the cocultures that contained 50% BIU 87-TK cells were as sensitive to GCV as cultures containing 100% BIU 87-TK cells.This indicated that one cell expressing HSV-TK gene was capable of me- diating death to at least one tumor cell carrying no HSV-TK genes.The conditioned media from cultures of BIU 87-TK cells in the presence of GCV exhibited no effects on survival of the BIU 87 parental cells.G 418-induced cell lysis did not mediate bystander cytocidal effect on the co-cultured BIU 87-TK cells. Conclusions The bystander effect among the bladder carcinoma lines in this study,which is not mediated by the cytotoxic effects of cell lysis or by a soluble factor(r) by culturing HSV-TK cells,is specific for cytotoxicity induced by HSV-TK/GCV system.In addition,the bystander effect can function between cells of diffe- rent human bladder tumors,and is not restricted to bladder cancer cell of a particular specie.


The minimum fill-in problem of a graph G,arising from sparse matrix computation and other application fields,is to find a set F of added edges such that G+F is chordal and |F| is minimized.Here the minimum value |F| is called the fill-in number of G,denoted by f(G).The problem is known to be NP-hard for general graphs.Some classes of special graphs have been investigated in the literatures.However the problem for the complement of a chordal graph G is much more complicated.We determine the exact value of fill-in number f() for this class of complementary graphs.


This informative text provides the student and professional nurse with practical guidance in the care of a dying patient. With its straightforward organization, this book offers tables of specific information, such as comparisons of theories and pain medication doses. This information put into real-life situations conveys how the treatment works or how evaluation assessments are made. Epidemiology and theories related to dying are presented as well as information on comfort, pain control, sleep, mobility and relief of spiritual distress. Family and society support are covered with discussions of hospice and alternate bereavement services. The text also contains a special section focusing on relationships between nurses and particularly vulnerable populations such as AIDS patients.


Abstract : The long term goal of this program is to implement a realtime speaker recognition system that can be operated by untrained personnel. The objective of the present contract was to demonstrate the feasibility of using speaker recognition techniques to aid in the identification of unknown speakers. The contract was conducted in two phases. The first was the algorithm selection phase, in which various speaker recognition techniques were implemented and tested to determine the optimal technique to satisfy the specific program requirements. The second phase of the program was to implement the selected technique in a laboratory demonstration system, and to develop a convenient, easy to use operator interface to the system. The most difficult task was to develop a text independent speaker recognition technique that would achieve a high level of recognition accuracy with only 10 seconds of training data for each talker. Previous text independent speaker recognition techniques had been reported that had achieved the required accuracies, but all had used several minutes of training data to generate the speaker reference models. In addition, recognition was accomplished in most of these studies by using at least one minute of unknown speech.


This paper is concerned with learning rates for partial linear functional models (PLFM) within reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS), where all the covariates consist of two parts: functional-type covariates and scalar ones. As opposed to frequently used functional principal component analysis for functional models, the finite number of basis functions in the proposed approach can be generated automatically by taking advantage of reproducing property of RKHS. This avoids additional computational costs on PCA decomposition and the choice of the number of principal components. Moreover, the coefficient estimators with bounded covariates converge to the true coefficients with linear rates, as if the functional term in PLFM has no effect on the linear part. In contrast, the prediction error for the functional estimator is significantly affected by the ambient dimension of the scalar covariates. Finally, we develop the proposed numerical algorithm for the proposed penalized approach, and some simulated experiments are implemented to support our theoretical results.


Lattice parameter and heterogeneous strain in ZrN and Dy0.3Zr0.7N irradiated with 200 MeV Xe ions were examined by conventional X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis to obtain fundamental knowledge on the microstructure evolution induced by fission fragments in nitride fuels, which is important for the development of inert matrix fuels for transmutation of minor actinides (MA). The XRD measurements revealed that no phase transformation induced by irradiation occurred and indicated an increase in the unit cell parameter and the accumulation of heterogeneous microstrain with increasing ion fluence. These data were fitted with a single-impact model of damage accumulation. It is indicated that cylindrical defects which induce increasing lattice expansion and lattice distortion are formed in ZrN and Dy0.3Zr0.7N.


Investigating the significance of carnivalized methods of protest in the present, this article explores the characteristics and recent history of the protestival, the carnival of protest which has flourished with the advent of the alter-globalization movement. Heir to the carnivalized politics of the 1960s, and drawing from radical avant-garde movements and guerrilla theatre, the 'protestival' inherits much from the kinds of 'symbolic challenges' thought posed by post-1960s social movements. Immediately downstream from Reclaim the Streets, demonstrating a resurgence of autonomism, anarchism and direct democracy, and developing within the context of global opposition to neo-liberalism and the War on Terror, the Global Day of Action would become the template for popular direct action: in particular those events nominated 'Carnivals Against Capitalism' or 'For Global Justice'. While new social movement theorists have recognized the significance of movement cultural politics, new approaches are needed to unde...


Having recently communicated to -the Royal Dublin Society (March 20th) a paper entitled "On the Constitution of the Electric Spark," I have described a means of obtaining deposits of metals and of metallic oxides, which serves as a very delicate test for some of the metals. It has been considered desirable to devote much further study to the subject, and a method of working has been devised which, so far as it has been applied, appears to be especially useful in the examination of certain metallurgical products, as for instance in the detection and even estimation of the precious metals in copper, lead, and tin, and of certain impurities in copper.


The challenge study was performed in golden Syrian hamster to evaluate the protective effect of COVINVAX, a candidate vaccine developed by the company VABIOTECH, against Covid-19. The result showed that COVINVAX vaccine has prevented the infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, alleviated clinical symptoms and prevented death in the vaccinated hamsters in comparison with the control hamsters, especially in the group of intramuscular route. In which, the result of viral quantify testing by Realtime-PCR of the hamster vaccinated with two doses by intramuscular route was undetectable. While the hamster vaccinated with two doses, the first dose by the intramuscular route and the second dose by nasal route, had a high viral load after challenge, with Ct value 29.05. These results demonstrate that our candidate vaccine, COVINVAX has the ability to protect against the clinical disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. This challenge model on the golden Syrian hamster will serve as an important basis for our further preclinical studies.


Aquatic beetles in the families Noteridae and Dytiscidae have been collected by the first author from waters in the southern part of the Comoé National Park (Ivory Coast, West Africa). Records of 17 species new to the Ivory Coast, including three new for West Africa, are reported here. These are Canthydrus koppi WEHNCKE, Hydrocanthus parvulus GSCHWENDTNER, Hyphydrus caryerus GUIGNOT and H. signatus SHARP, Hydroglyphus speculum BRUNEAU DE MIRÉ & LEGROS, H. intermedius BlSTRÖM and H. angularis (K.LUG), Yola enigmatica OMER-COOPER, Yolina chopardi GUIGNOT, Herophydrus sudanensis GUIGNOT, Copelatus epactus GUIGNOT, Eretes sticticus (LINNÉ), Hydaticus bivittatus CASTELNAU, Cybister mocquerysi RÉGIMBART, C. nigroolivaceus ZIMMERMANN, C. senegalensis AUBÉ and C. buqueti AUBÉ. Based on literature data the distribution for each species is given and West African records are listed.


Suppose that for a library of space objects, their predicted angular positions at the current time are available from previous observations, including an assessment of the errors. Given a new angles-only observation at the current time, the objective is to decide which object, if any, in the libary corresponds to the observed object. The Fisher-Bingham-Kent distribution from directional statistics provides a powerful and tractable model to summarize uncertainty and to implement the classic methods of discriminant analysis from multivariate analysis for this data association problem.


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Due to their high mechanical and corrosion resistance and their small dimension, optical fibre sensors and more particularly fibre Bragg gratings have demonstrated their high utility in the composite material field for monitoring purpose when there are placed under constrain, vibration or temperature variation. In this context the ingress or egress of optical fibre sensors is an important issue for their application in real applications. However, the optical fibre at these transition points is very fragile and an improper handling of the samples can lead to breakage. In this paper, we describe a new kind of "small form factor" optical fibre connectors well suited to be embedded in composite materials. This new connector, cleavable, allows to obtain a good finish of the composite components that can be used in real applications. We also assess its proper behavior (reflection losses evolution) when this embedded connector is tested under vibration and temperature.


Oral drug delivery remains the most preferred route for administration of various therapeutic agents. Recent advances in technology prompted researchers and scientists to develop oral disintegrating tablets (ODTs) with improved patient convenience and compliance. ODTs are solid unit dosage form which dissolve or disintegrate rapidly in the mouth without water or chewing. Novel ODT technologies address many patient and pharmaceutical needs such as enhanced life cycle management to convenient dosing particularly for pediatric, geriatric and psychiatric patients who have difficulty in swallowing (Dysphagia) conventional tablet and capsules. Technologies used for manufacturing of ODTs are either conventional technologies or patented technologies. This review depicts the various aspects of ODT formulation, superdisintegrants and technologies developed for ODT, along with various drugs explored, evaluation tests and marketed formulations in this field.


The subject of physics is usually one of the most complex for high school students, mainly because of the need for abstraction for understanding and the high need for calculation. With these premises, this work evaluated the use of a creative and interactive strategy to improve the physics learning process. Under a quasi-experimental study, the working methodology was carried out, taking a control group and an experimental group. The main results showed that students are significantly motivated by ICT tools, which favor the study and understanding of physics concepts, contributing to improvements in academic performance.


Thomas Burnett of Kemnay (1656-1729), who corresponded with Leibniz for several years, is perhaps best known to historians of philosophy as one of those via whom Leibniz tried to communicate with Locke. But he was more generally a source of intellectual news for Leibniz – principally about new work in English, but also about events wherever Burnett's travels took him. Among other correspondence, between November 1695 and September 1701 Burnett wrote about four letters a year to Leibniz from England, almost all from London. He was in this way a major source of information for Leibniz about Locke and the English intellectual debates in which Locke was participating.


A 56-year-old male was evaluated for 3-month asymptomatic lesions presenting erythema annulare centrifugum on both legs for 2 months. There was no associated fever, lethargy, headache or arthralgia. He had a 15-year history of diabetes. He also had a 2-year history of hypertension. Physical examination revealed several annular red and plaques with central clearing on both legs (Figure 1). No lesions were observed on the soles of the palms and feet. There …


This work addresses the characterization and modelling of the softening phase in the mechanical behaviour of mass concrete under compression. The interpretation of softening is related to the interaction between microstructural components of the material, which results in the generation of non homogeneous strain states where deformations are localized in relatively thin bands. The objective here is to analyze the influence of the loading path, considering various biaxial and uniaxial combinations. With this in mind a mixture model has been employed to simulate the behaviour of concrete. The model includes two phases: the aggregate represented with a cohesive-frictional elastoplastic material with a non-associative flow rule and the matrix considered to be an elasticbrittle material. The application of the model to different tests reproduces well sorne aspects of the initiation and development of the localization bands, leading to a consistent interpretation of the failure of concrete specimens under compression as a structural mechanism.


The emerging new paradigm worldwide for government organizations is that of an 'enterprising government,' a government which responds to what citizens want in a more market-oriented way, provides good quality services and products, and listens more closely to citizens. The reform steps include: public–private partnership, empowering citizens and clients, minimizing rules, measuring outcomes, redefining clients and customers, decentralizing authority, and employing competition/market-oriented government.


A 7-year-old boy presented with swelling in the knees, walking difficulty, petechial rashes on the lower extremity, and gum swelling and bleeding. His medical history was remarkable for mental retardation and autism. He was referred to our clinic with a differential diagnosis of bleeding disorder. His dietary history was positive for unbalanced nutrition (yogurt soup, chocolate, and wheat bread). On admission, his weight and height were normal, looked very ill, and had a body temperature of 38.3°C. His physical examination was remarkable for swollen and bleeding gum, follicular hyperkeratosis with perifollicular purpura at the lower extremities, and soft tissue swelling of both knees, which were painful during passive motion with bilateral 30° flexion contracture of the knees (Figure 1a and b). He had persistent and severe self-injurious behavior. Blood investigations showed anemia of chronic disease, elevated CRP level, and prolonged in vitro bleeding time. Bilateral knee diagraph showed a radio-dense band at the chondro-osseous junction Frankel's line (Figure 2a). Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated bright signal intensity on the meZeynep Küçükaydın1 , İsmail Dursun1 , Burcu Daldaban1 , Alper Özcan2, Ekrem Ünal2 Images in Rheumatology


The changes in surface dimensions of 2S Al under simulated reactor operating conditions were investigated. Results were inconclusive on the sealing of surface cracks of Al by oxide formation. (W.L.H.)


A novel written ultrawideband (UWB) slot antenna with reconfigurable band-notch characteristics is bestowed during this letter. The projected antenna consists of a modified rectangular radiation patch with a circular and 3 rectangular-shaped slots etched thereon. in addition, by cutting 2 triangular-shaped slits on a changed ground plane, sensible halfway information measure of additional than a hundred and twentieth (3.12–12.51 GHz), outlined by ten decibel come loss, is achieved. so as to come up with single and twin band-notch characteristics, two p-i-n diodes ar mounted across the circular slot. The designed antenna has tiny size of twenty twenty millimetre with switchable single notched bands of three.12–3.84 gigacycle per second WiMAX and 5– 6.07 GHz WLAN, once diode one and diode a pair of ar severally on. Also, dual bands of 3.12–3.82 and 4.9–6.06 gigacycle per second ar eliminated from whole frequency band once each diodes ar at the same time on.


Calvin as "practical theologian": the contribution of a theodramatic paradigm In order to ask the question about the role and place of a specific discipline (in this case Practical Theology), one must realise where one comes from. This article seeks to answer the question about the role of Practical Theology within the field of theology in conversation with some perspectives offered by the sixteenth-century reformer, John Calvin. It is argued that Calvin lived in a century that scholars regard as one of the golden periods in which the world of the arts and theatre flourished. Hence Calvin's age was characterised by a dramatic vision of human existence and such a vision also had an impact on his own theological thinking. Against this backdrop, the article engages the question of the role and place of practical theology by proposing a theodramatic approach in which the possibilities that the notion of "re-dramatisation" holds, come to the fore.


China's flight training institutions are facing policy risk,market risk,and technology risk.The avoidance of such risks demands running the schools jointly with professional and entitative institutions,upholding professionalized and standardized business principles,stressing scientific and diversified market development strategies,and providing differentiated and personalized service.


In this article, the main aspects of a managerial nature are presented and analyzed, as well as the results of an international cooperation project in the field of environmental education in which universities from Romania and Iceland participated. Creating open educational resources and accessing them through an online learning platform is a good opportunity to ensure environmental education in disadvantaged rural communities. The conception and implementation of an international cooperation project, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, generates additional risks that require appropriate response measures. Such projects constitute a conducive environment for the transfer of knowledge and lessons learned.


Patients prescribed fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) for colorectal cancer screening often do not complete the tests. To evaluate whether paying an incentive improves adherence to FOBT, researchers conducted a two-stage, randomized, controlled trial among patients from a U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Center clinic.

In the first stage, 713 patients (99% men, 75% white non-Hispanic) were randomized to receive no financial incentive, $5, $10, or $20 for completion of FOBT. Completion rates were …


Physiological changes occurring in the body of pregnant should necessarily be taken into account during anesthesia during surgical procedures associated with co morbidity. Do not forget about laying and developing the body of the fetus. Clinical diagnosis of intracranial pathology is very difficult in pregnant women, since neurological symptoms can be mistaken for manifestations of pregnancy. Given the importance of all of the above for the safety of mother and fetus, this article describes the physiological changes the body in pregnant women. Showing pharmacological effects of drugs used for anesthesia, and for the treatment of patients in this category, their effect on the fetus. Variants of surgical treatment of pregnant women with neurosurgery pathology at different stages of pregnancy. We consider the postoperative management of women with subarachnoid hemorrhage.


Head load carriage is a common phenomenon in some parts of the world. This is prevalent across sub-Saharan Africa where women and children are used as pedestrian load-transporters. It has also been observed that during gymnasium and a few sporting activities, experienced gymnasts carry loads or other gymnasts by placing them their heads. The neck plays a major role in supporting the head in balance while generating the controlled head movements that are essential for balance in the head load carriage. Hence in this study, a biomechanical model of the controlled human head-head load carriage system is developed. The biomechanics model of the head loading problem in this study is a type of constrained mechanical three-dimensional, matrix coefficients, multibody systems which arise in many applications like robotics, vehicle and machinery dynamics. This governing equation was solved using Differential Transform Method (DTM) and was validated with the fourth order Runge-Kutta numerical method (RK4). Good agreements are reached between the two solutions. The effects of head mass, head load, neck mass were investigated. Other effects such as upper and lower linkage lengths were investigated in the study. As the head load increases, there were increases in both axial and angular displacement of the head and the neck motion.


Considering the end of Belgium may seem an exercise in political fiction. While it seems clear that the Belgian State has been in a phase of permanent reorganization for about fifty years now, with phases of acute crisis, it is not obvious that this process must necessarily lead to the dismantling of the State. The Walloon viewpoint developed here seeks to be anchored in pragmatism. It is not situated in a radical "After-Belgium" (Who knows if and when that will happen?), but within the context of what is foreseeable in the medium term: a Wallonia constrained to emerge in a period of economic difficulties, in a Belgium which is undoubtedly breaking up, but which is not likely to disappear quickly.


To solve the problem of high-cost and the low-utilization-rate of sugar cane in the mountain area of South,choosed the new Taiwan sugar cane No.22 as a subject to test the formula fertilization in Luocheng County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2008.The results showed that under the same condition like the output,compared with the routine fertilization,the formula zone's ferfilizer cost reduced by 22.13%.Therefore the formula fertilization had a superior promotional value in the sugar cane area of this city.


The electric submersible pump (ESP) is a centrifugal pump with several stages. It's a dependable and efficient industrial lifting tool for lifting different amounts of fluids, and it's known for its adaptability and reliability. Electric submersible pumps are commonly used in onshore oil wells, as well as underground pumping and other applications. The pump's efficiency is evaluated under the control of various rotational speeds. The CFD approach is used in this analysis to analyze flow behaviors within the ESP at various flow speeds. ANSYS CFX program was approved to conduct and investigate single-stage simulation of the GN7000 pump. The sensitivity of the network was determined, and the best mesh for the solution was chosen. The flow field was solved using the (SST, Unsteady-RANS) model with different rotational velocities (2500-3000-3500 cycle in this case). The test used two fluids with varying viscosities, and the findings revealed that the viscosity has an impact on efficiency as well. There is a high level of compatibility as compared to previous studies. This research presented a set of curves for efficiency and pressure and to know the extent of the effect of rotational speed on performance in general


A high-safety hot water tank comprises a tank body. A top end socket and a bottom end socket are arranged at the top and the bottom of the tank body respectively. A skirt barrel is further arranged at the bottom of the tank body and can achieve the better protection effect on the bottom of the tank body, the bottom end socket and an outlet pipe, and the receiving effect on liquid or gas leaking from the tank body is achieved. A nitrogen inlet, an emptying port, a safety valve port, a teletransmission pressure meter port and a site pressure meter port are formed in the top end socket. A site liquid level port, a teletransmission liquid level meter port, an industrial water inlet, a hot water return port, a backflow port, a teletransmission thermometer port and a site thermometer port are formed in the tank wall of the tank body. The condition in the tank body can be monitored and controlled in real time, and the tank body can be protected as soon as possible when the temperature and the pressure of the tank body exceed the standards. The hot water tank is reasonable in design, easy to operate and good in use effect in the industrial production field.


ABSTRACT This research seeks to make contributions to the organization-level analysis of voluntary turnover in public organizations. Structural equation modelling is used to explore how transformational leadership makes a difference on employees' actual quitting behaviour. Moreover, the research provides empirical evidence on the relationship between turnover intention and actual turnover. The findings suggested that transformational leadership not only directly prevents employees from forming intentions to leave but also indirectly does so by cultivating a collaborative culture. Additionally, we found that higher turnover intention leads to higher actual turnover rate, so turnover intention may be a valid proxy of actual turnover behaviour.


Like all production areas the production of dental replacements, either prosthetic or aesthetic, has recently undergone great advancement due to computer-aided design of dental parts and their computer aided manufacturing. CNC milling, which belongs to the group of subtractive production methods, is very well established in dental production. For the last several years, methods of additive manufacturing, such as Selective Laser Melting (SLM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), have gone mainstream. In general, both additive and subtractive methods have their technological pros and cons; therefore, the aim of this paper is to determine how accurate in terms of tolerance of production of ± 50 μm both technologies are and afterwards to determine which of the technologies is more accurate. Given that nowadays the most commonly used material in the dental area is cobaltchromium (Co-Cr) alloy, this alloy was chosen for the experiment. Thirty Co-Cr dental crowns were manufactured for analysis according to the referential CAD model, 15 by CNC milling and 15 by SLM. The crowns were subsequently scanned using a dental 3D scanner, and their inner areas were extracted and compared to the nominal CAD model. The percentage agreement of production is on the level of approximately 94% with both devices, and the average value of agreement as well as the standard deviation and range variation are better with additive production.


Computation offloading divides enormous computational tasks across numerous computer resources, circumventing hardware limits. Edge computing can employ vast quantities of data, individual preferences, and clever algorithms by offloading smart models to high-performance cloud servers. We propose a getaway-centric IoT system to enable intelligent and autonomous IoT devices at the computer infrastructure's edge. Edge computing manages IoT devices by selecting and applying the best control factor from a pool of intelligent services. The cloud-based intelligent service engine provides intelligent services by offloading intelligence and optimisation algorithms. Thus, the gateway's decision-making model may choose the best alternative. Resource virtualization-based gateway-based device management facilitates user monitoring and visualisation in the proposed IoT system. The gateway evaluates context-based profiles to enable real-time connection with intelligent services and dynamic application of the appropriate control factor to the physical device using the virtual resource. We propose two smart models to learn characteristics of a user's home environment using deep learning and build inference models for the intelligent service engine to optimise energy usage with the recommended IoT system. Inference methods forecast heater energy usage. Heaters set the environment. The decision-making algorithm also lowers the heater setting based on the two use numbers, reducing energy consumption and producing a user-desired environment.


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This paper explores how Melanesian villagers have harnessed modern, technological ways of seeing. It begins by analysing the politics and narrative structures of dreams and popular stories about secret photos concerning the dead. These are stories about losing control and regaining hidden, alternative representations of Melanesians. I then analyse how millenarian followers have experimented with 'constructing' their own versions of cameras, televisions and videos so as to gain access to the omniscient powers of modern technology and merge them with those of a Christian god and with the gaze of the dead. In the Pomio Kivung movement, 'televisions' and 'videos' have even been used to create new forms of moral surveillance for policing and governing communities. Here the customary shamanic worlds of dreams and possession have been modernised and redeployed to re-mediate the governmental practices and disciplinary schemes of civilisating projects originally belonging to Western churches and government.


Low-dose single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) technology can reduce radiation damage to the subject but lead to reconstructed image quality degradation, such as severe noise and artifacts. Many existing works utilize convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to improve the quality of reconstructed images at low doses and demonstrate impressive performance. However, the intrinsic locality nature of convolutional operation limits the ability of CNNs to encode explicitly long-range dependencies. Combining the long-range dependencies effectively during reconstruction might improve the quality of reconstructed images. Therefore, we designed a novel transformer-based network, dubbed TC-GAN, which combines the conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN) and CSwin Transformer for high-quality low-dose SPECT reconstruction. In TC-GAN, the CSwin transformer was integrated into the generator of CGAN as a strong feature extractor to establish the intra-relationships in the whole image and provide plenty of global contextual information for image reconstruction. The CGAN was used as the backbone of our network to synthesize reconstructed images with accurate structure and pixel-level details via adversarial training fashion. In the experiment, we used the Monte Carlo simulation software SIMIND to produce low-dose SPECT image datasets. The results show that the proposed method has better reconstruction performance than several recent methods. In terms of visual analysis, the proposed method maintains more accurate image structure and details while noise suppression. In terms of quantitative analysis, the proposed method obtains the best results in global image quality metrics. Our results suggest that the proposed network has good potential to reduce radiation dose without compromising the reconstructed image quality.


Systems and methods for matching live media content are disclosed. At a server, obtaining first media content from a client device, herein the first media content corresponds to a portion of media content being played on the client device, and the first media content is associated with a predefined expiration time; obtaining second media content from one or more content feeds, wherein the second media content also corresponds to a portion of the media content being played on the client device; in accordance with a determination that the second media content corresponds to a portion of the media content that has been played on the client device: before the predefined expiration time, obtaining third media content corresponding to the media content being played on the client device, from the one or more content feeds; and comparing the first media content with the third media content.


We extend to more general groups a well-known relation used for checking the orthogonality of a system as well as for orthogonalizing a nonorthogonal one. This, in turn is used for designing local orthogonal bases obtained by modulations and rotations of a single prototype filter. These bases are useful for building systems for evaluating image quality.


Previous researches have developed the attitude structure of corporate reputation.From the perspective of consumers,this paper studies the contributing factors of corporate reputation attitude and its impact on consumers' word-of-mouth behavior.The investigation data of 261 consumers puts forward indications as follows: the emotion-oriented corporate reputation attitude has the most remarkable influences on consumers' Word-of-Mouth behavior;whereas the corporate reputation's behavior tendency factors have a significant impact on consumers' word-of-mouth behavior,the cognition factors have a less significant impact on that;furthermore,the cognition of enterprise's features("development","attraction" and "quality","responsibility") will affect diversified aspects of corporate reputation in different extend.Besides,the following mediating effects are significant: on the one hand,"responsibility","development" and "attraction" affect consumers' word-of-mouth behavior through emotion attitude,on the other hand,"development","attraction" and "quality" impact consumers' word-of-mouth behavior through behavior tendency attitude.


With the increasing size of the float glass roller annealing lehr,its traditional driving system is facing a severe problem on strength.The ANSYS,i.e.a kind of powerful FEA software,is used to calculate strength of driving shaft which is a typical torsional component in roller annealing lehr so as to find out the weak point along the whole length of the driving shaft and then enable to make proposal for improving the structure in order to reduce local stress.


Purpose

This paper aims to explore how we can get better talent retention, employee engagement, productivity, innovation and ultimately results.

Design/methodology/approach

At the heart of this paper is a case study of Redington's culture.

Findings

Millennials are motivated by more than money. The need is to understand our employees' motivations/ambitions. More vulnerable leadership is needed.

Originality/value

This is a more human and personal perspective on the subject of employee engagement.