The paper describes a new method for determining the temperature of combustion products (CP) of fuel used in combined cycle plants (CCGTs) and steam turbine units (STUs) with their own fuel preparation and combustion system. The method is based on the use of reliable reference data on the thermophysical the CP properties for obtaining correlation dependencies of the individual true enthalpies of the Cp components in the form of polynomials. The application of the method of inversion of polynomials made it possible to obtain in explicit form the relation for the adiabatic CP temperature, which is easily extended to theoretical and balance temperatures. Based on the example of CP fuels of three aggregate states, it is shown that the method can be used to control the process of formation of nitrogen oxides in combustion chambers of gas turbine units (GTUs) and boiler furnaces of STU.


In order to explain why the DNA concentration and the number of cells increase in adipose tissues with the proportion of linoleic acid given to rats, some determinations were carried out either on epi


A study of subpopulation spectrum of blood lymphocytes of 20 persons with ReA at the age 20-30 years has been conducted. It has been recorded a slight decrease in the absolute number of natural killer cells. Thus, a relative measure of CD16 + 56 + patients ReA was 11,8 ± 1,21 % (14,92±1,13 % in healthy individuals). As a consequence of activation of T suppressor was reduced immune-regulatory index to 1.7 (in control 2.4). The tendency towards inhibition of cellular immunity and figure show the activation of T lymphocytes CD3+/CDHLA-DR 5,8±0,32 vs. 7,7±0,57 (%) in the control.


ALGEL/sup /spl reg// (Neural Intervention Technologies, Ann Arbor, MI) has shown promise as a biocompatible and mechanically stable material when used as a dural sealant. ALGEL provides a suitable interface between the brain surface and cortical neural implants to help attain long-term neural recordings for over one year in laboratory animals. This paper investigates whether the ALGEL can cause abnormal neural activity or seizures when placed in contact with the motor cortex. Sixteen rats underwent craniotomy procedures and ALGEL and its reactive component, calcium chloride, were placed in contact with the cortex. The response of the animals was evaluated with electroencephalography (EEG) and clinical monitoring of behavior during controlled anesthesia for up to two hours post-application. ALGEL was compared with tranexamic acid (tAMCA), a synthetic fibrinolysis inhibitor that has been shown to cause epileptic seizures. tAMCA, at a dose of 100 mg/ml, showed marked paroxymal brain activity with associated and distinct episodes of jerk-correlated convulsive behaviors. However, various applications of ALGEL on the rat cortex showed no abnormal EEG signals and no episodes of jerk-correlated convulsive behaviors. ALGEL appears to be a safe and effective dural sealant that can be used alone or in combination with neural implants.


The mechanisms of satisfying desires have made modern urban complexes extremely fixed and programmed leaving no room for the 'other' to happen,the divergent from normative and expected behaviors to emerge. The green spaces, although a great chance to dilute this rigidness, follow the same expected patterns failing to satisfy the various emergent subjectivities that seek to constantly become 'someone else'. This project was triggered by the need for a different kind of green places, part of an "otherness" of a city. Places that could offer something out-of-the-way, as much designed as random, that could act as counter-stories to the ordinary rhythms and norms of the urbanity. Three new gardens are popping up in the midst of Rotterdam city center, at points, like in acupunctural treatment of the body. All designed in areas with unique characters, they seek to create new affective relationships between the citizens and their quotidian environment through the 'reading' of the ordinary as well as the infusion of the paradoxical landscapes of fictional settings. They are chances where you can get lost, or stumble, or even get wet; where you can climb stairs that may fall or scaffoldings that make weird noises; where you can jump above water and walk on narrow surfaces trying to keep your balance. The gardens of deviation are there to oppose the homogeneity and striation of urbanity. They constitute 'leakages' in the expectedness of current experiences in the urban realm: they are places that trigger peoples' mind and stir emotions. Emerging in empty of meaning spaces of the urban tissue, they coexist with the ordinary and through their thresholds they filter it, making the virtualities of the existing places actual.


The adsorption of pollutants to the surface of adsorbents plays a critical role in the effectiveness of adsorption technology for air purification applications. Herein, novel magnetic nanoparticles...


ion of geometric thinking.............................................................. 89 3.3: The summary of my research process......................................................... 99 4.1 Responses of learners to the intervention activity 1.......................................... 122 4.2 Learners' overall performance in the diagnostic test and reflective test 1................. 128 4.3 Learners' responses to question 1.2 in the reflective test 1.................................. 129 4.4 Learners' overall performance in the diagnostic test and reflective test 2................. 136 4.5 How learners responded to question 3.1.5...................................................... 148 4.6 Learners' overall performance in the diagnostic test and reflective test 3............... 158 4.7 Learners' overall performance in the diagnostic test and reflective test 4................ 167 4.8 Learners' overall performance in the diagnostic test and reflective test 5................. 176 4.9 Learners' overall performance in the diagnostic test and reflective test 6................. 188 4.10 Learners' overall performance in the diagnostic test and reflective test 7............... 197 4.11 L1's transcribed interview, words before keywords and words after keywords......... 213 4.12 L2's transcribed interview, words before keywords and words after keywords......... 213 4.13 L3's transcribed interview, words before keywords and words after keywords........ 214 4.14 L4's transcribed interview, words before keywords and words after keywords........ 215


Recognizing an object from its background is always a very challenging task for pattern recognition, especially when the size, pose, or illumination of the object or the background are changing. The most essential method of handling this classical problem is to learn and define the structure of an object using its topological or geometrical features and components. To create a data structure that can describe the spatial relationships of object components formally and join knowledge learning and applying in a seamless loop, a representation platform must be developed. This platform can serve as a shared workspace not only for learning but also for recognition. In this paper, the platform is established by simulating the primary functional modules in the biological primary visual cortex (V1). V1 is located at the middle level of the visual information processing system. As the conjunction of low-level data and high-level knowledge, it performs visual processing for general purposes. Orientation columns in V1 are simulated in our platform, and an array of such columns is designed to represent the orientation features of edges in an image. With this platform, formalized prototypes are designed to represent each typical view of an object and thus the object concept. Data- and concept-driven processing can shift iteratively on this platform. The processes of acquiring knowledge of an object and applying that knowledge coincide with each other perfectly. The experimental results show that our algorithm can learn from a small training set and can recognize the same types of objects in natural background without any preliminary information. This bioinspired representation platform offers a promising prospect for the handling of semantic-concerned problems that need prior knowledge.


Objective To evaluate the efficacy of transarterial chemoembolization(TACE) plus Sorafenib for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC).Methods Electric databases,such as Cochrane library,MEDLINE,etc,were systematically searched until May 2012.Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials(RCTs) and cohort studies was performed to estimate the effects of the TACE plus Sorafenib on overall survival(OS).Risk ratios(RR) and 95% confidence intervals(95% CI) were calculated.Results A total of 2 RCTs and 3 cohort studies involving 307 patients were included.TACE combined with Sorafenib significantly improved the 6-months OS,with RR of 1.13(95% CI 1.03-1.25).The 1-year OS and CBR were also increased,with RR of 1.44(95% CI 1.151.71),and 1.40(95% CI 1.15-1.71),respectively.The most common adverse reactions followed by sorafenib therapy were hand-foot skin reaction,hypertension,nausea,rash,diarrhea,anorexia,and alopecia.Conclusions TACE plus Sorafenib improve the short-term OS and clinical benefit rate for advanced HCC patients.However,this conclusions should be interpreted with caution.More extensive studies with larger sample sizes and longer follow-up are needed.


Due to the great importance of the trade business, there are significant world efforts in establishing GMO detection methods. Currently, bioassays that analyse seedling phenotype, the ELISA test and kits that enable specific transgene protein identification, and PCR to detect specific DNA sequences are frequently used. The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of different methods to detect RR soybean. Genetically modified seed samples, tolerant to glyphosate and susceptible parental seeds were submitted to bioassays (pre-imbibed, imbibed and immersion in herbicide solutions and seedling spraying), the Kit trait test and PCR detection. Bioassays were shown to be more efficient, comparing the ratio cost/benefit. The seedling visual analysis is a very important parameter to be considered in GM soybean seeds detection.


This paper studies the tensor product decomposition of large-size logical matrix, which is widely used in modelling gene regulatory networks. Based on the properties of tensor product, a necessary and sufficient condition is presented for the tensor product decomposition of large-size logical matrix. The study of several illustrative examples shows that the obtained new results are effective in reducing the dimension of large-size logical matrix.


A new type of tubular machine in modular construction that can work either like motor or generator is presented in the paper. It belongs to the transverse flux machines class and operates based on the variable reluctance principle. Two topologies of the machine, with and without permanent magnets (PM), are approached here. A prototype of the tubular machine with electromagnetic excitation, having a stator core built from laminated sheets and the mover core made of soft magnetic composite material, was built and is shown in the paper. The use of the new soft magnetic composite material, Somaloy 700 HR, having 3D magnetic isotropy, brings important advantages in building the structure. The innovative construction, implying the alternation of the magnetic pieces called modules with no-magnetic spacers, has very good performances. A prototype of this machine was built and a test bench equipped with control and monitoring devices in order to perform experimental tests. Some possible applications showing the potential of the proposed machine are also presented.


Abstract Microglia are activated in response to brain injury and release neurotoxic factors including nitric oxide (NO) and proinflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β). Lycopene, a potent antioxidant, is known to inhibit brain injury. In this study, we found that lycopene (5–20 μ M) significantly inhibited lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced NO release in primary cultured microglia. Lycopene (5–20 μM) also concentration-dependently diminished the LPS-induced production of proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α and IL-1β in microglia. Further study of the molecular mechanisms revealed that lycopene markedly inhibited extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2) but not c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK1/2) or p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphorylation stimulated by LPS in microglia. These results suggest that microglial inactivation by lycopene is at least partially due to activation of ERK1/2 phosphorylation Therefore, inhibition of NO and proinflammatory cytokine production in activated microglia by lycopene may represent a powerful and potential therapeutic strategy for various neurodegenerative diseases including ischemia-reperfusion cerebral infarction.


In modern processors, energy savings are achieved using dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). For task scheduling, where a task graph representing a program is allocated and ordered on multiple processors, DVFS has been employed to reduce the energy consumption of the generated schedules, hence running the processors at heterogeneous speeds A prominent class of energy-efficient scheduling algorithms is slack reclamation algorithms, which try to use idle times (slack) to slow down processor speed to save energy. Several algorithms have been proposed and under the assumed system model they can achieve considerable energy savings. However, the question arises, how realistic and accurate these algorithms and models are when implemented and executed on real hardware. Can one achieve the promised energy savings? This paper proposes a methodology to investigate these questions and performs a first experimental evaluation of selected slack reclamation algorithms. Using schedules created by three scheduling algorithms for a set of task graphs, we generate code and execute it on a small parallel system. We measure the power consumption and compare the results between the algorithms and relate them to the expected values.


A 76-year-old man, with an unremarkable past medical history and no cardiac risk factors, acutely developed right sided pleuritic and upper quadrant abdominal pain associated with dyspnoea. On examination, he had decreased air entry at the right base. There was localised peritonitis in the right upper quadrant and Murphy's sign was positive.

Investigations demonstrated type 1 respiratory failure and an elevated Troponin T at 0.06 ng/ml with a normal eGFR. d-dimer was >0.12 g/dl, a neutrophilia was evident at 9 × 109/l and the CRP was 196 mg/l. A chest radiograph illustrated right basal atelectasis. An electrocardiogram (ECG) demonstrated a trifascicular block (right axis deviation, right bundle branch block with left posterior hemi block and first degree heart block) (Figure 1). A comparative …


Research in ergonomics and work psychology has been interested in the way to prevent musculo-skeletal and psycho-social risks in companies for many years. Globalization of an efficient approach is not easy to find. This is why research turns towards understanding the social construction of a preventive approach with workers. It would be necessary to have workers take an active part in the deployment of a preventive approach to make its effects lasting (Coutarel α Daniellou, 2007). In this way, the concept of the mobilization of stakeholders is being used more and more. Mobilization of stakeholders during a prevention process is a fundamental condition for the efficacy of an intervention. The aim of this paper is to show the conditions favoring the mobilization of stakeholders in a preventive approach. To understand this issue, we explore three hypotheses: the influence of the practitioner in the mobilization process (hypothesis 1), the role of the individual activity of each worker (hypothesis 2) and the construction of collective work (hypothesis 3). The contribution of this article is to improve intervention practices by encouraging the diagnoses and actions that must be carried out to facilitate the stakeholders' mobilization, which is an important issue for the efficacy of prevention.


"INTESTINAL COLIC" may be defined as pain wlhich occurs only during peristaltic contractions, and is absent during the quieter continuous rlhythmic movements. The gastro-intestinal tract is a series of organs whose secretory -and motor properties are controlled by a complex 'system of mutually antagonistic nerve impulses; wlhich are influenced simultaneously by mutually-atagonisticdhormones; and which nevertheless possess -inherent automqtic rhytlidic properties independent of suchi influences. Such a complex system of control of an automatic propelling, secretory and digestive apparatus is clearly designed to maintain a normal equilibrium in the presence of variable mechlanical vascular or clhemical conditions; and evidence is abundant that the normal gastro-intestinal tract adequately performs its allotted functions, not in obedience to, but independent (and often in defiance) of, mechanical laws. Of the truth of this I need only give one illustrationnamely, the well kinown law that any increase of mechanical opposition to the passage of contents (that is, any degree of obstruction) is invariably followed by overaction and hypertrophy on tlhe proximal side; wlhile, conversely, it is a sound deduction that the final test of any mechanical obstruction is tle presence of proximal lhypertrophy. The clinical value of this law is thlat abnormal delay in the passage of -contents tlhrouglh the intestinal tract must never be attributed primarily to mechanical opposition unless evidence of such overaction or hypertroplhy is present. IThe complexity of the subject is enhanced by thle fact that, as in tlle species tlle alimentary tract is modified to suit the character of the food, so in the individual are thle 4ifferent regions modified to meet the varying digestive requirements. of the food in the successive stages of its transit. Tlhus we should not expect identical or analogous mechanisms to prevail in different regions; and, indeed, we find a constant gradual alteration of every mechanism as we pass almost insensibly from the voluntary or controlled act' (mastication and swallowing) to the involuntary (digestion and absorption) and return-again to the voluntary (defaecation). It is interesting that in tbese transitions the changes of mechanism are always gradual and ill defined.


This paper presents an experiential exercise designed to address issues in evaluation, representation, self- confidence, and decision making. Individuals are asked to prepare an assignment on "images of effectiveness" by reading newspaper advertisements, and then in an experiential group exercise, to choose what the group considers the "best" completion of the assignment in the group. This group choice is submitted for a group grade.


In recent years the search for more sustainable products has motivated many scientists to investigate the technical feasibility of different lignocellulose materials for use in various materials. Among them we can detach the sisal fiber bundles that are already used by different segments of the plastic industry. This lignocellulose material has gained prominence due to several mechanical and economic characteristics. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the potential use of sisal bundles in association with eucalyptus particles for the production of MDP panels. Panels were prepared with the substitution on eucalyptus wood for sisal bundles in the panels' core in doses of 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25%. The MDP panels were produced with face/core 40/60 (base dry mass of the particles), urea-formaldehyde adhesive, nominal density of 0,70 g.cm -3 and pressing cycle of 8 minutes, 3,92 MPa pressure and temperature of 160°C. The results were


Global integration of European higher education implies a substantial increase in
competitiveness among universities that, from a commercial point of view, requires
political and communications strategies for a more effective and profitable position in
the Spanish university market (Capriotti, 2009) Unlike other markets, the university
branding market is a sector little developed in relation with targets groups (Bean,
2000). This work takes into account results from prior empirical research that
measure the image perceived in Spanish universities market (Hernandez Gomez y
Zamora, 2010), as well as other recently published works on university marketing and
his value diferencial (Carmelo y Calvo, 2010; Chapleo, 2010, Clark, 2009; Duque, 2009;
Waeraas & Solbakk, 2008; Bergh, Reece, & Lancendorfer, 2007). From these
reflections, this paper gives goes forward with the methodological concretion on
having proposed the interdisciplinar�]methodological triangulation (IMT) as a method
suitable to measure and evaluate the current attributes (principal and secondary) and
latent ones on which the students construct their own image of the university
institutions (own, competition and ideal), in terms of valuation and hierarchical
organization.
To determine the mentioned attributes it proposes to apply a double triangulation
(methodological and interdisciplinal), from a prelimary exploratory phase �] qualitative �]
in which, by using focus group, we could identify the attributes associated with the
image of the university institutions directly from the universe study object. This way of
obtaining the attributes will increase the percentage of the model explanation during
the phase of analysis and statistical treatments. The second phase is descriptive �]
conclusive �] quantitative, whose purpose is to extrapolate to our universe the
conclusions and research hypotheses that, in fact, have been formulated taking into
account the few models that have concreted the elements linked to the university
branding process construction that include the dimensions of consumer response in
relation with the brand reputation, from a conative, affective and cognitive view,
(Bennett & Ali�]Choudhury, 2009).


A study of the high-frequency properties of a Read-like IMPATT device, which is arranged to have a variable current multiplication in the avalanche zone by means of controlled injection of minority carriers into the reverse biased junction, and also an additional transverse field in the intrinsic drift region, is presented. The additional field shifts the direction of space-charge waves emerging from the avalanche layer without altering the drift velocity which is already saturated. It is shown that the frequency of the maximum negative conductance, avalanche frequency, magnitude of the negative conductance, and susceptance of the device can be controlled over a wide range by varying the current multiplication in the avalanche zone. It is also shown that a fine variation of the negative conductance without altering the avalanche frequency or susceptance can be obtained by means of the additional transverse field.


Family planning providers do not agree on whether it is good clinical practice to administer Norplant or Depo-Provera to mothers shortly after delivery. Manufacturers of both contraceptives recommend that providers not prescribe them before 6 weeks postpartum for lactating mothers. The hormones enter the breast milk, but the amount is minimal, and no studies show the small amount of hormones to be harmful. Some providers point to this lack of data as a reason to prescribe them to mothers immediately after delivery because progestin-only pills do neat adversely affect breast feeding. Some providers even claim Norplant should be inserted no later than 3 weeks. On the other hand, other providers, like a physician from Chile, stress that the lack of studies does not mean it is safe, just that there have not been enough studies. The Chilean physician is investigating the effect of hormones on infant health and central nervous system development. A nurse midwife at the University Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida, reports that no woman using Depo-Provera has complained of breast-feeding problems. More than 50% of postpartum women leave this hospital after receiving an injection of Depo-Provera and those who do not come back for their 3-month injection are those who did not receive proper prenatal counseling about its side effects. The most upsetting side effect is bleeding which becomes less stressful with adequate counseling. Depo-provera extends the normal postpartum bleeding by a month. A director of services at a family planning clinic in San Marcos, Texas, notes that proper counseling, both before insertion and before removal, is also the key to proper management of Norplant acceptors. Providers at this clinic insert it 6 weeks postpartum. Hispanic women in San Marcos are concerned about bleeding because their partners do not want to have sex with a bleeding partner. Another side effect concerning clients is weight gain.


The determination of Saturn's atmospheric noble gas abundances are critical to understanding the formation and evolution of Saturn, and giant planets in general. These measurements can only be performed with an entry probe. A Saturn probe will address whether enhancement in heavy noble gases, as was found in Jupiter, are a general feature of giant planets, and their ratios will be a powerful constraint on how they form. The helium abundance will show the extent to which helium has phase separated from hydrogen in the planet's deep interior. Jupiter's striking neon depletion may also be tied to its helium depletion, and must be confirmed or refuted in Saturn. Together with Jupiter's measured atmospheric helium abundance, a consistent evolutionary theory for both planets, including "helium rain" will be possible. We will then be able to calibrate the theory of the evolution of all giant planets, including exoplanets. In addition, high pressure H/He mixtures under giant planet conditions are an important area of condensed matter physics that are beyond the realm of experiment.


WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is a form of appli- cation created by using the Wireless Markup Language (WML), namely language, used to create an application that can be used on a cellular phone. By using wireless, as a li- aison between applications and servers. In this scholarly writing explain the steps to make a registration application design courses that are held by institutions Avosta course, Course using the WML language, so as to form a WAP application, This application also features an administrator made ??in the form website using the PHP programming language. The design of applications that the authors made, is expected to provide convenience for users who aim to re- duce queues, save costs to the course to just sign up and of course save time.


It is a new project to embody the Ecological Consciousness and sustainable development in the Interior Spatial Design that has not be highly valued enough by the insiders,which followed by resources waste,energy expenditure,environment pollution and so on and has direct relationship with the designers′ Ecological Consciousness.This article expounds how to embody the ecological consciousness in the interior spatial design,and puts forward that the designers should pay attention to combine ecological consciousness and aesthetic consciousness through the process of the interior design.


Carcinoid tumor was first characterized by Siegfried Oberndorfer, a German pathologist who coined the term "Karzinoide" or "carcinoma-like", to describe the unique feature of behaving like a benign tumor though having a microscopic malignant appearance. Carcinoid tumor is a slow-growing type of Neuroendocrine tumor originating in the cells of the neuroendocrine system most commonly presenting in the midgut at the level of the ileum or in the appendix. Carcinoid tumors are APUDomas (Amine Precursor Uptake and Decarboxylation)that arise from the enterochromaffin cells throughout the gut. Over 2/3rds of the tumors are found in the Gastrointestinal tract.


Nowadays, worms and other outside threats in the network recognized to be a serious and unexpected behavior. The main issue was addressed based on the behavioral patterns of worms that reflect application communications typical of worms. This representation of worm's behavior differs from those used in contemporary enterprise postures, which reliance on a particular type of signature-based intrusion detection and the behavioral detection approach contrasts from this form of signature-based detection. Thus, this paper introduced the traditional worm's detection approaches. Meanwhile, the paper suggested a worm detection approach based on worm behaviors that consist on network scanning detection approach, network worm's correlation approach, and signature correlation approach.


The problem of choosing only one relevant safety performance indicator for the purpose of comparing and assessing road safety situations has been the subject of many recent research studies. This paper shows the concept of creating a composite exposure index based on available data. The procedure of creating a model for calculating this indicator is based on the analysis of quality of individual exposure indicators and the size of their impact on the direct safety performance indicators – number of road crashes and their consequences. The following four models (TOPSIS EQUAL, TOPSIS CRIT-IC, PROMETHEE EQUAL, PROMETHEE CRITIC) for determining weighted coefficients of the individual indi-cators that participate in the creation of the composite exposure index have been analysed in this paper. The method used for defining the composite exposure index is the "high-efficiency method" based on which the final shape of the model for defining the composite exposure index has been defined. The main aim of this paper is to create a model for defining the composite index of traffic exposure. The final outcome is to provide an opportuni-ty to evaluate and rank traffic safety levels based on the unique road traffic risk.


The first university in Thailand was founded in 1917. After nearly a century, the number of universities has risen to 120 in 2012. These universities have established a diverse variety of museums in order to accomplish their specific missions. There have not however been any reviews of university museums in Thailand. Therefore, this study aimed to accumulate basic information about Thailand's university museums in terms of general characteristics, administrative structure, current status and limitations; the results of this can be analyzed for trends and suggest not only the current status of the university museum sector, but also avenues for new lines of enquiry. Introduction Since the founding of the first university in Thailand in 1917, the number of universities has risen to 120 in 2012 (OHEC 2012). Within many of these universities are university museums, yet there has never been a review of university museums in Thailand before the present study. The aim of this survey is to collate and understand this sector in terms of characteristics, administrative structure, current status and limitations. To accomplish the objective, basic information about university museums was initially roughly extracted from two sources: (a) the Local Museum Database and (b) by exploring university websites. Thereafter, specific information was collected by mail, phone or personal communication. Only 71 out of 120 universities were identified as having their own museum(s). Universities lacking a museum are usually younger than 20 year-old, so might not have enough resources to establish a museum. Despite the low number of museum-hosting universities, the number of museums was high; 171 university museums were identified. For the purpose of this survey the museums were divided into six categories, namely Humanities & Social Science, Arts, Natural History, Science & Technology, Memorial Hall & Archive and Biography. As a result of the Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment's (ONESQA) policy, anthropological museums, sub-category of Humanities, contributed the largest number. The ONESQA has set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to assess quality of universities in Thailand (ONESQA 2012). One of the KPIs indicators is the level of culture promotion, accordingly, many universities established museum-like 'cultural centers' to respond this KPI. In addition, the result showed that the number of museums in a university potentially corresponded to the university's ranking; the more museums, the better rank. Furthermore, as will be discussed in this paper, the survey revealed that most museums lack good organization and get insufficient of human resources and adequate funding. However, the lack of policy, knowledge and experience also causes significant problems. More understanding about museum management, clear operating policies and collaboration between institutes are needed to solve this situation. Methods Initially, basic information of university museums in Thailand was collated from an existing database. In 2005, the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropological Centre published a database of museums in Thailand called Local Museum Database. This online database gathered information of local museums from multimedia, including newspapers, magazines, brochures and webpages. It groups museums by several criteria, including content, location and responsible person. By using responsible person criteria, university museums are put together with school museums into a group of


The ortho‐oxonitridophosphate Ba2PO3N was synthesized under ammonobasic conditions (T = 1070 K, p = 120 MPa) in custom‐built high‐temperature autoclaves, starting from red phosphorus, BaO, NaN3 and KOH. Thus, single crystals of up to several hundred µm were obtained, which were used for single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction. Ba2PO3N [Pnma (no. 62), a = 7.596(2), b = 5.796(1), c = 10.212(3) A, Z = 4] crystallizes in the β‐K2SO4 structure type with non‐condensed [PO3N]4– ions and is isotypic to its lighter homologues EA2PO3N (EA = Ca, Sr). Powder X‐ray diffraction, energy dispersive X‐ray and Fourier Transformed Infrared spectroscopy corroborate the crystal structure. The optical band gap was determined by means of diffuse reflectance UV/Vis spectroscopy to be 4.3 eV. Eu2+ doped samples show green luminescence (λem = 534 nm, fwhm = 85 nm/2961 cm–1) when irradiated with UV light (λexc = 420 nm). However, Ba2PO3N:Eu2+ shows strong thermal quenching, even at room temperature.


Schistosomiasis is the second most predominant tropical disease in Africa after malaria. In the developing world, it has a great public health and socio-economic importance. Here, we aimed to assess the antioxidant and anti-schistosomal activities of Morus alba leaves (MLE) methanolic extract (200, 400 and 800 mg/kg) on the noticed tissue damage caused by Schistosoma mansoni infection in mice. The infection resulted in marked histopathological abnormalities in the spleen and jejunum. Moreover, infection induced splenomegally and the spleen appeared with disorganized red and white pulps while the jejunum of the infected mice appeared with some inflammation, vacuolation of the epithelium, and destruction of some villi. Also, the number of goblet cells within the infected villi was significantly increased. In addition, schistosomiasis caused oxidative damage where the level of glutathione (GSH) was reduced significantly while the levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) and nitrite/nitrate were elevated significantly. On the other hand, oral gavage of MLE extract ameliorated the tissues damage and oxidative stress induced by Schistosomasis. The present study indicates that MLE extract possess a highly promising ameliorative effect against histopathological damages and oxidative stress induced by Schistosomasis.


This paper is based on the principles of share responsibility for education cost, it aims at the funds problems in the process from elite to mass higher education in China and inquires into government, students, society, the three aspects should share responsibility for education cost in order to resolve the problem of lacking funds in higher education.


Detailed dynamic simulations of three industrial columns (a propylene/propane splitter, a xylene/toluene column, and a depropanizer) have been used to evaluate configuration selection for single-ended and dual-composition control as well as compare conventional and advanced control approaches. For each case considered, the controllers were tuned by using setpoint changes and tested using feed composition upsets. Proportional Integral (PI) control performance was used to evaluate the configuration selection problem. For single ended control, the energy balance configuration was found to yield the best performance. For dual composition control, nine configurations were considered. It was determined that in order to identify the optimum configuration, detailed testing using dynamic simulation is required. The optimum configurations were used to evaluate the control performance of conventional PI controllers, DMC (Dynamic Matrix Control), PMBC (Process Model Based Control), and ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) control. It was determined that DMC works best when one product is much more important than the other while PI was superior when both products were equally important. PMBC and ANN were not found to offer significant advantages over PI and DMC.


More than 80% of sudden cardiac arrests occur outside hospital settings.1 Less than 10% of these patients survive to hospital discharge, accounting for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually worldwide.2,3 Prior work on interventions for sudden cardiac arrest has largely focused on patients' immediate4 and postresuscitation5 care. However, sudden cardiac arrests affect not only the patients but also their family members, some of whom may have witnessed the arrest and resuscitative efforts. Minimizing the adverse mental health outcomes for these family members is an important component of easing the public health burden of sudden cardiac arrests. There are no . . .


Basel capital regulations rely on higher capital adequacy ratios as one of the key prudential tool. Indian banking sector had been able to comply with the minimum capital requirement as per the Basel I and Basel II norms. The minimum capital requirement of Indian banks has increased substantially under Basel III regime due to introduction of Capital Conservation Buffer. Indian banking sector has been going through a challenging phase with higher level of non-performing assets, lower profitability and erosion of capital since introduction of Basel III. Banks have been finding it difficult to meet statutory regulatory capital requirement. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to identify the factors determining the capital adequacy ratio of Indian banks. The study empirically analyses the impact of profitability, risk management capacity and of macroeconomic factors on capital adequacy ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks in India (SCBs) for the period 1999-2016. The study finds that bank specific variables like profitability, credit risk, capitalisation, leverage, credit growth are the most important determinants of capital adequacy of Indian banks. Macroeconomic variables also play a major role in determining capital adequacy of Indian banks.


On April 28, 2014, before dawn, hundreds of armed police descended on the vicinity of Sanjiang Protestant Church in Yongjia, which sits across Ou River from downtown Wenzhou. The police cut off cell phone signals and dispersed a small number of Protestants who had stayed to defend the church, which the government had declared an "unlawful building." By evening, heavy bulldozers had completely leveled the church, which had taken ten years to build. As global media watched the standoff unfold on site, the demolition put an end to a month-long vigil at Sanjiang Church, which at its height allegedly included as many as several thousand Protestant protesters from the Wenzhou region and beyond. The demolition was followed by a province-wide "Three Rectifications and One Demolition" (...


The Refugee Documentation Project was set up at York University in 1982 to facilitate research on refugees and to provide a library of specialized materials for the use of undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members and visiting scholars. Thus far the Project has published three major research reports, a large bibliographical index on refugees and has been exten- sively used for research purposes. It has also been overseeing the publication of Refuge , Canada's periodical on refugees.


A theoretical equation has been derived to determine the tan δ-temperature (T) curve of the system constituted of a single rleaxation time. The tan δ-T curves have been calculated by the theore tically derived eqation. The experimental results have shown that : (1) The three-element model combining the Maxwell element with a spring element is a most suitable as a viscoelastic model, which gives a peak in tan δ-T curve.(2) Determing the peak temperature in the δ-T curve, Tmax (K) and the apparent activation energy _??_Ha, the half value width inherent in a tan δ-T curve has been calculable by the equation, _??_T1/2(3)=5.24×10-3Tmax2/_??_Ha.(3) The log tan δ-T curve can be approximated to the equilateral triangle.(4) The parameter B∞, defined by the equation; B∞=522vHa/Tmax, is proved to be convenient and resonable for determining the mechanism of a viscoelastic absorption.(5) The average _??_T1/2 (s) of various polymers are 13 deg and 20 deg for theabsorption (aa) related to the microbrownian movement of segment in amorphous and the absorption (βa) related to the local movement of the main chain respectively. Thus, the value of βa-absorptions larger than those of aa-absorption.(6) The method is presented to determine the relaxation time at the glass transition temperature Tq by using _??_Ha and Tmax.


India is endowed with tremendous water wealth which is yet to be harnessed to its potential. Reasons for slow pace of development of water resources projects vary from lack of financial resources to deterrents sometimes posed by Environmentalists. Sustainable Development of any project is however received with great enthusiasm by the society. The models of sustainability are also designed to meet both economic and environmental objectives in time and space. Exploitation of natural resources beyond their regenerative capacities has led to environmental degradation worldwide. Sustainable Development therefore aims at maintaining an equilibrium between human needs and economic developments within the parameters of environmental conservation while ensuring tradeoffs between desired production-consumption levels. Indira Sagar Project is an ambitious project on river Narmada. It has an installed capacity of 1000 MW and is located at Punasa in the district of Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh. The Project is the biggest in India on its completion in terms of its storage capacity. Due to its tremendous water holding capacity it will provide water to all the downstream projects i.e. Omkareshwar Project and Maheshwar Project in Madhya Pradesh and Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat. The biggest ever man made lake in India will be created (913 sq. km) to hold about 12 billion cubic metre of water storage in the reservoir of Indira Sagar Project. As a result of reservoir creation, 91,348 ha of land would be submerged affecting 249 villages in Indira Sagar Project. Narmada river is the west flowing river having its origin in Amarkantak in M.P. All old civilisations flourished near the banks of perennial rivers of which remains are found. The Narmada valley is no exception and as such the valley is very rich in archaeologically important wealth. The Archaeological Monuments are thus required to be saved from permanent submergence as also the important mounds are to be excavated for further collection of knowledge about historic value buried under earth before the large tracts of such location gets submerged. An ambitious programme of salvaging the heritage getting affected due to construction of Indira Sagar Project is currently underway. The Power component (Dam & Power Houses) of the Project is being constructed by NHDC Ltd. (A Joint Venture of NHPC & Govt. of Madhya Pradesh). In the present paper an attempt has been made to highlight the various efforts being made to translocate/restore/retrieve the archaeological wealth available scattered in the submergence area of the project scientifically. The construction programme is scheduled in such a way that no monument comes under submergence before it is properly translocated/restored. The case study also reflects the benefits of adopting joint participatory approach while constructing large dam projects.


Posttraumatic fat embolization, more commonly referred to as "fat embolism syndrome" (FES), has been a source of interest and misconception since 1861 when ZenkerI3* first described its occurrence after a thoracoabdominal crush injury. Literally hundreds of papers have been published on this subject since then, and it is only in recent years that clearer concepts as to the pathophysiology of the syndrome have emerged. Fat embolism syndrome may be defined as a complex alteration of homeostasis which occurs as an infrequent complication of fractures of the pelvis and long bones, and manifests clinically as acute respiratory insufficiency. The clinical syndrome is evident in 0.5% to 2% of long bone fractures and approaches a 5% to 10% incidence in multiple fractures associated with pelvic injuries.9'~102~122 Fat embolization as a subclinical event, however, occurs with all fractures of long bones, and its clinical effect is most readily quantitated by monitoring the arterial blood gas. Similarly, fat embolization can occur with many other traumatic and nontraumatic (metabolic) conditions, but is usually a postmortem finding rather than a clinical syndrome per se.


Within the context of the linear theory of elasticity, it is shown that, for any arbitrary anisotropic material having up to 21 independent elastic constants, one can compute with relative ease so‐called lower‐bound and upper‐bound isotropic moduli that consistently yield lower and higher eigenvalues, respectively, than the anisotropic material. Computations are carried out for a variety of common cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal, trigonal, and orthorhombic crystalline materials. It is found that the free‐vibration frequencies of these materials can usually be predicted by the bounding isotropic moduli with an accuracy of 9.2% or better. The application of such bounds is particularly promising for the numerous boundary‐value problems in wave propagation in which exact solutions currently exist only for the isotropic case.


Implementing the Cures Act The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in implementing provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act, aims to facilitate patients' use of th...


Purpose – In profile monitoring, which is a growing research area in the field of statistical process control, the relationship between response and explanatory variables is monitored over time. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the process capability analysis of linear profiles. Process capability indices give a quick indication of the capability of a manufacturing process.Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the proportion of the non‐conformance criteria is employed to estimate process capability index. The paper has considered the cases where specification limits is constant or is a function of explanatory variable X. Moreover, cases where both equal and random design schemes in profile data acquisition is required (as the explanatory variable) is considered. Profiles with the assumption of deterministic design points are usually used in the calibration applications. However, there are other applications where design points within a profile would be i.i.d. random variables from a given d...


Referring to relevant theories of sports economics,sports industry and sports administration,as well as adopting the method of documentation,expert interview and logical analysis,the author goes deep into the developing status quo of the sponsorship in high-level sports teams of Ningbo University and points out the existing influencing factors and questions urgent to be solved.Therefore,this paper put forward corresponding measures of development and the operation mechanism with a combination of the opportunities for the development of the sponsorship in high-level sports team of colleges,to provide the healthy development of the high-level sports teams in Ningbo University and other universities with theoretical and empirical basis and reference.


This chapter analyzes two contemporary approaches towards confrontation: net-centric and information wars, developed during late 1990s early 2000s by two Russian scholars, Aleksandr Dugin and Igor Panarin. Although neither mentions Messner's works, the essence of their concepts echo many of Messner's ideas discussed in the previous chapter. Indeed, the core of Dugin's net-centric war and Panarin's information war (as well as Messner's subversion-war, as it was interpreted by many Russian contemporary military thinkers) is quite similar. As this chapter shows, all these theories claim that with the geopolitical and technological realities of the twenty-first century, it is easier to achieve political goals by undermining the political authority of the adversary through the manipulation of political elites and the generation of political dissent, separatism and social problems, rather than by waging classic wars and military operations.


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In [AG2] we explored the question what symmetric pairs are Gelfand pairs. We introduced the notion of regular symmetric pair and conjectured that all symmetric pairs are regular. This conjecture would imply that many symmetric pairs are Gelfand pairs, and in particular that any connected symmetric pair over C is a Gelfand pair. In this paper we show that the pairs are regular where V and W are quadratic or hermitian spaces over arbitrary local field of characteristic zero. We deduce from that that the pairs (GLn(C), On(C)) and (O n+m (C), On(C)×Om(C)) are Gelfand pairs.


Ecological diversity provides a means of analysing the community structure of fossil mammalian faunas in order to obtain information on the habitat of the fauna. As a basis for the analysis, 23 modern mammalian communities from distinct habitats have been used to establish patterns of community structure for tropical African habitats according to their species diversity by taxonomic group, size, locomotor zonal adaptation, and feeding adaptation. All the communities tested were in tropical Africa, but additional analyses on tropical forest communities in Australia, Malaya, and Panama have shown that these communities, which all have completely different species composition, nevertheless have community structures very similar to each other and to those of the African forest communities.


The Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has transformed the entire world of scientific research, especially the biological sciences and its related disciplines. It is a technique that allows the exponential amplification of target DNA sequences. Polymerase chain reaction has tremendously wide application in diverse fields of study. Some of these include, Classification of organisms, Archaeological studies, Mutation detection, DNA Sequencing and phylogenetic studies, Diagnosis of medical disorders and diseases, Cancer research, HIV detection, Detection of pathogens (both plant and animals), Genetic fingerprinting, Drug discovery and toxicity testing, Genetic engineering, Pre-natal diagnosis of genetic disorders, Environmental pollution monitoring and control, Environmental and public health monitoring, forensic and criminology,  etc. Whilst, the use of Polymerase chain reaction procedures are widely adopted by industries, laboratories and research centres in developed countries, developing countries such as Nigeria are yet to harness the tremendous benefit of this revolutionary scientific tool of molecular biology.  Hence this paper attempts to elucidate the usefulness of PCR-based research as it relates to Environmental health in particular. Unlike the traditional use of culture media in isolation and detection of pathogenic organisms in environmental samples, which are often fastidious, slow and sometimes grossly misleading, the use of PCR-based molecular approach is rapid and sensitive and could be used as an alternative method for monitoring environmental health quality. Keywords : PCR, Molecular Biology, Environmental health, DNA


Abstract A non-linear dynamic model to predict the passenger's response in a vehicle travelling on a rough pavement surface (or a rough terrain) is developed. The corresponding equilibrium and stability are investigated through the non-linear equations of motion for a vehicle and passenger system with impacts. The stability with respect to the torsional spring stiffness of safety belts is illustrated. Based on such a stability condition, the dynamic responses for the vehicle and passenger system with and without impacts are simulated numerically. This investigation shows that a strong torsional spring is required in order to reduce the vibration amplitudes of passengers and to avoid impacts between the vehicle and passenger.


In this paper, we have investigated an exact solution of Einstein's field equation of isotropic and homogeneous universe. We have performed $\chi^{2}$ test to obtain the best fit value of model parameters of derived model with its observed values. It is obtained that the best fit values of Hubble constant and density parameters are $H_{0} = 68.13 \pm 1.17$, $(\Omega_{m})_{0} = 0.27 \pm 0.005$ and $(\Omega_{\Lambda})_{0} = 0.718 \pm 0.015$ by bounding the derived model with latest $H(z)$ data while with Pantheon data, its values are $H_{0} = 71.47 \pm 0.53$, $(\Omega_{m})_{0} = 0.276 \pm 0.006$ and $(\Omega_{\Lambda})_{0} = 0.74 \pm 0.01$. The dynamics of deceleration parameter shows that in the derived model, the universe was in decelerating phase for the transition red-shift $z_{t} > 0.723$. At $z_{t} = 0.723$, the present universe has entered in accelerating phase of expansion. The age of current universe is obtained as $13.89 \pm 0.017$ Gyrs which is in good consistency with its value observed by Plank collaboration results and WMAP observations.PACS number: 98.80.-k, 04.20.Jb


In this letter, a multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with wideband performance for 5G smartphones is presented. First, a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with an inverted-T-shaped open-slot is introduced. The proposed PIFA operates with a wide bandwidth of 78% due to the multimode technology. Then, two such PIFAs are attempted to be merged as a PIFA-pair, constituting a 2 × 2 sub-MIMO antenna with a similar bandwidth as the PIFA-element. Additionally, the isolation between two PIFA-elements in a PIFA-pair is higher than 10 dB across the broadband. Finally, a 4 × 4 MIMO antenna, which is composed of two PIFA-pairs, is demonstrated to cover the 5G NR frequency bands: n77/n78/n79 and LTE band 46. The simulated and measured results are included for illustrating the performance of the proposed MIMO antenna.


Eosinophilic pancreatitis(EP) is one type of the very rare diseases in children with non-specific clinical pancreatic allergic features.The diagnosis cannot be made unless the histology of the pancreatic tissue.This review summarizes the characteristics and mechanism, imaging findings, diagnostric criteria and differential diagnosis, as well as the treatment of EP in children.

Key words:
Eosinophilic pancreatitis; Pancreas; Children


We consider the problem of shotgun identification of patterns on groups, which extends previous work on shotgun identification of DNA sequences and labeled graphs. A shotgun identification problem on a group $G$ is specified by two finite subsets $C \subset G$ and $K \subset G$ and a finite alphabet $\mathcal{A}$. In such problems, there is a ``global" pattern $w \in \mathcal{A}^{CK}$, and one would like to be able to identify this pattern (up to translation) based only on observation of the ``local" $K$-shaped subpatterns of $w$, called reads, centered at the elements of $C$. We consider an asymptotic regime in which the size of $w$ tends to infinity and the symbols of $w$ are drawn in an i.i.d. fashion. Our first general result establishes sufficient conditions under which the random pattern $w$ is identifiable from its reads with probability tending to one, and our second general result establishes sufficient conditions under which the random pattern $w$ is non-identifiable with probability tending to one. Additionally, we illustrate our main results by applying them to several families of examples.


Drying trials were conducted for drying mackerel using solar biomass hybrid cabinet dryer (S-BHCD) and open sun drying (OSD) at air temperatures 32.4-57.7 o C, relative humidity 23.9-85.8% and air flow rate 0.20-0.6 m s -1 . Solar radiation ranged between 287- 898 Wm -2 during the experimentation. At night time, drying was carried out by combusting biomass. Initial moisture content 72.5±0.44% of the processed mackerel reduced to 16.7±0.52% in S-BHCD and 17±0.54% in OSD during 24 and 44 hours, drying time respectively. There is a strong linear relationship between free fatty acid (FFA), peroxide value (PV), thiobarbituric acid (TBA), total volatile bases nitrogen (TVB-N), trimethyleamine nitrogen (TMA-N) and histamine content with drying time for S-BHCD drying. The result showed very high corresponding coefficients of determination, where all R 2 were greater than 0.90, except TBA value. Bacterial count and mold growth decreased significantly (p<0.05) during the drying. There was no discoloration of fish observed during four months of storage at ambient temperature for S-BHCD drying, whereas discolouration was observed in open sun dried fish at the end of four month storage. Contour plots for all sensory attributes revealed that, panelists preferred S-BHCD dried fish. Organoleptic analysis showed that the S-BHCD drying method has significant effect (p<0.01) on texture and overall acceptability of dried fish. Biochemical, microbial analysis and sensory evaluation showed that the dried fish was in prime acceptable form for four months of storage at ambient temperature.


Microbeads Squishy WITH A WRAPPED AND NUCLEUS characterized in that the shell is a reaction product of a carbodiimide CONTAINING NCO and a polyamine, the core is filled, at least partially, with a polymeric carbodiimide or its reaction product with a polyamine, WHAT ARE microbeads cancellous self-supporting and can be charged LIQUID hydrophilic or hydrophobic.


Many elderly patients have conditions which may not merit hospital admission but leave them in danger at home. The situation becomes more difficult if they refuse alternative accommodation and there is no family support.


Industrial amalgamation occurs on the condition that the industries are clearly defined.So far,studies on industrial amalgamation are still at a preliminary stage both at home and abroad.Based on the findings of existing studies,the paper attempts to analyze such issues as(ident)ification,types and mechanism of industrial amalgamation.


Based on archive files,this paper analyzes the trade history of Foochow Port during the period of Five Opening Treaty Ports at the end of Qing Dynasty and probes into the reasons why no normal trade was carried out at Foochow Port for the beginning ten years of that period.This paper also analyzes the factors that restrict the port trade and puts forward the view that the resurrection of the port is ushered in with the change of government attitude towards foreign trade then,in other words,it is the institutional changes that lead to the flouring of the port and the regional economy.


In this paper we compare changes in populations of sea cucumbers that were surveyed on reef flats around Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARB) in 1992 and 2008. Over this 16-year period, the abundances of eight species of sea cucumber declined dramatically. By 2008, six of the eight species sighted in 1992 and 2008 — Actinopyga echinites, A. miliaris, Bohadschia similis, Holothuria atra, H. coluber and H. scabra — had declined to between 1% and 5% of their 1992 abundances, providing quantitative evidence that the sea cucumber fishery in the ARB is severely overfished. In 1992, H. scabra, H. atra and B. similis constituted 92% of the sea cucumbers sighted on reef flats. These species were also the three most abundant sea cucumbers in the 2008 survey, comprising 62% of all sea cucumbers seen. Relatively high abundances of Actinopyga mauritiana and Bohadschia vitiensis were also sighted in 2008, species that were not encountered in the 1992 survey. Our findings provide support for the national moratorium that was placed on the sea cucumber fishery in Papua New Guinea in 2009, and we anticipate that many years of complete closure will be required before stocks in the ARB recover to 1992 levels.


We theoretically demonstrate that an atom interferometer can be used to measure gradient magnetic fields. We report on our development of such a device to be used in a potentially noisy environment.


I provide a mereological analysis of Zeno of Sidon's objection that in Euclid's Elements we need to supplement the principle that there are no common segments of straight lines and circumferences. The objection is based on the claim that such a principle is presupposed in the proof that the diameter cuts the circle in half. Against Zeno, Posidonius attempts to prove against Zeno the bisection of the circle without resorting to Zeno's principle. I show that Posidonius' proof is flawed as it fails to account for the case in which one of the two circumferences cut by the diameter is a proper part of the other. When such a case is considered, then either the bisection of the circle is false or it presupposes Zeno's principle, as claimed by Zeno.


The social life of Canadian art museums is evolving as institutions adopt more experiential models of public programming. Today, visitor-centred approaches to public programs delivery exist alongside, or in place of, traditional tours and lectures, standardized presentation formats which tend to operate through the unidirectional transmission of art historical and curatorial knowledge. Contemporary programming strategies, on the other hand, encourage audience participation and often take place in creative, dialogic and relational settings. In a 2009 survey of 15 art museums and galleries in the Southern Ontario and Ottawa region, John Rubino conducted a series of live, telephone and e-mail interviews with museum curators and public programs directors in order to develop an overview of the current state of adult museum programs. Audience development was a key concern shared by the survey respondents, yet attendance was not the only factor determining the types of programs offered. Curators and directors expressed a wide range of reasons for the design of their respective programs, articulating philosophical positions that were as various as the programs themselves. The results of this comprehensive survey have been compiled in the following report, which describes the numerous programming formats adopted and identifies 7 strategies currently being deployed in art museums: visual culture and contemporary world culture; local culture; artist practices; social environment; community; education; and professional development.


―Barrick Gold and CSR: Dynamics of Canadian Extractive Capitalism in Peru‖ By Georgina Alonso This thesis examines the role that CSR plays in the relationship between mining and development and asks whether and (if so) how CSR works as a possible means of pacifying opposition to mining. The research focuses on a case study of a tripartite partnership project implemented by Barrick Gold, World Vision and the Canadian government near Barrick's Lagunas Norte mine in Peru. Interviews were conducted with community members from Chuyugual, Sauco, Coina, and Quiruvilca, as well as representatives from the three implementing partners. The study finds—and my thesis is—that the tripartite partnership project does serve to discourage local grassroots opposition to mining despite significant concerns in the communities for environmental degradation and the superficial nature of these projects. This was found using three indicators: a significant division of opinion within the communities, a decrease in organized resistance to the project, and an increase in support for the project.


Selected essays from an international conference organized by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in collaboration with, and at, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, from 3 to 5 Oct. 1994.


Model transformations are essential operations in Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE). Due to the increasing size and complexity of software systems developed with the help of MDSE, the input models for transformations are also getting bigger. In order to still be able to use model transformations efficiently, more attention should be paid to their performance. Especially with declarative languages, the execution of a transformation remains hidden from the developer, so there is no way to understand the reasons for a long execution time. We present our profiler for the declarative transformation language Henshin, which provides information about the execution at the level of transformations. In particular, the goal of our profiler is to provide information about the matching process to find an isomorphic subgraph. With the help of our monitoring approach, we collect information about the transformation execution at runtime, which is then aggregated and presented to the developer in various visualizations. In our tool demo we present the two ways to invoke our profiler and explain by an example which information the profiler provides. In addition, we interpret the displayed information in the context of our example and show how a possible performance improvement can be achieved. A screencast of the demo is available at https://youtu.be/TVq6MN8drJM


Everywhere in the level crossing between Railways and roads there are plenty of railroad Accidents happen due to negligence directory Processes or lack of workers. Therefore, this article describes the The automated control system of the train door using PIC Microcontroller to save human lives and precious Prevent further disasters on the railways. Railway This portal can be saved road users to avoid Incidents in terms of the speed of the train on the level crossing. East microcontroller  use the help system Sensor. It can be divided into two parts. The first part is Concern about the development of devices that each Electronic components are included. infrared sensors X, Inductive sensors are input components for Bell, Searchlight, DC motor and LCD screens are production components. The object of this prior The control circuit. Microcontroller is an important The system unit. the input signal is received Sensors and sends the information to the motor driver door To open and close the door. In addition, the entrance Alarm signal active LCD display and a statement And it provided an additional focus as part of this System. The first inductive sensor and infrared sensor is Fixed at a certain distance from the door and the second sensors is fixed in a particular space after Door. closed doors when the train crosses I. infrared sensor and the door opens, and when the train crosses X-infrared sensor second. This system is responsible for one of the Effective ways to avoid train accidents. Second And it is based in part on the programming software to run hardware structure. A control program train door The system is based on a microcontroller with basic science language professionals.


The review on collection of scientific articles of researchers from Saint-Petersburg and Cheboksary published in 2013 is presented to the reader's attention. The problem of the rapid growth of the revolutionary contradictions in Russia in 1917 is examined in reviewed studies. A review of the important events that defined the historical process in a watershed year is made. The attention is paid to the formation of the revolutionary elite, as well as to the evolution of conservative and liberal political forces. The results of the comparative analysis of two non-coinciding processes the real events taking place in Russia and understanding by the intellectuals (national and foreign) of these events is presented. The question is raised about the fact that in 1917 in Russia not only destructive, but also constructive processes took place. The attention is paid to the elucidation of the mechanisms of disorganizational trends domination. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the true disorganizers of social stability new metropolitan elites are revealed. The relevance of the study is due to finding the place of the Russian province in the revolution; for a long time it remained calm and alien to the revolutionary anarchy. It is proved that a significant part of workers and soldiers of the capital was under the power of self-deception, and freedom was interpreted as permissiveness. This circumstance in a specific way inspired the nihilists of the revolutionary elite. The society reached an impasse.


A 0.34-µm-pitch Cu dual damascene interconnect technology using a low-k ladder-oxide film (k=2.9) is developed for 130-nm-node complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices. Photoresist poisoning was improved by adopting the ladder-oxide film with annealing before the photolithography step. The fence structures around via openings caused poor Cu gap filling. The problem was solved by controlling the filling height of a bottom anti-reflective coating and by eliminating the photoresist poisoning. Furthermore, no degradation of the ladder-oxide film upon photoresist stripping was observed. It was demonstrated that these technologies could be applied to a product-level application-specific integrated circuit chip with a seven-level Cu interconnect.


The effects of the rigidity of slab platform under the action of eccentric load on the stress of group piles are introduced in the paper.


Although the SF6 gas insulation metal enclosed combinative electric appliance needs quite less overhaul and maintenance compared with the traditional electrical distribution equipment,it is not a maintenance-free one.A regular maintenance with higher technological level is still necessary for the GIS.This paper analyzes the ZF6-252 GIS,and suggests some emphases of maintenance technology for the GIS equipment,including the control of gas room moisture and vacuum-pumping,the maintenance of operating mechanism,and the inspection of oil buffer,etc.These emphases are also the important monitoring items for preventing the insulation accidents.


RELIABILITY GENERALIZATION: LAPSUS LINGUAE by JULIE M. SMITH December 2011 Advisor: Dr. Shlomo S. Sawilowsky Major: Education Evaluation and Research Degree: Doctor of Philosophy This study examines the proposed Reliability Generalization (RG) method for studying reliability. RG employs the application of meta-analytic techniques similar to those used in validity generalization studies to examine reliability coefficients. This study explains why RG does not provide a proper research method for the study of reliability, including describing how reliability is not a singular metric but a family of coefficients that are not interchangeable, along with other issues, such as sample and test administration. This research used Monte Carlo simulations designed to illustrate how the same instrument, administered repeatedly, can result in different reliability coefficients and to show that variation in reliability coefficients is due to sampling error; results illustrate that the reliability of a test will vary across test administrations based on the size and composition of the sample and how the sample was selected (randomly versus non-randomly).


dressing are clearly wrong," precisely because ancient writers kept "alive the memory of self-government through a long epoch in which despotism was the norm" (). Is the use of classicism by early Americans a formative paradigm or merely illustrative of a descriptive language employed to explain modern revolutionary situations? Attempting to answer the question of "influence," these essays reflect the methodological problems of assessing the impact of classical writers (and their ideas) upon generations of people far removed from them. In the end, scholars will make up their own minds with regard to the "influence" of classicism. Nonetheless, Jennifer Roberts, in perhaps the most methodologically provocative essay in the collection, traced the modern reception of the Thucydidean Pericles. Most important, Roberts, rather than asking if Americans were "influenced" by classicism, asked instead what Americans' engagement with antiquity reveals about modern "developments in contemporary history and ideology," concluding that as American thinking evolved, so too did Americans' interpretation of Pericles (). To be sure, Roberts offers scholars a unique methodological approach for investigating the modern reception of antiquity, thereby pointing the way for future scholarship in this field.


One-third of the total waste generated in the world is construction and demolition waste. Reducing the life cycle of building materials includes increasing their recycling and reuse by using recycled aggregates. By preventing, the need to open new aggregate quarries and reducing the amount of construction waste dumped into landfills, the use of recycled concrete aggregate in drum compacted concrete protects the environment. Four samples of PRCC were prepared for testing (compressive strength, tensile strength, flexural strength, density, water absorption, porosity) as the reference mix and (10, 15, and 20%) of fine recycled concrete aggregate as a partial replacement for fine natural aggregate by volume. The mix is designed according to (ACI 327-15) with the specified cylinder compressive strength (28 MPa). The results showed a decrease in mechanical properties with an increase in partial replacement compared to the reference mixture and an increase in water absorption and porosity at 28 days. This is because old cement mortar on the surfaces of fine recycled concrete aggregates leads to higher porosity and water absorption than fine natural aggregates. At 90 days, results improved slightly. This is due to the non-aqueous cement in the recycled fine concrete aggregate.


Abstract A Cu(I) coordination polymer, {[Cu4Br(ttpe)3]Br2·(OH)}n (1), was prepared and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, EA, IR, PXRD, luminescence, optical band gaps and VB XPS spectra (ttpe = 1,1,2,2-tetrakis[4-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)phenyl]ethylene). 1 presents a two-fold interpenetrating (4,12)-connected 3D topology containing the [Cu4Br] tetranuclear copper(I) cluster building block with a point symbol of {44.62}3{424.640.82}. Eg, Ev and Ec of 1 were 2.20, 0.74 and −1.46 eV, respectively. 1 can act as a good photocatalyst for degradation of organic dyes. The photocatalytic mechanism was studied. Graphical Abstract


ABSTRACT The Las Minas area corresponds to an exhumed geothermal system considered a proxy for the deep part of the nearby Los Humeros active geothermal system. The stratigraphic succession is made up of: Palaeozoic-Miocene granitoids, a thick Jurassic- Cretaceous carbonate succession, Neogene lava flows and volcano-sedimentary deposits. Linked to a Miocene magma intrusion, marble and skarn rock-volumes developed by contact metamorphism and geothermal fluid flow. Faults are arranged in SW- and NNW-striking systems. These controlled the morphological evolution and favored Neogene-Quaternary dyke emplacement. Faulting gave rise to a tectonic depression where lacustrine sediments and pyroclastics deposited. Skarn rocks are mainly located at fault intersections and along pre-existing discontinuities, suggesting the role of bedding and/or fractures in channeling deep fluids. Results give inputs for exploration at depth of Los Humeros geothermal system.


This article presents strategies for integrating explicit vocabulary instruction within a reading workshop. The author begins by describing a process for involving students in word selection. The author then provides a weeklong instructional sequence using student-selected words. Finally, the author briefly examines the role of vocabulary instruction within the framework of workshop-based teaching.


The Magdalena River in Colombia is one of the world's largest (discharge = 7100 m3 s−1) tropical rivers, hosting > 170 aquatic vertebrate species. However, concise synthesis of the current ecological and environmental status is lacking. By documenting the anthropogenic stressors impacting the river on time scales ranging from centuries to decades, we found that the river system is subject to the compounding impacts of climate change, river impoundment, invasive alien species (IAS), catchment deforestation, and water pollution. We show that the Magdalena is a woefully understudied ecosystem relative to its critical importance to Colombia's economy, culture, and biodiversity compared with other similarly sized tropical rivers. We emphasize the need for research on (1) IAS population and ecological dynamics, (2) river damming and its links with IAS and climate change, and (3) land‐use changes as well as identifying sources of water pollution and strategies for mitigation.


[1] Atmospheric mixing ratios of formaldehyde and formic acid have been measured from the NOAA WP-3 aircraft during the New England Air Quality Study (NEAQS) of July and August 2004 using a newly developed quantum cascade laser (QCL) spectrometer operating at a wavelength of 5.6 mm. The laser operates in pulsed mode with thermoelectric cooling. The detection is based on direct absorption in a compact 76-m multiple pass absorption cell. The laser is swept over a 0.5 cm 1 spectral region containing multiple lines of both HCHO and HCOOH. Absolute concentrations are retrieved by simultaneous spectral fitting routines with a detection limit (2s) for HCHO of 0.3 parts in 10 9 (ppbv) with an averaging time of 60 s under stable flight conditions. HCHO mixing ratios in the range from 0.3 to 5 ppb were encountered during flight conditions. Some of the highest mixing ratios of HCHO were observed over heavily vegetated areas of Florida during the test flights where the ratios of HCHO to methacrolein and methyl vinyl ketone, measured by proton transfer mass spectroscopy, are consistent with formaldehyde production by isoprene oxidation. The highest mixing ratios of HCOOH, up to 10 ppbv, were observed in an aged forest fire plume encountered over northern Canada, in which ratios of HCOOH/CO are greater than previous observations, while the ratios of HCHO/CO are less than previous reports from forest fire plumes. Observations of HCHO/CO and HCOOH/CO in urban plumes are indicative of a mixture of sources from direct emissions and secondary oxidation of anthropogenic and biogenic hydrocarbons. The ability to measure both HCHO and HCOOH simultaneously is of value in assessing the oxidation mechanisms of atmospheric hydrocarbons and secondary organic aerosol formation and oxidation.


We introduce the Chevalley cohomology for the graded Lie algebra of polyvector ?elds on Rd. This cohomology occurs naturally in the problem of construction and classi?cation of formalities on the space Rd. Considering only graph formalities, that is, formalities de?ned with the help of graphs as in the original construction of Kontsevich, we de?ne (as the ?rst and third authors did earlier for the Hochschild cohomology) the Chevalley cohomology directly on spaces of graphs. More precisely, observing ?rst a noteworthy property for Kontsevich?s explicit formality on Rd, we restrict ourselves to graph formalities with that property. With this restriction, we obtain some simple expressions for the Chevalley coboundary operator; in particular, we can write this cohomology directly on the space of purely aerial, nonoriented graphs. We also give examples and applications.


New products for grouting post-tensioning ducts have recently become available that must be tested before general application. Bleed testing was conducted using four prepackaged grouts, each from a different manufacturer. Vertical pipes were constructed with clear PVC and were injected with grout and monitored for bleed over the next 24 hours. Two inclined tests were performed using the same pipe. Three horizontal corrugated ducts (intended for internal tendons) were also grouted to evaluate the effect of the corrugations on the extent of grout. Laboratory tests were then conducted on the bleed properties of the prepackaged grouts used in the grout tests. The test evaluated the effect of temperature and mixing time on the bleed properties. Results show that the relative bleed water quantity increases with the height of the duct and the number of strands. Wicking action of strand bundles promoted bleeding more than increased height with a single strand. When tested using the Schupack Pressure Test, increasing the grout temperature increased the bleed quantity in several but not all of the grouts. A correlation between the Schupack Test and the wick-induced test was developed. A simulated pour-back was constructed and an epoxy grout was placed in the simulated pour-back. The pour-back was then subjected to thermal cycling for two weeks and visually examined for cracking. No cracking was noted on the specimen following thermal cycling and impact-echo results indicated no change in the bond between the epoxy grout and concrete.


Dynamic reconfiguration refers to the change of a software system's configuration items when the system is running. The configuration items of a software system based components consist of the instantiation and bindings of software components as well as the allocation of components to hardware systems. According to the reflecting architecture of dynamic reconfiguration systems,this thesis puts forward a reflection based dynamic reconfiguration model and analyzes its composing elements. The metadata of dynamic reconfiguration model are defined and based on the analysis of system consistency,the meta-protocol are also structured. Its application in water information system shows that reflection based dynamic reconfiguration model and mechanism can be effectively used to offer feasible technical scheme for solving problems of resources dynamic reconfiguration and support for dynamic needs of water information system.


We present a detailed study of the dielectric constant and loss tangent of popular nonlinear optical crystals LBO, β-BBO, and KTP in the range of 0.6-1.5 mm (200-500 GHz) at room and liquid nitrogen (77 K) temperatures. These materials have a strong commercial influence as nonlinear frequency converters of laser radiation in the visible and near-infrared spectra, but the prospects for millimeter-wave photonics and optoelectronics applications are still unclear. Besides, the phase-matching curves for DFG of 1.064 μm laser radiation into millimeter waves were numerically estimated to show the feasibility of using the crystals as compact intense radiation sources.


Abstract While open to criticism on many levels, the foreign policy of Italy under Silvio Berlusconi does not deviate in many significant ways from traditional approaches, especially on its management of Italy's relations with the United States and the European Union. Italy's 'exceptionalism' is also similar to that of many other European states.


Oxygen transport to the inner ear is carried out by the inner ear blood flow and diffusion, and oxygen is necessary to maintain the inner earfunction. Particulary perilymph of scala tympani ought to be the pool of the oxygen which is utilized in the organ of Corti. The oxygentension of scala tympani war studied on guinea pig in anoxia, CO2 gas inhalation and autonomic nerve poisoning, oxygentension of scala tympani was 26.4mmHg in an average and lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. The anoxia for 4 minutes and ligature of the inner ear artery for 3 minutes showed the same titre of oxygentension. From these results, it is likely that oxygentension of perilymph depends on the inner ear artery.Oxygentension of perilymph and cerebrospinal fluid was increased by inhalation pure O2 gas. When CO2 gas was mixed in an increasing way, the oxygentension was further increased and reached to the maximum by inhalation of 85%O2+15%CO2 gas. From this result the responses of inner ear vessel and cerebral vessel to CO2 gas inhalation seemed to be the samen.


Our goal is to provide an overview of a few theoretical and practical issues of current LED testing standards and recommendations that we encountered during round-robin testing of five different types of power LEDs during our work in the frames of the Delphi4LED project. We focus on the JEDEC JESD51-14 and the JESD51-51 standards that have been commonly applied for LED thermal testing since these standards were published. CIE has also published their new technical report on optical testing of high power LEDs with a special attention paid to setting the LEDs' junction temperature for the measurements. An enhanced testing method is also presented to combine the benefits of both JEDEC and CIE documents. Conclusions are based on our own findings during the above mentioned round-robin testing that could serve as a basis for a high-speed hybrid LED testing technique.


Transformerless inverter for grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) system has been widely used due to lower cost, higher efficiency and lighter weight. Various transformerless inverter topologies have been proposed to meet the safety requirement of low leakage current and obtain the reactive power capability. To get better performance, a novel transformerless hybrid-H6 inverter with an improved modulation technique is proposed in this study. By adopting the improved modulation technique, two symmetry paths are realised to share the current during the freewheeling mode. Thus, without paralleling any additional capacitors to the switch, the inverter can reduce the influence of junction capacitance on common mode voltage naturally which results in mitigating the leakage current issue. Thanks to the dead time reduction through the improved modulation, the qualities of output waveforms are improved. Moreover, reactive power control is achieved without any modification of the inverter structure. Finally, a 1 kW prototype is simulated and tested to verify the theoretical analysis of this study. Not only the reactive power capability is obtained for the proposed inverter, but also the small common mode voltage fluctuation is achieved at the same time. In addition, the total harmonic distortion of the current is decreased by more than 1.7%.


Background: Advances in technology made possible the development of powerful platforms called Learning Management Systems (LMSs), designed to help the teaching and learning process. Studies show that usability and User Experience (UX) of such platforms may influence in this process. Although several studies had been conducted in this area, most of them are at initial stages and need improvements or deeper empirical studies. Aim: This work aims to analyze scientific publications in order to characterize the usability and UX evaluation techniques in the context of LMSs. Method: We performed a systematic mapping study regarding the usability and UX evaluation techniques in the context of LMSs. Results: A total of 62 publications were accepted in this mapping, which helped identifying the techniques used to evaluate the usability and UX of LMSs and their characteristics such as its origin, type, performing method, learning factors, restriction and availability. Conclusion: Several studies were conducted regarding the evaluation of LMSs. However, there are still some gaps such as the lack of techniques with some features, e.g., feedback with suggestions to correct the identified problems. Besides, there is no sufficient evidence of which of them is best suited for this context.


In the last decades, many advances have been made in clock frequencies and silicon integration. With the increase in energy consumption, energy-aware computing has become a topic of great interest to the community. A wide variety of works focus on software techniques to reduce energy consumption when a device's battery is running out. Even then, by not knowing how much energy is available on a device 1) some routines can start and do not finish due to an energy outage, 2) non-critical routines can be called even when the device's battery is running out, and 3) critical and energy-intensive routines can quickly drain the rest of the device's battery, even though these routines may have an alternative implementation (more simplified or less accurate). The current way of collecting energy information is hardware and Operating System dependant and may take too much time. This work proposes a new branch instruction to the RISC- V instruction set architecture, called Branch if Energy Low (BEL). Using a single instruction, compilers/software developers can evaluate if the available energy is bellow a threshold and branch to routines with less energy consumption. BEL can be used on intermittent devices and approximate computing. We evaluate BEL on approximate computing benchmark applications and showed that it is possible to reaches an average of 52.32 % energy savings with negligible 0.04 % of accuracy degradation.


Beverage cans is one of the current technological developments that are familiar to everyone. In fact every year, the amount of consumption of beverage cans throughout Indonesia and even the world to increase as various types of drinks cans are vying beverage cans produced by other manufacturers. It required an automatic machine canned drinks that can facilitate the public to transact beverage cans. Process transactions on canned drinks machine is done using an automated RFID card has a user id and balances. All of these systems use AT89S52 microcontroller in charge of organizing all the programs contained in the machine's beverage cans. Flow system on the tool begins with a process of tapping by RFID card and RFID then read the id and the remaining balance on the card that has been previously ditapping, then the beverage selection process, the user can select a drink according to prices listed. Furthermore beverage cans will work out with the movement of servo motors. Then automatically balances contained on the RFID card is reduced after the user has taken the selected beverage. The process of program operation performed with BASCOM 8051 menggunakann and ISP Program as a liaison to the machine beverage cans in order to enter a program that can be downloaded without unplugging the microcontroller from its system, to facilitate the process of downloading a program associated with USB ISP. In this way the user can perform transactions beverage cans without carrying cash directly.
Keyword : Microcontroller AT89S52 , RFID ( Radio Frequency Identification ), Basic Complair (BASCOM) 8051


This article looks at how young people construct belonging over time in rural places in Australia. It draws on the intersecting ideas of theorists and youth researchers whose work supports the view that in order to understand young people's lives, we need to seek a thicker, richer conception of the interplay among identity, place, mobility and performativity. We illustrate our argument using data from a two-decade longitudinal study of young Australians to provide a more nuanced understanding of place and belonging in rural settings. A longitudinal gaze over the lives of members of this generation alerts us to the manifold transitions and forms of making a life that are patiently constructed over time and through non-spectacular routine practices. The article contributes to a more robust spatialized sociology of youth by rendering visible the complex and intersecting registers of subjective and structural elements in young lives over time.


The invention relates to photovoltaic de-dusting equipment, and particularly relates to the photovoltaic de-dusting equipment applied to a desert short matrix power station. The photovoltaic de-dusting equipment comprises a movable device; a cantilever is mounted on the movable device; a cantilever adjusting mechanism is arranged at one end of the cantilever; at least one set of de-duster adjusting mechanism is arranged on a cantilever body of the cantilever; each set of the de-duster adjusting mechanism is connected with a de-duster; and a de-dusting brush is arranged inside the de-duster. The invention provides the photovoltaic de-dusting equipment which is convenient to adjust, can rapidly de-dust photovoltaic equipment with various angles and tilt angles, and is applicable to areas lack of water resources. The technical problems that the desert power station in the prior art has high water utilization cost, poor cleaning effect due to insufficient water resource, and no function of movably cleaning a plurality of the photovoltaic equipment can be solved.


Lambton Quay looking north, Plimmer's Ark (or warehouse, to the right, in the sea) and Barrett's Hotel in the left foreground with couple on horseback, another couple standing on the footpath, also a cart and 2 soldiers
Title and date from pencil inscription on verso, which continues: "Plimmer's Hotel & wharf"

Attribution on stylistic grounds. Was previously attributed to C. D. Barraud.

Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997.

'Plimmer's Ark' was the hull of the wrecked barque Inconstant, with a warehouse built on the former deck. It was moored at the south end of Lambton Quay for many years, from December 1851
Other Titles - Plimmer's Hotel and wharf
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 222 x 332 mm
Provenance: Formerly owned by J. Tattersall, Napier


The valorisation of oil palm solid wastes is always a fascinating subject. The palm oil industries produce millions of tons of these high lignocellulose materials in empty fruit bunch, palm kernel shells, fronds, and others. The technological considerations are always based on selecting the best pretreatment methods, fermentation, and chemical processing technologies. Nevertheless, the selected method faces multiple concerns, such as practical, environmental, and economic ones. For example, can we get highly value-added products from these resistant materials without compromising the environment? This mini-review paper discusses various alternatives for solid waste treatment of solid waste to produce high-added-value materials by collecting the previous study from other publications. The development of oil palm biomass biorefinery is expected to increase the sustainability and profitability of the palm oil industry. Further research related to combined technology, economic assessment, and life cycle analysis is required to show the feasibility of the available technology.


Using high-pressure water jet cleaning method cleaning the low-density polyethylene material imploding dirt of the CNOOC and Shell Nanhai Petrochemical Project,detailing the cleaning program,operations management,construction process and the cleaning effect,it illustrates the high-pressure water jet cleaning in the cleaning of organic materials in the application.


Participants' proceedings. They are not available electronically, as they will appear in http://www.entcs.org soon. Until then, please mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com to request a paper copy. See http://www.softeng.ox.ac.uk/ifm2007/refinement.html for the workshop programme. There will also be a special issue of Formal Aspects of Computing dedicated to this workshop, but that will not appear before mid 2008.