Abstract : This report concerns hydrological monitoring of groundwater wells installed with pressure transducers at four Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) sites, which bracket the Albuquerque Drinking Water Diversion Dam (DWD). The data obtained from these pressure transducers are coupled with river discharge and stage data from the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) river gauge 08329918 (at Alameda Bridge) located approximately 450 m north of the DWD, to provide a database for the purpose of estimating the interaction between groundwater and surface water, as well as the potential effects of the DWD in this urban stretch of the Rio Grande. Also included in this report is a description of the monitoring sites, the techniques used to install shallow groundwater wells and manage pressure transducers, and a presentation and analysis of groundwater data results from before, during, and after DWD construction, with a focus on the first year of baseline data covering the period of October 2006 through September 2007. This data are used to perform a variety of analyses, which assist in understanding how groundwater levels are influenced by river discharge, rain events, DWD trial operations, and soil properties. Key findings of this study indicate that soils within the study reach are conductive, with groundwater responding quickly to river stage changes. Groundwater levels are mainly a function of the boundary conditions (river and riverside drains), and become deeper towards the levees. Lateral hydraulic gradients are less than 1 percent between wells, with no major changes during the study period. Effects of DWD construction produced about a 9-month disruption in water tables mainly at the Diversion (ED10) site. Water tables then returned to preconstruction values.


In this paper, we propose a method for spotting keywords in images of handwritten text. Relying on an object detection system in real images, local contour features are extracted from segmented word images in order to obtain a representative shape of a word-class. Thus, word spotting is cast following a query-by-word-class scenario where class models are generated using a random subset of the images belonging to that class. Cumbersome multi-writer conditions are tackled with a statistical model of intra-class deformations using principal component analysis (PCA). Novel word instances are detected through a combination of a Hough-style voting scheme with a non-rigid point matching algorithm. Finally, we evaluate the system's performance for word spotting as a classification task, using a vocabulary of word models.


Abstract:
 Taxonomically, Kalanchoe rotundifolia (Haw.) Haw. (Crassulaceae) is one of the most complex of the southern African representatives of the genus. The expression of its vegetative morphology, especially leaf shape and plant size, is exceedingly variable. The reproductive morphology is more constant in terms of the size and shape of the corolla tube and lobes, as well as in the upper part of the corolla tube and lower part of the corolla lobes invariably becoming twisted at the post-anthesis stage. However, flower colour ranges from a yellow-infused light orange through pinkish-red to scarlet. At present we conclude that treating the species as a variable complex in southern and eastern Africa, as well as Socotra, is taxonomically the most sensible. We provide an amplified description and geographical distribution map for K. rotundifolia, and discuss and illustrate some of the remarkably variable forms. A neotype is designated for the name Kalanchoe integerrima Lange.


The recent trend toward developing a new generation of robots that are capable of moving and acting in human-centered environments, interacting with people, and participating in our daily lives has introduced the need for building robotic systems able to learn how to use their bodies to communicate and to react to their users in a social and engaging way. Social robots that interact with humans have thus become an important focus of robotics research.


ABSTRACT Ensuring the adequacy of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is a priority in the United States. STEM persistence in college is essential to building career pathways, but research is needed to explain voluntary attrition. We applied embeddedness theory to develop and evaluate a 14-item measure of STEM major embeddedness and a 12-item measure of university embeddedness. Using multiple undergraduate samples, we conducted item-sort tasks, exploratory factor analyses, and confirmatory factor analyses to ensure psychometric quality and to refine multidimensional scales, each with dimensions of fit, links, and sacrifice. Findings supported content, convergent, discriminant, and criterion-related validity. Mapping the nomological network, embeddedness was related to social and human capital, major satisfaction, major commitment, and persistence. Future research and practical applications are discussed.


This article aims to explore the relations between technology and the subject. With new media intensifying the provisionality of discursive structures and in turn embodied experiences, questions pertaining to virtuality have become vital, particularly since Western society's increasing reliance on technologies now permeates our everyday practices. While many theorists often resort to a reification of the subject when conceptualising the posthuman condition, this analysis will recover the notion of embodiment in order to avoid such technological determinism. Tracing this complexity in contemporary texts can be achieved through various means. Here, the focus will remain on how narrative frameworks can create new possibilities for understanding and interpreting shifting subjectivities in the digital age. To explore this, I shall provide an analysis of a contemporary film, Being John Malkovich, which has been chosen due to its unexpected success at the box office, indicating how finely attuned the film is to contemporary concerns.


Abstract Introduction Menopause is a natural event that results from cessation of the menstrual cycle. It usually occurs in midlife, marking the end of women's reproductive life. Perimenopause refers to the time at which our body makes the natural transition to the menopause and may last for 4 to 8 years. A lot of urogenital problems start appearing after the age of 40 in women. The aim of the study is to identify the risk factors of the urogenital problems in perimenopausal women. Materials and Methods An explorative survey design with a purposive sampling method was used to collect the data from 200 women and older than 40 years admitted to the tertiary care hospital and a community under Natekal Primary Health Center were selected for the study. Results A total of 200 women were enrolled; 85 (42.5%) had urinary tract infections, 49 (24.5%) had urinary retention, 35 (17.5%) had vaginal dryness, 17 (8.5%) had urinary incontinence, 14 (7%) had a loss of libido. The majority, 76 (38%), had this problem for 1 to 2 years. There was association between selected demographic variables with risk factors like occupation (0.023; P < 0.05), number of children (0.023; P < 0.05), and mode of delivery (0.023; P < 0.05). Conclusion The study result concludes that there was a significant association between urogenital problems and risk factors.


Arnold Walter's decision to take early retirement and become caretaker and part-time tourist guide at a Tudor mansion changes his life - his wife leaves his and his wayward daughter arrives unexpectedly. Other works by Celia Fremlin include Dangerous Thoughts and Listening in the Dark.


This paper presents a model for predicting blood lead levels in adults who are exposed to elevated environmental levels of lead. The model assumes a baseline blood lead level based on average blood lead levels for adults described in two recent U.S. studies. The baseline blood level in adults arises primarily from exposure to lead in diet. Media-specific ingestion and absorption parameters are assessed for the adult population, and a biokinetic slope factor that relates uptake of lead into the body to blood lead levels is estimated. These parameters are applied to predict blood lead levels for adults exposed to a hypothetical site with elevated lead levels in soil, dust and air. Blood lead levels ranging from approximately 3-57 micrograms/dl are predicted, depending on the exposure scenarios and assumptions.


The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission(TRMM) satellite has collected a plenty of radiances from global clouds and precipitation,providing invaluable datasets for parameter retrieval of clouds and precipitation,in which cloud detection undoubtedly plays a key role.A cloud detection scheme,available during daytime,was proposed relying on five-channel measurements from TRMM visible and infrared scanner (VIRS).Three kinds of pixels including clear-sky,mixed-cloudy and cloudy ones are separated by such a scheme,which contains three major steps,i.e.,terrain recognition,two-dimensional table search and decision tree determination.A comparison was conducted specially with MODIS standard cloud products to verify the cloud detection.It was demonstrated that the accuracy of cloud detection is satisfied on the whole, especially for grounds that are not covered by snow and ice,with mean cloud fraction bias less than 5%.When applied to cases companied by snow and ice in winter and or over plateau area,the 1.6μm channel reflectivity information,combined with 3.7μm and 10.8μm channel BT,were used to identify snow and ice covered sky in this cloud detection scheme,which made snow-covered sky pixels and cloud pixels well separated.Therefore, the proposed cloud detection scheme can be used to TRMM VIRS with considerable reliance,which leads to great convenience for further application of associated TRMM multiple-sensor measurements.


The invention, vegetable residues, in particular seed and nut shell, more particularly cocoa beans shells, to methods and plants for processing a shell and rice residue cereal seeds. This method is preparation of plant residues having a ratio of the next process step (i) at least 20% by weight of the shell, (ii) at least partial hydrolysis of the components of the vegetable residue, particularly carbohydrates, fats and / or at least partial hydrolysis and / or fermentation of the protein. Subsequently, it is possible to separate the liquid and solid phases having the dissolved components. The solids as a diet fiber, the liquid phase can be used as feedstock for biogas plants.


North America little more could then be sold to urban property-owners. While praising his enormous capacity for hard work and his diplomatic skills, Simpson addresses quarely the long-range failings of many of Adams's superficial successes: the voluntary British Town Planning Act of •9o9 was largely ignored; his own compulsory but complicated provincial planning laws in Canada remained dead letters; the Town Planning Institutes of neither Britain nor Canada, of both of which he was founding president, achieved much in his lifetime. True, large parts of the New York plan were implemented thanks to the New Deal, but the proposals for regional public transit and land-banks were not. Thus, unintentionally, the plan resulted above all in expressway projects which benefited the car-owning, suburban middle class, and which were extended by Robert Moses with results disastrous to the city core. Even Adams's modest proposals to moderate private greed often floundered.


Only a few cases of cocrystallization (i.e. crystallization of two different polymers into the same crystalline lamellae) have been reported in the literature and, of these, all of the blended polymers are very similar in chemical structure. In addition, there is an indication that some of these blends only cocrystallize upon rapid crystallization. Blends of poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT) and poly(ester-ether) segmented block copolymers (PEE) seem to be excellent candidates to exhibit cocrystallization for a number of reasons. First, it is well known that only the hard segments in PEE crystallize and they are identical in chemical structure to PBT. Second, pure PBT and PEE crystallize into the same unit cell and have identical lattice parameters. These two conditions that arise from the blocky nature of the copolymer make it possible, in principle, for both polymers to crystallize into the same lamellae. However, if PBT and PEE are separated into two phases in the melt, it is difficult to imagine cocrystallization occurring since both polymers could not be located at the crystallization growth front at the same time. Therefore, another necessary condition for cocrystallization is at least partial melt miscibility. Optical microscopy and small angle light scattering experiments were conducted onmore » this blend, but no separate crystallization of the component polymers could be detected. This was taken as evidence that cocrystallization is likely in this blend. 8 refs., 4 figs.« less


The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the EOS Aura satellite makes global measurements of infrared radiances which are used to derive profiles of species such as O3, CO, H2O, HDO and CH4 as routine standard products. In addition, TES has a variety of special modes that provide denser spatial mapping over a limited geographical area. A continuous‐coverage mode (called "transect", about 460 km long) has now been used to detect additional molecules indicative of regional air pollution. On 10 July 2007 at about 05:37 UTC (13:24 LMST) TES conducted such a transect observation over the Beijing area in northeast China. Examination of the residual spectral radiances following the retrieval of the TES standard products revealed surprisingly strong features attributable to enhanced concentrations of ammonia (NH3) and methanol (CH3OH), well above the normal background levels. This is the first time that these molecules have been detected in space‐based nadir viewing measurements that penetrate into the lower atmosphere.


We describe in this paper a new TCP rate control scheme based on a simple recursive algorithm. The idea behind the algorithm is to match the offered network load to the available resources by modifying at an intermediate network element, the receiver's advertised window in TCP acknowledgments returning to the source. We show through simulations that the scheme can efficiently control TCP traffic to limit queue buildups and buffer requirements at the network nodes, resulting in significant improvements in delay, packet loss rates, fairness, throughput and link utilization. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Reaction mechanism of 2-methoxyphenol (2MP) (guaiacol) with OH radical has been performed using density functional theory methods BH&HLYP and MPW1K method with 6-311++G(d,p) basis set. Single-point energy calculations were done using CCSD(T)/6-311++G(d,p). The theoretical results reveal that the hydrogen abstraction from methoxy group is found to be the dominant reaction channel with an energy barrier of 9.31 kcal/mol. Also, time-dependent density functional theory calculations have been performed using BH&HLYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory, and the results reveal that the reactions occur in ground state than the excited state. The results of reaction force profile indicate that structural rearrangements are most influential with high percentage than the relaxation process. The calculated theoretical rate constants (12.19 × 10−11 cm3 molecule−1 s−1) are in good agreement with the experimental rate constant. The atmospheric lifetime of 2-methoxyphenol with respect to OH radicals is 2.27 hours, which implies that OH radical plays an important role in the degradation of 2MP. The Wiberg bond index of the abstraction reaction reveals that the bond order is concerted, partially synchronic. The reactant-like transition state satisfies Hammond postulate, which eventually results in an exothermic reaction, and the product-like transition state reveals in endothermic nature.


We assessed the association between hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) initiation and risk of arrhythmia among patients with incident rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or with incident systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).


In this paper it is analised the literary work of the Portuguese Socialist Party since it was founded until the First Republic was proclaimed.. At the same time, it is significant the contribution of Ernesto da Silva, an outstanding typographical composer and playwright of the labour movement. The purpose of this research is settle the Socialist Party as a party structure reference for the literature created in these times.


Malaria was an important disease in the history of The Netherlands, especially in the coastal, marshy regions. However, malaria is only rarely included in archaeological discussions about past Dutch disease, most likely because it does not result in any pathognomonic skeletal lesions. Since anaemia is one of the main symptoms of malaria, cribra orbitalia could be formed in response to the disease. Currently, these orbital lesions are often used in osteoarchaeological research as a non-specific stress marker. However, if malaria can be responsible as well, as suggested by Gowland and Western (2012) for England, interpretations of cribra orbitalia in Dutch research are incomplete and need to be reconsidered. Therefore, this paper will analyse the relationship between cribra orbitalia and marshy areas in the medieval Netherlands to investigate if malaria is likely to have been a causative agent. To do this, cribra orbitalia prevalence is studied in three skeletal collections and supplemented by data published in osteological reports (total: n=1838), which are then linked to geological characteristics. Results indicate a significant correlation (p=


-The phenomena of the lack of instructional media on cultural arts and skills materials happened in Primary Schools in Patimuan District Cilacap, that is Rampak Kendang Art. Then, the learning modules based on Multiple Intelligences has been developed. The purpose of this study was to elaborate the development steps and determine the feasibility of the Rampak Kendang learning module based on multiple intelligences for elementary schools' teachers. The type of the research was research and development with the 10 stages development model proposed Borg and Gall. Data collection techniques in this assessment were questionnaire and the data analysis used was quantitative data analysis with assessment scores. The results of this study revealed that the average analysis test conducted by a module that was developed was "quite valid" and this it is suitable to be utilized as a basis for learning by teachers teaching Rampak Kendang art to all students.


Summary A study is reported of physical growth of Jamaican schoolboys who had been admitted to hospital with severe malnutrition during infancy (index cases). Height, weight and head circumference of the index cases was compared with that of male siblings close in age (siblings), with unrelated classmates or neighbours matched for sex and age (comparisons) and with Jamaican or US growth standards. Index boys were significantly smaller in height and head circumference than comparisons and significantly smaller than sibs only in head circumference. Sibs were intermediate in stature to the index and comparison boys. When the boys were divided into three age groups there was evidence of complete catch-up in height and weight after 7 years of age, but catch-up was incomplete for head circumference in the oldest group. No significant differences in stature at follow-up of the index boys were found in relation to age when admitted to hospital.


Abstract Recent work in this2 and other3 laboratories has shown that the photochemically-induced addition of oxy-carbinyl species to enones provides a simple and effective method of carbon-carbon bond formation. Thus addition of alcohols2C,3,4 and acetals2a to enones (e. g. 1 or 4) affords keto-alcohols (e. g. 2 or 5) and keto-ketals (e. g. 6), the synthetic value of which are enhanced by the fact that the functionalities are conveniently differentiated, thereby facilitating selective manipulation.5


We report a rare complication associated with prolonged use of trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) – a composed therapy for HER2+ breast cancer – presenting with laboratorial autoimmune features that could have delayed the diagnosis or led to misdiagnosis. A 55-year-old female was referred to the hepatologist with a computed tomography suggestive of portal hypertension for etiological investigation. History of invasive ductal carcinoma in the right breast undergoing treatment for 5 years. She had already undergone neoadjuvant chemotherapy, mastectomy, radiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy. By the time of metastatic diagnosis, she was in monotherapy with T-DM1 for 2.5 years. Upper endoscopy showed esophageal varices and portal hypertension gastropathy. Laboratorial tests revealed increased transaminases, hypergammaglobulinemia and positive antinuclear antibody. Liver biopsy was performed for autoimmune hepatitis differential diagnosis but revealed nodular regenerative hyperplasia. T-DM1 was discontinued. After a 2-year follow-up, the patient did not present any complications of portal hypertension, although persisted with esophageal varices.


Efficient adder design requires proper selection of a recurrence algorithm and its realization. Each of the algorithms: Weinberger's, Ling's and Doran's were analyzed for its flexibility in representation and suitability for realization in CMOS. We describe general techniques for developing efficient realizations based on CMOS technology constraints when using Ling's algorithm. From these techniques we propose two high-performance realizations that achieve 1 FO4 delay improvement at the same energy and 50% energy reduction at the same delay than existing Ling and Weinberger designs.


A large body of literature utilizes a qualitative methodology to study the police in communities of color. Within this literature are discussions of ethical and access issues involved in researching the police, as well as how gender shapes access and interactions with officers. However, there is a scarcity of literature exploring how the race/ethnicity of the researcher influences research with law enforcement. This article involves an exploration of how Latino academics studied what is often described as a secretive population, using ride-alongs and semistructured interviews with police officers in Chicago, IL, and Phoenix, AZ. Our goal was not to become insiders but rather to explain the multiple ways in which being both insiders (e.g., males) and outsiders (e.g., nonpolice) shaped our experiences as Latino researchers. Further, we also describe the strategies we implemented to gain access and to ensure continued access even when observing activities by officers that were ethically and racially questionable. Moreover, we discuss how our Latino background introduced both advantages and disadvantages in the field, and the techniques we devised that ultimately helped us develop rapport with officers. As a result, our research approach allowed us to gather data that reflected multiple perspectives of how officers viewed the communities they policed.


PURPOSE: To provide a soft leather-like sheet capable of providing a gradient feeling in the thickness direction, less prone to be stretched in the transverse direction, having a strong peeling strength, and, in other words, having a feeling of a natural leather. CONSTITUTION: This leather-like sheet is obtained by laminating a grain side layer comprising an elastic polymer consisting essentially of a polyurethane on one surface (A-face) of a base layer composed of an entangled nonwoven fabric comprising an ultrafine fiber, and the elastic polymer charged in the interior. The leather-like sheet is characterized in that the ultrafine fiber (a) constituting the A-face side of the base layer substantially has 0.01-0.5 dtex average size, and the ultrafine fiber (b) substantially constituting the reverse side (B-face side) of the A-face of the base layer has <=1/2 average size as large as that of the ultrafine fiber (a).


The cationic borohydrido lanthanide complex [Nd(BH4)2(THF)5][B(C6F5)4]1, prepared from the reaction of Nd(BH4)3(THF)3 with [HNMe2Phl[B(C6F5)4], is highly active towards isoprene polymerisation upon activation with Al(i-Bu)3, whereas the in situ prepared ternary catalytic combination Nd(BH4)3(THF)3/[HNMe2Ph][B(C6F5)4]/Al(i-Bu)3, albeit less active, displays higher cis-selectivity and better control in terms of macromolecular data.


Grave human toll notwithstanding, the COVID-19 pandemic created uniquely unstable conditions in financial markets. In this work we uncover and discuss relationships involving sentiment in financial publications during the 2020 pandemic-motivated U.S. financial crash. First, we introduce a set of expert annotations of financial sentiment for articles from major American financial news publishers. After an exploratory data analysis, we then describe a CNN-based architecture to address the task of predicting financial sentiment in this anomalous, tumultuous setting. Our best performing model achieves a maximum weighted F1 score of 0.746, establishing a strong performance benchmark. Using predictions from our top performing model, we close by conducting a statistical correlation study with real stock market data, finding interesting and strong relationships between financial news and the S\&P 500 index, trading volume, market volatility, and different single-factor ETFs.


This chapter deals with the estimation of the effect of exchange rate flexibility on financial account openness. The purpose of our analysis is twofold: On the one hand, we try to quantify the differences in the estimated parameters when exchange rate flexibility is treated as an exogenous regressor. On the other hand, we try to identify how two different degrees of exchange rate flexibility (intermediate vs floating regimes) affect the propensity of opening the financial account. We argue that a simultaneous determination of exchange rate and financial account policies must be acknowledged in order to obtain reliable estimates of their interaction and determinants. Using a panel data set of advanced countries and emerging markets, a trivariate probit model is estimated via a maximum simulated likelihood approach. In line with the monetary policy trilemma, our results show that countries switching from an intermediate regime to a floating arrangement are more likely to remove capital controls. In addition, the estimated coefficients exhibit important differences when exchange rate flexibility is treated as an exogenous regressor relative to the case when it is treated as endogenous.


As an elemental principle, the challenge has a profound theoretical meaning. However, some defects exist such as object of the challenge in Chinese criminal procedure. Especially according to re-amendment to the criminal procedure law of the people's republic of china, in the last of article, the author has discussed how to perfect the challenge system .


Background: To analyze whether, interleukin (IL)-17, migration inhibitory factor (MIF), monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)-1 in maternal serum and cervicovaginal fluid, can identify women in preterm labor with intact membranes who will deliver spontaneously within 7 days of sampling. Material and Methods: Forty-four (44) singleton pregnancies between 26-34 weeks of gestation that had threatened preterm labor, enrolled from October 2010 and October 2011. Cervical length was evaluated with transvaginal ultrasonography. Serum and cervicovaginal fluid IL-17, MIF, and MCP-1 were measured with the use of enzyme linked immune assay. Subjects were followed up for premature delivery within 7 days. Results: Seventeen of 44 patients (39%) had preterm delivery and 15 of 44 (34%) delivered within 7 day from admission. The only significant predictor for establishment of preterm delivery within 7 days was cervical length. The median cervical length was 18 mm (range: 5-27) in women who delivered in 7 days and 27 mm (range: 9-44) in women who delivered beyond 7 days of presentation (p=0.001). There was no association between serum and cervicovaginal fluid IL-17, MIF and MCP-1 levels and preterm delivery within 7 days. Conclusions: Cervical length could serve as a predictive factor for the progress of threatened preterm labor to true preterm labor. Serum and cervicovaginal fluid IL-17, MIF and MCP-1 can not be used to differentiate true preterm labor.


This paper presents basic electric properties of laboratory prepared alkali-activated composite materials on the basis of finely ground granular high furnace slag to which various quantities of carbon nanotubes (CNT) have been added. Impedance spectroscopy in the frequency range from 40 Hz to 1 MHz was used to measure the specimens. Electric resistivity ρ versus frequency and electric resistivity ρ versus CNT content relationships were examined on our specimens R&S ZNC vector analyser with DAK-12 coaxial probe (made by Speag) was used to carry out the measurements at higher frequencies (from 100 MHz to 3 GHz). Electric conductivity σ as a function of the frequency and as a function of the specimen CNT content was studied in this frequency range. Up-to-date instruments and a unique approach have evidently been employed to carry out non-destructive measurement of mortar materials.


The infrared spectrum of β-phase poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) film (30 μm) in the region from 4000 to 400 cm−1 has been measured. The vibrational frequencies of all-trans chains of PVDF have been calculated from first principles based on a restricted Hartree–Fock self-consistent field method. The calculated result is in good agreement with the experiment. All the vibrational modes were divided into three types, only one of them which is in the region from 1330 to 1020 cm−1, corresponds to a changing dipole moment, and may be responsible for the spontaneous polarization.


ABSTRACTMany approaches to agent collaboration have been introduced in military war-games, and those approaches address methods for simulation entity (actor) collaboration within a team to achieve given goals. To meet fast- changing battlefield situations, an actor must be loosely coupled with their tasks and be able to take over the role of other actors if necessary to reflect role handovers occurring in real combat. Achieving these requirements allows the transfer of tasks assigned one actor to another actor in circumstances when that actor cannot execute its assigned role, such as when destroyed in action. Tight coupling between an actor and its tasks can prevent role handover in fast-changing situations. Unfortunately, existing approaches and war-game strictly assign tasks to actors during design, therefore they prevent the loose coupling. To overcome these shortcomings, our Role-based Command Hierarchy (ROCH) model dynamically assigns roles to actors based on their situation at runtime. In the model, "Role" separates actors from their tasks. In this paper, we implement the ROCH model as a component that uses a publish-subscribe pattern to handle the link between an actor and the roles of its subordinates (other actors).Key words : Collaboration, Actor, Agent, War-game, Role, Publish-subscribe요 약군 워게임 분야에서 많은 에이전트 협력과 관련된 연구들이 제시되었고 , 그러한 연구들은 주어진 목표를 달성하기 위해 존재하는 한 팀을 이루는 모의개체간 협업을 위한 기법들을 다루고 있다 . 급격히 변화하는 전장을 모의하기 위해서 , 실제 전장상황에서 빈발하는 임무 인계를 반영하기 위해 하나의 모의개체는 다른 개체의 역할을 인계 받을 수 있어야 하며 , 이를 위해 개체는 자신의 과업과 느슨하게 연결되어 있어야 한다 . 이 요건을 만족함으로써 모의상황에서 파괴된 개체가 자신의 과업을 수행하지 못할 경우 다른 개체에게 자신의 과업을 전달하는 것을 가능케 한다 . 그러나 개체와 과업간의 긴밀한 연결은 긴박한 전장상황에서의 임무 승계를 반영하는 것을 저해한다 . 기존의 문제점으로서, 기존의 연구 및 워게임들은 설계단계에서 과업을 개체에 엄격하게 지정함으로써 그러한 느슨한 연계를 어렵게 한다 . 이 결함을 극복하기 위해 역할기반명령계층 (ROCH) 모델은 실행상태에서 개체의 주변 상황에 근거하여 역할을 동적으로 할당한다 . 이 모델에서 역할(Role)은 개체와 과업을 분리한다 . 본 논문에서는 하나의 개체와 다른 부하 개체들 간의 역할과의 연결이 긴밀하지 않도록 출판 /구독(publish/subscribe) 패턴을 활용하여 ROCH 모델을 하나의 컴포넌트로 구현한다 .주요어 : 협력, 개체, 에이전트, 워게임, 역할, 출판/구독 패턴


Using a hydrothermal reaction of SmCl3•6H2O, ZnBr2 and TPPS, a crystalline metalloporphyrinic compound (MPC), [SmZn(TPPS)H3O]n•2nH2O (1), was synthesized. The crystal structure of the MPC exhibits a condensed and robust 3-D porous open framework. We studied the adsorption and desorption isotherms for N2, H2 and CO2 conducted at 77 K and 273 K. They show different isotherms such as Type I, II and III isotherm behaviors. We found that low temperature is propitious for the title complex to adsorb more H2, but less N2. Compound 1 showed remarkably high selectivity for CO2–N2 separation, and good thermal stability. The temperature dependent magnetic susceptibility shows an antiferromagnetic-like behavior for 1.


The newly available Advanced Very High Resolution (AVHRR) Polar Pathfinder (APP) data set of 18 years from 1982 to 1999, subsampled to a 25 km scale, was used to retrieve cloud amount, cloud optical depth, cloud particle size, cloud temperature, cloud particle phase, surface temperature, surface broadband albedo, radiation fluxes and shortwave and longwave cloud forcing over the Arctic ocean and surrounding land areas. The spatial and temporay distributions of those retrieved Arctic climate parameters together with an analysis of the seasonal and interannual variability in those parameters, especially surface temperature, surface broadband albedo, cloud amount and precipitable water, are presented. Results show that the Arctic climate has indeed warmed up as indicated by surface temperature, cloud amount, cloud particle size and phase at confidence level of higher than 95% for Spring and Summer times, but cooled down in winter. The surface broadband albedo has decreased significantly in Autumn indicating the late onset of sea ice and snow, especially for the Arctic ocean area. The Arctic ocean surface temperature has decreased during the wintertime at confidence level of 97%, especially for the central and eastern Arctic oceans. The Arctic Oscillation(AO) has strong correlation relationship with the surface temperature and cloud amount for some Arctic areas at the confidence level of almost 100%. For different areas in the entire Arctic region, the correlation relationship is different. The surface temperature and cloud amount in Greenland have negative correlation with the AO simultaneously, while that correlation turns to be positive in the north Europe area, indicating the different Arctic areas have different effects and feedback on the global climate system or vice versa.


Metabolomics is one of the very important parts of systems biology. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry(GC-MS) as a mature technology has a lot of advantages, such as high resolution, high sensitivity, good reproducibility, with a large standard library and relatively low cost. It has been early applied to the field of plant metabolomics, and now still is the main technical platform for plant metabolomics. This review introduces the technology from the aspects of basic mechanism, derivatization methods, data acquisition, data analysis and database. Meanwhile, the review comprehensively summarizes the applications of GC-MS-based plant metabolomics to the analysis of gene function, the genetic mechanisms of plant metabolism, plant metabolic response to stress and applications to biotechnology and bio-breeding.


The polyaddition of diepoxides with diacyl chlorides using quaternary ammonium salts as a catalyst proceeded regioselectively under mild conditions to afford polyesters with high molecular weight having pendant chloromethyl groups. The resulting polyesters exhibited excellent solubility characteristics to common organic solvents. The nucleophilic substitutionof the pendent chloromethyl groups with sodium dithiocarbamate, sodium azide and potassium 3-phenyl-2,5-norbornadienecarboxylate in phase tranfer conditions yielded modified fpolymers with fhigh conversion


Heat transfer to a drop of a dielectric fluid suspended in another dielectric fluid in the presence of an electric field is investigated. We have analyzed the effect of drop deformation on the heat transport to the drop. The deformed drop shape is assumed to be a spheroid and is prescribed in terms of the ratio of drop major and minor diameter, Results are obtained for both prolate and oblate shapes with a range of diameter ratio b/a from 2.0 to 0.5. The internal problem where the bulk of the resistance to the heat transport is in the drop. as well as the external problem where the bulk of the resistance is in the continuous phase, are considered. The electrical field and the induced stresses are obtained analytically. The resulting flow field and the temperature distribution are determined numerically. Results indicate that the drop shape significantly affects the flow field and the heat transport to the drop. For the external problem, the steady-state Nusselt number increases with Peclet number for all drop deformations. For a fixed Peclet number, the Nusselt number increases with decreasing b/a. A simple correlation is proposed to evaluate the effect of drop deformation on the steady-state Nusselt number


The territory and its natural frame are the arena of all chemical, biological, technical interactions and processes, and the wind and rain are their natural propellers. The cartographic image of space, as an integral indicator of processes, phenomena, carries the function of a guide mark in the basis of control and regulation of durability and protection of structures in the natural frame. This article presents the results of a city life support system simulation in the light of the concept of forecasting and managing the risk of the danger of air pollution, including in the practice of anti-corrosion protection. Monitoring of the surveillance and control system grows into the life support system of the territory. "Technologies at a glance" provide: an assessment of the fields and halos of danger from air pollution (real and predicted state maps), modeling "alive geofilters", namely, purification methods, preventive protection measures, formation of city breeze corridors or wind tunnels.


Angiocardiography is a key to the evaluation of cardiac function. The index of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) also helps interpret cardiac hypertrophy, valve regurgitation, and regional myocardial systolic dysfunction for medical decision-making. However, it is difficult and time-consuming to calculate the LVEF. Therefore imaging techniques become much more important for assistance. In this research, three neural networks including DenseNet, EfficientNet, and ResNet are introduced for cardiac area calculation. EfficientNet turns out to be the best model with a mean dice accuracy of 0.91. The other two models also show significant performance with 0.958 for DenseNet and 0.955 for ResNet. With these network models, physicians can select and calculate the area of the heart. With the time-series images of cardiac catheterization, the size of the entire cardiac systole can be determined automatically. Therefore, it greatly helps medical professionals diagnose abnormal cardiac systole problems immediately.


RAVECHI?: I'd like to ask Prof. Turnbull when he uses the term "topological rearrangement," can I assume by that in fact the radial distances are about right for the second and third nearest neighbors but the angular positioning has to change? TURNBULL: Well, the angular positioning would even be different for the first nearest neighbors, and at least for the first nearest neighbors, and I suppose to some extent to the second nearest neighbors, the radial distances would be the same. Certainly for the first. RAVECHE: We find in the computer simulations of fluids near freezing that the second nearest neighbor radial distances are about what they are in the crystal. CARGILL: When you say the second nearest neighbors are a t the same radial distance in the fcc crystal and in the amorphous or liquid regions of your diagram, I believe that you must really mean some sort of an interplaner spacing rather than the actual second neighbor spacing, which in an fcc crystal would be a t fi atom diameters and is associated with the octahedral hole configuration. This fi distance should be absent in your model. This distance is in fact not seen for simple amorphous metals or liquids in actual experimental data. J . BURTON (Exxon): I'd like to return t o a question that Mike Hoare raised a moment ago about the role of the boundary conditions in these computer simulations. It was said that the small boundary, in this case I think it was the 256-atom simulation, did not prevent the forming of the ordered structure. Is that a correct understanding of what you said? You were able t o get something that looked like the fcc material in the radial distribution constant and in the energy despite the boundary. TURNBULL: That's correct. BURTON: Now the problem is that the boundaries one uses in these simulations are cubic boundaries; they are boundaries where you have translational symmetry appropriate t o fcc material. Such boundaries would not automatically force forming materials with that symmetry. However, if one were trying t o nucleate a unit which was a n ordered unit but which was incapable of being a space-filling unit with translational symmetry, the boundary on the small system would work very strongly against you. For instance if you were trying to make the kind of 13-atom icosahedron that Prof. Turnbull referred t o a moment ago, which is the minimum energy structure for 13 atoms and which cannot grow into a space-filling structure with translational symmetry, then the boundaries might work against forming the structure. However, it does form if you have free boundaries. I think that in these simulations you have to be very careful to consider the difference between free boundaries and periodic boundaries. TYRNBULL: I agree that you have to be careful, but I think that's all that has to be said for them. ANGELL: Perhaps in connection with this point somebody ought to mention that homogeneous nucleation has been observed as it occurs in sequential time in molecular dynamics calculations. I refer t o studies of supercooled argon being performed by Rahman and McTague.


Ma consider the problem of answering part-of questions and questions about overlap in partitioning structures. which is of importance in A. I. systems knowledgeable about parts relationships, set inclusion relationships or taxonomies of types in an earlier paper It was noted that the problem of extracting information from arbitrary sets of partitioning assertions ("P-graphs") is intractable (at least if P = NP) and the more restrictive class of quasi-hierarchical closed P-graphs was introduced as a fairly flexible representation of partitioning structures permitting efficient information extraction. The present paper introduces the larger class of semi-closed P-graphs. and provides efficient and complete methods for answering part-of and disjointness questions based on such P-graphs.


Decisions of the General Committee are reported on about half of the proposals and requests in Report 73 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants and Report 16 of the Permanent Nomenclature Committee for Fossils. As specified by the Code, the GC was consulted by the NC Fungi on several matters relating only to fungi.


Ferromagnetism and its evolution in the orthorhombic perovskite system Sr1–xCaxRuO3 have been widely believed to correlate with structural distortion. The recent development of high-pressure synthesis of the Ba-substituted Sr1–yBayRuO3 makes it possible to study ferromagnetism over a broader phase diagram, which includes the orthorhombic Imma and the cubic phases. However, the chemical substitutions introduce the A-site disorder effect on Tc, which complicates determination of the relationship between ferromagnetism and structural distortion. By clarifying the site disorder effect on Tc in several unique series of ruthenates in which the average bond length 〈A–O〉 remains the same but the bond-length variance varies, we are able to demonstrate a parabolic curve of Tc versus mean bond length 〈A–O〉. A much higher Tc ∼ 177 K than that found in orthorhombic SrRuO3 can be obtained from the curve at a bond length 〈A–O〉, which makes the geometric factor t = 〈A–O〉/(√2〈Ru–O〉) ∼ 1. This result reveals not only that the ferromagnetism in the ruthenates is extremely sensitive to the lattice strain, but also that it has an important implication for exploring the structure–property relationship in a broad range of oxides with perovskite or a perovskite-related structure.


This paper presents a new LED current balancing scheme using double-step-down dc-dc converter. With the proposed structure, the two channel LED currents are automatically balanced without using any dedicated control or auxiliary circuit. In addition, switching loss of the switching devices in the pr...


This study investigated the differential predictive validity of the Developing Cognitive Abilities Test (DCAT) in a heterogeneous sample of 863 sixth-grade students. Bias was assessed across gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic dimensions. Level H of the DCAT was administered during the students' sixth-grade year, and selected subtests from the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) were administered 8 months later during their seventh-grade year. Overall, results indicated a general lack of bias in the DCAT in predicting ITBS scores across gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic groups.


The present study explored how evaluative and schematic processes may influence performance within a simple word detection task. Briefly presented adjectives that participants later endorsed as descriptive of their personality were no more privileged in item recognition than adjectives that participants did not endorse. Recognition of desirable adjectives, however, was significantly greater than recognition of undesirable adjectives. The results suggests possible cognitive filtering at the immediate or near immediate perceptual level that may serve to enhance positive information or disregard negative information.


Using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) approach, the electronic structure and photophysical properties of five cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes bearing different substituted acetylacetone moieties have been calculated and investigated. The calculated geometry structure of complex 2 shows a very good agreement with the available experimental data. The HOMO of complex 1 has the different distribution from those of complexes 2–5, that is, residing on the d-orbital of Ir, π-orbital of acac and L ligands. The S0-S1 transition of complex 1 is from HOMO-LUMO and HOMO–1-LUMO, that is, different from those of complexes 2–5. The lowest energy emissions for these complexes from CAM-B3LYP level are localized at 591, 581, 576, 574, and 571, respectively. Complex 4 might possess the largest kr value among these studied complexes. We anticipate that this study can shine some light on Ir(III) emitters in the fabrication of efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).


The aim of notes is to give a background for the theory of graph coverings and harmonic maps. The basic definitions and main results of the theory are followed by exercises. Some of these excises are elementary, some of them will require non-trivial effort and some of them are unsolved problems. Also, the basic theory will be provided by numerous examples and the most exercises by solutions. 1. Graph coverings and covering groups 1.1. Graph coverings and covering groups. Let X and Y be connected graphs. A surjective morphism φ : X → Y is called a (graph) covering if for any vertex x ∈ V (X) the restriction φ|StX(x) : StX(x)→ StY (φ(x)) is an isomorphism. A covering group of φ is defined as Cov(φ) = {h ∈ Aut (X) : φ = φ ◦ h}. The covering φ is called regular if Cov(φ) act transitively on each fibre of φ and irregular othetwise. If φ : X → Y is a regular covering then Y ∼= X/Cov(φ). A finite sheeted covering φ : X → Y is regular if and only if the order of covering group |Cov(φ)| coincides with the number of sheets of the covering. If φ : X → Y is a covering and φ(x) = y then there is a natural imbedding of the fundamental groups φ∗ : π1(X, x) → π1(Y, y) induced by φ. Moreover, the index of subgroup φ∗π1(X, x) in π1(Y, y) coincides with the number of sheets of the covering. The covering φ is regular if and only if φ∗π1(X, x) is a normal subgroup in π1(Y, y). In the latter case, Cov(φ) is canonnically isomorphic to the factor-group π1(Y, y)/φ∗π1(X, x). The coverings φ : X → Y and φ′ : X ′ → Y are said to be equivalent if there is an isomorphism h : X → X ′ such that φ = φ′ ◦ h. The


Document packet includes minutes, agenda, DALNET Operating Budget FY90-96, FY1995 Allocation of Operating Costs, DALNET Summary of Member Costs FY96, FY1995 Allocation of Database Costs, MDAS Licenses for DALNET Libraries October 1994, and DALNET By-Laws Voting Scenarios.


The ability to exchange keys between users is vital in any wireless based security system. A key generation technique which exploits the randomness of the wireless channel is a promising alternative to existing key distribution techniques, e.g., public key cryptography. In this paper, a secure key generation scheme based on the subcarriers' channel responses in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is proposed. We first implement a time-variant multipath channel with its channel impulse response modelled as a wide sense stationary (WSS) uncorrelated scattering random process and demonstrate that each subcarrier's channel response is also a WSS random process. We then define the X% coherence time as the time required to produce an X% correlation coefficient in the autocorrelation function (ACF) of each channel tap, and find that when all the channel taps have the same Doppler power spectrum, all subcarriers' channel responses has the same ACF as the channel taps. The subcarrier's channel response is then sampled every X% coherence time and quantized into key bits. All the key sequences' randomness is tested using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) statistical test suite and the results indicate that the commonly used sampling interval as 50% coherence time cannot guarantee the randomness of the key sequence.


Given a random deployment of heterogeneous mobile nodes having different sensing ranges, this paper addresses the problem of covering a region using minimum number of nodes with minimum displacement. We propose an energy-efficient and light-weight self-organized distributed greedy heuristic to maximize area coverage such that the amount of computation, rounds of communication, and the distance traversed by a node, can be reduced utilizing minimal number of nodes. Extensive simulation studies on random deployment of nodes with sufficient node density over a 2-D area, show that our proposed technique results hole free area coverage with small number of nodes with minimum possible displacement, both in turn help to prolong the network lifetime.


Productivity of ecosystems is characterized by 2 parameters storages of the living green phytomass and net primary production, that is the amount of the organic substance is created by plants for the unit of time at the unit of area. Productivity of ecosystems is influenced by the amount of the incoming solar energy and moisture. Using of lands by people leads to changes of the net primary production value and to the decrease of the received organic substance to soil. The analysis of the geobotanical maps and studies of the estimation of primary production of natural and anthropogenically changed ecosystems allowed to estimate the changes of net primary production and organic substance incomes to soil approximately for the last 100 years. In spite of the small population of the republic where the density of population is 1.8 man to 1 km2, 45% of the area has already been transformed by man. The greatest changes happened in the forest-steppe and steppe zones where land use rates at 80%. Net primary production in the past was 863106 t/year, at present decreasing to 621,2106 t/year. The organic substance income to soil also decreased to 318106 t/year


Twenty-five tetraalkylammonium halide salts were investigated by means of electron impact mass spectrometry. In all cases, corresponding ammonium cations have been detected at low electron energy. Moreover, [C+M]+ have been detected (where C and M denote ammonium cation and molecule, respectively) for both symmetrical salts and iodine salts. Quaternary ammonium salts are considered to be more stable than believed previously.


This paper deals with the problem of mobile path planning. We investigate the case for which the obstacle positions are well known but the mobile location is defined with uncertainties. We propose an algorithm which finds a robust path, if it exists, from a source point to a goal point for a non holonomic robot The proposed method is based on the Multivalue Coding model.


Segre embedding was introduced by C. Segre (1863{1924) in his famous 1891 article (46). The Segre embedding plays an impor- tant roles in algebraic geometry as well as in dierential geometry, mathematical physics, and coding theory. In this article, we survey main results on Segre embedding in dierential geometry. Moreover, we also present recent dierential geometric results on maps and im- mersions which are constructed in ways similar to Segre embedding.


In the SPARCL study, the rate of hemorrhagic stroke was higher in patients with ischemic stroke treated with atorvastatin than in those treated with placebo (JW Gen Med Aug 10 2006). This finding raised concerns about a potential increase in risk for hemorrhage in acute stroke patients treated with both thrombolysis and a statin.

These investigators used data …


"Reply 1988"is an animate drama which gave audience human touch. It has well-made story structure and a courtesy for humanity. While audience were watching it, they could feel themselves going up and down depending on each episode with joy and sadness. The just moment egoism and individualism get ...


A grand total of 80 random samples of cooked beef and chicken meat (40 of each) represented by boiled beef (20), fried beef (20), boiled chicken meat (20) and fried chicken meat (20)sample weight 100gram from a governmental hospital at various times in Kalyobia governorate, Egypt were collected for microbiological examination. The average values of APC, Enterobacteriaceae, coliform and staphylococcal counts were 5.07x104  1.12x104, 7.48x104 1.29x104, 5.67x103 0.87x103 and 3.27x103  0.46x103 cfu/g for boiled beef meat ,8.31x1032.05x103, 3.95x1030.62x103, 2.01x1030.33x103 and 9.58x1032.08x103cfu/g for fried beef meat, 9.64x1042.25x102., 2.21x1040.38x104 , 1.06x1040.17x104 and 4.42x1030.75x104 cfu/g for boiled chicken meat and 7.18x1041.44x104, 8.73x1031.96x103, 6.40x1031.23x103 and 2.10x1030.32x103 cfu/g for fried chicken meat. Moreover, the incidence of serologically identified E. coli as Enteropathogenic E. coli (E. coli O1:H7, E. coli O78 and E. coli O114: H21), Enterotoxogenic E. coli (E. coli O125:H18) Enteroheamorrhagic E. coli (E. coli O26:H11 and E. coli O111:H4) and Enteroinvasive E. coli (E. coli O124). The public health importance of the isolated microorganisms and the recommended points were discussed.


Objective To investigate the termination of pregnancy with severe pre-eclampsia time and manner.Methods Through writer's hospital 59 patients with severe preeclampsia were retrospectively analyzed to observe the rate of neonatal asphyxia and mortality.Results 34 weeks of neonatal birth asphyxia,perinatal mortality was significantly higher(P0.01).34~36 weeks and≥37 weeks without significant difference(P0.05).Neonatal asphyxia and cesarean section group mortality was significantly lower than the vaginal delivery group.Conclusion Severe pre-eclampsia the best time of termination of pregnancy and cesarean section for the 34~36 weeks with severe pre-eclampsia is the preferred method of pregnancy termination.


Ion implantation is a widely used technique in device technology, and becoming even more important as the size of devices decreases. The studies of damage and introduced defects have been extensive and, although the overall development and annealing of the implantation damage is relatively well understood, many details remain unclear. Especially, not enough attention has been paid to the effects of very low doses, which are particularly important in controlling the threshold voltage of transistors in the fabrication of GaAs integrated circuits. The reason might be that the induced changes were very often below the detectivity limits of standard methods. In this work, we present the disorder analysis, conducted on GaAs implanted with low ion doses. Czochralski grown, undoped, (100) oriented GaAs samples were implanted with 100 keV Si ions, doses ranging from 3 × 10/cm–3 × 10/cm, at 21◦C. The damage assessment was done by applying Raman scattering and Rutherford backscattering ion channeling (RBS), linked by the inter-cascade distance model and the results were then compared with the results of photoacoustic displacement technique. We have shown that Raman scattering is very sensitive method even if applied on samples implanted with very low doses. Furthermore, the equivalency between the Raman scattering and Rutherford backscattering damage assessment, previously established for high doses via the inter-cascade distance model, proved equally valid also for very low implantation doses, where implanted ions create disordered cascades that are far apart, and most of the layer is still undamaged.


1S. Manojkumar, ECE, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. 2P.M. Benson Mansingh, Assistant Professor(ECE),Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. 3G. Harish, ECE, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. 4S.Nandhini, ECE, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The number of accidents in India are highest in the world as India has a large population and most of the transport is by road. The actual number of accidents took place may be higher than documented. One person dies in every 4 min in accident. Nowadays safety on roads has become a serious issue all over the world. Accidents occur mainly during dawn and night time. The accidents on highways can be prevented by using a smart system. A smart system for accident prevention is an ideal concept for smart roads. It is a project with innovative ideas for safety on roads and highways. The data collected could be used and avoid most of the accidents. In this paper we are presenting a system consisted of communication module which is used to connect all the vehicles through an application and can avoid the accidents.


References Pipeline Preliminary Findings The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) scientific collaboration works to directly detect the presence of gravitational waves in the universe. A gravitational wave is a ripple in spacetime predicted by the theory of general relativity. The asymmetric motion of large masses such as black holes and neutron stars produce ripples in spacetime that propagate through the universe at the speed of light. LIGO uses large Michelson interferometers to detect small distortions in spacetime between stationary hanging masses. A Michelson interferometer consists of a laser which is separated into two identical perpendicular beams by a beamsplitter. The light from the laser then travels down the two arms of the interferometer where it reflects off of mirrors to travel back to the beamsplitter and form an interference pattern at the detector. Small changes in the length of the beam arm cause changes in the interference pattern at the detector, allowing gravitational waves to be measured.


Proprietary image backup is shown to the hypervisor as a disk file bootable by the hypervisor. A proprietary image backup that stores the operating system is identified, a plug-in file corresponding to the proprietary image backup is created, and the operating system is booted again when using hardware emulated by the hypervisor. Configure and collect operating system data from proprietary image backups, reformat the operating system data into the hypervisor's native format using the filter module, and boot the operating system in the hypervisor's virtual machine Store the reformatted operating system data in the replacement disk file in the hypervisor's native format. [Selection] Figure 3A


From a traditional point of view, a country's diplomatic position and principles are determined by the political environment and military circumstances. The global ecological environment, which has worsened since 1970s, is now paid great attention to by people all over the world. The eco-environmental problem has gradually become one of the most important factors that affect the international relations nowadays. Besides nontraditional diplomacy in culture, trade and security aspects, China is now carving out a new way in nontraditional diplomacy---ecological diplomacy. It greatly impels China to break through the traditional diplomatic thinking and try a new diplomatic strategy.


Recycling of poly(ethyleneterephthalate) waste was achieved through glycolysis using diethyleneglycol (DEG) and poly(ethyleneglycol) (PEG 400), which yielded different fractions that exhibited hydroxyl numbers of 174.41 and 54.86 mg of KOH/g, respectively, whereas GPC profiles revealed bimodality in both cases corresponding to Mn values equivalent to 534 and 1648. The products of glycolysis from both cases were individually incorporated as modifiers during the synthesis of urea-formaldehyde resins from both the basic as well as acidic stages, respectively. It was found that the free formaldehyde level was remarkably decreased for the modified resins while the gel time was slightly affected indicating some activation of the resins. In addition, the adhesion strength of wood joints bonded with the modified resins improved markedly in the dry state while the moisture resistance was significantly fortified with respect to the comparable joints formulated from unmodified resins where instant failure took place within few hours after immersion in water. The shelf life of the resins did not prolong and lasted maximum for about 2 months which was ascribed to the presence of reasonable amount of carboxyl terminal groups at the ends of a minor portion of the glycolyzed products that could actively act to self-catalyze the polycondensation and crosslinking reactions during storage leading eventually to vitrification of the resin and shortening of shelf life. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2012


Background: Intracranial vasospasm is a common complication following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The radiographic vasospasm can reach up to 90% of aneurysmal SAH. Materials and Methods: 139 consecutive patients admitted to Cairo University Hospitals from June 2013 to September 2014 with SAH who had been enrolled in a retrospective controlled study were analyzed retrospectively for the occurrence of vasospasm. The data collected from the charts of Cairo University Hospitals were the patient's demographics, clinical presentation, aneurysm location, treatment modality, and Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) scores. We excluded 24 patients with nonaneurysmal SAH, 3 internal carotid artery (ICA) aneurysms, 7 with multiple aneurysms and 4 patients died before treatment. Results: 72 males and 29 females were included in the study, mean age 53.5 ± 11.5 years. Twelve patients had aneurysms located in the vertebral artery group, 24 had middle cerebral artery aneurysms, 11 had pericallosal aneurysms, and 54 patients had anterior communicating artery (ACoA) complex aneurysms. Radiographic vasospasm occurred in 62.4% with the highest incidence (75.9%) at the ACoA complex group. Symptomatic vasospasm occurred in 48.5% with the highest incidence (63%) at the anterior communicating artery complex aneurysm location. The mean GOS at 6 months follow-up was 4.2. The worse GOS was found in the vertebral artery (VA) aneurysm group with a mean of 3.75. Conclusion: Aneurysms of the anterior communicating artery complex group have a greater risk of both radiographic and clinical vasospasm. Also, the worse 6 months follow-up GOS when an aneurysm was located in the VA group.


The effects of various steroids on sodium transport across the toad bladder were examined in vitro. Cortisone, alone, had no effect on sodium transport but was an antagonist of aldosterone. Cortisone was shown to bind to the two non-specific binding sites for steroids in the nucleus of the toad bladder epithelial cells when present at a concentration of 10\m=-\7M. At higher concentrations it interacted with the mineralocorticoid receptors and displaced aldosterone from these sites. Cortexolone had a weak stimulating effect on sodium transport and also antagonized the effect of aldosterone. Cortexolone, when present in excess, displaced aldosterone from its receptor sites. Four types of steroid could be differentiated by their interaction with the mineralocorticoid receptor sites and the subsequent biological response: (a) steroids that bind to the receptors and produce the full biological effect on sodium transport; (b) steroids that do not bind and therefore are incapable of producing a response; (c) steroids that bind to the receptor sites, have no effect alone but inhibit the action of aldosterone; (d) steroids that bind to the receptor sites, produce a partial response on sodium transport and subsequently antagonize the action of aldosterone. Multiple points of attachment are postulated for the steroid\p=m-\receptor interaction.


The Gasoline Direct Injection(GDI) system has been highlighted due to the improvement of fuel consumption and the control of exhaust emission from gasoline engines. The GDI system includes a high injection pressure, smaller mean diameter, good spray characteristics and stability. We were interested in the development for gasoline direct swirl injector(GDSI) in which the swirler is specially designed with an incident angle. Nymerical analysis was utilized to investigate the internal flow of GDSI with a goal to determine the swirl incident angle and needle lift. Accordingly, it describes characteristics of a GDSI in which the flowrate and spray characteristics are satisfied. especially the spray tip penetration decreases, compared with other type GDI, mean diameter of droplets is from 20 to 25 and spray angle ranges from 64to 66.


Most of the criminal cases leave traces at the TKP (Tempat Kejadian Perkara) which can be used as evidence to reveal the culprit and the chronology of events that have occurred. Blood is the most important biological evidence in TKP. Through experimental research with a completely randomized design (CRD), this study aims to determine the success rate of blood groups identification in different types of Sengon (Paraserianthes falcataria L. Nielsen) as wood substrate in open and closed environmental conditions up to a certain time period. The four variations of Sengon wood substrate used were natural wood, processed wood, painted wood, and varnished wood. After 336 hours exposure on wood substrate, blood sample on the substrate was confirmed to identify the ABO system blood group using the absorption-elusion method. The results showed that the success rate identification the blood groups in ABO system on all types of Sengon wood substrate in closed environmental conditions reached a 100% for observation periods until 336 hours. Despite, the success rate of blood identification from all types wood substrate in open environmental condition were 0% for observation periods until 336 hours. Those data was then tested for normality with SPSS. The results showed that the data are not normally distributed (sig >0,00) for all type of treatmment. So that non-parametric statistical tests were carried out. The results of the Kruskall Wallis test showed that there was no significant difference between the treatment of Sengon wood substrate types and also in the length of time of observation (sig value 1,000). While the significance value on the environmental condition variable is 0.000, so it was concluded that there was a significant success rate's differences of blood group identification in samples that exposed to an open environment compared to a closed environment. This is reinforced by the results of the Kendall's correlation test and Spearman's test which show a strong correlation between the percentage of successful identification of blood groups and environmental conditions (correlation of 1,000). While the correlation value between the percentage of successful identification of blood group with the type of substrate and the length of time of exposure are 0.000 and 0.000, which is indicates a very weak correlation between the percentage of success of blood group with the type of substrate and the length of time of exposure. It can be concluded that the four types of wood substrates in closed environmental conditions had the same good ability to preserve blood within an exposure time of up to 336 hours. But, sample exposure in a closed environment provides the best percentage of success rate identification the blood groups in ABO system rather than the open environment was.


A comparison between the construction of symmetry-correlation diagrams and the perturbation method for studying chemical reactions is carried out. The perturbation method consists of decomposing the system Hamiltonian H into a sum, H = H0 + H′. Various symmetry correlation schemes appearing in the literature may be explained by the nonuniqueness of the decomposition scheme. All symmetry selection rules may be viewed as the varieties. By examining the symmetry-correlation diagrams, processes under investigation may be called "forbidden" or "allowed," depending on the topological feature. Of particular importance is the topology associated with the "avoided crossing." By making the comparison, we can establish the correspondence of the two methods and conclude that the perturbation order furnishes the origin of the "forbiddenness" of a process.


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Films of AlN with different thicknesses are synthesized by pulsed laser deposition in a nitrogen gas ambient. The study of the structure and surface morphology is focused on the different mechanisms governing the film growth. Film crystalline properties, growth rate, lattice mismatch induces strAlN and strAlN relaxation process is considered. The films start growing in a 2D mode, resulting in a smooth surface and a predominantly amorphous structure with a small amount of crystalline AlN. The change in the surface energy with the number of laser pulses applied is the reason for the formation of a 3D structure and 3D island growth at the later stages, resulting in a rough surface and a dense polycrystalline film structure with a cubic phase. These conclusions conform to results from structural and optical analyses.


The Meira Paibi (Also popularly known as Women torch bearers) used torch as a weapon to fight against social injustice of various forms in Manipur. Every woman in Manipur becomes Meira Paibi during difficult situation which directly affects the communities. In pre and post-independence period of India, various women organizations played a pivotal role fighting against social injustice in the society. One such group is Meira Paibai formed from the one of largest population in Manipur. In 1904 and 1939 elderly women in the age group of 50-70 years came together in forming Meira Paibai group and they were also called as "IMAS" meaning mothers in Manipuri. But in post-independence all age group women were involved in Meira Paibai organization. The origin of civil society in India can be traced back to Vedic periods and consisted mainly of men in those movements. On the contrary in Manipur it was led by the women against various issues such as injustice done by British government, Manipur maharaja economic policies in pre-independence and against social and administrative problems in the post-independence era. This movement should be role model to every woman to know their responsibilities and their contribution in developmental process. As rightly told by UNICEF; The Manipur story indicates that active participation by women in public affairs can and does contribute to better conditions for children and society at large.


In the Spring of 1966, Mr. Michael Higgins of Derrynamanagh, near New Inn, in east Co. Galway, discovered a copper1 knife or dagger2 on the marl bottom of a bog near his home at a depth of 2 m below the surface. Three years later the dagger came to my notice and was subsequently acquired by the National Museum of Ireland.3 The dagger (Fig. 1) is of the tanged variety, with wide, flat, round-pointed blade, and is unusual in having each shoulder pierced by a large rivet-hole. It was intact when found but the point was bent and it snapped off in an attempt by the finder to straighten it. Preservation of the tang is somewhat better than that of the blade, probably due to the fact that it was protected from corrosion for a considerable time by the presence of a handle of organic material. A small flange, which does not extend to the shoulders, runs around the perimeter of the tang on both faces. This was raised by beating the edge, apparently with a tool having a narrow curved face, the marks left by which produce an irregular frilled effect when the tang is viewed edge on. Near each shoulder a small isolated indentation was made by a single blow of the tool, that on one shoulder being more pronounced than that on the other. Each shoulder is pierced by a large rivet-hole, one 3.5 mm in diameter, the other not quite circular but about 4 mm in diameter. The sides of the blade are almost straight and have bevelled cutting-edges.


Standing wave thermoacoustic refrigerator has a potential of replacing conventional vapor compression refrigeration system due to several factors. Firstly, this green technology does not contain any harmful chemicals or ozone depletion refrigerant. In fact, it uses the sound wave to generate the cooling effect. Thus, it is friendly to the environment. Besides, this technology is affordable, lightweight and easy to be constructed too. However, it has a low coefficient of performance compared to conventional refrigerator with the same cooling capacity. Recently, there is no noticeable breakthrough in the research of this technology. In this study, genetic algorithm is used to optimize the design parameters of the standing wave thermoacoustic refrigerator system to achieve the highest coefficient of performance. Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm is used to provide the performance trend of a standing wave thermoacoustic refrigerator system. There are five normalized parameters which will undergo optimization using genetic algorithm, namely normalized stack length, normalized stack center position, blockage ratio, drive ratio and normalized gas thermal penetration depth. The results show that the highest COP that can be achieved by a thermoacoustic refrigerator system (working gas = air, temperature = 300 K and pressure = 1 atm) is 4.8904. The coefficient of performance is about 120.3 % higher than the previously published data. A standing wave thermoacoustic refrigerator prototype is built based on the optimized results obtained from genetic algorithm, whereby the system is operating under no load condition. It is found that the experimental results agree well with the optimization results.


Voice-based human-computer interaction has become pervasive in laptops, smartphones, home voice assistants, and Internet of Thing (IoT) devices. However, voice interaction comes with security and privacy risks. Numerous privacy-preserving measures have been proposed for hiding the speaker's identity while maintaining speech intelligibility. However, existing works do not consider the overall tradeoff between speech utility, speaker verification, and inference of voice attributes, including emotional state, age, accent, and gender. In this study, we first develop a tradeoff metric to capture voice biometrics as well as different voice attributes. We then propose VoicePM, a robust Voice Privacy Measurement framework, to study the feasibility of applying different state-of-the-art voice anonymization solutions to achieve the optimum tradeoff between privacy and utility. We conduct extensive experiments using anonymization approaches covering signal processing, voice synthesis, voice conversion, and adversarial techniques on three speech datasets that include both English and Chinese speakers to showcase the effectiveness and feasibility of VoicePM.


The authors have compiled a comprehensive text that is one of the better reference books currently available on computed tomographic examination of the body. The book begins with an obligatory introductory chapter on the basic principles of computed tomography (CT), but it ends with an exciting chapter that demonstrates the abilities of magnetic resonance imaging of the body. This final chapter serves as a preview of an imaging modality that I believe will become a great compliment to CT in the future. The subject material of the book covers the body from the neck down by separating the chapters into discussions according to body section and organ system. For example, there are chapters that separately cover the hepatobiliary system, the gastrointestinal tract, the spleen, the pancreas, the respiratory system, and the thorax; additional chapters each cover the kidneys, adrenal glands, retroperitoneum, and pelvis. There is also a chapter on the


The performance of two lemon cultivars namely Feminello and Eureka lemon (Citrus limon (L.) Brum.f), four orange cultivars namely navel orange (Navelina, Navelate, Newhall and Washington navel orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck)) and four mandarin cultivars namely seedless mandarin, thorny Clementine, thornless Clementine and Balady mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco), respectively were done at South El Tahrir research station, Beheira Gov. during 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 under similar cultural practices. Preliminary observations under the prevailing conditions indicated that Feminello lemon, Newhall navel orange, Washington navel orange and both thornless and thorny Clementine were excellent with an average 7.46, 6.87, 6.45 and 6.58 ton/fed, respectively whereas Navelina, Navelate and Balady and seedless mandarin occupied the second position. However, the vegetative growth of the promising varieties was directly proportional to root horizontal and vertical extension.


There is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening of asymptomatic adolescents for idiopathic scoliosis. According to the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) coding system (Tables 1 and 2), this represents a "C" recommendation, based on grade II-3 evidence for the effectiveness of early detection and treatment and on grade III evidence for potential adverse effects (see "Methodology"). The evidence does not support routine visits to clinicians for the specific purpose of scoliosis screening or for performing the examination at specific ages during adolescence. It is prudent for clinicians to include visual inspection of the back of adolescents when it is examined for other reasons. Additional specific inspection maneuvers to screen for scoliosis, such as the forward-bending test, are not recommended. Clinicians should bear in mind the limited current evidence regarding the effectiveness of scoliosis screening and treatment and the uncertainties about the natural history of the disease. There is a pressing need for clinical research to demonstrate the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of routine screening for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.


Changes are coming that may affect the practice of dermatology, but dermatologists can help to influence that change by participating in key initiatives. In this article, we highlight the three different initiatives you should have on your radar.


The electron impact mass spectrometric fragmentation pathways for some 3-substituted derivatives of coumarin, benzo[f]coumarin, thieno[3,2-f]coumarin, thieno[2,3-h]coumarin and azacoumarin, viz nitriles, carboxamides, thiocarboxamides and esters were investigated. The initial cleavage of the pyrone ring is found to be largely dependent on the stability, under electron impact, of the attached functional group.


This volume contains 356 extended abstracts of the meeting which represent a snapshot of the science of mineral deposits research at the end of the 20th century; a century remarkable for the growth in demand for mineral resources, for technological advances on an unprecedented scale, and for the development of our ideas as to how, where and when mineral deposits form. The extended abstracts are grouped thematically under 19 session titles, including fluid inclusions and ore formation processes and applying thermodynamic models to understanding ore deposits.


This journal is written in order to analyze and identify the issue of
female's dominance in the representation of the main female character in "Zero
Dark Thirty" movie. Woman liberation concerns about the equality of sexes
between male and female without being attached by the conception of gender. The
woman representation particularly in hollywood movies in which the main
character is female is still always seen as inferior towards patriarchy, because it
tends to objectify the woman as a visual pleasure. In analyzing this movie, the
writer applies qualitative method using the theory of liberal feminism and
narrative and non narrative aspects to assist the writer for identifying and
analyzing the problem of the issue. In this movie, the portrayal of 'Maya' the
main female character is unconventional compared to another action movies in
which the main character is female. Maya appears femininely, eventhough she is
adapting masculinity traits in terms of behavior in order to be said as equal or
liberate in patriarchal environment of CIA. The writer finds out that this movie
tries to break the argument that when female is characterized with masculine traits
such as being, dominant, aggressive, and superior does not mean that female is
seen as inferior or masculinized. However, it is a matter of freedom expression
and perspective of each humans.
Keywords
Female Investigator, Liberal Feminism, Patriarchy, Masculinized


Aiming at the unsaturated loam(mortar black soil) soil above the groundwater depth which is no vegetation in the lysimeter at Wudaogou hydrologic experimental station of Anhui Province,a numerical model of unsaturated zone is establish to simulate the change laws of the surface runoff and infiltration recharge under different depths of underground water.The simulated results show that the average surface runoff and infiltration recharge tend to be increased with increase of the rainfall;the surface runoff coefficients tend to be increased with increase of the rainfall and tend to be decreased with the increase of the groundwater depth;when the rainfall intensity is large,the groundwater depth has almost no influence on the surface runoff coefficients.


TRL Limited was commissioned by the Department for Transport to review the approach used in the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) forestimating emissions from road vehicles, and to propose new methodologies. This Report reviews the experimental methods used to determine emission factors, and provides recommendations for the future development of the emission factors in the UK. It includes two main elements: (i) an evaluationof the driving cycles used in emission tests and (ii) a review of the parameters recorded during emission tests. A distinction is also made betweenthe improvement of the emission factors in the current database and the requirements with respect to future tests. The Report recommends that more representative driving cycles should be considered for future emission testing, that urban buses and coaches should be treated separately when deriving emission factors, and that when compiling an emission factor database adjustment factors should be applied in order to standardise the data for the gear-shift strategy, the vehicle mileage, the ambient temperature and the ambient humidity. In addition, emission measurements are required for a wider variety of two-wheel vehicles and their operation. (A)


Significance The rapid spread of ASFV in China and other Asian countries has made the development of effective drug and vaccine target proteins extremely urgent. pA104R, an ASFV nucleoid-associated protein, shares sequence similarity with HU/IHF family members and is essentially involved in viral genome packing and replication. Here, we uncover the molecular basis of pA104R-DNA interaction by determining the structures of both apo-pA104R and pA104R-DNA complex. pA104R exhibits a conserved architecture as HUs/IHFs, while presenting a unique DNA binding pattern as its β-ribbon arm residues insert into the major groove of DNA. More importantly, our demonstration that stilbene derivatives SD1 and SD4 can disrupt the pA104R-DNA binding and inhibit ASFV replication in swine macrophages casts a new light on ASFV control. African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (NCLDV) that causes nearly 100% mortality in swine. The development of effective vaccines and drugs against this virus is urgently needed. pA104R, an ASFV-derived histone-like protein, shares sequence and functional similarity with bacterial HU/IHF family members and is essential for viral replication. Herein, we solved the crystal structures of pA104R in its apo state as well as in complex with DNA. Apo-pA104R forms a homodimer and folds into an architecture conserved in bacterial heat-unstable nucleoid proteins/integration host factors (HUs/IHFs). The pA104R-DNA complex structure, however, uncovers that pA104R has a DNA binding pattern distinct from its bacterial homologs, that is, the β-ribbon arms of pA104R stabilize DNA binding by contacting the major groove instead of the minor groove. Mutations of the basic residues at the base region of the β-strand DNA binding region (BDR), rather than those in the β-ribbon arms, completely abolished DNA binding, highlighting the major role of the BDR base in DNA binding. An overall DNA bending angle of 93.8° is observed in crystal packing of the pA104R-DNA complex structure, which is close to the DNA bending angle in the HU-DNA complex. Stilbene derivatives SD1 and SD4 were shown to disrupt the binding between pA104R and DNA and inhibit the replication of ASFV in primary porcine alveolar macrophages. Collectively, these results reveal the structural basis of pA104R binding to DNA highlighting the importance of the pA104R-DNA interaction in the ASFV replication cycle and provide inhibitor leads for ASFV chemotherapy.


The fire-bellied toad Bombina bombina has recently been introduced in Moselle, north-eastern France, in an area where the yellow-bellied toad Bombina variegata occurs naturally. Both species hybridize in a wide area throughout Europe where their distribution overlaps. Therefore, there is a risk of introgression regarding the Bombina variegata population in north-eastern France. In order to assess the status of the introduced population of Bombina bombina and its origin, we investigated its genetic characteristics and structure using both mitochondrial (cytochrome b) and nuclear DNA (microsatellites markers). The results demonstrated a lack of introgression in the Bombina variegata population. Though experiencing a bottleneck effect, the introduced Bombina bombina population displays a high genetic diversity. If a propensity for expansion is found within the introduced population of Bombina bombina, it could be considered as a potential invasive species in France, and thus threaten the native species.


The problem of proper noun recognition is key to developing pervasive voice interfaces in applications such as directory assistance and data entry for telecommunications. Recognition of such words requires an ability to generate reasonably accurate pronunciation networks. This is a very challenging problem because a large percentage of proper nouns, such as personal names, appear to have no obvious (or simple) letter to mapping rules that can be used to generate the pronunciations. It appears to be an open-ended problem that is constantly evolving as a function of numerous sociological factors. Yet humans do amazingly well at generating and recognizing the pronunciation of a name never encountered before. We present an algorithm based on a Boltzmann machine type of neural network that generates the most likely pronunciations of a proper noun from the text-only spellings of the name. This method does not require voice data containing the spelling or nominal pronunciation.


For the great mass of admiring readers, because Huck and Jim are friends, and because Jim is finally emancipated, the novel's ambiguities are simply dissolved in an overflow of relief and warm fellow-feeling.... Huckleberry Finn continues to be our favorite story about slavery and race because it gives us no more of this reality than we can bear. (Robinson 1986, 119) Race and slavery, as almost all readers now acknowledge, are central to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, the great American novel. Twain's episodic, beautiful, ambivalent, cruel, and liberating tale of the Mississippi Valley in 1840 has become the universal story of bondage and freedom and the most widely taught novel in the United States. Yet if we read the novel carefully, against the context of the time Twain was writing in as well as in the context of our own time, we must recognize, with Forrest Robinson, that "it gives us no more of this reality than we can bear," that it enables its American readers to approach the most profoundly troubl...


Henry James once called Turgenev 'the beautiful genius'. The story of the uncovering and development of this beautiful genius demands a delicate if not lyrical touch, an appreciation of the half-light and suggestion which characterised Turgenev's own life and works. Yet the pedestrian approach adopted by Turgenev's latest biographer V.S. Pritchett casts the Russian writer's elegant genius in a very prosaic light indeed.


It is necessary to reduce energy consumption in order to combat global warming and stabilize energy supply and demand. In particular, final energy consumption in the business sector (buildings such as office buildings and commercial facilities) accounted for about 16.1% of Japan\'s total in FY2018 database, an increase from about 12.6% in FY1990 database. Therefore, there is a need for the spread of zero-energy building (ZEB), which can significantly reduce the energy consumption in buildings. Since people are active in the building, energy consumption cannot be completely reduced to zero; however, it can be closer to ZEB by reducing the energy used in the building and creating energy in the building as much as possible. This chapter introduces some technologies of energy saving and energy creation to realize ZEB in general buildings in Japan.


In this paper, the structure of five kinds of safety critical networks has been analyzed and their shortcomings have been indicated. A new structure of survivability safety critical network based on fibre channel has been proposed.


Central Anatolia is one of the regions of Western Asia, where the most significant concentration of archaeological materials connected with the Eurasian nomads of the early Scythian time is recorded. The flat plains of Central Anatolia had good pastures and served as a space where different cultures communicated with each other since ancient times. In the 7th–6th centuries BC this territory was located between Western Anatolia with Lydia and the eastern Greek centers and Eastern Anatolia, which was the zone of interest of the Urartu and Assyria. Small local "principalities" were localized here. These principalities were  probably controlled by well-armed and mobile nomads, who used this territory as a base for raids on neighboring as well as more  distant regions. An important and most numerous category of nomad inventory coming from the region is constituted by bronze socketed arrowheads found in burials in the province of Amasya, Imirler, Gordion and on the local settlements (Boğazköy, Kaman-Kalehöyük, Kerkenez Dağ). The article introduces their typology and provides analogies coming from the Eurasian monuments of the 7th–6th centuries BC. The study of early nomadic complexes from Anatolia shows theirsyncretic nature, which is influenced by artifacts of the Cimmerian, Scythian, and Сentral Asian origin as well as the local Near Eastern items. It highlights the complex ethnic composition of the nomadic groups located here in the 7th–6th centuries BC that does not allow attributing all these materials to a single group, for example, the Cimmerians.


Voltage source inverters (VSI's) are generally used to interface with the distributed generators (DG) in microgrid. The voltage quality of the network is controlled on the basis of reference voltage tracking strategy of the VSI. In this paper, mathematical formula is derived for voltage tracking strategy, and its validity and robustness are demonstrated for both steady-state and transient conditions. Furthermore, the eectiveness of various controller has been analysed on the system response, and the eects of control gain parameters on the system characteristics are studied using root locus analysis. The performance of the system is found to be eective to track the reference grid voltage (Vg*)


These four black feminist scholars come together here despite (and also, perhaps, as a result of) centuries of silencing and censoring of black female and queer sexualities in the name of respectability, protectionism, and uplift. Yet while we have come far in what can be represented and acknowledged, certain depictions, practices, and relations remain persistently, and purposefully ignored and/or denigrated by many, both outside of andwithin black communities. Our participants––Ariane Cruz, LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Amber Musser, and Jennifer C. Nash––are helping to change that. As this roundtable makes clear, in the pursuit of increased awareness, knowledge, and positive engagement with the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, and class, such conversations necessarily include contentious topics in pornography—for example, "race play," and BDSM––that are alive and well and growing in underground and mainstream markets and communities. Such practices have predominantly been understood as particularly oppressive and injurious to black women. However, to so confidently and frankly explore complex and at times difficult relationships between black feminism, desire, sexuality, and race, as the participants of this roundtable do, is crucial. Conversations such as this explore the myriad ways representations of black female sexuality negotiate a particularly fraught history of racial oppression and exploitation. This history undoubtedly continually informs our present. But what about agency and desire? The four contributors here also recognize and honor the many ways such negotiations seek pleasure and power therein through methods and practices we have collectively, for too long, been closed off to. In an era when respectability is facing necessary critique as a viable form of resistance and in which we seek to manifest paradigm-altering iterations of community, futurity, and selfhood, perhaps we are ready to reconsider.


manifold household duties, etc., after their day at the factory must also be taken into consideration. We are not in a position to refer to the employment of pregnant women except in the special factories in which we have worked. We feel that co-ordination between employers of labour, trade unions, and Ministries should now be forthcoming, so that a general scheme for rationalizing the position of pregnant women in industry may be worked out for the whole country.


We consider a beam equation in presence of a leading degenerate operator which is not in divergence form. We impose clamped conditions where the degeneracy occurs and dissipative conditions at the other endpoint. We provide some conditions for the uniform exponential decay of solutions for the associated problem.