Public investment on rural infrastructure development, as done under employment
Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), besides providing income, employment and livelihood security
to rural labor force, is expected to have positive impacts on other sectors of the rural
economy as well. This includes benefit to both farm and non-farm of the rural economy.
Therefore, using framework of local economy wide modeling, particularly Social Accounting
Matrix (SAM), we have analyzed direct and total economy wide impact of MGNREGA in two
different dryland villages of Karnataka state of India: One village is in Tumkur district
(Belladamadugu village) in Southern region and the other in Bijapur district (Markabinahalli
village) in Northern region of Karnataka. SAM analysis was carried out collecting both
primary as well as secondary data for the agricultural year 2012-13 (From 1st June 2012 to
31st May 2013). Purposive sampling was done for collection of data from the households.
Following ICRISAT VDSA Study criteria, farm households were classified into five strata
namely, landless households, and marginal, small, medium and large land holding
households; and farming sector data were collected from the stratified random sampling of
these households. In additions, data was collected from different economic agents including
shops (Agricultural input shop, canteen, Provision store) and service providers (tailor,
barber, drivers, labourers and so on) regarding details of employment provided, receipts and
expenditure. Then, we have constructed SAM of 82X82 sizes for the analysis. Multiplier
effect of MNGREGS on the whole village economy of Markabinahalli and BM villages was
1.9 and 1.45, respectively. This suggests for a very weak multiplier impact of the MGNREGA
interventions. Likewise, we have also estimated income, output and employment multiplier of
the MGNREGA interventions in each of the village. On the whole, the direct and total impact
of MGNREGS on village economy was weak due to several factors, among them the
important factors were the high level of leakage of MGNREGA expenditure on several
materials and machines use that were brought from outside of the village economy. At the
end, this study also suggests policy measures for enhancing multiplier impact of the
MGNREGS program interventions in the local economy.


Review on BOP1 (block of proliferation 1), with data on DNA, on the protein encoded, and where the gene is implicated.


The method of determination of six elements including aluminium lead iron cadmium copper tin in zinc alloy by direct reading spectrometry is established.Every analysis conditions is choosed by the testing,the result shows that accuracy and precision of method can meet the requirement of analysis.


A list of the main physical and colloid-chemical properties of industrial surfactants used as components of oiling agents for processes in the production of high-strength synthetic fibres is proposed.


China entered an aging society in the late 1990s, with the deepening of aging and the emergence of pension problems. China's population pension market is extremely large, but the reality is that today's pension burden is mainly borne by families, and the social pension burden and pension security pressure are increasingly heavy. There are still some gaps in the mechanism and system matching with the pension financial policy, and there are cognitive biases at different levels in all sectors of society, which makes the pace of pension financial reform slow down. The financial industry mainly includes banking, trust, insurance and securities. These industries constantly innovate their business in an aging society due to changes in demand, which has led to the constant adjustment and improvement of aging finance. Based on the state space model, this paper analyzes the present situation of Chinese residents' pension, puts forward the concept of pension finance, and systematically demonstrates the necessity of the development of pension finance, so as to improve the pension system and support the development of Chinese residents' pension cause.


A computing policy is a sequence of rules, where each rule consists of a predicate and a decision, and where each decision is either "accept" or "reject". A policy P is said to accept (or reject, respectively) a request if and only if the decision of the first rule in P , that matches the request is "accept" (or "reject", respectively). Examples of computing policies are firewalls, routing policies and software-defined networks in the Internet, and access control policies. It has been shown earlier that the problems of determining whether a given policy satisfies a property, such as adequacy, completeness, implication, equivalence, and redundancy, are all NP-hard. In this paper, we present efficient algorithms that use SAT solvers to determine whether any given policy satisfies a property. Experimental results show that our algorithms can determine whether a given policy with 90K rules satisfies the adequacy or completeness property in about 3 minutes. They also show that our algorithms can determine whether a given policy with 90K rules satisfies the implication, equivalence, or redundancy property in about 1 hour.


This study examines a risk/return mismatch of the MSCI China Index, which has offered investors low returns and high volatility, yet remains a favorite within the global investors' portfolio. The paper suggests several insights, both from behavioral and traditional finance perspectives, to explain this mismatch. An international risk decomposition model is applied to separate the total risk of China's index return into global systematic risks, regional systematic risks and country specific risks. It suggests the index's lower than average systematic risk might be one of the explanations for its risk/return mismatch. The study also finds that the China Index's systematic risks, both global and regional, have been increasing, but more so at the global level.


Contingency analysis and reaction is a critical task to be carried out by any airplane to guarantee its safe operation in a non-segregated airspace. Pilot's reactions to any kind of incidences that may occur in-flight, like engine malfunctions, loss of electrical power, hydraulic failure, unexpected weather, etc, will determine the fate of the flight. Nowadays, contingency reactions are mainly driven by the airplane manufacturer, with pre-analyzed contingency scenarios covered in the airplane documentation, and by ICAO's rules as defined in the way flight plans should be prepared and landing alternatives implemented. Flight dispatching is the set of tasks related to flight preparation, such as load and balance, meteorology study and briefing, operational flight planning, contingency analysis and planning, etc. However, managing contingencies on a UAS is a much more complex problem basically due to the automated nature of the vehicle and the lack of situational awareness that pilot's in command should face. It is well known from the short history of UAS accidents that many of them are directly imputable to pilot errors when trying to manage an unexpected contingency. In this paper we will introduce an structured approach to automate contingency reactions in UAS. Our objective is to classify the contingency sources and up to a certain level abstract their impact on the system operation. Contingencies can be related to four wide aspects of the UAS operation: the flight itself, the mission, the payload, and the awareness systems. depending on the level of severity the contingency reaction may involve changing or canceling mission objectives to canceling the flight itself. In this way, the response to the contingency can be selected from a predefined limited catalog of automated reactions that may reconfigure the UAS operation in all aspects. This structured approximation is only possible because the contingency management is built upon a highly capable architecture called USAL (UAS Service Abstraction Layer) that offers capabilities to properly monitor contingencies and the flexibility to command pre-planned contingency reactions that may affect the flight operation and/or the mission carried out by the system. Contingency management becomes directly dependent upon the UAS dispatching process. USAL provides a dispatching methodology that identified the mission objectives, the UAV airframe and its various characteristics, the software services required for managing the flight and the mission, the sensor and computational payload, etc. All these elements are combined together in an iterative dispatching flow. The result of the process is the actual UAS configuration in terms of fuel, electrical system, payload configuration, flight plan, etc; but also detailed flight plan, alternative routes and landing sites, detailed USAL service architecture and the required contingency planning.


As stay-at-home orders and regional lockdowns were mandated across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic required established practitioners, new graduates, and students in field placements to provide services using technology tools and supports, generically labeled 'e-therapy'. While this transition was necessary, it raised important ethical concerns. Finn assessed the attitudes of students toward ethical issues in e-therapy in 2002. This article reports the results from surveys of MSW students in one Australian and two CSWE-accredited American programs in 2018 and 2020. The 2018 surveys explored changes since 2002 in student attitudes toward e-therapy, followed by the 2020 surveys to explore the further impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey instrument was based on Finn's original questionnaire, with items added in 2020 to reflect the increased need for technology-supported services during the pandemic. The 2018 results showed comparatively more familiarity with and use of e-therapy by students, more positive attitudes toward e-therapy use, and more acceptance of the capacity for e-therapy to meet ethical practice requirements. The 2020 results revealed further increases in use and positive attitudes, together with recognition of serious ethical issues. Lessons learned from student qualitative responses are included, along with suggestions for social work curricula and field education. [ FROM AUTHOR]


6–7 April, Cape Town, South Africa 2nd International Seminar on Injury Research Methods Organized by ECOSA-Eurosafe & the Medical Research Council, Cape Town More information: Saakje Mulder Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Website: http://www.mrc.ac.za/conference/ecosa/index.htm 6–8 April, South Africa 15th International Safe Communities Programme 2006 Contact: Yousif Rahim Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


In this paper,a finite element model of plate with throughwall crack is established,with using degraded singular element near crack front,and applying conventional element away from crack area.The characteristics of 1/4-node displacement method,displacement extrapolation method and virtual crack closure method are analyzed.Crack-tip stress intensity factor is calculated by the methods above,based on the results of finite element post-processing,the results got by the three method show high consistency.The influences of load,crack length and geometry of component on crack-tip stress intensity factor are also studied.The comparative analysis of three methods is conductive for choosing an appropriate approach to calculate crack-tip stress intensity factor.


Solar retinopathy is a photochemical toxicity to the retina induced by light rather than a direct thermal injury. It is caused mainly by viewing a solar eclipse, excessive sun gazing or welding exposure. It results in a central scotoma, which may partially resolve spontaneously over time. Cannabis is the most common illicit drug of abuse worldwide. Marijuana, hashish, ganja and bhang are its various forms. Tetrahydrocannabinol is its principle psychoactive component. Short or long term intake produces a spectrum of biological effects ranging from psychotropic effects to prolonged medicinal benefits, many of which have been fostered for centuries by our society. Solar retinopathy under the influence of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) has been previously described. Herein, we describe a case of a young man who developed solar retinopathy following chronic cannabis consumption.


Channel bifurcations are common features observed in fluvial landforms from upstream gravel‐bed rivers to downstream deltas. Extensive research has been carried out to study the stability and equilibrium configurations of bifurcations in the last two decades. However, existing studies generally employed oversimplified flow resistance equations, and the influence of the development of bedforms on the stability of bifurcations is rarely explicitly considered. The morphological features of bedforms in sand‐bed rivers vary with flow conditions, which in turn affect flow resistance and sediment transport processes. Such a mutual feedback process is expected to exert a significant influence on the evolution of a bifurcation. A theoretical one‐dimensional (1D) model is built, based on the classical model proposed by Bolla Pittaluga et al. in 2003, to evaluate the influence of the development of dunes on the stability of bifurcations. Results show that the development of dunes enhances the stability of symmetric bifurcations for low Shields stress conditions, whereas it exhibits an opposite effect under the situation of high Shields stress. The response of flow resistance to the perturbations of the Shields stress dominates over the response to the perturbations of the flow depth. In addition, based on the two‐dimensional (2D) model proposed by Redolfi et al. in 2016, this study compared the results of the 1D and 2D models taking into account the development of dunes, and evident differences between the models present at small Shields stresses. Meanwhile, 2D models with or without considering the influence of dunes exhibit different results as well. The results of this study demonstrate that considering the development of dunes is of significance when analysing the stability of bifurcations in sand‐bed rivers.


Expressions for the magnetic susceptibility of a two-sublattice ferrimagnet are derived from semiclassical equations of motion. The dispersion equation of a bulk polariton is derived in general form, and the properties of bulk polaritons in ferrimagnets are discussed. The susceptibility is also used to calculate the magnetostatic correction to the frequency of long-wavelength magnons. The results are illustrated with numerical calculations for rare-earth iron garnets, and details of the mean field model and parameters used are given in an appendix.


The occupational therapist role is to assess the patient preand post operatively using a standardized questionnaire and DASH, to measure range of motion with and without prosthesis, pre/postoperative information with oedema prevention, range of motion training, loading exercises with training prosthesis, specific prosthetic training in activities of daily activities and regular follow-ups together with the team.


Genetic diversity of fine germplasm resources of Castanopsis hystrix from ten different ecological regions was analyzed by using the inter-simple sequence repeat(ISSR),and 11 effective primers were selected from 20 primers.The result showed as follows: 435 bands were amplified,among which 325 bands were polymorphic,and percentage of polymorphic bands were 74.7 %,an average of approximately 3.95 bands per primer.Genetic similarity indexes of ten germplasms of C.hystrix ranged from 0.473 7 to 0.8081,and the average value was 0.728 7.Static software was used to calculate the Nei's genetic distance and a dendrogram was constructed based on UPGMA cluster analysis.These ten germplasms were divided into 4 major groups,and their genetic relative and the genetic distance were discussed.


Abstract Cloud computing has become a victorious archetype for data storage, as well as for computation purposes. Greater than ever it concerns user's privacy, so that data security in a cloud is increasing day by day. Ensuring security and privacy for data organization and query dispensation in the cloud is important for superior and extended uses of cloud based technologies. Cloud users can barely have the full benefits of cloud computing if we can ensure the real user's privacy and his data security concerns this approach along with storing thin-skinned personal information in databases and software spread around the cloud. There are numerous service suppliers in WWW (World Wide Web), who can supply each service as a cloud. These cloud services will switch over data with a supplementary cloud, so that when the data is exchanged between the clouds, the problem of confidentiality revelation exists. So the privacy revelation problem concerning a person or a corporation is unavoidably open when releasing or data distributing in the cloud service. Confidentiality is a significant issue in any cloud computing environment. In this paper we propose and implement a mechanism to maintain privacy and secure data storage for group members or a community in cloud environment.


The Project entitled Methodology for Recruitment Capacitor: a case study (Fusion Resourcing - A case study) emerged from a need of the firm Innovagency SA that operates in the technological field and in the digital communication field. This need is associated with the difficulty of recruiting programmers with specific technical knowledge and skills related to the most sophisticated technology platforms, currently used on the web. It presents the design and implementation of a synergetic fusion, recruitment, selection, and training and integration solution supported by a "Trainee Academy" called "i9.station". Based on the results obtained, the interest and potential of this fusion approach it is approve. Both in terms of recruitment effectiveness and the effectiveness of the selection process associated with training, as well as in the speed and strength of both competency acquisition and process of socio-professional and technical integration in the firm and in the work teams, proving, above all, an investment capable of generating generous positive returns.


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Globally, research groups are investigating CZTS thin film via various deposition methods as an absorber layer for solar cells. The challenge lies in understanding the formation of a number of secondary phases during and after the synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and its various different structural and optical defects. The present contribution shows an in-depth review of the works carried out so far by various research groups. This review also highlights the effect of deposition parameters on the optical properties of CZTS absorber.


significance, however thin, is manifest. He praises creative makings that matter (317). Mirroring Tillich, he argues for "courage to participate in the evolution of complexity which seems crucial to the purpose of nature, hence creation" (316). The Orders of Nature will no doubt be remembered more for its grand naturalistic vision than for its religious implications. While this review appropriately raises some critical questions, a great injustice would be rendered to Cahoone's accomplishment if it were thought to be anything other than a remarkable, well written synthesis of complex ideas. It is to be hoped that SUNY Press will soon publish a paperback edition so that price does not discourage persons from reading this impressive work. I, too, will conclude with a personal confession: I have learned more from most of Cahoone's single chapters than I have from many complete books.


The question of optimization for aircraft taxiing time is proposed to minimize the time spent in taxiing system,which can also improve the resource utilization and get good financial benefits by optimizing and distributing the resource.The airport system function composition is systematically illustrated.The airport ground system can be regarded as an airport network topology with nodes and arcs.The basic rules of the aircraft taxiing are presented and three kinds of possible taxi conflicts are discussed.The core of this study are the optimization model with the constraints of the safety separation,taxing rules and conflict-freeand an optimizing algorithm of airplane taxiway for arrival and departure flights.Taken Tianjin Binhai international airport as an example,the optimum result and the actual taxiing time are compared based on the field data,which shows the feasibility and the advantage of the model.


This paper attempts to take steps towards the formulation of a more human approach to the theory of the firm than the conventional economics-based models. Unbounded rationality, self-interest and the absence of learning are shown to be crucial assumptions of conventional economic theory. Then, the essential assumptions of an alternative approach are put forward and discussed. Next, I present an alternative view of organizations, which has its foundations in the concepts of mission, distinctive competence, identification and unity. Finally, the implications of such an approach for management decision-making are shown, emphasizing that three criteria have to be considered in any non-trivial decision in an organizational context.


In cloud computing, a enterprise or a client can use resources of computers that they are not own them. In case of Web 2.0 applications, such as Facebook, it is difficult to predict the maximum popularity of the service. But, the cloud computing may give a solution about this problem without high cost, thus becomes wildly popular. One of the advantage of cloud computing is providing a high availability. To provide the availability when the cloud computing that has shared-nothing architecture, strict consistency is not well with cloud computing. So, some consistency was proposed including the eventual consistency that was weaken the traditional consistency and has been adopted to many cloud applications. In this paper, we observe various consistency criteria that can adjust to cloud computing and discuss about some consistency that can be adapted to many applications of cloud computing.


Bakker (1974) developed a mathematical model concerning the sand concentration and velocity distribution in an oscillatory turbulent flow, with or without resultant current. The flow is assumed to be uniform in horizontal direction. The present paper reports on an experimental verification of this theory. Furthermore, the numerical accuracy of the model has been investigated and diagrams are presented which enable the computation by hand of global velocity profiles.


The lithospheric mantle beneath the north part of South China Sea and its coastal areas is mainly composed of lherzolites which are high-thermal, relatively fertile in major elements, and MORB-OIB-like in isotope compositions; however, in the uppermost part there is a relict older lithospheric mantle composed of harzburgites which are low-thermal, relatively depleted in major elements, and EM-like in isotope compositions. In the lowest part of the crust, mafic granulites which were resulted from fractional crystallization and cumulation of mantle-derived magma in Late Mesozoic are distributed. Based on the data for the deep-sourced xenoliths in the Cenozoic volcanic rocks, a tentative model has been put forward to explain the crust-mantle interactions or the lithosphere-asthenosphere interactions and the tectonic evolution in the north part of South China Sea and its coastal areas. The evolution processes can be divided into: (1) episode of the Cathaysian post-platform orogenic belt with a thickened crust and also a thickened lithosphere from Indosinian to earlier Yanshanian; (2) episode of fast thinning (e.g., delamination) of the lithosphere, in company with extension and collapse of the orogenic belt and magma underplating in the lower crust during later Yanshanian; (3) episode of the asthenosphere upwelling again (e.g., as a result of the mantle plume) accompanied by the base-erosion of the lithospheric mantle and also by the attenuation of the crust because of the flexible flowage in the lower crust and the rifting in the upper crust during the period from Eocene to Oligocene; and (4) episode of formation of the "new" lithospheric mantle which was transformed from a part of the asthenosphere with release of the mantle-derived heat in the extensional settings and cooling of the mantle. Therefore, the continental marginal extension along the north part of South China Sea, which was exhibited as vertical thinning and horizontal spreading of the lithosphere, was a result of the deep crust-mantle interaction after the continent crust in the region had evolved into the continental activation orogenic stage. It was different from the back-arc spreading caused by subduction of oceanic plates, and was not controlled by the Atlantic-type seafloor spreading either.


Polyphenols play important roles in taste and flavour development as well as antioxidative property of cocoa products. Chemical changes of the polyphenols occurring during conventional roasting was due to exposure to the oxygen of surrounding air at high temperature(110-200 o C) for 20 up to 60 min, depend on the degree of roasting. Shorter time was needed to roast the cocoa nib by using microwave energy. The objective of this research was to investigate changes of polyphenol compounds during microwave roasting of ground cocoa nibs . Deshelled and ground cocoa nib passing through 20 mesh screen was roasted using microwave oven at 20% power for 5 min. Conventional roasting conditions were also adopted for treating the sample using an electric oven at 140 o C for 40 min as comparison. The polyphenols was extracted with acetone 80% and then freez dried. The crude extract was characterized for total polyphenols. Polarity of the polyphenolic fractions was analyzed from the crude extract as well as the ethyl acetate soluble extract by HPLC. Chemical bond of the compounds were detected by Fourier Transform Infrared Spektrophotometer (FTIR). Results indicated that the conventional roasting tend to decrease the polyphenols content while microwave roasting was increase, though the data showed significantly no difference (p ≤0,05) . HPLC separation suggested that the roasting of the sample  increased in polarity, though FTIR spectra showed similarity in quantity of O-H, C-H, and C=C bonds respectively The microwave oven roasting gave one small additional fraction compared to both sample extracts from the conventional roasted and the unroasted samples which gave two fractions. Further, the ethyl acetate soluble extract from the microwave sample gave eight chromatographic fractions while from those conventional roasted and the unroasted gave two fractions and one fraction, respectively. Key words : roasting, microwave, polyphenol, cocoa nib


We grew a GaN layer on a -6.5°-off-angle n-plane patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) by selective-area growth from a sapphire sidewall. A uniform GaN layer with alternately arranged m- and {1011} facets on the surface was obtained on the PSS. Multiple quantum wells (MQWs) on the GaN template showed multicolor emission owing to their different structures. The peak wavelength of the MQWs on the {1011} facet of 440 nm was longer than that in the case of 405 nm on the m-facet.


We are presenting the results of Polymerasa Chain Reaction (PCR) diagnostic (DNK - PCR analysis of rearrangement for translocation t 9;22 bcr-abl) for seven hematological patients with the various haemopathies. PCR technology enables up-to-date molecular diagnostics in oncology. In our cases study, there were four cases of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (periphery diffuse T cell type, NH L CLL/SLL type, mantle cell type, follicular B cell type), the one case of multiple IgG myeloma- lambda type, the one case of angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy and the one case of chronic myeloid leukemia. The use of PCR diagnostic within the each presented case, would contribute to the precise diagnostic, differential diagnosis and to the choice of optimal therapy.


Antibacterial and antifungal activity of various extracts of Cassia roxburghii seeds was performed against six Gram positive, seven Gram negative bacteria and one fungus. By using Disc diffusion method, the zones of inhibitions of the extracts were determined. The seed extracts were found to be effective against various Gram positive, Gram negative bacteria and a fungi. The aqueous extract of Cassia roxburghii produced the antibacterial activity against 10 of 14 tested organisms with the zone of inhibition ranging from 8 to 13 mm, which was nearly 50% of standard antibiotic activity. MIC was determined by Broth dilution method for aqueous and alcoholic extracts, were found to be more active against Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Proteus vulgaris, Klebsiella aurogenes, Vibrio cholerae, Pseudomonas azotogensis and Candida albicans..


This Paper deals with the phenomena of Fingero-Imbibition in double phase flow through porous homogeneous, cracked and slightly dipping porous media involving magnetic fluid. This phenomenon arises on account of simultaneous occurrence of two important phenomena viz. imbibition and fingering. In the whole study it is assumed that injection of preferentially wetting, less viscous fluid (viz. injection fluid) into porous medium saturated with resident fluid. (viz. native fluid) is initiated under imbibition and in consequence, the resident fluid is pushed by drive in secondary recovery process. This conjoint phenomenon is known as Fingero-Imbibition. Keywords— Fingero-Imbibition, Porous Medium, SOR


Making use of the diagrammatic approach to the inverse scattering transform method that we pioneered on the 3-wave interaction problem, we have studied the complete temporal and spatial evolution of the radiation solution of the sine–Gordon equation. The analytic results are consistent with numerical simulations as well as qualitative ideas prevalent in the literature. The extension of the diagrammatic approach to the sinh–Gordon and other nonlinear evolution equations of physical significance is also briefly discussed.


The pursuit of steady-state economic production of thermonuclear fusion energy has led to research on the stabilization of the external kink and the resistive wall mode. Advances in both experiment and theory, together with improvements in diagnostics, heating and feedback methods have led to substantial and steady progress in the understanding and stabilization of these instabilities. Many of the theory and experimental techniques and results that have been developed are useful not only for the stabilization of the resistive wall mode. They can also be used to improve the general performance of fusion confinement devices. The conceptual foundations and experimental results on the stabilization of the external kink and the resistive wall mode are reviewed.


Electric propulsion is facing new challenges. Recently, the launch of "all-electric" satellites has marked the debut of a new era. Going all-electric now appears as an interesting alternative to conventional systems for telecom operators. A laser spectroscopy technique was used during this research to investigate the ion velocity distribution dynamics. The different methods for determining the electric field in Hall thrusters were exposed. Two unstable ion regimes were identified and examined. Measurement uncertainties using electrostatic probes were assessed. Planar probed have been designed and tested. A thorough investigation of the influence of the magnetic field parameters on the performance of Hall thrusters was performed. The wall-less Hall thruster design was presented, and preliminary experiments have revealed its interest for the electric propulsion community.


Centrifugal pump optimization problems usually have strong nonlinear characteristics and are sometimes non-differentiable. The traditional multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm was modified to solve this situation, and performed better with respect to both accuracy and search speed in validation experiments. Based on the modified algorithm and multi-layer artificial neural networks, the shape of the impeller blades of an industrial inline pump was optimized to improve the comprehensive performance under multiple operating conditions. The non-uniform rational B-spline was applied in the parametric design of the blade geometry, and 14 design variables of the spline were finally utilized in the iteration. With constraint of the computational head, the efficiencies of the part-load condition, the nominal condition, and the overload condition were selected as the objective functions. After optimization, a dramatic efficiency rise was obtained in all the three specified operating conditions, and correlation between the inflow conditions before the impeller and the performance of the inline pump was indicated.


Boundary Value Problems is the leading text on boundary value problems and Fourier series for professionals and students in engineering, science, and mathematics who work with partial differential equations.In this updated edition, author David Powers provides a thorough overview of solving boundary value problems involving partial differential equations by the methods of separation of variables. Additional techniques used include Laplace transform and numerical methods. Professors and students agree that Powers is a master at creating examples and exercises that skillfully illustrate the techniques used to solve science and engineering problems.

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This paper proposes a method for the design of conjugate cam of swing grippers mechanism on printing press. The polynomial of 5 degree is adopted to simulate the motion law of the grippers, and a general mathematical model is established according to the technological conditions. Based on the matrix method, the kinematical analysis model is built to gain the motion law of the conjugate cam's follower. The parametric expressions for the conjugate cam profiles are given. The effectiveness of the proposed method is proved through a design example of the swing grippers mechanism.


I n the last 3 years, we have witnessed exciting new developments in our understanding of anesthetic mechanisms. This editorial comments on the review by Sonner et al. (1) and describes recent key advances in the field. In a recent commentary I drew attention to the growing perception of the importance of ion channels, especially -aminobutyric acid (GABA)-A and N-methyl-daspartic acid (NMDA) receptors, to general anesthetic mechanisms (2). Here I will first discuss the exhaustive review by Sonner et al. that appears within these pages (1), and will then describe the current state of excitement within the field. Finally, I note that many of the most critical recent observations were made in Europe, and that the U.S. research community may need to work hard to stay in the race. Research on anesthetic mechanisms was stagnant for much of the 20th century, primarily because of the almost universal acceptance of the dogma of nonspecific anesthetic action—the so-called "Lipid Theory." In the 1960s and 70s, descriptions of general anesthetic action in the major textbooks recalled the story of the Emperor's New Clothes—long on imagination, but transparently lacking in substance. The overthrow of this dogma occurred slowly over the last two decades, with Nick Franks and his coworkers playing a central role, steadily chipping away at the foundations of the Lipid Theory (3–5). In many ways, this process resembled the Cold War—years of attrition, before the edifice collapsed and the Berlin Wall was dismantled over a few short days (this was perhaps most evident at a conference held in Calgary in 1997). A sign that the changes are being consolidated and "receptor-based" theories are now ascendant was the recent publication of perhaps the first modern and truly scientific description of anesthetic mechanisms within a major textbook (6). Despite this, education remains an important priority within the field. I recently spoke at a department in which the senior faculty were unaware that glutamate was the fast excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, but were apparently convinced that acetylcholine and norepinephrine performed the same roles in the central nervous system that they do in the autonomic nervous system. Sonner et al. provide an extensive review of recent developments (1). This group, a multicenter research program based at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has long pursued a highly collaborative and interactive strategy that centered around twice-yearly meetings at which a diverse group of investigators focuses intensely on novel issues and experiments. These gatherings have occurred outside of the framework of the traditional conferences, but bring together talented minds from around the world who share an interest in problems of general anesthetic action. Another successful anesthesia research group in St. Louis has adopted an equally successful, but more local approach, by interacting extensively with the strong basic science community at Washington University. Sonner et al. present persuasive, but perhaps not completely definitive, arguments in favor of certain neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels as anesthetic targets, while eliminating others from consideration. The review focuses on the ability of general anesthetics to abolish purposeful movement in response to a noxious stimulus, an endpoint introduced by Eger and enshrined in the "MAC" concept (7,8). As they carefully point out, Sonner et al. 's conclusions need not apply to other anesthetic end-points, such as hypnosis, amnesia and analgesia. Since I agree with much of what the authors have written, I do not intend to reprise their scholarly efforts here. I will instead highlight a few of those very recent experiments that I consider most likely to be influential in the near future. Accepted for publication June 16, 2003. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Neil L. Harrison, PhD, Professor and Director, C.V. Starr Laboratory of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021. Address e-mail to email@example.com.


The airway epithelium forms a protective barrier between the lungs' clean milieu and the outside environment. Several mechanisms, that include proper ion transport, mucus secretion and the expression of junctional proteins, such as connexins (Cx), are involved in ensuring its function. Being the first line of contact with inhaled hostilities, this tissue is in constant threat of injury and has to repair and re-differentiate continuously. The repair process has been widely studied. However, the mechanisms regulating it, which might be deregulated in Cystic Fibrosis (CF), are poorly understood. Here, we investigated mechanisms involved in re-differentiation in injured non-CF and CF epithelia, and whether these intersect with the expression of Cxs at different times of wound repair. Our study shows defects in the differentiating signals in CF and that these signals intersect with Cx expression during repair. We suggest that these mechanisms are synchronized to ensure the re-differentiation of repairing cells.


This research aims to create systematic monitoring of a single-phase electricity meter that is accompanied by power monitoring features, the amount of electrical energy usage costs and relay control features using internet connections. The design has been carried out using  PZEM-004T current and voltage sensors. The microcontrollers have been implemented by using ESP8266. This configuration is to reduce separate micro-controller. The embedded microcontroller and WiFi are made improvements from previous research. This embedded microcontroller is used to send data to the internet through WIFI. This monitoring system can then be accessed using the Cayenne interface. The test results of this tool show that the connection between the microcontroller and the Cayenne application works well through an internet connection. With this tool, users can see real-time data on the use of electrical energy and its cost, as shown in the cayenne dashboard. The voltage sensor test results show an average accuracy is 99.17%. The current sensor testing has an average accuracy rate of 96.9%. On average, the wattage delta between the cayenne dashboard and multimeter measurement is 2.16 watts.


Mental disorders (MD) are one of the main causes of the disease burden worldwide. Associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and presence of MD in parents have been related with increased odds of MD in offspring. However, there is a lack of population-based research in this field. The aim of the present study was to examine together the relationship between the presence of MD in children, and the SES and presence of MD in their parents, in a whole of population data. A gender approach was undertaken aiming to discern how these variables influence children's mental health when related with the father and the mother. Using administrative individual data from the National Health System, a retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted. The entire children population aged 6 to 15 resident in Catalonia in 2017 was examined. A logistic regression model was performed. Low SES was associated with increased odds of children's MD. Offspring of a parent with MD were at more risk of presenting MD than offspring of parents without these problems. Although these associations were consistent for both boys and girls when looking at the father's or mother's SES and MDs, the mother's SES and MDs showed a higher association with the offspring's MDs than the father's. Lowest associations, found for boys when looking at the father's SES and MDs, were: OR of 1.21, 95%CI 1.16 to 1.27 for lowest SES, and OR of 1.66, 95%CI 1.61 to 1.70 for parental MDs. Children's familiar environment, which includes SES and mental health of parents, plays an important role in their mental health. Socially constructed gender roles interfere with SES and parent's MD. These findings support the relevance of examining MD and its risk factors within a gender approach.


The random fluctuation and anti-peaking characteristics of wind power has brought new problems for the power system optimal dispatch. Based on the interaction characteristic of the load, this paper played the utility of interactive load which can help system consumers the positive and negative fluctuations of wind power, and considered interactive load as a scheduling resource into the traditional day-ahead scheduling model. Taking into account the effects of interactive load on system operating costs and power flow distribution, this paper established a generation scheduling model which the aim are both the system operating costs and network loss minimization in large-capacity wind power integrated system, and reformulated the multi-objective optimization problem into a single objective nonlinear programming problem by means of the fuzzy theory, and made the generation side and the demand side of the power grid can participate optimal allocation of resources, and provided a new ideas and methods for achieving source and load interactive in smart grid environment. The simulation on IEEE 30-bus system indicated this method can reduce system operating costs and network losses effectively, and improve wind power consumptive level as well as too.


The basic aim and method of using predicting filter in electro optical tracking system is introduced. The theory, performance, advantages and disadvantages of finite memory smooth filter, α β γ filer, Kalman filer are analysed. The application of the filers in electro optical tracking systems of radar, infrared, telemetry is described.


Oxygen-monitoring techniques are applied to various fields, such as chemicals, deep sea environment, fluid dynamics, clinical analysis and environmental monitoring. Recently, a variety of devices and sensors based on phosphorescence or photoexcited state quenching of porphyrin molecules have been developed to measure oxygen concentration on the solid surface. Many optical oxygen sensors are composed of porphyrins (platinum(II), palladium(II), zinc(II), metal-free, etc.) dispersed in oxygen-permeable polymer film or directly immobilized onto solid surface via chemical or physical adsorption. Oxygen-sensing systems are classified into four types: (1) phosphorescence intensity change, (2) phosphorescence lifetime change, (3) change of lifetime of photoexcited triplet state, and (4) intensity change of absorption of photoexcited triplet state. In this review, the properties of various optical oxygen-sensing devices using porphyrins and sensing system are introduced.


This paper deals with the improvements of the linear artificial neural
 network unfolding approach aimed at accurately determining the incident
 neutron spectrum. The effects of the transfer functions and pre-processing of
 the simulated pulse height distributions from liquid scintillation detectors
 on the artificial neural networks performance have been studied. A better
 energy resolution and higher reliability of the linear artificial neural
 network technique have been achieved after implementation of the results of
 this study. The optimized structure of the network was used to unfold both
 monoenergetic and continuous neutron energy spectra, such as the spectra of
 252Cf and 241Am-Be sources, traditionally used in the nuclear safeguards
 experiments. We have demonstrated that the artificial neural network energy
 resolution of 0.1 MeV is comparable with the one obtained by the reference
 maximum likelihood expectation-maximization method which was implemented by
 using the one step late algorithm. Although the maximum likelihood algorithm
 provides the unfolded results of higher accuracy, especially for continuous
 neutron sources, the artificial neural network approach with the improved
 performances is more suitable for fast and robust determination of the
 neutron spectra with sufficient accuracy.


This paper focuses on the mitigation of porpoising instability of high-speed planing vessels using controllable transom flap and dynamic feedback. A control oriented model that captures both steady-state and dynamic characteristics is presented and used to facilitate the model-based control design. A nonlinear controller is developed based on the feedback linearization method to achieve asymptotic stability of the planing boat, thus avoiding porpoising at high speeds. We first show that the full-state nonlinear dynamic model describing the ship motion is not feedback linearizable. A state transformation is then constructed to decompose the model into a linearizable subsystem and a nonlinear internal dynamic subsystem. A reduced order state feedback is shown next to stabilize the planing vessel motion around the equilibrium point. Analysis of the region of attraction is also performed to provide an assessment of the effective safe operating range around the equilibrium point


Recent experiments on photoneutron production from natural magnesium have produced contradictory results. Katz et al. (1954) have used brems-strahlung from a 22 MeV betatron to irradiate a natural magnesium target. The emitted neutrons were detected with boron trifluoride (BF3) counters placed in a paraffin block.


Feature selection is a process commonly used in machine learning, wherein a subset of the features available from the data are selected for application of a learning algorithm. Feature selection is effective in reducing dimensionality, removing irrelevant data, increasing learning accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a new information distance to measure the relevancy of two features. Unlike the information measure in previous feature selection works, our proposed information distance meets the condition of triangle inequality. We use InfoDist to feature selection and the experimental results showed it has a better performance.


The western coast of India (Kachchh) has ubiquitous preservations of Quaternary carbonate deposits popularly known as "miliolites". Field‐based detail documentation of the nature and distribution of miliolites supported by sedimentology and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) microtextural studies indicates that the miliolites were primarily deposited by wind as aeolinites and are termed "primary miliolites (PM)". These were subsequently fluvially eroded and deposited and such deposits are termed "secondary miliolites (SM)". The PM are dated between 28 ka to 16 ka largely clustering around the Last Glacial Maxima (LGM). In comparison, the fluvially reworked SM occurs as valley‐fill deposits and were deposited episodically during 23 ka to 10 ka before present. Climatically, the deposition of PMs suggests enhanced aridity whereas SMs represent episodic strengthening of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM). The bedding attitudes of the PMs indicate that they were deposited predominantly by the northeasterly winds whereas the presence of the deflation lag deposits suggests downwind migration of sands during the equilibrium condition (reduced sediment supply). The aeolian parameters (based on the grain size and wind velocities) for PMs indicate high shear velocity (~23 to 48 cm−1) and high transport rate (< 0.1 to 0.2 g/cm s). The short average flying distance implies that the biogenic sands were transported in multiple pulses (from coast to inland) at rates varying from ~200 m/h to ~1 km/h. Comparing our data with related occurrences along the biologically productive coasts in the mid‐latitudinal belt indicates that the regional/global aridity during the lowered sea level was responsible for inland occurrences of aeolinites, particularly during the LGM. The strengthened northeast monsoon winds during the LGM was conducive to upwelling and production of biogenic carbonates along the coasts. The subsequent reworking of the aeolinites were mainly the results of local variability in precipitation.


This paper presents an iterative limit analysis scheme modeled within a three-node node-based smoothed finite element framework incorporating a so-called modified elastic compensation method to determine the ultimate bearing capacity of ductile structures. More explicitly, the approach iteratively reduces those elemental Young's modulus associated with a high-stress intensity such that the inelastic behavior of the elastic-perfectly plastic material model is taken into account. The approach provides good accuracy and convergence of solution through a series of standard linear elastic analyses that make possible the application in large-scale engineering structures, even the one with complex geometric configurations, and hence eminently accessible to structural engineers. As a result, complex inelastic analyses are eliminated and computational cost is significantly reduced. Several benchmark examples, one of which reported, illustrates the efficiency and robustness of the iterative limit analysis approach in tracing the load multipliers of in-plane ductile structures from the beginning until convergence of collapse load solution or failure state occurs. The yield areas at the ultimate state gradually appear in the graph of elastic modulus distribution.


Objective:To evaluate vaginal microecology state and its related factors of the pregnancy woman.Methods:About 91 vaginal healthy women were conducted with a questionnaire Vaginal discharge and cast-off were collected to get the microecology evaluation.Results:The differences of vaginal pH,the dominant rate of laqctobacillus and karyopyknotic index(KI) were not statistically significant in different period of pregnant women.The vaginal pH was negatively related with KI and the dominant rate of laqctobacillus;the vaginal pH was related to age,parity,formerly vaginitis history and sex partner's culture level.The dominant rate of laqctobacillus was related to age,parity and sex partner's culture level.Sixteen women who were vaginal healthy and without vaginal symptom were found in microecology disturbance.Conclusion:There is no difference in the vaginal cast-off karyophknotic index,the dominant rate of laqctobacillus and the vaginal pH in different period of pregnant women.The microecology in pregnancy is related to the age,parity,formerly vaginitis history and sex partner's culture level.


Obesity is an epidemic that poses the biggest global public health challenge and ranks among the top three causes of chronic health disorders. WHO has set a target in 2025 to maintain the prevalence of obesity back to 2010 figures. Overweight and obesity are the causes of population death in various countries in the world. However, obesity can be prevented. Several factors cause obesity besides genetics, overeating and lack of activity patterns. It is suspected that there is a misperception, especially women who are obese, so that it has an impact on the regulation of diet and activity patterns. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of career women regarding obesity. This study used a qualitative method with in-depth interviews with mothers, homeroom teachers, UKS teachers and health service officers. Observation of work and home environment, career woman. By using a health belief model theory approach that can help explain the perceptions held by career women. These perceptions include perceptions of the severity of a disease (perceived severity), perceptions of susceptibility (perceived susceptibility), perceptions of benefits (perceived benefits), perceptions of barriers (perceived barriers), prerequisites for taking action (cues to action), and self-efficacy. By knowing these perceptions, it will be known the factors that can influence people's behavior in an effort to prevent obesity in career women. This research is a qualitative research. conducted in the City of Bima, NTB. It is hoped that this research will be able to explore and understand the meaning obtained from the informants from the experiences conveyed by the informants at the research location. Data collection techniques were carried out by in-depth interviews and observations. The data analysis used in this research is content analysis. The data validity strategy that will be applied in this study is to triangulate data sources by member checking to clarify the results of the interviews. In addition, peer review/peer debriefing was conducted. The data validity strategy that will be applied in this study is to triangulate data sources by member checking to clarify the results of the interviews. In addition, peer review/peer debriefing was conducted. The data validity strategy that will be applied in this study is to triangulate data sources by member checking to clarify the results of the interviews. In addition, peer review/peer debriefing was conducted.
Some misperceptions in career women that result in errors in regulating diet and activities that trigger obesity include informants who think it is natural that women with income will become fat because they are able to consume their favorite foods at any time, if there are many office activities causing thinness with itself. The informants thought that local foods such as offal, soto, satay, curry, meatballs, and chicken noodles because they were processed by local residents were not fast food. Informants think that skipping lunch is a diet to lose weight. Informants think that office activities can be a substitute for sports because they think they are tired with a busy schedule at work.


Using the link surgery formula for Heegaard Floer homology we find a spectral sequence from the lattice homology of a plumbing tree to the Heegaard Floer homology of the corresponding 3-manifold. This spectral sequence shows that for graphs with at most two "bad" vertices, the lattice homology is isomorphic to the Heegaard Floer homology of the underlying 3-manifold.


The article deals with the methods of restoration of large buildings of Orthodox churches in Russia. Practical solutions, described in the article, are applicable to the majority of church buildings partly demolished or rearranged during the Soviet era. The authors describe the restoration works performed at the convent of Martha and Mary as a good example of this practice. The article is focused on the general issues that complicate the restoration process, including lack of any uniform restoration solutions, lack of global cultural legacy protection programs, and the poor technical condition of restored buildings.The authors provide an overview of the restoration project that involved restoration and renovation of the New Jerusalem monastery building and Znamenskaya church building in Kholmy village. The solution was to have several subcontractors involved into the design and construction process. Department of reconstruction and structural inspection (ORZS) of Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU) was responsible for the supervision over the process of restoration and the work quality control. This article highlights the growing demand for the restoration control, especially if versatile assignments associated with foundations, structural, mechanical and finishing works are performed by different contractors. Special attention is driven to advanced waterproofing solutions applicable to underground structures, as leaks damage unique wall paintings. The authors raise the issues of research into the international experience of reconstruction and restoration of architectural monuments, methods of boosting religious tourism and respect for the history of Russia.


Based on the Seebeck and Peltier effects, state‐of‐the‐art bismuth telluride‐based thermoelectric materials, which are capable of direct and reversible conversion of thermal to electrical energy, have great potential in energy harvesting and solid‐state refrigerators. However, their widespread use is limited by their low conversion efficiency, which is determined by the dimensionless figure‐of‐merit (ZT). Significant enhancement of ZT is a great challenge owing to the common interdependence of electrical and thermal conductivity. Here, it is demonstrated that by incorporating nanoamorphous boron into the p‐type Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3, a record high ZT of 1.6 at 375 K is achieved. It is shown that a high density of nanostructures and dislocations due to the incorporation of the boron inclusions, leads to a significant reduction of thermal conductivity and improved charge transport. The findings represent an important step to further promote the development of thermoelectric technology and its widespread application in solid‐state refrigeration and power generation from waste heat.


Key messages • Animal feed producers can more than double their income in the next few years with greater volume production and lower prices if the constraints in the commercial feed supply chain are tackled. • Dairy farmers can increase animal performance and double income from milk sales if concentrate feed quality, delivery and use is improved. • There is urgent need to establish a feed manufacture education, training and certification program in the commercial feed production sector through structured systems. Opportunities to invest and scale Production of cost effective high quality compound feeds will justify increased input cost by farmers and transform national milk production in terms of quantity and quality. Opportunities for improving quality of compounded feeds are:  Working with the Tanzanian Feed Manufacturers Association, the Tanzanian Bureau of Standards and the Ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries to establish a self regulating feed standards scheme.  Establish a training and certification scheme for small scale compounded feed producers  Conduct farmer training and awareness creation to promote optimal usage of compounded feeds and develop targeted feeding strategies.  Establish private sector-led self accreditation systems to ensure Good Laboratory Practice and improved feed testing facilities


Experiments were performed to measure the heat transfer coefficient on the surface of a square flush heat source mounted at the center of an FR-4 plate in a small horizontal enclosure. The plate area was six times larger than the heat source area. Four cases were considered: the plate facing upwards and downwards, and the backside either insulated or convecting. The heat transfer coefficients exhibited distinct behavior at high aspect ratio in which the dominant length scales were related to the source. At intermediate aspect ratios, the length scales of both the source and the enclosure were relevant, and at small aspect ratios a conduction limit was observed. The heat transfer coefficients at high aspect ratios exceeded the prior correlations by 14 percent for upward facing isolated plates when the ratio of heat source area to perimeter was used as the significant length scale, but the dependence on Ra1/4 was consistent. For the downward facing case, the data exceeded the values for a uniformly heated isolated plate by 68 percent. Classical correlations for shallow differentially heated horizontal enclosures were not satisfactory in describing the dependence on enclosure height.


BMJ Careers has been tracking a cohort of doctors since their first day on the job. This week the six doctors report on their first month as specialty trainees


Abstract : To address the frequent lack of a reference image or ground truth when performance testing Bayer pattern color filter array (CFA) demosaicing algorithms, we propose two new no-reference quality assessment algorithms. These new algorithms give a relative comparison of two demosaicing algorithms by measuring the presence of two common artifacts in their output images. For this purpose, we reviewed various demosaicing algorithms, especially adaptive color plane, gradient-based methods, and median filtering, paying particular attention to the false color and edge blurring artifacts common to all demosaicing algorithms. We also reviewed classic quality assessment methods that require a reference image (MSE, PSNR, and deltaE), characterized their typical usage, and identified their associated pitfalls. With this information in mind, the motivations for no-reference quality assessment are discussed. From that, we designed new quality assessment algorithms to compare two images demosaiced from the same CFA data by measuring the sharpness of the edges and determining the presence of false colors. Using these new algorithms, we evaluated and ranked the previously described demosaicing algorithms. We reviewed a large quantity of real images, which were used to justify the rankings suggested by the new quality assessment algorithms. This work provides a path forward for future research investigating possible relationships between CFA demosaicing and color image super-resolution.


Abstract Background: Cisplatin (CDDP) based chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by adjuvant chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma shows poor compliance due to severe acute adverse events. However, progress in medical oncology and radiation oncology may improve the compliance. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the completion rate, feasibility and efficacy of initial treatment consists of CRT (3 cycles of CDDP 100mg/m2 during intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT, 70Gy/33Fr)) and adjuvant chemotherapy (3 cycles of FP regimen (CDDP 80mg/m2 day1 and 5-fluorouracil 1000mg/m2 day1-4)) about 11 patients from February 2012 to January 2014. Results: All 11 patients completed radiation therapy without treatment breaks. During CRT, the dose of CDDP was reduced to 80mg/m2 for subsequent cycles in 6 patients. However, in 10 patients, the cumulative dose was over 200mg/m2 and mean value of all patients was 268mg/m2. Numbers of patients who received 3, 2, 1 and 0 cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy were 7, 1, 2 and 1 respectively. Severe acute toxicities (grade 3 and 4) were as follows: pharyngeal mucositis in 4 patients, dysphagia in 1 patient, aspiration in 1 patient, sepsis in 1 patient. All 11 patients achieved good local control (CR and good PR) but 1 patient relapsed with lung metastasis. Conclusion: Our protocol suggests better compliance compared with previous reports.


A multimedia surveillance system aims to provide security and safety of people in a monitored space. However, due to the nature of surveillance, privacy-sensitive information, such as face, gait and other physical parameters based on the captured media from multiple sensors, can be revealed without the concern of the people. This is a major concern in recent days. Therefore, it is desirable to have such mechanism that can hide privacy-sensitive information as much as possible, yet supporting effective surveillance tasks. In this paper, we propose a chaos cryptography based data hiding approach that can be applied on selected regions of interest (ROIs) in video camera footage, which contains privacy-sensitive data. Our approach also supports multiple levels of abstraction of data hiding depending on the role of the authorized user. In order to evaluate the suitability of this approach, we applied our algorithm on some video camera footage and observed that our approach is computationally efficient and applicable for real-time video surveillance tasks.


Although about 10 percent of all epithelial ovarian cancers are hereditary, and most of these are linked to mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2


Abstract The cause-selecting chart (CSC) is an effective statistical process control tool for monitoring multistage processes. The multiple cause-selecting chart (MCSC) is the further development of the CSC, which deals with the case when the output measure is a function of multiple input measures. In practice, the model relating the input and output measures often needs to be estimated before the MCSC is implemented. However, the traditional design of MCSCs does not take parameter uncertainties into account when estimating the control limits. The actual false-alarm rate can substantially differ from what is expected. This article presents the design and implementation of MCSCs using prediction limits to account for parameter uncertainties. These limits are developed using two types of procedures: the least-squares estimation and principal component regression. The simulation results show that the prediction limits are quite effective in terms of maintaining a desired false-alarm rate.


The short term flicker severity Pst is an important index of power quality in the standards of IEC. A method to improve the accuracy of Pst is proposed in this paper. The corn of this method is that, first, interploation algorithms is applied on revising the results of DFT (FFT) to overcome the disadvantage of spectral leakage and barrier effect, then, BP networks is employed on setting model of frequency and sin voltage fluctuation value at unit short term flicker to improve fitting accuracy. The proposed method to improve the accuracy of Pst is not only proved to be effective by simulation but also applied successfully in practice.


FIELD: biotechnology, microbiology, nucleotides. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a method for producing 5'-xanthylic acid using culturing the mutant strain Corynebacterium ammoniagenes CJXOL 0201 deposited at number KCCM 10448 and possessing resistance to oligomycin. For preparing the strain Corynebacterium ammoniagenes CJXOL 0201 the strain Corynebacterium ammoniagenes KCCM 10340 is used as a parent strain that is subjected to effect of UV-radiation and mutagens, for example, N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine by standard procedures. Invention provides accumulation of 5'-xanthylic acid in cultural fluid with high yield and the high concentration degree. EFFECT: valuable properties of strain. 3 cl, 1 tbl, 2 ex


The research is interested in shedding light on the importance of heritage and its connection to the art of sculpture and its role in raising community awareness and raising public taste.This study aims to clarify the possibility of drawing inspiration from contemporary sculptural formations from the Suez heritage with various entrances, revealing Aden with new interactions.A new innovation that strengthens the artistic vision and provides opportunities for experimentation, which in turn helps to establish a fundic trend that is praised for its praiseworthy works.Distinctive, encourages innate and creative abilities, and this research contributes to enriching the lands of the lands, with multiple structural solutions that are closed and inspired by cities of heritageand the Suez environment to become a springboard for innovation.


The invention discloses a puppet controlling method based on a picture in a mobile phone. The method comprises the following steps: the mobile phone is used for scanning the whole picture to be processed; an area matched with a puppet controlling area saved in the database of the mobile phone is selected from the picture according to the scanning result to be used as a puppet controlling area in the picture so as to be saved; the mobile phone is used for reading the focus of user operation, and when the focus is located in the puppet controlling area, the edges of the area are stroked to be displayed; all pictures in the stroked and displayed area are used to form the mobile phone is used for forming a new layer by the mobile phone; after reading and completing operation of a user on the new layer and saving the operation result in the new layer, the mobile phone is used for synthesizing the new layer and the picture. The invention also provides a puppet controlling device based on a picture. By the puppet controlling method and the device based on the picture in the mobile phone, the puppet control on the picture can be realized so as to provide a personalized processing mode of pictures for users.


 A finite element model is set up by FEM for calculating the temperature of super-long high-rise building. Through calculation on the integral temperature effect of the main structure of Zhengzhou Long Distance Communication Exchange No. 2 Project data are obtained such as the temperature deformation of load components beam floor column and shear wall characteristics of temperature-caused interior force or stress and value scope thereof which may be used as reference for temperature effect in the design of super-long high-rise buildings.


China accounted for 98% of the total growth of global patent applications in 2016. The rapid growth has been arousing great controversies and doubts about Chinese current patent policies around the world. Chinese universities are making the second largest contribution to patent filing growth. However, a survey of top 10 universities in mainland China suggests that the university sector has not performed as well in patent use as it has in patent filings. This paper talked about the patent quality from purposes for filing patents of university inventors and analyze the non-market factors behind it including many preferential policies. By empirical study, some alienations of patent application were found that most inventors filed patent not for the commercial use but for other purposes such as for personal promotion in academic field, or for the project requirement and for meeting the needs of workload. It comes to the conclusion that the influence of the planned economy is fundamental reasons for the patent surge and the low transfer rate, also the ranking of the Ministry of Education and the preferential financial policies on patent application of Chinese universities play a key role for the low patent transfer. Finally, a few ways towards a better balance between patent quantity and quality are suggested from an institutional perspective.


Denmark is among the world's most competitive nations. It also has a strong tradition of citizenship-oriented higher education, promoted through the widespread Problem-Oriented Project Work (POPW) didactic approach. We argue that recent changes to this tradition have modifi ed the incentives embedded in the hidden curriculum, which made Danish higher education effective at producing graduates with analytical and personal abilities and dispositions, such as refl exivity, curiosity, collaboration and trust that are particularly suitable for today's globalised, knowledge-based economies. We illustrate this by drawing on examples of changes to an education programme at a Danish business school.


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A situation that both challenges and draws upon the resilience of our nation. The global economic crisis, the Great Recession, the financial meltdown, the worst recession since the Great Depression: All of these terms have been used over the past fifteen months, from the autumn of 2008 to late 2009, to describe the most recent troubled economic times. This economic crisis is calling into question assumptions about stewardship of the nation's financial resources, who we are as a people, how we work, why we save, and the role of government in our market economy. Speculation abounds. Is the recession over, or is the worst still yet to come? Will the recovery be rapid (V-shaped), or slow (U-shaped), or are we at risk for a second downturn (W-shaped)? What should the role of the government be- are institutions truly "too big to fail" and in need of bailout money, or has the government overstepped and gotten involved in something that the market should have corrected? Is there too much stimulus spending, which will cause inflation in the future, or is more stimulus spending necessary? Some see the crisis as having begun in September 2008, when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the federal government, Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, the $700-billion bailout package failed to pass, and the Dow Jones Industrial fell 777 points (7 percent) in one day. Others see many triggers occurring long before that caused credit to freeze and the economy to crumble. But in all these facts and figures are people and organizations that are trying to manage their way through this crisis. This issue of Generations explores the implications and opportunities emerging from this economic downturn as they apply to older Americans and to the readers of Generations. While not fully knowable, the implications are profound, and as was true in the 1930s, the present crisis also creates opportunity for innovation and change. When the editorial board of Generations decided in November 2008 to develop an issue on the unfolding crisis, they asked the guest editors and authors to help "place the crisis in perspective," as best as could be, given that we would be writing as the crisis and- the new Obama Administration- were taking form. Recognizing the fluid nature of the situation, we asked authors to "think out loud," to speculate more than they ordinarily would in a more conventional issue. Recognizing, too, that people's lives are grounded in the changing realities of the economy, we also asked authors to give special attention to the human dimensions of the crisis for older Americans, people nearing retirement, and people delivering services to elders. And we made an effort to include stories of adjustment and resilience. Implications The implications of this economic crisis are broad and span the spectrum from economic to psychosocial to political. No individual, business, profession, or political organization is untouched; the impacts of the crisis have been sudden and many will have long-term effects. Economic shocks This recession has destabilized the finances of many retirees and people nearing retirement. Stock market and home equity losses have taken a large bite out of assets, with almost $3 trillion lost just from U.S. employees' 401(k) plans and IRAs between October 2007 and the end of 2008 (Fleck, 2008). Many individuals have stopped contributing to their retirement funds, while others are withdrawing money from their retirement accounts prematurely and incurring penalties (Brown, 2009). Although some of those losses have been recovered, the impact of the market drop has served to highlight risks associated with the reconfiguration of retirement income. Over the past thirty years, the system has changed from one that relied on the employer and government to provide adequate income in retirement to one in which individuals are more responsible for their own financial destinies. …


The August23, 1963 March on Washington was a watershed event. For the first time in our nation's history, Black Americans collectively presented their grievances to a world that had been largely silent toward their battles for freedom. But there was something peculiar about this great moment in American history: Black women were virtually barred from participation, among them Rosa Parks, Diane Nash Revel, Gloria Richardson, and Daisy Bates. "The committee scheduled no female speakers during the entire three-hour program" (Branch, 1988, p. 880). Anna Arnold Hedgeman, author of The TrumphetSounds, recalls that "Mrs. Daisy Bates was asked to say a few words" (quoted in Giddings, 1984, p. 314). Thus the rhetorical space accorded Bates-civil rights activist, journalist, and lecturer-clearly did not reflect the essence of her achievements in the civil rights movement, especially in the South. Having successfully led the integration of Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Bates should have been a premier performer at the March on Washington when Martin Luther King, Jr. articulated and crystallized the Black movement toward justice; instead, she was relegated to the background. Bates spoke out at a time when women were supposed to be seen and not heard. Indeed, she was a key factor in shaping our social and educational history at a moment of constitutional crisis: the


Author argues that by shifting from the Balkans-Middle East axis to the historical Greece-Turkey axis we could open broader terms for our discussion of the post-Ottoman space. He offers several reasons why this shift could be fruitful for discussions of 'religion, ethnicity, and contested nationhood in the post-Ottoman space.' He then discusses some of the dynamics of Greek War of Independence of the 1820s in light of the Turkish War of Independence a century later. In addition to the fascinating cases of particular nation-states in the process of formation and the master narrative of imperial reforms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were also multiple and persistently imperial processes to be examined. The chapter argues that the Greek and Turkish Wars of Independence, despite their extreme differences, contain important isomorphisms as well as causal connections that can lead to new insights on the creation of a post-Ottoman space. Keywords:Balkans-Middle East axis; Greece-Turkey axis; Greek War of Independence; Ottoman Empire; post-Ottoman space; Turkish war


A 37-year-old man presented with a history of a solitary, round, asymptomatic nodule on his second toe. The nodule measured 6 mm in diameter and was located off the midline on the dorsal side of the second toe, between the interphalangeal joint and the proximal nail fold.


Hypothesis / aims of study The Tension free Vaginal Tape (TVT) (1) was modified with the transobturator approach (TVTO) (2) to provide less surgical risk. Questions were raised, however, whether the hammock like shape of the TVTO is as effective as the "U" shape retropubic placement of the TVT around the urethra. This retrospective study compares the outcome of the TVTO to TVT in women with Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) and women with mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) who were operated on at the same institute by the same surgeon, thus eliminating technical and management differential.


Water quality expresses the suitability of water to sustain various uses or processes: water for drink, food production, irrigation, animal husbandry, fishermen, recreation etc. Each use will have certain requirements for the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of water. The quality and composition of surface and underground waters is determined by natural factors (geological, topographical, meteorological, hydrological and biological characteristics of catchment) and by human activity (industrial wastes, sewage, runoff from farmland, cities, factory effluents, different hydrotechnical arrangements etc.). The evolution of water quality is also determined by the processes that take place in water bodies: chemical (neutralization, oxidation, reduction, flocculation, precipitation, adsorption, absorption, photochemical decomposition), physical (dilution, mixing, diffusion, sedimentation, coagulation, dissolution of oxygen, release of gases into the air, also influenced by solar radiation IR and UV, water temperature), biological (by its own biocenosis that competes with foreign elements, either directly, by lytic action (bacteriophages), filtration (shells), consumption (by protozoa) or the secretion of toxic substances for intruders (actinomycetes) and biochemicals (within the cycles of nitrogen, sulfur and carbon, based on the activity of specific microorganisms)). In this context, modeling the evolution of water quality is of particular importance for efficient water management. For the best possible forecast of water quality, the use of advanced hydroinformatic tools, such as the MIKEby DHI (Danish Hydraulic Institute) software package, is needed. The paper presents the possibility of using these tools and conducts a case study on a sector of the Bega River, downstream of Timisoara.


Abstract This article examines the hidden history of criminal justice in late colonial Australia by focussing on Aboriginal inter se offending. Most Aboriginal defendants appearing in late colonial criminal courts were prosecuted for violent crimes against other Aboriginal people. The article explores how common such cases were and the degree to which the acknowledgment of cultural difference affected justice process and outcomes. The frequent invocation of 'custom' commonly led juries to recommend the mercy of the Crown to those Aboriginal defendants found guilty of committing a homicide. I argue that 'custom' was increasingly used by settler judicial processes as a shorthand way of explaining what was otherwise seen as unexplainable. In the twentieth century 'custom' would receive greater attention through the development of jurisprudence and policy around the idea of customary law.


FIELD: physics, computer engineering. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to hybrid broadcast broadband television (HBBTV), particularly an information processing apparatus, capable of receiving data via broadcast or over a network, as well as a data management method which is based on information defining the life cycle of data. A browser acquires, via a network, description information which includes second defining information (XML-AIT) having content equivalent to a broadcast application information table (AIT) defining a life cycle of a broadcast application while voice over data (VoD) content is reproduced after being switched from the broadcast application. The browser manages the broadcast application based on the XML-AIT and resumes the reception of the broadcast application after the reproduction of the VoD content is ended. The processing for separating two transport streams at the same time becomes unnecessary, and one demultiplexer only needs to be provided. EFFECT: realising processing for switching a reproduction state from broadcast data to network data and resuming the reproduction of the original broadcast data. 6 cl, 3 dwg


Moment tensor inversion for the focal mechanism of the 12 earthquakes of the Dongfang (Hainan) earthquakeswarm occurred from June to August 1992 with near-source broadband data recorded by a temporal small-aperturenetwork consisting of DCS-302 digital three-component accelerographs. The results inverted indicate that thepredominant components of sources of all these 12 earthqualles were shear dislocations. The principal pressureaxis and the principal tension axis are in NW-SE direction and in NE-SW direction, respectively, and their dips arealmost horizontal. It could infer that these earthquakes occurred within the same ambient stress field.


In this paper we address two questions about the synchronisation of coupled oscillators in the Kuramoto model with all-to-all coupling. In the first part we use some classical results in convex geometry to prove bounds on the size of the frequency set supporting the existence of stable, phase locked solutions and show that the set of such frequencies can be expressed by a seminorm which we call the Kuramoto norm. In the second part we use some ideas from extreme order statistics to compute upper and lower bounds on the probability of synchronisation for very general frequency distributions. We do so by computing exactly the limiting extreme value distribution of a quantity that is equivalent to the Kuramoto norm.


This chapter discusses muscle or muscle-like problems related to participation in various sports. Many of the common muscle complaints, such as muscle strains and bruises, receive relatively modest attention. The primary focus of this article is problems that are persistent or recurrent, which are likely to present diagnostic confusion requiring a neurologic opinion. There are several entities mentioned that are not muscle problems but may present as an out-patient complaint to a neurologist. No specific commentary is directed toward the acute management of a sudden muscle tear or an achilles tendon rupture. The emphasis in this chapter is upon sub-acute problems that are either diffuse and symmetric or focal in location. The initial portions of this chapter assume that the patient presents to a neurologist as a new case and has no previously identified neuromuscular or other neurologic problems. The final portion of this chapter will discuss advice that can be given regarding exercise to patients with nondys-trophic forms of myotonia.


—Virtualization, i.e., running several virtual com- puters on the same physical hardware, is an essential technology in data centers. Since demand for cloud computing services is constantly growing, an increasing number of data centers are focusing on improving their energy efficiency. This has made energy efficiency of virtualization technologies an important research domain. So far, maximizing performance of virtualization technologies has received a lot of attention in cloud computing industry and several academic studies on performance optimization can be found, too. However, these studies usually focus on improving energy efficiency by applying server consolidation methods. In this paper we focus on energy efficiency of virtualization technologies, i.e., how a virtual service can be made more energy efficient. Our aim is to reduce energy consumption without decreasing the quality of service. We have studied this by performing a large set of measurements with different system settings. We used both synthetic benchmarks and real applications. We found out that energy efficiency depends on 1) the workload of the virtual servers, and 2) the number of virtual servers on the physical server. We noticed that it is more energy efficient to maximize workload of virtual servers and to minimize their number. Additionally, we observed that properly configured idle virtual servers hardly increase energy consumption. Thus, our conclusion is that it is better to load virtual servers heavily or let them run idle.


This paper will focus on the tradition which, departing to some degree from the Renaissance treatises on manners, embodied, on the threshold of the modern age, a new ideal of citizenship. I am especially interested in examining the influence of the Galateo by Giovanni della Casa, the seminal text of a minor tradition of "moral enquiry" which I plan to re-read and situate in a different context. I will seek to show that this text is a breakthrough within the tradition which originated from early-modern treatises on courtesy. With the Galateo the age-old tradition of Courtesy Books is at a crossroad. This paper is a preliminary draft of a chapter of a book I have been planning to write on the 'Italian canon', namely, of that stock of books "eminentemente citabili" which have been accorded a special condition of eminence in curricula. If we assume that a canon is a cultural artefact whose construction depends on specific policies of inclusion/exclusion, my thesis is that in the making of such a cultural construction as an Italian canon, the Galateo seems to have been confined to a rank which part brings to the fore its literary eminence, part purges the text of its significance for moral philosophy. This process of marginalization, which will be explored in the third section of this essay, ends up jeopardizing the moral teaching the text aims to convey. I will argue that the 'loss' of this text, in other words, the dwindling of its condition of eminence as a piece of moral philosophy, entails a loss in our ability to make sense of some of the ways ways I deem highly valuable – by which we may be encouraged to interact with one another in society. What we have lost is a set of linguistic 'practices', namely, those modes of moral speech which give us the moral options we can have, by giving us the means (the moral vocabularies) we can have of performing them. I argue that by losing touch with this text we have been deprived of a meaningful supply of speech acts and workable practices; I


The author of the article analyzed the main stages of the formation of the administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine. The main works on the study of these issues are considered. The author notes that the characteristics of the main stages of the formation of the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine and the study of the influence on the current state and prospects of development remain out of researchers' attention. The basic characteristics of the main stages of the formation of the administrative-territorial structure are highlighted, the essential disadvantages and advantages are identified. Particular attention is paid to the period of independence of Ukraine. The main legal acts which regulating the administrative-territorial structure of modern Ukraine are investigated. The analysis of the main stages of the formation of the administrative-territorial system in Ukraine makes it possible to draw the following conclusions: principles of administrative-territorial division and its purpose during XX century were fundamentally different from those which are advanced by the modern constitutional and democratic states, all attempts to reform the territorial organization of power during the twentieth century had the purpose to create a model which convenient to be managed from the center. Each stage is characterized by compliance with the requirements of the current political system, but not by the desire to meet the needs of citizens. In result of the European choice of Ukraine it was the need to introduce European standards into the system of regional and local development and the formation of effective local self-government. It has been established that the goal of the administrative-territorial structure is to provide citizens the maximum amount of quality services by authorities at all levels of government.


The primary goal of this thesis is to develop generic motion and structure algorithms for images taken from constructed scenes by various types of central imaging systems including perspective, fish-eye and catadioptric systems. As-suming that the mapping between the image pixels and their 3D rays in space is known, instead of image planes, we work on image spheres (projection of the images on a unit sphere) which enable us to present points over the entire viewsphere suitable for presenting omnidirectional images. In the first part of this thesis, we develop a generic and simple line matching approach for images taken from constructed scenes under a short baseline motion as well as a fast and original geometric constraint for matching lines in planar constructed scenes insensible to the motion of the camera for all types of centralimages including omnidirectional images.Next, we introduce a unique and efficient way of computing overlap between two segments on perspective images which considerably decreases the over all computational time of a segment-based motion estimation and reconstruction algorithm. Finally in last part of this thesis, we develop a simple motion estima-tion and surface reconstruction algorithm for piecewise planar scenes applicable to all kinds of central images which uses only two images and is based on mini-mum line correspondences.To demonstrate the performance of these algorithms we experiment withvarious real images taken by a simple perspective camera, a fish-eye lens, and two different kinds of paracatadioptric sensors, the first one is a folded catadioptric camera and the second one is a classic paracatadioptric system composed of a parabolic mirror in front of a telecentric lens.


NEWTOWN, Pa., July 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONTX), a Phase 3-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel products to treat cancer, with an initial focus on myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), today announced the e-publication of results from a Phase 1 company-sponsored study of oral rigosertib in combination with standard dose azacitidine in the treatment of patients diagnosed with either higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (HR-MDS) or acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in the international hematological malignancy journal Leukemia Research.


The functional renal conditions, the level of anxiety and depression in 103 patients with chronical lympholeukosis were estimated. In the present group the decrease of glomerular filtration rate was revealed in 50,5% of patients, a high level of anxiety in 54,6%, depression – in 15,2% of ones. The correlation between the glomerular filtration rate and the level of depression (γ =-1,0, p=0,0001) and between glomerular filtration rate and level of situational anxiety (γ=0,38, p=0,013) in women has been established.


Phenolic substances are involved in the processes of growth, morphogenesis, respiration and photosynthesis, are reserve and signaling substances, and have antioxidant properties. Spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) of variety Nikita was used in the experiments. In seven-day-old seedlings, phenolic substances were determined using reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography analysis (RP HPLC) with an amperometric detector. The maximum number of phenolic compounds is registered in the chloroform extract of the endosperm of the microwave-treated grain, their number is 26 names of substances. The minimum number of individual substances is 10-11 and is found in samples of roots and sprouts of native seedlings, as well as roots of microwave-irradiated barley plants. The microwave treatment affected both the number of isolated substances and their amount in the extract. The most biochemically active anatomical part of a seven-day-old barley seedling is the endosperm: it contains significantly more substances of a phenolic nature, recorded by an amperometric detector, than in sprouts and roots. The microwave field significantly affected the amount of phenolic compounds with antioxidant properties in the endosperm. In relation to phenolic substances in the composition of barley seedlings, there is an organ-specific response, which is expressed in the difference in their quantitative and qualitative content. Individual phenolic substances are registered in all the organs of the seedling (roots, leaves, endosperm), and some have a certain localization. The total amount of phenolic substances with antioxidant properties increases after microwave treatment.


With the research methods of literature study and comparative analysis,the paper analyses the body language of the sports dance and pointsout that the body language of sports dance is made up of movements,dance steps,stances,combinations and set patterns.The paper analyses the time features and proposes that the time form of the sports dance is tangible.The paper also points out that the body language of the sports dance can be categorized into general space and specific space.The imagery features of body language of sports dance are decided by body movements.The paper is to provide references for the basic theory researches and teaching practice of sports dance.


During Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) achieved threshold confirmation of their extraordinary suitability for enabling transformational warfare. In these campaigns, US forces faced many of the operational challenges prompting US military transformation, and fought in a manner consistent with service concepts of operation (CONOPs) developed to counter them. However, future military campaigns will likely be waged in far more difficult conditions. Northrop Grumman is focused on developing the broad portfolio of military capabilities required to support transformational CONOPs in the highly stressing projected operational environments of the future. The key is the development of a system of interoperable systems possessing certain essential attributes. Within the aerospace domain, UAVs consistently score higher than manned systems across this set of transformational attributes. Accordingly, we believe that if new CONOPs are to be successfully implemented, UAVs must be brought to the operational fore in multiple core capability areas. The pace at which UAV potential is realized will be set in significant measure by industry's ability to achieve technological progress in three vital areas: command and control, interoperability and communications. Progress in these three areas will hinge on effective utilization of distributed Modeling, Simulation and Analysis networks. While the integration of manned and unmanned systems in the future battlefield is an important issue, it is not a "show stopper," and should not be allowed to hobble the expansion of UAV roles, missions, and force structure.