Extension as an activity is traditionally viewed as a means of transmitting knowledge to farmers by extension institutions. Extension activities are not the preserve of extension institutions alone. Research institutions, input distributors, produce buying agencies, non-governmental organisations and even individuals carry out extension activities in the cocoa sector in Ghana. Blackpod disease caused by Phytophthora palmivora and Phytophthora megakarya, Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus (CSSV) disease and mirids (capsids) are major constraints facing farmers and much extension efforts are directed at their management The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), though primarily concerned with the development of sustainable cocoa production technologies, has stepped up its extension activities in recent times to meet the information needs of farmers. Some of these activities have included farmer educational campaigns on farmers' farms and on radio, the use of farmer field schools, active involvement in government control of cocoa pest and disease programme, introduction of the cocoa farmer' newspaper, onfarm studies and several socio-economic surveys. This paper reviews these activities suggesting ways of improvement and concludes that CRIG's leadership role in integrating her activities into the wider cocoa knowledge and information systems is laudable and commendable.


Field trails of a novel metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) sensor for the detection of both carbon monoxide (CO) and methane have been completed. The objective was to evaluate the long term performance of the sensor as a low-cost, reliable wall-mounted gas alarm. A total of 34 detectors were distributed among participating gas utilities and ten other detectors were tested in the laboratory during a statistically designed 3 month trial. The results were acceptable for methane, but not for low levels of CO.


This paper discusses the derivation and solution, in the time domain, of a Burgers' equation for sonic boom propagation in a windy atmosphere. As the wind effects become important with increasing wind speed, the proper treatment of wind is necessary for sonic booms propagating through a jet stream as well as for those propagating to the stratosphere or thermosphere where stronger winds typically exist. The effects of wind are quantified in terms of the Doppler shift and of a parameter which measures the strength of the convection. The latter, referred to as the convective index, is a ratio of the local sound speed to the magnitude of the ray velocity and is unity in the absence of wind. Both Doppler shift and convective index are larger than unity if there is a component of the wind velocity opposite to the direction of the acoustic propagation. Consequently, the effective nonlinearity coefficient and effective absorption coefficients are larger for rays propagating opposite the wind direction than for rays propagating in the same direction. To demonstrate the significance of the derived Burgers' equation, the effect of a jet stream with a typical strength and profile on nominal sonic booms will be described.This paper discusses the derivation and solution, in the time domain, of a Burgers' equation for sonic boom propagation in a windy atmosphere. As the wind effects become important with increasing wind speed, the proper treatment of wind is necessary for sonic booms propagating through a jet stream as well as for those propagating to the stratosphere or thermosphere where stronger winds typically exist. The effects of wind are quantified in terms of the Doppler shift and of a parameter which measures the strength of the convection. The latter, referred to as the convective index, is a ratio of the local sound speed to the magnitude of the ray velocity and is unity in the absence of wind. Both Doppler shift and convective index are larger than unity if there is a component of the wind velocity opposite to the direction of the acoustic propagation. Consequently, the effective nonlinearity coefficient and effective absorption coefficients are larger for rays propagating opposite the wind direction than for ra...


Financial inclusion performing in our country in a different name and activities no frills account scheme has been replaced as PMJDY scheme which was announced by the new NDA government. Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana scheme is a totally contributory scheme and very closely people are travelling to banking sector day by day. In the last few years RBI launched many more schemes for banking sectors. Besides financial inclusion is one of the core activities of banking performance and directly people are getting government financial services in their living place. In 2005 RBI launched No Frills Accounts scheme for all the income level and financially poor people should use banking sectors, but this scheme did not cover all the people. Only 2000 people opened bank account in each village. That is why Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi announced on August 15, 2014 and simultaneously this PMJDY scheme was launched on 28 August, 2014. The scheme highlight was opening day 1.5 crores people opened this scheme joining baking sectors. This study is focused on commercial banks performance on PMJDY.  Dids Link :  http://dids.info/didslink/06.2015-61314713/


For sustainable economic growth, Romania needs investment and exports. European funds and foreign investment contribute to the formation of Romanian capital, as alternative to the lack of financing of the banking system. In the last 10 years, of the amounts collected from the EU. 17, 8 billion euros were used in the public sector, and 14, 8 billion in the private sector. In the period 2005-2015 Romania received from the United States 31, 8 billion, of which 12, 2 billion were invested in fixed capital, and 19.2 billion euros were current expenditure. For the 2007-2013 financial period, only 20% of the amounts absorbed were used in the real economy, to support competitiveness and to set up agricultural capacities. We noticed that these amounts were neither sufficient nor well-used. For the 2007-2013 financial year, the European Commission has produced an activity report on the Romanian use of European funds. Thus, suspicions of fraud and irregularities were found, but they are insignificant. The European funds allocated to the financial year 2007 have not been fully utilized for the following reasons: incompetence in fund management, delay in Sectorial Operational Programs and Management Authority launch, unsustainable projects, lack of communication between the Romanian authorities and those in Brussels regarding the estimation of payments on Projects and lack of Informing beneficiaries of the use of non-reimbursable funds. Some of these irregularities are also found in the current financial exercise.


This paper introduces a simple yet effective circuit topology to directly generate and modulate UWB pulses using baseband signals. The same circuit can be used to achieve pulse position modulation (PPM), pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), on-off keying (OOK) and phase shift keying (PSK) by making changes in the baseband data. The method does not require the use of potentially expensive components like mixers, variable attenuators, switches or variable delays. The circuit employs a pair of anti-parallely mounted step recovery diodes (SRD) coupled to a pulse forming network. The use of the same component for both generation and modulation results in a lower component count and in turn, lower cost and power consumption.


Illegal way of earning money and then turning that illegal earned money into Legal through the use of legal loopholes and the process that are present in the system. Such actions from several sectors in an economy some directly some indirectly. Though some sectors have been identified and worked on still a lot is to be done. In the said paper authors have tried to find the type of people and sectors which are more involved in Money Laundering and at what stages they work on. The authors have also tried to find the impact and effect of Money Laundering on the economy and have worked around finding a way to curb the same. Legal growth for the prevention of Money Laundering has also been tried to study and a few insights into the legal status of Money Laundering in the world have been discussed.


Recent theory and empirical research have suggested that fear and anxiety are distinct processes with separable neurobiological substrates. Furthermore, a laboratory procedure has been developed to manipulate fear versus anxiety independently via administration of predictable or unpredictable electric shock, respectively. Benzodiazepines appear to selectively reduce anxiety but not fear in this procedure. The primary aim of this experiment was to determine if alcohol produced a similar selective reduction in anxiety. Intoxicated (target blood alcohol concentration of .08%) and nonintoxicated participants viewed a series of colored squares separated by variable intertrial intervals (ITIs) in 3 conditions. In the predictable shock condition, shocks were administered contingently during every square. In the unpredictable shock condition, shocks were administered noncontingently during both squares and ITIs. In the no-shock condition, no shocks were administered at any time. Alcohol significantly reduced startle potentiation during cues signaling unpredictable but not predictable shock, consistent with the thesis that alcohol selectively reduces anxiety but not fear. In addition, alcohol's effect on startle potentiation during unpredictable shock was mediated by vigilance. This anxiolytic effect may clarify the nature of alcohol's reinforcing effects in social and problem drinkers. The stress-reducing properties of alcohol are well-known and occasionally pursued by all drinkers. However, individuals who drink primarily for stress reduction (vs. other motives, e.g., increasing positive emotions or social or celebratory motives) are at increased risk for developing alcohol use disorders (Coo-Alcohol use disorders are also highly comorbid with certain anxiety disorders (Grant et al., 2004; Kushner, Sher, & Beit-man, 1990). Moreover, stress exposure is a powerful precipitant for relapse to alcohol use among alcohol dependent userstifying the mechanism(s) underlying alcohol's effect on stress is important if one is to better understand both social and problematic alcohol use. has synthesized precise laboratory manipulations of stress with sensitive measurement procedures to parse the stress response into its constituent components. In particular, this research has suggested that fear and anxiety arise from dissociable neurobiological substrates that can be disentangled by careful manipulation of stimulus contingencies. Of particular importance, recent research with these methods has demonstrated selective effects of anxiolytic drugs (i.e., benzodiazepines) on anxiety but not fear (Grillon et al., 2006). In this article, we report on the first experiment to use similar methods and measurement procedures to test if alcohol has comparable selective effects on anxiety in humans. Few would debate the important role that stress plays in the patterns of alcohol use …


This article discusses the background and theory of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as well as the equipment and experiments it employs and its applications today.

Keywords:

nuclear magnetic resonance;
NMR;
quantum mechanical phenomena;
magnetic field;
MRI


The period 1960 – 1980 marks a time of political, economical and social turmoil in
South Africa. In this article fourteen sermons, reflecting the experience of threat and
fear by a section of the white population, and the theological and homiletical effort
to counteract this, are analyzed and evaluated. The sermons were published in the
official magazine of the Dutch Reformed Church ("Die Kerkbode") and illustrates a
general hermeneutical tendency. Firstly, to purpose analogies between the
experiences of the Afrikaner and those of Israel. Secondly, to implement these
analogies as a basis for moralistic preaching, and thirdly, to project guilt on to a
caricaturized enemy. The paper concludes by suggesting the need for an ecumenical
hermeneutics in which diverse perceptions of the Biblical message will/can be
controlled and enriched.


The era of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people live, from offline to online. This study discusses the effect of thrift shop marketing communications on the level of fashion consumption during the pandemic. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of consumption of a person in shopping, especially Thrift Shop goods. The research method used is a quantitative approach with simple random sampling technique. The results showed that from the analysis of data calculations carried out 53.2% of respondents made the last purchase, then 32.4% had bought from the previous 2 months and 14.4% had bought 1 month earlier, so Ho was accepted while Ha was rejected. It can be concluded that the phenomenon of Thrift Shop products does not affect the consumption pattern of people's fashion products because most of the purchasing trends for Thrift products during the last three months are still passive in purchasing Thrift products on various E-Commerce platforms and social media.


The current-voltage curves are measured for a dip-coated Bi-2212 tape wire at various temperatures under the magnetic field parallel to the c-axis. It is found that the current-voltage curves are approximately scaled on two master curves by normalizing as predicted in the vortex glass-liquid transition theory. However, the obtained dynamic critical index was about 3 and too small in spite of the two-dimensional flux line system. These results are compared with the theoretical analysis based on the flux creep-flow model taking account of the distribution of pinning strength. It is found that the theoretical result approximately explains the experimental result on the scaling behavior, the critical indices and the transition line.


One form of transfer of ownership rights to land is a grant. The grants are classified into a Free Agreement which is intended to be a prestige from one party only, while the other party does not need to provide counter-prestige. In law the grant can only be done with an authentic deed made by PPAT . This study will examine the decision of the Supreme Court No. 492 K / AG / 2012 concerning the authority to adjudicate the cancellation of grant deeds in the legal certainty perspective and the cancellation of grant certificates in a legal perspective. The research method in this study is normative juridical, namely by analyzing and examining the position of the case and the results of the decision which are then compared with the theoritical matters as well as legislation related to the legal certainty perspective. Based on the results of the study, It can be concluded that the process of canceling the grant deed is the authority of the religious court in accordance with the provisions of the religious justice law Article 49 of Law No.7 of 1989, as amended by Law No. 3 of 2006, and the second amendment to Law No. 50 of 2009 based on legal facts and the Grant Deed, it is proven that the Giver and Recipient of the grant are Muslim. and the cancellation of the grant deed that has violated the applicable legal provisions in the Compilation of Islamic Law and the Civil Code concerning the maximum limit of grants that can be received by grantees is only 1/3 of the total assets of the grantee. The legal consequences arising from the cancellation of the grant deed stated by the court is the ownership back to the grantor. If the object of the grant has been renamed or has been certified in the name of the recipient of the grant, then the certificate is declared invalid.


Mohammad Fadel's scholarship on Islamic law and legal history ranges from medieval institutions and the history of Islamic legal interpretation to urgent problems relating to the modern reception and re-assessment of Islamic legal doctrine. Fadel's intellectual concerns focus primarily on the compatibility of the Islamic legal tradition with modern liberal political arrangements, but in his research and writing he also delves into the realm of premodern Islamic legal thought and institutions. His Rawlsian approach leads him to a political reading of the Islamic legal tradition, which he accomplishes by teasing out jurists' assumptions about politics, economics, and the domestic sphere. Fadel's readings of Islamic legal sources suggest that Islamic law remains relevant to a society in which legitimate disagreements over law and morality seem intractable. At the same time, from the Rawlsian perspective he adopts, Fadel reminds us that premodern Muslim jurists formulated Islamic law also under conditions of substantial controversy over matters of law and morality, as well as over questions of religion, politics, theology, and metaphysics. The studies gathered together in this volume adroitly illustrate Fadel's interest in Islamic law as a domain of Islamic political thought and as a framework that might be deployed in today's pluralistic and secularized societies.


This study compares the microclimatic performance of courtyards in the single-storey, mid-rise, and high-rise buildings in Nigerian temperatedry climate by using the field measurement and simulation methods. The field measurement was used to validate the simulation software, while the simulation method was used to perform the experiment. A Hobo Weather Data Logger (HWDL) was used to collect data on air temperature in the courtyard of a building which was used to validate the simulation software. The origin 0.7 software (a spreadsheet) was used to interpret the simulation data obtained. The outcomes show that the microclimate of the courtyard in the high-rise building was best than that of the mid-rise, and the single-storey was the worst. The discrepancies in air temperature were; 1oC, 2oC, and 3oC, while that of relative humidity were: 2%, 4%, and 6% respectively. The paper concludes that the courtyard concept is most suitable in the high-rise buildings, then the mid-rise, and then the single-storey respectively. Finally, further simulation experiments to confirm whether such a result also applies to the indoor-microclimate of such building typologies is required. Furthermore, the impact of air movement and natural lighting were not investigated and such are future areas of inquiry too.


In this paper, a gravity model approach was employed to analyze the major factors that influence Algerian food exports to the entire trading partners (98 countries) for the period 2001-2017. In accordance with the panel data analysis with WLS regression method, more consistent results were obtained. The results indicate that there is an increased propensity for food exports. Besides, the main factors to Algerian food exports are partner countries' growth, domestic demand and the common culture and border. All these factors affect the country's exports positively. Transportation costs, proxied by distance, have negative andsignificant effect on Algerian food exports. Results allow us to reveal the countryspecific effects through a ranking and shows that neighboring countries are in the top 10 list. Nevertheless, the existence of trade agreement has a significant negative effect which reflects the fact that trade gains from the trade agreements have been minimal for Algerian food exports.


Mining in Western Australia in the next two decades will be approaching depths and conditions in which the induced stress regimes will approach the strength of the rock masses surrounding the excavations. In such cases, failure may occur violently due to the energy stored within the rock masses. Furthermore, in those highly stressed regions of a rock mass, sudden slip on major structures in the vicinity of the excavations are more likely to occur with an associated release of energy in the form of compres sive and shear waves that excite the rock near the boundaries of excavations. In order to be prepared for such scenarios, and to ensure safe and economical excavations in the future, the WA School of Mines (WASM) and a number of sponsoring companies have conceptualized and undertaken a number of research projects in ground support technology. The projects range from static and dynamic laboratory testing of support and reinforcement elements to in-situ assessment of ground support corrosivity. The project background for each of the stabilization research projects at WASM has been summarized together with details of the methodology, current status, applications and future work.


Epoxy drillings have consequences the chisel will worn down and drilling result vary greatly. This research purpose is to minimize the chisel wearing out and drilling result deviation with generalized reduce gradient method (GRG). advantage of the method can to look for weighted from both response. This method Applied to outlier data for the chisel wearing out. Research result are more take note of the chisel wearing out than drilling result deviation and optimum condition to machine speed is 715,5 rpm, scrape speed is 90 mm/min, chisel angel is 73,8o with the chisel wearing out is 0,3253 mm and drilling result deviation 5,3720 micron.


Revolutionary historic fiction (hereafter referred as RHF) and Neo-historic fiction (hereafter referred as NHF) are two models of literature works that are predominant in the literature trend in two different times. Although both RHF and NHF touched upon the revolutionary struggles and lives after the founding of the Communist Party of China,however,due to time differences,different authors depicts the same history differently and hence form their own distinctive judgments of history. RHF understands the revolution subject to the guidance of general political route and emphasizes its service to politics. NHF,on the other hand,expresses the writer's understanding of society and life within the scope of political route.


This paper presents the results of the effects of tensile stress and corrosion environment on the performances of epoxy (EP) coating systems and fluorocarbon (FC) coating systems on steel bridge by...


The present paper investigates the critical heating phenomena at the winglet of winged reentry vehicles. The study is restricted to flow situations without bow shock winglet interactions. It is found that attachment line heating on the leading edge of the winglet and on the lower edge of the rudder can be predicted with a Navier-Stokes code. The simulations reveal a strong sensitivity with respect to the angle of attack. Additionally, significant differences between wind tunnel and free flight conditions are observed and examined.


AbstractAn account is given of the construction and uses of home-made film packs suitable for mounting on the fingertips of persons who handle radioactive sources or palpate patients during X-ray fluoroscopic procedures, etc. Various types of film, cut to I cm squares, have been used in these light-tight, waterproof packages. The calibration and interpretation of films exposed to various types and qualities of ionizing radiation are discussed and some examples are given of typical results obtained.


PURPOSE: A producing method of a cellulose acylate film is provided to prevent the insertion of foreign materials when producing the cellulose acylate film, and to offer the excellent optical isotropy of the cellulose acylate film to users. CONSTITUTION: A producing method of a cellulose acylate film(49) comprises the following steps: preparing a cellulose acylate solution by dissolving cellulose acylate in a solvent, and adding a compound having a recurring unit with an ester structure; flowing the cellulose acylate solution on a substrate for forming a soft film; drying the soft film, and separating the film from the supporter; and drying and returning the obtained film. The cellulose acylate solution contains 0.03-1 micromol per gram of acid derived from the compound having the recurring unit.


Abstract. Over the past few decades, we have witnessed a large family of algorithms that has been designed to provide different solutions to the problem of dimensionality reduction (DR). DR is an essential tool to excavate important information from the high-dimensional data by mapping the data to a low-dimensional subspace. Even though most DR algorithms can achieve satisfactory performance for many practical applications, they fail to fully consider the information from multiple views. Therefore, how to learn the subspace for high-dimensional features by utilizing the consistency and complementary properties of multi-view features is important and challenging in the present. To tackle this problem, we propose an effective multi-view DR algorithm named multi-view smooth representation preserve projection (MvSMRP2). MvSMRP2 seeks to find a set of linear transformations to project each view features into one common low-dimensional subspace where the multi-view smooth reconstructive weights are preserved as much as possible. A pair-wise-consistent scheme is designed by fully exploiting the Hilbert–Schmidt independence criterion to maximize the dependence among different views, which can obtain one common subspace and force multiple views to learn from each other jointly. Moreover, MvSMRP2 can allocate ideal weight for each view automatically according to view importance without explicit weight definition. Finally, an iterative alternating strategy is proposed to obtain the optimal solution of MvSMRP2. Plenty of experiments on various datasets show the excellent performances of the proposed method.


Humanism, which is traceable back to the Renaissance, began to have an impact at the beginning of the 14th century, with, for example, Petrarch. The movement spread from Italy to western and other parts of Europe. In his quest for truth and goodness, man began to turn from both religious dogmas and abstract thinking. In the 19th century, the French positivist Auguste Comte preferred a nontheistic religion based on what was of value to humanity. This led to social reforms and, in the United States, to publication of a journal called The Humanist. Christian thinkers such as Karl Barth, a Swiss Protestant theologian, disputed the nontheistic view, Barth going so far as to state that there was no humanism without the Gospel; and Catholism stressed the importance of man's uniqueness in being created in the image of God.


The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between a company's performance, measured by Economic Value Added (EVA) and/or Market Value Added (MVA), and the compensation of its chief executive officer. The study also considers whether any relationship between compensation and performance might vary by industry. The results show MVA to be more closely related to executive compensation than is EVA, having a positive and significant association with each component of compensation.


We argue that the COMET experiment --- a dedicated experiment for the $\mu$-$e$ conversion search --- can be a powerful facility to search for heavy neutrinos in the mass range $1\,{\rm MeV} \lesssim M \lesssim 100\,{\rm MeV}$. The stopped muons captured by the target nuclei or decaying in orbit are efficiently produce heavy neutrinos via the active-sterile mixing. The produced heavy neutrinos then decay to electron-positron pair (plus an active neutrino), which events are clearly seen by the cylindrical drift chamber surrounding the target. The expected sensitivity is comparable to the PS191 bound when the COMET experiment achieves $\sim 10^{17}$ stopping muons in the target.


The Al-3Mg,Al-3Mg-0.5Sc alloy wires were prepared by shearing-cooling-rolling(SCR) and online solution heat treatment technology,the effect of different heat treatment on mechanical propery of the Al-3Mg-0.5Sc alloy wires formed by SCR were studied;using transmission electron microscope the microstructure was observed and the strengthening mechanism of this alloy wires was discussed.The study result shows that the tensile strength of Al-3Mg-0.5Sc alloy wire in conditions of cast-extruding,T6,T8,T9 has been increased for 84 N/mm2-207 N/mm2 than that of Al-3Mg alloy wires in condition of cast-extruding;this strengthening mechanism of alloy wires was obtained by grain-boundary strengthening,dislocation strengthening and grain precipitation strengthening of Al3Sc.


This article attempts to describe the beginning of the Parisian punk, presents its key players: Strike Up and Loose Heart, Denis Quilliard (Jacno), Angel Face, Patrick Eudeline (singer of Asphalt Jungle) and evokes the cultural environment of France of that era (from 1972 to 1977). It tries to restore the sense of urgency lived by this generation of musicians who were sensitive to the message carried by the New York Dolls (1971-1977) and then by the emergence of New York punk.


Introduction:
 Despite significant therapeutic advancements, Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) patients require frequent hospitalization. Machine learning (ML) algorithms present an opportunity to develop improved and more generalizable prediction models for 30-day hospital readmission due to ASCVD.

 Objectives:
 The current study aims to leverage electronic health record (EHR) data to predict 30-day hospital readmission in high-risk ASCVD patients.

 Methods:
 This study utilized the MIMIC III database (a publicly available large, single-centre critical care database of 46,520 patients) comprising of deidentified ~60,000 ICU admissions. Adult patients with the first admission due to ASCVD event and whose length of stay (LOS) in the ICU was >48 hours were included. To develop a prediction model, features representing groups of diagnosis data along with demographics and length of stay in the hospital were used. The performance of ML models was evaluated using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs).

 Results:
 Our cohort consisted of 22,666 admissions (mean age 70.1 years) due to an ASCVD event. Out of the 9022 readmissions within 180 days, 60.5% were observed within 30 days of discharge. Among the 17 prospective predictors age, LOS and first hospitalization due to coronary atherosclerosis, heart failure, and haemorrhage issues were the most important factors to predict readmission within 30 days (Fig A). Random Forest was the best performing model with an AUC of 0.66 (Fig B).

 Conclusions:
 This model can be helpful in predicting the readmission of high-risk patients after the first ASCVD event which might address the huge unmet need of aiding healthcare resource planning, better patient care, and prevention of rehospitalization and death by intensifying treatment interventions in those patients and taking appropriate decisions to discharge patients based on their age, LOS and ASCVD events resulting in first hopitalization.


Primary cancer of the vagina is a rare condition constituting 1–2 per cent.1,2 of all the neoplasms arising in the female genital tract. Secondary cancer of the vagina is, on the other hand, much less unusual, and appears as a result of direct or metastatic spread of disease originating in the structures immediately adjacent to the vagina or, very occasionally, in distant organs. The commonest of these secondary growths occurs in association with carcinoma of the uterus, spread taking place directly down the vagina via the vault, or the lower end of the vagina may show isolated metastatic deposits. The vulva, urethra, bladder, and rectum may each be the site of a malignant lesion which can readily invade the vagina, and in advanced cases it is often difficult clinically to determine the precise point of origin of the disease. To be effective surgical treatment must be radical in the extreme, i.e., the entire genital tract must be extirpated. The various operations devised for this purpose are accompanied ...


The case of Covid-19, and the measures taken worldwide, have driven to the establishment of specific codes of conduct by citizens, and strict rules concerning the density of people. In parallel, efforts to make use of mobile device technologies to help enforce these measures, have led to privacy concerns. In this paper, we present a method for estimating people density in urban spaces, using mobile communication technologies, while protecting privacy. The method is based on counting BT and Wi-Fi enabled devices within range of an autonomous device, isolated from the internet, with the ability to broadcast the crowd density.


In a previous study of ewes lambin, 0 down on saltbush (Atriplex spp.) or pasture in late autumn, the lambs born on saltbush grew at a slower rate than those born on pasture (Morcombe et al. 1991). In this study we investigated the effect of milk composition of ewes and milk intake of lambs grazed on saltbush or pasture on the rate of growth of lambs. The 2 treatment groups consisted of 13 late pregnant ewes grazed on saltbush at 14/ha and supplemented with 0.5 kg hay/hd.day for 34 days prior to lambin,, 0 and 13 late pregnant ewes grazed on pasture at 2S/ha for 13 days prior to lambing. Ewes and lambs were weighed within a few days of parturition and again 9 days later. On both occasions 20 mL of milk was collected from each animal by hand milking, after an intramuscular injection of 1 mL oxytocin. Each milk sample was analysed for fat, protein, total solids and lactose using standard techniques. Injections of tritiated water (TOH) at 10 Ci/kg liveweight were used to measure the water turnover of the lambs from which the apparent milk intake was calculated (Dove and Freer 1979). The mean liveweight of the ewes grazing pasture declined from 42.5 kg to 38.0 kg and the saltbush ewes from 50.0 kg to 46.6 kg during the 9 day trial period. The growth rate of lambs born on saltbush (120 g/day) during the trial period was less than that by lambs born on pasture (260 g/day) (P < 0.01). The mean composition of milk from the 2 5Oroups at the first and second milking did not differ and was pooled for the comparison (Table 1).


to society. Social psychology blends into sociology. The same is true of political science and political economy, particularly of the former. The science of law cannot be isolated from these social sciences, for it is itself a social science and subject to every movement of opinion and to every change in social conditions. That jurisprudence is not static but subject to periodic changes is shown by the professor's successive chapters upon the rationalists, like Bentham, the nationalists, like Savigny, and the evolutionists, like von Ihering. Each school was the embodiment of the dominant spirit of the period, and each made contribution to a progressive jurisprudence. After evaluating the legalistic tendencies of the present age the author delves into the remote past for the roots of historical jurisprudence. This he does by the aid of anthropological inquiries collected from all parts of the world. His scheme for the


While lung sounds intensity is significantly different during inspiratory and expiratory phases, such difference is not audible between the two respiratory phases when listening to tracheal breath sounds. In this study we investigated whether any difference exists between the average power and log-variance of the band-pass filtered tracheal breath sound between the respiratory phases. We used data from 9 healthy subjects without any pulmonary diseases at 4 different flow rates (low, medium, high and very high) and compared the two features at six different frequency ranges from 70 to 1200Hz. The most pronounced differences between the two respiratory phases were found in the 300-450Hz and 800-1000Hz for the average power and log-variance, respectively.


2 Abstract: In this study, allylic oxidation reaction of open chain monoterpene, myrcene was studied. Our aim was to obtain pine-bark insect pheromones ipsdienol from myrcene. In the experiments, chromium trioxide (CrO 3), CrO 3-pyridine complex, pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC), tert-buthyl hydroperoxide (t-BuOOH) and tert-buthyl perbenzoate (TBPB) were chosen as oxidants, benzotrifluoride, dichloromethane, acetonitrile, CCl 4, acetanhydride, benzene, acetic acid, ethylacetate ve glacial acetic acid as solvents, while some salts of Cu(I) and Cu(II) compounds and together with L-prolin, S-prolin, SeO 2 and PdCl 2 were used as catalysts. Reaction products were determined by GC-MS analysis.The conversion of myrcene to ipsdienol was not so successful. Because, myrcene tends to isomerisation to different cyclic and open chain compounds before its allylic oxidation could occur. In the allylic oxidation reaction of particularly, the conversion of myrcene to ipsdienol could have been obtained with BTF only.


Abstract : The objectives of this cross-sectional study were to identify salient health risks among U.S. Navy divers (n = 11,584 enlisted men) during a 12-year time frame and to examine the influence of age and diving experience on the incidence of these illness. Results showed that the aging process accounted for a significant elevation in hospitalization rates for musculoskeletal conditions, alcohol/drug abuse, and circulatory diseases. Very few disorders were associated with level of diving exposure: certain stress-related disorders were elevated among inexperienced divers and rates for environmentally induced disorders (e.g., decompression sickness) were significantly higher among experienced divers. Divers seemed to be at risk for joint and muscle disorders, regardless of their age or diving experience. Several recommendations were presented which were designed to further enhance the health and safety of all divers.


Enrichment and propagation of gonocytes or spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) from cryopreserved testicular tissue is essential to apply SSCs‐related techniques in large domestic animals. We previously reported the cryopreservation of adult bovine testicular tissue. Here, we conducted the enrichment and culture of putative gonocytes from cryopreserved testicular tissues of post‐natal 1‐day‐old bulls. The testicular structure was well maintained after freezing and thawing. Higher mRNA levels of gonocyte/SSCs markers (PLZF, GFRα1, and UCHL‐1) than those of pluripotency genes (Oct4, Sox2, and Nanog) were detected in the frozen–thawed sex cords. GFRα1 was specifically detected in the membrane and cytoplasm of gonocytes by immunostaining. Differential plating provided 40–50% enrichment of putative gonocytes. They were single, paired‐, aligned‐cells, or grape cluster‐like colonies in minimum essential medium (MEM) containing 2.5% FBS + 2 mM glutamine + 100 IU/mL penicillin‐streptomycin + 40 μg/mL gentamycin + 15 mM HEPES + 10 mM β‐mercaptoethanol + 0.1 mM non‐essential amino acids + 1 mM sodium pyruvate. On day 3, gonocyte progeny increased and the contaminated somatic cells spread and concurrently divided slowly. On day 5, gonocyte progeny proliferated continuously and typical intercellular bridges formed by incomplete cytokinesis in paired‐cells or aligned‐cysts were observed. Immunochemically, they were still GFRα1 and PLZF positive. These cells expressed significantly higher gonocyte/SSCs marker mRNAs than pluripotency gene mRNAs, concomitant with a higher level of differentiated spermatogonia marker c‐kit. With time, gonocyte progeny colonies appeared in varied sizes and expanded dramatically on day 7. After cultured for 9–10 days, however, large colonies collapsed and dispersed as some single cells and small syncytial cysts. Together, MEM containing 10% dimethyl sulfoxide + 2.5% newborn calf serum provides efficient cryoprotection for the testicular tissue from 1‐day‐old neonatal bulls. Putative gonocytes enriched from these nascent tissues present robust proliferation capacity, conserved gonocyte/SSCs markers, and SSCs‐like in vitro features.


Bacteriophage T4 lysozyme in its wild type form contains three tryptophan residues (at sequence postions 126, 138 and 158). These three residues are in rather different environments in the protein: 126 and 158 are near the protein surface while residue 138 is more buried. T4 lysozyme has been genetically engineered to prepare all possible variants in which one or more of the tryptophan residues have been replaced by tyrosine. The available data supports the hypothesis that this substitution has, at most, a very minor effect on the structure of the protein. The three species with single tryptophan residues have been investigated in detail. The surface location of residue 126 compared to the buried location of residue 138 is reflected in the difference in collisional quenching observed with added potassium iodide. It is found that the spectral and radiative properties of the three proteins are very similar but that their radiationless decay properties are quite distinct. This is apparently due to short-range collisional quenching by neighboring side chains. Comparison with solution quenching measurements permits the identification of the specific quenching groups involved for each tryptophan residue and provides a semi-quantitative rationale for the radiationless decay rate. This collisional quenching interpretation is supported by mutational effects on fluorescence quantum yield. This simple picture of the behavior of these single-tryptophan proteins is clearly revealed in this particular case because of the unambiguous choice of collisional quenching groups. The time dependence of the fluorescence decay of each of these single-tryptophan proteins is quite complex. Several methods of analysis are presented and discussed in terms of their underlying physical basis. Internal collisional quenching, as suggested from the comparative studies, is expected to lead to non-exponential behavior. This is consistent with the observed time dependence. Analysis of the temporal nature of the fluorescence as a function of emission wavelength is also revealing. Such data can be used to test discrete component, distribution and relaxation models of the time decay. It is found, in agreement with previous studies for other proteins, that the average lifetime for the emission increases with increasing emission wavelength. Analysis of the overall emission wavelength dependence of the time dependent data in a global sense based on a discrete population model shows acceptable agreement with the data in only one of the three cases. Application of several continuous distribution models to this data at each emission wavelength reveals that as the emission is moved to the red, a negative component appears in the distribution of decay components. This is a characteristic feature of relaxation behavior resulting in emission from kinetic species that are not present at the time of excitation. This negative preexponential character is not revealed by discrete component analyses since these do not have sufficient flexibility to describe the underlying complexity of the relaxing distribution. Finally, examination of the three proteins containing two tryptophan residues indicates that there is energy transfer between these residues in these cases and in the wild type protein. The order of energy transfer is in accord with the variation of the magnitude of the ratio k2/R6 controlling the efficiency of Forster energy transfer.


Elemental analysis of olive oils by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) is challenging because of the high organic load in olive oil samples and the low analyte concentrations. However, conflicting operating procedures in the preparation of oils prior to analysis by ICP-MS have been reported to overcome these difficulties. This study compared three methods of inorganic elements' extraction from olive oils: The two commonly used microwave-assisted, acid digestion, and liquid–liquid, ultrasound-assisted extraction methods; and an optimized method: The combined microwave digestion-evaporation. Overall, microwave digestion-based methods did not compare opportunely, and ultrasound-assisted extraction was found to provide the best accord between simplicity of use, detection limits and precision improvement. The detection limits were in the range of 0.3–160 µg·kg-1, 0.012–190 µg·kg−1 and 0.00061–1.5 µg·kg−1, while repeatabilities were in the range of 5–21%, 5.4–99% and 5.1–40% for the microwave digestion, the combined digestion-evaporation and the ultrasound assisted extraction, respectively. The ultrasound-assisted extraction is therefore recommended as a preparation method for olive oils prior to analysis by ICP-MS. The broader range of elements that can be accurately detected is expected to help increase the discriminatory power and performance of geographical traceability models.


This basic robot planning system chooses a motion path to avoid collision with obstacles in workspace. With a camera above the workspace the computer vision can give a simple description of the world model. The presented algorithm transfers a Cartesian description of obstacles into the coordinate of the first three joints of a manipulator. The freespace is described hierarchically by a two-level representation, and a two-level optimization is used for the path planning. Experiments show the whole system can be realized by an IBM-PC with very small memory. The average computation time for one obstacle is 10 s.<<ETX>>


Advanced prostate cancer is a bone disease; there is no doubt about that. The axial skeletal is by far the number one landing site of metastatic cell and, in contrast to many other 'osteophilic' cancer, very often the only metastatic site [1–3]. Hence, skeletal complications of bone metastases are probably the major cause of added morbidity, pain, and deterioration of health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in prostate cancer patients [4]. By causing an irreversible anaemia by depletion of the red marrow reserve, axial skeleton's metastases are also a major underlying cause of death [5]. No wonder thus, that the treatment of skeletal complications represent a major burden on the health care system [6]. In breast and lung cancer patients, bisphosphonates, and more recently denosumab (Denosumab), have been historically a cornerstone adjuvant treatment [7]. The seminal trials demonstrating that the first-generation bisphosphonate pamidronate delay skeletal complications of bone metastases in breast cancer were conducted in the mid-90s [7, 8]. Many trials have since confirmed these observations [7, 8]. The prescription of thirdgeneration i.v. bisphosphonates, zoledronic acid, or rank-l inhibitor denosumab is supported by guidelines and broadly accepted by physicians treating bone metastases from solid cancers and multiple myelomas [7]. This is different for prostate cancer. Surveys confirm that prescription rate of bone-targeted therapies is substantially lower in prostate cancer in comparison with breast cancer [9]. We can put forward several hypotheses for this. First-generation bisphosphonates were basically inactive in metastatic prostate cancer. The first significantly positive trials were the zoledronic acid and denosumab registration trials, published respectively in 2002 and 2011 [10, 11]. These two drugs have no visible antitumor effect, at least based on prostate specific antigen (PSA) and objective response, and they have failed to show a benefit on overall survival (OS), with the marginal exception of the adjuvant clodronate trial in metastatic prostate cancer (MRC PR05) [12]. Three trials have failed to demonstrate that early bisphosphonate or denosumab significantly delay the onset of bone metastases [13–16]. For PSA-centric physicians and patients, the absence of PSA/radiographic progression/OS benefits questions the efficacy, and thus the prescription. The interest for bonetargeted therapy is further challenged by the availability of new agents to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Abiraterone, enzalutamide, docetaxel, and cabazitaxel significantly improve PSA, radiological and symptomatic progression, prostate cancer and OS, and many aspects of quality of life, including pain. The α-emitter bone seeking radionuclide, RA-223, increases OS without inducing consistent PSA responses. The modern conundrum for the BTT's aficionados is to proof the benefit of these drugs to physicians and patients in that very competitive environment, basically engaging as David in a fight against Goliath. Because the impact of skeletal complications is heterogeneous and complex, it is difficult to measure exhaustively, and thus difficult to perceive. It involves a mixture of objective events, i.e. spinal cord compression, hypercalcaemia, pathological fractures, but also more subjective components such as pain and its treatment, including radiotherapy and surgery, quality-of-life deterioration, immobilization, hospitalization. The pharmaceutical industry and the regulators do not appreciate such immeasurable complex entities, especially when it comes proving the benefit of a drug. Everything must be clear-cut and measurable. That is why zoledronic acid was registered on skeletal-related events (SREs), a composite end point supposed to be a valid surrogate for skeletal complications. The FDA definition of SRE includes the occurrence of pathological fractures, radiation therapy to bone, surgery to bone, and spinal cord compression [17]. That precise definition has been another reason for physicians to raise concerns since SRE includes asymptomatic pathological fractures, an end point picked only by systematic imaging, and thus considered irrelevant by many physicians. In the denosumab registration trial, SREs were adjudicated on asymptomatic pathological fractures in 37% in of zoledronic acid and 40% of denosumab patients. Alsympca, the registration trial of RA-223, has promoted the definition of symptomatic skeletal events (SSEs) [18]. SSEs are SREs without the asymptomatic fractures, thus supposed being more clinically relevant. In the present issue of Annals of Oncology, Smith et al. have reassessed the results of denosumab registration trial by readjudicating SREs into SSEs [19]. The paper's intention is clearly to reassure physicians that even using that definition, the added benefit of denosumab over zoledronic acid remains practically unchanged. That is the commercial message. Will it help to convince dubitative physicians, not sure? Advocates of anti-resorptive agents have consistently argued on the high rate of skeletal complications. Changing the definition mitigates that risk by deflating the risk of that nasty event by roughly one-third. In the 3 years of observation of the trial, 38% of the patients experience a first SRE, but only 27% an SSE. Denosumab delayed the median time to the first SRE by 6.4 months (20.7 versus 14.1 months for zoledronic acid and denosumab, respectively); the median time to the first SSE 24.2 months and not reached, respectively. Noteworthy, the healtheconomic models supporting the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of denosumab was based on SREs, not on SSEs. Evolving from SRE to SRE clearly points at a symptomatic population, but does the benefit of SRE and SSE prevention translate in a clear benefit in HRQoL and pain. Recently, von Moos et al. have reported pain and QoL of patients from the zoledronic acid versus denosumab program, pooling together patients from the breast, mCRPC, and other solid tumours program. Overall, denosumab significantly delayed the onset of moderate/severe pain and clinically meaningful increases in overall pain interference. For the prostate cancer subgroup, however, these results were never published. They were reported as a poster at the 2011 meeting of the European Association of Annals of Oncology editorials


The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of anger management skills training on social anxiety and anger self-regulation skills in social anxious boys of Dareh Shahr city. The design of this study was quasi- experimental with pretest- posttest and control group. The population was all 527 first and second year high school boys in the city in 2010-2011 (1389-90s.c.) academic year. This study was conducted on 32 students who scored high on Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN). The sample was selected through purposeful sampling and then they were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups (16 persons, each). The Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) (Connor et al., 2000), and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI -2) (Spilberger, 1999) were administered at the pretest and post-test stage to all participations. The anger management program including ten sessions of 90 minutes on a weekly basis was delivered to the experimental group. Both questionnaires were administered again at the post test stage. Data were analyzed by using analysis of covariance. According to the results, social anxiety in the experimental group, decreased significantly whereas anger self- regulation skills increased significantly (P<0.05). Also, the results showed that anger management training increases anger self-regulation skills but decreases social anxiety in adolescents.


Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a model reduction algorithm developed by Schmid (Schmid 2010). Since then has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing the dynamics of nonlinear systems. It is used for a data-driven model simplification based on spatiotemporal coherent structures. DMD relies only on the high-fidelity measurements, like experimental data and numerical simulations, so it is an equation-free algorithm. Its popularity is also due to the fact that it does not make any assumptions about the underlying system. See (Kutz et al. 2016) for a comprehensive overview of the algorithm and its connections to the Koopman-operator analysis, initiated in (Koopman 1931), along with examples in computational fluid dynamics.


This study aims to describe the effect of the Problem Solving Learning Model based on audiovisual media on the learning outcomes of class XI students at SMA Negeri 4 Palu. This type of research was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest control group design. The study was conducted using two groups, namely Class XI IPA 4, which consisted of 31 students as the experimental class, and class XI IPA 3, which consisted of 35 students as the control class. Pretest data in the experimental class obtained an average value of 35.3 and in the control class 34.4. The results of this study obtained the average value of the experimental class learning outcomes that is 73.27 and 67.65 control class. Testing the research hypothesis using the SPSS T-test application. The results showed a significant level value of 0.000 <0.05 or tcount ttable = 6.805 1.997 which means H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted, so it can be concluded that there is an effect of the Problem Solving Learning Model based on audiovisual media on the Learning Outcomes of Class XI students at SMA Negeri 4 Palu


This index presents a list of biblical references relevant to the discussion on stylistic features of the biblical texts, the functions of language, and the relationship between linguistic structure and thought structure. The book reviews studies on the concept of retribution, paying particular attention to the question of who or what brings about retribution and in what sense the consequence is a just desert. In the studies reviewed, not much has been said with respect to what makes a consequence a just desert. The juridical view of retribution helps to justify the consequence since it is meted out according to agreed norms.Keywords: Book of Ezekiel; poetic justice


Providing QoS-guaranteed services in current installed networks is an important issue, but only deploying QoS services is not enough to guarantee their success: QoS management must also be provided. Nowadays, police-based network management (PBNM) addresses this need, but such management is not enough either. Network managers deal with QoS tasks that cannot be performed using only PBNM. Other solutions, besides PBNM, have to be used to proceed with QoS management-related tasks. Unfortunately, these solutions are independent from each other, leading to a scenario where integration is difficult. This paper introduces QAME (QoS-Aware Management Environment) which main goal is the provisioning of facilities to allow a common and integrated Web-based management of QoS-enabled networks.


In this paper we propose a sequential stack algorithm to decode binary Reed-Muller codes which is based on the GC structure of these codes. A key problem of sequential decoding is the estimation of errors in the unexplored part of the code tree which in case of convolutional codes is traditionally done using the Fano-metric. We show that with proper defined soft values it is possible to calculate for each element in the stack a lower bound on the squared Euclidean distance between the received sequence and all codewords containing the element. This value can be used as a metric to evaluate the elements in the stack. It is further shown how this metric can be improved by lower bounding the metric increase in future decoding steps. The influence of this improvement on the necessary stack size is demonstrated by simulation results which underline the performance of sequential decoding of binary ReedMuller codes.


Ever since the birth of Keynesian economics in the 1930s, controversy has simmered over the extent to which government should play an active role in managing the economy. In the aftermath of the human devastation and misery of the Great Depression, many people—including many economists—became more aware of vulnerabilities within the market-oriented economic system. Some supporters of Keynesian economics advocated a high degree of government planning in all parts of the economy.


Human rights have become a dominant paradigm in police reform projects worldwide, championed by policymakers, legislators and campaigners alike. Such projects are often premised on, and evaluated according to, a conception of human rights as an autonomous, coherent and legitimate body of norms. It is a paradigm made real through formal training, procedures and oversight. This paper invites a different reading of human rights. Drawing on extensive interviews with junior officers, it reveals how human rights come to be emergent from, and embedded within, the minutia of their working lives. The presence and meaning of human rights are sustained through a series of 'sensemaking' narratives arising from the rich intermingling of legal and organizational representations of rights and officers' own experiences. Subtle variations, inconsistencies and contradictions in officers' sensemaking are revealed across a four-fold typology which disrupts the stability and coherency of the human rights paradigm, but also generalizations made about police culture.


In this work the mathematical model of a spatial pattern in chemical and biological systems is investigated numerically. The proposed model considered as a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation. A computational approach based on finite difference and RBF-collocation methods is conducted to solve the equation with respect to the appropriate initial and boundary conditions. The ability and robustness of the numerical approach is investigated using two test problems.


A technique has been developed at the Sandia Z Accelerator using a magnetically driven flyer plate with a double-ramp pulse shape to generate in a test sample a steady shock followed 10–100 ns later by a quasi-isentropic ramped compression wave. Based on velocity data from multiple samples of differing thicknesses, a technique based on backward minimization is presented that allows the determination of material response along an elevated isentrope through the shock state. Data on quasi-isentropically compressed shock-melted tin indicate a stiffer response than currently available equation-of-state models.


Seedlings of Quercus gambelii and Q. turbinella were subjected to two different levels of simulated drought and their responses compared. The simulated environments were designed to mimic summer drought conditions at their respective northern distributional limits in Utah, which are separated by ca. 40 lat. Both species lose positive turgor at ca. 3.0 MPa leaf water potential and the slopes of their turgor potential-leaf water potential relations are identical. Both species reach lethal drought stress at ca. 7.0 MPa leaf-water potential. However, Q gambelii reached lethal leaf-water potential ca. 5 days earlier (on average) than Q turbinella in a "low stress" environment. These observations imply that the differential drought response of the two species is due primarily to anatomical/morphological differences. Neither species receives enough precipitation (on average) at their respective northern limits to maintain positive turgor during the seasonal drought period. This study supports our previous conclusion that the northernmost populations of both species were established under a paleoclimate with more summer precipitation than the present (presumably the Hypsithermal Interval).


THE PONTIFICATE OF INNOCENT III spanned the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth century (1198–1216), when, according to numerous historians, Innocent's personality and policies helped bring the ecclesiastical establishment of medieval Christendom to the acme of its power and influence. His policies reflect a clerical ideology and a program for implementing an ideal order in Christian society. They testify to the successes of a reform papacy at the peak of its development, all as medieval Christendom stood at the height of a period of expansion and prosperity—a peak from which it was soon to give way to entrenchment, regimentation, fragmentation, and, ultimately, decline.1


A concrete representation of the Clifford algebra (for any hyperbolic quadratic space) is given using what are called Suslin matrices. This explicit construction is used to analyze the corresponding Spin groups and the involution and might be of interest in low dimensional computations. Conversely, this connection to Clifford algebras gives a conceptual foundation to some (seemingly accidental) properties of Suslin matrices.


Knowledge of agricultural seeds' physical properties has significant importance for machinery and processing equipment design. Physical properties of flixweed (Descur ainia sophia L.) seeds were determined as a function of moisture content. Several properties were studied in the moisture range from 5.28 to 17.53% dry basis. Also, probability distribution of seeds' principal dimensions were modeled by Gamma, Generalized Extreme Value, Lognormal, and Weibull functions. With increasing moisture content from 5.28 to 17.53%, properties including; length, width, thickness, geometric and arithmetic mean diameter, sphericity, specific surface area, volume, and projected area showed no specific trend. In contrast, the surface area increased from 6×10-7 to 1×10-6 m2. The bulk and particle density decreased from 696.61 to 542.51 kg·m-3, and 1217.50 to 1189.02 kg·m-3, respectively. The porosity increased from 42.78 to 54.37%. The maximum external static angle of friction belonged to wood at all moisture content levels, followed by the iron and galvanized surfaces. At all moisture levels, the emptying angle of repose was more than the filling one.


To investigate the effect of seismic history on the liquefaction resistance of sand, two groups of centrifuge dynamic tests have been performed on models of saturated sand deposit. The response of excess pore pressure as well as deformation of soil column were monitored and recorded during testing. It was found that small earthquake could bring beneficial effect on the sand resistance to liquefaction by strengthening interlocking between particles and forming a more stable structures. On the other hand, re-liquefaction may occur on a once liquefied site when it is subjected to an earthquake with magnitude less than that causes the first liquefaction, due to the unstable structure formed in the re-sedimentation process. The experimental finding indicates the impact of seismic history on the liquefaction characteristics of sand, as well as the significance of study on microstructure of sand.


Objective: Obestatin shows cardioprotective-like roles in apoptosis-related cardiovascular diseases; however, its function in heart failure (HF) progression has not yet been clarified. This study aims to investigate the role of obestatin in HF and its potential mechanism involving myosin heavy chain–associated RNA transcripts (Mhrt), a recently identified cardioprotective lncRNA. Methods: An HF rat model was established by doxorubicin induction, and then obestatin was administered by intraperitoneal injection. Cardiac function was evaluated by hemodynamic examination, and mortality was recorded. For in vitro experiments, rat primary cardiac myocytes (PCMs) were isolated and treated with doxorubicin following pretreatment with obestatin. Mhrt and Nrf2 levels were detected by real-time PCR and western blot analysis, respectively. Apoptosis was assessed by detecting caspase-3 activity and TUNEL-positive cells. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) was performed on H9c2 cells to detect the enrichment of DNA/histone H3 complexes at the Nrf2 promotor. Mhrt was overexpressed and knocked down in both in vitro and in vivo studies. Results: Obestatin significantly improved the cardiac function and mortality rate in the doxorubicin-induced HF rat model and protected against doxorubicin-induced apoptosis, with upregulated Mhrt and Nrf2 levels. Mhrt also prevented doxorubicin-induced apoptosis by elevating the Nrf2 level, while the ChIP results demonstrated its positive regulation on Nrf2 expression. Furthermore, the protective effects of obestatin in both doxorubicin-treated cells and the HF rat were attenuated by Mhrt interference. Conclusion: Obestatin exerts a cardioprotective effect in the development of HF induced by doxorubicin, which may be mediated by the positive regulation of Mhrt on Nrf2 signaling.


This research was examined the effect of budget variances on local budget changes using legislature size as moderator. Conceptually, rebudgeting is not different from the initial budget, but at the lower public participation. Previous research found that changes in the budget (PAB) were affected by variances of revenues and expenditures of the previous year budget. The results of this research showed that the revenue variance positively affected PAB, while expenditure variance had no effect. When legislature size (LS) used as moderator, the effect of the revenue variance was stronger on PAB with negative direction, but expenditure variance still has no effect on PAB although it had been moderated by LS.


The object of this study is to evaluate confounding effect of sleeping behavior on heart rate variability (HRV) in healthy volunteers during a randomized clinical trial. From 6 healthy volunteer, we acquired circadian electrocardiography(ECG) with a Holter monitoring device(DigiTrak Plus, Philips). The compatible analytical program, Zymed, was used for calculation of RR intervals of 24h ECG signal. Then, we generated HRV signals and calculated 9 HRV parameters in time domain and frequency domain for every 30 minute with Matlab 6.x software. We also encoded participants' activities as follows; stable condition(l), sleeping behavior(2), eating behavior(3), and undefined condition(4). Using SPSS 12.0, we tested if there was any difference between HRV parameters of day-time and night-time and between those of a subject in stable condition and in sleeping behavior. As a result, one of the most important parameter-LF/HF ratio, which indicates the autonomic balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, as same the other parameters, showed large inter-individual variations in circadian profiles. And, the mean LF/HF ratio of each participant was different between in stable condition and in sleeping behavior (p<.05). Consequently, the effect of sleeping behavior must be considered when one or more of HRV parameters, especially LF/HF ratio, are used as assessment index in clinical studies.


The article gives an insight into the methods of working on a role, including such aspects as diction, mastering of the voice and intonation, touching upon such an important feature as the process of creation of vivid images on the stage, which astonished the theatregoers by their vivacity and artistic perfection.


Research has found disguised distress to mediate the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and psychopathology. While disguised distress shares features with the tendency to protect one's self-image, also known as "saving face" in Asian cultures, no study has explored these constructs in relation to each other. The present mixed methods study examines the roles that "saving face" culture and associated self-concealment, perfectionistic self presentation, and help-seeking attitudes have in the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and anxiety and depression among Asian youth. Two hundred and eleven Asian international students attending college in the US were administered the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, Self-Concealment Scale, Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale, Consciousness of Social Face Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, and Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale. Semi-structured interviews examining childhood and adolescent experiences growing up in Asia were conducted with a subset of ten students. Correlation, mediation, and moderation analyses were conducted, interviews were coded, and findings were merged. Desire to gain face, fear of losing face, self-concealment, and a preference to cope on one's own were significant mediators and the first three variables were significant moderators in the link between perfectionism and distress. There were strong correlations between these constructs. Interview themes revealed an overarching concern over meeting expectations and saving face, and multi-faceted ways in which the need to be perfect manifested. The community as a complex support system and a growth-oriented mindset emerged as likely protective factors. Implications for mental health in Asia and the role of culture in psychological research are discussed.


DC-DC converter is one of the most important building blocks in any System-on-Chip (SoC). DC-DC converter has the functional capabilities to supply various voltage levels to various loads of the chip in a way to achieve high power efficiency. Pulse Frequency Modulation is considered as the main control technique for voltage regulation of the Switched Capacitor DC-DC power converter. This paper proposes a design of a digital Pulse Frequency Modulation using Verilog-HDL and verified on 65nm low power process technology. The design includes the generation of the non-overlapping clock by the ring oscillator and the dead time circuit instead of the default clock. PFM has a total power of 7μW, area of 46.4μm2 and a slack time of 0.5ns.


Petar Skok noticed (1920:87) that Serbo-Croatian [SC) jako 'strong' and Roumanian [Rm) tare 'strong' describe a subtle isogloss, in that both are etymologically deictics. I He was not interested in the fact that, in addition to meaning 'strong'. both can also serve as 'very'. This is one of the points that I will pursue further here. I will also try to depict the deployment of the devices used for forming the absolute superlative ('very') in the entire area indicated in my title, i.e., roughly the area occupied by Sn, Sc. Hg, Rm, Sk and Cz. My own expertise is restricted to Rm and Hg; I have therefore had to rely on lexica2 and the good offices of a number of colleagues' for information on the Slavic languages involved. Since we are dealing with a segment of the lexicon which calls for great finesse in gauging the precise meanings of competing elements ~ very few words, it turns out, are restricted to meaning only . very' ~my limited judgment in selecting the items to be included in the discussion may have biased the discussion itself. The better informed reader is therefore asked to make the necessary adjustments. In another paper (Austerlitz 1988) I have tried to plot the devices for 'very' on the map of all of Europe. One of the results is the following. There are two large areas in Europe in which the device for rendering the absolute superlative is borrowed (so to speak) from the quantifier meaning 'much, many'. as in, e.g .. Mc and Bg (1II1/0gU, 1II1/0g0), where these words are polysemous in that they discharge the function of 'much' as well as that of 'very." I will work on the assumption that 'much' is primary and 'very' secondary in the languages where this is the case. One area where these languages are deployed is along the entire Mediterranean, stretching from Turkish, Greek and Albanian westward as far as Portuguese and even Basque. (In a few instances a minor formal distinction between quantifier and superlative is~still~evident: Galician and Castilian moiro/moi and mucho/ muy 'much/very'.) The other area in which 'much' and 'very' merge formally is a second waterway, the one stretching from the Atlantic in the West to the Baltic in the East, from Icelandic to Swedish. In addition to these two waterways. which must evidently be connected with the 'much/very' isogloss. there are other geographical areas which house similar concentrations of devices which serve to convey the function of the absolute superlative. One of these. in particular. will occupy us in what follows. For a carefully reasoned discussion of Europe as a linguistic area, see Decsy 1973.


Circular economy have been put into use under the condition of large people's population,lack of resources.Taking the road of circular economy and constracting resource-conserving and environment-friendly society is discussed in this paper.


Micronesia began to be peopled earlier than other parts of Remote Oceania, but the origins of its inhabitants remain unclear. We generated genome-wide data from 164 ancient and 112 modern individuals. Analysis reveals five migratory streams into Micronesia. Three are East Asian related, one is Polynesian, and a fifth is a Papuan source related to mainland New Guineans that is different from the New Britain–related Papuan source for southwest Pacific populations but is similarly derived from male migrants ~2500 to 2000 years ago. People of the Mariana Archipelago may derive all of their precolonial ancestry from East Asian sources, making them the only Remote Oceanians without Papuan ancestry. Female-inherited mitochondrial DNA was highly differentiated across early Remote Oceanian communities but homogeneous within, implying matrilocal practices whereby women almost never raised their children in communities different from the ones in which they grew up. Description Human migrations into Micronesia The movements of ancient humans can be difficult to ascertain from their current population genetic structure. Studying the peopling of the Micronesian islands, Liu et al. examined 164 ancient human remains from five different archaeological sites in remote Oceania from different prehistoric time frames, along with 112 present-day individuals from the same area. They combined these new data with the results of previous studies and also compared their results with linguistic studies. Their analysis revealed successive movements from island Southeast Asia that differ from those in the southwest Pacific. Furthermore, co-analysis of Micronesian and southwest Pacific ancient DNA indicates that the first people who colonized the Pacific islands had a population structure in which men moved to find their mates, whereas women rarely moved to join men. —LMZ Analyses of ancient and modern Micronesians show different peopling compared with the southwest Pacific


This article is intended to determine the features of public management and the development process of the energy supply system of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Today, the sustainable development of the country's economy depends directly on the energy sector. Modern society and industry are completely dependent on a stable power supply and today, energy is considered the most important component of the life support of the country's population. The country's electrical power industry needs new large-scale investments and promising development. To do this, in the near future, the state needs to consider ways to solve problems that have arisen. The purpose of the study is to consider the elements of public administration and the evolution of the energy supply system in Kazakhstan, as well as public administration systems in other countries, such as the USA, Norway, Great Britain, and the Russian Federation. In the article, with the help of SWOT analysis and scientific analysis, the factors of development of the country's energy industry are considered.


We study the phase synchronization problem with noisy measurements <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Y=z^{*}z^{* { \mathrm {\scriptscriptstyle H} }}+\sigma W\in \mathbb {C}^{n\times n}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$z^{*}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-dimensional complex unit-modulus vector and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$W$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is a complex-valued Gaussian random matrix. It is assumed that each entry <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Y_{jk}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is observed with probability <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$p$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. We prove that an SDP relaxation of the MLE achieves the error bound <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(1+o(1))\frac {\sigma ^{2}}{2np}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> under a normalized squared <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> loss. This result matches the minimax lower bound of the problem, and even the leading constant is sharp. The analysis of the SDP is based on an equivalent non-convex programming whose solution can be characterized as a fixed point of the generalized power iteration lifted to a higher dimensional space. This viewpoint unifies the proofs of the statistical optimality of three different methods: MLE, SDP, and generalized power method. The technique is also applied to the analysis of the SDP for <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathbb {Z}_{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> synchronization, and we achieve the minimax optimal error <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\exp \left ({-(1-o(1))\frac {np}{2\sigma ^{2}}}\right)$ </tex-math></inline-formula> with a sharp constant in the exponent.


We report on the polarization-dependent attenuation and birefringence in gold-filled dual-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) coupler, which result the polarization-dependent coupling. The results suggest the PCF coupler application as polarization filter.


In recent years,nongovernmental investments have developed quickly in Liaoning Province.However,these investments still cannot meet the demand of economic development and there is a large gap compared with the developed pronvices in China.This paper analyzes the social and psychological elements which restrict the nongovernmental investments in Liaoning Province based on the introduction of the present situation.


Apply digital design method in Φ3.2m×5.3m damp mill design and manufacture process to found digital product model using Pro/ENGINEER software and use the technology which include interference check-up, digital simulation and engineering analysis to improve on or perfect design blue print, enhance product exploitation efficiency and product performance.


ABSTRACT Based on the income-risk hypothesis, we test whether those with higher student debt are less likely to be self-employed. We also test if the income-based repayment programme increases the odds of self-employment. Using a longitudinal sample of 6,762 participants (1998–2011) in National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) and propensity score matching, we find that having student debt decreases the odds of self-employment by 1.3 percentage points. Further, using eligibility for income-based repayment programme as an instrument driving effect of loans in NLSY97 sample or use of income-based repayment plans in National Financial Capability Study 2015 increases the odds of self-employment of about 2 percent. The effect sizes are smaller than previous studies on student loans on labour market outcomes.


Extensions of the Standard Model (SM) gauge group with a new $U(1)_X$ predict an additional gauge boson. Through kinetic mixing with the SM photons featured by a coupling $\epsilon$, the ensuing so-called dark photons $\gamma'$, which acquire mass as a result of the breaking of the gauge group $U(1)_X$, can interact with the SM field content. These massive dark photons can therefore decay to pairs of leptons, hadrons, or quarks, depending on their mass $m_{\gamma'}$. In this work, we discuss searches for dark photons in the mass range around and below one GeV at the LHeC and FCC-he colliders. The signal is given by the displaced decays of the long-lived dark photon into two charged fermions. We discuss the impact of conceivable irreducible (SM and machine-related) backgrounds and different signal efficiencies. Our estimates show that the LHeC and FCC-he can test a domain that is complementary to other present and planned experiments.


The paper presents an overview of technologies and challenges regarding the adoption of Compressed Sensing (CS) framework for ideation of novel instrumentation systems, that could be used for the next generation of radio frequency (RF) source localization and tracking. Established systems for accurate localization and fast tracking of non-cooperative RF emitters are costly and difficult to deploy. Nowadays, finding novel solutions of RF sensing system used for detecting, locating and tracking of mobile RF emitters represents a key challenge. Emerging application fields, where the potential of such novel RF sensing system may be used, like: (i) autonomous vehicles, (ii) domestic/military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), (iii) RF environment mapping, and (iv) land/marine rescue operation, are presented. Architecture of RF sensing system adopting CS, such as RF receivers using signal acquisition based on Analog-to-Information Converter (AIC), is presented and discussed. Depending upon target application, key beneficiary of these technologies could be the aerospace/defense industry sectors.


There are several methods available for magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) synthesis, and in this study the coprecipitation method is employed. The cobalt ferrites (CF) were prepared using aqueous solutions of Co and Fe chloride with a stoichiometry proportion of Co:Fe = 1:2. Thus, the aging temperatures were 27, 27/98, 60, 80 and 98 oC, during which the precipitation occurred at 27 °C and the aging one at 98 °C for the FC27/98 sample. As a result, the study showed that a single crystal phase material was obtained at the aging temperature of 98 °C during 1 h and with a mean particle size of 42 nm ± 7.4 nm and degree of polydispersity of 18%. The FC98/SiOH coated nanoparticle had a surface area of 11 m2 g-1, saturation magnetization of 10.05 emu g-1 a mean particle size of 773.4 nm ± 131.1 nm and a degree of polydispersity of 17 %. It was possible to confirm that it had a silica coating of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles by DRIFT and EDX indicated the presence of silica.


expenditure per student as other districts.1 There is an inherent presumption that higher expenditures indicate higher quality education. Expenditures per student serve as a proxy for the quantity and quality of resources purchased by a school district and are assumed to be reflected in educational program features such as student/teacher ratios, availability of supplies and equipment, facilities, range of curriculum offerings, and the quality of personnel. Districts with more and higher quality resources which are focused on student learning are expected to be able to provide a higher quality educational program. The belief in a "cost/quality relationship" underlies decisions by school boards and taxpayers for higher taxes to support higher expenditures, and it has been the foundation for the legal challenges to the constitutionality of states' school finance systems. This article is an update of an earlier article which examined the presumed cost/quality relationship by studying the expenditure patterns of high, middle and low expenditure districts in Pennsylvania.2 As before, the purpose is to determine "what the differences in expenditures per student among school districts mean in terms of resources provided to students."3 Using more recent data, the spending choices of the same three groups of school districts (high spending, middle spending, and low spending dis-


This research aims at analysing the development of students' speaking skill in Islamic higher education in Indonesia through repetition technique. This is a CAR (Classroom Action Research) implemented in cyclical process, covering planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The subject of research was the fourth semester students of EFL speaking class which consist of 25 students. The data were obtained from observation checklist, field notes, questionnaire, and test. They were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. Quantitative data dealt with teaching-learning process, i.e. students' participation in the classroom activities. They were gained from students' achievement tests. The findings revealed that in cycle 1 there were twelve students who achieved minimum criteria of achievement. It means that the classical achievement was 48%. In cycle 2, it showed that there were twenty of students who achieved the minimum criteria of achievement. It means that the classical achievement was 80%. Both classical and individual achievements have met the criteria of success. It can be concluded that the repetition technique is proved to be useful to develop students' speaking skill.


The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of the convergence of IFRS on earnings management by considering the characteristics of corporate governance as a moderating variable. Convergence of IFRS as an independent variable is proxied by using dummy variables. Earnings management is measured using the value of discretionary accruals. Mechanism of corporate governance as a moderating variable considering the characteristics of the commissioners, audit committee, auditor quality and the institutional ownership. This research uses a control variable size, profitability, leverage, and growth.
The sample in this research is manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange during the period 2010-2013. The sampling method in this research is purposive sampling. The analysis technique in this study using multiple regression analysis.
These results of this study indicate that convergence of IFRS have a significant influence on earnings management with a positive direction. The test results found that the application of IFRS can increase the level of earnings management firms. Thus after IFRS, companies tend to have this level of earnings management is higher. Corporate governance mechanism can moderate the effects of IFRS on earnings management. This is indicated by the effect of the accounting and financial expertise possessed by the audit committee in enhancing the positive effect of IFRS on earnings management


Background: Studies in adult patients (pts) with asthma have shown that once-daily (QD) tiotropium Respimat ® (tioR) exhibits an efficacy and pharmacokinetic (PK) profile suitable for QD dosing. Aim: To compare the PK profile of QD tioR in paediatric and adult pts. Methods: PK data from 3 double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled studies in subsets of pts with symptomatic asthma: 2 Phase II, 12-wk, incomplete-crossover, dose-ranging trials in pts aged 6-11 yrs (NCT01383499, n=50) and 12-17 yrs (NCT01122680, n=52); 1 Phase II/III, 12-wk, parallel-group trial in pts aged 1-5 yrs (NCT01634113, n=24). Results: Peak plasma concentrations and total exposure to tioR in pts aged 6-17 yrs were comparable with those previously seen in pts aged ≥18 yrs, suggesting that tioR was inhaled adequately via the Respimat ® inhaler and that the same absorption mechanisms occur in pts aged 6-17 yrs and ≥18 yrs. In pts aged 1-5 yrs the total exposure to tioR was ∼54% lower compared with pts aged ≥18 yrs, based on urinary excretion data; all pts aged 1-5 yrs in the PK subset used a spacer to administer tioR. However, PK data normalised for body weight, height or body surface area indicated that exposure in pts aged 1-5 yrs was in line with that in pts aged 6-11 yrs, 12-17 yrs and ≥18 yrs (Figure). Conclusion: The results show that PK data obtained from the adult trials can be extrapolated to pts aged 1-17 yrs with asthma.


A series of alkyl-substituted 1,3,5-triphenols were synthesized, and their adsorption and assembling behavior on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite(HOPG) surface were studied by scanning tunneling microscopy(STM) under ambient conditions. A characteristic stripe-like structure was observed from these samples. In high-resolution STM images of the molecules with shorter chains, we found that two parallel alkyl chains were arranged side by side on one side of the phenylring, another alkyl chain was arranged on the other side and the alkyl chains interdigitate to form a uniform alkane lamella. The high stability and close-packed assembly were interrupted with increasing the chain length, and the co-existing self-assembly structure of the single molecule and dimmer was formed. This result is attributed to Van der Waals interactions between the alkyl chain-alkyl chain and the alkyl chain-substrate. This observation illustrates that changing alkyl chain length is an effective method for obtaining various two-dimensional molecular assemblies.


Virtual assembly is the new research field in VR. From the viewpoint of VR, this paper introduces some key technologies and the solutions in bulding a virutal assembly platform (VAP), which focus on assembly relationship defining, assembly object managing and collision checking. Furthermore, a practical example of the VAP and some discusses of this platform are also presented in this paper.


Polymer crystallization has always been a hotspot in the field of condensed matter research of polymer science.With supercritical fluids,especially supercritical CO2(scCO2) used in polymer processing increasing,the polymer crystallization researches under the condition of scCO2 are even more important.High solubility in the polymer and good plasticizing effect,the properties as scCO2 has,can significantly reduce the glass transition temperature(Tg) and melting point(Tm),eventually changing the crystal form of the polymer and making the greater impact on crystallization dynamics.Thus the deep researches of polymer crystallization under conditions in scCO2 play an important role in guiding the practical application.In this paper,research progress of the form of chain,crystal morphology,blends characteristics and crystallization kinetics under scCO2 are reviewed.


There are currently serious doubts about the accuracy of Miners rule for designing welded structures subjected to variable amplitude loading, particularly under spectra cycling down from a constant maximum stress. The deficiency has been attributed primarily to stress interaction effects that cause crack growth acceleration. In this paper the crack growth response of a structural steel and an aluminium alloy to a loading spectrum designed to promote fatigue crack acceleration is studied and the potential mechanisms responsible are evaluated.


Evidence before this study: We reviewed published evidence using Google Scholar and PubMed for studies using transformer-based models for forecasting patient timelines. We used the terms ("transformer" OR "bert" OR "generative pretrained transformer") AND ("forecasting" OR "temporal modelling" OR "trajectory") AND ("ehr" OR "health records" OR "medical records" OR "healthcare" OR "medicine" OR "patients" OR "hospital" OR "clinical"), the scope was anywhere in the text, published in 2018 or later. We found many CoVid-19 studies, or studies that focus on a specific biomedical concept or set of concepts. A few studies focus on forecasting a wider range of biomedical concepts, but still require structured data or work with specific timeframes (e.g. forecasting what may happen in the next episode, week, or month), or can only forecast one step into the future. Added value


There are two approaches to the design of optimal model-following systems. One is in the time domain (modern synthesis), and the other is in the frequency domain (classical synthesis). In this paper, an equality is derived from the expanded Riccati equation. This equality represents the relation among the input signal, reference signal, and reference model. Together with the return difference equality, the equivalence of these two approaches is discussed. Based on this equivalence, an optimal model-following system can either be designed by the modern synthesis approach or the classical synthesis approach. For clarity and simplicity, only single-input/single-output systems are considered. An example is used to illustrate the results. >


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When bone marrow progenitor cells from Fanconi anemia knockout ( Fancc -/-) mice are cultured ex vivo in a growth-factor cocktail, they exhibit apparent stem cell exhaustion and clonal evolution to apoptosis-resistant leukemia.

Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetic


This research article focuses on two innovative Malayalam films, Mela (1980), and Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback (1983) directed by K. G. George. These films showcase the life of the protagonists in the respective cities which they had reached with the hope of beginning a new chapter in their lives. In Mela, the hero Govindan who is portrayed as a dwarf succumbs to the perceptive discrimination of the co-artistes in his circus troupe. This film answers the question of how a marginalized man in an urban agglomeration, predominantly heteronormative, tries to establish his corporeality and the consequences thereof. Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback is a fine film which tries to expose the distressing realities of life inextricably intertwined in filming hubs like Kodambakkam, the soul of Chennai's film industry.


This paper aims to study the effect of throttling orifice head loss on the dynamic behavior of the hydro-turbine governing system with air cushion surge chamber. Firstly, a nonlinear mathematical model of hydro-turbine governing system considering the nonlinear head loss of throttling orifice is established. Then, the nonlinear dynamic behavior of the hydro-turbine governing system is investigated by using the Hopf bifurcation theory and direct numerical integration. The stability and dynamic response of the system are detailed described. Finally, the effect mechanism of throttling orifice head loss on the dynamic behavior of system is revealed based on the comparison between the cases with nonlinear head loss and no head loss. The results indicate that the mathematical model considering the nonlinear head loss of throttling orifice for the hydro-turbine governing system is a fifth-order nonlinear state equation. The system goes through Hopf bifurcation at the bifurcation points and the type of Hopf bifurcation is supercritical. The domain at the bottom of the bifurcation line is the stable domain. The throttling orifice cannot affect the system stability through its head loss. The throttling orifice can affect the system dynamic response through its head loss. The throttling orifice head loss is favorable for the damping of the water level oscillation in the surge chamber.


This Circular contains the proceedings of Session Number 93 of the 70th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) on January 15, 1991, in Washington, D.C. Conducted by TRB's Ports and Waterways Committee (A1B08), the session addressed the subject of access to ports. These summary comments give an overview of the session, emphasizing the major points of the presentations and discussions, and identify some trends that emerged at the end of the 1980s and will be prominent in the 1990s.


This paper studies the fuzzy adaptive distributed event-based control scheme for a class of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems in strict feedback form. A novel distributed adaptive event-trigger condition and event-triggered controller are designed simultaneously. The main advantage with respect to event-sampling states is that the controllers were updated in an aperiodic manner at the event sampled instants, saving the computation resource and transmission load. Simulation results have shown satisfactory tracking performance of the developed control scheme.


In this April 2010 issue of ca enews we focus on studio glass featuring catalogue essays from the exhibitions tour de force and mind and matter. Andy Plummer co-founder of the Ranamok glass prize writes about the beginnings of his personal collection of studio glass, the Canberra glass works celebrate their third birthday and we profile the ANU glass workshop as a centre of teaching excellence. And our tale of adventure is fresh from the Jamfactory glass studio.


Abstract Bacterial toxins play major roles in developing infections and can cause diverse morphological and physiological changes via certain biochemical mechanisms leading to cell death. Most of the bacterial toxins induce apoptosis in host cell by intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis pathways that are caused by intracellular organelle dysfunction and caspase cascade activation. Some of bacterial toxins encourage the programmed necrosis (necroptosis) in mature RBCs. In addition, pore-forming toxins can induce autophagy. Another kind of cell death, the pyroptosis, is induced by Salmonella typhimurium and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Shigella flexneri and the lethal toxin of Bacillus anthracis. Therefore, recently scientists utilize cytotoxic properties of bacterial toxins for designing novel anti-tumor drugs.


he main objective of this work is to establish the local controllability of trajectories
with N-1 scalar controls the following N-dimensional system of Navier-Stokes:
[system] Where T > 0, N=2 or N=3, Ω any openRN, bounded, connected and regular boundary
andO is open and which is contained in Ω


Four species of small bivalve are found in Tigireksky strict nature reserve for the first time. Brief information on the habitat and abundance of each species is given. Species of the genus Cyclocalyx prevail in waters of Tigireksky strict nature reserve in terms of their abundance and prevalence. Ключевые слова: Тигирекский заповедник, мелкие двустворчатые моллюски, распределение, численность.