The solution of the actual problem of determining the level of financial-economic security for companies using neuro-phase modeling is presented. In this study, it is proposed to use a multilevel neural network, each level of which solves certain problems. The proposed approach will make it possible to determine the level of financial security of the company in different times of its operation. The developed model allows each company to use its own set of financial indicators to determine the level of security. Each layer of the neural network is an autonomous unit that allows you to develop a network.


To monitor and control processes, it is necessary to diagnose the status of its determining process variables. To do this a measuring technique is required that allows direct online measurement during the process. A technical university and a professional supplier are working together on sensor technology and procedures that can be employed to diagnose washing and rinsing processes. The measured variable surface tension is used to determine the process variable surfactant concentration , which serves as an indicator for the detergency of the washing liquid or cleanness of the rinsing water. By using online tensiometers, developed on the basis of this new measuring technique, process analyses have been carried out. These process analyses form the basis for theoretical process models. In conjunction with in-process measuring techniques being developed, these theoretical process models can be used to diagnose and control washing and rinsing processes.


Including atom polarizability in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is important for high-fidelity simulations. Solvers for charge models that are used to dynamically determine atom polarizations constitute significant bottlenecks in terms of time-to-solution and the overall scalability of polarizable and reactive force fields. The objective of this work is to improve the performance of the charge equilibration (QEq) method on shared memory architectures. A number of parallel incomplete LU-based preconditioning techniques are explored to enhance the performance of the Krylov subspace methods used in the QEq model. Detailed analysis of how these techniques effect convergence rate and the overall solver performance is presented. ILU-based schemes which produce good quality factors with relatively low number of nonzeros have been observed to yield significant speedups over the diagonal inverse baseline preconditioner. These results are significant as they can enable efficient simulations of moderate-sized systems on a single node with several cores, and also because they can constitute the future building blocks for distributed memory parallel solvers.


The development of society in different stages has different needs for certain field personnel type,quantity and skill.According to the requirements of social development,the existing teaching methods and teaching system should be adjusted and corrected continually to cultivate the qualified graduates.Taking the road,bridge and river crossing engineering as an example,aimed at the present situation of the existing deficiencies of teaching method and the teaching system lagged behind the development needs,from the optimization of the teaching methods and curriculum system reform,the corresponding teaching reform measures are put forward,a set of teaching methods and teaching system adapting the needs of social development for the road,bridge and river crossing project are established,which should improve the level of teaching quality of the road,bridge and river crossing engineering.


Abstract This paper studies CO2 emissions at a global level. The authors use Dynamic Optimisation to derive the minimum penalty cost on countries every single time. They then use an Imputation Distribution Procedure to allocate the minimum penalty cost among countries. Their work provides the extension of the Shapley value cost allocation as a penalty to reduce CO2 emissions. The paper has implications for how to provide initiatives to improve cooperation on reducing CO2 emissions at an international level. Results show that a reduction in cost of only one country can be harmful for other countries. In this way, some countries can end up or worse off in a case where all countries experience a uniform decrease in their penalty cost. Therefore, the findings of this work suggest a low penalty-cost scenario that helps the countries fight for pollution reduction and provide fruitful links for policy-makers. They show that the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol could be implemented by the Shapley value cost allocation.


We study from a global point of view the Laguerre minimal surfaces in R. In particular, we generalize in a natural way the class of Laguerre minimal surfaces (introducing what we call Generalized Laguerre minimal surfaces) and obtain a conformal representation formula for this new class of surfaces. Besides, we study the completeness of the Laguerre metric and classify the flat Laguerre minimal surfaces. Finally, we solve the Björling problem for Generalized Laguerre minimal surfaces and, as an application, we classify the rotational ones.


The 1998 Agreement that ended Northern Ireland's bloody civil war has often been attributed to many of the remarkable individuals involved in the peace process. But how much of a difference did they really make? James Steinberg explores this question by examining the interaction between structural factors, the peace process, and efforts made by key individuals involved in the process. He also looks at what lessons this history holds for future peace negotiations.


rucellosis is a zoonosis, occurring predominantly in the Mediterranean basin, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, but rarely in East Asian countries. Bovine brucellosis was eradicated from Japan in 1992 and from North Korea in 1959. 1 In South Korea, the first case of human brucellosis was reported in 2002, followed by 11 cases between February and August 2003.2 Brucella endocarditis, a rare complication of brucellosis, is the main cause of brucellosis-related mortality. 3 Antibiotic therapy usually fails to control the disease, and surgical replacement of the infected heart valve, followed by postoperative antibiotics, is considered the treatment of choice. 4


The functioning of labor supply in Africa is substantially different from the one in developed countries. Most African economies remain heavily agricultural, which means that their economy is primarily based on the exportation and importation of commodities. However, an economy based on natural resources and the use of commodities generate a stagnated labor supply in the long run. Labor supply, however, expand more consistently in an economy that is based on human resources. This paper has two purposes. The first objective is to theoretically demonstrate how relying on natural resources as the primary basis of economic development could hamper the expansion of labor supply in an economy which is in the midst of structural transformation. The second objective is to substantiate that human resources as the primary basis of economic development, enable the expansion of labor supply whether it is in an open or a close economy.


European Union residents will be able to travel to any of the 27 member states for non-emergency health care if new European Commission proposals are adopted.

A draft copy of the proposals seen by the BMJ attempts to set down legislation on patient mobility after the European Court of Justice ruled that health care should be part of a European free market.

Under the plans, which are expected to be published next week, patients should be able to receive health care similar to what they would be entitled to in their home country, with the costs covered …


This article aims to recuperate Alfred Schütz's proposals about the different ways in which the "other" is presented to us as significant, and attempts to open a brief dialogue with the theoretical perspectives that delve into the cultural tendencies that have produced transformations in the way in which we experience "others" in contemporary societies. It attempts to show how Schütz's proposal, which argues the existence of structures of meaning that allow us to interpret and classify others as near or far, can be infused with historical content, so that it is possible to put forward the idea of how the limits of the spheres of the intimate and the alien in the processes of individualization in today's societies are traversed. key words: private-public, us-them orientation, intimacy, narcissism, alterity, individualism. 1 Profesora-investigadora visitante del Departamento de Derecho, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, unidad Azcapotzalco. Correo electrónico: email@example.com


In 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 167 (ASC 810), which broadens the number of entities that will consolidate formerly unconsolidated off-balance-sheet assets and liabilities and otherwise changes greatly the framework for consolidated financial statements. Many entities had used qualifying special purpose entities and other vehicles to prevent them from applying the consolidation provisions of Financial Interpretation No. 46 (Revised) (FIN 46(R)), Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. This article summarizes the provisions of the new standard and provides examples of its application in order to help practitioners implement these provisions and provide guidance to companies and clients. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


The quantum contribution to the energy of a 'Boltzmann' gas consisting of hard spheres proves to be virtually constant up to very high temperatures where the thermal de Broglie wavelength constitutes only a small proportion of the hard sphere diameter. Consequently, the heat capacity of the system barely differs from the classical value of (3/2) kB everywhere except in the lowest temperature region, where heat capacity as a function of temperature has the 'Debye' form but with a very low Debye temperature, of the order of several degrees. The line of equilibrium between a quantum crystal and liquid for a 'Boltzmann' system of hard spheres coincides with the classical one, with the exception of the very-low-temperature region. High-temperature quantum effects are revealed in the system under consideration in a kind of 'bare' form, while in the case of more realistic systems or models they can be masked by the complex behavior of other components of the total energy.


Warfare on land — Appropriation, utilization and destruction of enemy property — Peace Treaty with Japan, 1951 (Article 14) — Provision for appropriation by Allied Powers of Japanese property rights and interests under their control — Seizure of Japanese film by United States authorities — Subsequent production of American film containing scenes from Japanese film — Action for breach of copyright by owners of copyright in Japanese film against distribitors of American film in France — Whether rights acquired by United States under Japanese Peace Treaty confined to United States territory — Whether rights of Japanese owner of copyright deemed to have been renounced — Whether protection under French copyright law and Berne Convention subsisting — The law of France.


In 2019 the Scottish Government introduced local authority funding to provide school counselling for 10 to 18 year olds. Since September 2019 this local education authority (LEA) has been developing and implementing its strategy to provide school counselling led by Psychological Services. This report summarises the first year's evaluation.Surveys were conducted with counsellors and school staff. Data on delivery including numbers accessing counselling, demographics, presenting issues and pre and post intervention measures were collected and analysed.The integration of counselling within schools was felt to be a very effective model and positive impact was demonstrated. Counselling was skewed 2:1 towards girls and the peak age accessing counselling was 13 to 16 years. Individuals were accessing counselling for a wide range of wellbeing issues. Several themes are identified as supporting the effective delivery and development of counselling in schools.There was a heavy reliance on counsellors for accurate recording and reporting of data which may have impacted reliability. The current evaluation has not yet included feedback from children and young people themselves, their parents or wider stakeholders.The first year implementation has demonstrated the value of integrating school counselling within school systems and as part of a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. The locality wide data indicated a gender bias towards girls, however this was not consistent across all settings and further exploration of this theme could be useful in understanding the factors that influence access to counselling across genders.


ABSTRACT Photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to valuable chemicals by solar irradiation is a hugely attractive process due to its potential to offset both the energy and economic penalties of CO2 capture and sequestration. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently been explored as photocatalysts for this processing owing to their promising photochemical and textural properties. Papers to date are collated and reviewed to highlight advances made in MOF photocatalysts through novel synthesis and analytical methods. These are compared with key metrics highlighting the range of materials and methods used to show the diversity and novelty of this emerging field. Knowledge gaps were noted in order to propose potential routes for further improvements in catalyst and reactor design. This review was chosen as a runner up of the 2017 Materials Literature Review Prize of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, run by the Editorial Board of MST. Sponsorship of the prize by TWI Ltd is gratefully acknowledged


It has been predicted that, under a corrugating distortion, two-dimensional non-centrosymmetric crystals become strongly polarized in the plane of the film, with a nonlinear electromechanical effect. Hence, polar hexagonal BN monoatomic sheets are expected to exhibit not only piezoelectricity but also an unusual flexoelectricity [1]. Surprisingly, similar corrugations would induce a gap opening in graphene [2]. The realization of hybrid C/BN monoatomic sheets [3] with potential half-metallic properties [4], opens the possibility to achieve multifunctional properties in a graphene-like structure, where electromagneto-mechanical properties can be tuned externally by application of an external perturbation (electric or magnetic fields, mechanical strains, etc). In this contribution we will present first-principles density functional calculations to show strong magnetoelectric (ME) effects in hybrid nanostructures made from C and BN domains with zigzag interfaces. This effect originates from the magnetic properties of graphene's zigzag edges and the dielectric properties of the latter, and is highly anisotropic because of the different properties of the C-B and C-N bonds. For nanotube geometries, the linear ME coefficient compares to that of prototypical Cr2O3, whereas for 2D monolayers, the surface ME coefficient is larger than the one predicted for graphene nanoribbons on silicon substrates. Band shifts and gap modulations (also seen in pure BN and C nanotubes) are observed and can give rise to an inversion of the spin of half-metallic states, which would allow for electric-field control of conducting spins at graphene nanoconstrictions embedded in BN sheets. Flexomagnetic effects will also be discussed for corrugated planes made out of BN and C strips with zigzag edges.


Executive Summary. The 2015 ENP Review offers the most extensive
revision of the European Neighbourhood Policy
ever since it was launched.
> The Review signals a welcome shift in the EU's
policy approach. It overcomes the initial EUcentric
approach focussing on the EU's own
experience and previous policies (first and
foremost enlargement) and places partner
countries' aspirations and needs at the core of the
revised neighbourhood policy.
> However, the Review falls short of sketching out a
real and much-needed strategic vision and of
providing political impetus to the neighbourhood
policy.
> It remains also unclear how the EU intends to
strike a balance between values and interests in
the revised policy.
> All this needs to be addressed in the next steps,
either in the forthcoming discussions with the
partner countries or in the upcoming positions of
the EU's institutions and policy-makers.


In order to find a solution to the casting quality control of low-pressure die casting aluminum alloy wheel,genetic algorithm is applied to the optimization of process parameters. Based on casting simulation results,the BP network is employed to build up the nonlinear mapping relationship between process parameters and control objectives,and then the optimization of parameters is realized by using genetic algorithm. A lowpressure die casting A356 aluminum alloy wheel is studied as an instance,and the parameters such as casting temperature,upper die temperature,bottom die temperature,mold core temperature and so on are optimized. Results show that this approach is effective to optimize the process parameters and control the porosity defect and solidification time,which can improve the casting process.


The results of spectral analysis for the galaxy cluster IGR J17448$-$3232 are presented. The intracluster medium (ICM) in the central region ($r\lt 300^{\prime \prime }$, $320\:$kpc) has a high electron temperature plasma of $kT_{\rm e} \sim 13$–$15\:$keV, and an ionization temperature estimated from an intensity ratio of Fe xxvi Ly$\alpha /$Fe xxv He$\alpha$ lines is lower than the electron temperature, which suggests that the ICM is in the non-ionization equilibrium (NEI) state. The spectrum in the central region can be also fitted with a two-component model: a two-temperature plasma model in a collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE) with temperatures of $7.9\:$keV and $\gt 34\:$keV, or a CIE$+$power-law model with a temperature of $9.4\:$keV and a photon index of 1.1. The two-component models can represent the intensity ratio of Fe xxvi Ly$\alpha /$Fe xxv He$\alpha$ lines. On the other hand, the spectrum in the outer region ($r\gt 300^{\prime \prime }$) can be explained by a single CIE plasma model with a temperature of 5–$8\:$keV. Based on the spectral feature and its circular structure, we propose that the NEI plasma was produced by merging along the line-of-sight direction.


We provide a brief introduction to the Oxford Review of Economic Policy's issue on Food, which is concerned with the contemporary transformation of the global food and agriculture system.


Objective To investigate expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9 in rats' sciatic nerves after extrusion wound. Methods Constructed rat models with extrusion wound at the sciatic nerves, detected activity changes of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in the sciatic nerves by gelatinzymography, identified the attribution with Western blot. Results MMP-2 existed innormal sciatic nerves and sciatic nerves with extrusion wound, while MMP-9 was only detected in the latter. The expression of MMP-9 was the highest 1 day after the extrusion wound, while that of MMP-2 was the highest 7 days after the wound. Conclusion MMP-2 and MMP-9 may participate in the recovery process of sciatic nerves after extrusion wound.


A processor allocation strategy is proposed which can apply to any mesh system and recognize submeshes with arbitrary sizes at any location in a mesh system. The proposed strategy allocates a submesh of exactly the size requested by an incoming task, completely avoiding internal fragmentation. Because of its efficient allocation, this strategy exhibits better performance than an earlier allocation strategy based on the buddy principle. An efficient implementation of this strategy is presented. Extensive simulation runs were carried out to collect experimental performance measures of interest under different allocation schemes for comparison.<<ETX>>


The paper introduces dusting controlling techniques of wall attaching chimney and wet dust catcher in the mixed ventilation system working in the fully mechanized roadway.The implementation effect of the mixed ventilation is also discussed.


Socrates once stated: "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." Intelligent tutoring systems use computational models to efficiently "fill the vessel." However, research is limited on how these systems can enable "kindling of a flame." To explore motivation-adaptive learning, this study assesses the learning impact of an individual's sentiments (emotional associations) on three learning outcomes: information recall, intrinsic motivation, and engagement. Seventy volunteers took two computer-based tutors and provided self-report measures throughout their learning. The learning impacts of topic sentiment and learning-medium sentiment were measured separately and compared. For both topic and learning-medium sentiment, results showed positive linear relationships between net sentiments and intrinsic motivation and net sentiments and engagement. A negative linear relationship between negative sentiments and information recall was also identified. Findings were summarized, and four computer-based instruction design recommendations were provided. Recommendations include: to use learner emotion data in the form of sentiments to better understand learning outcomes, to align sentiment measurement strategies with the tutor's purpose, to account for the impact of prior sentiments, and to monitor sentiment change.


Obesity and associated co‐morbidities are major health concerns. Here we define how a potential pharmacological treatment for obesity (in vivo chronic stimulation of β3‐adrenergic receptors with CL 316,243) affects remodeling of intra‐abdominal fat and specific serum markers closely related to obesity‐associated co‐morbidities. Male C57Bl/6 mice (n=8/group) were studied during 14 days of either no intervention (controls) or CL infusion (1mg/kg/day via Alza pump) with epididymal fat pads collected at sacrifice. CL treatment had no effect on food intake or body weight but decreased epididymal fat pad mass from 250±29 to 121±19 mg (p<0.01). While CL treatment did not change the protein concentration of whole adipose tissue or the non‐adipocyte cell fraction, it increased protein concentration in the adipocyte fraction > 4‐fold (0.2±0.04 to 0.9±0.09 mg/ml, p<0.01). CL treatment decreased blood glucose from 202±10 to 144±10 mg/dl (p<0.01) and serum leptin from 2.0±0.2 to 1.3±0.2 ng/ml (p<0.01). The cardioprotective adipokine adiponectin was increased from 6.2±0.3 to 8.3±0.3 μg/ml (p<0.01) by CL treatment. We conclude that the favorable serum changes induced by β3‐adrenergic stimulation are not dependent on decreased body weight but instead are likely linked to a remodeling of adipose tissue involving primarily the adipocytes.


ABSTRACT : In terms of both quality of rural lifestyle and cultural awareness, the importance of community facility is being emphasized. Nevertheless, by occasion of graying, population outflow and revenue loss, rural society faces the erosion of community. For these reasons, government is promotion an community space construction project on rural areas which is lack of community facilities. Whereas the projects are just one off thing not include upkeeping, so lots of functional overlapping community facilities are formed in same place. In this study has classified rural community facility remodeling element and designed rural community facility evaluation system of each elements. In order to implement of purpose, it has categorized community remodeling index in rural area by literature analysis and site survey. For setting remodeling rating system, this study analysed preceding research data and conducted a Delphi survey of 30 experts. As a result, this study deducted 29 categories of community remodeling index and 21 categorizes of remodeling rating clause. Taking this result, this study progressed case study on seonheul-ri in Jeju. Implications, limitations and future research directions are presented. It would be groundwork for remodeling system development in rural community facility.


From random twisting point of view, relationship between inter-core crosstalk and cladding diameter in heterogeneous multicore fibers is investigated. Calculated cladding diameter dependence is in good agreement with measured result.


Insulin resistance (IR) may be present in overweight/obesity (O/O). Obesity and periodontitis were studied in adults. Our aim was to evaluate whether IR in (O/O) children was associated with gingivitis. A cross‐sectional, prospective, observational, descriptive and a comparison study of independent samples were undertaken. Thirty‐four children between 8–14 years of age with diagnosis of O/O attending the Pediatrics Section of Buenos Aires Hospital, were included. Based on HOMA, children were grouped according to HOMA>;2.5 (IR) and below it was non IR (NIR). Plaque index (IP) (Silness‐Loe,1964), gingival index (GI) (Loe‐Silness,1963) and bleeding on probing (BoP) (Muhlemann, 1975), were recorded. Fischer‐test, p<0.05.


The present investigation was developed in the Credit Union Limited Sock and had as objective to diagnose the labor climate in order to contribute to the improvement of competitive activities, focusing on the needs of the employees of the entity. For this applied techniques such as the interview and survey where they made a number of questions to 31 employees that unveiled the labor situation in the company. Ran through the application of three main phases where developed in stages and activities. To be considered in the first instance the characterization of the entity then formed a group of experts by implementing the Delphi method to determine the coefficient of competence to then select and identify the most relevant variables for the measurement of workplace climate, and propose actions for improvement. The diagnosis was executed by performing a synthesis of the data obtained, showing clearly and precisely the interpretation of the results, in which they met the variables that are in deficiency and in this way determine the causes and effects reflecting them in the tool 5W+1h the results conclude that the applied study evidence a work climate in a level of compliance on a regular basis. To give a solution to the deficiencies found developed a plan for improvement to combat potential problems and find positive responses in the determination of the variables of the labor climate.


This paper addresses some of the significant issues regarding the plant installation and operational philosophies of a dedicated corrosion monitor for nuclear steam generators. Proper installation requires: (1) provision for representative introduction of the secondary feedwater, (2) design of the monitors' feedline to prevent settling of suspended solids, (3) proper isolation for inspection and maintenance, and (4) compliance with relevent safety statutes. Various options regarding feedline installation are discussed. Plant interface requirements for the installation are also identified. Since the operational modes for a corrosion monitor can be either ''real time'' (i.e., following plant load conditions including transients) or accelerated (operational conditions which would accelerate deposition of contaminants and hence corrosion), development of a long term test plan is necessary so that a mode can be selected which best meets the utilities specific test goals. Accelerated operation implies that the monitor's test specimen will be exposed to a more adverse corrosion environment than that which exists in the actual operating steam generators. The impact of the operational mode on potential ancillary equipment is presented and control options related to the accelerated mode of operation are discussed.


The Yang‐Mills Schrodinger equation is solved in Coulomb gauge for the vacuum by the variational principle using an ansatz for the wave functional, which is strongly peaked at the Gribov horizon. We find an infrared suppressed gluon propagator, an infrared singular ghost propagator and an almost linearly rising confinement potential. Using these solutions we calculate the eletric field of static color charge distributions relevant for mesons and baryons.


Dichromated gelatin layers facilitate the design and fabrication of holographic optical elements of high optical quality and diffraction efficiency. The research efforts are aimed at the development and evaluation of layer deposition techniques for the manufacturing of large- format holograms in dichromated gelatin. The emphasis is placed on the realization of DCG films that exhibit low scattering losses, high thickness constancy over the entire aperture, and especially high modulation capacity. Such properties ensure the attainment of the desired diffraction efficiency, bandwidth, and Bragg-shift. These objectives are achieved by means of precise control of the thickness of the holographic layer while maintaining the capability to modify the refractive index modulation over a wide range. The diffraction efficiency is a nonlinear function of the grating strength, i.e., of the layer thickness, of the wavelength and of the refractive index modulation. The phase of the transmitted light depends upon the spatial distribution of these parameters. The desired thickness of 10 micrometers is achieved by means of nozzle deposition and shows a thickness variation of +/- 1 micrometers over the 1 m2 aperture. The high capacity for index of refraction variation is realized by means of precise control of the flow velocity and of the water evaporation rate during the drying of the film. The exposure duration, the development process, and the subsequent thermal after-treatment of the film facilitate the attainment of the desired modulation characteristics. At present, we have achieved 90% diffraction efficiency at 900 nm for transmissive holographic gratings recorded at 514 nm. This technique permitted the attainment of 96% diffraction efficiency at 650 nm (maximum of the solar spectrum) and a band-width of 400 nm. Holographic solar concentrators are fabricated at present in sizes up to 0.5 by 0.5 m. Current developments will facilitate the fabrication of 1 m2 holographic solar concentrators. The results of the theoretical analysis are compared with the experimental data.


This study attempts for the first time to compile list of agencies under state supervision in Thailand as well as their outstanding debts in order to provide policy makers more complete picture of public debt. It finds that there are eighty-six agencies with total debts of 3.846 trillion baht as of 2011, accounting for 46.37 per cent of total public debt. The analysis of the effects of debts of agencies under state supervision on fiscal sustainability framework reveals that adding new information on debts of those agencies causes public debt to GDP indicator to be violated, in addition to balanced budget within 2005 and capital expenditure to total budget expenditure, leaving only debt service to total budget expenditure that still remains within the target. This study suggests that government should make an effort to balance budget and lower level of public debt so that they are in line with the targets since prolong budget deficit and rising public debt could cause serious trouble for the government in the future.


The Spanish Civil War, which devastated Spain from 1936 to 1949, along with the
subsequent establishment of a totalitarian regime that ruled the country for almost
four decades, are both high on the list of the most catastrophic events of the 20th
century, being widely portrayed by the world of the arts. Many of these works of art
were created during the war; others were produced during the immediate post-war
period. Nevertheless, during the eight decades that went by since these events took
place, the production of such artistic pieces has significantly increased, especially the
ones which depict the ideological conflict between "the two Spains" (las dos
Espanas). Among the wide variety of texts that deal with this conflict, two novels,
each written in different and specific moments of the Hispanic cultural life, should be
pointed out: Requiem por un campesino espanol (1952), by Ramon J. Sender,
published in Mexico during Sender's exile, and Cinco horas con Mario (1966), by
Miguel Delibes, published in Spain under General Franco's dictatorship. These two
novels, inspired by the same reasons but produced under different circumstances,
meet the demands of the particular situations regarding their authors; therefore, both
form and content in these novels are meant to cope with the "(im)possibility" of
conveying the horrors of a fratricidal war. In this thesis, we wish to establish how
each of these novels manages to portray the Spanish Civil War, highlighting the
specific characteristics of both form and content in each text, so as to reveal the
tension between these two kinds of literary productions of the post-war period: the
works of the so-called Espana peregrina ("Pilgrim Spain"), and those produced under
the Franco regime. In this way, we wish to bring to light the way in which history,
memory, and literature are integrated through these different types of narrative
expression


Stone Mill Gazette March 2012 Page 1 Stone Mill Elementary School 14323 Stonebridge View Drive North Potomac, MD 20878 HERE'S THE BUZZ ABOUT THE SPELLING BEE by Bennett G. Imagine standing up in front of a roomful of people all staring at you while you try to remember how to correctly spell a word. Well, that is exactly what 41 Stone Mill kids in Grades 3-5 did on Thursday, January 19, 2012 in the All-Purpose Room from 6:30-8:30pm. In the Spelling Bee, there were 6 rounds of words to spell, with each round eliminating the kids who spelled the word incorrectly. It all boiled down to one word: E X T R A V A G A N Z A. That was the final word that fourth-grader Kareef U. spelled right. The second place winner was fifth-grader Devansh M. and the third place winner was fifthgrader Kevin C. Do you know who judged the event? There were 4 judges and they were: Ms. Williams, Mrs. Budman, Mrs. Abrahams and Mrs. Omerso. There were also PTA volunteers who helped put the entire event together and they were: Mrs. Susan Bock and Mrs. Neetu Kaur-Singh, who oversaw the whole thing, and Mr. Dipak Thakkar, who came the night of the event to help keep score of the Spelling Bee. You may not know how the kids qualify to be in the Spelling Bee. First, forms are handed out and kids can register to be in the Spelling Bee. Then, they take a written spelling test at school and only those who get a lot of words right are asked to participate. Once the kids are picked, here is how they prepare. They stay after school with Mrs. Abrahams who helps them study more words that might be used during the event. They are also given a packet with a huge list of words to study during Winter Break. You may not know this, but Stone Mill has actually been running the Spelling Bee for 4 years now. So, if you want to be in the Stone Mill Spelling Bee next year, be sure to sign up when they pass out the registration forms. It"s a lot of work but it"s worth it. If you don"t think so, ask Kareef, Devansh, or Kevin. Wonderful Ms. Williams


We report on the development of a high-bandwidth, 3-axis accelerometer using π-shifted fibre Bragg gratings. The gratings are inserted into a cantilever system and interrogated by three separate telecom-grade distributed-feedback diode lasers. These lasers are frequency locked to the sensors using a radio-frequency Pound-Drever-Hall technique. This scheme reduced the effect of laser's amplitude noise and allowed for an acceleration dynamic range of at least 20 g. An operation bandwidth of 500 Hz is demonstrated so far with sensitivities between 20 and 50 μg/√Hz.


Liquid phase nonequilibrium segregation and trapping of Au in Si induced by Q‐switched laser irradiation are reported. Depending on the incident laser energy density, irradiation results in either amorphization or recrystallization of a near surface layer. In the latter case, at interface velocities of 9 m/s, the segregation coefficient is 0.1±0.02 and Au is trapped in near‐substitutional lattice sites at concentrations of 0.5 at. %. These results are compared with recent data on solid phase, ion beam induced segregation, where Au at the amorphous‐crystal interface is trapped on nonunique lattice sites.


A method for the construction of heterocyclic scaffold 2,3-dihyro-1H-pyrrolo[1,2-a]indoles via arylsulfonyl radical-triggered cascade cyclization of unactivated alkene-tethered indoles in the absence of any external photocatalyst has been developed. This protocol features easily accessible starting materials such as sodium metabisulfite and aryldiazonium tetrafluoroborates at room temperature and offers good functional group compatibility, enabling the introduction of various functionalized sulfonyl and azo groups into pyrrolo[1,2-a]indoles.


Helminth community composition and richness were studied in brown trout, Salmo trutta, in 10 reservoirs of broadly similar age and characteristics situated close to each other in a well-defined region of south-west England. Communities were compared using cluster and ordination analyses, and possible correlations between helminth richness and a number of environmental variables were investigated. The hypothesis that the helminth communities should show high degrees of similarity and that large differences between reservoirs and a high degree of clustering would be unrecognizable was refuted. Levels of community similarity were low and comparable to those determined for helminths in salmonids in natural lakes. Trout in some reservoirs exhibited very distinctive helminth faunas and clustering of reservoirs was apparent. No single factor, including reservoir size and presence of piscivorous birds, had a predominant influence on community richness or composition but rather a multiplicity of local factors was believed to influence these parameters. The results indicate that local factors promoting distinctiveness have a greater influence on the composition and richness of fish helminth communities in lakes and reservoirs than do regional factors promoting similarity.


The number of actors, orchestra and staffs of Muscial and the spatial composition of backstage of ten musical theaters in Korea are investigated. Ancillary spaces of backstage are categorized into four sections on the aspects of user and uses for the space. Average area and the ratio of each categorized spaces are researched. The largest area of backstage is the space, which is for preparing and for stage set. The unit area of dressing room per a person is changed from 2.4㎡ to 6.4㎡, and the unit area of dressing room is increased propotional to size of theater. Cross-sectional composition of backstage spaces are investigated also.


Based on the remote sensing data of MODIS,Landsat-8 OLI and HJ-1A /1B CCD combined with ground observation data during 2013 and 2014 in the experimental area of Xiahe County,Gansu Province,the alpine grassland biomass inversion models were established and evaluated,and the best inversion models based on different remote sensing vegetation indexes were selected. Meanwhile,the spatial and temporal variations of grassland biomass in experimental area from 2000 to 2013 were also analyzed. The results showed that the best grassland biomass inversion model was logarithmic function of Landsat-8 OLI NDVI data( y = 727. 54lnx1+ 495. 23,R2= 0. 772,RMSE= 31. 333 kg DM·hm- 2). With spatial resolution of 30 m and 250 m,estimated biomass based on MODIS NDVI,MODIS EVI,HJ-1A /1B CCD NDVI and Landsat-8 OLI NDVI,were all higher than ground observation biomass.The estimated biomass based on logarithmic function of Landsat-8 OLI NDVI was the most close to observation biomass. The total biomass in the experimental area had great changes from 2000 to 2013. As a whole,the total biomass of grassland has a significant increasing trend( R2= 0. 590 7,P 0. 001) from 2000 to 2013,and the average increasing rate reached to 50. 57 kg DM ·hm- 2·a- 1.


The tract of Lissauer receives small caliber dorsal root fibers in addition to axons arising from dorsal horn neurons. The termination of Lissauer's tract and dorsal root fibers was examined in the C7 segment of the rhesus monkey spinal cord. The distribution of normal dorsal root afferents was mapped by labelling the C7 dorsal root ganglion with tritiated amino acids, and then compared with the degeneration of C7 dorsal root fibers following an intradural dorsal rhizotomy. To focus on the distribution of the small afferents, the degeneration following a Lissau er tractotomy was compared with the degeneration following dorsal rhizotomy and following selected lesions involving the large afferents. The survival times following the lesions and rhizotomies were varied to facilitate identification of groups of fibers and terminals which might degenerate at different rates.


- The growing preference of automation and digital transformation over semi manual operations in the corporate world has led to an exponential rise in the applications of computer technology, internet and web assets for everyday living, resulting in significant behavioural adjustments, particularly how humans communicate with each other and interact with the environment. Unfortunately, digital growth has also given rise to different forms of cyber criminalities in industry, government and academia. With many cyberattacks becoming more and more sophisticated, it is equally becoming increasingly difficult to trace cybersecurity breaches without first establishing an accurate mechanism for data collection and analysis offered by digital forensics. In the absence of reliable data analysis, the scope of digital forensic operations required to respond to modern cybersecurity breaches could become significantly challenging, costly and open-ended. This paper reviews the major challenges faced by organizations in performing effective digital forensic operations.


The dynamic nature of RNA protein complexes has made it challenging to study post‐transcriptional regulation in development and disease. We have developed a strategy to rapidly isolate and characterize in vivo assembled protein complexes for specific RNAs. Our proof‐of‐principle RNA target is a 1.2 kb IRES (internal ribosome entry site) in the 5′UTR region of Lymphoid Enhancer Factor‐1 (LEF1) mRNA. IRESes provide an alternative mechanism of ribosome recruitment and translation that is not well understood. To isolate in vivo assembled IRES‐protein complexes, the LEF1 IRES is engineered with a cluster of stem‐loops recognized by in vivo biotinylated MS2 bacteriophage coat proteins. The MS2 protein is used to rapidly isolate the complex with magnetic streptavidin beads.


To meet the demands of multi-Gb/s data-rate wireless transmission such as millimeter wave (mmW) 5G wireless, there is a growing requirement of mmW transmitters (TXs) with high output power, high efficiency, and high data-rate [1], [2]. The digital power amplifier (DPA) shows the merits of high system efficiency, high integration with baseband, and low cost compared with analog PAs [3], which is potential for mmW 5G TX. However, the increasing parasitic of transistor at mmW limits switching speed, which leads to efficiency degradation [4]–[6]. Meanwhile, the routing parasitics deteriorate the output power and efficiency of mmW DPA [5]. DPA usually suffers from relatively large LO leakage at mmW, which decreases the dynamic range and introduces linearity issue. To overcome these challenges, a 2×9-bit quadrature hybrid switched-capacitor PA (SCPA) with LO leakage self-suppression and distributed parasitic-cancelling sub-PA array is proposed, which achieves saturated Pout of 24.03dBm with peak system efficiency (SE) of 31.5% at 24GHz.


The main sources of water in Kuwait are seawater desalination and groundwater. Reclaimed wastewater effluent could be an additional water source. Its use would reduce the volumes of recycled water being disposed of to the environment and it could reduce the demand for fresh water supplies. The results of a questionnaire survey of more than 1,500 random households residing in 64 districts in Metropolitan Kuwait are presented. The frequency distribution of the education level, knowledge of wastewater reuse, age, nationality and gender of the sample population are presented. In addition, we have presented the results of a survey of attitudes amongst residents of their willingness to use reclaimed water for a variety of purposes. The research analyzes the costs and benefits of using reclaimed water. The study concludes with useful recommendations for both the authorities and the citizens of Kuwait.


The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be the premier millimeter and submillimeter telescope in the world when completed in 2012. ALMA will be a transformational telescope that allows astronomers to image and study at unprecedented detail the origin of stars and planets, galaxies and biologically relevant chemistry, fundamental issues in our attempt to understand how the Universe developed. ALMA represents a qualitative step forward - it will be 10-100 times more sensitive and have 10-100 times better angular resolution than any current telescope working at these wavelengths. The combination of unprecedented sensitivity and excellent resolution of ALMA will transform the astrophysics of the birth of planets, stars and galaxies from the realm of largely theoretical modeling to the realm of directly viewing nature at work. The current status of ALMA will be described. Other submillimeter astronomical projects currently under construction or consideration will also be described.


The salinity tolerance of Pseudosciaena crocea during early development(newly-hatched larvae,mouth-opened larvae,yolk-sac disappeared larvae,oil globules disappeared larvae,fry and 30-day-old juvenile) was examined at salinites of 5,10,25,40 and 45.The mortality,mean death time(MDT),median death time(DT50),and median lethal salinity-72 h(MLS-72) were employed as indicators of salinity tolerance.The results showed that suitable salinity for 30-day-old juvenile,yolk-sac disappeared larvae,mouth-opened larvae,fry,and newly-hatched larvae ranged from 5.5 to 41.0,6.8 to 23.3,8.2 to 39.4,9.3 to 26.7,18.9 to 33.1,respectively.Therefore,the salinity tolerance of 30-day-old juvenile of P.crocea is rather strong,especially it can tolerate low-salinity of 5.5.The results lay a theoretical foundation for desalting culture and the fresh water treatment for white spot disease of P.crocea.In normal seawater,the median death time(the point-of-no-return,PNR) at different developmental stages without feeding was determined as follows: newly-hatched larvae(8.6 d) mouth-opened larvae(6.5 d) 30-day-old juvenile(5.5 d) yolk-sac disappeared larvae(4.6 d) fry(4.0 d) oil globules disappeared larvae(1.8 d).These indicate that the feeding of exogenous nutrients should be enhanced before the oil globules disappeared,was it will help to improve low-salinity tolerance and survival of P.crocea's larvae.


The focus of CBSD is to assemble the previously-existing software components and to develop new and large software systems with new characteristics. It emphasizes on the use of Off the Shelf (OTS) components instead of building a system from the scratch. The first objective of this thesis is to discuss about the Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) as one of the advanced methodologies with the example of an inventory management system for Herat University, in Afghanistan. The second objective examines more closely whether CBSD can be a proper approach in Afghanistan, particularly in context of Herat University Inventory Management System (HU-IMS).This paper only focuses on selected phases such as requirement analysis and system design of HU-IMS life cycle. JavaBeans component model and user requirement analysis formulate to design the two separate components of HU-IMS (User Management and Resource Management).Both components are designed in a general way as they either can join as a part of a pre-functional system such as Higher Education Management Information System (HEMIS) or to be used for the purpose to develop new software systems. The results of the thesis confirm that considering CBSD when designing HU-IMS can be a proper approach in the Afghanistan scenario. However, the CBSD, particularly in Afghanistan context, has its own challenges and risks as all other approaches have. Since there are not many localized libraries and repositories available, the first challenge is to find and select the proper component which can be difficult and time-consuming; and the second is the adaptation and localization of the found component insomuch as most of the software developers are unfamiliar with the emerging concept.


Anterior pituitary tissue from rats was incubated at 37 C in Krebs' Ringer's bicarbonate in an atmosphere of 95% O2 and 5% CO2 with hourly changes of the incubation media. After a one hour preincubation, 45Ca++ was added to the media and its uptake by the pituitary tissue was determined. The digitalis glycoside, ouabain, in concentrations of 5 X 10-4 and 1 X 10-3M significantly augmented pituitary 45Ca++. This effect was dose and time dependent. Ouabain did not alter the washout kinetics for 14C inulin or affect pituitary weights suggesting that the observed changes in 45Ca++ content were the result of increased 45Ca++ accumulation. The effect of ouabain on calcium flux may be related to the stimulation of ACTH and GH release by ouabain. (Endocrinology 92: 1555, 1973)


The effects of background English and Welsh speech on memory for visually-presented English words were contrasted amongst monolingual English speakers and bilingual Welsh-English speakers. Equivalent disruption to the English language task was observed amongst Welsh-speaking bilinguals from both English and Welsh speech, but English-speaking monolinguals displayed less disruption from the Welsh speech. An effect of the meaning of the background speech was therefore apparent amongst bilinguals even when the focal memory task was presented in a different language from the distracting speech. A second experiment tested only English-speaking monolinguals, using English as background speech, but varied the demands of the focal task. Participants were asked either to count the number of vowels in words visually presented for future recall, or to rate them for pleasantness, before subsequently being asked to recall the words. Greater disruption to recall was observed from meaningful background speech when participants initially rated the words for pleasantness than when they initially counted the vowels within the words. These results show that background speech is automatically analyzed for meaning, but whether the meaning of the background speech causes distraction is critically dependent upon the nature of the focal task. The data underscore the need to consider not only the nature of office noise, but also the demands and content of the work task when assessing the effects of office noise on work performance.


There are a lot of ways focused on the formation of competences to be a leader, so
necessary for professional and social life. La Vall School has chosen the theory of
Stephen Covey on the 7 Habits to train their students. It is an appropriate and effective
theory because it is based on the most fundamental principles of the person in their
essence. It establishes a set of attitudes and behaviors inserted in each of the 7 habits
that a person who aspires to be effective and achieve success must implement in her
life. To use this method it is necessary to make an "inside -out" reflection just to
establish the principles. These values will be the center that gives sense and coherence
to all actions of the person in its day to day. When each person realizes that is the only
one who can find that vital sense, it needs to think of the next steps and which is the
first to follow. It thus fails to take the "private victory" spoken of Stephen. This theory is
somehow inserted in the legal framework and all men seek for it, perhaps unwittingly,
because it is based on human nature.


Rationale and Background: Youth violence presents a significant public health problem in Egypt, particularly among early university students. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and the characteristics of violence and violence-related behaviors among early adulthood university students. Participants and Methods: Questionnaires were distributed to 300 Misr University for Science and Technology university students' (18-24 years), either during the study day or at university facilities. All students at each site were asked several questions about recent violence-related behaviors (including use of threats, fighting, weapon carrying, and weapon use). Prevalence of each violence-related behavior was reported within, and stratified by gender, age, and other characteristics expected to influence the behaviors. Results: Age group from 21 to 22 years represented (56%), females were (55.67%), single (97.67%). The majority was Egyptian (82.33%) and the fifth academic year students were (40.67%). Most of the participants were living with family (74.33%), had religious education (84.33%) and non-smokers (85.67%) with no drug or alcoholic consumption (97.00%). Conclusion: Most of the participants never ever stabbed someone or had weapon involvement and most of them were not threatened to hit anyone or were threatened by any one respectively but, (55.67%) was yelled at someone and (39.67%) of the participants had recent fight behavior, (30.25%) of them was hurt and (26.67%) of participants were exposed to sexual harassment and a statistically significant relation was present between academic level affection, various measured predisposing factors and youth violence


This article explores the knowledge construction process of an archaeological site in East Devon, UK. Bouncing off an oral historical account of the site that seems to run against scientific truth claims, the author investigates the story of how knowledge of the site has developed over the last two centuries. Building on previous work that explores the history and practice of archaeology, the article opens up questions of what counts as evidence. Then, taking a cue from more recent work that suggests a more dynamic and open-ended engagement with the landscape, the article turns to examine how the meaning of a site can be made and remade. As part of this endeavour, questions of what as well as who can 'speak' are examined and some space is opened up for the agency of 'minor figures', both human and non-human.


Objective To observe the effects of the integrated traditional and western treatments on poststroke depression and cognitive impairment in a stroke unit.Methods A total of 105 patients with post-stoke depression (PSD) admitted to the authors' stroke unit were enrolled and randomized into a control group (n =35),a conventional treatment group (n =35) and an integrated treatment group (n =35).All the patients were treated with routine interventions including medications,rehabilitation training,psychological counseling and health education.Meanwhile,the patients in the conventional treatment group were also treated with anti-depressant sertraline,while those in the integrated treatment group were treated with sertraline and Chinese medicine as addition.The rating scales such as Hamilton depression (HAMD),mini-mental state examination (MMSE),the Montreal cognitive assessment (MOCA) were used to evaluate all patients after 8 weeks and 24 weeks of treatment.Results Before treatment,there was no significant difference among the 3 groups with regard to assessment scores of HAMD,MMSE and MoCA (P > 0.05).After 8 weeks of treatment,the conventional treatment group and the integrated treatment group were significantly improved in terms of HAMD [(14.28-± 0.64) and (13.32 ± 0.91) respectively] (P <0.05).The scores of HAMD,MMSE and MOCA of the conventional treatment group and the integrated treatment group were significantly improved after 24 weeks of treatment (P < 0.05),and the integrated treatment group improved to a significantly greater extent when compared with the conventional treatment group Conclusion Integrated traditional and western treatment used in the authors' stroke unit can effectively improve post-stroke depression and cognitive impairment.

Key words:
Stroke unit;  Integrated traditional and western treatment;  Post-stroke depression;  Cognitive impairment


Citation: Faasse K, Helfer SG, Barnes K, Colagiuri B and Geers AL (2019) Experimental Assessment of Nocebo Effects and Nocebo Side Effects: Definitions, Study Design, and Implications for Psychiatry and Beyond. Front. Psychiatry 10:396. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00396 Experimental Assessment of Nocebo Effects and Nocebo Side Effects: Definitions, Study Design, and Implications for Psychiatry and Beyond


Results: Major complications occurred in 29 cases either intraoperatively or postoperatively (1 to 30 days), including ureteral perforation in 16 cases, ureteral avulsion in 7, urinoma in 4 and perinephric abcess in 2. Two cases of uretral avulsion at the ureterovesical junction underwent ureteroneocystostomy. The other 5 cases were managed by psoas hitch together with Boari flap, transureteroureterostomy, open placement of double J stent with omental wrap, and ureteroscopic placement of double J stent and ileal substitution. Urinomas were managed by percutaneous drainage of the urinoma and placement of double J stent (3 cases) and open surgery (1case). Two cases of perinephric abscess were managed by open surgical procedure and double J placement. Fourteen cases of ureteral perforation were managed by ureteroscopic double J placement and in 2 cases by open surgery.


Transfer of developmental regulators, such as miRNA and transcription factors, through plasmodesmata represents one of the key mechanisms regulating morphogenesis in angiosperms. This mechanism has been termed non-cell-autonomous regulation. At present it is not known whether this process is involved in the morphogenesis of plants belonging to the evolutionarily ancient taxa. Importantly, structure and symplastic organization of apical meristems in the representatives of such taxa significantly differ from those in flowering plants. The non-cell-autonomous transcription factors encoded by the KNOX genes which regulate functions of the shoot apical meristem may become a promising model to study this issue. Refs 102. Figs 3.


This paper provides evidence and arguments that, given the choice of teaching critical thinking and written composition as separate, stand-alone courses or combining them, the two should be combined into an integrated sequence.


The major purpose of this study was to examine the factors influencing the job performances of married secretaries in governmental organisations in Ede Local Government Areas in Osun State, Nigeria. A survey research design was adopted for the study. The population comprised all the married male and female confidential secretaries working in all the government organisations in Ede Local Government Areas, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. Due to the small number of subjects, all the 49 married confidential secretaries (13 married male and 36 married female) were used for the study. A four point Likert scale questionnaire made up of 30 items was used to elicit data for the study. t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was found that work-family conflict and positive work environment had no influence on the job performances of married male and female secretaries in government organisations in Ede Local Government Areas and that gender or sex role had influence on the job performance of married male and female secretaries in Ede Local Government Areas. It was recommended that the government should contribute to work-life balance initiatives by educating employees and families on how to cope with the conflict and those employers should create positive work environment for the secretaries in order to boost their morale in the office for them to perform efficiently and effectively on their jobs.


A case of a metastatic cerebral chorioncarcinoma in the posterior aspect of the left frontal lobe of a 19-years-old woman is reported. After neurosurgical excision of the brain tumor a retrospective study of the patient was carried out as far as the gynecologic complaints were concerned. The patient complained only of little blood loss through the genitals started some weeks after the birth of a normal child four months ago. A smear vaginal preparation showed the presence of atypical epithelial cells (class V of Papanicolau). A total hysterectomy associated with bilateral anexectomy was performed. A small hemorrhagic tumor was detected within the uterus and a histological examination showed a chorioncarcinoma invading the miometrium. The clinico-pathological aspects of the chorioncarcinoma with special emphasis to cerebral metastases are discussed.


Today, model checking is one of the essential techniques in the verification of software systems. This technique can verify some properties such as reachability in which the entire state space is searched to find the desired state. However, model checking may lead to the state space explosion problem in which all states cannot be generated due to the exponential resource usage. Although the results of recent model checking approaches are promising, there is still room for improvement in terms of accuracy and the number of explored states. In this paper, using deep reinforcement learning and two neural networks, we propose an approach to increase the accuracy of the generated witnesses and reduce the use of hardware resources. In this approach, at first, an agent starts to explore the state space without any knowledge and gradually identifies the proper and improper actions by receiving different rewards/penalties from the environment to achieve the goal. Once the dataset is fulfilled with the agent's experiences, two neural networks evaluate the quality of each operation in each state, and afterwards, the best action is selected. The significant difficulties and challenges in the implementation are encoding the states, feature engineering, feature selection, reward engineering, handling invalid actions, and configuring the neural network. Finally, The proposed approach has been implemented in the Groove toolset, and as a result, in most of the case studies, it overcame the problem of state space explosion. Also, this approach outperforms the existing solutions in terms of generating shorter witnesses and exploring fewer states. On average, The proposed approach is nearly 400% better than other approaches in exploring fewer states and 300% better than the others in generating shorter witnesses. Also, on average, the proposed approach is 37% more accurate than the others in terms of finding the goals state.


The expansion of the arable land in quantity is limited,but in the aspect of improving the quality of cultivated land has a relatively large space.The basic function of land development and consolidation is an effective supplementary cultivated land area,enhance the overall grain production capacity,improve agricultural ecological environmental quality,promote the intensive utilization of land and speed up the rural economic and social development,and its essence is to effectively improve the quality of cultivated land.This study according to the HeiLongjiang province Ningan city basalt stone field XiangShui rice industry base land management major engineering preliminary engineering design,combined with the achievements of farmland classification,for land consolidation both before and after the changes of cultivated land quality and productivity evaluation,land development and consolidation project implementation heavy cultivated land quantity to cultivated land quality change.


of Cordell Hull and Woodrow Wilson. ' He might have more accurately indicated, on the basis of the evidence provided in the preceding essays, the continuity with the 1790s. James Field emphasizes that as secretary of state Jefferson sought equality of access to markets, reciprocity, and in general the removal of trade restrictions. Jefferson's refrain was sustained by subsequent generations of policymakers. There has also been a continued bias against statism in American policy, a bias that has contributed to sustaining private-sector initiative and aborting efforts to inject the state directly into what were considered private-sector preserves, such as the oil industry since 1920. Each author weaves strategic considerations into the fabric of his analysis. Each provides a comprehensive description of the changing military realities of American and global power, and each attempts to demonstrate the extent to which policy was influenced by economic factors. Some of the essays are more successful than others in attempting linkage among economic realities, major actors in the private sector, and policymaking. If there is a weakness in the book as a whole, it is the lack of uniformity in establishing the linkage between ideas in the private sector and action in the public sector. Only a few of the authors attempt a systematic analysis of private-sector ideas and actors. The most successful in this respect are Field, Brauer, and Leffler, the first two of whom effectively outline the development of the main merchant houses and bankers, and patterns of intermarriage between private interest groups and policymakers. There is an almost instrumentalist tinge to the early essays, which gives way in later essays to a more structuralist model. Throughout, however, the authors appear to concur with Brauer's assertion that when government supported special interests it justified such action on the basis of the national interest. Writing on the early twentieth century, William Becker notes the extremely significant and sometimes overlooked fact that private business interests generally had their strongest impact on the middle-level bureaucracy. What we need to know further is how important that segment has been in the determination of actual policy. A major distinction between the consensus articulated in this volume and the general thrust of revisionist scholarship in the 1960s is the fuller recognition here of what David Pletcher accurately refers to as the "hesitation and contradiction' that generally characterized both policy and those who made it.


Abstract: The Edge computing paradigm has experienced significant growth in both academic and professional circles in recent years. By linking cloud computing resources and services to the end users, it acts as a crucial enabler for several emerging technologies, including 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Applications that require low latency, mobility, and location awareness are supported by the edge computing paradigm. Significant research has been done in the field of edge computing, which is examined in terms of recent advances like mobile edge computing, cloudlets, and fog computing. This has allowed academics to gain a deeper understanding of both current solutions and potential future applications. This article aims to provide a thorough overview of current developments in edge computing while emphasising the key applications. In real-world situations where response time is a crucial need for many applications, it also examines the significance of edge computing. The prerequisites and open research issues in edge computing are discussed in the article's conclusion.


(1983). Light microscope morphology of Plasmodium falciparum during a synchronized growth cycle in vitro. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology: Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 95-96.


Report presenting tests of rocket-propelled models at transonic speeds to compare the zero-lift drags of 45 degree sweptback wings with and without solid nacelles at the wing tips. The wing drag coefficient was lowered at high subsonic and supersonic speeds when the aspect ratio was reduced from 6.0 to 3.55. Results regarding the favorability of the wing-tip nacelles and the force-break Mach number of the varying configurations are also provided.


The formation, stability, and interaction of transonic Langmuir solitons (ls) are studied numerically on the basis of a system of equations taking into account the nonlinearity and dispersion of ion-acoustic (s) waves. It is found that the Langmuir (l) plasmons are accelerated to supersonic velocities in collisions of ls solitons with each other and with s waves. Supersonic two-humped helicon solitons (ws) are found analytically.


approved: Kagan Tumer In this work we present a multiagent Fleet Coordination Problem (FCP). In this formulation, agents seek to minimize the fuel consumed to complete all deliveries while maintaining acceptable on-time delivery performance. Individual vehicles must both (i) bid on the rights to deliver a load of goods from origin to destination in a distributed, cooperative auction and (ii) choose the rate of travel between customer locations. We create two populations of adaptive agents, each to address one of these necessary functions. By training each agent population in separate source domains, we use transfer learning to boost initial performance in the target FCP. This boost removes the need for 300 generations of agent training in the target FCP, though the source problem computation time was less than the computation time for 5 generations in the FCP. c Copyright by Logan Michael Yliniemi April 23, 2012 All Rights Reserved Coevolution and Transfer Learning in a Point-to-Point Fleet Coordination Problem by Logan Michael Yliniemi A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Presented April 23, 2012 Commencement June 2012 Master of Science thesis of Logan Michael Yliniemi presented on April 23, 2012.


This paper identifies and evaluates the learning effectiveness of the major features found in media selection models. The 10 different models employed as examples are not described individually, as is done in some previous reviews. Instead, the article focuses on the characteristics noted across models. Features discussed include the physical forms the models take, the ways in which they classify media, and the media selection factors they consider. Selection factors embodied in models affect media choices. Characteristics of learners, setting, and task are identified as factors to be given primary consideration in media selection.


Subtitle: Karen Broghammer, manager, Central Reservation Control and Technology Development, Alaska Airlines, explains how the carrier's pioneering approach to e-ticketing has paid dividends.


The invention relates to a pneumatic drive mode of limbs joint rehabilitation training and a pneumatic type upper limbs rehabilitation training device. The device is composed of a backrest (1), a shoulder joint linear cylinder (2), a shoulder joint oscillating cylinder (3), an elbow joint linear cylinder (4), a shoulder joint bracket (8), a large arm bracket (5), a small arm bracket (6), a hand bracket (13) and a small arm oscillating cylinder (7); wherein, the shoulder joint linear cylinder (2) is fixed at the upper part of the backrest (1), the shoulder joint oscillating cylinder (3) is fixed on the shoulder joint bracket (8) and is hinged with a piston rod of the shoulder joint linear cylinder (2), the elbow joint linear cylinder (4) is fixed on the large arm bracket (5), and the small arm oscillating cylinder (7) is fixed at the lower part of the small arm bracket (6). The pneumatic type upper limbs rehabilitation training device of the invention is easy to control and can well adapt to gradual rehabilitation training; pneumatic components are safer and run stably and smoothly; and the device is easy for industrialization.


Based on the understood relationship between Chinese firm productivity and export performance, this paper combines the new-new world trade theory with the characteristics of the Chinese market and modifies one assumption of the Melitz model on the domestic and foreign market entry costs to expand the model. In the empirical test, by using Chinese manufacturing enterprise panel data from 2000 to 2006, this paper finds out that the "export self-selection effect" of Chinese manufacturing enterprises is on the whole negative, showing evidence of "productivity paradox". In terms of different industrial divisions, the"export self-selection effect" is different in China's manufacturing enterprises,but there is a negative tendency in general. The paper holds that two main reasons may account for the result. One is that different trade types lead to the difference in trade patterns; the other is that the market entry threshold of the Chinese industry is relatively high, even if the factor of difference in trade types is excluded. To conclude, this paper analyzes the main reasons for the high threshold of the Chinese market in detail, in order to provide some opinions and suggestions for Chinese manufacturing enterprises to participate in the domestic competition and international trade.


ABSTRACT In the present work, an attempt was made to improve the mechanical properties of the coir fiber reinforced epoxy composites through addition of high strength sisal and palmyra palm fibers. The hybrid composites were fabricated using compression molding technique by maintaining the volume fraction of fiber to matrix as 40:60. In the hybrid composites, the volume fraction of coir was maintained as 20%, while the volume fraction of other fibers was varied from 5% to 15%. The mechanical properties of the hybrid composites were investigated as a function of fiber volume fraction of sisal and palmyra palm fibers. The outcomes revealed that the hybrid composite have higher mechanical properties than the coir fiber composites due to synergistic effect of reinforcements. Furthermore, the morphological studies were carried out on the mechanical tested samples to predict the failure mechanisms.


Degradation of southern Australian land and water systems due to dryland salinisation processes is one of the highest priority issues for natural resource management today. The degradation process reflects the interaction of surface water and groundwater flow systems, and the response of accumulated salt stores within the landscape. Indications are that the area affected by this process may double over the next 30 to 50 years. In the Murray-Darling Basin alone, the area affected by dryland salinity will approach 1 500 000 Ha by 2010. A great deal of emphasis has been placed on the concept of sustainable land management systems. In one sense sustainable can be thought of as a balanced water regime, that is water going into the system equals water going out of the system. In areas of high salt, 'sustainable' can also be thought of in terms of the catchment salt balance - salt in equals salt out. What is known of the longer term salt dynamics of catchments currently undergoing salinisation? This paper compares catchment-scale (100's to 1,000's square kilometres) salt balances in the Murray-Darling Basin with those from other areas of Australia, (with particular reference to the Boorowa River Catchment, NSW). The Boorowa River Catchment occupies 1.820 square kilometres in the headwaters of the Lachlan River and discharges about 80,000 tonnes of salt per year. Salt input from rainfall is about 4.700 tonnes per year leading to an input to output ratio of 1:17. It is estimated that the catchment salt store is 3 to 4 orders of magnitude greater than the net export. These results are interpreted within the framework of the current mix of management systems developed to control the spread of dryland salinity.


The high-content image-based assay is commonly leveraged for identifying the phenotypic impact of genetic perturbations in biology field. However, a persistent issue remains unsolved during experiments: the interferential technical noise caused by systematic errors (e.g., temperature, reagent concentration, and well location) is always mixed up with the real biological signals, leading to misinterpretation of any conclusion drawn. Here, we show a mean teacher based deep learning model (DeepNoise) that can disentangle biological signals from the experimental noise. Specifically, we aim to classify the phenotypic impact of 1,108 different genetic perturbations screened from 125,510 fluorescent microscopy images, which are totally unrecognizable by human eye. We validate our model by participating in the Recursion Cellular Image Classification Challenge, and our proposed method achieves an extremely high classification score (Acc: 99.596%), ranking the 2nd place among 866 participating groups. This promising result indicates the successful separation of biological and technical factors, which might help decrease the cost of treatment development and expedite the drug discovery process.


Let M be a handlebody of genus g ≥ 2. The space T (M), that parametrizes marked Kleinian structures on M up to isomorphisms, can be identified with the space MSg of marked Schottky groups of rank g, so it carries a structure of complex manifold of finite dimension 3(g − 1). The space M(M) parametrizing Kleinian structures on M up to isomorphisms, can be identified with Sg, the Schottky space of rank g, and it carries the structure of a complex orbifold. In these identifications, the projection map �: T (M) → M(M) corresponds to the map from MSg onto Sg that forgets the marking. In this paper we observe that the singular locus B(M) of M(M), that is, the branch locus of �, has (i) exactly two connected components for g = 2, (ii) at most two connected components for g ≥ 4 even, and (iii) M(M) is connected for g ≥ 3 odd.


Need of pure water in areas of limited supply has driven the development of technologies to permit recycling of available water and to generate new water supplies by purifying saline resources. These technologies include sedimentation, filtration, softening, ion exchange, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis and distillation. Some of these developments serve needs of the power industry, others evolved due to the synergistic relationship between generating water and power. Large plant seawater desalination depend on this synergism for best economy, especially in Southern California and the Middle East. Applying new processes promise to drive down the cost of desalinated water, based on recently improved thermal efficiencies and on capital cost reductions. Cogeneration with these processes provides new mutual benefits for power and water technologies.


Based on some pointwise estimates, we establish the boundedness of multilinear commutators of Marcinkiewicz integrals in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces, which in turn are used to obtain some boundedness results for such operators in variable exponent Herz and HerzMorrey spaces. Further, we consider the boundedness in variable exponent Herz-type Hardy spaces applying the atomic decomposition and generalization of the BMO norms. Mathematics subject classification (2010): 42B20, 42B35, 46E30.


SUMMARY Geological causes of crustal anisotropy include regional fractures and cracks, isotropic heterogeneity or layering and material composition and textural properties. In addition, shear or metamorphic foliations in fault zones or structural terranes can serve as proxies for intracrustal deformation in a manner analogous to the lattice-preferred orientation of olivine produced by mantle shear. The primary factor in the production of crustal anisotropy is the relative angle between a seismic wave and the (dipping) symmetry axes of crustal material as either change along the propagation ray path. Complex and heterogeneous, crustal material is not necessarily oriented with vertical/horizontal symmetry axes, but is more normally tilted in accordance with structure. Calculation of the anisotropic response to material tilt for elastic seismic wave propagation requires rotation of the stiffness tensors describing the crustal material. We examine the alteration of anisotropic stiffness tensors and provide rotation directional cosines based on geological measurements. Material tilt produces strong effects in examples of 2-D and 3-D finite-difference synthetic seismograms that might otherwise be attributed to velocities or structure in other regions of the crust or mantle.


chemical structure of post-a-amylase dextrin affects the rate of glucose production at the brush border, and the effect on individual a-glucosidase digestion is altered (8). Overall, the digestion capability of SI and MGAM is affected by the chemical structure of carbohydrates. Thus, in addition to controlling the amount of carbohydrate consumed, patients with CSID do have a choice of different types of starchy foods. Future clinical studies will attempt to increase those choices.


On the basis of a new test for counting circulating endothelial cells in blood, a group of drugs was redefined which prevent endothelial desquamation after a standard intravenous injection of citrate into rats. The group comprised practically all drugs designated as venotonics or vitamin P-active agents, including some haemostatics, analgesic-antipyretics (acetylsalicylic acid) and some antiatherosclerotics (pyridinolcarbamate, Clofibrate). A marked activity was observed also with several calcium-antagonists (nifedipine, prenylamine, chromonar, dipyridamole and verapamil). Many endothelotropic drugs are simultaneously effective in blocking platelet functions. The suggested common mechanism of action is the influence on the consistency of the cellular surface coat (endothelia cement).


In the last 20 years, telenutrition has gained popularity and visibility. This term refers to the incorporation of tools and skills of telecommunication into nutritional management. Telenutrition already had many reported uses even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In the present chapter, Telenutrition will be addressed considering important aspects such as differences with traditional care, the most relevant findings in pathologies relevant to the area, some suggestions for tools and marketing, as well as some ethical aspects.


Distinguishing between true tumor progression (TP) and treatment induced abnormalities (e.g. pseudo-progression (PP) after radiotherapy) early after treatment on conventional MRI scans remains challenging for glioblastomas (GBM). Despite MRI perfusion techniques being promising in differentiating between TP and PP, individual imaging markers have only showed a modest association with tumor progression and overall survival. Therefore, we aimed to establish brain MRI phenotypes of glioblastomas early after treatment by combined analysis of radiological scoring of structural and perfusion tumor characteristics and assessed the relation with recurrence rate and overall-survival time.

 MR images and clinical data were retrospectively collected from 67 histologically confirmed GBM patients. Non-invasive (arterial spin labeling, ASL) and contrast-based (dynamic susceptibility contrast DSC) perfusion MRI, T2-FLAIR and post-contrast 3D-T1w scans were acquired on a 3T-MR scanner at around 3 months post-radiotherapy. Structural (presence and type of (enhancing) lesion patterns) and perfusion (increase, decrease or iso) MRI markers (MRIm) were visually scored by a neuroradiologist. Additionally, volume and eccentricity of the enhancing and T2-hyperintense areas were calculated.Subsequently, patients were grouped based on their similarity on tumor perfusion and structural brain MRIm by means of hierarchical clustering. These subgroups were then compared using a chi-square test and one way ANOVA. Survival outcome was assessed using a multivariate cox proportional hazard model, both unadjusted and adjusted for age, KPS and extension of resection. Progression at 9 months (when unavailable at 3/6 months) post-radiotherapy and clinical parameters were compared between subgroups using a chi-square test.

 Four subgroups of patients were established with significantly different tumor perfusion and structural radiological markers (p≤0.05) and therefore showed distinct MRI phenotypes of GBM. Subgroup 1 had less aggressive MRIm with mostly nodular enhancing lesions; subgroup 2 had the least aggressive MRIm with mostly patchy enhancing lesions; subgroup 3 showed the most aggressive MRIm and subgroup 4 showed moderately aggressive MRIm. TP and PP did not differ significantly between subgroups (p = 0.775). However, after performing an adjusted and unadjusted cox regression analysis we found that subgroup 1 and 3 were at increased risk of mortality, respectively (subgroup 1 - HR: 2.649 (95% CI: 1.119 - 6.270; subgroup 3 - HR: 2.363 (95% CI: 1.110 - 5.030); p=0.03).

 Our study suggests that differences in MRI phenotypes of GBM at 3 months post-radiotherapy can be indicative of overall patient survival. The early prognostic information our method provides might in the future be beneficial for treatment decisions in GBM patients.


An algorithm is presented for assigning off-chip I/O pads for a logic circuit. The technique, which is based on the analysis of the circuit structure and path delay constraints, uses linear placement, goal-programming, linear-sum assignment and I/O pad clustering to assign locations to I/O pads. The I/O pad assignment is then used by placement tools. Experimental data show that as a result of using the I/O pad assignment procedure, the total interconnection length and circuit delay (after placement and routing) are reduced by 8-15% and 3-4%, respectively. This technique is general and can handle I/O pad assignment prior to logic synthesis or detailed placement procedures.<<ETX>>


The present paper is aimed to introduce the findings on the horizontal and vertical distribution of Cr in the soil of Shijiazhuang sewaged-irrigation area. The data we have quoted in this paper are based on the soil samples taken from the topsoil,deep soil and the soil column of the area. In accordance with the actual analysis of the different contents of Cr in the samples,we have drawn the map of the horizontal and vertical distribution of Cr by using an ArcGIS and Surfer softwares. The results of our analysis show that the content of Cr in the topsoil turns to be much higher than that in the deep soil. Vertically speaking,the influential factors of Cr in the soil are the soil structure and the location of the sewage outfalls. And,horizontally speaking,the mean value of Cr content in the topsoil has worked out at about 89. 41 mg /kg,with that of deep soil being 65. 31 mg /kg,which is 1. 37 times as much as that of the latter. That may attribute to the distribution of Cr in the surface soil strongly influenced by exogenous,whereas the influence of exogenous is weaker in the deep soil. The higher content of Cr in the surface and deep layer may attribute to the independent causes,with the distribution of the higher content areas due to the different characteristic features between both layers.The distribution of Cr in the soil column shows there is a tendency in vertical soil with Cr moving down with the water from the sewage discharge outlet to the other parts of the river. The main influential factor of Cr vertical distribution is the soil texture,particularly with the clay features of strong adsorption function on the heavy metals. Therefore,Cr has been mainly enriched in the clay layers vertically,and the highest contents of Cr in the 3 longitudinal profiles are all in the clay layers. And,more specifically speaking,the urban areas by the Xiao River sides,such as Luancheng,Zhaoxian and other places on the eastern side of the channel,the higher content of Cr may attribute to the location of the sewage discharge outlets that affects the result of Cr vertical distribution. The results will be valuable in distribution and migration of pollutants in this sewage irrigation area.


Of a very different type is Professor Spykman's book. In clear, forceful terms he sets forth his thesis that, once the United States permits a hostile power to control Europe, and a hostile power to control the Chinese mainland, the Western Hemisphere is effectively encircled. In terms of territory, its enemies would be two and a half times larger; in terms of population, they would be ten times larger; and in terms of energy, they would be approximately equal. Were that to happen, the United States would be in a serious position. Professor Spykman's book, which appeared posthumously, is an excellent contribution to the study of American foreign policy.


Previous implementations of the phase diffuser used in the multiple-plane phase retrieval method included a diffuser glass plate with fixed optical properties or a programmable yet expensive spatial light modulator. Here a model for phase retrieval based on a digital micromirror device as amplitude diffuser is presented. The technique offers programmable, convenient and low-cost amplitude diffuser for a non-stagnating iterative phase retrieval. The technique is demonstrated in the reconstructions of smooth object wavefronts.


SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standard query language for relational database management system. Different types of RDBMS such as MS Access, Oracle, MySQL, Informix, SQL Server, Sybase uses SQL as their standard database query language. NoSQL is the Not Only SQL is a collection of non-relational data storage systems. All NOSQL offerings relax one or more of the ACID properties. Today SQL databases become an integral part of IT infrastructure of any organization. For example, MySQL is a Relational Database based SQL implementation for the web, now uses in very large-scale websites such as Facebook etc. The main focus of NoSQL databases is more on BASE (Basically, Available, Soft state Eventually Consistent) than RDBMS ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) properties. Some of the NoSQL databases provide advanced features namely Sharding, which takes Database Partitioning to a new level in the form of horizontal scalability and availability. Some of the NOSQL databases are Cassandra, CouchDB, Hadoop & Hbase, MongoDB, StupidDB. The aim of this research paper is to evaluate and compare these two SQL & NOSQL databases and tries to answer which of these is better in terms of its performance and scalability.


Mixed alcohol is of great promise as octane improver in automotive fuel,and hopeful to replace the MTBE to reduce the environmental pollution,In this field,alkali-promted molybdenum-based catalysts have been given special interest because of their excellent sulfur-tolerance for synthesis of mixed alcohol from CO+H2,It was reported that the coblat is a favorable promoter for enhancing alcohol production,especially for improving the selectivity for C2+ alcohol[1-3],moreover,strong interaction between Con and Mo is in favor of mixed alcohol synthesis[4].Recently,we prpared a kind of K-Co-Mo ultrafine particles by sol-gel method and it shows much smaller particle size but higher activty and selectivity toward alcohol formation than the one prepared by conventional method[5],The aim of the present work is to research the micostructures of the Mo and Co species in the K-Co-Mo samples prepared by different method.


We report the demonstration of the picosecond-pulse lasing in blue region from an optically pumped gain-switched InGaN vertical-cavity-surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). Through 150-fs optical pulse excitations at room temperature, multimode pulse lasing with a main mode at 436.5 nm from the InGaN VCSEL was observed. The output pulse widths were measured to be as short as 9.8 ps for the total lasing spectra and 6.0 ps for the main mode. Since the obtained short pulses were still not limited by its photon lifetime of 0.7 ps or band-width of 0.8 nm, possible ways to generate even shorter pulses have been examined.


Epigenetic alterations are an important hallmark of cancer, and the enzymes that modify histone tails have emerged as attractive drug targets. The histone methyltransferase EZH2 is the catalytic subunit of PRC2, a highly conserved protein complex that regulates gene expression by methylating lysine 27 on histone H3. EZH2 is frequently overexpressed in cancer, and oncogenic gain-of-function mutations have been identified in both hematological malignancies and solid tumors. In cancer cells, the aberrant activity of the enzyme contributes to tumorigenesis by altering cell fate decisions and regulating pathways involved in proliferation, differentiation, and cell migration. Early validation efforts relied on the use of RNAi technology and non-specific small molecule inhibitors to down-regulate EZH2 and destabilize the PRC2 complex. The discovery of catalytic inhibitors of EZH2 has provided an invaluable tool for further elucidating the role of this enzyme in cancer, and preclinical studies in EZH2-mutant non-Hodgkin lymphoma have driven the clinical development of these agents. This review focuses on the use of catalytic small molecule inhibitors to identify solid tumor indications that are dependent on aberrant EZH2 methyltransferase activity. The emerging data suggests that EZH2 inhibitors will have therapeutic potential that extends beyond hematological malignancies to the solid tumor setting.


Every year the huge Mardi Gras carnival entices millions to New Orleans on the Mississippi. The Big Easy, as the city is also known because of its uncomplicated way of life, also forms the backdrop every. year for one of the most highly regarded coatings conferences in the USA, the International Water-borne, Powder Coatings and High Solids Symposium, which celebrated its 25th anniversary from the 18 to 20 February in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. 504 participants responded to the invitation of the Polymer Science Department of the University of Southern Mississippi and found much to interest them: 44 lectures, an accompanying exhibition and the opportunity to brush up their own coatings knowledge in six short courses.


The effect of suplatast tosilate (IPD-1151T), which is known to suppress interleukin (IL)-4 release from T cells, on the release of IL-4 and IL-13 from human peripheral basophils was investigated. Basophils were obtained from 16 mite-sensitive atopic asthmatic patients. IPD-1151T clearly inhibited the antigen-induced release of IL-13 but not IL-4. These results suggest that IPD-1151T possesses different activity for the regulation of cytokine release in basophils and T cells.


Cordilleran Ice Sheet glaciations show characteristic patterns of advance and retreat, consisting of (1) advance out outwash, (2) glacial scouring, (3) deposition of till, (4) deposition of recessional outwash south of Seattle in the southern Puget Lowland, glaciomarine drift in the northern lowland, and eskers, kames, and small moraines on the Columbia Plateau. Radiocarbon dates show that the Puget and Juan de Fuca lobes advanced and retreated synchronously. The Puget lobe backwasted to Seattle by 13.4-14 ka yrs BP, where the thinning ice floated in seawater northward to Canada by 13 ka yrs BP depositing glaciomarine drift contemporaneously over 18,000 km2. Compelling evidence against the backwasting, calving, terminus model for the origin of the glaciomarine drift includes: 1) abundant 14C dates demonstrate simultaneous deposition of glaciomarine drift over the entire area; 2) stagnant-ice deposits closely related to glaciomarine drift are not consistent with an actively-calving, backwasting terminus; 3) irrefutable evidence for the nonmarine origin of Deming sand shows that Cordilleran ice was absent immediately prior to deposition of the overlying glaciomarine drift. The pattern of events in the northern Puget Lowland includes: 1) glacial loading under 1800 m of ice during the Vashon maximum; 2) rapid glacial thinning and floating of the ice deposited Kulshan glaciomarine drift 12-13 ka yrs BP; 3) emergence and deposition of fluvial Deming sand 11.5 ka yrs BP; 4) resubmer-gence and deposition of Bellingham glaciomarine drift up to -200 m, well beyond global eustatic sea level rise; 5) emergence 10.5-11.5 ka yrs BP and deposition of Sumas outwash on Bellingham glaciomarine drift; 6) Holocene eustatic sea level rise kept pace with isostatic rebound, thus, post-Sumas marine terraces are absent.


CHEMICAL defoliants, when applied to commercial cottons, usually cause varying amounts of leaf fall. This variation has been attributed to a number of factors, mostly environmental (1, 2, 4). The amount of leaf fall from a cotton plant, however, may depend also upon other factors as yet not thoroughly investigated. One such factor may be a possible differential response of commercial species and varieties of cotton with a possible dependence upon both the degree of boll maturity and the reproductive status of the plant at the time of defoliant application. A series of experiments, therefore, were designed in order to study the response of species and varieties of cotton to chemical defoliation and to determine how this response is related to the degree of boll maturity. The data reported herein are taken from three representative experiments wherein boll maturity could be related to defoliation efficiency among varieties of several species of cotton.


Abstract The deformation stacking-fault energies and screw dislocation core structures in a model sodium lattice have been calculated for body-centred-cubic and hexagonal close-packed phases, using a fundamental effective ion-ion potential, the reliability of which has been established elsewhere. Particular emphasis is placed upon deviations from continuum elasticity, and it is shown that the use of linear elasticity theory over distances smaller than about ten lattice spacings can lead to serious error. It is shown that the screw dislocation core structures in b.c.c. and h.c.p. lattices have markedly different characteristics, and relative dislocation mobilities in the two phases are discussed in the light of these differences.