446 Background: Pmab has demonstrated significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) in pts with WT KRAS mCRC as 1st-line tx in a phase III trial comparing pmab + FOLFOX4 vs FOLFOX4 alone. Here, we describe the results of PEAK, a multicenter, randomized phase II study evaluating pmab + mFOLFOX6 and bev + mFOLFOX6 in pts with previously untreated WT KRASmCRC. Methods: Pts were randomized 1:1 to pmab 6.0 mg/kg + mFOLFOX6 Q2W or bev 5.0 mg/kg + mFOLFOX6 Q2W. Pt eligibility criteria included: WT KRASmCRC, ECOG performance status ≤ 1, and no prior chemotherapy, anti-VEGF tx, or anti-EGFR tx for mCRC. The primary endpoint was PFS; secondary endpoints included overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR), and safety. No formal hypothesis was tested. Results: 285 pts with WT KRASmCRC were randomized and 278 pts received tx. Demographics were balanced between arms. Intent-to-treat efficacy results are shown (Table). Worst grade 3/4 adverse events (AE) occurred in 86% of pts in the pmab + mFOLFO...


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the major difficulties and challenges encountered during the crucial process of family succession. In this study, the authors list and analyze issues encountered by managers or by the CEO of a family business.

Design/methodology/approach
Using a single longitudinal real-time case study conducted over a period of 10 years in a French family business, this study identifies the challenges encountered during family succession. The authors were allowed to follow, over a long period, the planning of the CEO's succession.

Findings
The authors identified six critical points in the succession process: planning succession development; favoring creation of financial value for the shareholders; investment policy, risk taking and time horizon of investments (growth); family employment policy (family private benefit); opening of capital and debt policy (external financing); and financing of capital reduction policy (external financing).

Originality/value
The paper highlights the difficulties, issues and questions encountered by an SME manager or by the CEO of a family business. The analysis gives insights into the deep nature of the family structure, by involving the notions of culture and organizations serving the performance of family businesses.


The present invention relates to a system for connecting electrical conductors having different potentials, consisting of at least two adjacent electrical terminals (10) with plug receivers (12) and at least two jumpers (14), each of at least two of a head web (14.1) to one another have connected and in the plug-in receptacles (12) insertable plug-in contacts (14.2). To indicate a system for connecting electrical conductors having different potentials, in which a high degree of flexibility of the electrical connections is provided at the same time reduced space requirement that the jumpers (14) and the electrical terminals (10) matched to one another is proposed, formed are that a jumper (14) to be inserted into plug-in receptacles (12) of the same electrical terminal (10) and the other plug-in bridge (14) crosswise in receptacles (12) of two directly or indirectly adjacent electrical terminals (10).


With an aim of improving the field oriented control, the control of the induction motor by Input-Output linearization techniques are used to track torque and rotor flux and the scheme is extended for speed control is presented. A comparative study between the performances of the proposed controller and field oriented control is carried out. The methods are compared in terms of their ability to handle loads on the motor shaft, their speed tracking capability and their sensitivity to operating condition variations. To estimate the rotor flux, an open loop observer is used.


Women in Nigeria are saddled with cultural inhibitions and poor policy protection of their reproductive rights. This book sought to identify coping mechanisms that women resident in Enugu State adopt in their negotiations with spouses, and the effectiveness of these strategies, as perceived by them in achieving desired family sizes. The survey research design was adopted. Information collected included demographics, cultural norms and practices of family planning in Enugu State, techniques that women employ in negotiating with their husbands for desired family sizes, differences in the coping strategies adopted by rural and urban women in achieving desired family sizes, and effectiveness of the coping strategies adopted by women. T- tests show statistically significant differences the effectiveness of the strategies adopted by rural and urban women. This book recommends the provision of a conducive environment that gives equal opportunity in all spheres of human endeavor, as well as instituting a systematic education for women and men on reproductive rights. This will enhance the well-being of all genders and conduce to sustainable development.


The electrical and motor activities of the stomach were studied in the early postoperative phase after abdominal surgery by means of surface recording techniques: electrogastrography (EGG) and impedance gastrography (IGG). EGG and IGG recordings were made pre‐operatively and on the first and second postoperative days. Physical signs and symptoms related to gastrointestinal motility were assessed. Two patient groups were studied; a group of patients undergoing cholecystectomy (n= 9) was compared with a group with major colonic surgery (n= 14). After colonic surgery, resumption of a normal oral diet was later and nausea and vomiting were seen more frequently than after cholecystectomy. Other physical signs concerning intestinal motility did not differ between the groups. Gastric myo‐electrical activity (0.04–0.06 Hz), recorded eletrogastrographically, tended to decrease in the postoperative phase in both groups, and return to pre‐operative values later in the colonic surgery group. However, none of the differences reached statistical significance. Abnormal gastric activity (tachyarrhythmia) was observed in one pre‐operative patient but in 6 patients (2 cholecystectomy, 4 colonic surgery) after operation. IGG variables were not significantly affected by the operation and were not significantly different between the groups.


Three Actinomyctes with potential bioactivity are successfully isolated from the marine water samples and identified as Prauserella marina , Streptomyces sindenensis and S. spiroverticillatus . The ethyl acetate extracts from the three Actinomycetes are found to have significant bioactivity. The highest anti-bacterial activity was given by the extract from P. marina on B. cereus showing 28 mm of zone of inhibition. Cytotoxicity screening of the crude extracts using 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2yl)-2, 5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) cell viability assay revealed that extract from P. marina noticeably effected the viability of the human cervical cancer cell grown in vitro . Thin layer chromatography of the crude extract with methanol and chloroform (8:2) as solvent system yielded three distinct fractions, of which fraction with Rf value 0.8 resulted in 77, 68, 54 and 40% growth inhibition of HeLa cells at 15, 10, 5, 2.5 µg/mL, respectively with the IC 50 value as 3.3 µg/mL. HPLC analysis of the fraction resulted in single major peak at 3.7 min.


The invention relates to a medium COSMETIC TREATMENT OF HAIR AND SKIN, EQUIPPED WITH CONTAINING chitosans ether N HIDROXIPROPILISOPROPILICO COMPOUND OF THE FOLLOWING: A) from 4 to 40 percent (mole) UNITS monomers of formula (I), and b) 60 to 96 percent (mole) monomer units of formula (II) wherein R1 and R2 may be identical or different and represent hydrogen or group ... N = 2, under the condition that at least half of the units of formula (II), R1 and R2 are simultaneously hydrogen NO. AFFECTS also chitosans ETHER A NEW N - HIDROXIPROPILISOPROPILICO.


Afullycouplednumericalmethodologyisdevelopedforcalculatingthe∞ow-structureinteraction problems. The Roe scheme is extended to moving grid and used with the flnite-volume method. The unsteady solutions march in time by using a dual-time stepping implicit unfactored line Gauss-Seidel iteration. The unsteady Navier-Stokes equations and the linear structural equations are fully coupled implicitly via successive iteration with pseudo time stepping. Themovingmeshandmeshdeformationstrategyisbasedontwomeshzones,aflnemeshzone surroundingthesolidbodywithoutmeshdeformationandacoarsemeshzonesurroundingthe flnemeshzoneanddeformswiththesolidobject. Thismeshdeformationstrategycanmaintain the orthogonality of the mesh near the wall and save CPU time for re-meshing. The study cases presented include a vortex-induced oscillating cylinder, a forced pitching airfoil, and an elastically mounted transonic airfoil. For the elastic transonic airfoil, the ∞utter boundary is calculated. Otherphenomenacapturedincludethelimitcycleoscillation(LCO)andthesteady state ∞ow conditions, under which the aerodynamic forces and moments are balanced by the structure. Thecomputationalresultsagreewellwiththeexperimentsandthecomputedresults of other researchers. The methodology is demonstrated to be accurate, robust and e‐cient.


To strengthen the economic and trade cooperation between Xin-jiang and Central Asian countries is necessary for the stability and development of Asia and Europe. The rich resource and immense market of Central Asian countries are waiting for development,so the cooperation between Xin-jiang and Central Asian countries bears a broad prospect. The government agency of Xin-jiang should seize this opportunity to improve the international competitiveness of Xin-jiang's economy and vigorously enhance the economic cooperation with Central Asian countries. This paper analyzes the actuality of the economic and trade cooperation between Xin-jiang and the Central Asian countries. Then the paper finds the existing problems of the economic and trade cooperation. At the last,it analyzes the prospects of the economic and trade cooperation.


Background World Health Organization approximates that one in four individuals have had at least one UTI episode requiring treatment with an antimicrobial agent by the teen age. At Nakivale refugee camp, the overwhelming number of refugees often associated with poor living conditions such as communal bathrooms and toilets and multiple sex partners do predispose the refuges to urinary tract infections. Aim To determine the prevalence of bacterial community-onset urinary tract infections among refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement and determine the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of the isolated pathogens. Methods This study was a cross-sectional study, that included 216 outpatients attending Nakivale Health Centre III between July and September 2020. Results Prevalence of UTI was 24.1% (52/216). The majority 86(39.81%) of the refugees were from DR Congo, followed by those from Somalia 58(26.85%). The commonest causative agent was Staphylococcus aureus 22/52 (42.31%) of total isolates, followed by Escherichia coli 21/52 (40.38%). Multidrug resistant isolates accounted for 71.15% ( 37/52) and mono resistance was 26.92% (14/52). Out of the 52 bacterial isolates, 30 (58%) were Extended-Spectrum BetaLactamase organisms (ESBLs). Twenty-one (70.0%) isolates were ESBL producers while 9(30%) were non-ESBL producers. Both bla TEM and bla CTX-M were 62.5% each while bla SHV detected was 37.5%. Conclusions The prevalence of UTI among refugees in Nakivale settlement is high with Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli as the commonest causes of UTI. There is a high rate of multidrug resistance to common drugs used to treat UTI. The prevalence of ESBLproducing Enterobacteriaceae is high and the common ESBL genes are bla TEM and bla CTX-


Abstract. A method is presented to determine total evaporation from the earth's surface at a spatial scale that is adequate for linkage with climate models. The method is based on the water balance of catchments, combined with a calibrated autoregressive rainfall-runoff model. The time scale used is in the order of decades (10 days) to months. The rainfall-runoff model makes a distinction between immediate processes (interception and short term storage) and the remaining longer-term processes. Besides the calibrated rainfall-runoff model and the time series of observed rainfall and runoff, the method requires a relation between transpiration and soil moisture storage. The method is applied to data of the Bani catchment in Mali, a sub-catchment of the Niger river basin.


ABSTRACT British women's supernatural tales written during the nineteenth century challenged the ideals of Victorian femininity and restrictive gendered roles such as wife and domestic servant. The female medium, through her power of communicating with spirits and establishing authority during séances, also transgressed femininity through her freely expressed behavior in front of sitters and skeptics. The real-life female medium, I argue, inspired the ghost stories of Victorian women writers such asRhoda Broughton and Mary E. Braddon. In this paper, I contend that the female spiritualist in Broughton's "Behold! It was a Dream" (1872) and Braddon's "The Shadow in the Corner" (1879) illustrates her authority in the domestic sphere by portraying anxiety of the bedroom. This paper utilizes an intersectional theoretical framework of Michel Foucault's docile bodies and Sandra Bartky's feminine docile bodies to demonstrate how the societal, policing gaze compelled Victorian women to perform femininity even in the domestic sphere – a space where women assumed they had authority. I also examine how the intersections of gender and class affect the female spiritualist's transgression of gendered space. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the influence of spiritualism on British women's ghost stories, especially tales that illustrate the horrors of patriarchy.


Improving information literacy instruction through reflection! Keywords: teaching, reflection, improvement Reflective teaching is highlighted as a way to become a reflective practitioner; to learn ...


The phenomenon of thinking is well studied in psychology, and many of its types are revealed. However, little attention is paid to the development of divergent thinking in general and the development of divergent thinking of managers in particular. At the same time, multidirectional management decisions, their prompt adoption and the originality of content are very necessary for enterprises. The aim of the article is to give the characteristic of divergent thinking, to note its features and to present own definition of the concept "divergent thinking of managers". In the article the analysis of one of the functions of managers, that is forecasting, is described. The scenario method and a new method of destructive scenario forecasting are proposed. The algorithm of the last method application in the form of a technological map is shown. The result of using the method for 2 years on specialized programs of professional development and retraining of managers is described. The results of mathematical processing of the obtained data on diagnostic procedures are presented. They testify that in the experimental groups the development of qualitative characteristics of divergent thinking of managers proceeded more intensively than in the control ones, in which the method of destructive scenario forecasting was not used. That proves the effectiveness of the proposed method for the development of divergent thinking of managers.


I greatly appreciate the opportunity to speak here today. This is a very important time, with the election campaign drawing to a close, while millions of children are returning to school to further their education and obtain the tools necessary to lead the country into the future. I would therefore like to take the opportunity to discussion issues that involve each one of us as individuals, and all of us, particularly the Bank of Israel, at the societal level: the future of our children and further generations, and the standard of living that we want to improve for their benefit, and also of course for our benefit as a country.


We give the most general expression of orthonormal piecewise constant wavelet bases, in the case when the refinement process consists in dividing a domain into four subdomains having the same area. We show that the classical Haar bases are optimal with respect to the ∞-norm of the reconstruction error, but not with respect to the 1-norm. The construction applies not only to planar domains, but also to surfaces of revolution, like sphere, cone, paraboloid, or two-sheeted hyperboloid.


ABSTRACT This article examines different perspectives of elder abuse in the context of traditional cultural values and the effects of modernization in India and acculturation among Indian immigrants to the US. Case examples illustrate general perspectives. Implications for policy, programs, and practice are discussed.


Data cleansing is a commonly encountered problem while working with documents with the purpose of extracting useful information. There exist several solutions that actually are related to the dataset type, the data organization and the working domain the dataset is related to. There exist different issues related to the datasets like the merge between different datasets, the data extraction from a database that can contains different errors. Errors in datasets' records is a well known problem that can affects the results of a data extraction operation. In the presented work some methods have been implemented in order to clean up data fields in a database in order to characterize and classify them.


The article touches on the issues of choosing and applying bail as preventive punishment in the light of the latest changes in criminal-procedural legislation. The paper examines the criminal-procedural norms on bail and the practice of imposing and applying it. The author identifies, summarizes and analyzes the basic problematic issues and the reasons of low demand for the mentioned preventive punishment in law-enforcement practice. On the basis of the conducted research the author introduces the methods to remove and solve the mentioned problems.


Multi-functional tactile sensors, capable of measuring multi-physical quantities in a limited space by one structure, have aroused great research interest. This paper proposes a monostable dome-shaped sensor for the simultaneous measurement of the stiffness and surface potential of the object at the same position. In the proposed sensor, the top electrode is a flexible spherical stainless steel dome, and the bottom electrode is a circular sheet covered with an electret film, providing a bias electric field. Output Voltages between two electrodes are generated because of the electrostatic effect, and resulting waveforms can be measured as the proposed sensor contacts and releases the object. While the proposed sensor approaches the object, the surface potential of the object determines the voltage waveform. After contacting the object, the voltage waveform indicates a direct comparison of stiffness between the object and top electrode, based on the monostable buckling of the dome. Here, we present theoretical and experimental relationships between measured voltages obtained from the proposed sensor and a charged electret film on the surface of the object. The proposed sensor makes it possible to measure the stiffness and surface potential of the object using voltage waveforms.


In New York City's early '80s music scene and beyond, the band Sonic Youth represents a special case of the celebrity's concept. It cannot be reduced to the record sales or scandals, like other famous people. They don't have the typical self-destructive streak of the stars of the show business, which is the basis of the fortune and, at the same time, the defeat of other musicians. They don't even have the cult of personality, which has destabilized other crews of the time. However Sonic Youth, during their three decades of career, have been able to find a space in the music scene, to involve a broad segment of audience and lovers; becoming a kind of model for younger generations of musicians. Furthermore, the members of Sonic Youth can be considered such as influencers ahead of his time, thanks to their ability to find new talents. The present study aims to analyze the concept of celebrity applied to the Sonic Youth language, from 1981 (starting year) to 1994, the year of Experimental Jet Set, Trash No Star album, which brings the group to that DIY (Do-It-Yourself) punk ethics that denotes them from the beginning; to plot the New York's environment in which they fit; and how the entry into the mainstream world changes the aesthetics of the group. In other words, the research is a breakthrough of the band's long career, marking the highlights that made them the Sonic Youth.


We examine linear-quadratic (LQ) approximation of stochastic dynamic optimization problems in macroeconomics (and elsewhere), in particular in policy analysis using Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models. We first define the problem that is solved by a social planner, given that the objective of the latter is to maximize average welfare; this yields the efficient solution. We then comment on the LQ approximation when a tax or subsidy can be imposed such that the zero-inflation competitive steady state output level is equal to the efficient level. We then examine the correct procedure for replacing a stochastic non-linear dynamic optimization problem with a linear-quadratic approximation. We show that a procedure proposed by Benigno and Woodford (2004) for large underlying distortions in the economy can be more easily implemented through a second-order approximation of the Hamiltonian used to compute the ex ante optimal policy with commitment (the Ramsey problem). We then define the notion of Target-Implementability, which is also a sufficient condition for a particular steady-state maximum of the Ramsey problem, and explain the usefulness of this in the context of stabilization policy


Mez is a publish-subscribe messaging system for latency sensitive multi-camera machine vision at the IoT Edge. Unlike existing messaging systems, Mez allows applications to specify latency, and application accuracy bounds. Mez implements a network latency controller that dynamically adjusts the video frame quality to satisfy latency, and application accuracy requirements. Additionally, the design of Mez utilizes application domain specific features to provide low latency operations. Experimental evaluation on an IoT Edge testbed with a pedestrian detection machine vision application indicates that Mez is able to tolerate latency variations of up to 10x with a worst-case reduction of 4.2\% in the application accuracy F1 score metric.


WHAT ARE AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALS? Overview Imaging TECHNICAL BASICS OF EVOKING AND RECORDING AEPs Stimuli Instrumentation Time Domain Frequency Domain RESEARCH AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS I: AEPs FROM COCHLEA AND VIII NERVE Periph Anatomy OAE EcochG RESEARCH AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS II: AEPs FROM AUDITORY BRAINSTEM Brainstem Anatomy ABR ABR: Threshold Neuropathy Site of Lesion FFR RESEARCH AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS III: AGING AND INTRAOPERATIVE MONITORING Generators Intraoperative Monitoring Development Aging RESEARCH AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS IV: AEPs FROM AUDITORY CORTICAL AREAS Thalamo-cortical Anatomy ASSR Middle Latency Responses SVP SVP-Endogen Magnetoencephalography Sound Localization RESEARCH AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS V: MYOGENIC AND NONAUDITORY EPs Myogenic VEP SEP VsEP Multimodal PRACTICAL MATTERS: LABORATORY EXERCISES AND CASE STUDIES Laboratory Exercises Case Studies


Chapter 21 reviews the mechanism of injury and clinical features, imaging strategy, imaging characteristics, and treatment options of knee trauma, including tibial plateau fractures with description of the Schatzker classification, knee dislocation, patellar fractures, and avulsion fractures about the knee. Associated vascular injury with knee dislocation and certain tibial plateau fractures are also discussed. Concomitant ligamentous and meniscal injuries associated with avulsion fractures are described. Oblique radiographs are helpful for detecting tibial plateau fractures. CT is useful in quantifying the degree of depression in tibial plateau fractures. Certain avulsion fractures and signs about the knee are often associated with significant ligamentous injury and should be evaluated with MRI.


The accelerating progress of the communication technologies in the past two decades has made media advertisement an inevitable marketing strategy for business success. Individuals in contemporary society receive more information than ever, and their attention is dispersed over more forms of media. Therefore, an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different media is crucial for businesses to survive the fiercely competitive new market. This study thus endeavored to investigate how frequently university students expose to different media? Message conveyed by what media are more persuasive? How students' socio-demographic backgrounds might influence their media use patterns? A self-developed questionnaire was administered to 250 university students in Taiwan. The results indicated that internet was appraised as the most adequate media for advertising to university students in terms of exposure frequency and message persuasion.


The study focused on haematological and therapeutic aspects of Canine parvovirus infection in crossbred pups. Twenty PCR (using primer pair Hfor/Hrev) were confirmed CPV in pups in age group of 6–8 weeks. The haematological parameters revealed low white blood cells (WBC) count in 90% pups, low red blood cells (RBC) counts in 60% pups, low haemoglobin (Hb) values in 60% pups and differential leukocyte counts showed neutropenia in 85% pups and lymphopenia in 60% pups. All the affected pups were treated with Cefpodoxime, vitamins and fluid therapy. Fourteen pups recovered completely within five days. Two pups recovered completely within seven days and four pups with severe leucopenia and neutropenia, expired during course of treatment.


A laser strainmeter for in-situ monitoring of an important actively seismic area of Europe, namely Vrancea region in Romania is proposed. Six groups from four different countries (Romania, Czech Republic, Italy and Greece) with various areas of expertise (e.g. geophysics, lasers, optics, interferometry, and mechanics) are involved in order to sustain the complexity of the project. This paper presents some preliminary laboratory experiments related to measuring relative displacements with a stable interferometer. Displacements of the order of tens to hundreds of nanometers (80 to 285 nm) were measured with uncertainty of ±1 nm. A computer algorithm was used to process the interferograms.


LENS intracameral FLEXIBLE ELASTIC WITH SURFACE IS CONVEX 3 posterior, CONTINUOUS AND BALANCED ROTATION AND WHOSE AREA ART 1, 2 IS FORMED AN AREA OF CENTRAL SPHERE CONVEX 1 OR BODY Quadratic BALANCED ROTATION CONNECTED ON A DIAMETER 4 TO 8 MM, PREFERABLY BY THE ROUND TRANSITION TO A SURFACE OR BALL ANNULAR CONCAVE 2 toroidal WHILE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE SURFACE OF THE RING 2 CONCAVE AND SURFACE POSTERIOR 3 IS 0.05 A 1.5 MM. FOR MANUFACTURING LENS intracameral INVENTION IN MOLD HAVING THE sHAPE NEGATIVE SURFACE ART WANTED LENS AND ITS pERIPHERY WITH AN EDGE IN EXCESS OF ACUTE 0.05 A 1, 5 MM ABOVE THE END OF THE SURFACE RING DEVICE, ON INTRODUCED A MIXTURE OF MONOMER ARRIVING TO ACUTE OVER THE EDGE TO FORM A CONTINUOUS mENISCUS CONVEX AND tHEN THAT WE EXPOSE THE MOLD CHARGE OF mIXING monomer, A CONDITIONS POLYMER ERISATION.


Extending the methods of Metrebian (2018), we prove that any symmetric punctured interval tiles Z. This solves a question of Gruslys, Leader and Tan (2016).


Charged particle losses in a medium with periodically varying density were previously analyzed. A different method is used for determining particle energy losses on Cherenkov emmission. A medium where electron density N changes periodically along the z axis but remains constant along the perpendicular axis, N = N/sub 0/(1 + kcos(2 pi z/e)), 0 ( k < 1, was investigated. Some of the derived expressions are applied in evaluating charged particle energy losses per unit of path length. Finally, the proportional terms DELTA in the expression for particle electric field intensity are studied in order to calculate the variable force acting upon the particle. (R.V.J.)


"That's it!" the boy cried. "What's it?" his father asked, suddenly appearing at the back of the boat beside his son. "The ocean! That's what I'm seeing!" "Shouldn't you be up there at the front with the rest of your class? You know how much I love rivers and how much I'd love to stand here staring at it with you, but as your chaperone I have to make sure you guys are helping the crew with their readings." "All right," the boy said huffily, but he still couldn't stop thinking about the river, its secret language, its churning mysteries. The river was just one step on an ineluctable journey to the sea, and it was already bearing the boy's reflection to the ocean.


It is well known that worship of the Kims has been strengthened in North Korea. This paper analyzes this mechanism. The paper proposes two kinds of models which depict the North Korean system. The first one is a case where North Korean authorities can directly decide the labor allocation of people. The second one is a case where North Korean authorities make contracts with people. The result shows that low levels of reservation income is the origin of the strengthening worship of the Kims.


A palladium-nikel(Pd-Ni) alloy composite membrane has been fabricated on microporous nickel support formed with nickel powder. Plasma surface treatment process is introduced as pre-treatment process instead of HCl activation. Pd coating layer was prepared by dc magnetron sputtering deposition after H₂ plasma surface treatment. Palladium-nickel alloy composite layer had a fairly uniform and dense surface morphology. The membrane was characterized by permeation experiments with hydrogen and nitrogen gases at temperature of 773 K and pressure of 2.2psi. The hydrogen permeance was 6 m/minㆍ㎠ㆍatm and the selectivity was 120 for hydrogen/nitrogen(H₂/N₂) mixing gases at 773 K.


Some years ago, one of my research students was asked to start a wide-ranging search for James Joyce's possible buried writ ings. After painstaking investigation, she came across an Ita lian short story by the Irish writer in a Trieste newspaper; it was entitled "Petali d'arancio" ("Orange Petals") and appeared in II Pop ?lo di Trieste on 3 January 1929.1 At first sight, it seemed to be merely an Italian version of "The Boarding House" from Dubliners, but closer inspection revealed a number of significant variants and an important short sentence, not in the English version, added to the end of the story. The short story appears in no Joyce bibliography and has no translator's name attached to it. The identity of the trans lator remains a mystery since neither local archives nor documents by Joyce in other institutions provide sufficient evidence for certain identification.2 Computer-assisted philological analysis comparing this story with Joyce's Italian writings in The James Joyce Archive and with con temporary Italian translations of Dubliners has not entirely cleared up the mystery, but it has at least pinpointed fundamental stylistic differences and indisputable analogies. What follows is as much of the evidence as we have gathered to date.


The quench characteristic is a critical issue for the application of superconducting cable. In order to study the process of the quench behavior in the cable accurately, a four-dimensional (4D) quench model for quasi-isotropic superconducting cable was developed and presented, in this paper. We first consider that the materials of the cable are in perfect thermal contact with the neighboring ones, and the radial temperature field and current redistribution at different time and different axial distances during the quench process are obtained. Then, thermal contact resistance (TCR) is considered. In addition, the minimum quench energy (MQE) and the quench propagation velocity (QPV) in axial direction of the two cases are investigated and compared. The results show that the maximum temperature of the heating area (Tmax) is higher and QPVs are greater than the case without considering TCR. In addition, there is temperature gradient in the cross section of the cable. Finally we evaluate the sensitivity of thermal stability for the quasi-isotropic cable on the different values of TCR and positions where TCR is inserted. It is concluded that TCR among REBCO tapes has little effect on MQE and QPV of quasi-isotropic superconducting cable. The results are useful for the application of the quasi-isotropic superconducting cable immersed in liquid nitrogen, and this numerical model can also be used for simulating the quench process of other superconducting cables or conductors.


This article surveys Ghassan Kanafani's fictions, arguing that his literature of resistance features militant men or ordinary men coping with the consequences of dislocation. Hence, the presence of women is mainly subordinate. Then the article investigates the ambivalent presence of women in two novellas diverging from Kanafani's mainstream texts which marginalize women, offering instead prevailing female figures: All That's Left to You (1966) and Umm Saad (1969). In the former, Maryam loses her honor, getting pregnant out of wedlock just as her people lose Jaffa; the fallen woman allegorically becomes the lost nation, and thus assumes negative attributes of the mother archetype. In the latter, this ancillary presence changes as the titular heroine enacts resistance and attachment to the land. Umm Saad assumes the positive attributes of the mother archetype, figuratively becoming the fertile land to be regained. Using a relevant framework on resistance literature and archetypal criticism on the feminine, this article shows the close association between women and the Palestinian land (the positive ideals of liberty and fertility as well as the negative meanings of loss/disgrace). Such ambivalence can be understood in a range of positive and negative aspects of the mother archetype. Appealing to recurring patterns and primordial aspects of the human psyche, Kanafani asserts the universalism of his committed fiction, the right to regain the land as a basic human need, and the richness of the mother archetype to the collective unconscious of a nation. Hence, this article problematizes traditional gender roles in Kanafani's fiction.


An energy independent scaling of the near-side ridge yield at a given multiplicity has been observed by the ATLAS and the CMS collaborations in p+p collisions at s = 7 and 13 TeV. Such a striking feature of the data can be successfully explained by approaches based on initial state momentum space correlation generated due to gluon saturation. In this paper, we try to examine if such a scaling is also an inherent feature of the approaches that employ strong final state interaction in p+p collisions. We find that hydrodynamical modeling of p+p collisions using EPOS 3 shows a violation of such scaling. The current study can, therefore, provide important new insights on the origin of long range azimuthal correlations in high multiplicity p+p collisions at the LHC energies.


Two standards, the American National Standards Institute/the Acoustical Society of America (ANSI/ASA) and the International Organization for Standardization/Publicly Available Specification (ISO/PAS) have been published for surface vessel radiated noise assessment but not for a submerged vessel. Their measurement uncertainties of random and bias error are addressed for components of the measurement system. In this study, the bias error for a submerged vessel source level estimate is interpreted on the basis of the sea surface coherent reflection coefficient and transmission anomaly as functions of frequency, grazing angle, and effective wave height. It is found that the bias error using the mean intensity in a vertical hydrophone array is approximately 3 dB at frequencies less than 2 kHz, but 1 dB at frequencies higher than 2 kHz for effective wave heights of 0.3 and 0.6 m. This result will contribute a future standard for submerged vessel radiated noise assessment.


ABSTRACT Chatbots have the potential of eliciting users' deep self-disclosure and mediating human-to-human interaction. However, little is known about how people would interact differently with a human-supported chatbot than when talking to a chatbot alone. We design chatbots with (CH) and without (CO) human support to deliver suggestions for people to practice journaling skills. We conduct a study to investigate the effects of the two chatbot designs and each participant used their chatbot for four weeks. Our results show that the CH participants perceived a higher level of engagement than the CO participants when they received suggestions for practicing journaling skills and also engaged in deeper self-disclosure. However, after finishing the journaling-skill training session, the CO participants were more willing to keep practicing the suggested journaling skills than the CH group. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the challenges of providing healthcare services and social connection. Our in-progress research proposes a human-support chatbot system to explore effective designs to facilitate users' social connection and well-being and through conversational user interfaces. Keywords chatbot, self-disclosure, human support, conversational user interfaces ABOUT THE AUTHOR/S YI-CHIEH LEE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email@example.com Yi-Chieh Lee is a doctoral student at Computer Science. His research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), social computing, and AI & HCI. He has published in top tier venues, e.g., CHI, CSCW, IUI, and several Journals. Currently, he is working under Prof. Yun Huang to finish his dissertation, which is about designing effective conversational agents to promote mental wellbeing and behavior change. His PhD thesis is sponsored by NTT research Lab. NAOMI YAMASHITA NTT Communication Science Laboratories email@example.com Naomi Yamashita is a Primary Researcher at NTT Communication Science Laboratories. Her primary interests lie in the areas of computer-supported cooperative work and computer mediated communication. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, she aims to uncover the nature of human discourse/interaction and to propose guidelines for designing new communication technologies. Her current projects focus on the design, development and evaluation of technologies for mindful inclusion in various domains such as global teams and mental healthcare. YUN HUANG University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign firstname.lastname@example.com Yun Huang is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She co-directs the Social Computing Systems (SALT) Lab. Before joining Illinois, she was a faculty member in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and a postdoc fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work focuses on social computing systems research, in which she examines context-driven approaches of designing crowdsourcing systems. For example, her research examines how different contexts impact user contributions to crowdsourcing systems; how to leverage these contextual effects to design innovative social computing systems that can better engage users; and how crowdsourced user behavioral data may help better understand users and the community. She received her PhD from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. New Future of Work 2020, August 3–5, 2020 © 2020 Copyright held by the owner/author(s)


are not made on any scale in the South. Yet, the industry is a southern one, and forces are now at work which may have the effect of concentrating it still more in the South in the future. In 1927 the tobacco manufacturing industry ranked fourteenth, with respect to the value of the product, among the manufacturing industries of the United States, and third among the industries of the South. It also ranked fourteenth among the industries of the United States in the number of wage earners employed and in the amount of wages paid. Approximately thirty-five per cent of the wage earners of the tobacco industry were in the South. Based on the value of the product, the South had about fifty-four per cent of the output of the United States. In 1927 and 1928 southern tobacco factories consumed about sixtyfour per cent of all of the stemmed and unstemmed leaf used in the country. In 19191 1 the investment of capital in southern tobacco manufacturing represented forty per cent of the total for the country for that industry.


The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of semichronic treatment with molsidomine, an exogenous nitric oxide (NO) donor, on the biosynthesis of and the responses to this gas in large arteries. For this purpose, groups of 10 rabbits were fed either a control diet or a diet containing 200 ppm of molsidomine. Sixteen weeks later, rings of the isolated aorta of the latter rabbits appeared to be less sensitive to the dilating effects of acetylcholine, SIN-1, and NO.


Ships may encounter undesirable conditions during operations. In consequence of a casualty, fire, explosion, flooding, grounding, injury even death may occur. Besides, these results can be avoidable with precautions and preventive operating processes. In maritime transportation, casualties depend on various factors. These were listed as misuse of the engine equipment and tools, defective machinery or equipment, inadequacy of operational procedure and measure of safety and force majeure effects. Casualty reports which were published in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada and United States until 2015 were examined and the probable causes and consequences of casualties were determined with their occurrence percentages. In this study, 89 marine investigation reports regarding engine room casualties were analyzed. Casualty factors were analyzed with their frequency percentages and also their main causes were constructed. This study aims to investigate engine room based casualties, frequency of each casualty type and main causes by using decision tree method.


: Evaluation of the non-point source pollutant load entering a lake from multiple tributaries requires either that all tributaries be monitored or that some extrapolation method be used to estimate loads originating in areas not monitored. Unmonitored areas include not only watersheds of tributaries that are not monitored, but also portions of a monitored tributary's drainage basin downstream from the monitoring site and areas of direct drainage. Significant portions of large lake drainage basins are often not monitored, and loads for these areas are often estimated by extrapolation. Six simple extrapolation procedures were evaluated by using them to estimate loads for areas that had been monitored and comparing the estimated loads with the monitored loads. Three approaches were based on inter-basin ratios of area, C-factor, and discharge. The other approaches used regression relationships between concentration and flow to estimate concentrations for the unmonitored basin. The ratio approaches generally were more reliable than the regression approaches. However, extrapolation by any method tested was not very precise. Some methods also were biased when applied to watersheds of a size different than the monitored one. Extrapolation by any of these methods would compromise the precision of the lake-wide load estimate, if the unmonitored area were a significant part of the entire basin.


Due to the uncertainty and fuzziness of gas insulated switchgear (GIS) equipment faults, the accuracy and the anti-interference of GIS equipment state evaluation by using a single sensor is normally low. In order to solve that problem, a new multi-sensor information fusion method based on fuzzy theory and Dempster-Shafer (D-S) evidence theory is proposed in this paper. Temperature rise, partial discharge and internal relative humidity are selected as the basis information for fusion. The fuzzy membership degrees of each basis information are calculated by the designed fuzzy membership functions and the idea of weighted sensor reliability degrees are introduced. Then, the reliability degrees and the membership degrees of each measurement are converted into basic probability assignment functions (mass functions). Finally, the information of multiple measurements in a cycle is fused by D-S evidence theory for the evaluation result. Experimental results show that this method can improve the accuracy and anti-interference ability of the GIS equipment state evaluation, and the performance of this method is better than other similar methods.


The phonetic realization of intonational targets in the f0 contour is not always straightforwardly predicted by their affiliations in the segmental string, and the phrase tones of American English are a type of target for which several hypotheses about the domain of realization have been advanced. By varying the metrical structure of target words at the end of a phrase produced with the H* L- H% 'surprised dismay' contour, we determined that a) the right edge of the L, signaled by the beginning of the rise for the H%, occurs close to the right edge of the phrase, b) the left edge of the L-, signaled by the end of the fall from the H*, stretches leftward to seek a prominent syllable, and c) there is significant variation in the resolution of the various factors that influence these two inflection point locations.


The basic characteristics of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) systems with DQPSK modulation and channel estimation with an adaptive transversal filter and LMS algorithm are analyzed and presented in this paper. In the simulation environment designed for this purpose, we analyzed the effects of frequency offset on the performance of OFDM digital communications and presented the method for improving system performance in the presence of frequency offset. We analyzed the influence of OFDM system parameters on system's performance for various values of frequency offsets, filter lengths and the number of subcarriers. Finally, we compared the result with the one for a perfectly synchronized OFDM/DQPSK system with differential and coherent demodulation.


The Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration (MiRaTA) is a 3U CubeSat NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) mission under development for a 2016 launch. Microwave radiometry and GPS radio occultation (GPSRO) measurements of all-weather temperature and humidity provide key contributions toward improved weather forecasting. The MiRaTA mission will validate new technologies in both passive microwave radiometry and GPS radio occultation: (1) new ultra-compact and low-power technology for multi-channel and multi-band passive microwave radiometers, and (2) new GPS receiver and patch antenna array technology for GPS radio occultation retrieval of both temperature-pressure profiles in the atmosphere and electron density profiles in the ionosphere. In addition, MiRaTA will test (3) a new approach to spaceborne microwave radiometer calibration using adjacent GPSRO measurements. Radiometer measurement quality can be substantially improved relative to present systems through the use of proximal GPSRO measurements as a calibration standard for radiometric observations, reducing and perhaps eliminating the need for costly and complex internal calibration targets. MiRaTA will execute occasional pitch-up maneuvers so that radiometer and GPSRO observations sound overlapping volumes of atmosphere through the Earth's limb. To validate system performance, observations from both microwave radiometer (MWR) and GPSRO instruments will be compared to radiosondes, global high-resolution analysis fields, other satellite observations, and to each other using radiative transfer models. Both the radiometer and GPSRO payloads, currently at TRL5 but to be advanced to TRL7 at mission conclusion, can be accommodated in a single 3U CubeSat. The current plan is to launch from an ISS orbit at ~400 km altitude and 52° inclination for low-cost


Abstract This article is based on the texts about the concept of "liberal/liberalism" within the project "Iberconceptos". It presents a comparative reflection on the birth and the early development of this concept in nine countries of the Iberian Atlantic world between 1750 and 1850. After some methodological preliminaries, explaining our own way of dealing with a comparative conceptual history of liberalism, some lexico-semantical data concerning the rise of modern meanings of the word "liberal" and the coinage of "liberalism" are presented. The process of gradual diffusion, "densification", and "temporalization" of the concept is also sketched. Lastly, the sources allow us to show how the "historicization" of Ibero-American liberalisms and its conversion into a kind of key-concept of modernity lead to the rise of different political parties calling themselves "progressives" and "conservatives". These nouns evidence that the modern philosophies of history were assumed by political agents in order to understand themselves and their political actions.


This article explores the theoretical underpinnings of the dissonance framework in online consumer satisfaction formation process. Specifically, we suggest that any discrepancy between pre- and post-purchase service performance would help determine consumers' evaluations of online vendors. Drawing upon cognitive dissonance theory, a conceptual model is developed and tested in two different studies (preliminary and main studies). Using data from 191 college students collected longitudinally, the preliminary study demonstrates the validity and reliability of the measurements. Using a comparative analysis, the main study then tests our conceptual model as well as various competing models, including the expectation–confirmation model, with a sample of 292 online consumers. The results in both studies support our main prediction that the service encountered in different stages establishes dissonance. Specifically, we find that dissonance explains online consumers' satisfaction process to a substantial extent, as compared with disconfirmation under the same conditions in online retailers. This study contributes to providing an alternative yet substantial approach for expectation–confirmation theory, reflecting the overarching nature of online shopping


The Department of Justice failed to pursue justice when it decided not to file charges against Hillary Clinton regarding her private e-mail server. Congress created a statute that encompasses the mishandling of classified information through both willful intent and gross negligence to hold government officials to the oath they swore, which is to protect our nation's secrets. Hillary Clinton's acts were precisely what Congress intended to curb, and the lack of charges reveals a hole in our justice system that must be filled.


The Executive Committee of the Division on Sixteenth-andSeventeenthCentury Spanish Drama met in the Conrad Hilton at 7:00 p.m. on December 27, with Chairman Edward Nagy presiding. The others present were William M. Whitby (Secretary), Vern G. Williamsen, Frederick A. de Armas and Jack H. Parker (newly elected Delegate to the Assembly). A. Julián Valbuena had written to say that because of an unusually heavy schedule he would not be able to make the trip to Chicago. It was announced first of all that William R. Blue had been elected to the Executive Committee, to serve from 1978-1982. A nominee and three alternates were then chosen to stand for election to the Committee for the term beginning in 1979. William Whitby and Vern Williamsen were confirmed as Chairman and Secretary, respectively, for 1978. The following item was the question of whether or not a topic should be specified for papers to be read at the Division meeting in December of 1978. It was decided again to leave the choice of topic open. Papers from 8 to 10 pages in length (2,000 to 2,500 words) will be solicited. They are to be submitted in duplicate and must be in the hands of the Program Chairman (William M. Whitby, Purdue University) by April 15. The announcement was made in the Division meeting the following day and will appear (will have appeared by the time you read this) in the February 1978 MLA Newsletter and perhaps in the Spring 1978 Division Newsnotes. Various proposals and suggestions for research and publication projects were discussed. Then, Vern Williamsen reported on the status of the Tirso bibliography, now being reviewed by the University of Missouri Press. It is an evaluative bibliography covering the time span 1627-1975. The approximately 500 typed pages, with something like 1,000 discrete items, represent the cooperative effort and expertise of twelve annotators. The expectation is that we shall see it in print by early in 1979. Professor Williamsen also reported that beginning in 1978 Professor John J. Reynolds (St. John's University) will collaborate with him on the annual «Bibliography of Publications on the Comedia. » This means that the present number of journals covered (about 250) will be doubled. Matters related to the Bulletin of the Comediantes (the necessity for raising the subscription rates; Karl C. Gregg's resignation as Managing Editor and the appointment of José A. Madrigal to succeed him in the post) were to be taken up at the luncheon. Unfortunately, that event (called this year «the Comediantes' luncheon for the Division») was, though otherwise successful, even more rushed than had been anticipated, and there was no business meeting . We will try to do better the next time .


The Sophistication of digital media provides how easy to access about information in almost all aspects of society. The leap of technological sophistication is too rapid makes the negative impact of digital media increasingly disguised. This community service aims to improve the understanding of housewives regarding the negative impact of digital media on children. Using the adult approach method, this service activity actually looks for cases from within the community itself, and guides the community to find solutions to problems from themselves. At the end of the activity, it was known that housewives in the Demen, Pakem, Sleman area had knowledge of the negative impact of digital media on children, but awareness of its long-term impact still became homeworks not only for the mothers themselves, but also the other stakeholders.


The present invention provides an olefin polymerization catalyst composition comprising at least one one donor bound heteroatoms and two anion bound tridentate ligand coordinated to the transition metal by a heteroatom.


It is easy to dismiss racial/ethnic health disparities as ethical issues, because they seem simultaneously too easy and too hard. It is a no-brainer to say that, ethically, one's racial or ethnic status ought not to determine the quality of the care one receives, or the degree of access to that care. Yet, when these problems are dismissed from larger discussions of socioeconomic inequities, the development of practical policies to eliminate these health disparities seems a matter for policy and technical expertise, with no useful role for a bioethicist at the table. To identify possible roles of ethics in addressing racial/ethnic health disparities, we survey three aspects of the problem—broad conceptual questions, macro-level policy choices, and micro-level policies as they appear from the vantage point of a community clinic. Such a multilevel inquiry illustrates the usefulness of bioethics as part of policy development and also outlines a future research program for bioethics itself.


In this paper the author describes the Ajase complex as a variant of the Freudian and &dquo;Western&dquo; Oedipal complex. He argues that modifications must be made in the theory and technique of psychoanalysis in order to adapt the latter to patients of Japanese culture. The title of the article refers to a Japanese tale of Buddhist origin. The legend tells of the wife of a king who, as she became older, was afraid that she would lose her husband's love. In order to keep his love, she decided to have a son and accepted a prophet's promise that in three years a hermit would die and be reincarnated as her son.


Macrocytosis is not only characteristic of anemias of nutritional deficiency, but is also associated with hemolytic crises and anemias due to toxic factors. In general, macrocytosis occurs in anemia when hemoglobin production is normal or accelerated relative to red cell production. In the case of nutritional anemias with relatively little increase in cell volume, the term, macrocytic, when applied as a contrast to the term, hypochromic, has obvious shortcomings. Human nutritional macrocytic anemias may be due to direct or conditioned nutritional deficiency, and may be conveniently classified according to their response either to refined or to crude liver extract or, in the opinion of some observers, to vitamin C. There is a small group of cases with slightly macrocytic anemia, with diets especially deficient in animal protein, which exhibit free hydrochloric acid in the gastric contents and which do not respond to usual doses of parenterally administered refined liver extract. This type of anemia, which has been observed in India, Scotland, Scandinavia and the United States, is often associated with pregnancy, and responds dramatically to crude liver extract orally administered. Thus, crude liver extract apparently contains both the principle effective in Addisonian pernicious anemia and another substance, for which the term "Wills' factor" is proposed. The mechanisms conditioning a deficiency of the principle effective in Addisonian pernicious anemia include deficiency of food (extrinsic) factor, the gastric (intrinsic) factor, increased degree of intestinal impermeability, and the inhibitory effect, observed by von Bonsdorff, of extracts of Diphyllobothrium 1atu.m segments on proteolysis at neutral reaction in normal human gastric juice. Agren and Waldenstroem have recently reported on the action of an amino polypeptidase, derived from hog gastric mucosa, in potentiating the hematopoietic activity of orally administered liver in pernicious anemia. From this, it is inferred that the amino polypeptidase presumably acts as the gastric (intrinsic) factor. The nature of the food (extrinsic) factor remains uncertain. The available evidence does not entirely favor either of the alternative theories (maturation arrest or hemolysis) as the im-


382International organizations — Immunity — Immunity from jurisdiction — Immunity from execution — Convention on the Immunities and Privileges of the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations, 1947 — Extent of immunity conferred — Effect given to the 1947 Convention in the law of the United Kingdom — International Organizations Act 1968 — Specialized Agencies of the United Nations (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1974 — UNESCO — Whether grant of immunity compatible with European Convention on Human Rights — Whether immunity dependent upon existence of an alternative forum for resolution of dispute Human rights — Access to court — European Convention on Human Rights, Article 6 — Immunity of international organization from jurisdiction of national courts — Whether incompatible with rights under Article 6 — Whether compliance with international legal obligations a legitimate aim — Whether justifying restriction on right of access to court Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Customary international law — International law on immunities of international organizations — UNESCO — Application in English law — Relationship with rights under European Convention on Human Rights Treaties — Interpretation — Principles of interpretation codified in Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969, Articles 31-3 — Good faith — Convention on the Immunities and Privileges of the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations, 1947 — Whether to be interpreted in light of the European Convention on Human Rights — The law of England


Wherein lies the unity of these three novels ? To what extent may they be termed a trilogy ? There is no unity of plot, no persistent character, no recurrence of scene or situation and yet Raabe testifies to an inner relation. The last paragraph of his Schiidderump reads as follows: " We have come to the close. And it was a long and hard road to travel from the pastorate of the Hungerpastor at Grunzenow on the Baltic via Abu Telfan in Tumurkieland under the shadows of the Moon Ridge to the poorhouse at Krodebeck at the base of the old Germanic Zauberberg." The usual method of procedure in determining such a question would be that of a close analysis of the author's personality and the conditions under which these works were produced, with the end in view of weighing and determining the reflex of the author's personality and experience in the choice of his motifs, the shaping of his plot, the form and growth of his characters, and his distribution of life's destinies. But the difficulties of such a course are at once apparent, when one considers the taciturn nature of the man. His sole means of communication with the outer world, and for him no doubt the only adequate and satisfactory means, lay in his works. And in the brief period of his lifetime (1831-1910) the German nation grew richer by some thirty-eight volumes of stories and novels written by him. Yet although we have so little supplementary information from autobiographical material, a study of the trilogy in the light of Raabe's contemporaries will, I think, be found very illuminating. In a certain sense, Storm's development is perhaps as typical of a certain phase of nineteenth-century thought and craftmanship as any that could be adduced. His first serious literary effort, Immensee, stamps the youthful author a romanticist, who expresses the fullness of his emotional life in a Stimmungsnovelle. His last novel, Der Schimmelreiter, depicts a totally different type of hero and points to a totally different outlook upon life. Hauke Haien is a man whose


Norfleet Smith, 1st Lieut., Co "G", 3rd N.C. Cavalry, Barringer's Brigade to Major Brien, near Petersburg, Va. Requests 12 hour leave of absence to visit Petersburg to attend to business matters. Including note granting permission by order of Lt. Col. Moore, signed by L.S. Warren.


L denotes the classical curve length, s is the arc-length parameter. κ is the curvature and Φ is a velocity function. The first step is to cast the elastica energy (5) in the form of path length with respect to a degenerate Finsler metric. For that purpose, let S1 = [0, 2π) be the space of angles with periodic boundary conditions. For each θ , let ~vθ = (cosθ ,sinθ) be the corresponding unit vector. It is known that


We demonstrate an octave-spanning, self-referenced optical frequency comb produced with a high repetition rate (frep=575 MHz) femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser that requires less that 1 W of 532 nm pump power.


The porous alumina (Al2O3) layer obtained at the interface between polydimethylsiloxane/hydrogen peroxide medium and aluminum substrate under charged and neutral species injection produced in negative corona discharges in air at atmospheric pressure is analyzed by different methods in this paper. The scanning electron microscopy investigations showed the uniform distribution of the pores formed in the alumina layer and their columnar structures. Both energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements indicate that during the anodization process of the aluminum in the polydimethylsiloxane/hydrogen peroxide medium in corona discharge the incorporation of silicon in the structure of the alumina layer is possible.


A new variant of the gain-bandwidth problem involving transmission through a prescribed two-port is presented. It may be described as follows. Given a lossless two-port terminated in an open circuit, find the gainbandwidth constraints on the output voltage when the input of the twoport is excited by a finite generator through an arbitrary lossless equalizer. The theory is illustrated by the design of an equalizer to control step response.


Nickel base superalloys are widely used for high temperature applications, such as aerospace engines and industrial gas turbines. While the operating conditions and structural requirements are different, in both cases increasing the operating temperature will increase efficiency and lower costs. Therefore, in order to develop and optimize application-appropriate superalloys, an understanding of how their structure, properties, and performance relate is necessary. This talk will discuss the different operating requirements and present current research on aerospace turbine blades. The effect of temperature and microstructure on crack initiation and propagation during cyclic testing will be discussed. Ni-based superalloys are used in the aircraft engine industry because of their excellent high temperature properties, which include good ductility, oxidation and hot corrosion resistance, and microstructural stability [1] . They are used in the hottest sections of the turbine engines for both disk and blade applications. Most Ni-based superalloys are comprised of two phases: the matrix phase, γ, and the ordered L12 phase, γ', which forms as precipitates. The γ' strengthening causes Ni-based superalloys to have high strength even at high temperatures, making them favorable for turbine components. Previous research on Ni-based superalloys is a useful starting point for superalloys that are to be used in industrial systems. Main differences to consider are the variations in size, operating temperature, and lifetime of the components. For aerospace turbines, a main concern is increasingly higher operating temperatures in an effort to improve efficiency and reduce fuel consumption. In the case of industrial turbines, a more corrosive operating environment results in a smaller selection of acceptable superalloys. In both cases, the correct design will address these differences and boost the performance and efficiency of the advanced turbine system [2]. In current work, we characterize Ni-based superalloys under various cyclic loading conditions in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of their fatigue and creep-fatigue behavior. Creep-fatigue studies in a second generation monocrystalline Ni-base superalloy, as well as low cycle fatigue studies in a third generation polycrystalline powder metallurgy Ni-base superalloy were used to investigate the variation in crack initiation with temperature and load. SEM and TEM analysis indicates that the addition of cyclic loading at high temperatures inhibits the reorganization of γ' in comparison with the "rafted" structure observed under monotonic creep conditions. Fatigue crack growth studies in the monocrystalline superalloy have focused on the effect of temperature on crack propagation. Higher temperatures result in a significantly smoother crack path (Figure 1), and a concomitant increase in crack growth rates (Figure 2).


Interfacial reactions during Si die attachment with Zn-Al-Mg-Ga high-temperature lead (Pb)-free solder on bare Cu lead-frame (Tamac 4) and Ni metallized Cu lead-frame were investigated using an optical microscope, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive x-ray (EDX). Die attachment was performed in an automatic die attach machine in a forming gas environment at temperature 380°C. The back side of the die was metallized with Ti/Ni/Ag layers. Comparative studies of die attach properties such as wetting, void and die shear strength on bare and Ni metallized Cu lead-frame was made. Cross sectional microstructural investigation revealed that as many as three intermetallic compound (IMCs) layers form at the solder/lead-frame interface for bare Cu lead-frame. A CuZn intermetallic layer forms close to copper, a scallop shaped CuZn4 forms at the solder side, while Cu5Zn8 forms at the middle. At the interface with Si die, IMC layer could not be detected by SEM. With Ni metallized Cu lead-frame, no IMC layer was observed at the solder/lead-frame as well as Si die/solder interface by SEM. Wetting on Ni metallized Cu lead-frame was found to be lower as compared to that at bare Cu lead-frame. Die shear strength was found to be higher on bare Cu lead-frame (24.2 MPa) as compared to Ni metallized Cu lead-frame (20.5 MPa). Die shear strength of standard Pb-5Sn solder was also measured for comparison and found to be 28.2 MPa.


ABSTRACT Financialisation confronts households in the form of planning and risk management along standardised lifecycle stages like starting a family or preparing for retirement. The finance sector in Germany represents this as the exercise of responsibility. Yet German government institutions have long encouraged and rewarded a different kind of responsibly, manifested in prudent study, work and consumption habits. In this paper, I tease out from life histories of German retirees their nonchalance about planning, antipathy toward finance and strong sense of personal effort and investment. Contrasting them with the contingency and treacherousness of financial planning, I argue that financialisation is preceded by ideological work, which redefines responsibility according to its own needs and in so doing, obscures its stakes.


The Canadian Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario, is located some 100 km east of Toronto and has been the location of radium and/or uranium refining since the 1930's. Historically, these activities involved materials containing radium-226, uranium, arsenic and other contaminants generated by the refining process. In years past, properties and sites in Port Hope became contaminated from spillage during transportation, unrecorded, un-monitored or unauthorized diversion of contaminated fill and materials, wind and water erosion and spread from residue storage areas. Residential properties in Port Hope impacted by radioactive materials are being addressed by the Canadian federal government under programs administered by the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office (LLRWMO) and the Port Hope Area Initiative Management Office (PHAIMO). Issues that currently arise at these properties are addressed by the LLRWMO's Interim Waste Management Program (IWM). In the future, these sites will be included in the PHAIMO's Small Scale Sites (SSS) remedial program. The LLRWMO has recently completed a remediation and restoration program at a residential property in Port Hope that has provided learnings that will be applicable to the PHAIMO's upcoming SSS remedial effort. The work scope at this property involved remediating contaminated refinery materials that had been re-used in themore » original construction of the residence. Following removal of the contaminated materials, the property was restored for continued residential use. This kind of property represents a relatively small, but potentially challenging subset of the portfolio of sites that will eventually be addressed by the SSS program. (authors)« less


When talking about clinical simulation many people associate it with a strategy aimed at developing skills and general abilities related to cardiopulmonary resuscitation due to the fact that it has been one of the main focus worldwide.However, this concept is far from the real utilities that this practice offers the institutions in charge of the medical formation as well as other health areas. As described above, clinical simulation has maintained its focus in being a source of economical income thanks to the sales of resuscitation courses,neglecting its true value and utility because of the lack of depth given to the practice. When we know the practice's true foundations we will understandits importance in the day to day training of the medical formation. It must be approached as a primary strategy in developing the needs of the students as well as being included in the curriculum. It is important to clarify that this article does not pretend to develop the entire epidemiological bases on a clinical simulation, but more importantly to reflex about its effectiveness in satisfying pedagogical needs.


Esterification of lactic acid with secondary alcohols such as isopropanol and isobutanol followed by acrylic acid was carried out by azeotropic distillation. Mass, Fourier Transform Infrared,1H-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and proton decoupled 13C-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopic techniques confirmed the formation of isoalkyl lactates and isoalkyl lactate acrylates. Poly(isoalkyl lactate acrylate)s were synthesized by free radical solution polymerization technique and molecular weights of the polymers were determined by gel permeation chromatography. Wide angle X-ray Diffraction studies indicated the polymers were amorphous and their average molecular interchain spacing () value was calculated from 2θ value of amorphous halo. Moisture absorption and glass transition temperature of the polymers decreased with increase in number of carbon atoms of isoalkyl groups and  value. Moisture absorption of the polymers were in the range of 2 to 6% (w/w) depending upon the isoalkyl lactate group, relative humidity and time. The moisture absorption of polymers followed Fikian process. Two-step thermal degradation was observed in nitrogen atmosphere and the thermal stability trend can be explained on the basis of  value.


We investigate the 2D ferromagnetic Kondo lattice model for manganites with classical corespins at Hund's rule coupling JH = 6, with antiferromagnetic superexchange 0.03 ≤ J ′ ≤ 0.05. We employ canonical and grand canonical unbiased Monte Carlo simulations and find paramagnetism, weak ferromagnetism and the Flux phase, depending on doping and on J . The observed single particle spectrum in the flux phase differs from the idealized infinite lattice case, but agrees well with an idealized finite lattice case with thermal fluctuations.


Thermal modification leads to enhanced dimensional stability among other property changes. There is interest in using mild thermal modifications to add value to joinery products. A mild-modification system for Welsh timber has been developed to improve dimensional stability and working properties of fast grown softwoods such as larch (Larix kaempferi) and Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla). There is potential to combine this with lamination to achieve large section pieces suitable for joinery applications. This paper reports a set of tests developed to investigate the strain within glued joints in modified wood under combined wetting, UV and humidity cycling regimes. The developed method was based on EN 927-6, which is a QUV artificial weathering test typically used to evaluate the performance of coatings on wood. By omitting a mask, and allowing UV exposure over the total surface, the glued joints within the samples were exposed to rapid drying during the UV phases of the cycle and wetting during spray cycles. This places significant strain on any paint films or glue joints, providing a challenging test method, enabling comparison of film performance and bonding. After six days cycling between spray and UV the samples were removed and placed above a water bath to provide elevated humidity on the underside (uncoated face). This had the effect of permitting asymmetric swelling through the thickness of the sample. Samples were removed from the QUV chamber between each one week cycle, to gather data relating to moisture content, degree of splitting, checking or delamination. The samples were prepared from modified Japanese larch. Pieces were planed and laminated with four lamellae using a polyurethane adhesive. In the final piece the lamellae were aligned radially, tangentially or half-radially or half-tangentially, laid up to minimise and to maximise strain at the glue-line by deliberately favouring matching (e.g. radial to radial) or poor (e.g. tangential to radial) combinations. In addition, combinations of mild and moderate thermal modification were placed in adjacent glue-lines. Samples were tested uncoated, or with clear varnish coating on only the upper face. Swelling in tangential dimensions of the segments was greater than in the radial dimensions, resulting in visible difference of thickness where radial-tangential bonds had been created. However bonding remained good through the 12 week period. The performance of a high gloss varnish was also monitored, and only minor defects observed in the majority of segments. The observed dimensional changes, moisture uptake and development of splits and checks within the wood will be discussed to illustrate stress development within the laminated samples. The results clearly highlight the potential of this test method as a severe combination of cyclic conditions, with potential for evaluating adhesive performance under asymmetric conditions. European Conference on Wood Modification 2018


Ctenitis C. Christensen (1938: 544) is a fern genus in Dryopteridaceae (Smith et al. 2006, Zhang et al. 2013), containing about 150 species distributed in the New and Old World wet tropics (Mickel & Smith, 2004). While working on a monograph of Ctenitis of the Old World, we found two new synonyms for the fern flora of Fiji which do not belong to Ctenitis and have never been correctly treated before: Ctenitis minima Brownlie (1977: 303), a heterotypic synonym of Tectaria dissecta (G. Forst.) Lellinger (1968: 156) (Tectariaceae), and Ctenitis waiwaiensis (C. Chr.) Brownlie (1977: 303) [basionym: Dryopteris waiwaiensis Christensen (1905: 300)], a heterotypic synonym of Deparia boryana (Willdenow) M. Kato (1977: 36) (Athyriaceae).


Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess and increased knowledge of students regarding a lay person's CPR before education and immediately after the education (immediately and one month after the education). Methodology: For the research an educational demonstration method was chosen. The educational part comprised of a presentation of a lay person's CPR, which every student could try to give in the demonstration part on a CPR manikin. A study involved 32 students of the first grade of a secondary nursing school. The knowledge was assessed by tests (a pre-test, a post-test, and an information retention test). The tests were statistically processed at the significance level of 0.01. Outcomes: The initial knowledges of pupils were at a good level, but the pre- -tests and post-post tests showed a statistically significant difference (knowledge increased by 23%). Test retention of information demonstrated to decrease the knowledge of almost 5%, but it was not a statistically significant difference. A statistically significant difference was also demonstrated between pre-test and test retention of information. Conclusion: Knowledge of pupils after education increased significantly. It is important reflect on the way education and appropriate use of activation methods that lead to motivating pupils. Analysis of assessment instruments is also important.


onset of acute glomerutonephritis, a kidney biopsy is clearly indicated in any child recovering from acute glomerulonephritis whose Blc is persistently low after 6 weeks, in order to rule out membranoproliferative and other glc~merul«nephrc>pathies. Similarly, after acute glomerulonephritis, the persistence of hypertension or impaired renal f'uncti«ns (elevated blood urea nitrogen or creatinine or a decreased gtomerular filtratic~n rate) is an indication to have the renal histology examined.


Vitiligo is a chronic idiopathic disease characterized by appearance of depigmented spots and discolored hairs in various parts of the body due to the destruction and reducing the number of melanocytes. Despite the absence of somatogenic appearance psychosomatic aspects of vitiligo are extremely relevant to study in view of high psychosocial significance associated with the pronounced stigmatizing effects. 62 vitiligo patients were examined. Among comorbid psychosomatic disorders there were found out psychogenic manifestations - 25 (40.3%) and nosogenic reactions due to stress effect of the dermatosis - 37 (50.7%): sociophobic - 17, masked hypochondria - 13, overvalued hypochondria of beauty - 7 patients. Psychogenic manifestations with the participation of objectively severe and subjectively significant factors can attribute vitiligo to psychosomatic skin diseases. In the clinical picture of nosogenic disorders, various forms of dissociation between the prevalence of dermatosis and subjective reaction to the cosmetic defect were revealed, which is due to the structure of the personality and somatoperceptive accentuation of the patient. The results can be implemented in dermatological practice, which will significantly optimize the treatment and compliance of patients with vitiligo. Objective: a complex clinical (dermatological, psychopathological) and psychological study of psychosomatic disorders in vitiligo.


Disease incidence among small ruminants in India is reviewed with a focus on comparisons between breeds. Few breeds and diseases are represented in the available literature. In the absence of well-designed experiments or studies, there is no conclusive evidence for genetic variation in resistance to disease between or within Indian breeds of small ruminants. Resistant genetic material may exist in India as a consequence of natural selection over centuries in an environment with a wide range of endemic diseases and parasites and efforts need to be made to identify it. The scientific community in the field of small ruminants in India has not looked seriously at genetic variation in disease resistance in sheep and goats. Certainly, no efforts have been made so far anywhere in India to breed small ruminants for resistance to infectious diseases. Forty breeds of sheep and twenty breeds of goats are recognised in India (Acharya 1982). However, there are much larger and biologically diverse populations of nondescript sheep and goats which have not gained the status of 'breeds' but which contribute most to small ruminant production. All these sheep and goats have evolved in different geographical areas-mainly in low-input subsistence systems of rearing. India can be divided into four major geographical regions. 1. Northern temperate and hilly region. 2. Northwestern arid and semi-arid region. 3. Southern peninsular region (semi-arid in the central peninsula and hot and humid along the coast). 4. Northeastern region (mostly hot and humid). In each region, there are sheep and goats adapted to the typical environmental conditions of that region. Sheep are mainly concentrated in the arid and semiarid parts of the country but goats are more or less uniformly distributed. Sheep and goat rearing is an occupation of great socioeconomic importance throughout rural India. Stationary as well as migratory flocks are found. Breeding for Resistance to Infectious Diseases in Small Ruminants There are a wide range of diseases and parasites in India and preventive health care facilities for small ruminants are inadequate. Even in Maharashtra, which is one of the more developed states in India, only about 25-30% of the total sheep and goat population is protected by vaccination against enterotoxaemia, rinderpest, anthrax, sheep pox, foot-and-mouth disease and haemorrhagic septicaemia (Department of Animal Husbandry, Maharashtra State 1992). Consequently, infectious diseases constitute a major constraint to sheep and goat production in India. Evidence for disease among small ruminants in India is scanty and mainly based on data collected in small flocks maintained at experimental stations in government research institutes or universities. These flocks are reared usually under management and environmental conditions that are widely different from rearing practices of sheep and goat owners. The conclusions derived from such studies, therefore, may not be directly relevant to field situations. The limited number of studies that are available have been predominantly on breed differences in susceptibility following natural exposure to diseases and on ranking of causes of morbidity and mortality. Since most of the studies are not aimed at assessing the genetic variation in resistance to infectious diseases between and within breeds, they do not take into account important factors such as whether the compared groups were at the same location and whether they were reared under the same nutrition and management conditions. Care must be taken, therefore, while interpreting the results of these studies. There are few studies on the large numbers of animals that do not belong to any 'recognised' breed. There have been many studies to compare lamb and kid mortality between different breeds and genotypes. Most of these studies are not relevant to genetic resistance to disease since they do not take into consideration many factors such as environment, nutrition, litter size, preand postparturition management which can have huge influences on lamb and kid mortality.


Germ cell tumors (GCTs) are cancers of that Abnormalities in developmental signaling pathways such as wnt/ β -catenin, TGF- β /BMP and Hedgehog have been described in many childhood tumors. To date, however, the status of BMP signaling in germ cell tumors has not been described. Here, we examine BMP-SMAD signaling in a set of clinically-annotated pediatric germ cell tumors. We find that BMP signaling activity is absent in undifferentiated tumors such as seminomas and dysgerminomas, but robustly present in most yolk sac tumors, a differentiated tumor type. Gene expression profiling of TGF- β /BMP pathway genes in germinomas and yolk sac tumors reveals a set of genes that distinguish the two tumor types. There is significant intertumoral heterogeneity between tumors of the same histologic subclass, implying that the BMP pathway can be differentially regulated in individual tumors. Finally, through miRNA expression profiling, we identify differential regulation of a set of miRNAs predicted to target the TGF- β /BMP pathway at multiple sites. Taken together, these results suggest that the BMP signaling pathway may represent a new therapeutic target for childhood germ cell tumors. of clinically-annotated pediatric germ cell tumors. We find that BMP signaling activity is absent in undifferentiated tumors such as seminomas and dysgerminomas, but robustly present in most yolk sac tumors, a


Bio-diversity is living beings and ecology complex body and this relevant total of different ecological course formed with the environment, it is a material base of the human survival to have very important value. This text is on the basis of analysing the current situation and characteristic of the urban bio-diversity of our country, support the inferior system of the urban natural ecology after describing bio-diversity, improve urban air quality, repair the pollution soil, reduce the noise, improve the soil state and increase the air humidity, reduce the effect of "heat island" of city, offer food and medicine and factory raw materials to residents, influence the function of the urban ecological security; Propose perfecting the policy and regulation, launch the humane education, expand international cooperation, confirm that protects the array of having priority, protect the mechanism by different level, build the ecological garden, prevent ecology from it invades to be to prevent urban bio-diversity effective countermeasure of decay from.


The article examines the interpretation of the descriptive verbal-nominal phrases, that was presented at the scientific works of the foreign linguists. There is a great variety of terms that are used to name analytical constructions. They reflect the diffuse nature of the combinations that join characteristics of different linguistic units, such as idiom, word-combination and word. Particular attention is given to the factors, such as possibility of adjectival extension and rearrangement of the components, that help to distinguish descriptive verbal-nominal phrases from phraseological unit. In the survey the author comes to the conclusion that verb desemantization, semantic integrity of combination, subordinating connection between elements, realization of the attributive valency and compatibility of the structural change are universal characteristics of the descriptive verbal-nominal phrase.


A body of a robot comprises a front body, a rear body and a connection spine, wherein the connection spine comprises a first spine connecting rod, a multi-section spine connecting rod, a transition piece and a tail-end spine connecting rod which are hinged sequentially; two front leg connection blocks of the front body are connected with a box body through two pairs of upper swinging arms and two pairs of lower swinging arms; two ends of each of two front body vibration dampers are connected with the box body and the front leg connection blocks respectively; two ends of a rear body tripod are fixedly connected with two rear leg connection blocks of the robot respectively; and the front body and the rear body are connected with each other through the spine. Through the simulation of the body structure of a cat, the body of a biomimetic quadruped robot provided by the utility model has a waistline freedom degree, high flexibility of connection between a leg part and a waist and flexibility of the waistline, the flexibility of the connection between the leg part and the body is enhanced, the self posture adjustment among walking, running and jumping processes of the quadruped robot is more convenient, the flexibility of the waistline of the quadruped robot is enhanced, and the coordination of the waistline and the leg part of the quadruped robot is higher.


The fundamental purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of port in West Africa and selectively select the best transit port for landlocked West African countries and for that matter data envelopment analysis will be used for this research. Seven (7) ports were selected out of twelve (12) using container throughput level for the basis of their selection, whiles DEA model was used for the determination of their relative efficiencies and their over time efficiencies through window analysis. It is noted that. The study noted that based on the operational efficiency of the port of Tema in Ghana, port Lomé and port of Douala, they should serve and standout as the transit port when it comes to West African landlocked countries selecting of transit port. It is recommended that there should be an expansion in infrastructure which is which should be the target so as to improve operational efficiency in West African port. Ports authorities should look more into that because is the beacon of ports efficiency and performance, because infrastructure propels ports mass production once those infrastructures are properly utilized.


The study was conducted to assess cultural practices and post-harvest handling of some selected neglected food crops (bambara nut,  bread fruits and bush-mango) in South-east and South-south Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were to; identify the cultural  practices of selected neglected crops; identify the postharvest handling procedure of the selected neglected crops; identify uses of other  parts of the neglected crops apart from the food storage organs and investigates the medicinal value of selected neglected crops. A  purposive and snow-ball sampling procedure was used to sample 120 farmers of selected neglected crops in South-east and South-south  Nigeria (Akwa-Ibom, Ebonyi and Rivers). A well-structured questionnaire was used to obtain information from the respondents and  presented using percentage and mean. The result showed that the cultural and agronomic practices for the neglected crops included;  nursery (66.7%), intercropping (79.2%), fertilizer application (66.7%) and weeding (100%). The farmers use the neglected crops as soup,  chips, flour, and food by boiling or roasting. Processing activities done before storage include fermentation, breaking of the pod, sun  drying and cleaning of the crops without water. The method of storage showed that 25% used nylon, 65% used bags and 10% used air  tight container. The farmers made use of; leaves of neglected food crops for animal feeds formulation, fermented fruits for organic  manure, and stems and branches for timber woods for building and construction. Also, farmers used some of the neglected tree crops  for treating fever, stomach upset and diabetes. Also, it is used to boost blood level, antibiotics, pile treatment and prevention of heart  failure. The study recommended that Research institutes, ADPs and other related NGOs should work in collaboration to train the farmers  on modern methods of post-harvest handlings of crops in the study area. Also, policy maker should formulate policy that will encourage  the production of neglected food crops in large quantity.


We show how cognitive and educational research and theory from the areas of text comprehension and "active reading" strategies can be applied to the domain of hypermedia textbooks ("hyperbooks"). We describe our work on the MetaLinks system, which is an authoring tool and web-based server for adaptive hyperbooks. In this paper we describe how findings from text comprehension research are incorporated into MetaLinks design features, and summarize formative studies of students using MetaLinks hyperbooks.


The knowledge of structural geology and depositional environment plays an important role in the success of any geosteering job. The bedding type, bedding dip and dip direction, faulting, localized folding, lateral facies change and continuity of sand bodies, sand-shale ratio of the deposits are some critical factors to consider in the planning of a geosteering job. These factors determine the predrill geosteering strategy and the real-time decision-making steps. The resolution of seismic data, the limited number of offset wells and their lack of proximity to the planned well, contribute uncertainty to the knowledge of these factors before drilling commences.
 This is a case study describing the geosteering of a complex deepwater turbidite reservoir in the Niger Delta. The reservoir is a sandy lobe deposit and is faulted. The well objective was to drain the required intervals in the sand compartments and geosteering was needed to support real-time decision making by estimating the throw of major faults, determining the presence of sub-seismic faults, interpreting near-wellbore structural geology, stating the proximity of conductive boundaries and describing reservoir heterogeneity. The geosteering was successful with the trajectory draining all planned sand bodies, providing improved structural interpretation of the reservoir geology in real time and achieving over 500m of net sand.
 The aim of this paper is to review the real-time decisions taken to achieve the well objective of placing a drain section in a sandy lobe deposit, describe the near-wellbore structural geology of a turbidite reservoir in the Niger Delta, and review some geological factors to consider while geosteering in deepwater Niger Delta reservoirs.


The technology of using a vibrating OLED panel directly as a speaker was commercialized for the first time in 2017 in LG Display. This technology attaches a vibration actuator called an exciter to the back of the OLED panel, where it operates the OLED panel as a diaphragm of the speaker. With the development of the display maker, it developed from CRT to PDP, LCD, and LED. In the process, the image quality and appearance are leading the way. In previous studies, image and sound must be improved at the same time for easy information transmission. In addition, the concentration of watching is improved when the positions of the image and the sound match. The advantage of this technology is that it provides the viewer with direct sound coming from the panel, delivering clear audio when the sound and video appear in the same position. That gives the viewer a high intensity and maximizes the effect of information transfer. In this paper, we introduce research that generates sound directly from the exciter speaker to the panel. It also improves the sound quality of exciter speakers. Furthermore, it makes the left and right sounds independent from the sound using the exciter speakers.


The nonidentity problem raises the question whether an act that is necessary for a person ' s existence can also harm that person. For example, according to the nonidentity logic, descendants of victims of historical injustices such as slavery and the Holocaust cannot complain about those injustices because the terrible events made their very existence possible. If a person has a life worth living, then past wrongs but for which she would not exist seemingly cannot have harmed her. This article o ff ers novel solutions to the counterintuitive nonidentity reasoning by placing it in a fresh setting: claims about animal agriculture. Per the nonidentity logic, a slaughterhouse bene fi ts the animals doomed to end there because slaughter is those animals ' raison d ' être. This article responds to the nonidentity problem chie fl y by positing an asymmetry between failing to create living beings and harming them, thus building on a moralized version of the endowment e ff ect. Consideration of the nonidentity problem in the animal context reveals a common thread running through moral reasoning about human obligations toward our own as well as other species.