This study aims to analyze the relationship between perceived stress, psychological well-being and perceived productivity through teleworking with resilience as moderation for married female employees in the telecommunications network company in Jakarta. The data analysis method used was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)–Partial Least Square (PLS) by distributing questionnaires to 148 married women employees. Data were collected from December 2021 to 2022 through an online questionnaire distributed through the human resources department. The results of this study supported the six hypotheses proposed, and 1 of the seven hypotheses did not. Perceived stress and teleworking have a relationship with psychological well-being. Moreover, teleworking can mediate the relationship between perceived stress and psychological well-being. Surprisingly women's resilience does not moderate the relationship between teleworking and psychological well-being. This study also revealed that perceived stress and psychological well-being are related to perceived productivity. This condition requires an active role of corporate leaders to find effective ways to deal with stress and increase well-being and employee productivity during teleworking or Work From Home. Corporate leaders must begin to design and plan better methods to support employees who have flexible working hours.


Open Source support, coherent joint software development and packaging is a very im- portant initiative for ensuring strong integration, network survivability and transfer of tech- nology developed within the network. In the management community, many Open Source components have been produced over the years, some of them being widely used to- day for several purposes. Recent evolutions in management and networking technologies however did slow the use of these very valuable software components and the rythm of new productions has decreased drastically. From the very beginning, EMANICS partners did recognize the need to support the Open Source initiatives in the area of management to foster their use and acceptance on large scale. In June 2007, a first call has been issued to the EMANICS community containing two sub-calls : one for software development and one for Open Source software packaging. Four initiatives have been selected in the first call : SMIng support in LibSMI, P2PFastSS, ISMS implementation and VoIPbots. Two proposals have been selected in the packaging part: Open Diameter packaging and NDPMon packaging and integration in standard Linux distributions. In addition, the work on management software categorisation, annotation and referencing did continue. A second call was issued in April 2008. Like the first call of the second phase, it did contain two sub-calls : one on software development and one on software packaging. Five development projects were selected in this call : (1) lamda Monitor, (2) Linubia, (3) NetVis, (4) SMIYang, and (5) JYang together with three packaging projects : (1) TOMP2P, (2) SNMPDump and (3) Weathermap). This report provides the details of the two calls (and four subcalls) that have been issued since June 2007 and for every selected project, a detailed description of the software package together with the achievements made with EMANICS support. The work on the software inventory database is also reported in this document. This report is an extension of deliverable D6.3 which was issued in december 2007. It closes the reporting of work-package 6 for the second phase of the EMANICS network of excellence.


Effective simulation models require robust development methodologies. Planning, design, data, and testing are integral to ensure valuable answers to the model's customers. This paper discusses how supporting static models provide guidelines and directional correctness to simulation models. Static models can also provide supplemental answers which allow the reduction in simulation model complexity.


Act: A major division in a play. An act can be sub-divided into scenes. (See scene). Greek plays were not divided into acts. The five act structure was originally introduced in Roman times and became the convention in Shakespeare's period. In the 19th century this was reduced to four acts and 20th century drama tends to favor three acts. Antagonist: A character or force against which another character struggles.


I consider three main questions. First, what is the relationship between the concepts of Justification, Justice, and Legitimacy? I approach these concepts from the similar, though divergent, theories as found first in John Rawls, and his theory of Political Liberalism, namely his Justice as Fairness and second in Jurgen Habermas, in his Between Facts and Norms, namely his theories of Communicative Action and Discourse Ethics. Second, what is the proper level of legitimation and justice? Which social institutions are best described as doing the legitimation, and to which does it apply? Third, I offer an argument explaining that legitimacy is not sufficient for a full theory of justice. If justice and legitimacy are divergent concepts, then the latter, as the weaker, singularly fails to deliver a stable social structure. To make this argument, I look at the space between Habermas and Rawls on the subject of Political Liberalism.


A field study was carried out to evaluate long-term heavy metal (HM) accumulation in the top 20 cm of a Tunisian clayey loam soil amended for (four years) with municipal solid waste compost (MSWC) at three levels (0, 40 and 80 t ha−1 year−1). HM uptake and translocation within wheat plants grown on these soils were also investigated. Compared to untreated soils, MSWC-amended soils showed significant increases in the content of all measured HM (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) in the last three years, especially for the 80 t ha−1 year−1 MSWC-amended plots. Wheat plants grown on MSWC-amended soils showed a general increase in metal uptake and translocation, especially for Cr and Ni. This HM uptake was about three fold greater for treatment 80 t h−1 as compared to plots amended at a rate of 40 t h−1. At times, the diluting effect resulting from enhanced growth rates of the plants with compost application resulted in lower concentrations in the plants grown (grain part) on treated plots. On the other hand, Cr and Ni were less mobile in the aerial part of wheat plants and were accumulated essentially in root tissues. Plant/soil transfer coefficients for MSWC-amended treatments were higher than threshold range reported in the literature, indicating that there was an important load/transfer of HM ions from soils to wheat plants.


THE DETERMINATION AND MEANING OF ELASTIC CONSTANTS IN ASPHALTIC CONCRETE PAVEMENT LAYERED MEDIA ARE INVESTIGATED. METHODS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES ARE REVIEWED, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ELASTIC PARAMETERS DISCUSSED. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT VIBRATION METHODS HAVE VERY NEARLY REACHED THE STAGE OF PRACTICAL USEFULNESS, PROBABLY IN THE FIELD OF PAVEMENT CONTROL. THERE ARE DEFINITE ADVANTAGES IN USING MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF WAVE, AS THE TWO LANE CONSTANTS CAN THEN BE DETERMINED. SOME PRESENT DIFFICULTIES AND POSSIBLE SOURCES OF ERROR WERE INDICATED.


Current processes and perspectives for the rail travellers transport in Andalusia The role of the railway systems in urban and interurban transport, thanks to the technical and organizational development, has been driven an ever more relevant in specialized traveler traffic in Andalusia. In addition, its integration with other means of travel makes viable its use and competitiveness. Despite the strong presence it has acquired the environment, their study is novel and very timely, as it has been much less treated, with respect to other transport systems within the scientific work at the Spanish and Andalusian level. The choice of regional scale for analyzing rail network is based on three factors, including the size, location and demographics of Andalusia. They give it a historical and cultural identity of its own, and sufficient elements to analyze individually the region within the Spanish railway network. In addition, the decentralization of some transport policies gives more consistency to the study. The choice of the region of Andalusia intends therefore, address this particular territory as a specific space within Spain and the whole European Union.


The stress concentration of oval holes in infinite large plates is analyzed using complex function and conformal transformation techniques. FEA is carried out with the MSC/NASTRAN software for special holes in webs and their reinforement . The stress concentration coefficients of the holes are calculated and the dependence of stress concentration on dimensions of holes are discussed. The results of FEA are validated through comparison with the results of photoelastic experiment. Some recommendations are made for structural design.


Slope stability accidents are one of the leading causes of fatalities at U.S. surface mining operations. The Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is currently conducting research to reduce the fatalities associated with slope failures. The purpose of this paper to discuss some of this research and to present potential new technologies for slope monitoring and design. The paper also briefly discusses various warning signs of slope instability, introduces the most common slope monitoring methods, describes the limitations of various slope monitoring systems, and presents some field results using some of this new technology. CONSEQUENCES OF SLOPE FAILURES Whether on the surface or underground, unanticipated movement of the ground can pose hazardous conditions which may lead to endangerment of lives, demolition of equipment, and the loss of property. In the five years since 1995, 33 miners have lost their lives as a result of surface ground control accidents (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Map of 33 fatalities occurring from surface ground control problems January 1995 -June 2000. As such, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's (NIOSH) Office of Mine Safety and Health Research in Spokane, Washington has initiated a research program with the goal of reducing the number of injuries and fatalities resulting from slope failures at mines. There are several ways to reduce the chances of surface ground control failures: 1) safe geotechnical designs; 2) secondary supports or rock fall catchment systems; or 3) monitoring devices for advance warning of impending failures. While it is important to note that geotechnical designs can be improved to increase factors of safety, proper bench designs can be improved to minimize rock fall hazards, and certain support systems may enhance overall rock mass strength, diligent monitoring and examination of slopes for failure warning signs is the most important means of protecting exposed mine workers. Even the most carefully designed slopes may experience failure from unknown geologic structures, unexpected weather patterns, or seismic shock (Figure 2). Figure 2. Consequences of unexpected slope failures. SLOPE MONITORING SYSTEMS Relative displacement measurements are the most common type of monitoring, complemented by monitoring of groundwater. The most important purpose of a slope monitoring program is to: 1) maintain safe operational practices; 2) provide advance notice of instability; and 3) provide additional geotechnical information regarding slope behavior (Sjöberg, 1996). The following is a list of the most common monitoring systems currently in use and is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of monitoring equipment. Readers interested in a more comprehensive list are referred to Szwedzicki, 1993. Surface Measurements Survey Network: A survey network consists of target prisms placed on and around areas of anticipated instability on the slopes, and one or more non-moving control points for survey stations. The angles and distances from the survey station to the prisms are measured on a regular basis to establish a history of movement on the slope. It is extremely important to place the permanent control points for the survey stations on stable ground. The surveys can be done manually by a survey crew or can be automated. Tension Crack Mapping: The formation of cracks at the top of a slope is an obvious sign of instability. Measuring and monitoring the changes in crack width and direction of crack propagation is required to establish the extent of the unstable area. Existing cracks should be painted or flagged so that new cracks can be easily identified on subsequent inspections. Measurements of tension cracks may be as simple as driving two stakes on either side of the crack and using a survey tape or rod to measure the separations. Another common method for monitoring movement across tension cracks is with a portable wire-line extensometer (Figure 3). Figure 3. Portable wire-line extensometer for monitoring a tension crack. The most common setup is comprised of a wire anchored in the unstable portion of the ground, with the monitor and pulley station located on a stable portion of the ground behind the last tension crack. The wire runs over the top of a pulley and is tensioned by a weight suspended from the other end. As the unstable portion of the ground moves away from the pulley stand, the weight will move and the displacements can be recorded either electronically or manually. Long lengths of wire can lead to errors due to sag or to thermal expansion, so readjustments and corrections are often necessary. The length of the extensometer wire should be limited to approximately 60 m (197 ft) to keep the errors due to line sag at a minimum (Call and Savely, 1990). Subsurface Measurements Inclinometers: An inclinometer (figure 4) consists of a casing that is placed in the ground through the area of expected movements. Figure 4. Cross-sectional schematic of typical traverse-probe inclinometer system. The end of the casing is assumed to be fixed so that the lateral profile of displacement can be calculated. The casing has grooves cut on the sides that serve as tracks for the sensing unit. The deflection of the casing, and hence the surrounding rock mass, are measured by determining the inclination of the sensing unit at various points along the length of the installations. The information collected from the inclinometers is important to slope stability studies for the following reasons (Kliche, 1999): •= to locate shear zone(s); •= to determine whether the shear along the zone(s) is planar or rotational; •= to measure the movement along the shear zone(s) and determine whether the movement is constant, accelerating, or decelerating. Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR): Time Domain Reflectometry is a technique in which electronic pulses are sent down a length of a coaxial cable. When deformation or a break in the cable is encountered, a signal is reflected giving information on the subsurface rock mass deformation. While inclinometers are more common for monitoring subsurface displacements, TDR cables are gaining popularity and have several advantages over traditional inclinometers (Kane, 1998): •= Lower cost of installation. •= Deeper hole depths possible. •= Rapid and remote monitoring possible. •= Immediate deformation determinations. •= Complex installations possible. Recent advances have also been made in the use of TDR for monitoring ground water levels and piezometric pressures (Dowding, et al. 1996). A summary of applications of TDR in the mining industry is provided by O'Connor and Wade (1994). Borehole Extensometers: An extensometer consists of tensioned rods anchored at different points in a borehole (figure 5). Changes in the distance between the anchor and the rod head provide the displacement information for the rock mass. Figure 5. Multi-point borehole extensometer. Piezometer: Piezometers are used to measure pore pressures and are valuable tools for evaluating the effectiveness of mine dewatering programs and the effects of seasonal variations. Excessive pore pressures, especially water infiltration at geologic boundaries, are responsible for many slope failures. Data on water pressure is essential for maintaining safe slopes since water behind a rock slope will decrease the resisting forces and will increase the driving forces on potentially unstable rock masses. Highwalls should be visually examined for new seeps or changes in flow rates as these are sometimes precursors to highwall failure. Additionally, pit slopes should be thoroughly examined for new zones of movement after heavy rains or snowmelts. RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY Stress, gravity loading, rock mass strength, geology, pore pressure, the presence of unknown underground workings, and many other factors contribute to slope failures. Because of the enormous surface area of many large open-pit mines, several varieties and scales of instabilities can occur. Complete vigilance to monitor each and every potential failure block is neither feasible, nor economical, and is certainly not attainable using today's most common point displacement monitoring techniques. Many of the current monitoring methods are also difficult to implement at quarries and surface coal mines, where near-vertical faces and lack of benching limit access to areas along the highwall. Additionally, as mining progresses, it is necessary to monitor different sections of the pit walls. Continually relocating devices is not only a costly and time consuming operation, but can also be dangerous -especially with an unstable slope. In an effort to make up for the shortcomings of point monitoring systems, NIOSH is examining new technology for slope monitoring that will look at the entire surface of the mine highwall for rock mass displacement and rock mass composition (Girard, 1998). Additionally, software has been created under a NIOSH contract to assist geotechnical engineers with bench designs to minimize rock fall hazards. A discussion of each technology follows. Highwall Monitoring Using Radar Systems Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a type of ground-mapping radar originally designed to be used from aircraft and satellites. SAR can be used to generate high quality digital elevation maps (DEM's) and to detect disturbances of the earth's surface. A variation of SAR – Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) – uses differences in time-lapsed SAR images to generate maps of displacements (Fruneau and Achache, 1996). This technique has been successfully applied to produce displacement maps of ground movement caused by earthquakes, volcanic activity, and mine subsidence (Massonet, 1997; Canec, 1996). IFSAR can also be used to monitor displacement of unstable slopes or landslides (Reeves et al., 1997; Sabine et al., 1999). IFSAR's have many advantages over current types of


In an attempt to promote the widespread introduction of photovoltaic power generation systems, it is necessary to achieve utility sales price-equivalent power generation costs through implemented system cost reduction. For this purpose, photovoltaic modules integrated with construction materials will be developed so that photovoltaic power generation module costs and installation work expenses can be substantially reduced by including them in the materials and general construction work costs.


Abstract Field and laboratory tests were performed to evaluate whether various materials were sufficiently corrosion resistant for use in fasteners under aggressive conditions in road tunnels. Only...


The establishment of China(Shanghai)FTZ and "abolition of some laws"authorized by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress initiate the basic issues of law application in China FTZ,such as application institutions and application basis.Currently,it is difficult for China FTZ to establish complete institutionalized lower courts or higher courts;it is impossible and unnecessary to establish intellectual property courts because the establishment of the model of Cross regional jurisdiction of it.Intellectual property courts should be added to FTZ in area without the intellectual property court the first trial cases are mainly administered by the lower courts.Both Chinese laws and international laws should be applied in FTZ and well manipulated with each other;the basic principles of Legislation Law should be respected and the role of local legislation should be exerted without conflicting with higher-level laws.The basic issues of law application in FTZ are connected with the significant legal subject of the unity of the country under the rule of law and specialty of regional rule of law in the process of rule of law in China,which should be further studied.


Abstract : The motion of a stable, slowly spinning underwater missile sinking at terminal speed is examined. It is assumed that some parts of the missile are out of alignment due to imperfect manufacture or damage at water entry. It is shown that the trajectory is a circular helix with its axis vertical. The diameter of this helix is determined by the characteristics of the missile and the degree of misalignment present, and is a rapidly decreasing function of the spin. (Author)


Ethnozoological practices to cure various diseases have a long history. Communities that reside near the forest collect wild animals and their derivatives to prepare medicines and get relief from diseases. Northeastern India is home to many tribes with vast traditional ethnobiological knowledge, and there are many reports of zootherapeutic uses in the region. In an attempt to understand primate-based ethnozoologic use in the area a literature survey was carried out using different sources. The findings revealed that Hoolock hoolock was the most used species among the primates (48 %), followed by Macaca assamensis (20 %) and Macaca mulatta (10 %). Among the materials used, the flesh of primates was the most dominant (43 %), followed by the blood (20 %) and brain (14 %). This paper highlights the negative effects of ethno-medicinal uses of primates to draw the attention of conservationists and encourage conservation education to address the damage to primates in the name of health care. Government agencies are also requested to strengthen health care systems to discourage the killing of valuable primate species.


Ethnic minority farmers in the infamous Golden Triangle were first incorporated into the nation states of China, Laos and Thailand, and later into the economic region called the Golden Economic Quadrangle. This article traces policies in each country for minorities, development and the environment, followed by an analysis of agrarian transitions under economic regionalization. Using the framework of powers of exclusion and racialization, our findings show the changes for ethnic minorities who, with the exception of those in the lowlands, face environmental enclosures that dispossess them from lands on which livelihoods are based. Ideological legacies from the Golden Triangle, including 'backward' minorities, the fight against drugs, and threats to national security, continue to inform policies and development projects. While some farmers have become entrepreneurs planting cash crops, most face increasing marginalization under deepening regional capitalism.


The cultural value of a nation is closely related to its culture and history. This is directly displayed in people's thoughts and everyday behavior of that country. This article, by defining and comparing collectivism and individualism analyses the difference in cultural value between China and America. By this way, this article also explains why Chinese and Americans behave distinctly in some matters.


With the automation of surface weather observing system,the observation of wet bulb temperature has been stopped.In order to estimate the wet-bulb temperature,the approximation method and multiple regression method are used.Based on the hourly observation data at 134 reference climatological stations throughout China in 2001,as well as those at 75 stations in Hubei Province from 1991 to 2000,the error analysis of two kinds of wet-bulb temperature estimation methods is carried out.The results show that:(1) Using approximation method to estimate the wet-bulb temperature,its error is very small,and the maximum error is 0.19℃;(2) Using multiple regression methods to estimate the wet-bulb temperature, the frequency of error within±0.4℃is over 99%;(3) Different ventilation conditions on the estimation of wet-bulb temperature have considerable influences,and they are related with the relative humidity closely.As the relative humidity increases,the impacts of ventilation condition are gradually reduced. (4) Wet-bulb freezing on the estimation of wet-bulb temperature has no considerable influences.


This study aims to examine the effect of Marketing Communication Mix on Customers Purchasing Decision at Ramayana Department Store Malang. The regression  analysis, F test and t test were conducted in order to acknowledge the relationships among the independent variables (Advertising, Sales Promotion, Direct Marketing, Personal Selling and Public Relation) on Customer's Purchasing Decision This study is explanatory research, in accordance with its purpose to determine  the causal relationship among variables through hypothesis testing.  The samples in this research were the customers of Ramayana Department Store Malang. The data collection method of  this study by distributed questionnaire. The sampling technique used is Purposive sampling and the research instruments were tested using the validity test, reliability test, and classical assumption test. The hypothesis testing used the F test and t test in Multiple Regression Analysis. The multiple regression analysis showed that simultaneously, Advertising, Sales Promotion, Direct Marketing, Personal Selling, and Public Relation had significant effect on Customer's Purchasing Decision. Meanwhile, partial test shows that the variables of Advertising, Sales promotion and Personal Selling had significant effect on Customer Purchasing Decision. However, the variables of Direct Marketing and Public Relation had no significant effect on Customer's Purchasing Decision. The dominant test shows that Personal Selling has dominant effect on customer's purchasing decision. Keywords:  Marketing Communication Mix,  advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing, personal selling, public relation, customer's purchasing decision.


Residual stress measurements are very challenging in thin aluminium plates. Rolling-induced crystallographic texture can lead to an S-shape fit when using the sin2ψ method for surface X-ray diffraction. Peak broadening and missing peaks can also be observed for synchrotron X-ray diffraction with conventional θ/2θ scanning due to texture. In addition, when measuring near the plate surfaces, partially-filled gauge volumes in diffraction experiments will lead to "pseudo-strains", an apparent shift between measured and actual positions for the diffraction peak. Obtaining a meaningful value of d0 for strain calculations is another issue for diffraction experiments in thin plates. The low thickness also offers challenges for destructive methods including incremental hole drilling, i.e. there is no defined ASTM standard for measuring non-uniform residual stress profile for thin plates. In this work, 2-mm-thick Al2024-T351 plate was investigated for residual stress fields due to laser peening. Neutron diffraction measurements were carried out at POLDI (Pulse Overlap time-of-flight Diffractometer) in PSI, Switzerland and the results are compared with incremental hole drilling.


This article analyzes material  expressions of festivities traditionally held by members of a  brotherhood of the rosary in  the state of Minas Gerais.  Themes such as  creation ,  performance ,  and materiality pervades this article ,  which is  based on the Maussian notion of social  life seasonality ,  especially to  think of party changes interpreted in  their material  expressions .


The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East was governed for more than four decades, from the end of World War II to the end of the Reagan presidency, by the Cold War with all of the attendant assumptions, concepts, institutions and policies essential to "fight" the Cold War. American views of the Soviet Union and of the Soviet bloc, and the policy requirements deriving from that perspective, formed the core of United States foreign and security policy worldwide. Wherever and whenever a policy was framed, and challenges were identified and met, the lens through which the policy was seen had a Soviet filter, with accompanying Cold War assumptions. This was particularly true in the case of the Middle East, which became a major venue of United States-Soviet Union competition soon after the Cold War began. Over the course of more than four decades, the competition and rivalry of the superpowers in the Middle East was a central if not dominant theme in international relations.


The present invention discloses a method for adjusting the level of device, comprising a support plane, the actuator, the control unit; said actuator and said control unit are located in a lower plane of said support, said actuator comprising a fixed support feet, two drive means scissor jack; using PID closed loop control algorithm, the angle is obtained as the feedback amount sensor embedded controller drives the actuator, quickly and accurately adjust the level of the actuator as a scissor jack, by a stepping motor through the gear box driven scissor jack screw is rotated to adjust the supporting legs down. Apparatus and method of the present invention an adjustment speed, high precision adjustment and good load bearing characteristics, which is simple and compact structure, high stability, wide practicability.


According to the phenomenon that information management students don't like programming, combined with teaching practice, applies the interestd teaching method in the teaching of program design courses, uses the interesting case to contribute the teaching content, teaching methods flexibly, arouses the students' interest in learning, enhances students' self-confidence, cultivates students' ability of autonomous learning, to improve the teaching quality.


This paper presents a simplified determination of the percent oxygen in air with simple and special designed apparatus. The method is based on a consumption of oxygen resulting in reduced pressure and causing water to be drawn in to the inverted flask. This experiment should be very safe, rapid, and simple. The experiment, the combustion of ethyl alcohol with oxygen in air, can either be demonstrated by chemistry teachers or be performed easily and exactly (overall average 20.77 to 20.81 % O2) by students in the student laboratory. In this way, a fountain will be produced, utilizing the siphoning effect of reducing the pressure in the inverted flask. The maximum volume of water, which is drawn into the inverted flask from the Erlenmeyer flask below by creating an interesting fountain, is reached in 5-10 minutes.


Observations on the meiotic behaviour of the Arandas have confirmed cytologically the hybrid nature of the Arandas, intergeneric hybrids between the Arachnis and Vanda forms. It is evident that the parental species of the Arandas from two widely different genera with varied differences morphologically, are not too closely related. A general trend of poor homology of parental chromosomes, high frequency of occurrence of meiotic irregularities and increased sterility was observed in the Arandas investigated. Multiple spindles, though of low occurrence may cause polyspory and hereby result in inviable gametes with variable chromosome numbers. Polyploids arising from the Arandas could possibly occur through functional diploid gamets and diads which have been observed, though these are of low frequency. Meiotic analysis of some species/hybrids of the parental Arachnis and Vanda genera confirms the regular meiotic behaviour and higher fertility within each genus. It is suggested that if doubling the chromosome number in the Arandas through, for example, colchicine treatment, is found to restore their fertility, then this would be the line of research most desirable in advancing a breeding programme for these orchids.


The effect of total ischemia on subsarcolemmal (SSM) and interfibrillar (IFM) mitochondrial subpopulations of porcine heart muscle has been investigated


While personality traits have been extensively modeled as behavioral constructs, we model \textbf{\textit{job hirability}} as a \emph{personality construct}. On the {\emph{First Impressions Candidate Screening}} (FICS) dataset, we examine relationships among personality and hirability measures. Modeling hirability as a discrete/continuous variable with the \emph{big-five} personality traits as predictors, we utilize (a) apparent personality annotations, and (b) personality estimates obtained via audio, visual and textual cues for hirability prediction (HP). We also examine the efficacy of a two-step HP process involving (1) personality estimation from multimodal behavioral cues, followed by (2) HP from personality estimates.
Interesting results from experiments performed on $\approx$~5000 FICS videos are as follows. (1) For each of the \emph{text}, \emph{audio} and \emph{visual} modalities, HP via the above two-step process is more effective than directly predicting from behavioral cues. Superior results are achieved when hirability is modeled as a continuous vis-a-vis categorical variable. (2) Among visual cues, eye and bodily information achieve performance comparable to face cues for predicting personality and hirability. (3) Explanatory analyses reveal the impact of multimodal behavior on personality impressions; \eg, Conscientiousness impressions are impacted by the use of \emph{cuss words} (verbal behavior), and \emph{eye movements} (non-verbal behavior), confirming prior observations.


health outcomes. METHODS: Unrelated white men in the UK Biobank with Y chromosome single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data were included. AZFc intensity ratios were calculated by dividing the mean log 2 SNP intensity ratios in the AZFc region by the mean Y chromosome SNP intensity ratios. Men with AZFc intensity ratios 3 standard deviations below the population median were labeled likely AZFc-MD. Association tests adjusted for age, genotype chip, and the first 10 genotype principal components were ran between AZFc-MD status and 5 predetermined infertility linked phenotypes and 15 health outcomes. RESULTS: 181,978 men were included of whom 122 (w1 per 1,500) had likely AZFc-MD. AZFc-MD was associated with markers of fertility, including decreased testosterone levels, fewer number of children fathered, and diagnosis of testicular dysfunction; however, only a negative association with vasectomies was significant (OR: 0.13, 95% CI: [0.01 0.57], p[0.04). For the health outcomes, AZFcMD was associated with a younger age at death (Coefficient: -0.41, 95% CI: [-0.75 -0.07], p[0.017), Hodgkin's lymphoma (OR: 66.9, 95% CI: [3.69 332.14], p <0.0001), follicular lymphoma (OR: 10.5, 95% CI: [0.59 47.82], p[0.02), and unspecified renal failure (OR: 4.6, 95% CI: [1.61 10.20], p[0.001). There were trends towards increased likelihood for obesity, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and younger age at cancer diagnosis; however, these were not significant. CONCLUSIONS: In this Biobank-scale study, likely AZFc-MD had a similar incidence to previously reported data and were associated with infertility phenotypes, increasing confidence in our methods. Likely AZFc-MD was linked to several health outcomes, including age of death, lymphoma, and renal failure, complementing prior work in this area. The power of this study to detect significant associations may be limited by the number of AZFc-MD cases. Future work will refine methods for calling AZFc-MD and expand the number of phenotypes investigated.


Self-consistent computations of electric fields (E-fields) and ion orbits inside trenches were done in order to verify Hashimoto's hypothesis of damage that is induced during plasma processing. In his well-accepted theory, Hashimoto proposed a mechanism for electron-shading damage, whereby the photoresist at the tops of trenches and vias collects a negative charge from the thermal electrons, creating an E-fleld, which prevents electrons from reaching the trench bottom, where collector is located. The sheath E-field accelerates the ions and drives them straight into the trench where they impinge on the collector, and charge it positive if it is isolated. In the computations presented in this paper, it is shown that ion orbits depend only on the E-fields at the entrance and are sensitive to changes in the shape of the photoresist layer there. In addition to the electron-shading mechanism, there is an "ion-shading" effect that protects part of the trench walls, and the number of ions that strike the wall is too small to cause any deformation of the walls.


This paper describes an experiment in which it was determined that properly designed burn-in can not only eliminate a weak subpopulation, but also stabilize the healthy one. Accelerated life tests have been carried out on 30W sign lamps to show that the time-to-failure pattern is bimodal. The accelerated life data have been used to design burn-in process parameters, and to determine the deterioration caused in the healthy subpopulation by the chosen burn-in. The results showed no decrease in mean life of the healthy lamps. Rather, increased stability (lower standard deviation in life) has been observed. The burn-in procedure with parameters 240V and duration in the range 15-20s was successfully applied to the 30W sign lamps in order to eliminate the weak subpopulation. Due to fast turnaround of the procedure it can be implemented at the end of the production line. The high temperature thermal treatment of filaments during burn-in seems to relax structural stresses caused by fabrication process. The fact that the power coefficient obtained here differs from the one quoted by GE Technical Information TP-110 as well as by IES Lighting Handbook (Reference Volume 1984) should alert users of accelerated reliability tests to be wary of uncritical application of experimental factors taken from the literature, including this paper.


Ⅰ. INTRODUCTIONZearalenone was found by Stob et al. in 1962 as a secondary metabolite produced by Gibberella zeae. It was reported that zearalenone not only acts as an estrogenic substance but also as a sexual hormone in certain fungi. Since 1980, zearalenone has been isolated, purified and identified from higher plants in different genera and species by Meng et al. and is proposed as an endogenous active substance closely related to sexual differentiation of


Hyperglycemic choreoathetosis (HC) is an uncommon syndrome often associated with hyperintensity of the basal ganglia on MRI. We performed a retrospective review of cases with HC to characterize the clinical, biochemical, and neuroimaging (CT, MRI, and MR spectroscopy) findings and to propose a mechanism for this syndrome. Seven HC patients with a mean age of 75.1 years, mean blood glucose of 27.4 mmol/L, and mean plasma osmolarity of 313.4 mmol/L were studied. All had MR‐T1 hyperintensity of the putamen on the side contralateral to the choreoathetosis. Two patients had additional hyperintensity of the globus pallidus while one also had involvement of the caudate. On MR‐T2, 2 patients showed hyperintensity, 2 isointensity, and 3 hypointensity in the putamen. MR spectroscopy showed elevated choline and reduced N‐acetylaspartate; two patients also had elevated myoinositol levels. Our findings suggest that the putamen has a central role in HC, and MR spectroscopy supports neuronal dysfunction in the putamen. Biochemical and neuroimaging findings support hyperviscosity as the most plausible mechanism. © 2009 Movement Disorder Society


It is known that there is no one-way, non-deterministic Pushdown Automaton (INPDA) which is a universal machine for the class of Finite Automata [6]. We will show that there is a two-way, deterministic Pushdown Automaton (2DPDA), U, which is a universal machine for the class of Finite Automata (FA). Our method will parallel Knuth and Bigelow's construction of a language which is not context sensitive but which is the acceptance set of some stack automaton [5], that is, we will construct a language which is not context-free, but which is accepted by a 2DPDA.


Six male subjects were maintained on a diet free of all animal fats for 54 days; carbohydrate intake was increased to maintain an approximate caloric balance. Serum cholesterol decreased progressively to a low plateau over the first 3 weeks, and thereafter showed a small rise, suggesting increased synthesis. Treadmill exercise sufficient to increase daily energy expenditure by a sixth was carried out for 14 days during the phase of increased synthesis. Serum cholesterol levels did not differ significantly between exercised and control subjects, but serum triglycerides decreased significantly (P < 0.05) over the exercise period.


The utility model discloses a web plate of a dragnet, which comprises a main body, the front and the back ends of which are tilted to form a boat shape, wherein the upper and the lower sides of the main body are provided with an upper board and a lower board, the upper board forms a sealed hollow structure, and the lower board is provided with a balance weight; both sides of the tail part of the back face of the main body are respectively provided with a dragnet connecting plate extending out of the surface of the main body, and dragnet connecting holes are arranged on the dragnet connecting plates. The utility model is characterized in that the front face of the main body is vertically provided with a rocking plate which is pivoted on the main body and can be rotated to a fixed plate above a centre shaft plate around a pivot shaft, and boat rope connecting rings are arranged on the rocking plate; at least two water discharging tanks perpendicular to the centre shaft plate are arranged on the main body. The utility model has the advantages of simple structure, few parts, resistance force reduction, energy consumption saving, wide fishing range, high fishing yield and good balance and stability, and can regulate the depth of a dragnet within the range of the water depth of 0-200 meters.


Sweden's liberal sex-role ideology and qofficial policy of counteracting sex-role learning through the schools are described, together with Swedish attitudes and policies regarding sex education. A study of the correspondence between policy and practice, based on parent questionnaires and teacher observation and interviews, is reported. It was fobund that parents tended to affirm some non-sex-determined standards, while reinforcing sex-typed behavior somewhat more than cross-sex-typed behavior. Nearly all teachers had made some etfort to counteract sex roles, but they often exhibited sex determination in their own classroom behavior. Almost all parents and teachers had provided some sex education; a third of the teachers had commented on the nature of gender. Provision of sex-education was fbund to be positivelv related to sexrole contravention.


Comparative analysis of HC resources distribution of the North-American and East-Europian Platforms Paleozoic Basins is carried out (by their bedding depths).


This paper describes an algorithm for graph isomorphism problem. A consistency rule is proposed to detect as soon as possible the isomorphism permutation. The algorithm, called CRGI, tries to find an isomorphism between two input graphs through a backtracking exploration that uses a proposed consistency rule to prune the tree-search. This rule is based on changing cases positions of one adjacency matrix to obtain exactly the second adjacency matrix, according to a permutation that must be defined. If such permutation exists, an isomorphism is detected. The proposed rule is able to prune as early as possible unfruitful branches of the tree-search which leads to reduce the practical time complexity. Experimental results comparing CRGI with other popular algorithms show the effectiveness of CRGI especially for random graphs and trees.


This article discusses the concept of culture and
multiculturalism, and the identity aspects of the LGBT population - Lesbians,
Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Transsexuals and Transgender, who are gradually
gaining ground in research and especially in society. Considering their
history, into the big concept of culture, they have created their own identities,
which were not widespread and not integrated into heteronormativity society.
Nowadays, as their voice gains strength, especially because of the democratic
state of law, LGBT identity demands its space and call up the debate for
equality without, however, de-characterize their identities. In addition, the
research specifically treats the case of the transsexual population and their
gender issues in sexual diversity. The objective of this work, observing the
problem of prejudice still existing against this population, is to demonstrate
the possibility of insertion and dialogue of the LGBT identity, dealing
specifically with the case of transsexuals. For that, concepts such as culture,
diversity and multiculturalism are presented, associating them with the LGBT
cause in the transexuality aspect. The research, developed from the deductive
method, bibliographical and documental, aims, finally, to demonstrate the
relevance of the theme for the effective social insertion of this minority,
according to the construction of their identities and gender.


Minutiae extraction is an important step for robust fingerprint identification. However, existing minutia extraction algorithms rely on time consuming and fragile image enhancement steps in order to work robustly. We propose a new approach, combining enhancement and extraction into a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). This network is trained from scratch using synthetic fingerprints. To bridge the gap between synthetic and real fingerprints, refinements are used. Here, an approach based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is used to generate fingerprints suited for training such a network and improving its matching score on real fingerprints.


To the Editor: —In your effective educational work would it not be proper to clarify an alliterative entanglement? The two nouns "sewage" and "sewerage" offer difficulties to many, as does the impossible "preventative." Sewage flows within the sewerage; the former is the liquid, the sewerage being the system of pipes which carries it off. The only sewage system is the intestinal canal, but a sewerage system is always the mains, conduits and other pipes in the ground. Sewage disposal is any method of depositing or getting rid of the excreta, whether by privy, by the use of sewers or a sewage treatment plant. If the sewers are dug up out of the ground and thrown away, that would constitute sewerage disposal. Very frequently one sees the incorrect expressions "sewerage treatment" and "sewerage purification." Sewage is the liquid discharge—sewerage always the pipe, the connected sewers.


For more than a century scholars have agreed that Fulk Nerra, known to some as "the Builder," constructed or saw to the construction of perhaps as many as thirty strongholds, most made of stone, in the county of Anjou and its environs during his reign (987-1040).' Recently this view has come under severe attack. In 1957 Jean Hubert argued that the traditional view that Fulk built a stone donjon at Langeais circa 993-94 cannot be sustained from the written sources. He pointed out that Richer, a contemporary, calls Langeais a castrum and an oppidum, while in a contemporary charter the fortification is called a castellum.2 Hubert's doubts were stimulated, at least in part, by


Using microwave irradiation, water soluble, optically active, penicillamine (Pen) capped CdSe nanocrystals with broad spectral distribution (430–780 nm) of photoluminescence have been produced and studied by a range of instrumental techniques including absorption, circular dichroism and both steady state and time resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. The photoluminescence of these nanocrystals is attributed to emission from surface defect states. The decay of the excited state in the nanosecond region, which can be analysed as a triple exponential, depends strongly on the emission wavelength selected, but only weakly on the excitation wavelength.


To deal with the modern intellectual criminal acts, various efforts have been tried. Especially, it is not difficult to watch the recent activities to analyze the criminal characteristics spatially using computing and GIS technology. In this study, the spatial features and patterns of crime are investigated. Based on the real criminal record in Seoul Korea, the crime is reconstituted with four major categories such as assault, larceny, robbery, and rape. Then the variables are derived based on the theory of criminology. The kernal density analysis is performed to investigate the criminal distribution, and the correlation between the main criminal causes and the criminal outbreak is examined by buffering analysis. In addition, the land price and land usages are correlated with social-economic factors of criminal patterns to produce the final crime map.


Beryllium and boron abundances are consistently derived on the parameter scale of two recent uniform stellar Mg and Ca abundance studies, one utilizing non‐LTE parameters and abundances, the other assuming LTE. The results are used to explore the BeB‐Mg and BeB‐Ca relations at low metallicity as urged by B. D. Fields and coworkers. The slopes of all logarithmic BeB‐MgCa relations, regardless of light element (Be or B), metallicity tracer (Mg or Ca), or parameter scale (non‐LTE or LTE), are found to lie in the range 1.1–1.3. These results using the α‐elements Mg and Ca confirm the need for a metal‐poor "primary" BeB production mechanism (perhaps in addition to standard Galactic cosmic rays) previously inferred from BeB‐Fe and questioned BeB‐O relations.


The method of stochastic quantization of Fermi fields is used to calculate the non-Abelian chiral anomaly. The calculation is based on the formalism for the stochastic quantization of Fermi fields. The regularization scheme followed is the one introduced by Breit, Gupta, and Zaks. The zero-mode ambiguity is avoided by introducing a small energy for the zero mode. The result obtained is the gauge-covariant anomaly.


The influence of electrostatic field of a video display terminal (VDT) upon the ion concentration of the surrounding air was measured. A three-day continuous measurement was made in a room with mechanical ventilation at the distance of 0.4 m from the VDT. The electrostatic field of the VDT reduced the concentrations of light air ions. When the VDT was unenergized the ion concentration varied between 55-2600 ions/cm3 for positive and 125-2100 ions/cm3 for negative ions. When the VDT was energized the corresponding levels were 35-100 ions/cm3 for positive and 30-90 ions/cm3 for the negative ones. Measurements of the ion current showed that switching the VDT on decreased the ion concentration very rapidly.


Background/Aims Our work in a rodent model of urinary calcium suggests genetic and gender effects on increased residual variability in urine chemistries. Based on these findings, we hypothesized that sex would similarly be associated with residual variation in human urine solutes. Sex-related effects on residuals might affect the establishment of physiological baselines and error in medical assays. Methods We tested the effects of sex on residual variation in urine chemistry by estimating coefficients of variation (CV) for urinary solutes in paired sequential 24-h urines (≤72 hour interval) in 6,758 females and 9,024 males aged 16–80 submitted to a clinical laboratory. Results Females had higher CVs than males for urinary phosphorus overall at the False Discovery Rate (P<0.01). There was no effect of sex on CV for calcium (P>0.3). Males had higher CVs for citrate (P<0.01) from ages 16–45 and females higher CVs for citrate (P<0.01) from ages 56–80, suggesting effects of an extant oestral cycle on residual variance. Conclusions Our findings indicate the effects of sex on residual variance of the excretion of urinary solutes including phosphorus and citrate; differences in CV by sex might reflect dietary lability, differences in the fidelity of reporting or genetic differentiation in renal solute consistency. Such an effect could complicate medical analysis by the addition of random error to phenotypic assays. Renal analysis might require explicit incorporation of heterogeneity among factorial effects, and for sex in particular.


The relaxation rate constants for DCl(v=1) in liquid xenon at 211 K and HCl(v=1) in liquid krypton at 190 K are reported. Both the DCl–DCl and HCl–HCl rate constants are similar to the corresponding gas phase rate constants at the same temperature, and the relaxation appears amenable to an isolated binary collision (IBC) description. As in the gas phase, the rate constant for DCl–DCl deactivation in liquid xenon is found to be smaller than that for HCl–HCl relaxation in liquid xenon, despite the smaller energy defect for the DCl relaxation process. This suggests that rotational degrees of freedom are also involved in the liquid phase vibrational relaxation of these molecules. The observed relaxation rates for DCl(v=1) by liquid xenon and HCl(v=1) by liquid krypton are found to be within an order of magnitude of values estimated from various forms of the IBC model. More careful comparisons await values of the appropriate gas phase relaxation rate constants near 200 K. Finally, certain features of the mecha...


Language is a powerful device that allows humans to communicate about concepts and events that are irrealis, i.e., not part of the real world. From a developmental perspective, an important question is when and how children develop the ability to understand and talk about hypothetical worlds, and as a special case, counterfactual worlds. This study focused on Past Counterfactual conditionals (PastCFs), a linguistic construction that refers to events in the nonactual world, and investigated when and how children become aware that these constructions are counterfactual. We argue that the understanding of the grammatical construction that expresses counterfactuality in the past, i.e. if + Pluperfect, is separable (although not independent) from counterfactual reasoning abilities.


The effect of neck extensions in single and multi-degree of freedom Helmholtz resonator based acoustic liners is studied both experimentally and numerically and the resulting transmission coefficient and resonance frequencies are examined. It has been shown that a single degree of freedom liner with increasing neck extension lengths leads to the resonance frequencies being pushed to lower frequency values, however, this shift to lower frequencies is not linear with increasing length. A study on including neck extensions for the primary and/or secondary neck within a double degree of freedom liner is also presented. It is shown that both neck extension concepts lead to an increase in bandwidth of sound absorption by a double degree of freedom Helmholtz resonator.


A method has been devised for conversion of alkyldichloramines to the corresponding nitramines. Six examples have been described. The reaction seems to proceed via the chloronitramine. This compound may be converted to the nitramine by hydrolysis with evolution of hypochlorous acid. An intramolecular fission of hydrogen chloride seems in one case to yield, alternatively, the nitrimine. The structures of diisopropylnitramine and di-n-octylnitramine have been confirmed by synthesis from the primary nitramines.


In this article, the mechanism of modification of wollastonite by stearic acid is studied by way of infrared spectrum. Under the condition of high speed milling, the stearic acid can be broken bond. The result shows that a quantitative analysis can be made by determination of the content of the stearic acid used.


Washback,a concept prominent in applied linguistics,generally,refers to the extent to which the introduction and use of a test influences language teachers and learners to do things they would not otherwise do.Wash back would promote or inhibit language learning.The mechanism of backwashing is complex,which consists of three elementary elements,participator,process and result.To enhance the positive wash-back effects,we should build the theory of constructing validity and operation methods and follow the principles of trueness and directness of tested contents.


This article looks at the possibility of hydrogen fuelled vehicles being common place by the 2020s. Some carmakers have begun to roll out or test hydrogen models. Critics' concerns include safety implications and refuelling issues. TRL based Jure Leben from Slovenia, the European pioneering country of hydrogen fuel, is helping with a project to develop a comprehensive hydrogen infrastructure, and building on work achieved by the Slovenian army. This model can be re-scaled for bigger countries. Project partners include car companies, local businesses and a petrol company. Hydrogen is sourced locally, eliminating dependence on the price of oil. The safety case for hydrogen is being promulgated in Slovenia and in the UK the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) is building on expertise gained in other industries, adapting good practice to suit the transport industry. BMW's Hydrogen 7 vehicle is described. This car is built on standard production lines, at low volume, ready to showcase the viability of the technology. The environmental impact of different methods hydrogen production is assessed, including oil, gas, coal, electrolysis, and nuclear power. While wind, wave or solar power would offer genuine carbon-neutral transportation, they are more expensive and research is less developed.


Public economic planning is a pervasive part of the social space of political economy. In times of crisis, public officials in American government agencies at the local and national level increasingly use the vocabulary of economic planning. My PhD dissertation is a collection of papers representing a pointed critique of urban economic planning by public officials in times of crisis and prosperity. I explore John Stuart Mill's argument in his Principles of political economy (1848) concerning the market mechanism (compared to rational central planning) through which economies experience remarkable recovery in the wake of devastation:


The emergence of Internet‐based distribution channels has created both opportunities for and challenges to the travel agencies. Based on the customer‐value perspective, this study focused on exploring the relative weights of the nine proposed fundamental travel products from an Internet perspective. The study cohort comprised customers who had purchased room products from travel agencies websites, with data collected using a questionnaire survey. Customers were surveyed during a 3‐month period at Taipei International Airport. Excluding useless questionnaires resulted in 131 respondents, corresponding to a response rate of 18.71%. We found that privacy, safety, and product quality were the three most important factors influencing customer purchases of room products on the Internet. The results of this study have some implications for travel agencies—companies will need to make a significant investment in website design of safety mechanism, and the greater the effort managers make to alleviate these concerns, the more likely it is that consumers will visit and buy products on their website.


This paper reports the main contribution of a project devoted to the definition of techniques to design and evaluate fault tolerant systems implemented using the SoPC paradigm, suitable for missionand safety-critical application environments. In particular, the effort of the five involved research units has been devoted to address some of the main issues related to the specific technological aspects introduced by these flexible platforms. The overall target of the research is the development of a design methodology for highly reliable systems realized on reconfigurable platforms based on a System-on-Programmable Chip (SoPC), as discussed in the next section.


The invention discloses a preparation method for antistatic super hydrophobic composite coating, comprising the following steps: dissolving 0.2-2 parts of styrene-maleic anhydride alternate copolymer by weight into 20-1000 parts of solvent by weight, adding 1 part of carbon nanotube by weight and then evenly mixing, adding 0-26 parts of ammonia water and 0.2-2 parts of silicate ester or titanate compound by weight, stirring and mixing to enable silicate ester or titanate compound to perform hydrolysis reaction, adding 0.1-2 parts of silicate ester or titanate compound and 0.02-0.5 part of fluorine containing silane coupling agent by weight, evenly mixing and spraying on base materials, carrying out aging and thermal treatment to obtain stable antistatic super hydrophobic composite coating. The invention has simple operation and mild condition, the carbon nanotube can be directly used without the need of any chemical modification, the obtained composite coating has good hydrophobicity,the static contact angle and rolling angle between the composite coating and water are respectively larger than 150 degrees and less than 3 degrees, and the surface resistivity is 106-1011 omega, thus meeting the requirement of antistatic transparent coating and having wide application prospect.


The literature on careers is replete with examples of changes in direction and people studying fields and topics that are under-utilised in their subsequent working lives. The research reported in this paper focuses on the thwarted career plans of young Indian men and women living in the UAE who embarked on undergraduate studies in a variety of chosen subject disciplines, but since graduation have been working in a job that was not their top priority. The paper reports the findings from an interview study of young people who graduated over the last two years and are not employed in a job specialising in their area of undergraduate study. The interview research methods focus on narrative and episodic approaches, seeking to characterise interviewees' life stories and emergent career narratives in the contexts of disappointment and unfulfilled, early ambitions. The reported interviews consist of three meetings held over a period of two months. We conclude this paper with a schematic analysis of the past and present coping strategies deployed by the participants, as expressed through their interview accounts.


Abstract. Based on published literature and typical
profiles from the Nankai University source library, a total of 3326
chemical profiles of the main primary sources of ambient particulate matter
(PM) across China from 1987 to 2017 are investigated and reviewed to trace the
evolution of their main components and identify the main influencing factors
concerning their evolution. In general, the source chemical profiles are varied
with respect to their sources and are influenced by different sampling methods.
The most complicated profiles are likely attributed to coal combustion (CC) and industrial emissions (IE).
The profiles of vehicle emissions (VE) are dominated by organic carbon (OC) and
elemental carbon (EC), and vary due to the changing standards of sulfur and
additives in gasoline and diesel as well as the sampling methods used. In
addition to the sampling methods used, the profiles of biomass burning (BB) and cooking
emissions (CE) are also impacted by the different biofuel categories and cooking types,
respectively. The variations of the chemical profiles of different sources,
and the homogeneity of the subtype source profiles within the same source
category are examined using uncertainty analysis and cluster analysis. As a
result, a relatively large variation is found in the source profiles of
CC, VE, IE, and BB, indicating that these sources urgently require the establishment of local
profiles due to their high uncertainties. The results presented highlight the
need for further investigation of more specific markers (e.g., isotopes,
organic compounds, and gaseous precursors), in addition to routinely measured
components, in order to properly discriminate sources. Although the chemical profiles of the main sources have
been previously reported in the literature, it should be noted that some of
these chemical profiles are currently out of date and need to be updated
immediately. Additionally, in the future, specific focus should be placed on the
source profile subtypes, especially with respect to local IE in China.


Computer security professionals and researchers do not have a history of sharing and analyzing computer vulnerability information. Scientists and engineers from older or more established elds have long understood that publicizing, analyzing, and learning from other people's mistakes is essential to the stepwise reenement of complex systems. Computer scientists, however, have not followed suit. Programmers reinvent classical programming mistakes, contributing to the reappearance of known vulnerabilities. In the recent past, computer systems have come to be a part of critical systems that have a direct eeect on the safety and well-being of human beings and hence we m ust have l o wer tolerance for software failures. In the dissertation I will attempt to show that computer vulnerability information presents important regularities and these can be detected, and possibly visualized, providing important insight about the reason of their prevalence and existence. The information derived from these observations could be used to improve o n all phases of the development of software systems, as could be in the design, development, debugging, testing and maintenance of complex computer systems that must implement a set of policies deened by security analysis. A signiicant portion of the work that must be performed will concentrate on the development of classii-cations and taxonomies that will permit the visualization and analysis of computer vulnerability information. I hope that these classiications and taxonomies applied to a collection of vulnerabilities will provide a set of features whose analysis will show that there are clear statistical clusterings and patterns caused because developers and programmers are not learning from each others mistakes. This analysis may be performed by applying statistical analysis and knowledge discovery tools.


An Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is a computerized telecommunications device that enables the clients of a financial institution to perform financial transactions without the need of cashier, human clerk or bank teller [1]. A typical usage of the machine involves slotting a card into a recipient hole and following on screen instructions, by punching the keys of the metallic keypads to enter secret codes and commands; thus instructing the machine as to kind of service one requires [2]. The dispensing machine is likely to be contaminated with various normal flora due to their vast dermal contact by multiple users [3].


Purpose: In this paper, the question of how to improve a self-organizing neural network consisting of a bundle of clustering algorithm and a multilayer perceptron for data verification tasks in the absence of training pairs is considered. Design/methodology/approach: The most popular clustering algorithm is the Kohonen network, but today it is not the only algorithm capable of performing the task quickly and accurately. The paper compares the Kohonen network and the G-Means algorithm. The principle of operation of these two algorithms is briefly analyzed. The accuracy of these algorithms and the speed of their learning are compared. Findings: By conducting experiments, conclusions were drawn about the speed and accuracy of the algorithms. Originality/value: The relevance of this work lies in the fact that the preparation of training pairs for intelligent systems and the process of learning with a teacher is a resource-intensive task. The systems of self-learning algorithms under consideration will significantly increase the learning rate, as well as eliminate the need for manual classification of data and the creation of training pairs for the perceptron, which in turn will allow you to create a self-learning system with the ability to generalize and predict.


We have grown epitaxial thin films of multiferroic BiMnO$_3$ using pulsed laser deposition. The films were grown on SrTiO$_3$ (001) substrates by ablating a Bi-rich target. Using x-ray diffraction we confirmed that the films were epitaxial and the stoichiometry of the films was confirmed using Auger electron spectroscopy. The films have a ferromagnetic Curie temperature ($T_C$) of 85$\pm$5 K and a saturation magnetization of 1 $\mu_B$/Mn. The electric polarization as a function of electric field ($P-E$) was measured using an interdigital capacitance geometry. The $P-E$ plot shows a clear hysteresis that confirms the multiferroic nature of the thin films.


From the Publisher:
This revised edition is a complete update to the expertly authored, classic bestseller which offers a comprehensive, well-informed analysis of where computer telephony integration (CTI) came from and where it is going. It provides you with clear, in-depth coverage of all of CTI, including technology, standards, applications, system engineering, industry structure, the market, and future developments.

The book features expanded coverage of CTI and a wealth of new information on media processing, automation, and messaging. It also encompasses network merging, particularly voice over the Internet protocol, as well as TAPI, TSAPI, and JTAPI. Plus, new case studies show where and how computer telephone integration is used. You get a detailed overview, including: the history of CTI and its rapid evolution during the 1990's, the underlying technologies of the CTI world, the ways telephony and computing can be linked, the abundance of integration applications, and all aspects of convergence — at the desktop, server, and network levels. This book is of immense value when you need to:

>Determine where CTI can be used for maximum benefit in your business

>Gain an overall understanding of CTI technology to save costs and improve customer service — for example, operate the call center via integration

>Identify which call-handling strategy — automation, integration, or messaging — is most suitable for a particular business application

>Determine the appropriateness of the available standards

>Resolve problems associated with implementing integrated systems

The book is an important manual fortelecommunications managers and consultants, MIS managers, system integrators, application programmers, value-added resellers, and marketing managers who need to understand and appreciate the problems and rewards of integrating telephony with computers both now and in the future. It is also an excellent textbook for university students studying CTI.


What important developments have occurred in multilateral international treaties between the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism of 1937 and the Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism of 2002? This article answers this question as well as whether these laws have been an effective legal response in combating terrorism. After differentiating between comprehensive and sectoral conventions and between universal and regional conventions, the article comparatively analyzes them based on definitions of offenses, the extent of criminalization, exceptions concerning scope of application, measures to be taken by the states parties, obligatory and optional jurisdiction, obligations of states in the sphere of legal cooperation and assistance, rights of the offender, extradition, exceptions from extradition or legal assistance, and issues not covered by the conventions. Solutions proved to be the most effective against international terrorism and discrepancies and overlaps between the conventions are discussed.


Introduction: Debriefing after adult cardiac arrest is effective to improve CPR quality and survival outcomes. A rigorous investigation of pediatric resuscitation debriefing programs has not been done. Objective: To describe and evaluate a multidisciplinary, peer-led, pediatric cardiac arrest quantitative debriefing (QD) program. We hypothesized that QD would improve knowledge, confidence, and competence to perform high quality pediatric resuscitation. Methods: Physician-led 60 minute multidisciplinary QDs were conducted using downloaded data from CPR recording defibrillators/central monitors and forensic engineering analysis. Following each QD, attendees completed a semi-quantitative survey. Eight QD content elements divided, a priori, into chest compression (CC) related (e.g. no flow time, CC quality, end tidal CO2, defibrillation) and non-CC related (e.g. communication, rhythm recognition, medications, arrest physiology) categories were evaluated to determine those most useful overall (5- point Likert ...


This is a survey of results on self-adjoint commuting ordinary differential operators of rank two. In particular, the action of automorphisms of the first Weyl algebra on the set of commuting differential operators with polynomial coefficients is discussed, as well as the problem of constructing algebro-geometric solutions of rank 1$?> of soliton equations. Bibliography: 59 titles.


Author has briefly described the six kinds of the corrosive forms of uniform corrosion,pit corrosion,clearance corrosion,selective corrosion,stress corrosion and fatigue corrosion etc.,from aspects of process medium,water quality,production operation,process indexes etc.,the reason of the corrosion caused was analyzed,and the relative measures to reduce the corrosion caused was suggested.


The response of smooth muscle cells to IGF-I requires ligand occupancy of the (cid:2) V (cid:1) 3 integrin. We have shown that vitronectin (Vn) is required for IGF-I-stimulated migration or proliferation, whereas the anti- (cid:2) V (cid:1) 3 monoclonal antibody, LM609, which inhibits ligand binding, blocks responsiveness of these cells to IGF-I. The amino acids 177–184 ( 177 CYDMKTTC 184 ) within the extracellular domain of (cid:1) 3 have been proposed to confer the ligand specificity of (cid:2) V (cid:1) 3; therefore, we hypothe-sizedthatligandbindingtothe177–184cysteineloopof (cid:1) 3 may be an important regulator of the cross talk between (cid:2) V (cid:1) 3 and IGF-I in SMCs. Here we demonstrate that blocking ligand binding to a specific amino acid sequence within the (cid:1) 3 subunit of (cid:2) V (cid:1) 3 ( i.e. amino acids 177–184) blocked Vn binding to the (cid:1) 3 subunit of (cid:2) V (cid:1) 3 and correspondingly (cid:1) 3 phosphorylation was decreased. In the presence of this antibody, IGF-I-stimulated Shc phosphorylation and ERK 1/2 activation were impaired, and this was associated with an inhibition in the ability of IGF-I to stimulate an increase in


The paper discusses the application of photogrammetry to the mapping of galleries, crosscuts, vertical shafts and sviali shafts; the establishment of photo-plans of horizontal workings, and the app...


Research supports the use of closed enteral feeding systems, and recently more pediatric formulas have become available in the closed system. Transitioning to a closed feeding system in a pediatric hospital required a mul- tidisciplinary approach. Clinical trials and training of nurses and dietitians were essential in the conversion pro- cess. Perceived barriers were identified and strategies developed to resolve con- cerns of cost, waste, and fluid needs. Unexpected barriers included medica- tion administration practice changes, technical challenges with specific for- mulas, and the unavailability of spe- cific components of formula in the closed system when compared with the open system. Implementation of the closed system in the pediatric setting has been successful, and evaluation is continuing. The number of potential points for contamination can be decreased with the use of a closed feeding system.3,4 Fewer manipulations are required in the preparation and administration of a closed feeding system. Studies have shown that due to the fewer manipulations involved in the enteral feeding, closed feeding systems


Profiling gene expression from small amounts of FFPE using methods that require extraction of RNA from the tissue, such as RNA-seq, have been problematic. We report use of a modification of the whole transcriptome TempO-Seq® assay (Yeakley et al, PLOSone, 2017; DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0178302) to profile 2 mm2 areas of 5 μm thick FFPE sections by scraping the tissue and assaying lysates directly without extracting the RNA. Duration of fixation and the amount of sample down to a 2 mm2 area do not impact the performance of the assay. Good results can be achieved using FFPE blocks that are up to 30 years old. As a consequence of the ability to assay areas as small as 2 mm2 from HE 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 5241.


The reflectivity of thin‐film multilayers near the critical angle for total reflection was measured with Cu‐Kα1 x radiation. The observed small‐angle interference patterns were compared with the results of the reflectivity computation for a model structure consisting of a number of stratified layers on a flat substrate. The model parameters, thicknesses and refractive indices of the layers, were optimized using the non‐linear simplex method. Discussed are results obtained for Langmuir‐Blodgett‐type Mn‐stearate multilayers, (Ga,Al)As superlattices and for near‐periodic multilayers of an amorphous W‐Re alloy and carbon.


Spectroscopic studies are presented for cr4+ ions in different hosts. The crystals investigated in this work are divided into two categories. In the first category are included crystals containing chromium in the tetravalent state only. These are purely cr4+ doped crystals. The second category crystals are more complex, containing chromium in both tetravalent and trivalent states. Detailed investigations of the absorption and luminescence characteristics of cr4+ in cr4+:Y 2SiO5, which is a purely cr4+ doped crystal, allowed a better understanding to be achieved for the . spectroscopic behavior of cr4+ in tetrahedral sites. Based upon these studies theoretical model has been developed for the near infrared fluorescence dynamics of the cr4+ ion. This model now explains many of the inconsistencies and uncertainties that existed in earlier work on cr4+ ion in the more complex crystals such as Cr:Mg2SiO4 and can serve as a standard model for future studies of cr4+ in other materials. Also, laser action in the near in.frared was demonstrated for the first time in a purely cr4+ doped material, cr4+: Y 2SiO5. This confirms the identification of cr4+ as the lasing center responsible for the near infrared laser action in cr4+ doped crystals. The effects of site symmetry and charge compensation on the spectroscopic behavior of cr4+ ions in tetrahedral sites have been taken into account in the present work. This has enabled a new systematic approach to be developed for the crystal field engineering of improved cr4+ laser materials.


The pedestrian safety problem is huge in all developing countries. The main aims of the project are therefore: 1/To understand pedestrian safety problem in a developing country, 2/To identify feasible traffic calming measures. International experiences were complemented by field studies at seven sites in the city of Jaipur. A wide range of field studies were made, out of which traffic conflict studies were most important. The main conclusion of the studies is that there is an urgent need for Traffic Calming measures in Indian cities. Pedestrians are extremely exposed and vulnerable, and the speeds are too high to allow a safe and proper communication. One main problem is that road users are not offered any comfortable and safe crossing options e.g. existing pedestrian crossings are not suited for pedestrians. The conclusion from this is that there is a "chaos" that has to be dealt with. The proposed measures are "standardised Traffic Calming measures", primarily by introducing humps at both entrances and exits to intersections and to introduce raised footpaths in all corners to see to it to make the approaches for pedestrians as comfortable and safe as possible by preventing cars from being able to use that space. Pedestrian crossings are located close to the intersections so that pedestrians do not have to make large detours to use them. The measures that are proposed are simple which is the whole idea. Without simplicity and low costs there will never be any large scale use. Unfortunately no measures are taken yet in Jaipur, which of course will be next and very important step. When this is done, and after studies carried out, it is time to decide on studies for studying the validity of the results in other parts of India (Less)


We thank the reviewer for the comments. In agreement with reviewer 1 the main point of this review is also the lack of trajectory calculations to study the origin of the airmasses that were observed in the Arctic, as well as to better estimate the transport times. We followed the reviewer's suggestions and included trajectory calculations at different potential temperature levels to study these issues in greater detail.


ABSTRACT THE use of a small parallel-plate capacitor with individual corn, Zea mays L., kernels between the plates and in contact with them was explored for sensing kernel moisture content. Kernel thickness between the plates, projected area of the kernel, and kernel weight were also measured. The capacitance was measured at a frequency of 1 MHz with and without the kernel in place. This information was used, along with moisture content, as determined by oven drying, and kernel thickness, projected area, and weight, in linear combinations of the influencing variables to predict the kernel moisture content. Within the limited population tested, kernel moisture content was predicted within plus or minus 1 % moisture in the 12 to 20% moisture range with about 80% reliability at most moisture levels. Better resolution should be possible with further refinement of equipment and methods.


An ultra-thin and broadband absorber which consists of periodic rings with gaps is proposed in this paper. The periodic rings are printed on the middle metallic layers in a four-layer substrate of total thickness is only 3.4mm. Simulation results, which are gotten by using FEM, show that the absorption is higher than 90% cover the frequencies range from 8.4GHz to 23.6GHz. The measurement results of the absorption agree with simulated ones very well. We also give the Equivalent Circuit Model (ECM) of the absorber structure.


Alloys of CoMnP and CoNiMnP can be electroplated with a magnetic anisotropy normal to the substrate and a high coercivity in the perpendicular direction. The magnetic properties of the plated films are strongly influenced by the substrate on which they are deposited, since the substrate determines the thickness of the transition layer in which the perpendicular anisotropy is developed. The incorporation of Ni results in a greater degree of preferred orientation of the hcp phase of Co and also increases the coercivity of the material, as evidenced by VSM and x-ray diffraction on Cu coupons. The alloy properties are otherwise relatively insensitive to plating conditions. On NiP substrates, which resemble the NiFe underlayer of disks, the interfacial transition layer appears to be thicker than on Cu. Double-layer media disks were fabricated using these alloys and were tested with a single-pole head for vertical recording. The D 50 values and noise levels were comparable to those of sputtered media, but the plated media exhibited lower signal levels. Disks with CoNiMnP media were not as good as those with CoMnP, possibly because of a thicker interfacial transition region


Abstract : This market research report describes the methods used for identification, evaluation, and selection of a vendor to perform an Electrokinetic (EK) technology demonstration at Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) Point Mugu. The identification phase involved the use of a variety of data sources listing potential vendors who are currently involved in EK technology and capable of performing the technology demonstration. The evaluation phase of the research focused determining the ability of the vendors to sustain a demonstration both technologically and financially. From the evaluation phase five vendors were chosen to participate in the selection phase of the research. Each potential vendor was given instructions and site data to prepare for the presentation of oral briefs to a panel of technical professionals. From the oral briefs one vendor was selected to participate in the technology demonstration at NAWS Point Mugu. Throughout the market research, an objective and precise protocol was followed to ensure that no one company was favored or excluded in the selection process.


function zlz 2 v z2z 3 realizes the three boolean functions x I = XlX 1 v XlX I and XlX 2 = XlX 2 v x 2 x 2 and x I v x 2 = XlX l v x I x 2. Given n $ i, it is not possible to find a universal boolean function U(Zl,-,Zm) which realizes all boolean functions of n variables for the following reason. For each boolean function f of n variables we define Tf to be the function f (x,...,x) of a single variable. If U realizes f, then = so it is only possible to use a given function U to realize clearly Tf T u functions f having the same Tf. But, for boolean functions f of n ~ 1 variables the function Tf may be any of the four functions O,l,x,x of one variable. Thus, no universal function exists. It is, however, possible to find a set of four functions PO' Pl' Px' and 9-of some number m of variables such that any boolean function of n x variables is realized by one of the four. It is obvious from our previous remark that a smaller set cannot be found. A specific construction will be used to show that we need only four.


Klebsiella pneumoniae is a dominate cause of sever community-acquired and nosocomial infections, specifically among immunocompromised individuals. The increasing occurrence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) isolates has significantly impacted the effectiveness of antimicrobial agents. As we have entered the post antibiotic era, the use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections is becoming revitalized. Elucidating molecular details of phage-bacteria interactions will provide insights into phage biology and better development of phage therapies. In this study, a total of 22 non-duplicate K. pneumoniae isolates were assessed for their genetic and phenotypic relatedness by multi-locus sequence typing (MLST), endonuclease S1 nuclease pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (S1-PFGE) and in vitro antibiotic susceptibility testing. Further, the beta-lactamase gene (blaKPC) was characterized to determine the spread and outbreak of K. pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing enterobacterial pathogens. Three phages were isolated and characterized to evaluate the application of lytic phages against these 22 ST11 K. pneumoniae isolates. In vitro inhibition assays demonstrated the lytic potential of three relatively broad host-range phages, imposing strong selections for phage-resistant mutants. Comparative genomic sequence analyses revealed that phage-resistant mutants harbored mutations in gene wcaJ, which is essential for the biosynthesis of colanic acid. Together, this data suggests that in vitro characterization of phage-host interactions adds more comprehensive knowledge to known anti-phage defense strategies and further emphasizes their complexity and future challenges to overcome prior to using phages for controlling this important MDR bacterium.


Bioceramics are a great alternative to use in implants due to their excellent biocompatibility and good mechanical properties. Depending on their composition, bioceramics can be classified into bioinert and bioactive, which relate to their interaction with the surrounding living tissue. Surface morphology also has great influence on the implant biological behavior. Controlled texturing can improve osseointegration and reduce biofilm formation. Among the techniques to produce nano- and micropatterns, laser texturing has shown promising results due to its excellent accuracy and reproducibility. In this work, the use of laser techniques to improve surface morphology of biomaterials is reviewed, focusing on the application of direct laser interference patterning (DLIP) technique in bioceramics.


It was midnight on the west coast of Hudson Bay where the Hayes River spills its freshwater into the salty sea. The brisk August wind that had blown hard for most of the day had calmed down. Inside the one-room cabin I was sleeping in, the glow from a quickly fading fire in the wood stove flickered. After a full day of being cramped in the backseat of a helicopter counting dozens of polar bears along the shoreline, I was dead tired and should have been fast asleep, but the rustling of some creature beneath the plywood floor was keeping me awake. So was the mystery behind the bloody head of a polar bear that was tucked under my bunk.


As a numerical analysis technique,the main application of PCA is to simplify data and reduce data dimension. The introduction of the PCA algorithm to face recognition can extract the most important features of the face image and remove the redundancy and noise of data. In this paper,PCA is used for face recognition to improve the accuracy of recognition. Experiments in the ORL and YALE face database show that the proposed method has a high recognition rate for the face images in the experiments.


We report on the growth of vertically aligned Al:ZnO nanorod arrays synthesized by the hydrothermal technique at considerably low temperature on a sputtered Al:ZnO seed layer. The morphology demonstrates that the nanorod arrays maintain remarkable alignment along the c-axis over a large area. The optoelectronic properties of nanorod arrays on Al:ZnO/p-Si seed layer with SiO2 have been illustrated. The photocurrent is significantly reduced in nanorod arrays on AZO/SiO2/p-Si heterojunction due to multiple scattering phenomena associated with the nanorod arrays. The optical properties of the AZO film with and without the AZO nanorod arrays were investigated. Also the effects of an intermediate layer in the AZO/P-Si heterojunction structure with and without the AZO nanorod array present were explored. All the various intermediate layers displayed photovoltaic effect behavior, especially with the AZO/SiO2/P-Si heterojunction structure, which exhibited ideal diode behavior. The optoelectronic properties of nanorod arrays on AZO/P-Si seed layer with SiO2 have been illustrated. The photocurrent is significantly reduced in nanorod arrays on AZO/SiO2/P-Si heterojunction due to multiple scattering phenomena associated with the nanorod arrays. The results have tremendous impact for sensor fabrication, including glucose sensor.


Due to the expansion of social software, companies need to develop strategies to facilitate communication between users and organizations. The professional who makes it possible is the community manager. In Spain, the competences for this new job of online communication are not defined yet. The target of this research is focused on dealing in depth with his formative and professional profile and searching on whether it is an incidental popularization or if this professional figure will be normalized as part of the staff of organizations. Research has been mainly approached by quality method through interviews with several experts. In Spain, the evolution status of this role shows a clear trend towards CM's professionalization as a must for the online organizations. In this process, CM's self-driven training in the area of technical knowledge is also crucial. However, communication skills are imperative within the 1.0 environment so, are the key to fully expand his work. Should companies need to interact within the digital marketing and social media, then, they would require a new approach to fulfill with what the 2.0 era new consumer-content producer demands. So, the community manager will be a key value in the organizations.


The present work is led to study the performance of the Direct Foreign Investment in Argentina during the empire of the Plan of Convertibility, like a consistent set of structural reforms, in the Latin American historic context. We analyze the main characteristics of the Plan, their intrinsic vulnerability and the rigidity that imposed to the Argentinean economy, returning it highly dependent of the rate of entrance of capitals, between which we find the Direct Foreign Investment. Finally we show how the process of financial opening and the ambivalent behaviour of the Direct Foreign Investment ended make no sustainable anymore the Plan, unless it was sustained with debt


A new median-plane head-related transfer function (HRTF) personalization method using independent component analysis and ensemble learning is proposed. First, an HRTF personalization model based on two-dimensional independent component analysis is constructed in which HRTFs are decomposed as a combination of independent components from both the frequency-direction and subject domains. Then, for a new subject, subject-related independent components are predicted by substituting the subject's anthropometric parameters into an ensemble learning model consisting of three generalized regression neural networks (GRNNs), namely, a head-GRNN, torso-GRNN, and pinna-GRNN. Finally, the subject's individual HRTFs are predicted by substituting the predicted subject- related independent components into the HRTF personalization model. Results suggest that the proposed method can be used to personalize HRTFs effectively among direction, frequency, and subject, yielding lower spectral distortion values for both ears when compared to other similar methods.


Petri disease and esca are devastating grapevine trunk diseases and compromise the sustainability of viticulture world-wide. Despite being extensively studied, knowledge of inoculum sources and mechanisms of spread of the causal pathogens is limited. Arthropods have been suspected to play a role in the spread of Petri disease and esca pathogens. However, little information is known about the extent to which arthropods are associated with these pathogens. This study aimed to determine whether arthropods occurring within or on declining grapevines, are associated with trunk disease pathogens and to identify arthropods associated with pruning wounds. The potential of selected arthropods to act as vectors of trunk disease pathogens was also investigated. Two vineyards exhibiting grapevine trunk disease infections were sampled weekly for two years for collection of arthropods. Arthropods were collected using pruning wound traps, visual searches as well as trunk and cordon traps. Fungal spores from surfaces of arthropods were collected in water. Samples were subjected to nested PCR using primers Pm1/Pm2 and Pch1/Pch2 to verify the presence of Phaeoacremonium spp. and Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, respectively. Water samples were also cultured and grapevine trunk disease pathogens obtained were identified by sequencing the internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2 and the 5.8S rRNA gene or the partial beta-tubulin gene. A total of 10 875 arthropod individuals, belonging to more than 31 families, were collected from declining grapevines. The most abundant arthropods included millipedes, ants, spiders and beetles. Portuguese millipedes and cocktail ants were associated with fresh grapevine pruning wounds. Thirty-three percent of the 5677 water samples analysed, contained propagules of pathogens associated with Petri disease and esca. Of these, 37 % were recovered from millipedes, 22 % from cocktail ants, 15 % from spiders and 10 % from beetles. All the major groups of grapevine trunk diseases were detected on the arthropods. Phaeoacremonium species were detected in 1242 samples while Phaeomoniella chlamydospora was identified from 855 samples. Other fungi isolated included members of the Botryosphaeriaceae, Diatrypaceae and Diaporthales. The potential of grapevine sap as a food source for Portuguese millipedes and cocktail ants was investigated, in vitro. Millipede individuals were offered a choice between water and grapevine sap while ants in nests were presented with grapevine sap, tuna and water and monitored for ingestion of sap. Both taxa preferred grapevine sap over the other Stellenbosch University http://scholar.sun.ac.za


PURPOSE: A remote monitoring camera system for monitoring a transparent window and a sensor inside a case is provided to rapidly move a monitoring camera and to perform a concentrated monitoring operation if a sensor senses abnormality. CONSTITUTION: A transparent window(8) is arranged in a front side of case body. A sub movement unit(2) and a control unit for movement of a monitoring camera body(3) are operated through a camera body operation motor(6) in order for the case body to be operated through a camera body operating motor(6). The monitoring camera body monitors a video by a camera sensor. One or more sensors are installed in a sensor installation unit(13).


The system performance of Oracle databace relates not only to operation system,server and network performance but also to application program and data storage structure.This paper explores the optimization and adjustment techniques of Oracle database and makes an intensive study of the optimization methods at three different levels——environment,database parameter and application.The experimental results show that Oracle database performance is enhanced about 20% compared with the original database.