Hruskova M., Svec I. (2015): Cookie making potential of composite flour containing wheat, barley and hemp. Czech J. Food Sci., 33: 545–555. Correspondingly to addition levels, barley flour supplement changed the wheat SRC profile and rheological behaviour as expected, and positively influenced its cookie making potential. Dehulled or covered hemp seeds wholemeal flour types and commercial fine hemp flour differed in their impact on the wheat-barley SRC scores. Rheological behaviour of flour tri-composites was changed in terms of a reduction of dough tolerance to overmixing, and that fact was positively reflected in baking test results. Compared to cookies with 30% of barley flour in recipe, volumes increased significantly as a result of the fine hemp flour addition only (from 150.3 ml/100 g to 173.4 ml/100 g, i.e. +15%). Their spread ratio was worsened to the same extent, it diminished from 4.54 to 3.86. For sample counterparts containing 50% of barley flour, determined values were 138.3 vs. 153.2 ml/100 g (+11%) and 4.75 vs. 5.16, respectively. Within the cluster analysis, a tree-plot verified the similarity of both wheat flour standards as well as of both wheat-barley premixes. Further grouping was linked according to the barley flour ratio, and secondarily according to the hemp flour type tested.


Within 17 months from planning to production! The new PM 6 produces 360 000 t/a testliner and corrugating middles, at 2118 t per man-year. In a second phase this will rise to 2350 t/man-year. The gap former technology makes it possible to achieve this at speeds of over 1000 m/min, at a grammage of 160 g/m 2 , with consistencies in the head boxes of up to 1.45% for the top and 1.6 % for the backing sheet. There are also energy savings at lower capital costs per ton. This is the only mill in the world where waste paper and incinerable rejects of waste paper are re-used up to 100 % and where this is also achieved without waste water effluent from all the process water.


ABSTRACT Many algorithms and their modifications have been used to design and optimize open pit limits. These algorithms have provided mine planning engineers with pertinent information in designing, optimizing and extracting ore reserves by open pit technology. However, they do not address the random field properties associated with the ore grades and reserves, and thus, fail to yield the truly optimized pit limits in any time horizon. In this paper, a new algorithm, MCS/MFNN, which overcomes these limitations is developed to optimize open pit limits. The random field properties of the ore grade and reserves have been modelled using the modified conditional simulation based on the best linear unbiased estimation and local average subdivision techniques. Artificial neural networks are then used to classify the blocks based on their conditioned economic block values. The error back propagation algorithm, in the neural networks, is used to optimize the pit limits by minimizing the desired and actual outputs...


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................................................................................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................... iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................... iv LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................................................... vi LIST OF ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................ vii LIST OF APPENDICES .............................................................................................................. viii 1. Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Blood Pressure and Hypertension ......................................................................................... 1 1.2 Traditional Risk Factors for Hypertension ........................................................................... 3 2. Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.......................................................................................... 4 2.1 Hostility................................................................................................................................. 4 2.1.1 A survey of empirical hostility-BP research. ................................................................. 4 2.1.2 Limitations of existing hostility-BP research. ............................................................... 7 2.1.3 Models of hostility and linkages to BP. ......................................................................... 8 2.2 Constructive Verbal Anger ................................................................................................. 10 2.2.1 Limitations of existing constructive verbal anger-BP research ................................... 10 2.3 Humor and Humor Styles ................................................................................................... 11 2.3.1 A survey of empirical humor-health research. ............................................................. 12 2.3.2 A survey of empirical humor-BP research. .................................................................. 14 2.3.3 Limitations of existing humor-health research. ........................................................... 16 2.3.4 Models of humor and linkages to health. ..................................................................... 17 2.4 Purpose and Hypotheses of the Present Study .................................................................... 18 3. Chapter 3: METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................. 18 3.1 Participants .......................................................................................................................... 18 3.2 Measures ............................................................................................................................. 19 3.2.1 Cook Medley Hostility Scale. ...................................................................................... 19 3.2.2 Constructive Anger Behavior-Verbal Scale................................................................. 19


We report a systematic first-principles study on the recent discovered superconducting Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ systems ($x$ = 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, and 1.00). Previous theoretical studies strongly overestimated the magnetic moment on Fe of the parent compound BaFe$_2$As$_2$. Using a negative on-site energy $U$, we obtain a magnetic moment 0.83 $\mu_B$ per Fe, which agrees well with the experimental value (0.87 $\mu_B$). K doping tends to increase the density of states at fermi level. The magnetic instability is enhanced with light doping, and is then weaken by increasing the doping level. The energetics for the different K doping sites are also discussed.


We address the problem of radio resource allocation in the Downlink (DL) of a cellular system with multiple Relay Stations (RS), based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) transmission technology. The design of efficient resource allocation algorithms for such a system is crucial, in order to exploit the potential capacity and coverage increase offered by the relays. We propose different resource allocation algorithms which provide excellent throughput/outage trade-off with low complexity and minimized amount of Channel State Information (CSI). The simulation results show the benefits of our algorithms, for various number of relays and for different user distributions.


If the neonate with protruding ears, mildly constricted ears, a Stahl's ear, or even cryptotia is seen by the plastic surgeon during the child's first days of life, the timing is auspicious. By initiating immediate steps to mold the ear with tapes and splints, complete correction of the problem without surgery is a realistic expectation. The urgency and the effectiveness of early nonsurgical treatment of such ears is not yet widely appreciated by those responsible for primary medical care of neonates. It is the plastic surgeon's task to heighten awareness of such treatment.


The gauge dependence in the anomalous dimension of the gauge-invariant-canonical-energy-momentum tensor for proton is studied by the background field method. The naive calculation shows the problem, the absence of the counter term in the gluonic sectors. The analysis shows that the result [Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 062001 (2009)] is derived from the background field method after we introduced a trick to avoid the problem except for the gluon-to-gluon sector; it is gauge dependent. The possible reason of this gauge-dependent result comes from the nontrivial treatment of the condition $F^{\mu\nu}_{pure}=0$ at a higher order. This result shows that one needs a further improvement in treating this condition with a covariant way at a higher order by the background field method. In particular, we have to focus on two checkpoints, the gauge independence and zero eigenvalue in the anomalous-dimension matrix, in order to test the validity of the gauge-invariant-canonical-energy-momentum tensor.


Two new species of Helgaia Rocha e Silva-Albuquerque & Gurney, 1963, are herein described (H. catharinensis sp. n. and H. setacea sp. n.), the genitalia of the H. serrana are illustrated, commented morphological genital pieces, considerations about the genus are made.


A survey of 230 ASCE Faculty Advisors was conducted to identify the level of institutional support available to Student Chapters; the degree of academic credit awarded to Faculty Advisors; and the environmental characteristics associated with successful Chapters. The survey reveals that Chapter Advisors are most concerned about the relatively low level of faculty colleague involvement in Student Chapter activities and the academic community's perception of Faculty Advisor service as a "committee‐type" rather than a "teaching" activity. A comparison of award‐winning and non‐award‐winning Student Chapters reveals that successful Chapters are characterized by a much higher degree of faculty involvement in Chapter activities, a perception that Faculty Advisor service is indeed a "teaching" activity, and a more satisfactory degree of academic recognition of the Faculty Advisor's efforts.


This paper presents the main technical parameters,basic structure,characteristic curves and test results of 1TB2822-0SF02 variable frequency asynchronous traction motor.It also gives analysis and viewon the design features of this motor.


Datarace is a common problem on shared-memory parallel computers, including multicores. Due to its dependence on the thread scheduling scheme of its execution environment, the time to a datarace failure is usually very long. How to accelerate the occurrence of a datarace failure and further estimate the mean time to failure (MTTF) is an important topic to be studied. In this paper, the influencing factors for failures triggered by datarace bugs are explored and their influences on the time to datarace failure including the relationship with the MTTF are empirically studied. Experiments are conducted on real datarace suffering programs to verify the factors and their influences. Empirical results show that the influencing factors do have influences on the time to datarace failure of the subjects. They can be used to accelerate the occurrence of datarace failures and accurately estimate the MTTF.


This paper analyzes the reasons causing hue (or gray) difference of large-scale image database. Then on the basis of the comparison of some general methods, the paper presents a new hue (or gray) adjustment and smoothness transition method. Meanwhile, in order to reduce spatial transfer error caused by adjusting large-scale images, an innovative multi-time adjustment algorithm based on quad tree is put forward.


Adaptation and Development - Issues, Evidence and Policy Relevance PART I: ADAPTATION AND DEVELOPMENT: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES Utilitarianism, 'Adaptation' and Paternalism M.Qizilbash Adaptation: Implications for Development in Theory and Practice PART II: ADAPTATION AND DEVELOPMENT: THREE CASE STUDIES Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China J.Knight & R.Gunatilaka A Multidimensional Analysis of Adaptation in a Developing Country Context A.Barr Adaptation, Poverty and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from South India D.Neff PART III: ADAPTATION AND DEVELOPMENT: SPECIFIC ISSUES Subjective Well-being, Disability and Adaptation: A Case Study from Rural Ethiopia M.Fafchamps & B.Kebede Adaptation of the Rural Working Class in India: A Case Study of Migrant Workers B.Reddy & W.Olsen


Study on intrusion detection system (IDS) mostly allow network administrators to focus on development activities in terms of network security and making better use of resource. Many IDS datasets, techniques and methods conducted by some administrator to get a good performance of IDS. But, some methods, techniques and datasets published differently show that research in the field of intrusion detection is losing comprehensiveness. This literature review aims to analyze and identify the research trends of techniques, datasets and methods used on IDS topics that published in January 2016 to May 2020. Based on inclusion and exclusion criteria was found 62 primary studies that focus and related to IDS topic, that focuses on seven machine learning techniques: classification (81%), clustering (8%), estimation (3%), association (2%), prediction (2%), dataset analysis (3%) and the minor research covered only 1% for statistic. Beside that, the research studies used public datasets as 79% and private datasets as 21%. Eighteen different methods (algorithm) have been applied and proposed to detect intrusion. From the eighteen methods, six methods most applied in IDS, they are k Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) 7%, Random Forest (RF) 7%, Naïve Bayes (NB) 15%, Decision Tree (DT) 17%, Neural Network (NN) 20% and Support Vector Machine (SVM) 34%. Furthermore, some researchers proposed some techniques and methods to improve the accuracy of machine learning classifier on IDS, like ensembling machine learning methods, using boosting algorithm and combined feature selection algorithm. Future work may ensemble classifier methods can tackle the classification problem and can improve accuracy in detecting intrusions.


A fractional generalization of the gradient system to the Birkhoff mechanics, that is, a new fractional gradient representation of the Birkhoff system is investigated, in this paper. The definitions of the fractional gradient system are generalized to Birkhoff mechanics. Based on the definition, a general condition that a Birkhoff system can be a fractional gradient system is derived, the former studies for fractional gradient representation of the Birkhoff system are special cases of this paper. As applications of the results, the Birkhoff equations and fractional gradient expression of several classical nonlinear models are derived, such as the Hénon–Heiles equation, the Duffing oscillator model, and the Hojman–Urrutia equations. The results indicate, different from the former studies, that only gave the second-order gradient (integer order) expression for the Birkhoff system, an arbitrary fractional order gradient representation, exists for the Birkhoff system. The fractional potential function obtained from the general condition can determine the stationary states of these models in Birkhoffian expression.


This paper addresses the problem of device-level placement for analog layout. Different from most of the existing approaches employing basically simulated annealing optimization algorithms operating on flat Gellat-Jepsen spatial representations, we use a more recent topological representation called sequence-pair, which has the advantage of not being restricted to slicing floorplan topologies. In this paper, we explain how specific features essential to analog placement, such as the ability to deal with symmetry and device matching constraints, can be easily handled by employing the sequence-pair representation. Several analog examples substantiate the effectiveness of our placement tool, which is already in use in an industrial environment.


p-Nitrophenyl methylphosphonate (PNPMP, 3) and p-nitrophenyl phenylphosphonate (PNPPP, 4) are rapidly hydrolyzed in acidic solutions (pH 3.5−6.0) at 37 °C by excess Zr4+, Ce4+, or Th4+ cations. Brij-35 micelles are employed in the Ce4+ and Th4+ cases. Second-order rate constants (M-1 s-1) with PNPMP are 115 (Zr4+), 53.9 (Ce4+), and 16.9 (Th4+), while for PNPPP they are, respectively, 76.8, 16.1, and 13.1. Relative to water (k2 = 3.6 × 10-11 M-1 s-1 at 30 °C, pH 7.6), kinetic advantages with Zr4+ or Ce4+ exceed 1012.


This paper provides a literature review of some of the most important concepts, techniques, and methodologies used within autonomous car systems. Specifically, we focus on two aspects extensively explored in the related literature: tracking, i.e., identifying pedestrians, cars or obstacles from images, observations or sensor data, and prediction, i.e., anticipating the future trajectories and motion of other vehicles in order to facilitate navigating through various traffic conditions. Approaches based on deep neural networks and others, especially stochastic techniques, are reported.


Despite the great progress made in the last decade, the study of very massive stars remains hampered by the lack of statistics and only a few hundred stars with Minit≥30 M⊙ are known in our Galaxy. Low resolution, slitless spectral images were obtained at the Loiano Observatory in the wavelength window 3300–6420 A, in order to identify in extragalactic objects targets displaying the most prominent features that characterise the spectrum of bright hot stars, WR and Luminous Blue Variables (LBV), and of nebular regions as well. We present the results with the well studied galaxy M 101, where the previously known H ii regions with WR star signatures are easily identified. Polcaro & Viotti (1998) proposed at the ADASS VII Conference a simple slitless spectroscopic method that was effectively employed in the search of very massive stars, as well as in the identification of the optical counterparts of galactic X–ray sources (see e.g. Bernabei & Polcaro 2001a,b; Israel et al. 1999). In this regard, despite of the great progress made in the last decade, the study of the very massive stars remains hampered by the lack of statistics and only a few hundred stars with Minit≥30 M⊙ are known in our Galaxy. Actually, being short–living objects, the known very massive stars are associated with regions of large interstellar extinction, hence they are not easy to identify in our Galaxy. In fact, many the known objects of this category have been found in external galaxies and in the Magellanic Clouds. For instance, only one half of the LBVs known to date are Galactic objects. On the other hand, the new generation of optical telescopes makes the spectroscopy of bright extragalactic stars a relatively easy job: therefore, we can hope to increase our knowledge of very massive objects from the study of this class of stars in nearby external galaxies seen 'face–on', that is with a little interstellar matter interposed. However, the problem arises in the preliminary identification of the targets: very massive stars are difficult to identify on the base of photometric surveys alone, being their colours strongly affected by local and circumstellar reddening. Unfortunately, the method that we have employed to date for the search of galactic objects, is scarcely useful, being based on a combination of filters and grisms, suitable only for relatively bright objects (our sensitivity limits is of the order of V≈14). Because of these reasons, we developed a new slitless procedure, allowing the spectroscopic survey of a relatively wide sky region on a single image, using


The invention discloses a stainless steel passivation process which is mainly technically characterized by taking citric acid and hydrogen peroxide as main compositions of a passivation solution and optimally selecting a volume fraction formula and a process of the stainless steel passivation fluid as follows: 3 percent of the citric acid, 10 percent of the hydrogen peroxide, 5 percent of ethanol, the temperature of 25 DEG C and the passivation time of 90min.


Globalization continues to be an increasingly important issue for contemporary anthropology and sociology as cross-border interconnections and the movement of peoples, capital, and culture around the world expand and intensify. Since the 1990s, an increasing number of researchers have become interested in this general topic and the literature on the subject has proliferated. Within this literature has emerged an approach of the study of globalization commonly referred to as global ethnography. Both cultural anthropology and qualitative sociology have long been focused on ethnography as their most distinctive academic contributions (Clifford 1986; Hendry 2003, 498; Marcus and Fischer 1999; Atkinson et al. 2001). However, at first glance, ethnography and globalization do not appear to be compatible as a number of scholars have noted (Burawoy 2000, 1–5; 2001, 147; Coleman 2010, 496; Gille and Riain 2002, 273; Hendry 2003, 498). Some suggest that ethnography's confinement to the local prevents it from accessing the global (Burawoy 2000, 1–3; Peltonen 2007, 346). Globalization is often associated with macro-social processes, deterritorialized flows and networks across national borders, and large-scale international institutions and corporations that are either detached from localities or affect


Accurate quantum reactive scattering calculations in the full three‐dimensional physical space have been carried out for the Li+FH reaction at zero total angular momentum using the adiabatically adjusting principal axis of inertia hyperspherical coordinate formalism. The procedures for fitting the potential energy surface, calculating the surface functions, and propagating the solutions in a coupled channel treatment are given and discussed. Features of the resulting reactive probability plots are analyzed, and simple explanations of a number of the quantum resonance and oscillatory features are found.


The martingale difference restriction is an outcome of many theoretical analyses in economics and finance. A large body of econometric literature deals with tests of that restriction. We provide new tests based on radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. Our work is based on the test design of Blake and Kapetanios (2000, 2003a, 2003b). However, unlike that work we provide a formal theoretical justification for the validity of these tests and present some new general theoretical results. These results take advantage of the link between the algorithms of Blake and Kapetanios (2000, 2003a, 2003b) and boosting. We carry out a Monte Carlo study of the properties of the new tests and find that they have very good power performance. A simplified implementation of boosting is found to have desirable properties and small computational cost. An empirical application to the S&P 500 constituents illustrates the usefulness of our new test.


Employee work effectiveness is needed to produce good employee performance in the form of achievement and success in completing tasks. This research is a descriptive research type with a qualitative approach. The research method used by the author is to analyze data regarding the influence of regulations and human resources on employee effectiveness and to analyze the inhibiting factors of employee effectiveness from the two research focuses. The results of the study show that regulation and human resources have an effect on employee effectiveness, where based on these measurements it is known that the effectiveness of employee work in the Protocol and Leadership Communications Section is quite good, although there are several inhibiting factors that need to be addressed. Some of the factors that impede the effectiveness of the work of employees in the Protocol and Leadership Communications Section are the lack of consistency in implementing SOPs in one of the sub-sections, the lack of incentives given to employees, the lack of staff, the lack of operational vehicles, the leaders who are not assertive and some employees who are not disciplined.


A device is provided. The device may comprise an integrated circuit package. The integrated circuit package may comprise a first layer and a solder mask. The first layer may comprise a top surface wherein the solder mask is disposed on the top surface of the first layer. The solder mask may comprise a vertical edge. The vertical edge may form an angle between the top surface of the first layer and the vertical edge of not less than 90 degrees. The angle may be not less than 120 degrees or not less than 150 degrees. The present invention discloses an improved solder mask shape for BOT laminate packages.


Traditional Lagrangian particle dispersion models reflect particles at the zero-plane displacement height and therefore cannot properly take near-ground effects into account. In this study, we investigate whether including the urban canopy layer improves the performance of such a Lagrangian particle dispersion model. Here, spatially averaged flow and turbulence profiles throughout the urban canopy are constructed based on data from the literature (mostly from wind tunnel and numerical modeling studies).


Alice and Bob want to know if two strings of length n are almost equal. That is, do the strings differ on at most a bits? Let 0 ⩽ a ⩽ n − 1. We show (1) any deterministic protocol—as well as any error-free quantum protocol (C* version)—for this problem requires at least n − 2 bits of communication, and (2) a lower bound of n/2 − 1 for error-free Q* quantum protocols. We also show the same results for determining if two strings differ in exactly a bits. Our results are obtained by lower-bounding the ranks of the appropriate matrices.


In the global health crisis that we face, old questions and old problems return with strength. The development idea is a key to afford immediate consequences and to change inequality structural issues in our Latin Americans' territories. For that, come back to Albert Hirschman´s proposal is still in force because some of his critical ideas about traditional theories of development were made from work experience in so-called underdevelopment countries. Keeping a critical eye, we will make here a brief review of two principles and two mechanisms elaborated by the author, they are useful to think development management.


Soy protein is beneficial for the control of breast cancer; however the molecular mechanism is not clear. This study examines the effects of soy protein on MAPK signaling in rat breast cancer model. Tumor was developed by gavage administration of single dose of DMBA (80 mg/kg) into 50‐day old female rats, maintained on a standard AIN‐76A diet containing either casein (20%) or soy protein (20%). After 122 days of DMBA administration, the animals were sacrificed. Tumors were detected by palpation and at autopsy biopsy specimens were graded. The casein group had 20% grade I, 60% grade II and 20% grade III adenocarcinoma. Soy protein group had 100% grade I tumors. The expression of the AP‐1 family of transcription factors in tumors was analyzed by Western blot. JNK activation/phosphorylation was increased in tumors. The increase was more in casein group than that in soy protein group. This in turn increased the c‐jun expression in tumors in both groups. However, c‐fos expression in tumors was increased only in casein group and not in soy protein group. The c‐fos expression in the soy protein group was at the basal level. Since c‐fos and c‐jun dimerization is necessary to activate AP‐1, the activation of AP‐1 will be higher in tumors from casein group than that in tumors from soy protein group. Hence soy protein may impart its beneficial effect on cancer progression by regulating AP‐1 activation.


Context. Software metrics are surrogates of software quality. Software metrics can be used to find possible problems or chances for improvements in software quality. However, software metrics are numbers that are not easy to interpret. Previous analysis of software metrics has shown fat tails in the distribution. The skewness and fat tails of such data are properties of many statistical distributions and more importantly the phenomena of the power law. These statistical properties affect the interpretation of software quality metrics. Objectives. The objective of this research is to validate the effect of power laws on the interpretation of software metrics. Method. To investigate the effect of power law properties on software quality, we study five open-source systems to investigate the distribution and their effect on fault prediction models. Results. Study shows that power law behavior has an effect on the interpretation and usage of software metrics and in particular the CK metrics. Many metrics have shown a power law behavior. Threshold values are derived from the properties of the power law distribution when applied to open-source systems. Conclusion. The properties of a power law distribution can be effective in improving the fault-proneness models by setting reasonable threshold values.


The purpose of this paper is to identify determinants for foreign portfolio investment in the Brazilian stock market. From the viewpoint of the investors who have already allocated their resources in Brazilian Market, it was found that periods of greater local liquidity and lower correlation with developed markets promoted their activities (buys and sales); the Brazilian country risk (EMBI Br), domestic and external interest rates and recent past performance of the domestic market also showed as significant determinants for additional buys. For net inflows into the local stock market, as robust determinants were found the performance of developed markets and the domestic prime interest rate; the development of BM&F-Bovespa Stock Exchange, crisis environments, the recent Brazilian investment grade and the local diversification (in relation to a developed market) would be particularly relevant to the dynamics of foreign portfolio inflows in Brazil.


Part One 'The Greatest Dying Englishman': Churchill's Death and Funeral'Had This War Not Come, Who Would Speak of Winston Churchill'?'The Greatest Living Englishman"I Must Justify Myself before History': Fulton and the War MemoriesPart Two 'The Maker of Modern Ireland'?: Churchill and the Celts'The Father of Europe'?: Churchill and the EuropeansPart Three 'An English-speaking Union in my own Person': Churchill and the American'The Lynchpin of the English-Speaking Peoples': Churchill and Canada'The Brightest Gem in the British Crown': Churchill in New Zealand'Bad Stock': Churchill and AustraliaRobert Menzies, Worldwide Leader of the Churchill Appreciation SocietyPart Four The Man of the Century--and of the Next?NotesIndex


In this paper, we consider a set of new exact symmetry in the SM, {\it reflection} symmetries $R m_{u,\nu}^{*} R = m_{u,\nu}, ~ m_{d,e}^{*} = m_{d,e}$ with $R =$ diag $(-1,1,1)$. These symmetries are remnants of $\mu-\tau$ reflection symmetries after deduction of $\mu-\tau$ symmetry.
These extended $C$ symmetries can predict the zero QCD $\theta$-term $\theta_{\rm QFD}=0$ at tree level with proper $CP$ phases $\delta_{CP}$ of the CKM and MNS matrices. Moreover, they can constrain the Majorana phases to be $\alpha_{2,3} /2 = 0$ or $\pi /2$ and then enhance predictivity of the leptogenesis.


It is widely acknowledged that when it comes to IT security the human factor is usually the weakest link. In an effort to strengthen this link, most CIO's are embracing the deployment of security awareness programmes. It is accepted that these programmes can create an information security-aware culture where security risks can be reduced. Even though work has been done in ensuring that these programmes include mechanisms for changing behaviour and reinforcing good security practices, there is a lack of work on measuring the effectiveness of such programmes. Competence based questions have long been used in HR to select employees with the skills that are necessary to perform effectively in a job. Competence based tests focus mainly on the behaviours and traits critical for success on the job and how they have been demonstrated in the past. This current paper presents the description of an approach that uses competency based behavioural questions to measure security competence levels at a university with regards to password management. A sample of 140 students participated in the study. The findings revealed that even though students were aware of the procedures, many failed to implement them. For example, 48.6% of students would share their passwords even though they know it was wrong. It was also found that there is a positive relationship between the year of study and the creation of strong passwords (n=140; r=+0.268; p=0.007).


Military operations research. The U.S. military services continue to make important use of operations research studies. The Army is served by Johns Hopkins University's Operations Research Office, the Navy by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Operations Evaluation Group, the Air Force by its civil-service Operations Analysis office and The RAND Corporation, and the joint Chiefs of Staff by the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, a project of the Institute for Defense Analyses, a non-profit corporation sponsored by eight leading US universities. Not counting personnel in these groups engaged in other technical activities,


The organizational well-being assessment makes possible to identify risks for health in workers and organizations and to introduce health promotion actions in the workplace. The aim of the study is to analyze the organizational well-being among health professional managers who manage professional groups (e.g., nurses, midwives, physiotherapists) in hospital and identify potential main discomfort factors of these middle management workers.

 A bicentric pilot study was performed in October 2019. A questionnaire with validated scales was administered to all the health professional managers of two Italian hospitals. The scales investigated variables such as distress, stress risk factors (e.g., physical and emotional workload, job control, job autonomy, role clarity, relationships, support), well-being, and job satisfaction.

 A self-reported questionnaire was administered to 38 out of 40 managers. They were male for 21% and female for 79%. The average age was 53.9 years. T-test analysis showed no significant difference between the two hospitals. The entire sample shows low general distress level, but 25% of the sample declares moderate distress and 8% high distress. The managers refer pace and workloads often (37%) or always (47%) excessive, they refer to not be able to 'detach' themselves from work issues when they get off work (60%) and to be too tired to live their lives (63%). They report that rarely (29%) or never (43%) have a say in how to do their job and refer that their direct supervisor is never available to listen their work problems (43%). The managers often or always perceive tension in working relationships (49%) and refer to do not have the needed support from colleagues (56%). Thirteen percent of managers applied for move into another ward.

 This study shows that health professional managers experience general working discomfort and perceive problems with regard workload and poor support from colleagues and supervisors.

 Managers' well-being can be compromised by both organizational and relationship factors. Middle management well-being should be improved to reduce distress risk and increase professional team efficacy.


Innovation is arguably one of the present-day buzzwords pervading economic, social as well as cultural life. The innovation concept however is highly ambiguous. Nevertheless most (positivistic) innovation studies employ seemingly "clear-cut" notions of innovation circumventing its highly elusive nature. These "clear-cut" innovation concepts are built on pre-conceived ontological assumptions. Interpretive research on the other hand either falls into a rationalistic trap or assumes absolute precedence of language. What is lacking are studies which embrace the ambiguous nature of innovation. In the following paper I intent to conceptualise how engineers come to understand innovation and how the creation of a contemplative space induced by their own practices breeds multiple understandings of innovation and what implications this might entail for the organisation. For empirical illustration I draw on material from a longitudinal case study of a high-technology company.


This document describes the progress made within Work Package 1 "Control Plane Extensions" over the second year of the OpenLab project.


This study on farmers' perception and management of natural hazards in production and security of farm investment was carried out in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria. The study was sought to identify farmers' perceived natural hazards in food production; identify adopted measures used in mitigating impacts of the hazards and determined factors that influenced farmers from taking formal insurance policy against these hazards. Sixty farmers were chosen following a multi-stage random sampling technique. The instrument of data collection was via a set of semi-structured questionnaire which was administered by personal interview method. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, 5 point likert scale and probit regression model. The result revealed fire outbreak, outbreak of diseases and pests, flooding, erosion, drought, theft, and ill health as natural hazards experienced by the farmers. The most perceived hazard was fire outbreak and the least perceived was floods. Farmers' level of education, farming experience, previous farm income and enterprise type were significant determinants of farmer's decision to take formal insurance. Experienced farmers mitigated effects of these hazards using cultural techniques. We recommended that government should provide a cushion infrastructure in form of dams to conserve floods and flowing streams to provide water for irrigation and ameliorate effects of occasional droughts and erratic rainfall. Farmers on their part should be encouraged by farm extension agency to take up formal insurance policy from designate companies against losses to their investments.


The September, 2018, issue of this journal follows on the heels of a very successful third Biennial International Conference (BICON) on 'Evolving Trends in Alternative Care for Children in South Asia', held in New Delhi, in March 2018. This was the third Biennial (BICON) conference organised by our supporting institution, Udayan Care, along with support and financial aid from various organisations, devoted to children in need of care and protection. The conference highlighted the regional work in South Asia, in keeping with the global push, to move orphaned and vulnerable children away from institutionalised settings and into family settings, family strengthening, foster care placements and/or adoption. From a stimulating and informative key note speech by a leading authority on this subject, Dr Delia Pop, who was interviewed in a previous issue, to a lively debate presenting opposing viewpoints on this topic, the conference, one could say, was a resounding success.


Evidence from experimental studies indicates that during chronic infections with certain helminth species a regulatory network is induced that can down‐modulate not only parasite‐induced inflammation but also reduce other immunopathologies such as allergies and autoimmune diseases. The mechanisms however, and the molecules involved in this immunomodulation are unknown. Here, we focus on the effect of Trichinella spiralis excretory/secretory antigens (TspES) on the innate immune response by studying the effect of TspES on DC maturation in vitro. Bone marrow‐derived DC from BALB/c mice were incubated with TspES either alone or in combination with LPS derived from two different bacteria. As indicators of DC maturation, the cytokine production (IL‐1α, IL‐6, IL‐10, IL‐12p70 and TNF‐α) and the expression of various surface molecules (MHC‐II, CD40, CD80 and CD86) were measured. Results indicate that while TspES alone did not change the expression of the different surface molecules or the cytokine production, it completely inhibited DC maturation induced by Escherichia coli LPS (E. coli LPS). In contrast, DC maturation induced by LPS from another bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, was not affected by TspES. These results were confirmed using TLR4/MD2/CD14 transfected HEK 293 cells. In conclusion, T. spiralis ES antigens lead to suppression of DC maturation but this effect depends on the type of LPS used to activate these cells.


This paper used sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method to obtain the optimal obstacle avoidance posture and end position of a 7-axis robotic manipulator. By applying restraining conditions, obstacle information, and finishing point coordinates, a homogeneous transformation matrix was firstly used to construct a space for limited movement for the first and sixth axes of the robotic manipulator. Subsequently, we determined whether the terminal point was within reach of the robotic manipulator and calculated the angle of each axis. Finally, the MATLAB software was used to conduct a simulation and verification. In this study, the SQP method was used to introduce inequality constraints into the computation and conducted the iterative method. The simulation results revealed that the method can obtain avoidance of obstacle postures and select optimal values from the iteration results of multiple initial values to avoid the local optimal problem. Overall, the research findings are that the functions and applicability of the 7-axis robotic manipulator can be extended in industry when applied in future intelligent manufacturing.


Background  Overexpression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in epidermal lesions of psoriasis is well documented; however, its underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. We have recently demonstrated that vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) induces the production of cytokines such as interleukin‐6 and stem cell factor from keratinocytes, thereby contributing to the development of inflammatory dermatoses such as psoriasis.


The Reynolds Point Formation is the second formation of the Shaler Group of Victoria Island. It has a maximum known thickness of about 1100 m. It comprises four members as follows: basal terrigenous clastics, a thick carbonate-dominated unit, a second terrigenous clastic member, and a mixed carbonate–clastic sequence. The lower clastic member is the subject of this report. Its greatest known thickness is about 215 m. The basal part consists of dark green and purple shaly mudstones interpreted as prodelta and distal delta slope deposits. These fine grained sediments were spread out westward across an extensive, strongly current-influenced shelf sea that contained abundant stromatolites. These stromatolites comprise the orange-weathering stromatolitic biostrome of the topmost unit of the underlying Glenelg Formation. The abrupt contact between the two formations and the strongly contrasted nature of the rock types involved suggest that the platform underwent rapid subsidence. Sandstones, siltstones, and min...


Using the one-to-one map between massless spinors on d+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime and massive spinors on dSd+1, we obtain the boundary term that should be added to the standard Dirac action for spinors in the dS/CFT correspondence. ∗e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com It is known that the correct action for spinors in AdSd+1/CFTd correspondence is the sum of the standard Dirac action, S = ∫ Σ dxiψ̄(x) ( 6 D −m)ψ(x), (1) and some boundary term [1, 2, 3]. Specially in [1], Henneaux has shown that the boundary term can be determined by the stationary conditions on the solutions of Dirac equation with a definite asymptotic behavior. In those papers, the Euclidean AdS space is considered as the domain t > 0 with metric, ds = 1 t2 ηdxdx , (2) where x = t and η = (+,+, · · · ,+). It is also shown that the boundary term gives the action for spinors on the boundary with expected conformal weight in AdS/CFT correspondence. Since, dSd+1 space can be also described as the domain t > 0 with metric (2) in which η = (+,−, · · · ,−), it is reasonable to consider similar boundary terms in dS/CFT correspondence. Recently we showed that massless scalar fields on d+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime are dual to scalar fields on dSd+1 with mass m 2 = d 2 −1 4 [4]. In fact, if φ(~x, t) is the solution of Klein-Gordon equation in d+ 1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime Md+1, η∂μ∂νφ(t, ~x) = 0, (3) then Φ(~x, t) = t d−1 2 φ(~x, t) is a massive scalar on dSd+1, satisfying the Klein-Gordon equation, ( t∂ t + (1− d)t∂t − t ∇ + d − 1 4 ) Φ(~x, t) = 0 (4) Using this map we obtained the action of the dual CFT on the boundary of dS space [5] by inserting the solution of the Klein-Gordon equation in Md+1 in terms of the initial data given on the hypersurface t = 0 into the action of massless scalars on Md+1 and identifying the initial data with the CFT fields. The same result was obtained by mapping massless scalars from Euclidean space to Euclidean AdS. In Md+1, solutions of Dirac equation are solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation. Therefore, one can obtain some information about spinors and the dS/CFT correspondence by mapping massless spinors from d+1 dimensional Minkowski (Euclidean) spacetime to de Sitter (Euclidean AdS) space. In this letter, we study only the map between the Minkowski and de Sitter spaces. The reasonability of our final results can be verified by comparing it to what one obtains in dS/CFT in the case of scalar fields. Massless Fermions on Md+1 The Dirac equation for massless fermions, iγ∂μψ(t, ~x) = 0 has solutions, ψ(~x, t) = ∫ d~kψ̃(~k)e k.~xe±iωt, (5) where, ( ±ωγ + γ~ki ) ψ̃(~k) = 0, ω = ∣


Abstract Aims: To evaluate whether maternal and fetal plasma adrenomedullin levels in pregnancies with small for gestational age (SGA) infants are different from those in pregnancies with appropriate for gestational age (AGA) infants. Methods: Maternal and fetal circulating adrenomedullin levels were compared between 62 pregnancies with AGA (43 delivered vaginally and 19 delivered by elective cesarean section) and 28 pregnancies with SGA (20 delivered vaginally and 8 delivered by elective cesarean section) at birth. Plasma adrenomedullin levels were measured from maternal and cord venous blood samples using a radioimmunoassay. Umbilical artery blood pH was also measured. Results: There were no significant differences for maternal total adrenomedullin levels, mature adrenomedullin levels, and its ratio among the groups. There were also no significant differences for fetal total adrenomedullin levels, mature adrenomedullin levels, and its ratio among the groups. In the AGA group delivered vaginally, fetal mature/total adrenomedullin ratio (mean ± standard error, 16.6 ± 0.7%) was significantly higher than the maternal ratio (13.8 ± 0.6%) (p < 0.05). In the SGA group delivered vaginally, fetal mature/total adrenomedullin ratio (18.5 ± 1.0%) was also significantly higher than the maternal ratio (14.5 ± 0.6%) (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference in umbilical artery blood pH among the groups. Conclusions. These results suggest that maternal and fetal plasma circulating adrenomedullin levels may play a role in maternal and fetal cardiovascular adaptation during delivery in pregnancies with both AGA and SGA infants.


A total of 30 patients with newly diagnosed motor conversion disorder were consecutively investigated by means of a Swedish self‐rating inventory designed to assess perceived parental rearing practices (EMBU), and the Karolinska Scale of Personality (KSP). DSM Axis I and II psychopathology was assessed using a Structured Clinical Interview (SCID), and comparisons were made with 30 age‐ and sex‐matched in‐patients with motor symptoms due to a neurological disorder. Depression, the presence of a personality disorder and also poor schooling proved to be significantly associated with motor conversion disorder. The index patients perceived a high degree of parental rejection as well as low levels of affection and emotional warmth during childhood, but contrary to most previous studies, childhood physical and/or sexual abuse was not found to be associated with motor conversion disorder.


The control of gray mold of small fruits, including blackberry, is caused primarily by Botrytis cinerea in commercial fields and is largely based on fungicide applications. The high risk of fungicide resistance development due to the single-site modes of action of many fungicides combined with the extraordinary genetic diversity of B. cinerea encouraged us to survey populations in South Carolina and neighboring states. A new species, Botrytis caroliniana, as well as the fungicide resistance profile and molecular resistant mechanism was discovered and described in this book.


In this article is indicated that professional action of future teachers of music certain physical qualities and psycho-physiological organism characters. The level of professional preparation of student's young people depend from many factors every of them certain degree influence on professionalism of musician. The competent operate by professional preparation of students has decided meaning, from what depend development and bringing these qualities, forming such skills and habits, which mostly necessary for acquirement by future professional.


Due to growing concern about the environment, the use of biodegradable polymeric materials has been studied in order to minimize the environmental impact caused by synthetic polymers. Among these materials can be detached polymeric films containing corn starch, with low cost and available worldwide. This paper exhibits some characteristics of the starch and summarizes studies in which the authors present some properties of polymeric materials containing starch, especially mechanical and barrier properties, permeability to water vapor and the use of


Escherichia coli is one of the major bacteria along with Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococci that are encountered in mastitic milk samples obtained from subclinical mastitis cases in India. Ciprofloxacin is an antimicrobial fluoroquinolone, which is effective against Escherichia coli. As antioxidants like selenium, vitamin, E and Vitamin C have become adjunct therapeutic agents in the cases of mastitis along with antibacterial agents, the present study was aimed to find out the in vitro pharmacodynamic interaction of ascorbic acid with ciprofloxacin against E. coli isolated from mastitis milk samples of buffaloes. E. coli were isolated from the milk from buffaloes of sub clinical mastitis cases after clinical diagnosis. Cultural and biochemical tests were performed to identify the isolated organisms as E. coli from milk. Further DNA template isolated from the organism is subjected for polymerized chain reaction (PCR) for the specific primers Eco 2083 and Eco 2745 to confirm the identity of the organism. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of ciprofloxacin, ascorbic acid alone and combination of both compounds in serial dilution against clinical isolates of E. coli was performed using microplate method. Ciprofloxacin alone has shown MIC of 0.03 μg.mL against E. coli whereas ascorbic acid alone has no antibacterial activity. MIC of ciprofloxacin has been reduced to two fold (0.015μg.mL) when it was diluted in 8:2 to 4:6 ratio with ascorbic acid (0.1mg/ml) and thus indicating ascorbic acid potentiating the antibacterial activity of ciprofloxacin.


We discuss exact scalar field solutions describing gravitating compact objects in the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity (EiBI), a member of the class of (metric-affine formulated) Ricci-based gravity theories (RBGs). We include a detailed account of the RBGs/GR correspondence exploited to analytically solve the field equations. The single parameter $\e$ of the EiBI model defines two branches for the solution. The $\e>0$ branch may be described as a `shell with no interior', and constitutes an ill-defined, geodesically incomplete spacetime. The more interesting $\e<0$ branch admits the interpretation of a `wormhole membrane', an exotic horizonless compact object with the ability to transfer particles and light from any point on its surface (located slightly below the would-be Schwarzschild radius) to its antipodal point, in a vanishing fraction of proper time. This is a single example illustrating how the structural modifications introduced by the metric-affine formulation may lead to significant departures from GR even at astrophysically relevant scales, giving rise to physically plausible objects radically different from those we are used to think of in the metric approach, and that could act as a black hole mimickers whose shadows might present distinguishable signals.


Summary From this observation it appears that rabies may be transmitted from lactating hamsters to suckling hamsters. Seventy-seven percent of the mothers showed rabies symptoms between 14 to 20 days.31% of the suckling hamsters developed rabies symptoms between 8 to 22 days. Confirmation of rabies was made on all positive animals by Negri body examination. The possibility exists that rabies virus was present in the saliva of the mothers before the suckling animals were weaned, and consequently infection could have occurred by some route other than the milk. This could occur even without biting. Direct infection of mucous surfaces as the result of licking is possible, although this seems remote due to the high percentage of suckling hamsters showing rabies symptoms.


Abstract The preliminary stage of asphalt mixture production involves the drying and dedusting of coarse aggregates. The most common types of coarse aggregates used are limestone and basalt. In the process of drying and dedusting the dryer filter accumulates large quantities of waste in the form of mineral powder. This paper introduces an investigation into limestone powder waste as a potential microfiller of polymer composites. Physical characteristics such as the granulation the of powder collected from the filter - in terms of the season of its collection and the type of input materials used - were analysed. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used for the investigation described within this paper. The obtained results were compared against those of other materials which can be used as polymer composites microfillers.


Bibliometric statistics and analysis on Chinese literatures of mastitis in dairy cattle during 1990-2009 were carried out according to year,research group and region,source journal,research area and research fund.The research status and development tendency of mastitis in dairy cattle in China were revealed on that basis.


To the Editor.— Artifacts of the electrocardiogram may appear as abnormalities of QRS complex or S-T segment configuration, as cardiac arrhythmias, or as apparent pacemaker malfunction. The latter two are of particular interest since misdiagnosis of rhythm or pacemaker function may result in the acute administration or use of inappropriate therapeutic agents. Artifacts that simulate rhythm disorders include myotonic muscle contractions due to hypothermia (223:439, 1973), benign familial tremor and the tremor of Parkinson disease (224: 1534, 1973). Apparent pacemaker malfunction may be caused by a broken wire in an extremity lead (220:1130, 1972). This communication describes another potential source of electrocardiographic artifact. Caused by an electric watch, it may appear as either a rhythm or a pacemaker artifact. Example.— A 73-year-old man was being studied because of vertigo. His initial ECG revealed 1- to 3-mm amplitude spikes that were independent of the basic cardiac rhythm and occurred at a rate


The new genus Scandentia is proposed with four species; two of them are separated from Borreria sect. Galianthe: S. cymosa and S. monodon, and another two are new ones: S. andreii and S. macrobracteata. Affinities and differences with Emmeorhiza, Galianthe and Borreria are keyed out. The species are described and illustrated.


In this note,we establish results on the rate of a.s. convergence of Pickands' estimator for the index of an extreme-value distribution。


Dr Hilbur holds a PhD and has been an Associate Professor in Biology at SLU. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia. The refreshed strategy of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, (IITA), sets clear targets – by 2020 the institute's research efforts will have contributed to lifting 11 million Africans out of poverty and to restoring 7.5 million hectares of land into sustainable use. To achieve this, the institute will strengthen its presence throughout the sub-Saharan region and continue to build strong scientific infrastructure and capacity in collaboration with national agricultural research organizations. IITA's scientific focus is on biotech and plant breeding, social science and agribusiness, natural resource management/soil science, plant production and plant health. Nutrition, food technology and bioinformatics are examples of prioritized areas for future investment. IITA is fully engaged in the CGIAR Research Programs, CRPs, taking active part in nine of the programs and leading the "Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics", Humidtropics. IITA is also building public/private partnerships through a range of initiatives, e.g. strengthening the seed sector, and activities to stimulate youth employment and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector.


How sure are you that you are on nutritionally sound groundVin your own eating behavior and in your conversations with family, friends, and colleagues? Put another way, how do you know that what you believe about food is right? Is there any risk that what you and I believe is wrong? Actually, there is always a risk that the current science on any given nutrition subject is wrong or is in error and that subsequent research will correct the error and move on. Science is evolving, not static. But how do you communicate that? Nutr Today. 2015;50(5):247Y249


The East Asian westerly jet(EAWJ) is one of the most important circulation systems in East Asia, linking the high and low latitude circulations of East Asia. Based on NCEP/DOE reanalysis data and monthly rainfall data at 160 meteorological stations in China during 1981–2010, the monthly relationship between the position and intensity variation of the EAWJ and summer rainfall in China was analyzed by using the statistical diagnosis method. It was found that a southward-moving EAWJ favors Jiangnan–Huanan rainfall in June, the Yangtze River–Huaihe River valley rainfall in July, and rainfall in the middle-upper reaches of the Yangtze River valley in August. Analyses of the high-low latitude circulation characteristics associated with the abnormal EAWJ of June 2010, July 2007, and August 2006 as well as the physical process of the influences of the EAWJ on rainfall were emphasized in this study. The results showed that in June 2010, the EAWJ moved southward to 35°N where an anomalous upper-level divergence(convergence) and a low-level convergence(divergence) occurred south(north) of the EAWJ, and which induced significant ascending(descending)motion. The anomalous vertical motion together with west vertically integrated water vapor transportation offered favorable dynamic and vapor conditions for persistent precipitation over the Jiangnan–Huanan region. During July 2007,the EAWJ was weaker and located south of its mean climatic position. In addition, the perturbation of the EAWJ was stronger than normal. In this case, the stationary rainy band over the Huaihe River valley was mainly caused by the strong cold air activities in the middle-high latitudes of East Asia which were due to the strong perturbation of the EAWJ.However, during August 2006 the EAWJ was stronger and located abnormally northward, favoring the westward and northward motions of the western Pacific subtropical high. In this case, weather conditions in the Sichuan–Chongqing region of southwestern China were controlled by subtropical high pressure, resulting in severe drought and heat waves.


Using Geospatial data and satellite images is a necessity in water resources science for instance in estimation of volume of dam reservoir. Concerning this issue, the Area-Volume-Height graph of reservoir plays a key role in dam site selection and calculating design parameters during dam first and second phases. These graphs are mostly obtained via prism method in CAD drawings, but using Geographical Information System this study presents a new method for graph plotting which is supported by pixel-based method as well. This study has been mainly focused on the Ebrigh-e-Ahar storage dam which is still in design phase to be built in East Azarbaijan province, Iran. The mentioned graph has been plotted both via pixel-based method and prism method and the results of application of three base maps (i.e. National Cartographic Center 1:25000, satellite DEM of USGS-SRTM 3 Sec and land surveying in 1:2000 scale of the region) have been finally compared. The comparison shows that the results of the former method are within acceptable limits as the results of latter. Furthermore, the quickness of calculation in GIS and the possibility of visual presentation in this system are quite helpful in analyzing spatial data and satellite images.


Statistical modeling of data sets by neural-network techniques is offered as an alternative to traditional semiempirical approaches to global modeling of nuclear properties. New results are presented to support the position that such novel techniques can rival conventional theory in predictive power, if not in economy of description. Examples include the statistical inference of atomic masses and beta-decay halflives based on the information contained in existing databases. Neural network modeling, as well as other statistical strategies based on new algorithms for artificial intelligence, may prove to be a useful asset in the further exploration of nuclear phenomena far from stability.


The geomorphology of the Pacaas Novos Range was surveyed. The study area is situated in the State of Rondonia, southwestern Amazonia, near the Brazil - Bolivia border. The range is formed by sedimentary Precambrian rocks and the piedmont area by Precambrian crystalline rocks of the Guapore Shield. The occurrence of a thick saprolite mantle, detrital talus, pediments, duricrust formation, dissection and alluvial fans provide strong evidence that the morphogenetic systems changed drastically in this part of Amazonia during the Quaternary.


Tapped-inductor (TI) buck converter is capable of high step-down conversion with extended duty cycle over traditional buck converter. Additionally, its synchronous conduction mode (SCM) can completely eliminate turn-on losses, allowing high switching frequency operation and subsequent high power density. Nevertheless, the converter efficiency under SCM is refrained by circulating current and therefore a dual-loop (DL) control is proposed in this paper. Based on a time-domain model for zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) process, the DL control has a variable-frequency (VF) outer loop to minimize both ripple-current conduction loss and dead-time loss. While the VF loop moderately adjusts switching frequency, an inner voltage-mode-control (VMC) loop regulates output voltage. To verify the idea, a MHz-level, 15-W, DL-controlled TI buck prototype is built. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency-boosting effect of the VF loop especially under light load. Finally, the derived plant model of TI buck converter under VMC is introduced in the paper along with the feedback design for output regulation.


The YCbCr color space in BT.709 suffers the image quality deterioration by color difference signal sub-sampling though reducing the number of signals are quite important issue for future television system. For the future television systems, such as UHDTV and 3DTV, new color encoding space is required which can encode large color gamut and result in good image quality even after color difference signal sub-sampling. In this study, two approaches i.e. following human visual system (CIECAM02) and using new sets of wide color gamut primaries are considered to design new color encoding space. Various YCC color encoding spaces are designed and the sub-sampled image qualities are compared. The result shows that using the opponent color signals in simplified-CIECAM02 as YCC space has the best image quality. Also it is shown that using wide color gamut primaries can improve the sub-sampled image quality significantly than the current encoding color space for HDTV.


Network centrality plays an important role in many applications. Central nodes in social networks can be influential, driving opinions and spreading news or rumors. In hyperlinked environments, such as the Web, where users navigate via clicks, central content receives high traffic, becoming target for advertising campaigns. While there is an extensive amount of work on centrality measures and their efficient computation, controlling nodes' centrality via network updates is a more recent and challenging task. Performing minimal modifications to a network to achieve a desired property falls under the umbrella of network design problems. This paper is focused on improving group (coverage and betweenness) centrality, which is a function of the shortest paths passing through a set of nodes, by adding edges to the network. Several variations of the problem, which are NP-hard as well as APX-hard, are introduced. We present a greedy algorithm, and even faster sampling algorithms, for group centrality maximization with theoretical quality guarantees under realistic constraints. The experimental results show that our sampling algorithms outperform the best baseline solution in terms of centrality by up to 5 times while being 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than our greedy approach.


Following the interconnection of the China Light & Power (CLP) and Hongkong Electric Co. (HEC) power systems in the early 1980s, the two companies have benefited not only from the sharing of spinning reserve and interchanges of economy energy, but also from the mutual support during generation contingencies. Concerted efforts have been taken in CLP to design optimised under-frequency strategies (in terms of spinning reserve and load shedding) so as to minimise both the level of spinning reserve requirement and the amount of load shedding. Particular emphasis has been placed on taking full advantage of the interconnection operation and on enhancing both the scheme security and reliability. The author presents the various considerations given in the design of the under-frequency strategies.


HZSM-5 supported TiO2 photocatalysts(TiO2/HZSM-5) were prepared by a sol-gel method from Ti(OBu)4.The photocatalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction,Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy,scanning electron microscopy,X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis.The results indicated that HZSM-5 could improve the dispersion of TiO2,decrease the aggregation size,and inhibit the phase transformation of TiO2 from anatase to rutile.Ti—O—Si bonds were not formed between the HZSM-5 bulk and the supported TiO2.The titanium was in the oxidation state of Ti4+,and the oxygen was in the form of O2-in TiO2 and also in SiO2.The photocatalytic activity was investigated by using methyl orange degradation under UV irradiation.The results showed that TiO2/HZSM-5 photocatalyst with a suitable TiO2 content exhibited higher activity than pure TiO2.The optimum photocatalytic activity for the samples with 30% TiO2 was obtained after being calcinated at 400℃ for 2h.


Summary form only given. Mogul E, a flash radiographic machine was designed by the Pulse Power Group at AWE(A). It is now under construction and should be completed by the end of 1992. It will be an 11 MV and 65 ns X-ray generator, accelerating a 35 kA electron beam of diameter less than 1 cm to impinge on a thin tantalum target. The device consists of an 84 stage 0.7 mu F 100 kV capacitor stack Marx generator driving a 45 Omega Blumlein pulse forming transmission line circuit.


The paper intends to initiate a discussion on the politico-liberal concept of judgment. It is argued that whilst political liberalism (PL) – presented as an account of political objectivity – already appeals to judgment, this conception is an unsatisfactory one. This critical assessment is supported by the juxtaposition of PL with an Arendtian understanding of political objectivity which offers a more robust account of judgment. In the conclusion, the possibility of applying the Arendtian solution to PL is outlined.


A technology for low-lactose (milk sugar) fermented dairy food production has been developed for the people with hypolactasia (lactose intolerance). To reduce the lactose content in the dairy product, enzymatic hydrolysis of dairy raw product has been conducted via Ha-Lactase 5200 enzyme preparation. The main technological parameters
of hydrolysis have been determined. Broccoli puree has been selected as a filler with the optimal portion set as 10-15 %.
Production of combined food will enable to expand the range of fermented dairy products.


Optogenetics is a bioengineering technology that allows for precisely timed control of brain cells using light. The technology involves adapting genes of light-responsive proteins found in microbial species such as algae to uses in animal and human tissues. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized clinical trials for the first-ever human use of optogenetic gene therapy, for treatment of a form of blindness. New biotechnology startups have sprung up with plans to bring optogenetics to the U.S. health care market. Wide-ranging clinical applications, from unique therapies for neurological and psychiatric disorders to new solutions for cardiac problems, make this technology an innovative player in the next generation of precision medicine.


If the plant blackout accident occurs in the pool-type sodium-cooled fast reactor, the decay heat of the core is discharged through natural circulation. The Plant Dynamics Test Loop (PLANDTL-DHX), an experimental device built in Japan, can simulate core coolant flow process and decay heat transfer phenomenon under decay heat discharged accident condition. In the present work, the numerical modeling of the experimental device is carried out based on the method of modular modeling and integrated coupling calculation, and the CFD commercial software FLUNET was used for calculation. The rod bundles of different forms in the core are modeled in fine detail. The initial conditions of transient are obtained under the steady boundary condition operation. Then, the change of key thermal parameters such as the temperature of the core and the temperature of IHX inlet and outlet are obtained by simulating the transient accident condition. In addition, there are obvious inner-flow and interflow in the core, meanwhile, the local backflow occurs at the core outlet. The influence of these phenomena on the heat transfer of the whole model is analyzed. The key results of simulation are compared with experimental data. The results can provide numerical references for the discharge of decay heat in the sodium-cooled fast reactor under power blackout accident.


Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is synthesized and stored in the endocrine granules of atrial myocytes. It has diuretic, natriuretic and vasodilatory properties and is released due to increased atrial volume and stretch. ANP is also a potent immunomodulator released during periods of intense inflammation [1]. Until now, ANP has only been associated with a senile, localized, amyloid cardiomyopathy aptly named isolated atrial amyloid. We report an unusual case of ANP amyloid presenting as an intra-cardiac mass in a young otherwise healthy female, with pericarditis.


The nymph and female subimagines of Atopophlebia fortunensis are described for the first time and two new South American species, A. obrienorum and A. yarinacocha are described from male imagines. Nymphal morphology shows that Atopophlebia represents an evolutionary intermediate between the relatively plesiomorphic Pan‐Austral leptophlebiid fauna and the genus Thraulodes of the warm Neotropics.


Objective To investigate the mechanism of motor neurons death following the brachial plexus injury.Methods Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into control group and injury group randomly.The rats of the injury group were subdivided into three kinds of models of brachial plexus injury:right C7 anterior root avulsion(group A),C7 anterior root avulsion with right C5~T1 posterior roots breaking(group B),right C7 anterior root avulsion with hemi-transect between C5 and C6 segment of spinal cord(group C).C7 spinal cord was harvested respectively at the 14th day after operation.Nissel method and transmission electron microscope technique was used to observe the livability and the ultrastructural changes of motor neuron in spinal cord.Results By two weeks after the brachial plexus injury,the livability of motor neuron was highest in group A,group B was between group A and group C.There were significant differences among three injury groups(P0.01).The motor neurons of anterior horn exhibited features of apoptosis,including increased electron density in both of the cytoplasm and nucleus in intact cell and nuclear,the shrunken nucleus,and the reduced soma size of the cell.Occasionally,apoptotic bodies were found in these cells.Moreover,that rough endoplasmic reticulum reduced and free ribosome increased could be observed in the motor neurons.The lamellar structure of myelin sheath was disappeared and became vacuolar.Conclusion Motor neurons death following brachial plexus injury is thought under two major forms:necrosis and apoptosis.Apoptosis body is found in motor neurons.


Objective To observe the effect of Sophoridine on Gastric Cancer Cells SGC7901.Methods Gastric Cancer Cells SGC7901 cultivated in virto,were randomly divided into two groups :untreated control groups and different concentration of Sophoridine group.And then,the changes of cell morphology were observed by inverted microscope,the proliferation of SGC7901 were measured by the method of MTT.Results After treatment with different concentrations,Sophordine reversed its effect on SGC7901significantly(P0.05).The inhibitory rates of Sophordine on SGC7901 cells were from 3.6 % to 72.1%.The higher concentration,the greater inhibitory effect of sophordine on SGC7901.Conclution Sophordine can inhibit the proliferation of Gastric Cancer Cells SGC7901.


To overcome the problems of low machine learning fault diagnosis rate and long consumption time of deep learning in rolling bearing fault diagnosis, an RFR-GA-BLS model is proposed. The model is validated by infrared images of rolling bearings to find the most representative features, the most suitable parameters and the best diagnostic rate. Based on the pre-processed infrared thermal images of the faulty bearing, 72 second-order statistical features were obtained as information for fault diagnosis. RFR considered the robustness of the features, and new sequences were obtained. BLS was optimized by GA for fault diagnosis. New sequence features were added to the model sequentially, one at a time. After satisfying the model conditions, the most appropriate number of features was selected as the first 20. The search results for the number of feature nodes, the number of feature node windows and the number of enhancement nodes for the BLS were 24, 19 and 544, respectively, and the fault diagnosis rate of 98.8889% was achieved. According to a comparison with CFR-GA-BLS, BLS, PSO-BLS and Grdy-BLS, our proposed model is more advantageous in the search for the best performance. The fault diagnosis accuracy is higher compared to SVM and RF. The speed of our proposed model is 207 times faster than 1DCNN and 10,147 times faster than 2DCNN.


The tailings reservoir is a special geotechnical structural body. Meanwhile,it is also a man-made structure with high potential energy and danger. The dam construction technique of the tailings dams is inherited and developed on the basis of the reservoir dams. Compared with the traditional reservoir dams,the tailings dams has many specific engineering characteristics,including construction material,geometric shapes,mechanical behavior,service mode,structural features,utilization purpose,and construction period. On this basis,its special characteristics and complexity are summarized. In order to guarantee the safety of the tailings dams during whole life cycle,it has important significance in developing safety monitor system of the tailings reservoir. The basic frame of this monitor system is proposed. The main contents and key problems of the safety monitor are also analyzed. It can provide a strong theoretical and technical basis for the security and management of the tailings dams.


The real-time audience measurement system consists of five consecutive stages: face detection, face tracking, gender recognition, age classification and in-cloud data statistics analysis. The challenging part of such system is age estimation algorithm on the basis of machine learning methods. The face aging process is determined by different factors: genetic, lifestyle, expression and environment. That is why same age people can have quite different rates of facial aging. We propose a novel algorithm consisting of two stages: adaptive feature extraction based on local binary patterns and support vector machine classification. Experimental results on the FG-NET, MORPH and our own database are presented. Human perception ability in age estimation is studied using crowdsourcing which allows a comparison of the ability of machines and humans.


Education has proven to be a tool that affords great opportunities for all who pursue it. This maxim also applies to incarcerated youth in the juvenile justice system. Providing youth with an appropriate education while in detention centers has been linked to reducing recidivism and effectively rehabilitating juvenile offenders. Nevertheless, for decades, the system continues to serve as a barrier rather than a path to rehabilitation. Data indicates that higher levels of educational achievement correlate with lower rates of recidivism. Most efforts to rehabilitate incarcerated youth, however, have failed and continue to fail in helping ex-offenders transition into adulthood, because pathways to educational attainment are often undermined.


The multiple channel per carrier very small aperture terminal (MCPC VSAT) is ideally suited for trunk connections between a large switching centre and small exchanges in rural/remote inaccessible areas on a point to point basis in star connectivity. Utilising low bit encoding techniques for voice, the MCPC VSAT network achieves economy in satellite resources while retaining circuit quality. The developments in VSATs have made it possible to provide basic telephone services to rural/remote areas. In India, about 80% of our population lives in rural, remote sparsely populated areas where presently there is no basic telephone service available. The geographic remoteness, hilly hostile terrain requires the installations of costly transmission lines to bring basic telephone services to these underdeveloped areas. The low population density and poor economic conditions makes it difficult for the service provider to justify the economic investment to bring basic telephone services to these areas. In the MCPC VSAT network as the name implies, several information channels are multiplexed and sent on a single satellite carrier frequency. In a rural environment, where a few information channels are required for communication, the MCPC VSATs network system would provide the best economy. This satellite based telecommunication network provides all the basic services such as telephone, fax and data transmission.


Based on an inquiry with faculty members of business administration programs, the present research attempts to suggest the likely relations between the professional profile of the interviewees with their current lecturing practices, more specifically the teaching and evaluation technologies. These relationships were explored through a survey with circa two hundred faculty members. The paper begins with a brief overview of the business administration programs' current situation in Brazil. Then, the profiles of faculty members are presented followed by their lecturing practices and the consequential implications of such elements in the quality of business teaching. After these introductory explanations, the results of the survey and the analysis of the data is presented. With the help of descriptive statistics, a profiling of the specialists, masters and doctorates was made together with the description of the lecturing and evaluation practices. For the "test of proportion differences" the Chi-square test was performed. Finally, the paper concludes with final considerations based on the empirical findings, suggesting general guidelines regarding the quality of business administration teaching at college level.


Recently, human–robot interaction technology has been considered as a key solution for smart factories. Surface electromyography signals obtained from hand gestures are often used to enable users to control robots through hand gestures. In this paper, we propose a dynamic hand-gesture-based industrial robot control system using the edge AI platform. The proposed system can perform both robot operating-system-based control and edge AI control through an embedded board without requiring an external personal computer. Systems on a mobile edge AI platform must be lightweight, robust, and fast. In the context of a smart factory, classifying a given hand gesture is important for ensuring correct operation. In this study, we collected electromyography signal data from hand gestures and used them to train a convolutional recurrent neural network. The trained classifier model achieved 96% accuracy for 10 gestures in real time. We also verified the universality of the classifier by testing it on 11 different participants.


The paper expounds the principle and the method of the audio stress wave to test grouting quality,and puts forward the grouting quality evaluation of several parameters.Through of model-testing and practical examples data processing and analyzing,the paper tells that the test-result is basically the same to defects which the fact damage to prestressed passageways grouting.It shows the method to detect pre-stress bridges grouting quality is feasible.


We demonstrate a cryogenic optically-driven millimeter-wave source generating signals at the 4 K stage of a dilution refrigerator with a high-speed photodiode.


Before 1804, France was strictly divided in terms of legal regimes: a part was under Roman civil law while the majority of the territory was under customary laws which, as with common law, gave more flexibility to judges and fewer rights to the state. This dichotomy offers the unique opportunity to test legal origins theory free from cross-country heterogeneity. Fiscal and census data from 1801-1821 show the absence of any negative impact of the civil law either on the whole of France or when focusing on counties bordering the legal frontier. The same is true for the population density observed in 1793 at the parish level in Auvergne, a province in which the two regimes were entangled. Civil law even appears to have a positive effect in many specifications.


Recent research in mHealth has shown the promise of Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs). JITAIs aim to deliver the right type and amount of support at the right time. Choosing the right delivery time involves determining a user's state of receptivity, that is, the degree to which a user is willing to accept, process, and use the intervention provided. Although past work on generic phone notifications has found evidence that users are more likely to respond to notifications with content they view as useful, there is no existing research on whether users' intrinsic motivation for the underlying topic of mHealth interventions affects their receptivity. In this work, we explore whether relationships exist between intrinsic motivation and receptivity across topics and within topics for mHealth interventions. To this end, we conducted a study with 20 participants over 3 weeks, where participants received interventions about mental health, COVID-19, physical activity, and diet & nutrition. The interventions were delivered by the chatbot-based iOS app called Elena+, and via the MobileCoach platform. Our exploratory analysis found that significant differences in mean intrinsic motivation scores across topics were not associated with differences in mean receptivity metrics across topics. We also found that positive relationships exist between intrinsic motivation measures and receptivity for interventions about a topic.


Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is often persistent, but its mechanism and pathogenesis remain unclear. One mechanism through which HCV escapes systemic immunosurveillance might be via impaired dendritic cells (DCs), which are the most potent type of antigen‐presenting cells. We examined whether HCV causes immunosuppression in DCs during maturation. We isolated immature DCs from the bone marrow of two founder lineages of transgenic mice harboring HCV cDNA expressing HCV structural proteins (nucleotides 294–3435), and studied how DC function is modified by HCV expression. Our data showed that the capacity of DCs expressing HCV structural proteins to stimulate T‐cells was significantly impaired. Moreover, the surface expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class‐I molecules was significantly impaired on infected DC, especially with respect to H‐2D. The transportation of H‐2D to the cell surface during DC maturation was inhibited by HCV expression. However, the total amount of H‐2D molecules produced by DC expressing HCV was not impaired. These results indicated that the immune response of DC infected with HCV is diminished and might be associated with the mechanism of persistent HCV infection. J. Med. Virol. 74:253–261, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on seismic design and behavior of hybrid structures composed of partially restrained (PR) steel-concrete composite-moment frames (C-MFs). The innovative aspects of this research are to introduce new smart connections between steel beams and concrete-filled tube (CFT) columns that utilize a combination of low-carbon steel and shape memory alloy (SMA) components in the C-MF design. In these new connections, we can exploit the recentering effect provided by super-elastic SMA tension bars to reduce both building damage and residual drift after a major earthquake event, while the low-carbon steel components provide excellent energy dissipation. The results of corresponding component tests were used to develop cyclic stiffness models for individual components in the connection. The seismic behavior of the composite moment-resisting frames with new connection systems was reproduced by performing nonlinear pushover and time-history analyses. The analysis results suggest that these frames are very effective in resisting seismic events due to the structural advantages of the smart SMA PR-CFT connections.


Organizational Culture is the core competency for any organization in present era. It impacts effectiveness or performance of the individuals, the groups and the organization as a whole. A primary study was conducted in Public and Private Universities of Punjab to find out the prevailing Culture using Pareek's OCTAPACE Scale. The questionnaire were distributed among 500 faculty members in various Public and Private universities of Punjab but only 410 filled responses were returned . After scrutiny of the filled questionnaire, 42 responses were rejected because of various reasons like incomplete information, wrong entries etc. The remaining 368 cases were used in this study. The respondents were divided on the basis of gender, experience, educational qualification, designation etc. 2 sample independent t test was applied and it was found that the organization culture differs in private & Public Universities on Three dimensions i.e. Proactivity, Autonomy & Experimentation. Key-words: OCTAPACE, Core Competency, Proactivity, Autonomy, Experimentation. JEL Classification:M00:M12,M120


In the present work, we report on the heteroepitaxial growth of PbS on porous silicon (PS). Epitaxial PbS films were grown by MBE on the surface of PS formed on the n+-type silicon (111) substrate. The films were comparable with films grown on BaF2 substrates. Beneficial influence of a PS buffer layer on the structure and properties of PbS epitaxial films was supported by implementation of sensitive Schottky-barrier photodiodes fabricated in these films.


Reading is one of the four language skills that should be mastered by language learners. Through reading, they enable us to gain the information needed. Moreover, the purpose of this study is to investigate how the students' ability in using pictures on reading descriptive texts. The research design of this research was descriptive quantitative research. The population in this research was 10th grade of MA Sabilal Muhtadin Tembilahan, the population was group or cluster as classes. The sampling technique was a purposive sample. The students' mean score was 63, it can be seen 6 students in interval 81-100 with category is very good, or with presentation (15%), 16 students in interval 61-80  with category is good, or with presentation (41%), 13 students in interval 41-60 with category is enough, or with presentation (33%), and 4 students in interval 21-40  with category is poor, or with presentation (10%)and 0 students in interval 00-40  with category is Very poor, or with presentation (0%). In conclusion, the overall students' ability in using the picture was good.


Abstract: During apoptosis, an increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]c) accompanies the depletion of endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The actual roles of each of the two events in apoptosis are difficult to understand. In this work, we have modulated the basal [Ca2+]c and the thapsigargin (THG)‐dependent reticular flux (i.e., by chelating extracellular Ca2+ or by modulating intracellular Ca2+ by 3‐aminobenzamide [3‐ABA]). We have found that these treatments alter these Ca2+ parameters in a differential way and, accordingly, affect apoptosis differentially. We have found that the increase in [Ca2+]c is related to the extent of apoptosis, whereas the ER depletion affects the apoptotic nuclear morphology by shifting it towards the cleavage mode.


Coatings were deposited on Cu0, Ni0, and Al0 anodes from aqueous solutions of NaAlO2 and Na2SiO3 by anodic spark deposition. Some coatings formed at constant current density (1.0 A/cm2) were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, electron beam microprobe analysis, X-ray diffraction, and emission spectroscopy. A relation for the current decay during a multiple-spark, constant-voltage process was determined. This relation, which describes the behavior of most of the systems studied, is

where φt, φ0, and φ∞ are the current densities at time t, at the start of the decay (t=0), and at the steady state, respectively. K is a constant that is voltage and system dependent.


Graphitic carbon nitride based heterojunction photocatalysts have gained increasing attention in producing the clean energy source of hydrogen. Coupling carbon nitride (g-C3N4) with other semiconductor materials or metals as co-catalysts is considered as an effective strategy to overcome the drawbacks of g-C3N4 such as the quick recombination of photogenerated charges. In this review, the recent research advancements in the construction of g-C3N4-based heterojunctions as well as their different charge separation/transfer mechanisms will be systematically discussed, making special emphasis on the design and fabrication of type-II, Z-scheme, S-scheme and Schottky heterojunctions and their application towards H2 generation from water splitting. Finally, a summary and some crucial issues, which should be further resolved for developing advanced g-C3N4-based heterojunction photocatalysts, are presented.