Utilization of traditional art media as a media for promoting adolescent reproductive health. Traditional art played by teenagers can contain informative messages about the reproductive health of teenagers so that it is no longer taboo to talk about. It is hoped that teenagers get a good understanding and become quality healthy teenagers. This study aims to identify the challenges in making traditional art media as a media to promote adolescent reproductive health from the perspective of accompanying facilitators. Research is a qualitative research with an exploratory approach. Research location in Tegallalang Village, Gianyar Regency, Bali. Research informants are reproductive health facilitators  and art facilitators as many as 9 people. Data collection through focus discussion group or FGD. Data analysis was done thematically. The results of this qualitative research Art facilitators and reproductive health facilitators present the difficulties encountered when accompanying STT peers to develop traditional dramaturgy arts. This is useful for input and improvement in activities. Obtained three themes, namely: 1) obstacles and challenges, 2) the benefits of activities, 3) about staging. Challenges and barriers experienced, namely the personal barriers experienced by drama actors are shyness to talk, lack of understanding of the project, consistency of training and coordination of time. Obstacles in general include time and coordination issues. While the challenge that motivates facilitators to assist STT peers in developing traditional arts is the challenge in uniting various teenage characters, a sense of responsibility, family and trust, as well as a sense of togetherness that develops. The benefits of activities for facilitators can blend with the community, learn to organize in the village and gain experience assisting STT peers in the development of traditional arts. About staging is high commitment and creativity as well as improvisation. In the manufacture of health promotion media through traditional art media, requires good preparation from the aspect of reproductive health message to be delivered and from the aspect of art in playing drama. Implications of research results in the form of learning in creating media that is directly beneficial to the young players. Seriousness is needed in training.


Clark and colleagues ([Clark et al., 2013][1]) have set people straight on how to make high quality measurements of maximum and minimum oxygen uptake rates in fishes. They correctly state that great care and understanding are needed to properly measure a fish's aerobic scope (=maximum metabolic rate


Soilless cuttage rooting is accelerated under the conditions of temperature and humidity automatically controlling in silkworm egg incubation room with the cuttings that had been cut from the annual branches of 4 mulberry varieties, cold stored for 20 days and treated with ABT rooting powder and indole acetic acid solution. The rooting rate and root number per cutting of all the varieties is more than 80% and 25, although there is significant difference among the mulberry varieties and treatment reagents. Most of the rooted cuttings survived after transplanting in nursery as the new roots broke out from the cortices.


We measured the membrane roughness of neuroblastoma cells under the treatments of gold nanoparticles and paclitaxel. The stabilization of microtubules by paclitaxel reduced the membrane roughness. The positive charges on nanoparticles led to similar results.


Clinical trials in patients with hemophilia B have demonstrated considerable inter-patient variability in the pharmacokinetics (PK) of Factor IX (FIX) replacement therapy, including the recovery, an important PK parameter from which individualized clinical dosing decisions are calculated. In clinical trials of plasma-derived and recombinant factor IX replacement therapies, the age of the patient has been demonstrated to affect recovery (younger patients have lower recovery values than older patients), however the specific contribution of age, as well as additional covariates such as body weight and race to PK variability has not been systematically evaluated. We analyzed an extensive database of BeneFIX PK data collected from 8 separate clinical trials conducted over 13 years. A systematic approach involving population PK modeling and simulation was utilized for the first time to estimate the effects of individual-specific covariate factors on PK of BeneFIX in the pooled population that included pediatric and adult patients. A total of 4025 plasma FIX activity PK data sets collected from 191 patients, aged 0 to 69 years were used for the analysis. There were 111 children (£15 years) including 53 infants 15 years) in the pooled data. The majority (84%) of patients were Caucasian. The remaining patients were African American (7%), Hispanic (4%), Asian/Japanese (3%), and other ethnicity (3%). The data were analyzed using nonlinear mixed-effects modeling with the NONMEM software system. Age, weight, and race were examined as covariates for the ability to explain inter-individual variability in the BeneFIX PK. The PK in pediatric and adult patients was described by a two-compartment model with first-order elimination and a zero-order input using the following parameters: clearance (CL), volume of central compartment (V1), volume of peripheral compartment (V2) and inter-compartmental clearance (Q). Population predicted BeneFIX PK parameters, standardized to a 70 kg patient, were 7.46 (standard error; 0.20) mL/hr/kg, 131 (4.4) mL/kg, 71.5 (2.1) mL/kg and 12.1 (1.1) mL/h/kg, for CL, V1, V2 and Q, respectively. The final model was able to simulate data in close agreement with the actual study observations. Variability (%CV) in BeneFIX PK was explained most significantly by allometrically scaled body weight (Figure 1a), while age and race had no discernible effects on BeneFIX PK in the population studied. Observed recovery values were slightly lower in children (£15 years) compared with those in adults (>15 years) since the initial volume of distribution (V1), normalized to body weight, was slightly higher in children than in adults, while the variability in the observed recovery values was comparable between children and adults (Figure 1b). In conclusion, the present analysis, for the first time, systematically describes and quantifies the sources of age-dependent variability of factor IX PK, using BeneFIX data, and provides a better understanding of the importance of body weight in the disposition of BeneFIX. This confirms existing weight-based dosing recommendations and further supports consideration of dosing adjustments that are individualized based on the patient's body weight in the context of the achieving the desired clinical response, such as recovery. This also may be important in pediatric patients during growth periods associated with significant weight change.


In acute experiments on rats studied somatic afferent reactions at dropping barometric pressure. In conditions of a hypoxia studied influence transcutaneous neurostimulation (TNS) on somatic afferent reactions. According to results at dropping barometric pressure up to values conforming to height 2,5 km the thresholds of somatic afferent reactions are reduced which effectively depresses TNS. The efficacy of inhibition TNS saves at the reduced barometric pressure up to 282 mm Hg an item.


Paddy rice ecosystem worsens widely with the anthropogenic alterations in the aquatic ecology. Reduced productivity under saline stressed agro-ecosystem holds crucial importance for future rice basket. In this study, we conduct 2 years successive field experiment to examine inoculation effect of salt tolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR)-Curtobacterium albidum strain SRV4 with different dose of farmyard manure (FYM) on soils restoration capacity, crop productivity and the plant antioxidant activity under saline soils. Total four treatments were successfully applied in completely randomised block design (CRBD) in every crop cycles. The treatments were (1) Control (2) SRV4 (3) FYM (50 t ha−1) and (4) FYM (50 t ha−1) + SRV4. The results showed that the amendment of plots with SRV4 inocula and FYM significantly affect soil physicochemical properties and indicates mineral restoration potential of the treatments. Paddy yield components—plant height, tillers, panicles and rice yield-were significantly improved in the both crop cycle. A significant variation was observed in plant antioxidant enzyme-catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POX) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) in 2015 crop cycle and similar trends was noticed in 2016. However, treatment × year interaction was observed insignificant for the plant growth parameters and antioxidant activities in both the years. Regression analysis exhibited significant negative relationship between the paddy plant growth parameters and antioxidant enzyme activities. In conclusion, the application of the FYM amendment with PGPRs may improve the paddy productivity and soil fertility in nutrient poor saline paddy agro-ecosystem of dry tropical regions.


The objective of this thesis is to analyze the environmental perspective of the jaguar (Panthera onca) that the inhabitants of two communities have in their conservation areas in Nayarit. Three main aspects are taken as the axis of analysis: cultural, aesthetic and ethical, since together they comprise a large part of the human-jaguar relationship. The interest in this research arises from the fact that conservation efforts of the jaguar center on the biological-ecological aspects, with social studies being approached in a complementary manner.


Tumors vary widely in vascularity, most of them containing fewer but some, more blood vessels than the corresponding normal tissue. Some fifty years ago German pathologists found that the malignant mesenchymal tumors, or sarcomas, in particular, are highly vascular and the higher the malignancy the greater the vascularity. At the end of the 1920's the first radiologic examination of blood vessels involving injection ot contrast medium was performed in Portugal, and this technic was found to be a useful aid in study of the vascular supply of tumors. Dos Santos (9) proposed certain angiographic criteria of malignancy, notably the presence of numerous irregular vessels at the periphery of the tumor and a rapid transit of the contrast medium from the arteries to the veins. Material and Methods Angiography of peripheral tumors has been performed in our department since 1941, and the frequency of such examinations has increased in recent years. The material of tumor and/or tumor suspects submitted for angiograp...


AbstractA new genus and family are proposed for a unique moss which is so greatly reduced that it is difficult to assess its affinities. Viridivellus pulchellum (Viridivelleraceae) which has the appearance of a tiny green fleece was found on earth banks in tropical forests in Queensland, Australia. Vegetative leaves are absent, their function taken over by the photosynthetic branching system of the protonema as in Ephemeropsis, which is not considered to be closely related. The tiny bud-like, synoecious inflorescence has a few short, nerved bracts; there is a short seta with a central strand and a cleistocarpic capsule with a long rostrum and cucullate calyptra.


Instruction librarians need to evaluate student's learning in library instruction programs, and evaluation efforts need to be realistic in terms of time and resource limitations.


A concise oh God, praise be to you as it should be to the majesty of your countenance and the greatness of your power, for what you have done and for what you have given me and for what you have humiliated me for picking this fruit and making it ripe. So i ask him, may he be exalted, to make this work purely for his noble face, and to be in the right path the sheets of our deeds are in goodness, for he is the guardian of that and over all things is able and worthy of the answer to supplication


This work proposes a neural network based iterative Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) equalizer, able to equalize signals in M-arry Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (M-QAM) modulated systems in a mobile fading environment with extremely long channels. Its computational complexity is linear in the data block length and approximately independent of the channel memory length, whereas conventional equalization algorithms have computational complexity linear in the data block length but exponential in the channel memory length. Its performance is compared to the Viterbi MLSE equalizer for short channels and it is shown that the proposed equalizer has the ability to equalize M-QAM signals in systems with hundreds of memory elements, achieving matched filter bound performance with perfect channel state information (CSI) knowledge in uncoded systems. The proposed equalizer is evaluated in a frequency selective Rayleigh fading environment.


The energy balance in the feed zone of grooved barrel single screw extruders is important for design and operation of such extruders. Experimental investigations with different bulk materials were undertaken to obtain further insight into the energy balance of the feed zone. The energy balance considers the enthalpy change resulting from temperature and density increase as a result of screw drive power and heat flow in the barrel. Experimental results show a decreasing solid bed temperature for decreasing residence times. In addition, with a reduced gap in the throttle with constant throughput, the pressure increases resulting into various deformation mechanisms of solid particles. The energy required for the deformation of solid particles into a solid bed elevates the specific screw drive power and heat generation. It is shown that the compression behavior of bulk materials is temperature-dependent and influences the energy balance in the feed zone.


This article focuses on the literary phenomenon of the 1990s «women's prose», which is not only and not so much as the art that has long been opposition to Hegemony of male writing as social-political manifesto in the FSU. «Women's Prose» anticipated the feminist movement as the development and establishment of the Institute for Gender Studies in Russia and marked ideological shift calibrated Soviet regime to a liberal-democratic: free to publish previously taboo and marginal texts.


In the context of changing gender relations and the current low birth-rate in Europe this paper emphasises the fathers contribution to family work. We intend a comparison with five countries with different political and gender-specific background. The portrayals are based on the data in the Population Policy Acceptance Study. Research was carried out 1) into changes in gender roles 2) the influence of fathers on female labour participation and 3) towards desired fertility. The results show that the theory of the advance of the New Father is only partly true. (authors)


Submitted for the MAR12 Meeting of The American Physical Society Probing interlayer interactions in twisted bilayer graphene with Raman spectroscopy ROBIN HAVENER, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, LOLA BROWN, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, HOULONG ZHUANG, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, MICHAL WOJCIK, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, CARLOS RUIZ-VARGAS, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, RICHARD G. HENNIG, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, JIWOONG PARK, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University — Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth or artificial layer-by-layer assembly of graphene typically produces multi-layer regions in which the layers are twisted with respect to each other, but the electronic and optical properties of this new material are still under investigation. In particular, little is known about how the twist angle affects the Raman signature of this material. We use a combination of dark-field transmission electron microscopy (DF-TEM) and widefield Raman imaging (WRI) to study the Raman signature of bilayer CVD graphene regions with known twist angles. We find that the intensities of the G and 2D peaks vary predictably with twist angle. In particular, we observe a strong G band enhancement at a specific twist angle that depends on our excitation energy. To explain this behavior, we model the electronic band structure of twisted bilayer graphene; the interaction between layers creates new saddle point van Hove singularities, and these energy states can enable a fully resonant G band pathway for a specific angle and excitation energy. This G band resonance feature is a very sensitive probe of twist angle and interlayer interactions. Robin Havener Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University Date submitted: 11 Nov 2011 Electronic form version 1.4


A simple fork and join type of job structure has been extensively used for performance evaluation of processor scheduling policies in multiprocessor systems. However, parallel programs often exhibit a more complicated structure. It is not clear how the program structure affects the performance of processor scheduling policies. This paper studies the impact of the program structure on the performance of processor scheduling policies that are appropriate for uniform memory access (UMA) shared-memory systems. We consider four types of parallel program structures that are frequently employed in parallel applications. These are the fork-and-join, divide-and-conquer, Gaussian elimination, and state space search programs. The impact of these four job structures on the performance of four processor scheduling policies is considered. These are the job-based round robin (RRJob), coscheduling, dynamic (Dynamic), and the preemptive smallest cumulative demand first (PSCDF) policies. These policies cover a variety of policies − preemptive vs. non-preemptive, space-sharing vs. timesharing, a priori job knowledge vs. no job knowledge. The PSCDF policy is not implementable but is included for comparison purposes only. The results presented here show that the time-sharing processor scheduling policy RRJob performs as well as or better than the space-sharing Dynamic policy. This result contradicts the results of some previous studies and we clearly identify the problems associated with these previous studies. Thus, the major contribution of this paper is to correct the prevailing intuition that dynamic space-sharing outperforms time-sharing and show that, for the workloads considered here, time-sharing policies are useful for multiprocessor systems.


Presented dissertation thesis is focused on regional differences of socio-economic development in the European Union NUTS 2 regions. The theoretical part consists of research findings related to the dissertation issue; also the group of indicators is defined, based on which the socio-economic level of the individual European Union NUTS 2 regions is assessed. Furthermore, various methods are introduced, which are applied in the context of the analysis. The author´s own research in the practical part, in line with the objectives of the thesis, multi-criteria evaluation of regions, and identification of similarities within NUTS 2 regions using cluster analysis.


In this paper, we investigate the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problemsfor evaluating the archives websites' performance with interval intuitionistic fuzzy information.Then,based on the TOPSIS method, calculation steps for solving MADM problems for evaluating thearchives websites' performance with interval intuitionistic fuzzy information are given. The weightedHamming distances property that leads to have the weight hamming distances the relative closeness degree to the positive ideal solution is calculated to rank all alternatives and to form most desirable archives website:


Objective to investigate species composition on flea,gamasid mites and tick on the rodent at the Daxie port.Method to catch rodents with cage,and collect the ectopar-asites of the rodent. Result 130 rodents were caught with 501 ectoparasites(flea:2,gamasid mites:463 and tick:36) belonged to 9 species,6 gerea and 3 families were recorded in the Daxie port,of which gamasid mite belonged to 6 species, 3 gerea and a family;ticks were a species,a gerea and a family;flea were 2 species,2 gerea and a family;The species composi-tion of the rodent ectoparasites varies with different rodent species.Conclusion The base is given for further studies on prevention and species composition on rodent ectoparasites at Da-xie port.


Seventeen Great Blue Heronries were surveyed in nine counties of northeast Ohio during the 1993 breeding season to determine nest site characteristics. Herons nested in 15 species of deciduous trees, selecting the taller trees at each site. Crown integrity was not a requisite for tree usage; repaired (reoccupied) nests and new colonies were established in dead trees as well as in healthy ones. OHIO J. SCI. 95 (5): 312-315, 1995 INTRODUCTION Great Blue Herons {Ardea herodias) occur in Ohio as migratory summer residents, where they return each year to breed in colonies. In northeastern Ohio, these heronries are scattered inland, away from the developed Lake Erie shoreline; this pattern differs from northwestern Ohio, where extensive coastal marshes still support large breeding colonies. Studies of Great Blue Herons in Ohio have involved feeding sites and diet (Hoffman 1978, Parris and Grau 1979), the breeding biology of selected colonies (Edford 1976, Burkholder and Smith 1991), and the monitoring of nests at single sites (Chasar 1990, Burkholder and Smith 1991, Hauser, unpubl.). Regional studies are lacking, particularly in the assessment of nest site characteristics that would influence the management of heronries and the conservation of potential nesting sites for wading birds. In the present study, 17 Great Blue Heronries in northeast Ohio were monitored; from the data collected, information is presented regarding the types of nest sites utilized, species of nest trees selected, and relative condition of the nest trees (i.e., canopy integrity). The inclusion of multiple sites serves to establish a regional, rather than local, database for Great Blue Heronries. MATERIALS AND METHODS Site Description Twenty-two Great Blue Heronries were located in nine counties of northeastern Ohio using ground and aerial surveys, and the assistance of state and county wildlife managers and local guides. Of those located, 17 heronries (Fig. 1) were accessible for study during the 1993 breeding season (approximately 15 February to 15 July). Northeastern Ohio is a mosaic of urban areas, suburban developments, rural farming areas, and patches of undeveloped land. The heronries included in this study were located in farm woodlots (3), swamps (3), upland woods (5), riparian zones (2), and beaver impoundments (4). All were near stream systems and the potential feeding sites associated with those drainage basins; numerous ponds and artificial reservoirs in this region provide abundant littoral foraging area. Manuscript received 13 July 1995 and in revised form 18 September 1995 (#95-13). FIGURE 1. Map of northeastern Ohio counties, showing the distribution of Great Blue Heron colonies included in the present study. Data Collection Nest counts were performed at each site during late March; nests were considered to be active if occupied or tended by herons. Fledgling counts were done in late June, just before young herons were observed leaving their nests to feed with adults; at this time, young herons were viewed standing on nests and adjacent branches. Each nest tree was identified taxonomically and categorized according to the relative condition of the crown: 1) full crown (little or no apparent damage); 2) some twig or branch damage; 3) major branches bare or broken; 4) few living branches remaining; 5) crown dead. A similar classification scheme was employed by Gibbs et al. (1987), but they included only three classes. Vegetation point transects were performed at each site in order to determine the relative frequency (availability) of tree species, and to characterize the site as upland or wetland in character. Duncan's pairwise comparison test was used to determine significant differences in fledgling counts between colonies in different nest site types. OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE B. A. CARLSON 313 RESULTS A total of 1,148 nests were counted in 17 Great Blue Heronries, distributed among sites situated in farm woodlots (18.5%), swamps (15.1%), upland woods (46.5%), riparian zones (9.8%) and beaver impoundments (10.1%) (Table 1). Duncan's Pairwise Comparison showed no significant differences in the fledgling counts for heronries of different nest site types. All located heronries were situated within 1.0 km of stream systems, but only nine (53%) were in the immediate vicinity of bodies of water.


Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is a rare neurological syndrome and clinically characterized by memory impairment, cognitive dysfunction, seizures and psychiatric symptoms. Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is most frequently found in small-cell lung cancer, among various malignancies and autoimmune causes. The clinical findings, detailed neuropsychiatric evaluation, MR imaging of the central nervous system, EEG, examination of CSF and central nervous system specific autoantibodies are great value for the diagnosis of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis. Although central nervous system specific autoantibodies are an important indicator for differential diagnosis, clinical findings, MR and EEG findings are more prominent in autoantibody negative cases. We report the case of a 62-year-old woman, firstly emerged with central nervous system specific autoantibody negative paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis and small-cell lung cancer.


THE MAINTENANCE of an exact physical environment within the body cells is effected by the compartmental distribution of available water between the cells per se and the interstitial spaces. This separation of body water into two distinct compartments (intracellular and extracellular) represents an evolutionary development whereby the extracellular compartment absorbs the brunt of the massive influx of water and metabolites and maintains a constancy of the cellular structure which deviates little during normal states. 1 During periods of water stress, a well integrated series of mechanisms function to cope with the particular type of stress and maintain the fluid integrity of the cell so that vital processes are not compromised. 2 Disease seriously disrupts water metabolism by producing deficits of body water (diarrhea), 3 preventing loss of body water, thereby increasing the volume (anuria), 4 or producing translocations in the intracorporeal distribution of water (malaria 5 ; endocrine dysfunction). 6 That


As it is known polystyrene is the most stable transparent mould for production of scintillators, luminescent solar concentrators, active mediums of hard bodied lasers. At present problems of polystyrene scintillates aging attract a particular attention because of the development of high- energy physics and creation of devices for ionization radiation registration.


This study uses the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique to determine the impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA) on trade balance of Sub-Saharan African countries, using annual data for the period 1980-2007. The result shows that ODA has positive effect on import and negative effect on export but are statistically insignificant. In the trade balance formulation, following its partial effect on export and import, it has a negative effect, but still statistically insignificant. Further study on the issue is justified, considering the specific mitigating factors, before coming to a final conclusion on the insignificant impact of ODA on balance of trade.


Investments to a large extent determine a country's spate of development. Disputes however are bound to arise among investors and other capital market operators. This is a necessary consequence of the interaction between the players in the field, hence a need for a dispute resolution framework that can resolve such disputes. However, a dispute resolution mechanism for capital market disputes whose legality is questionable given the available legal framework does not say much of a Country that is desirous of motivating investors. The article examines the history, nature and jurisdiction of the Investment and Securities Tribunal. It considers the provisions of the IST relating to its jurisdiction against the back drop of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended). It further discusses the growing need for specialization in dispute resolution considering the growth of technical areas in the legal field. It concludes by making a recommendation for the division of the Federal High Court into departments according to given specializations so as to conveniently do away with the loop holes inherent in creating a tribunal to handle such matter as is seen in the case of the IST.


CATHOLIC IT is NOT. Kaleidoscopic would be a more apt description of the state of official Catholic teaching on the morality of nuclear deterrence as it is being formulated among the bishops in Europe and North America for the guidance of their respective peoples, who have long been associated in the political and military structures of the Atlantic community. For a comparison of the official statements of the concerned episcopal conferences in the U.S.A., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands reveals a posture which is variegated and constantly changing. Since, however, this proliferation of magisterial initiatives is directly due to the renewed emphasis placed on episcopal collegiality by the Second Vatican Council, it would be most appropriate perhaps to describe the current state of church teaching on nuclear deterrence as conciliar and in that sense Catholic, if not catholic. The largely unnoticed tension presently being experienced between the national hierarchies of the nations of the Atlantic community is a result of the dynamics of a decentralized magisterium, which was one of the principal insights and achievements of Vatican II. It thus represents one of the first fruits of the Council in response to the central moral challenge of the era: nuclear deterrence and/or war. Since the potential fruitfulness of the present tension between the various hierarchies will depend to some extent on the ability of each national episcopal conference to understand and respond to the initiatives of all the others, it may be of service to offer here a catalogue of the official magisterial statements which will have appeared by midJune 1982. Following the survey of the present state of episcopal teaching on the topic, some brief explanatory hypotheses will be proposed as a possible contribution to mutual understanding among the episcopal bodies.


I n his paper, Michael Diamond wants to "reconcile dissociation, splitting, and repression within contemporary, pluralistic approaches to psychoanalysis," thinking of dissociation in the analytic relationship with patients who suffer from severe early trauma in which dissociation "operates to attack on linkages and disrupt symbolization . . ." (p. 840). He would like to lessen rifts and "build bridges between unnecessarily segregated units of theoretical (and technical) understanding" (p. 845). His interest appears timely in that it addresses dissociation, an area that I consider crucial to the development of contemporary psychoanalysis. While appreciating his contribution, at the same time I would like to express a point of view that complements his thinking and that may offer the reader the possibility of observing this area of investigation from different observational points. While Diamond privileges more developed dynamics, for my part I would shift the focus to more archaic phenomena, in line with my research on the body-mind relationship (see, e.g., Lombardi 2018b). Diamond considers dissociation on the level of a process of working through in which the patient's capacity to think is considered substantially intact—presupposing, for example, that the patient's mind launches


Barrow's Goldeneye females with broods in the Lake Mývatn district, Iceland, concentrated in a small area in the lake's outlet where the density of blackfly Simulium vittatum larvae, the principal food of the young, was highest. A downstream migration of broods took place as predicted from the growth pattern and emergence of blackflies in the river.


Teaching nurses to care for the woman and fetus during the intrapartal period presents unique challenges for educators in both the academic and clinical setting. Understanding nursing care needs and developing the professional judgment needed to provide safe care don't happen in a single moment or through the discrete event of hearing, reading or watching. Responding to a complex phenomenon requires learning opportunities that are cumulative, integrative and multifaceted.


The invention discloses a composite printing paper processing system. The composite printing paper processing system comprises a frame and a processor, a plurality of unwinding mechanisms and composite rollers correspondingly positioned below the unwinding mechanisms are arranged on the frame, the processor is positioned on one frame unwinding paper outlet side and provided with an inlet roller, rotating shafts, processing tools, pressure wheels and a conveying belt are arranged on the processor, and unwound paper of every unwinding mechanism passes through a composite roller, the inlet roller, the rotating shafts, the processing tools and the pressure wheels 24 to reach the conveying belt finally. The composite printing paper processing system is capable of reducing time and labor consumption during processing and production of composite printing paper, so that production efficiency is improved and processing is facilitated greatly.


Abstract Pyrethroid-resistant German cockroaches known as the Village Green strain were compared to a susceptible (Orlando Normal) strain in respect to possible mechanisms of insecticide resistance. Male adults of the resistant strain weighed 15% more than susceptible roaches of the same cumulative age from adult eclosion. Based on the topical application of different concentrations of permethrin, the KD 50 for resistant roaches was 20-times greater than that for susceptible insects. Reduced penetration of [ 14 C]permethrin was observed in resistant insects during 24 hr after treatment along with increased in vivo metabolism as compared with susceptible controls. The cytochrome P450 content and monooxygenase activity when measured with methoxyresorufin and benzo[ a ]pyrene was elevated in resistant roaches by as much as 6.9-fold but no difference was found with benzphetamine. The glutathione transferase activity was also increased (1.6-fold with chlorodinitrobenzene) and elevated esterase activity was detected with the substrates, 1-naphthyl acetate (1.7-fold) and p -nitrophenyl acetate (2.1-fold). Using isoelectric focusing, a novel E 2 esterase was identified in resistant cockroaches not found in the susceptible population. E 2 may be partly responsible for the increased esterase activity observed in resistant roaches. Increased esterase activity toward p -nitrophenyl acetate was used to develop a kinetic, diagnostic assay that could rapidly discriminate resistant from susceptible individuals.


Given the increasing availability of health-related direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) and third-party interpretation (TPI) services, it is likely that genetic counselors (GCs) will continue to encounter consumers that require follow-up counseling for their results. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recommends clinical-grade genetic testing to confirm commercial results; however, the type of testing that GCs select remains uncharacterized. Therefore, we aimed to describe the specific recommendations that cancer GCs make for confirmatory genetic testing in probands who have already obtained DTC-GT results or TPI data that reported a BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant. We recruited 80 GCs specializing in hereditary cancer and administered a survey that assessed their testing strategy for probands from three hypothetical case scenarios with variable personal and family histories of cancer. The majority of participants would recommend confirmatory clinical-grade genetic testing for both probands' DTC-GT results and TPI data (77/80, 96%). For probands with a personal diagnosis of breast cancer and a DTC-GT result for an Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA1/2 founder mutation, participants were more likely to recommend targeted testing (single-site or comprehensive BRCA1/2 analysis) (30/77, 39%, p < 0.01). In scenarios where probands had DTC-GT results but lacked a personal and/or family history suggestive of hereditary cancer, and in all scenarios where the probands had positive TPI data for a BRCA1/2 variant, most


Based on various documentary materials,the paper summarizes the progress in research on the level atmospheric boundary layer(ABL) over non-uniform underlying surface.It points out that oasis shows obvious "cold-humid island effect" in arid area,leading to humidity inversion in the boundary region as well as regional oasis-Gobi circulation.The distribution of vegetation and water significantly changes the structure of ABL and greatly influences local climate.Besides,the underlying surface with complex terrain would affect local winds and small-scale circulations.Meanwhile,the occurrence and characteristics of "heat island effect" ,and the modification of microclimate by greenbelt and water in urban areas are also discussed in detail.Moreover,different planetary boundary layer(PBL) parameterization and land-surface models(LSM) are also described and compared in this paper.In the end,it presents the points deserving further investigation,including combination of thermal heterogeneity and dynamical heterogeneity,numerical simulation of wetland underlying surface,land surface parameterization of complex urban underlying surface,integration of climate models and other numerical schemes.


Financial assistance from the Vice-President (Research) and the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is gratefully acknowledged.


Abstract : Fast and efficient mathematical programming routines have been developed for network flow problems, but due to their complexity the average manager or lay analyst does not possess the mathematical programming background required to construct the models or use the solution technology available. This problem is solved here by the development of an interactive network generating system designed to create, update, and solve a single-commodity network with only a minimal knowledge of network structure and only a rudimentary mastery of computer terminal use. (Author)


Oxides applied by a "spin-on" process have been used to fabricate capacitors on gallium arsenide and indium phosphide substrates: they might also be used with other compounds of elements in groups III to V of the periodic table. The III-to-V materials are attractive for integrated circuits because they offer responses potentially six times faster than silicon.


Cervical carcinoma (CC) remains a significant health problem in the United States (U.S.) despite the progressive fall in the mortality rate during the past 60 years. However, CC is still the most common cancer among women worldwide and the leading cancer cause of death in many countries. In the U.S., the current age‐adjusted incidence of CC is about 8 per 100,000 population, which compares to 54.6 in Peru and 4.2 in Israel. The lifetime risk for acquiring CC in the U.S. is about 1%, while the lifetime risk in Peru is more than 5 times greater. Recently some industrialized countries have reported a 2–3‐fold increase in the death rate from CC among women less than 35 years of age. The primary strategy to reduce the incidence and death rate from CC is screening by cervical cytology.


Very little is known about atypical HELLP syndrome in relation to uteroplacental insufficiency. A 41-year-old primigravida with fetal growth restriction due to uteroplacental insufficiency suddenly experienced severe right upper quadrant pain at 28 weeks gestation without preeclampsia. Although laboratory abnormalities were not evident, the symptoms persisted for 2 hours. Elective cesarean section was performed because atypical HELLP syndrome was highly suspected. On postpartum day 1, a marked elevation of liver enzymes, low platelet count, and anemia without hypertension and proteinuria were noted, but these parameters spontaneously improved within a week. Our experience highlights instances where atypical HELLP syndrome might occur in uteroplacental insufficiency cases.


We report the progress made in the past few years in the development of a high performance portable multi-dimensional gas chromatography (GC) device that is capable of rapidly analyzing a large number of compounds with high sensitivity. We discuss the multi-dimensional GC architecture and its components, followed by a few field analysis examples using our portable GC devices.


The quaternary discrete combinatorial material chip approach was used to optimize new phosphors Gd_(3(1-x))Al_5O_(12)∶RE_(3X).And we got the activator-and-sensitizer-screening results from Gd_3Al_5O_(12)-matrix phosphors material chip as follows: 1) Gd_(3(1-x))Al_5O_3∶Eu_(3x) showed red photoluminescence;2) when Pr or Ce was co-doped(n(Pr)∶n(Eu)1∶10,n(Ce)∶n(Eu)1∶10),it would decrease the phosphor's luminescence intensity.Spectrum analysis showed that there was resonant energy transfer between Eu and RE by the absorbing or emitting low energy phonons while the Pr or Ce energy level was adding.And this was the main reason for Gd_3Al_5O_(12)∶ Eu luminescence intensity decreasing.The material chip screening result was also verified by the powder samples,which were produced by nitric-citric process.The experimental work proved the combinatorial material chip approach is an efficient innovation for material research.


OBJECTIVES: To determine the etiology of puberty menorrhagia.
MATERIALS AND METHOD:A total of 35 cases who attended OBG OPD at Shri SathyaSai Medical college from January
2019 – June 2019 who presented with chief complaints of irregular heavy menstrual bleeding since menarche were
included in this study.After taking detailed history taking,physical examination,lab investigations,ultrasound etiology
of puberty menorrhagia is ruled out.
RESULTS: Most common age group in our study are between 12 – 14 years (60%).34.2 % attained menarche between 12
– 13yrs.Around 27 patient had duration of symptoms for less than 6 months, 6 had symptoms for about 6 – 12 months, 2
had for more than 1 year. Most common etiolgy in our study is PCOD (25.7%), anovulatory without PCOD (20 %),
bleeding diathesis and thyroid disorder (17.1 %), pregnancy complication (8.5%), tuberculosis (5.7 %), fibroid and
endometriosis (2.8 %).
CONCLUSION: Puberty menorrhagia needs to be evaluated in early stage rather than at later stage so that
consequences of abnormal uterine bleeding can prevented.


Through analyses of the 182 shots in the 16th World Cup Soccer Match of 1998, particularly in such different aspects as kicking methods and shooting directions. This paper makes researches on the bend of goal-shooting skills in soccer matches in different countries of the current world, so as to guide the future training of goal-shootings soccer matches.


A beam emitted by a displaced thermal source, incident on a beam splitter, is used as the source in a central broadcast quantum key distribution protocol. These displaced thermal states have parallels to signals produced through phaseshift keying, already commonly used in a variety of microwave-based communications equipment. Here, we analyse a thermal state quantum key distribution protocol for which there is no dependency on displacement. Our analysis suggests the ability to carry out QKD using widely available broadcasting equipment. We also consider the effects of the introduction of loss at several points in the protocol, and find that, while increasing loss in Alice's channel eventually results in advantage distillation being required, security is still maintained.


- This research article aims to show the importance of fair price determination at the market for the public. Determining fair price serves as "intermediary" between sellers and buyers by making price regulations that are fair and mutually beneficial for sellers and buyers. This research, in the context of writing the results of the study, was carried out using a qualitative research paradigm. The research was conducted at the Pontianak Flamboyan Market. This is based on the fact that Flamboyan Market is a wholesale market located in the capital city of West Kalimantan Province. In this study, we collected two types of data, namely: primary and secondary data.


texana (Buckley) and to estimate the area of damage i n a plantation of loblotly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Stumpage loss from the nest over a period of 30 years was estimated


As one of the exterior building enclosures,the roof fulfils key functions in energy-saing building.On the basis of discussions on the energy-saving designs of the flat roof,sloping roof,roof greening,storage roof and controllable glass roof,this paper analyses some relevant problems of roof energy saving,so as to attain further the purpose of energy-saving building on the promise of artistic modeling.


A semiconductor device including: a quantum well having photon emission energy level, the quantum well having at least one active layer and two barrier layers, one disposed above the active layer and one disposed below the active layer; and injection regions for injecting electrons into the quantum well, wherein the electrons are cool electrons with respect to the active layer of the quantum well.


An array,which consists of several piezoelectric crystal sensors,each coated with different absorptive and selective material,is presented to recognize aliphatic alcohol homologue and isomer of small molecular size.The frequency shift data obtained from the array as the response to the vapor of methanol,ethanol,2 propanol and 1 butanol are analyzed by using a principal component analysis method.The two dimension display of the original and auto stalled data shows well defined clusters for identical alcohol.


For a high-performance parallel machine to be a scalable system, it must afso have a scalable parallel 1/0 system. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the Intel Touchstone Delta's Concurrent File System ( CFS). The main objective of the study is to determine the maximum file read/write rates for various configurations of 1/0 and compute nodes. In addition, we study the effects of file access modes, buffer sizes and file sizes on the system performance. In most cases, the result shows that performance of CFS scales as the number of disks is increased, but the sustained performance improvements are much lower than the system's peak capacity. If'e observe that the performance of CFS scales with the number of processors in the beginning, however, a plateu a quickly reached due to the 1/0 system bottleneck and enormous software overhead, especially that of synchronization. Finally we also show that the performance of the CFS can greatly vary for various data distributions commonly employed in scientific and engineering applications.


ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and students' academic achievement. It also aimed to determine the relationship between the problems faced by the students, such as peers influence, family problem and financial problem also, the method that they use to maintain the emotional such as meet the counselor, story to friends, jogging and knowing in religion, with the students' academic achievement. The respondents consist of 399 form 4 students from ten primary schools in three states, such as Johor, Kelantan and Terengganu. Descriptive Statistic was used to analyze emotional intelligence, problem faced and the method that used to maintain the emotional: percentage, mean and standard deviation. Inferential Statistic that is Pearson Correlation Analysis was used to analyze the correlation between emotional intelligence and students' academic achievement. The finding shows a significance of 0.162. However, the analysis also shows there are relationships between method of story to friends and jogging with the students' academic achievement meanwhile there are no relationship between peers influence, family problems, financial problems, method of met counselor and method of knowledge in religion with the students' academic achievement.
(Keywords: emotional intelligence and students' academic achievement, peers influence, family problem and financial problem and method)


Safe and hygienic food add value to food intake and prevent undesirable health conditions. Food handlers who are at the forefront of the food service process must monitor and measure the standards of their food hygiene and its preparation and cooking practices. This study investigates how ready food handlers at on-site premises are for self-regulatory practices. Food surface contacts were chosen for investigation via purposive sampling and swab analysis to unravel hidden messages about the level of hygiene standards in the foodservice operation. The findings reveal the existence of contamination across the majority of the selected contact surfaces that could affect the consumers' well-being and quality of life.Keywords: consumer well-being; food hygiene; food surface contact; food handler; the on-site premise eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i10.1568


The objective of the work described in this report is to investigate the use of target acceleration by endgame guidance laws. The approach used in this report is based on a covariance simulation that bounds the error covariance of the estimated states with the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) of the system. The use of the CRLB allows the guidance law performance to be evaluated independently of specific filter designs, while the use of a covariance simulation minimizes the need for expensive and time consuming Monte-Carlo simulations. Together, the CRLB and covariance simulation constitute an efficient analysis tool for investigating tradeoffs and fundamental performance limitations in endgame engagements. The CRLB covariance simulation is developed for the endgame engagement system. The analysis capabilities of the CRLB simulation are demonstrated by an application to an endgame engagement involving a model of a Bank-to-Turn missile.


Silver Nanoparticles as one of Nanotechnology products has extensive medical, industrial and agricultural applications. This paper describes a rapid and eco-friendly method for green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from aqueous solution of silver nitrate using Oak leaf and fruit extracts (Quercus infectoria) in a single-pot process. It was observed that the use of Oak leaf and fruit extracts makes a fast and convenient method for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles and can reduce silver ions into silver nanoparticles within 80 min of reaction time without using any severe conditions. Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) was characterized by UV-visible (UV–vis) spectroscopy. The UV–vis spectra gave surface Plasmon resonance for synthesized silver nanoparticles peak at 415–445 nm. Further, the AgNPs showed an effective antibacterial activity toward plant pathogenic bacteria.


A discussion of some of the problems of planning port development with particular reference to the methods to be used for appraisal of port projects and the application of those methods during the preparation of port master plans. The paper is illustrated by examples from a detailed engineering and economic study made to prepare a master plan for the Port of Bombay. Reference is also made to some fundamental research studies carried out for the National Ports Council.


In recent years there has been a tendency to experiment with antigens derived from treponemata in the diagnostic tests for treponemal disease in the hope that they might prove more sensitive and more specific than the cardiolipin antigen which is now the standard preparation. These antigens have been prepared either from a virulent strain of Treponema pallidum or from the avirulent Reiter strain, which is said to have been originally derived from a virulent Treponema pallidum (Ruge, 1956). The preparation of antigens from virulent Treponema pallidum involves the maintenance and handling of infected rabbits, a task which routine laboratories would prefer to avoid. The Reiter treponeme, however, grows readily in vitro and is convenient to handle. Tests using the Reiter strain have been of two types: (1) Those in which the whole treponeme has formed the antigen. (2) Those in which a protein extract of the treponeme has been used. D'Alessandro and Dardanoni (1953) have shown that at least four antigenic fractions of the Reiter treponeme can be prepared: (1) A protein antigen, (2) A lipid antigen which has the same specificity as cardiolipin, (3) A further lipid antigen, (4) A polysaccharide antigen. The protein antigen was more sensitive than the whole treponeme when titrated with the serum of experimentally-infected animals and showed no reaction with an antibody prepared against cardiolipin. Sera from syphilitic patients also reacted to a higher titre with the protein antigen than with cardiolipin. However, the antibody involved in the Reiter protein complement-fixation test (RPCFT)


There are only two ways for solid-state phase transitions to be compliant with thermodynamics: emerging of infinitesimal quantity of the new phase, or infinitesimal "qualitative" change occurring uniformly throughout the bulk at a time. The suggested theories of phase transitions are checked here for that compliance and in historical perspective. While introducing the theory of "continuous" second-order phase transitions, L. Landau claimed that they "may also exist" along with the majority of first order phase transitions, the latter being "discontinuous", displaying "jumps" of their physical properties; the fundamental d ifferences between the two types were specified. But h is theoretical successors disregarded these irreconcilable differences by presenting all phase transitions as a cooperative phenomenon treatable by statistical mechanics. In the meantime, evidence has been mounted that all phase transitions have a nucleation-and-growth mechanism, thus eliminating a need in the above classification.


Human Enhancement Technologies (HET) offer valuable assistance for individuals with disabilities. Alongside these opportunities, it is important to consider the ethics that inevitably emerge. The field of disability studies recognizes that disability is a key aspect of human experience and that the study of disability has important political, social, and economic implications for society as a whole, including both disabled and nondisabled people. This chapter raises ethical questions about HET for disability through review of the literature surrounding this topic. To evaluate the ethical implications of regulating enhancement technologies for disability, medical and social models of disability are applied towards select cases. This chapter responds to the work of select disability scholars (see Dolmage; Kerschbaum & Price; Meloncon & Oswal; Vidali) by characterizing ethical perspectives from medical and social lenses. While a medical interpretation of disability offers a stark and impersonal approach, a social interpretation offers a detailed and individualistic one. The majority of scholarship noted here favors the social model. The framework presented herein seeks to abide by the social model of disability. Since HET have become an ethically contested field of discourse today, this chapter divides the literature into the following sections: 1) definitions, distinctions, and challenges of medical and social models of disability; 2) ambiguity, authenticity, and the ab/normality construct; 3) forced privacy and the privilege to hide; and 4) recent trends in regulation and the ethics of development. DEFINITIONS, DISTINCTIONS, AND CHALLENGES IN SELECT MODELS OF DISABILITY It will be useful to explore some of the theoretical constructs prevalent in disability studies. A starting point exists within an academic context, in which disability has progressed from exclusivity to one that is more inclusive via diverse pathways. The composition classroom proves to be an intellectual starting point for critical thinking, so it should come as no surprise that the social model of disability has its roots in rhetoric and composition. Shannon Walters (2011), for example, defines Dev Bose Iowa State University, USA


Information related to recognizing the place in which a user is has become crucial to deliver efficient and tailored Location-Based Services (LBSs). Though plenty of solutions exist for recognizing indoor places, almost no idea is present in the literature for recognizing big outdoor places without the GPS employment. Though these solutions assure great accuracy they also have a strong request in terms of energy necessary to achieve such result. This paper proposes a Place of Interest (POI) recognition algorithm called Enhanced-LRACI. It is an evolution of LRACI (Location Recognition Algorithm for automatic Check-In applications), a former work reported in [1]. E-LRACI aims at recognizing big outdoor places only by using WiFi Access Points (APs) over mobile devices (smartphones). The main contributions of this work are: i) it solves the problem of big outdoor POI recognition without using GPS by leveraging on the concept of spot, ii) it proposes a novel fingerprint (FP) algorithm and iii) it outperforms the results obtained by other reference works in terms of recognition accuracy. Performance investigation reported in this paper, carried out on real data acquired over mobile devices (Android smartphones), shows that our proposal is able to correctly recognize big outdoor POIs in 95% of the cases whereas other state of the art papers do not exceed 89%.


Fe-Si-Al composite magnetic powder core was prepared by compression molding,and the effect of the annealing condition and insulation coating on magnetic properties of composite magnetic powder core was studied.Such results are concluded from experiment.Annealing following compaction could effectively promote magnetic properties of Fe-Si-Al magnetic cores.Increasing annealing temperature increases effective permeability and decreases hysteresis loss of specimens,and over-annealing(660℃) could degrade the insulation between powder particles and deteriorate magnetic properties.The optimum annealing temperature is 660℃.The magnetic annealing is a new effective method that decreases loss of Fe-Si-Al magnetic powder core,and the loss of magnetic powder cores in the magnetic annealing is smaller than one in annealing.Increasing dielectric content could effectively reduce eddy current loss of Fe-Si-Al magnetic powder core and bring negative influence of decreasing the real part of permeability.The optimum dielectric content is 0.7%(mass fraction).


Young infants are sensitive to prosody, which they use to distinguish between speakers and between languages. Indeed, patterns of language discrimination have been interpreted as supporting a "rhythm class" typology, where the rhythmic nature of earliest language exposure determines the primary perceptual units of speech segmentation. In previous studies, five-month-old infants discriminated languages from different putative rhythm classes, but only within a class where one or both languages are familiar. Thus, English infants did not distinguish "syllable-timed" Italian and Spanish, nor "stress-timed" Dutch and German, but Spanish infants distinguished "syllable-timed" Catalan and Spanish. In three head-turn preference experiments, we tested whether English five-month-olds could discriminate – pairwise – between French, Spanish and Finnish. Although all have been categorized as "syllable-timed", they differ in their realization and distribution of strong syllables. In each experiment, we familiarized infants to one of two languages and then exposed them to new speakers from the same or the other language. With French and Spanish, infants looked longer to the new language than the familiar one, indicating discrimination. They failed, however, to discriminate French/Finnish or Spanish/Finnish. These results strongly suggest that – rather than sensitivity to discrete classes – discrimination reflects exploitation of gradient prosodic differences.


Curves in Lagrange Grassmannians naturally appear when one studies intrinsically "the Jacobi equations for extremals", associated with control systems and geometric structures. In this way one reduces the problem of construction of the curvature-type invariants for these objects to the much more concrete problem of finding of invariants of curves in Lagrange Grassmannians w.r.t. the action of the linear Symplectic group. In the present paper we develop a new approach to differential geometry of so-called rank 1 curves in Lagrange Grassmannian, i.e., the curves with velocities being rank one linear mappings (under the standard identification of the tangent space to a point of the Lagrange Grassmannian with an appropriate space of linear mappings). The curves of this class are associated with "the Jacobi equations for extremals", corresponding to control systems with scalar control and to rank 2 vector distributions. In particular, we construct the tuple of m principal invariants, where m is equal to half of dimension of the ambient linear symplectic space, such that for a given tuple of arbitrary m smooth functions there exists the unique, up to a symplectic transformation, rank 1 curve having this tuple, as the tuple of the principal invariants. This approach extends and essentially simplifies the results of [4], where only the uniqueness part was proved and in rather cumbersome way. It is based on the construction of the new canonical moving frame with the most simple structural equation. 1 Statement of the problem and the results Let W be a 2m-dimensional linear space provided with a symplectic form σ. Recall that an m-dimensional subspace Λ of W is called Lagrangian, if σ|Λ = 0. Lagrange Grassmannian L(W ) of W is the set of all Lagrangian subspaces of W . The linear Symplectic group acts naturally on L(W ). Invariants of curves in Lagrange Grassmannian w.r.t. this action are called symplectic The motivation to study differential geometry of curves in Lagrange Grassmannians comes from optimal control problems: it turns out that to any extremal of rather general control systems one can assign a special curve in some Lagrange Grassmannian, called the Jacobi curve (see [1], [2], and Introduction to [4] for the details). Symplectic invariants of Jacobi curves produce curvature-type differential invariants for these control systems. The natural differential-geometric problem is to construct a complete system of symplectic invariants for curves in Lagrange Grassmannians, i.e., some set of invariants such that there exists the unique, up to a symplectic transformation, curve in Lagrange Grassmannian with the prescribed invariants from this set. Some methods for construction and calculation of symplectic invariants of curves in Lagrange Grassmannians (including invariants of unparametrized curves) were given in [4] and [5]. Also the problem of finding a complete system of symplectic invariants for the special class of the so-called rank 1 curves in Lagrange Grassmannians (see Definition 1 ∗S.I.S.S.A., Via Beirut 2-4, 34014, Trieste, Italy; email: email@example.com


With the adhesion in the European Union, Romania must realize the integration in the system comes along with formal and informal obligations. One of the system's purposes is the cohesion between the members, least but no less important is the politics co-ordination between the members and the European authorities in developing a unitary system. We have to participate as a state to the European project and to learn to benefit from favorable decisions and directions for our development. I will emphasize some concepts in order to incline the balance of integration to success, so that Romania can become a positive example for the members to come .


The analysis of settlement for driven piles in cohesionless soils is a complex soil structure interaction problem. The total settlement for such a pile is generally considered to be the sum of the following three components (Vesic 1977): 1. Settlement due to axial deformation of the pile shaft 2. Settlement of the pile point caused by load transmitted at the pile tip 3. Settlement of the pile point caused by load transmitted along the pile shaft. A recent pile load test program was conducted to assist in the design of the foundation for a new bridge over the Cimarron River in northwest Oklahoma. The load tests were conducted on a 0.66 m closed-end steel pipe pile and a 0.61 m octagonal prestressed concrete pile. Prior to and following the pile load tests, a number of in situ penetration tests were conducted at the site. They included: Standard Penetration Test (SPT), mechanical cone penetration test (MCPT) and electric cone penetration tests (ECPT). This study compares the total settlement and components of settlement measured during the pile load test on the two types of pile with that estimated by the various penetration test results. The Coyle method of analysis was used for the SPT data, and the Verbrugee method was used for the mechanical and electric cone data. This study reports the details of the site investigation and in situ penetration tests, the comparisons between predicted settlements and pile load test results, and documentation of a case study of the use of pile load tests to design bridge foundations.


Two isostructural dinuclear lanthanide(III)/Schiff-base complexes [{Ce1.5Eu0.5(clapi)}2]·2CH3CN (1) and [{La1.5Eu0.5(clapi)}2]·2CH3CN (2) {H3clapi = 2-(5-chloride-2-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3-bis[4-(5-chloride-2-hydroxyphenyl)-3-azabut-3-enyl]-1,3-imidazolidine} have been prepared by template procedure and characterized by elemental analyses, ICP, IR, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. Lanthanide ions Ce(III) and Eu(III) in 1, and La(III) and Eu(III) in 2 are disordered with occupancies 0.75 for Ce and 0.25 for Eu in 1; 0.75 for La and 0.25 for Eu in 2. In the compounds, each lanthanide is coordinated to four N and four O atoms from two clapi3− ligands, forming a distorted square antiprism. Two phenol oxygen atoms from the middle arms of the two heptadentate μ2-bridging ligands connect the two Ce(Eu) atoms in 1, and La(Eu) in 2. The solution of the two complexes in CH2Cl2 exhibits red fluorescence from Eu3+ ions at 77 K, very weak at room temperature.


.................................................................................................................................. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................................................................................... v LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................................................... x LIST OF FIGURES........................................................................................................................ xi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 1 Study Area and Its Natural Environment ................................................................................... 6 Race and Ethnicity ..................................................................................................................... 7 Documentary records ............................................................................................................... 16 Regional archaeological research............................................................................................. 17 CHAPTER 2: THEORY ............................................................................................................... 21 Modernity................................................................................................................................. 22 Liminality................................................................................................................................. 24 Localism................................................................................................................................... 26 Clientelism ............................................................................................................................... 28 Material Culture ....................................................................................................................... 30 CHAPTER 3: WELCH SITE ARCHAEOLOGY......................................................................... 33 CHAPTER 4: HISTORICAL SETTING ...................................................................................... 42 CHAPTER 5: "THE DARKEST PART OF THE NATION": MODERNIZATION ON VALLEY RIVER (1835-1838) .............................................................................................. 48 Modernization .......................................................................................................................... 50 The Welch Family During Removal ........................................................................................ 63 Conclusions .............................................................................................................................. 68


Griffith's 1921 theory of crack stability is extended to account for the frictional energy dissipation associated with interfacial sliding when the crack faces are in contact. This global energy balance approach is essentially different from Griffith's 1924 local theory of compression cracks, which assumes that instability occurs when the stress at any point exceeds the intrinsic strength of the material. An explicit expression for critical crack size in compression is obtained. On the basis of this expression we find the most critical crack orientation and define theoretical strength as the critical stress for that orientation. This uniaxial compression strength significantly exceeds the tensile strength. For example, when the coefficient of friction is unity, the ratio of compressive to tensile strength is 8.7, and the crack plane lies at 13° to the loading direction. Following this, the heating due to interfacial sliding is found by a one-dimensional thermoelastic analysis. It is concluded that under normal conditions the stress field acting on the crack faces is only slightly affected by frictional heating, though the temperature rise may be very high, and melting may occur within microseconds.


The work investigates a set of efficient methods to extract important features from the ECG data applicable in the localization of cardiac arrhythmia. The work involves the segmentation of the ECG signal and the extraction of important features like QRS and ST segments. Further classification follows the learning process where the SOM (Self Organizing Maps) units organize in such a way that similar map sequences of the ECG data are represented in particular areas of the SOM. Eventual unsupervised learning (UL) time traces are achieved during the training and forwarded to the LVQ (Learning Vector Quantization). Here a set of supervised learning (SL) is followed by a smart beat detection system that further enhances the signal performance and correct localization for arrhythmia detection.


Purpose: This study examined the effects of home care services on physical health, cognition, and depression in community-dwellingelderly withachronicdisease.Methods:This studyadoptedapre-experimental researchwithone grouppretest-posttestdesign.The63subjectswererecruitedfromacommunityinScity,Koreaandreceivedhomecare services 15 times for 12 months. Data was collected by using a physical health assessment, mini-mental state examination-Koreanversion(MMSE-K),andgeriatricdepressionscreening(GDSS).Results:Thescoreofhealthstatus and cognition increased significantly in the experimental group compared to the pre-test. Conclusion:These findings indicate home care service may be advantageous for community-dwelling elderly with a chronic disease.


A brief description of the features of general education development in rural area of the republic of Buryatia has been done. Prospects for development of rural school in contemporary socio-economic conditions have been highlighted. The possibilities and ways to solve the key issues of rural school modernization in contemporary conditions have been shown on the example of Garginsky secondary school in Kurumkansky district, Republic of Buryatia.


This paper analyzes the effects of off-shore outsourcing for international trade, especially for the emerging and poor economies, in a two-sector specific factor model, with a nontraded good being one of the sectors. The phenomenon of offshoring is modeled by incorporating the reduced use of domestic labor in the production function. This is regarded as a characteristic feature of offshoring in the literature. We find that increased offshoring leads to an increase in the relative price of the nontraded good. Given that this relative price can be interpreted as the real exchange rate, increased offshoring leads to exchange rate appreciation. This suggests that offshoring actually makes the goods and services from the emerging economies more competitive in the world market, and thus can be a contributory factor in the positive trade balance experienced by many emerging economies since early 2000s.


This paper is concerned with the coordination of traffic control measures on major trunk routes and motorways. The requirements of a real time traffic control system and its sub-systems are described briefly, and sections are provided on the use of such systems in both normal and abnormal conditions. An example of a control system in use is also provided, by considering a two-car rear-end collision in lane 3 of a motorway. (TRRL)


Since the early Eighties, "Stato e Mercato" has been the promoter, inItaly and in Europe, of the development of an original analytical approach called "Comparative Political Economy". A current of studies that analyses the relationship between economic and socio-political phenomena and their modes of regulation and institutionalization, in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. In particular,"Stato e Mercato" has contributed to the development of a "non-neoclassical" approach to political economy, that pays attention: a) to "non-economic factors" that condition economic actions and outcomes; and b) to "historical factors" that shape the economic trajectories of different countries and varieties of capitalism. The journal's articles have mainly contributed to the analysis of the "thirty less glorious" years of capitalism development, when some of the features of the "trente glorieuses" have gradually turned into their opposite. To celebrate the issue 100 of "Stato e Mercato", we have invited some scholars, who have accompanied the birth and evolution of our journal, to reflect on the evolution of capitalism over the past three decades and on the challenges it faces today.


In the last chapter we explained how it was possible to test whether two sample means were sufficiently different to allow us to conclude that the samples were probably drawn from populations with different population means. When more than two different groups or experimental conditions are involved we have to be careful how we test whether there might be differences in the corresponding population means. If all possible pairs of samples are tested using the techniques suggested in the previous chapter, the probability of type i errors will be greater than we expect, i.e. the 'significance' of any differences will be exaggerated. In the present chapter we intend to develop techniques which will allow us to investigate possible differences between the mean results obtained from several (i.e. more than two) samples, each referring to a different population or collected under different circumstances. Comparing several means simultaneously: one-way ANOVA Imagine that an investigator is interested in the standard of English of students coming to Britain for graduate training. In particular he wishes to discover whether there is a difference in the level of English proficiency between groups of distinct geographical origins – Europe, South America, North Africa and the Far East. As part of a pilot study he administers a multiple choice test to 40 graduate students (10 from each area) drawn at random from the complete set of such students listed on a central file. The scores obtained by these students on the test are shown in table 12.1.


Emotional stress triggers takotsubo cardiomyopathy in postmenopausal women. Clinical analysis of autonomic nervous function has revealed a transient increase of sympathetic nervous activity and decrease of vagal nervous activity. Immobilization (IMO) stress of rats can reproduce the electrocardiographic and left ventriculographic changes that occur in takotsubo cardiomyopathy, both of which are prevented by combined blockade of α‐ and β‐adrenoceptors. Estrogen supplementation partially attenuated these cardiac changes. It also attenuated the IMO‐induced increase of c‐Fos immunoreactivity, or c‐fos mRNA expression in the lateral septum, medial amygdaloid nucleus, paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus, dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus, laterodorsal tegmental nucleus, and locus ceruleus; these regions contain central sympathetic neurons and neurons with immunoreactive estrogen receptors. It also downregulated c‐fos mRNA expression in the adrenal gland and the heart, suggesting an increase of estrogen attenuated the stress‐induced hypothalamo‐sympathoadrenal outflow from the central nervous system to the target organs. Estrogen treatment also upregulated the levels of cardioprotective substances, such as atrial natriuretic peptide and heat shock protein 70, in the heart. These data suggest that reduction of estrogen levels following menopause might be involved in the primary cause of takotsubo cardiomyopathy both by indirect action on the nervous system and by direct action on the heart.


ABSTRACT: The characterizations as well as the sexual and ideological dimensions of Paz en la guerra (1897) have their sources in La Madre Naturaleza, but only the novel of Unamuno carries to logical conclusions the heterodoxies that are semi-obscured in Pardo Bazan's text. Paz en la guerra announces the beginning, not only of a different type of novelistic form, but also of a new kind of spirituality.


across Australia provide a rich record of culture contact and the fascination of Indigenous artists with the forms of vessels that have borne visitors and settlers to Australian shores. Professor Paul Taçon of griffith university, Queensland, has made extensive field studies of this genre and has written this introduction to the subject for Signals. Australia has one of the largest, most diverse and oldest continuous rock-art traditions in the world, with over 100,000 sites and millions of images. Rock art consists of paintings, drawings, engravings, bas reliefs, stencils, prints and designs pressed onto the surface in beeswax. They are located in rock shelters and caves, on boulders and on rock platforms widely distributed across Australia. Today rock art is still being encountered and recorded by researchers in remote, rugged environments. However, there are also sites in and around cities with thousands of them found in the greater Sydney region. Some are in quite well-traversed locations; others lie almost unnoticed on rock surfaces in parks and reserves. Rock-art sites are often important spiritual and historical places where aspects of group and individual identity and experience have been recorded visually, but they were also used in many other ways. When Asian mariners visited Australia's northern shores at different periods, and Europeans arrived to settle across Australia, Indigenous artists added new subjects and styles to their sites to reflect the changing environment they found themselves in. One of the most common new additions to rock-art sites consists of images of the things that brought the new people to their lands, especially boats and ships – but there are also depictions of horses, aircraft, motorised vehicles, buggies and even bicycles. In many other parts of the world, indigenous peoples who were still making rock art when outsiders arrived – especially in North America, southern Africa, New Zealand and some locations in South-East Asia – also engraved, painted and drew representations of new transport, occasionally even showing trains (in South Africa) or a motorcycle (in Malaysia). The widespread act of depicting ships, by far the most common new subject, reflects a fascination with the large range of watercraft navigating past and arriving upon traditional lands. They are often a form of transport associated with first contact. In Australia, this has led to some sites now containing dozens of paintings of ships, while one in southern Thailand has over 70. In many cases these depictions of different ships were painted over hundreds of years. Australia has more rock paintings of non-Indigenous watercraft than any other country, with several hundred scattered around the coastline and some at sites as much as a couple of hundred kilometers inland. Particularly large concentrations can be found in parts of northern Queensland, on Groote Island and in western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, but there are smaller clusters in the Kimberley and Pilbara of Western Australia. Drawn and engraved ships can also be seen scattered across the greater Sydney region as far inland as Falconbridge in the Blue Mountains. Most Australian rock-art ship depictions can be identified as being vessels of South-East Asian origin (for example various types of perahu, the Indonesian term for boat) or those of the European shipbuilding traditions including Australian colonial craft. Indigenous rock-art depictions were made from memory so often we see unusual combinations of features, making precise identification of vessels challenging and often impossible. Nonetheless, many detailed images can be described according to type. Only a few rock-art depictions of watercraft can be precisely correlated to particular known vessels. The earliest surviving image of a foreign vessel that we know of is a yellow painting of a South-East Asian perahu at Djulirri, an outstanding Northern Territory rock-art site in Arnhem Land's On the rocks ships at Aboriginal rock-art sites


Power electronics transformers(PET) provide many advantages over typical power transformers such as they are smaller in size, they can work as power quality enhancers, they can easily interact with renewable energy sources, they give more control over output voltage and current etc. PETs main components are power electronics converters and high frequency transformers. Transformer leakage inductance and magnetizing inductance affects the performance of PET. This paper discusses effects of those two on the commutation process of direct AC-AC converter based PET and presents a suitable commutation strategy. The proposed method has been simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK and the results have been presented.


This research examines the relationship between control mechanisms selected for use by central governments during the implementation of public sector reform and the successful implementation of said reform. This investigation is carried out in light of a case study, namely Trinidad and Tobago's health sector refor m. Previous research either offers a descriptive account of what conditions are necessary for perfect implementation or focuses on the debate between top-down and bottom-up approach supporters in terms of controlling implementation. Drawing on both sets of literature, this study goes further by offering insights into the importance of government control over public sector reform implementation by contributing a fresh perspective to existing research – recognition that the actions of the central government can constitute more important explanations for the outcome of public sector reform than those of the implementers. This paper presents relevant interdependent elements needed for determining what type of control mechanisms should be used to control implementing bodies, which include central acceptance of delegated tasks, balance between control and discretion, clear roles and performance goals that accurately reflect policy intent, objective measurement and effective monitoring, and a simple implementation structure. It is found that control mechanisms need to be planned and performed in light of the intent and performance goals of the reform in order for said reform to be successful. These findings provide policymakers with knowledge on how control mechanisms can be better employed in order to improve the performance of the public sector under the reform. Contribution/Originality: This study provides an original investigation into how governments can better select and employ control mechanisms during policy implementation to improve the performance of public sectors under reform. It further demonstrates that central government's actions constitute more significant explanations for outcomes of public sector reform than those of its implementers.


This paper proves that: let G be a 3-connected K1,3-free graph; if every induced subgraph A or A+ of G satisfies (a1,a2), then G is panconnected (Except for that when u, v ∈ V(G), and d(u, v) = 1, there may not be (u, v)-k paths for k = 2, 3, 4).


The development of adaptive technology is inseparable from the theory of adaptive filtering and its algorithms. The least mean square (LMS) algorithm occupies an important position as one of the most important algorithms in adaptive filtering and is widely used due to its simplicity, ease of implementation, and good convergence in stationary environments. In this paper, for the LMS algorithm, the LMS algorithm based on Bessel function and the multiscale wavelet transform algorithm are studied respectively. On this basis, a new LMS algorithm based on Bessel function and multiscale wavelet transform is proposed, using MATLAB computer simulation software to conduct experiments, the time domain waveform and convergence effect of the algorithm have been significantly improved, verifying the feasibility of the algorithm. The simulation results show that the newly algorithm has faster convergence speed, higher processing speed, strong denoising ability, and its steady state offset is small.


The main objective of this paper has been to investigate macroeconomic factors influencing the schooling inequality across 69 countries during the period of 1975 to 2005 with five-year intervals period. Relying on 201 observations, we found that education expansion, ratio of capital to GDP, and ratio of female to male primary enrollment statistically significantly play as powerful equalizers in education distribution .Previous-year educational inequality, per capita real income, and growth rate of rural population play as significant disequalizers of educational inequality. There are two major findings. Firstly we found that factors directly involved to schooling like enrolment rate or education expenditures are not significant while the factors indirectly involved to schooling have significant impacts on educational inequality. Secondly, we found quadratic (U-shape) relationship between rural growth rate and educational inequality. So the higher rural population growth rate brings increasing or decreasing of educational inequality with turning point at rate -1.39.


Isoantibodies to whole semen or epididymal spermatozoa of rabbits inhibit fertilization in vitro (Russo & Metz, 1974a). This inhibition is attributed to a primary blocking of one or more sperm antigens essential for the sperm-egg interaction, and not to a secondary action (e.g. agglutination, com-plement-dependent immobilization), because univalent (Fab) antibody fragments, which do not agglutinate or immobilize spermatozoa, are also effective. Hyaluronidase, the sperm enzyme required for penetration of the cumulus surrounding the egg, could be one such sperm antigen. This possibility is supported by the fact that cumulus dispersion was inhibited in the experiments of Russo & Metz (1974a) and that hyaluronidase-inhibiting antibodies are present in isoantisera to rabbit semen (Metz, Seiguer & Castro, 1972). It is necessary to employ antibody preparations specific for rabbit sperm hyaluronidase to examine critically the inhibition of fertilization by antihyaluronidase antibodies. We report here such inhibition of rabbit fertilization in vitro by Fab isoantibodies to purified rabbit sperm hyaluronidase.


In this article, new vapor–liquid equilibrium data of the (ethane + R1234ze(E)) binary system are presented. The measurements are performed at six isotherms ranging from 272.27 to 347.52 K and for pressures of up to 4.89 MPa. The experiments were conducted by means of a static-analytic apparatus with phase analysis via gas chromatography, with resulting uncertainties of 0.03 K for temperature, 0.4 kPa for pressure, and 0.0043 for vapor and liquid mole fractions. The experimental data were correlated with the Peng–Robinson equation of state using the classical van der Waals mixing rules. For the three temperatures above the critical temperature of pure ethane, the critical compositions and pressures of the binary mixtures were also calculated on the basis of the extended asymptotic behavior laws. The results obtained show good agreement between experimental measurements and modeling, with a maximal deviation of 1.13% for bubble pressures and 1.23% for vapor molar fractions.


A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received: 07 October, 2020 Accepted: 06 January, 2021 Online: 22 January, 2021 The article describes the concept and architecture of a decentralized control system for a solid-state voltage regulator (SSVR). The SSVR is a universal device for controlling the mode and operation parameters of medium voltage electrical networks. SSVR manage the amount of current in line using the vector voltage control method. The SSVR control system consists of two levels: the SSVR semiconductor converter control level (the technological control system), SSVR cluster management level (intelligent control system). The objective of the study is to develop an algorithm for managing the SSVR cluster located in the nodes of the distribution electric network. The Raft consensus algorithm for managing the computing cluster is applied to ensure reliable decentralized network management. The algorithm is iterative. Ethernet and PLC architectures are proposed for constructing a data transmission network between SSVR nodes. A simulation model of the SSVR cluster and its control system is developed to study the operation of the control system (node shutdown, loss of communication). The criteria for the normal operation of the intelligent control system are formulated and an algorithm for its operation in emergency situations is presented. The studies of the SSVR control system confirmed the operability of the developed control system in normal and emergency operation of the cluster on a simulation. The dependence of the control system response time on the number of cluster nodes is investigated. The maximum number of nodes in the SSVR cluster depending on the tasks being solved by the SSVR will be limited by the speed of the control system. If the number of cluster nodes increases, it is necessary to enlarge the minimum time interval between requests for control commands.


PURPOSE
Anti-angiogenic therapies are known to cause high radiographic response rates due to reduction in vascular permeability resulting in a lower degree of contrast extravasation. In the current study, we investigate the prognostic ability for model-derived parameters describing enhancing tumor volumetric dynamics to predict survival in recurrent glioblastoma treated with anti-angiogenic therapy.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
N=276 patients in two phase II trials were used as training data, including bevacizumab +/- irinotecan (NCT00345163) and cabozantinib (NCT00704288), and N=74 patients in the bevacizumab arm of a phase III trial (NCT02511405) were used for validation. Enhancing volumes were estimated using T1 subtraction maps, and a biexponential model was used to estimate regrowth (g) and regression (d) rates, time to tumor regrowth (TTG), and the depth of response (DpR). Response characteristics were compared to diffusion MR phenotypes previously shown to predict survival.

RESULTS
Optimized thresholds occurred at g=0.07months-1 (phase II:HR=0.2579,P=5x10-20; phase III:HR=0.2197, P=5x10-5); d=0.11months-1 (HR=0.3365, P<0.0001; HR=0.3675,P=0.0113); TTG=3.8 months (HR=0.2702,P=6x10-17;HR=0.2061,P=2x10-5); and DpR=11.3% (HR=0.6326,P=0.0028;HR=0.4785, P=0.0206). Multivariable Cox regression controlling for age and baseline tumor volume confirmed these factors as significant predictors of survival. Patients with a favorable pre-treatment diffusion MRI phenotype had a significantly longer TTG and slower regrowth.

CONCLUSIONS
Recurrent glioblastoma patients with a large, durable radiographic response to anti-angiogenic agents have significantly longer survival. This information is useful for interpreting activity of anti-angiogenic agents in recurrent glioblastoma.


As a leader the principal must have several competencies. Social competence is one of the competencies that must be possessed by the principal as a leader in the school. This is directly related to the way the principal communicates with all school residents. If the school principal has sensitivity towards all school members, there will be no obstacles, so the aims and objectives of the school will be more easily achieved. Therefore, researchers are interested in conducting research on how the principal's social sensitivity to citizens or community groups in schools. The purpose of this study is to describe the principal's social sensitivity towards other people or groups. The benefits of the research are expected by knowing this, principals can consider better behavior patterns. The results of the study revealed that social competence in terms of social sensitivity to other people or other groups, the head of SMA Negeri (State High School) 11 Rejang Lebong was able to play a role as a decision maker, especially in overcoming various problems that occur at school, creative and able to offer solutions, involving religious leaders, the community, and government in resolving various problems, being objective / not taking sides in resolving internal conflicts, being sympathetic / considerate and empathizing with others. Researchers provide advice to school principals to continue efforts to social sensitivity to other people or other groups, especially in SMA Negeri 11 Rejang Lebong.


Due to its nonlocal nature, the $r$-variation norm Carleson operator $C_r$ does not yield to the sparse domination techniques of Lerner, Di Plinio and Lerner, Lacey. We overcome this difficulty and prove that the dual form to $C_r$ can be dominated by a positive sparse form involving $L^p$ averages. Our result strengthens the $L^p$ estimates by Oberlin et. al. As a corollary, we obtain quantitative weighted norm inequalities improving on previous results by Do and Lacey. Our proof relies on the localized outer $L^p$-embeddings of Di Plinio-Ou and Uraltsev.


This work is devoted to compare the relative sensitivity to the gas flow rate at a
constant temperature of thermo-anemometers based of wire and a thermistor sensor, as well as pulse based
thermoanemometer thermocouple. To determine the sensitivity of the transducers were obtained by the
experimental relationship between air flow rate and output an electric signal (calibration curves) for each
sensor type. These data are presented in tabular form, approximated by analytic functions. Determination of
calibration curve was performed according to the general procedure for all sensors. At the wind tunnel ADS
200/250 [5] establishes a persistent airflow temperature equal to T = 35 °C and the speed of 2 m / s to 20 m / s.
Sensors located at the nozzle exit, in the middle of the stream. The studies showed that the relative sensitivity
thermoanemometer pulse remains constant in the measuring range of speeds from 2 – 20 m / s or considerably
higher than the sensitivity of thermo-anemometers constant temperature sensing element based on a tungsten
filament and NTC – thermistor. Compared with the TA constant temperature, the region defined by the size of
the averaging ITA junction. In this case the dimensions of the junction are equal to 0.1 x 0.1 (mm) and if
necessary may be significantly reduced. These results can be used for development on the basis of measuring
thermocouples for measuring the average nonisothermal gas flow velocity.