Leopold Freund, who first used x-rays for therapeutic purposes (1897), was also the first to report the disappearance of inflammatory symptoms after x-ray treatment (1904). Thus, following irradiation for diseases of the hair, such as sycosis, the furuncles so often accompanying that condition cleared up without further treatment. As a rule, however, an exacerbation of the inflammatory symptoms, such as edema and suppuration, was observed before the hair fell out. This gave rise to the assumption that irradiation invariably leads to a greater or less increase of an inflammatory process, and the conclusion was drawn that the presence of inflammation is a contraindication to radiotherapy. Although observations to the contrary were repeatedly published, this attitude generally prevailed up to 1924, when Heidenhain and Fried, and also Pordes, reported their results, about which Holzknecht informed American radiologists in 1926. Since that time it has been known that x-rays are able to exert a favorable influe...


This study was designed to assess sex-related differences in the selection of an appropriate strategy when facing novelty. A simple visuo-spatial task was used to investigate exploratory behavior as a specific response to novelty. The exploration task was followed by a visual discrimination task, and the responses were analyzed using signal detection theory.During exploration women selected a local searching strategy in which the metric distance between what is already known and what is unknown was reduced, whereas men adopted a global strategy based on an approximately uniform distribution of choices. Women's exploratory behavior gives rise to a notion of a secure base warranting a sense of safety while men's behavior does not appear to be influenced by risk. This sex-related difference was interpreted as a difference in beliefs concerning the likelihood of uncertain events influencing risk evaluation.


Resistance against sunflower rust incited by Puccinia helianthi Schwein was characterized in three sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) genotypes: AMES 18925 that was highly resistant; AMES 3442, partially resistant; and Hysun 33, susceptible. Microscopic studies showed a differential rust development on the genotypes. Impairment of rust spore germination and of appressorium formation was observed only in the resistant genotype. A differential excretion of coumarins to the leaf surface was also observed among genotypes, with the highest levels corresponding to the most resistant genotype and the lowest to the most susceptible. Impairment of rust germ tube growth and of appressorium formation was associated with the excreted level of ayapin. Reduction in germination frequency was not associated with coumarins but probably to other phenolic compounds present at higher concentrations in the resistant than in the susceptible genotype.


pointed out (in his review in Antiquité Tardive 20 [2012], 359–93, at 362 n. 5) that a dramatic date for Macrobius' Saturnalia in 382 immediately before Gratian's disestablishment of pagan cults only works if that disestablishment took place in precisely the last week of the year. Better not to seek an exact dramatic date in a work written half a century later. In the third chapter of the mini-monograph on subscriptions, C. misinterprets a subscription to Livy's first decade (emendavi Nicomachus Flavianus v.c. ter praefectus urbis apud Hennam), though with little harm to the overall argument. Since ter means not 'for the third time' but 'on three occasions', this implies that the correction took place not during Flavian's third prefecture – as C. argues, while acknowledging the strangeness of a prefect going as far from the city as Sicily while still in office – but afterwards. These are minor points. My largest doubt is whether in the period following 395, not too well attested by narrative sources, C. is overly influenced by the model he has destroyed in Chapter 3, of the civil war against Eugenius as a religious conflict (esp. pp. 187–95). He is right that the evidence adduced for widespread paganism among high office holders in the reign of Honorius is illusory, but his counterargument, essentially that the mere fact of being high office holders after 395 makes them likely to be Christians (which would certainly not have been true in 390), seems nearly as presumptuous, and out of kilter with the undramatic fizzling away of paganism that he persuasively presents elsewhere. C. has given the thesis of aristocratic pagan resistance the treatment that Hercules gave the Hydra, though plenty of room for debate remains across the work's full range, as already illustrated by a thoughtful collection of essays by distinguished Italian scholars (R. Lizzi Testa [ed.], The Strange Death of Pagan Rome [2014]). Some forceful responses have come in areas which might seem tangential, such as the HA or Flavianus' Annales (see Paschoud's review, op. cit., also reprised in Lizzi Testa). This book will stimulate much more besides in the coming decades. It offers a virtuosic breadth of coverage and approach that must in the end justify its length. It is also wonderfully readable – a fact which in part (whatever one might think of this feature otherwise) is down to the polemical tone.


Paris: what can you say?For generations, writers have struggled to capture the ineffable charm of France's capital. The Montmartre-sized heap of metaphors used to describe the city merely hints at ...


The ripple current of inverter power supply direct current(DC)-bus is one of the key factors for stability of the inverter power supply.Large ripple current will severely shorten the life of DC-bus capacitor.The formulas of computing inverter power ripple current and the minimum capacity value are obtained.Through the analysis of the circuit, the appropriate electrolytic capacitor is selected to reduce the ripple current and maintain the system stability.Through the Matlab simulation software to further verify the feasibility of the principle for selecting the DC-bus capacitor.


Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae is the causative agent of bacterial canker of kiwifruit. The population of this pathogen is differentiated into three biovars, biovar 1, 2 and 3, according to their molecular characteristics. In this work, we determined biovars of P. syringae pv. actinidiae strains isolated in Korea since 1997 and stored in Department of Biology, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Korea. The biovars of P. syringae pv. actinidiae strains were determined by PCR using biovar specific primers developed previously. Of 682 strains investigated, 288 strains belonged to biovar 2, while 394 strains were biovar 3. There were no P. syringae pv. actinidiae strains belonging to biovar 1 among the strains isolated in Korea. Sudden outbreak and spreading of bacterial canker caused by biovar 3 strain suggest that this strain has character of rapid transmission.


Digital image processing, as a computer-based technology, carries out automatic processing, manipulation and interpretation of such visual information, and it plays an increasingly important role in many aspects of our daily life, as well as in a wide variety of disciplines and fields in science and technology, with applications such as television, photography, robotics, remote sensing, medical diagnosis and industrial inspection.


The investigation looked at requirements to be met by new railway bridges designed for speeds of 160 to 350 km/h. Apart from dynamic vehicle/bridge stresses, researchers concentrated on transmission of longitudinal forces included by changes in temperature and braking, and on structures with special reference to high viaducts. They also looked at sideways slip of high single-span support piers under total load including wind loading.


Originally published in 1966, this text, which included eye witness accounts, was considered an authorative reference on the history of World War II. Stephen Ambrose has edited the original text and incorporated 70 per cent new material including photographs, maps, paintings and cartoons selected from both public and private collections throughout the world. This updated version includes previously unseen secret and private material that has become public since the end of the Cold War and over the years since the end of World War II.


Fujian's emergency command system for marine fishing security is mainly composed of four parts including emergency command centers at provincial,municipal and county level,comprehensive information management platform of fishery security,information terminals(handheld terminals,ship terminals) and the supporting communication network.System construction has enhanced Fujian's capabilities to handle marine disasters and offshore emergency incidents.Thus,effective solution of the existing problems in the system platform operation and better role-play of the system platform's function is worthy discussing.


Two Islamic actors in Turkey have transformed the state's strict control of the religious field (laicism). While the National Outlook Movement, the "mother-movement" of the governing Justice and Development Party, did so through its "participation" in party politics, the Gülen Movement, Turkey's most powerful Islamic movement that operates hundreds of schools and a major media network, contributed to this transformation through its "non-participation" in party politics as a social movement, providing an alternative to laicist establishments outside of institutional channels. These two movements, by following different political paths, have embodied different opportunities for and challenges to Turkish democratization. To understand their influence in Turkish politics today, this article will adapt a "method of difference" and ask what explains these two Islamic movements' variation in regards to party politics and what the consequences of this variation are for Turkish politics. Based on qualitative fieldwork in Turkey, this article will argue that both movements have made their decisions about party politics by strategically and differently evaluating the political opportunities/threats of party politics in light of their varying ideological priorities and organizational needs, and that these strategic decisions have transformed the movements themselves and the Turkish regime altering the laicist status quo between them.


The emergence of new media era allows the spread of positive contents (inspiring and useful subject) and negative contents (hate speech and hoaxes) through cyberspace. Islamic Boarding Schools (Pondok Pesantren) which have large mass of santri (students) have a strategic position to repress the dissemination of mentioned negative content. The applied method is optimizing social media as a channel for spreading positive content with the spirit of rahmatanlil 'alamin.
Key Words: New Media, Islamic Boarding School (Pondok Pesantren), the Spirit of Rahmatanlil 'Alamin


Part one studies the behaviour of railway track subjected to the stress of rolling stock and the experimental results on a test track with formulae for the pressures on the track through ballast or by rails through sleepers. Part two contains a computer solution to a fourth degree equation representing equilibrium equation of a track segment. Last, the interrelationship between rails, ballast, temperature and stress upon track behaviour are discussed.


Although a tradc-off between colonization and competitive ability is widely recognized to promote species co-existence. this trade-off is rarely tested. Biomass allocation patterns, clonal dispersal, and competitive success of three salt marsh plant species grown in pots or trays were examined in the greenhouse. The competitive ranking was determined by a pairwise additive-series competition experiment in pots under low nutrient conditions. Competitive ability and patterns of biomass allocation differed significantly among species. The competitive dominants, Juncus gerardi, exhibited higher root :shoot and root:rhizome ratios than its competitive subordinates, Spartina patens and Distichlis spicata. Contrary to what was previously observed in the field. Spartina patens was only slightly competitively superior to Distichlis spicata in the greenhous (i.e., the difference was not statistically significant). Distichlis spicata and Spartina patens exhibited very similar patterns of biomass allocation. including similar patterns of allocation to roots and rhizomes. Although the ranking of the three species with respect to clonal dispersal rates in trays (i.e., Distichlis spicata > Spartina patens > Juncus gerardi) was inversely correlated with their competitive abilities in the field, differences in dispersal rates were small and not statistically significant. Thus. a hypothesized trade-off between competitive ability and colonization ability in these three species does not appear to be strongly correlated with interspecific differences in rates of clonal dispersal in trays in the greenhouse. It is hypothesized that the superior colonization ability of Distichlis spicata observed in the field depends greatly on its ability to tolerate harsh edaphic conditions within gaps.


The theses touch upon the comprehension of a new genetic and genealogical
methodology for the study of pedigrees, which began to be massively used at the beginning of the XXI century. DNA testing by Y-chromosome (patrilineal inheritance),
mitochondrial DNA (matrilineal inheritance) and nuclear (autosomal) DNA (mixed
inheritance) allows verification of documentary genealogical information by natural
scientific methods of DNA research as a «biological document».


A developing way of Northwestern economy during Guomindang government.There were many plans about developing the Northwest during the 1930es in China.Developing economy was talked about most frequently.The detailed projects were improving traffic,developing water conservancy,absorbing people to cultivate farmland,and setting up factories.


Background and Objectives  In peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, the number of CD34+ cells infused is considered a predictor of haematopoietic engraftment. However, the currently accepted minimal threshold of CD34+ cells/kg was determined by counting CD34+ cells before freezing, and the loss of viable CD34+ cells during freezing, cryopreservation or thawing prior to reinfusion has not been assessed.


With the deep development of Economic globalization,the relations between China's economy and world economy is getting broader.China's sustainable economic development was severely affected by the international crisis.At present,promoting the domestic economic growth with the help of increasing export is very difficult;the key for pulling the economic growth is to expand domestic demand,especially the consumption demand.Expanding the consumption demand of rural residents can bring us with obvious economic effect,political effect,cultural effect and eco-effect;it should be given primary importance among priorities;and it is also the sustainable driving forces for China's economic growth.To improve the consumption environment,change the views of consumption,improve the effective product supply and deal with the relations between productive consumption and household consumption in rural areas,we should,first,increase farmers' income with the help of different kinds of countermeasures and optimize farmers' consumption structure;second,we should establish and improve the social security system in rural areas and improve the consumption confidence of rural residents;and third,we should strengthen the legislation construction,enhance market transparency,establish the social credit system to stimulate rural residents' consumption,and improve the living standard of rural residents to promote the quick and sound development of national economy.


The results of the studies of cytomorphological, karyological, cultural properties of continuous suspension ВНК-21/SUSP/ARRIAH subline of newborn Syrian hamster kidney cells intended for foot-and-mouth disease, rabies, bovine parainfluenza-3, Aujeszky's disease virus reproduction, as well as for production of diagnostic veterinary biologicals are presented. When cultured in suspension, BHK-21/SUSP/ARRIAH cell subline undergoes selection towards hypoploidy: modal class is represented by cells with 41 chromosomes (32–40% of cells); the share of cells containing 40–42 chromosomes is 78–80%; the share of polyploids averages around 1%; the range of variation in the number of chromosomes is from 36 to 54. BHK-21/SUSP/ARRIAH cell subline cultured in suspension with cell seeding concentration of 0.6–0.8 million cells/cm3 demonstrates growth rate of 6.67–11.00 and 96–99% cell viability. After 48 hours, G1-phase (diploid-2n) cells prevail in the cell population of the new subline (30.0–75.0% of cells); cells that undergo preparation for mitosis (S-phase) and mitosis (G2+M-phase) account for 3.0 to 20.0% of the entire population; the number of meganucleated and multinucleated cells (>4n) at the beginning and at the end of the logarithmic phase increases to 2%. BHK-21/SUSP/ARRIAH cells recover rapidly after cryopreservation and demonstrate 95–99% viability and growth rate of 3.36–5.88 at passages 1 to 3 and 6.85–10.95 at passages 4 to 12. Continuous suspension BHK-21/SUSP/ARRIAH cell line ensures virus accumulation at the following titres: FMD virus – 7.30– 8.00 lg TCID50/cm3, rabies virus – 7.25–8.00 lg CCID50/cm3, bovine parainflunza-3 virus – at least 6.00 lg TCID50/cm3, Aujeszky's disease virus – 7.50–7.80 lg TCID50/cm3.


In August 1894, as if by prearranged signal, a series of Muslim attacks on the Gregorian Armenian subjects of the Porte broke out in eastern Anatolia and spread gradually, province by province, throughout most of Asiatic Turkey. These disorders raged sporadically for two years until finally, in August 1896, they culminated in a similar assault on the Gregorian Armenian community of Istanbul, beneath the very windows of the embassies of the Great Powers. European estimates placed the total of Armenians killed throughout this period at between 250,000 and 300,000 men, women, and children, and 10 percent of the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire.


The article discusses Housing First, a public health model based on the idea that housing is necessary for health, security, and wellness that is being used to address homelessness issues in the U.S.


The Board of Directors of Aqua-Terra Supply Co. Limited (the "Company" and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") would like to announce that the wholly-owned subsidary of the Company, Marinehub Pte. Ltd. ('Marinehub'), has increased its shareholding in Oceanic Offshore Engineering Pte. Ltd. ('Oceanic Offshore') by subscribing for an additional 720,000 ordinary shares in the share capital of Oceanic Offshore at a subscription price of S$1.00 per ordinary share. Following the aforesaid subscription, Oceanic Offshore remains an 80%-owned subsidiary of the Group.


Well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the semilinear Schrodinger equation with quadratic nonlinear terms is studied. By making use of Besov spaces we can improve the regularity assumption on the initial data. When the nonlinear term is c 1 u 2 + c 2 u 2 , our results are as follows: when d = 1 or 2, for any initial data u 0 ∈ H - 3 / 4 (R d ) there exists a unique local-in-time solution u ∈ B ( - 3 / 4 , 1 / 2 ) 2 , ( 2 , 1 ) - | ξ | 2 (R d × I T ). When d > 3, for any small data u 0 ∈ H ρ (R d ), where p(z) = z d / 2 - 2 log(2 + z), there exists a unique local-ill-time solution u ∈ B ( ρ , 1 / 2 ) 2 , ( 2 , 1 ) , - | ξ | 2 (R d × I T ), and for any u 0 ∈ H s (R d ), s > d/2-2, there exists a unique local-in-time solution u ∈ B ( s , 1 / 2 ) 2 , ( 2 , 1 ) - | ξ | 2(R d × I T ). Here IT = (-T, T). We also have results for the equation with the nonlinear term c 3 uu.


The questions posed in the introduction concerned our ability to make our implicit assumptions and customary ideas about public administration visible; can we look "through the wall"? It is up to the reader to draw lessons.


We consider a class of geometrically frustrated Heisenberg spin systems which admit exact ground states. The systems consist of suitably coupled antiferromagnetic spin trimers with integer spin quantum numbers s and their ground state Φ will be the product state of the local singlet ground states of the trimers. We provide linear equations for the inter-trimer coupling constants which are equivalent to Φ being an eigenstate of the corresponding Heisenberg Hamiltonian and sufficient conditions for Φ being a ground state. The classical case s → ∞ can be completely analyzed. For the quantum case we consider a couple of examples, where the critical values of the inter-trimer couplings are numerically determined. These examples include chains of corner sharing tetrahedra as well as certain spin tubes. Φ is proven to be gapped in the case of trimer chains. This follows from a more general theorem on quantum chains with product ground states.


Description of two 14 th c. manuscript fragments of an Ashkenazic copy of the Sefer Miṣwot Gadol by R. Mosheh de Coucy preserved in the Biblioteca Angelica (Rome). A critical edition of the text, collating the variants observed in the editions by Bomberg and Pinhas, is provided


To investigate effects of non-tillage on N2O and CO2 emissions in the North China Plain,a field experiment was conducted to measure N2O and CO2 emissions from soil under conventional tillage and soil that had just assumed non-tillage practice,using closed chamber technique and gas chromatography during the maize growing season.Cumulative N2O emission from the non-tillage soil was 0.31 kg·hm-2,just slightly higher than from the tilled soil,being 0.27 kg·hm-2.In contrast,non-tillage significantly increased soil CO2 emission by 41.6% compared to tillage(1 333 kg·hm-2).N2O emission peaks appeared after irrigation,heavy rainfall or consecutive cloudy days.N2O emission peaks in the non-tillage treatment ranged from 28.1 to 38.4 μg·m-2·h-1,which were greater than those in the tillage treatment(18.6-25.7 μg·m-2·h-1).N2O and CO2 fluxes in the two tillage systems displayed a significant exponential relationship with soil temperature,and the seasonal variation of N2O and CO2 fluxes could be better explained by soil temperature in tilled soil than in non-tilled soil.


In this paper I analyzed the use of the expression "musica popularesca" over the musicological work of Mario de Andrade (1892 - 1945). Apparently, Mario de Andrade used it to describe a type of repertoire somewhere between folk music and classical music. After the consolidation of the urban popular music, Mario de Andrade used "musica popularesca" to denominate this new kind of music, which was similar - but not identical - to folk music. This expression had no pejorative connotation, unlike the word "sub musica" used by the same author to label works as "of easy applause". This approach is different from the traditional one that the musical historiography has over the expression "musica popularesca" and, therefore, invites to debate some of the Mario de Andrade's musicological works.


The thermolyses of di-t-butyl peroxide in cyclohexanic solutions of thioorganostannic derivatives C 4 H 9 Sn(S)SC 4 H 9 (1) and (C 4 H 9 ) 2 Sn(SC 4 H 9 ) 2 (2) were performed and the reaction products determined. Identification of dibutylsulfide and butylcyclohexylsulfide indicated, for the first time, the homolytic attack of a Sn-S bond by an alkyl radical. The eliminated stannyl radical was producing, by α-scission, a butyl radical and stannous sulfide for the reaction performed with 1. In the case of the reaction involving 2, the stannic species eliminated could not be identified.


The author presents a personal narrative of her experiences as the editor of the second edition of the "Encyclopedia of Language and Education," a 10 volume work, discussing her interactions with the work's publisher, her interactions with coeditors, and the copyediting of the work.


Objective To identify polioviruses using real time fluorescent quantitative reverse transcription poly-merase chain reaction(rRT-PCR) method in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Polio Laboratory for the first time, to provide a basis for performing intratypic differentiation by conventional rRT-PCR in polio laboratory. Methods According to rRT-PCR recommended by WHO, poliovirus isolates from the polio laboratory were tested for intratypic differentiation and vaccine-derived polioviruses(VDPVs) screening. Results The results of intratypic differentiation of polioviruses using rRT-PCR were completely consistent with those of VP1 region sequencing. But the results of VDPV rRT-PCR for poliovirus did not completely consist with those of VP1 region sequencing. Two strains of type 2 poliovirus were misidentified as non-Sabin-like viruses with the false positive rate of 3.03% and one trains of type 3 poliovirus were misidentified as non-Sabin-like viruses with the false positive rate of 1.92%. Conclusions The rRT-PCR method can be applied in Xinjiang Polio Laboratory for routine surveillance and intratypic differentiation of poliovirus.


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Design analysis is essentially a decision-making process in which analytical tools derived from basic sciences, mathematics, statistics and engineering fundamentals are utilized to develop a product model that can be converted into an actual product. The type of analysis required will depend on the product concept established, the specifications of the actual product intended and the application(s) in question. Common analytical tools used in design analysis are examined. The discussion is restricted to the principle of the analytical tool and potential applications in fiber-to-fabric engineering. Many examples of fibrous products are used to illustrate the principles of these analytical tools.


ABSTRACT Sexual segregation in habitat use occurs when sexes differ in their use of the physical environment and is widely reported among seabirds. The Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) is one of the most abundant seabird species in the south-west Atlantic, but whether the sexes differ in their habitat selection during winter remains unknown. Here, we tested for sexual segregation in adult and immature Black-browed Albatrosses during winter. Movement data from 21 satellite-tracked Black-browed Albatrosses across the south-west Atlantic Ocean between 2011 and 2015 were used to determine suitable foraging habitat for males (n = 7) and females (n = 14) using habitat selection models. Sexual segregation was then assessed using an index of niche overlap for immature and adult age classes. Variables with the highest importance in habitat selection models across all groups were depth and sea surface temperature. The highest probabilities of occurrence were in shallow waters and intermediate surface temperatures. No sexual segregation was found which may be because of the large abundance of prey in the region and moderate energy requirements during the non-breeding season. These results are relevant for spatially explicit conservation management in this region, including the designation of marine protected areas. Indeed, bycatch in fisheries is a major threat to seabirds in this area, and foraging behaviour and performance in winter of this keystone species will influence their future reproductive performance.


This paper is a continuation of the paper [16]. Namely, in [16] we have introduced, among others, the definition of the atomic entailment and we have constructed the system SS ⊓ , which is based on the atomic entailment. In this paper we show that the classical Arithmetic can be based on the Atomic Logic (see [17]).


Should the choice of numeraire price for modelling profit functions be arbitrary, or is more careful study needed? Here, the choice of numeraire is examined using tests for models specification and out-of-sample predictive accuracy based on the crop and livestock data obtained from Iowa. The results of this study indicate that, for this data set and functional form, it does indeed make a difference which numeraire you choose. This is in contrast to previous studies which, in general, indicated that the choice of numeraire equation is arbitrary or, more commonly, offered no justification for the netput chosen.


In March 1999, VCIOM conducted field research of the third wave within the programme "Homo Sovieticus" (previous surveys in the framework of this programme were carried out in 1989 and 1994). Results of the new survey demonstrate that it is possible in principle to obtain through regular surveys sufficiently reliable and comparable data enabling to judge on the stability and dynamics of social attitudes, mechanisms of social identification and orientation, and emotional framework of human existence. A majority of respondents agree that during the last few years major changes have taken place, but their judgements on the significance of these changes are diverse. People are adapting to the new conditions with difficulty and the most frequently expressed conviction is that one has "to strain and take any work." During ten years, people's hope for the custody and assistance from the government has noticeably decreased. Critical attitude to government institutions is often used as a justification of archness and evasion from civil responsibilities. The most visible shifts happened in the period between the first and the second waves of the study, before 1994. The indicators of personal responsibility to the State, the country, an enterprise or ethnic group became considerably less pronounced. A great significance was acquired by generation and group specific frameworks of social identification, national affiliation, and connections -with local environment. In the context of historical identification, the attention to "successful" and fundamental events of the past is strengthening. The least significant changes are observed in the system of orientations in the uncertain social situation: while choosing between values of success and those of stability, a majority now as before obviously prefer the latter. Attitude towards practically all deviant groups is softening. Claims to extend capital punishment are met more seldom. The survey of 1989 caught society in the moment when perestroika illusions were rising and the first signs of disillusionment and confusion appeared. The survey of 1994 took place in the atmosphere of widely spread revaluation of the results of change and search for stabilising mechanisms. The last survey of 1999 was conducted under conditions of prevailing nostalgia for the past and attempts to adapt to the new social reality.


Objective To investigate the expression and function of sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium adenosine triphosphatase(SERCA2) in heart failure rabbit and the effects of simvastatin on the prevention of chronic heart failure.Methods Twenty-one rabbits were divided into three groups:sham operated group (n=7),heart failure group (n=7) and simvastatin group [n=7,10 mg/(kg· d)].Heart failure was induced by combination of volume and pressure overload.Seven weeks later,left ventricular shorten fraction (LVFS),left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF),left ventricle end-systolic pressure (LVESP),left ventricle end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) were determined.Expression and function of SERCA2 were detected.Results Compared with the sham operated rabbits,LVMI [(3.61±0.09) vs (1.32±0.06)g/kg] and LVEDP were significantly increased LVFS,LVEF [(38.5±5.1)% vs (71.9±4.6)%] were decreased in heart failure rabbits (all P0.05).Simvastatin significantly decreased LVMI [(2.17±0.13)g/kg] and LVEDP,increased LVFS and LVEF [(62.2±3.3)%] (all P0.05),which was associated with increases in expression and function of SERCA2 [mRNA,heart failure group (0.70±0.04) vs sham operated group (1.06±0.16) vs simvastatin treated group (0.86±0.02),protein:heart failure group (0.69±0.04) vs sham operated group (1.02±0.02) vs simvastatin treated group (0.87±0.03),activity:heart failure group (8.32±0.15) vs sham operated group (15.01±1.00) vs simvastatin treated group (11.81±0.63) μmol Pi/(mg pro·h),all P0.05].Conclusion Simvastatin improved cardiac function,which was associated with upregulating expression and function of SERCA2.


Abstract : A list is given of research projects, both completed and in progress, in the field of underwater speech communication. An evaluation and recommendations are given concerning intelligibility testing and test materials, underwater thresholds, and ear-canal vs bone-conduction hearing.


This is a story about anniversaries...

Today is my niece's 5th birthday. A year later I woke up from my general anaesthetic to this - the


Aqueous extract of the plant Tribulus terrestris was used to reduce chloroauric acid for synthesizing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). In this green synthesis, the reaction proceeded to give a red/purple color that was monitored by UV-vis spectrophotometry, where the formed AuNPs had an absorption band with max of 550 nm. In terms of the highest absorbance at 550 nm, reaction conditions were optimized at a temperature of 75°C, at pH 7 and using a reaction time of 4 h. The integrity of the synthesized AuNPs was confirmed and their physical properties were characterized by Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), which also showed evidence that plant metabolites contributed to capping or stabilization of the AuNPs. XRD spectra suggested a particle size of around 40 nm and SEM images revealed spherical and relatively uniform and disperse particles with a size of less than 0.1 m. In a broth microdilution assay, the AuNPs showed inhibitory effects against Gram-negative Escherichia coli, but not against Gram-positive Enterococcus faecalis. The AuNPs showed no hemagglutination activity or cytotoxic activity against human blood cells, which is important for them to be explored as therapeutic antibacterial agents.


Abstract The elastic flexural behavior of static deformation and free vibration of sandwich plates of variable thickness is investigated numerically and experimentally. In the analysis, the face plates are treated as Marguerre shells, and the core is assumed to be an antiplane core and to provide resistance to transverse shear and normal stresses only. Displacement continuity conditions are used at the interfaces between face plates and the core to derive the displacement field. Energy formulations are obtained and solved by the isoparametric finite element method. The numerical results are obtained to compare with the results in the existing literature and to show the effects of taper constant and face plate thickness on deflections and natural frequencies. Finally, experimental works based on the method of holographic interferometry are conducted to confirm the theoretical findings. Experimental and numerical data agree quite well in this work.


When TCP receives packets that lie outside of the receive window, the
corresponding packets are dropped and either an ACK, RST or no
response is generated due to the out-of-window packet, with no further
processing of the packet. Most of the time, this works just fine and
TCP remains stable, especially when a TCP connection has
unidirectional data flow. However, there are three scenarios in which
packets that are outside of the receive window should still have their
ACK field processed, or else a packet war will take place. The
aforementioned issues have affected a number of popular TCP
implementations, typically leading to connection failures, system
crashes, or other undesirable behaviors. This document describes the
three scenarios in which the aforementioned issues might arise, and
formally updates RFC 793 such that these potential problems are
mitigated.


"Accountability is at the top of the American educational agenda in the U.S. at the present time" (Lessow-Hurley, 2005, p.61). The pressure that school administrators, educators and parents feel about the accountability in the education system brings a debate about the length of time it takes to learn a second language and about the most effective instructional practices that foster the academic success for these students (Ovando, et al., 2003). This research study compares and contrasts the performance data, as measured by the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKSTM) in math and reading, between third grade English language learners who were enrolled in Transitional Bilingual Programs and those enrolled in the Dual Language Bilingual Program for at least three years. The results shows that students enrolled in the Dual Language Bilingual Program perform higher in math and reading TAKSTM tests scores compared with students enrolled in the Transitional Bilingual Program.


ABSTRACT Background and aims Uncertainty remains regarding the association between the risk of stroke and plasma copper levels in population with copper mostly in normal range due to limited data. We examined the association between baseline plasma copper and risk of first stroke in Chinese community-dwelling population. Methods We conducted a nested case control study from 'H-type Hypertension and Stroke Prevention and Control Project'. A total of 1255 first stroke cases and 1255 controls matched for age, sex and study site were included in the analysis. Conditional logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate the association between plasma copper and first stroke. Results The overall mean of copper was 15.90 (2.66) μmol/L. In total, 94.26% participants' copper concentration was in the normal range by Mayo Clinic laboratory reference values. Smoothing curve showed that the associations of plasma copper with first stroke and its subtypes were linear. Each standard deviation (SD) increment of plasma copper was independently and positively associated with risk of first stroke [odds ratio (OR): 1.17, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.07–1.28]. The multivariable ORs with 95% CIs for total stroke, ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke in the highest versus the lowest quartile of plasma copper were 1.49 (1.16–1.90; P-trend = 0.001), 1.46 (1.12–1.92; P-trend = 0.004) and 2.05 (0.95–4.38; P-trend = 0.050), respectively. Conclusions Baseline plasma copper was positively associated with risk of first ischemic stroke in an approximately linear fashion among Chinese community population (80.32% hypertensives), although their copper levels were mostly within the normal range according to current reference values. Our findings warrant additional investigation. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


This paper presents a co-design of a 10-bit SAR ADC and its front-end filter. Because the SAR ADC works as a discrete-time data converter, its input signal only needs to be accurate at its sampling moment. Therefore, the filter can be switched off in the ADC conversion phase to save power. To reduce the start-up time when the filter is activated again, a low-power auxiliary amplifier is used in the ADC conversion phase to maintain the filter output roughly. A 10-bit 10 MS/s SAR ADC with such a duty-cycled multiple feedback filter is fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS technology. The filter power has been reduced by 36% thanks to the proposed duty-cycled operation. The prototype achieves 8.3 ENOB and 59.3 dB SFDR at low input frequencies, and it has 40 dB suppression at the Nyquist input frequency, while consuming 91.1 $\mu {\mathrm{W}}$.


Four mouse monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) that react with filamentous M13KO7 and R408 phage were obtained. Three of these MAbs (two IgG2a and one IgG3) recognize linear sequences of the p8 main structural coat protein, and one (IgG2a) identifies a putatively conformational epitope, as suggested by Western blot. These MAbs also react with recombinant phage expressing peptide antigens fused to p8, and are though useful reagents for peptide/protein phage display screening based methods. The latter was shown in an enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELISA) and a visual immunoassay where one of the anti-p8 MAbs was used to capture recombinant phages displaying a peptide characteristic of the Hepatitis B virus surface antigen or a Dengue virus-related peptide antigen.


Abstract : A study of interfacial turbulence is necessary to elucidate the complex nature of transport properties across turbulent interfaces occurring in engineering problems, where the structure of the turbulence in the bulk phase is germane to interfacial conditions--hence transport properties--and facilitates a theoretical assessment of the problem. The structure in a single phase system which has already been assessed, can be considered as a special case of a two phase dynamic system where one phase is at rest. There are obvious similarities in the turbulence structure of both systems, but unlike previous authors who envisage isolated pieces of turbulence (eddies) as migrating into the interface from the bulk phase--which is not compatible with the concept of turbulence phenomena--Khan was able to provide a more plausible and realistic explanation of interfacial turbulence, and hence surface renewal. The author has formulated a theoretical assessment of the problem based on this model of turbulence structure.


The invention provides a battery system and a method for equalizing electric quantity among battery modules. The battery system comprises more than two battery modules, a signal acquisition module, a residual electric quantity calculating module and a control module, wherein each battery module comprises a plurality of single batteries; a two-way isolation direct-current conversion circuit is arranged in each battery module; a sharing single battery is arranged between the two adjacent first battery modules and the two adjacent second battery modules in the battery system; a positive electrode and a negative electrode on one side of each of the two-way isolation direct-current conversion circuits in the first battery modules and the second battery modules are connected with positive electrodes and negative electrodes of the battery modules to which the two-way isolation direct-current conversion circuits belong; and a positive electrode and a negative electrode on the other side of each of the two-way isolation direct-current conversion circuits are connected with a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the sharing single battery of the first battery modules and the second battery modules. By the battery system and the method for equalizing the electric quantity among the battery modules, the electric quantity can be equalized among different battery modules.


The Abu Gharadig and Faiyum basins are areas which have some of the greatest hydrocarbon potential in the Western Desert of Egypt. Several extensive cycles of marine transgression and regression occurred in these territories through geologic time. The depositional cycles combined with at least 3 tectonic cycles--(1) the Hercynian orogeny at the end of the Paleozoic, (2) from Late Jurassic to early Tertiary, and (3) from Late Cretaceous to middle Tertiary--resulted in a highly deformed, thick sedimentary sequence. This organic-rich Jurassic-Upper Cretaceous-lower Tertiary sequence in large areas of these basins was subjected to enough heat and depth to generate hydrocarbons. It is evident from recent discoveries that these source rocks generated large amounts of high-quali y oil and gas. The Abu Gharadig and Faiyum basins are separated structurally by a major ridge. Both basins are bounded on the north by another major ridge associated with Cretaceous and Tertiary faulting. A major platform with thin sedimentary cover forms the southern boundary. The hydrocarbon potential exists in cyclic sequences of sandstone, shale, and carbonate, having moderate porosities and permeabilities. An important hydrologic phenomenon prevails in major parts of the basins; fresh water has flushed the early Cenomanian and older reservoirs. The eastern part of the Faiyum basin, the southern platform, the Kattaniya high, and the southern and western rims of the Abu Gharadig basin are completely flushed, leaving little chance for hydrocarbon preservation in these localities. Exploration efforts should be concentrated on deep structures close to the main depocenters and inside or very close to the 150°F (65°C) geothermal contour. Contemporaneous structures on the northern rims of the basins should have high potential, resulting from migration of hydrocarbons from the south across major faults. The Jurassic in the northeastern part of the Abu Gharadig basin may provide good hydrocarbon potential. The lower Tertiary sequence present in the troughs also may have large amounts of oil entrapped in situ or resulting in short-distance migration to the northern structures or to the Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary Syrian arc traps.


We extend almost everywhere convergence in Wiener-Wintner ergodic theorem for $\sigma$-finite measure to a generally stronger almost uniform convergence and present a larger, universal, space for which this convergence holds. We then extend this result to the case with Besicovitch weights.


This study is aimed to analyze the improvement of scientific students' attitude  Biology Education in STKIP YPM Bangko in lecturing of Biochemistry. The design of this research is classroom action research with implementing practical based learning. Practical based learning is a method that could help students to find out the fact of theory that they had learned during it. This research had been organized on March until May 2016 at STKIP YPM Bangko. The parameter in this study is a scientific attitude with indicator; curiously, flexible attitude, critical atittude, honest, and accuracy. The result showed that Practical based learning has been performing well. Scientific attitude of student has increased by an average from 59,38% in the first cycle  to 72,50% in  the second cycle. It can be conclude that practical based learning an effective methode to improve scientific students'attitude Biology Education in STKIP YPM Bangko.


The authors adopt the genre of the obituary to discuss the development and present condition of the Federal Estate Tax. Using this form of descriptive narrative, the authors present a concise summary of the most important changes in the tax over the past eighty-five years.


It is known that virtual organization is of great importance for manufacturing industries, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve their responsibility to market needs. According to the business requirements and present situation of SMEs, the ways of virtual organization development as well as their adaptability in SMEs are analyzed. Some practical models of virtual organization implementation are proposed based on case studies.


This paper discusses findings and data analysis issues that resulted from a case usability test. The case usability test was conducted as part of a redesign project that aimed to update the existing home page of Indiana University Bloomington. The home page contained links to the Web sites that various institutions in the university had already created, and therefore, it functioned as a portal to various Web sites and. employed hierarchical menu structure. The findings relate to the generation of design ideas. Through the usability test, it was founding that users have a somewhat unified viewpoint regarding the menus on the side areas of a Web page. They tend to view them as a "quick" way to access "specific" and "frequently searched" information. The analysis issues are concerned with analyzing task completion rate, time taken, and path taken to finish the tasks. When analyzing these measures, the researcher needs to consider nature of the Web site, portal site in this case usability test, rather than simply looking at whether and how the test participation found the answer. (Author/AEF) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Web Usability Test Findings and Analysis Issues By: Jae Soon An, Su-Hong Park & Eun-Ok Baek


The emergence of Artificial Intelligence concepts and paradigms, of intelligent digital machines, able to elaborate the decision-making process without the interference of the human operator, modifies particularly fast, transparent and complex business models used by almost entirely of economic organizations.Neural Artificial Networks are models for the implementation mathematical algorithms built mimetically according to the neural structure specific to the human brain.The approach of business phenomenology as a systemic, integrated structure, based on operational and strategic entities that are based on the notion of knowledge are the fundamental priorities in the issue of elaborating the highest added value.A neural network is not a mandatory inductive towards a classical cognitive process, using classical "if-then" computer structures, this should rather be perceived as an expert system.Through a mimetic system, the aspects of information processing and physical structure of the human brain are simulated, the classification is made for a miniature, microscopic or even nano-scopic system for a "white-box" model or a macroscopic expert system in the "black-box" model.The tendency to studying, understanding and shaping the economic activities with neural science provides effective solutions to economic actors, actors in a globalized business macro-environment with a high degree of complexity and extremely dynamic.Numerous economic organizations have invested in the identification and development at the level of R & D (Reasearch and Development) departments of the business solving problems which they are confronted with, traditionally solved with the help of operational research, through algorithms and methods specific to neural networks and data exploration (data mining).This paper presents, positions and offers solutions to the use of neural networks in the issue of modern business models.


This paper is devoted to designing a binaural sound reproduction system using multiple loudspeakers, which is a virtual realization of three-dimensional audio. The binaural sound reproduction requires the inverse model of a reproduced sound field. It is known that the transfer function of a sound field includes unstable zeros that are originated from the inherent propagation delay. The complete inversion of the sound field is inevitably unstable and cannot be implemented to actual systems. To overcome this problem, we propose a design method of a stable feedforward inversion based on the H∞ model matching problem. In the method, low gain specification is imposed on the inversion, which is important for improving robustness against the modeling error of the reproduced sound field. The design method is applied to actual experimental data of a reproduced sound field to show its effectiveness.


With the rapid economic development of China,the consumption of titanium dioxide has been rising,China has already been the second largest consumer of titanium dioxide in the world.Large titanium dioxide pigment manufacturers such as Dupond has already focused on China,China's titanium dioxide industry may face the severe challenges,industry reshuffle days have been coming near and near.This paper started from the titanium dioxide industry production process analysis of sulfuric acid process and chlorination process,then by using SWOT analysis method,analyzed the strengths and weaknesses between the sulfuric acid process and chlorination process in details to provide certain references for the development of titanium dioxide industry.


Objective To understand the level of AIDS knowledge among business floating population groups and to explore the model of health education for them Methods The interventions adopted included peer education on AIDS related knowledge and promoting condom use among business floating population groups. Face to face interviews with specially designed questionnaires were carried out among sampled respondents before and after the interventions, and meanwhile qualitative data and the effect of the interventions were evaluated Results The rate of correct answer regarding AIDS related knowledge among the business floating population groups increased significantly after the interventions. For example, the level of awareness of transmission via sex and blood and mother-child-transmission rose to 98.90%, 99.45% and 98.08 respectively; those with indifferent attitude towards AIDS dropped from 6.50% to 0.55%, while those attempting to evade the question on AIDS dropped from 14.40% to 2.19%; those refusing any contact with people living with HIV/AIDS dropped from 8.17% to 0.27%; those expressing care and understanding for people with HIV/AIDS rose from 56.2% to 87.95%; the level of knowledge of preventing AIDS with condoms and the rate of correct condom use rose from 40.60% and 85.20% to 87.95% and 94.25% respectively. As a whole, the difference before and after the interventions had statistical significance Conclusions Peer education and promoting condom use supported with mass media and on-the-sport publicity activities prove to be an effective and appropriate model of health education for business floating population groups.


Preface Introduction Plan of the Book Part I: Canada and the United States: Theoretical Perspectives Introduction Chapter 2: Previous Perspectives: Founding Fragements and Revolutionary Origins Hartz's Theory of European Founding Fragements Lipset's Origins Thesis: The Defining Moment of the American Revolution Summary Chapter 3: An Alternative Perspective: Deep Structures and the Four Sub-socieites of Canada and the United States The Concept of Deep Structures Deep Structures and the English Heritage Identifying the Deep Structures of the English Societies Canada and the United States as Four Sub-societies Summary and Conclusion to Part I Part II: Historical Myths and Historical Evidence Introduction Chapter 4: Liberty, Liberalism, and the Myth of American Individualism The Concept of Liberty in Pre-revolutionary America The Myth of American Individualism Summary Chapter 5: English Canada and the Loyalist Myth The Loyalist Migration and Canadian Toryism Counting the Loyalists How Loyal Were the Loyalists? Were the English-Canadian Colonists 'Americans'? Tory Values: Comparing the Elite and the Larger Population Summary Chapter 6: Canadians and Americans: Historical Comparisons Class Structure and Economic Background Ethnic Composition and Sources of Immigration Religion in Canada and the United States Patterns of Urbanization Political Culture and Organization Summary Conclusion to Part II Part III: Enduring Myths and Contemporary Realities Introduction Samples and Data Sources Research Questions Chapter 7: Moral Issues: Religion, Family Values, and Crime Religion and Religiosity Family and Sexual Values Crime and the Law Summary Chapter 8: Individualism, Collectivism, and the State Collectivism and the Role of the State Attitudes about Individiualism, Statism, and Collectivism Summary Chapter 9: Social Inclusion and Tolerance toward Minorities Mosaic and Melting Pot Patterns of Immigration and Racial Composition Socioeconomic Attainments of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities Comparative Research on Attitudes towqard Minorities Summary Chapter 10: Political Attitudes and Political Action Political Interest and Political Behaviour Political Trust and Confidence in Government Feelings of Interpersonal Trust and National Pride Summary Chapter 11: Voluntary-Association Involvement and Activity Previous Research Results from the World Values Surveys Summary Conclusion to Part III Chapter 12: Conclusion Deep Structures Revisited How Many 'Nations' Are There? Elites and Masses National Differences: Comparing the Extremes Past, Present, and Future: Convergence, Divergence, or Both? Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III References Index


Small scale mashes (50 g total grist) with grists containing up to 50% by weight of extruded whole sorghum produced worts of high extract yield and low viscosity. Increasing the proportion of extruded sorghum in the grist resulted in decreasing wort filtration volume, total nitrogen and free amino nitrogen content. The wort filtration behaviour of mashes containing sorghum extruded at 175°C was superior to that of mashes containing sorghum extruded at 165°C or 185°C. The results from such small scale mashing experiments suggested that extruded sorghum compared favourably to extruded barley and extruded wheat as a brewing adjunct. Worts and beers were produced on a pilot brewery scale (100 1) from grists comprising 70% malt + 30% extruded sorghum and 100% malt under isothermal infusion mashing conditions. Mashes containing sorghum extruded at 175°C showed comparable wort filtration behaviour to that of the all malt control mash whereas mashes containing sorghum extruded at 165°C or 185°C showed poor wort filtration behaviour. Worts produced from grists containing extruded sorghum fermented more quickly than the control wort and attained lower values of final gravity. The resulting beers were filtered without difficulty. Beers produced from grists containing extruded sorghum contained lower levels of total nitrogen and free amino nitrogen compared to the control beer consistent with extruded sorghum contributing little or no nitrogenous material to the wort and beer. Beers brewed from grists containing extruded sorghum were of sound flavour and showed reasonable foam stability behaviour.


Recently, ZnO and polyethyleneimine ethoxylated (PEIE) have been, respectively, applied to modify ITO to achieve the polymer photodetectors (PPDs) with a similar high detectivity of 1012 Jones. The ZnO device shows a lower dark current due to the surface defect states of ZnO, while the PEIE device exhibits a higher photocurrent because of the formed PEIE dipole layer on ITO. Therefore, the former has a higher linear dynamic range (LDR) of about 100 dB and a lower external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 200%, while the latter has a higher EQE of about 2000% and a lower LDR of 60 dB. This work demonstrates a strategy of combing the advantages of both devices using PEIE and ZnO co‐modified ITO. The resulting device exhibits an increased photocurrent and a reduced dark current, leading to overall enhanced performances with EQE of 1703%, responsivity of 7.55 A W−1, detectivity of 4.88 × 1013 Jones, and LDR of 117 dB under −0.3 V. The key of the co‐modification is that PEIE must directly modify ITO to form the electrical dipole layer and ZnO needs to be in contact with the active layer so that the surface defects can act as carrier trapping centers.


The consistency of the hot effect and concentration on Jeffrey's fully developed fluid in the vertical passage was examined. We considered two circuits by using a small, efficient aircraft. The more complex ruling ODE is solved by taking the right boundary and co-operative conditions
 in complex areas. The results are illustrated in a variety of important parameters and are illustrated to analyze important aspects of the results in all confusing areas. It is concluded that the stimulus in the Jeffrey parameter increases the flow rate, temperatures and concentration while
 the chemical reaction parameter suppresses the flow of fluid in all complex areas. The solutions obtained are compared to DS solved valued and the results hold good consistency. The current results are well supported by the current study of the specific conditions of the mathematical model.


Granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GMCSF) is a cytokine that is involved in myelopoiesis as well as immunomodulation. GMCSF has been shown to worsen conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and multiple sclerosis (MS) while ameliorating diseases such as Type I Diabetes. GMCSF has also been used clinically to combat neutropenia based on its immunostimulatory activity. Pathophysiological properties of GMCSF have been highlighted by the incidence of the global pandemic, COVID‐19 (caused by SARS‐CoV‐2), where elevated levels of GMCSF were identified in COVID‐19 patients in cases related to development of systemic hyperinflammation, pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). A key feature of signalling molecules like GMCSF is the selective and nuanced way in which responses can be tuned to external stimuli. The mechanism of how these signals are modulated are unknown and of particular interest. GMCSF and heparin have been shown to interact under low pH conditions. This binding interaction is important in two ways. Firstly, this pH sensitive interaction can serve as a basis to understand how cytokines can selectively interact with binding partners under variable physiological conditions. Secondly, in clinical settings where both anticoagulatory and immunostimulatory drugs are required, clear understanding of the binding interactions between the two drugs will help inform treatment decisions. Previously we identified heparin dependent structural changes as well as a striking dynamic change in GMCSF that was dependent on heparin chain length and pH using solution NMR studies which we believe to be dependent on a histidine triad. Here we have characterized GMCSF mutants using sited‐directed mutagenesis to exchange critical histidine residues for alternate amino acid residues (including Ala, Phe, Tyr and Asp) to probe the contributions of histidine residues to the increased flexibility of GMCSF observed in acidic conditions. We find that the histidine residues are critical for stability and as little as one amino acid difference will alter flexibility and stability of the protein. In some instances, mutations of all three histidine residues can lead to partial protein unfolding. Our results highlight the critical chemical properties at the amino acid level that allow GMCSF to interact with heparin in an environmentally dependent way.


ABSTRACT This study investigated the process of attribution making regarding family labor in the context of dual earning families with children. Data consisted of 257 attribution statements from 34 working self-identified mothers of children under 18 that were made about experiences with family labor. Findings indicated that participants attribute their experiences to a variety of external, relational, and internal factors including paid work flexibility, gender, amount of labor, responsiveness, task ownership, qualities, roles, and preferences. Further analysis of the internal locus revealed 18 ways participants frame their own and their partners' qualities and roles. Findings suggest that intrapersonal role conflict, paid work flexibility, health and wellness, and negative partner framing may offer important new insight related to relational equity within the context of family labor.


The invention discloses an extruded plastic thermal insulation thermal insulation board, which contains the components by weight parts of: polystyrene 180-200kg, Freon 3-5kg, 1000mu talc 1-3kg, foaming liquid 3-5kg, color masterbatch 0.5-1.5kg. The secondary foaming technology in the invention causes the plate to have lower unit weight, excellent non-absorbency, and better compressive strength; achieves technology advantage on environmental protection aspect, and can save cost greatly.


The initial stages of growth of the lamellar phase in a block copolymer solution were observed with polarizing optical microscopy (POM). Measurements were made on a poly(styrene-b-isoprene) diblock copolymer with block molecular weights of 15 and 13 kg/mol, respectively, dissolved in dioctyl phthalate with 70% polymer by volume. Upon cooling from above the order–disorder transition temperature, 89.5 °C, to temperatures from 87.5 to 88.5 °C, four distinct types of grain were observed: ellipsoidal single grains, twinned ellipsoidal grains, 2-fold twinned grains, and spherulites. The relative populations were distributed as 50% single ellipsoids, 25% twinned ellipsoids, 10% 2-fold twinned grains, and 15% spherulites. These grain types cover a range of lamellae orientation. For example, the surface of a 2-fold twinned grain is composed of lamellar edges, whereas the spherulite surface is composed of lamellar planes. The specific grain types that arise give insight into the thermodynamic and kinetic forces governing lamellae ordering. Furthermore, growth front velocities of individual grains were measured after rapid quenches from above TODT. These results were compared to the predictions of Goveas and Milner. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 43: 405–412, 2005


The goal of this paper is to defend the view that Actionality (or Aktionsart) and Aspect should be considered to be independent, although non-orthogonal categories. Although they do interact, their interaction is ultimately amenable to a range of predictable behaviours, that may be understood on the basis of their respective properties. As suggested by a long-established doctrine, the paper adopts the view that Actionality has to do with the nature of the event type associated with a verbal predicate, and is ultimately rooted in the lexicon, while Aspect (more specifically, the perfective/imperfective contrast) has to do with the perspective adopted in reporting on the relevant event, and is typically expressed through functional devices (tenses), that are part of the computational system of natural grammars. From a theoretical point of view, it is suggested that Actionality has to be dealt with in terms of the inner composition of events, while Aspect is ultimately to be accounted for in terms of the notions of closed vs. open interval, where perfective events correspond to closed intervals, and viceversa. The role of the aspectual operators must be that of enforcing the open/closed interval interpretation, which is potentially available for every event type, most probably with respect to an appropriate understanding of the different quantificational properties of the various aspectual readings. The paper claims that Actionality and Aspect are often enough unduly conflated in the specialized literature, giving rise to what might be called the 'Perfective ⇔ Telic Confusion' (PTC), that wrongly assumes that a verb in the perfective Aspect can only express telic eventualities, and viceversa. It is shown instead that Actionality and Aspect are largely independent of one another (even though they do systematically interact with each other). Their independence may be particularly appreciated in languages with a sufficiently rich morphology, where these two categories manifest themselves in a very perspicuous way. But it may be shown that, even in less complex verbal systems, (im)perfectivity and (a)telicity should normally be kept apart, lest fundamental misunderstandings arise. After reviewing and refuting various versions of PTC, a simplified typology of possible actional-aspectual systems is sketched, with examples inspired by the Slavonic languages and Ancient Germanic. The aim of the paper is thus to show that what is at stake with the dichotomy Actionality / Aspect and more specifically (a)telicity / (im)perfectivity is an important foundational question, concerning the proper treatment of temporal-aspectual phenomena.


Professor Schwarz is the most recent contributor to the John M. MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series. In this timely essay, Schwarz takes a position critical of traditional psychological research asserting that: "Our [psychologists'] focus on individual thought processes has fostered a neglect of the social context in which individuals do their thinking and this neglect has contributed to the less than flattering portrait that psychology has painted of human judgment" (p. 1). He posits that "fallacies of human judgment" reported in studies of cognition and communication are actually fallacies of the research—specifically, the researchers' failure to take into account the human mind's capacity to make sense of things, particularly through communication embedded in social context. His point is an important one. When involved in conversation (even in the research laboratory), humans may suspend their abstract knowledge of the logic of language and attend to irrelevant and misleading information—especially if they assume that the speaker's intentions are to convey information and to make sense. Schwarz reports that "ordinary kinds of talk" build on Gricean conversational implicatures, inferences that "go beyond the semantic meaning of what is being said by determining the pragmatic meaning of the utterance" (p. 11). Researchers underestimate the power of these inferences and, by presenting decontextualized, at times absurd, information, they fail to accurately measure their subjects' "human judgment," but instead observe their subjects' diligent, and often expert, attempts to make sense of the message.


In order to understand the mechanisms of interaction with corals in three species of encrusting and excavating sponges (Cliona aprica; Cliona caribbaea=Cliona langae; Cliona sp.) that actively undermine live coral tissue, detailed observations and follow-up of marked individuals were carried out in reefs of two coralline areas of the Colombian Caribbean. A not previously described final growth stage was found, in which tissue of older individuals thickens and becomes infested by epibiotic zoanthids. An agglutinating stage occurred in one species when growing on rubble. Maximum rates of lateral advance against live coral in 13 months were 19.7 cm Cliona sp., 8.3 cm for C. aprica, and 6.5 cm for C. caribbaea. By sending excavating tissue threads underneath live coral tissue, these sponges weaken the skeletal support of the polyps, resulting in their retraction or detachment. Fish bites and growth of turf algae and accumulation of sediment at the boundary produce further coral death. The sponge then advances, excavating and encrusting the freed substratum. This undermining mechanism is thus a highly effective competitive strategy that explains partly the ability of these sponges to gain and monopolize reef space.


This paper critically examines parametric linear programming problem (PLPP) with interval in the coefficients of the objective function and the composition of Plus, Beauty and Nova soap. The finding of soap production in NASCO Company in Jos, Nigeria will be studied and the problem formulated. The formulated problem is tested using the developed computer program by varying the parameter at regular interval and obtaining the corresponding values of the objective function. The interpretation of the results will be analysized.


Nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) based on metabonomics was applied to study of the differences in endogenous metabolites on serum and urine samples from the familial hyperthyroidism group,non-familial hyperthyroidism group and control group using multivariate statistical analysis in this paper.The experimental results show that the familial hyperthyroidism group has significant difference with the non-familial hyperthyroidism group and the control group.The familial hyperthyroidism group has elevated levels of acetoacetate,citrate and taurine,and has declined levels of very low density lipoprotein,low density lipoprotein,lactate and glycine in serum samples relative to the control group.In urine samples,the familial hyperthyroidism group show increased levels of glucose and creatinine as well as decreased levels of succinate,phenacetylglycine and hippurate.These results would lead to the disorder of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism,the injury of liver and kidney,cellular toxicity and the destruction of the intestinal environment.Furthermore,relative to the non-familial hyperthyroidism group,the familial hyperthyroidism has more significantly increased levels of the acetoacetate,glucose,citrate and creatinine in the serum.Therefore,the injury of kidney function and cell is more serious in familial hyperthyroidism group.


The role of emotion in media processes and effects is without question a very broad and exciting line of inquiry within the domain of media psychology, holding promise for a vast array of communicative contexts, such as health, politics, advertising, entertainment, educational programming, online communication, etc. Thus, it should not be too surprising that the study of emotion and media dates back to some of the earliest research on media effects. Münsterberg's (1916) film research, which distinguished among empathic sympathy for protagonists, audience projection of feelings onto film characters, and audience reactions to the protagonists' emotions, is seminal to research on media and empathy. Cantril and Allport's (1935) consideration of the psychology of radio and the emotional aspects of reception, emotional gratifications, and impacts of radio usage denotes some of the earliest inquiry into media selection and enjoyment research. Further, Hovland, Janis, and Kelley's (1953) seminal fear appeal research is at the foundation of the more current programs of media-based emotion and persuasion research. Despite the cognitive shift in the discipline of psychology during the 1960s and 1970s, investigation into emotion-related constructs in media research continued to develop, largely through the impressive efforts of Dolf Zillmann. Based on his three-factor theory of emotion, Zillmann laid out the foundation for several models of effects that continue to inspire research endeavors today (e.g., excitation transfer theory, Zillmann, 1983; and mood management theory, Zillmann, 1988), and his contributions in this domain cannot be understated (see Bryant, Roskos-Ewoldsen, & Cantor, 2003, for a festschrift in his honor). Through the 1980s and 1990s, as emotion became an increasingly ''hot topic'' in psychology, media researchers seemed to take greater interest in emotion-related constructs and effects. The extensive


The development of transmission networks and magnetic components for the L5 system represents the largest network development project of its type ever undertaken within the Bell System. Over 200 different coded designs of networks, requiring in excess of 40 man-years of effort, were required to meet the frequency-selective and signal-shaping requirements of the system. Despite this effort, neither systems requirements nor systems schedules could have been met without significant contributions from allied technologies. This article identifies those technologies and describes design techniques that have advanced the state-of-the-art capabilities in transmission network and magnetic component design.


Abstract Background: With the introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART), the mortality and morbidity of HIV/AIDS have decreased markedly. However, high adherence to ART (>95%) is necessary for a good therapeutic outcome. There is a paucity of data on paediatric adherence to ART and its correlates from developing countries, particularly India. Aim: To determine the rate of adherence to ART in HIV-infected Indian children and the factors associated with adherence. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at an ART clinic in New Delhi, north India. Caregivers of 90 children were interviewed using a pre-designed, structured questionnaire and checklist. The primary measure of adherence was 4-day caregiver's recall. Adherence rates were correlated with 3-monthly CD4 counts. Results: Mean (SD, range) adherence was 91·4% (12·3, 75–100%). Adherence was low (<95%) in 31 (34·4%) patients. On multivariate logistic regression analysis, increasing time since ART initiation (OR 1·08, 95% CI 1·02–1·13), low caregiver educational status (OR 4·19, 95% CI 1·37–10·88), orphanhood (OR 3·57, 95% CI 1·13–9·25), efavirenz-based ART regimens (OR 3·65, 95% CI 1·05–10·69) and female gender (OR 3·15, 95% CI 1·03–7·68) were associated with lower adherence. The rise in CD4 count after ART initiation was more marked in the high adherence group, with the difference in the two groups becoming statistically significant after 6 months of ART (median CD4 count 698 vs 355, p = 0·016). Conclusions: It is possible to achieve high adherence to ART in a resource-limited setting. Caregiver recall is a reliable and inexpensive tool for measuring adherence. Paediatric adherence to ART is influenced by numerous factors and larger studies are needed to address the issue in India.


The chapters included in the Handbook paint a picture of important advances in technologies that have resulted in fundamental changes in language teaching and learning. By focusing up close on the ...


It is intended first to reduce the amount of nitrogen oxide emission next to zero and reduce the amount of carbon monoxide emission to tolerance levels; second to realize energy saving by combustion at a low air ratio close to 1.0; and third to stably carry out the control of air ratio within the combustion region at a low air ratio. The method is characterized by including the combustion step of combusting a hydrocarbon-containing fuel by a burner to thereby produce a gas containing oxygen, nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide but not containing hydrocarbons; the hazardous substance reducing step of bringing the gas into contact with an oxidation catalyst to thereby attain oxidization by oxygen of carbon monoxide contained in the gas and reduction by carbon monoxide of nitrogen oxide contained therein; and the concentration ratio regulation step of regulating the concentration ratio of oxygen, nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide in the gas on the primary side of the oxidation catalyst to a given concentration ratio wherein on the secondary side of the oxidation catalyst the concentration of nitrogen oxide is substantially zero or a given value or below and the concentration of carbon monoxide is also substantially zero or a given value or below.


A series of shaking table tests was performed on several small-scaled models of an arch dam of 210 m in height using a suitable model material. The purpose of the tests was to assess the possible failure mechanisms of medium to high arch dams and its behaviors under strong earthquakes. The studies on the shape, position, occurrence conditions and influence factors of dynamic cracks in dam body have been conducted in combination with shaking model test and numerical analysis using an elastic damage constitutive model. The results of the numerical simulations indicate final failures of model dam calculated using the double lines damage model of residual strength are in agreement with the test results. The cracks normally appeared near the top of arch crown and one-quarter points of both sides


This study examines the validity of design formulas adopted from the yield line theory of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials load and resistance factor design (AATSHTO LRFD) specifications for precast concrete barriers with a potential longitudinal discontinuity and for barrier sections with a slope discontinuity. A full-scale static test was performed on newly-developed type of precast concrete barrier system. Protruded reinforcements and a mortar filling were used to combine the barrier and deck. Five specimens were fabricated with different test variables that simulate the cantilevered part of the deck and a series of precast barriers. Test levels and the corresponding loading patterns simulating a vehicle crash were adopted from AASHTO LRFD specifications. Findings show that the new precast concrete barrier system had an ultimate capacity equivalent to that of a conventional barrier. The longitudinal continuity of a series of precast barrier segments significantly affected the ultimate strength of the whole barrier system. The shapes of the yield liens obtained in the static test were different than those presented in the AASHTO specifications. An alternative failure mode and corresponding predictive equations of the strength based on actual yield lines were proposed. The proposed theories may be applicable to barriers with a tapered section with some points of slope discontinuity.


To explore and improve the educational evaluation system is an important task for the college English teaching reform based on modern information technology.The paper discusses the application of a new evaluation system focusing on formative evaluation to college English teaching in Shihezi University,and it holds that formative evaluation can help intensify English study and improve the comprehensive ability and autonomy learning.Meanwhile,this paper introduces a set of practical approaches in enforcing formative evaluation.


The CRAAP Test (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose), is a popular tool among academic librarians for instructing students in resource evaluation. Its applicability to web-based information makes it particularly useful for students as they think about information they encounter both inside and outside of scholastic settings. However, while students may be capable of explaining concepts like bias, authority, and scholarly publications, when it comes to questions of reliability they may have limited experience. For instance, students may have no trouble recognizing high quality resources, but still have difficulty identifying those characteristics that signify an unreliable or substandard resource. In an undergraduate science writing course, the CRAAP Test was introduced to students, who then used the test in a group activity to evaluate a resource that failed key aspects of the test. This activity engages students in how to critically evaluate resources and provides useful feedback for instructors on those evaluative concepts that remain unclear.


Based on the multi-body dynamics software MSC.ADAMS/Car,a vehicle dynamic model with anti-locked braking system braking subsystem is established.According to the basic principles of the vehicle stability control,the control system of electromc stability program(ESP) is designed by fuzzy control theory and proportion integral derivative control theory.In the MATLAB/Simulink environment,the joint simulation model of the ESP control system and the dynamics model are established.Simulation of vehicle handling stability test in a variety of extreme working conditions is finished.The result shows the designed ESP can effectively control the vehicle lateral acceleration and improve the vehicle handling stability significantly.


(racial hygiene; 57). It is small wonder that Chamberlain was one of Hitler's favourite 'philosophers'. The chapter also considers nationalistic views of specific groups, in particular Slavs (it should be remembered that post-1871 Germany included a significant Polish minority) and gypsies. The next chapter is devoted entirely to anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitic authors considered include the journalist Wilhelm Marr, who, using a topos found frequently in racist discourse, raised the spectre of the takeover of the homeland, in this case Germany, by outsiders, Jews, and the historian Heinrich von Treitschke, who at least conceded the positive role played by Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne in enhancing the German language. By contrast, others were concerned about the allegedly pernicious influence of the 'Jewish press'. In this chapter, too, Chamberlain looms large, with an additional chapter subjected to discourse analysis. Colonialism is the next topic, with nationalists lamenting that Britain had become the leading colonial power before colonies became a priority for German policy after the previously sceptical Bismarck's volte-face in the 1880s. In this chapter, Rash includes colonial fiction including Hans Osman's 1905 novel Buschklatsch (Bush gossip), in which the hero eschews the colonialist's temptation of 'going native'. Rash's analysis of the terms used about the 'natives' reveals such terms as 'degeneration' and 'obscene' (157). Britain also looms large in the final chapter onwartime discourse, with the English seen by Chamberlain as envious of German achievements. More generally, the English are seen as ruled by crude materialism, whereas Germans honour the more abstract virtues of 'duty' and 'loyalty'. In this chapter, Rash analyses the discourse strategies employed in essays by Chamberlain and the writer and traveller Paul Rohrbach, before looking at war poetry and film. Film was frequently used to encourage citizens to buy war loans, leading to the indebtedness that sparked post-war inflation. The chapter comes to a surprising conclusion: that, on the evidence of the matter studied, there is 'scant evidence of thewar euphoria that is reputed to have saturated populist discourse at the beginning of the First World War' (201). Even if the point that any enthusiasm quickly evaporated is accepted, it seems wrong not to refer to other evidence, for example the images of the cheering crowds, including a jubilant Hitler in Munich, on the basis of very limited evidence. This criticism invokes a possible weakness of this volume: its brevity, which only allows the use of limited examples. Clearly, it would be impossible to be exhaustive in any single work, but one can regret the omission of such important names as Heinrich von Kleist and Thomas Mann and, in relation to anti-Semitism, Gustav Freytag. Such omissions cannot unfortunately be checked in an index, as the author claims in her foreword 'that the interweaving of ideas, language and political discussion' (xii) militate against including one. It might be equally plausible to conclude the opposite. Nevertheless, it is this interweaving that is the hallmark of a book that should be of wide interest, not least for its generally excellent translations of original German texts.


This study presents a content analysis of Program Systems in the Educational Field Surrounding World for the third and fourth group in the kindergartens in order to study the topics related to the formation of social and civic skills of 5-7-year-old children. The emphasis is placed on the results obtained from the system and targeted implementation of the thematic area. Based on the data obtained, recommendations are offered on the need to update knowledge and to develop skills in intercultural development.


Uranium-bearing asphaltite nodules occur in marine carbonate-evaporite rocks of Late Permian age in the Rocky Arroyo area near Carlsbad, N. Mex. The probable geological formation of the asphaltites in the dolomites is discussed. The age of the nodules was calculated to be 203 plus or minus 20 x l06 years from the Pb/sup 207//U/sup 238/ ratio, 208 plus or minus 20 x l06 years from the Pb /U ratio, and 270 plus or minus 65 x l0/sup 6/ years from the Pb/sup 207//Pb/sup 206/ ratio. Possible causes of the age discrepancy were investigated. The fraction of dehydrogenated or crosslinked carbon in the asphaltites was estimated and correlated with possible radioinduced crosslinking. Radiation damage in the form of halos of thermoluminescent dolomite surrounding the nodules indicates that it was caused by beta particles, and uranium and actinium series daughters, except Th/sup 230/, were found to be impoverished in the nodules but enriched in the halos. The isotopic disequilibria are interpreted in terms of migration. (D.L.C.)


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CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT: FROM RESEARCH QUESTION TO IMPLEMENTATION S. Kurrle, 1. University of Sydney, Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia, 2. Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia The Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre (CDPC) is a partnership between aged care providers, consumers, clinicians and researchers. Its major focus is on implementation of current knowledge into practice, and also synthesis and dissemination, collaborative new research, and capacity building. Involving consumers (people with dementia and their carers) is integral to all aspects of the CDPC. The Consumer Dementia Research Network of Alzheimer's Australia was engaged as the main consumer representative from the beginning of the CDPC. During the initial stages, all research projects proposed for integration into the CDPC program of work were reviewed by the Consumer Network prior to taking them to a planning workshop with researchers and providers. Consumers have been involved in constructing research questions, in ensuring all activities are appropriately targeted, and have been involved in project steering committees. They have also been integral in preparing final reports and disseminating results to appropriate audiences.


This report sets out findings from a process and impact evaluation of the Challenge and Support (C&S) programme, designed to provide support to young people identified as having committed anti-social behaviour (ASB). The evaluation included interviews with local coordinators, analysis of management information, a questionnaire survey and case studies. Results indicated that in many areas, introduction and implementation of the C&S programme has promoted interagency working, individualised needs assessment, and effective population segmentation. Although the lack of robust data made generalisations with regard to impact inconclusive, results indicate that the C&S programme is likely to have had a positive impact in terms of reducing persistent anti-social behaviour and diverting young people out of the criminal justice system (CJS).


In order to alleviate the situation that bad money drives out good in the produce market within the context of incomplete information, as well as bridge the gap between demand and product surplus, establishing and improving the safety certification system for farm produce is an urgent need. This paper discusses factors that affect consumers' purchase of pork with safety certificates in the setting of incomplete information. Data from 844 consumers in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, along with a structural equation model, are adopted to study consumers' purchase intention of certified safe pork form. According to our studies, major factors refer to degree of understanding, degree of concern, recognition ability, government publicity, pork's origin information, consumers' educational levels, income levels, and consumers' evaluation of government supervision. Accordingly, suggestions are provided as follows. Above all, enhancing education and training of food safety is conducive to lead consumers' behaviors in a correct way. Next, news media and social public opinions can play a stronger role in guidance and supervision. Thirdly, an upgraded legal system should be accompanied by better policy implementation. Finally, strengthening the origin certification system and promoting a sense of brand are of significance.


We present here a new-fashioned audio processor directed to perform harmonic distribution manipulation. It's a tool that operates over timbre, being sensitive to pitch context. The process is based on a wavelet-based filter-bank that is dynamically tuned to the note's fundamental pitch. As a single entry process it acts as harmonic equalizer while with two entries it works as harmonic controller.


It is essential to directly investigate the self-couplings of gauge bosons in the Standard Model (SM) due to its non-Abelian nature, as these couplings play a significant role in comprehending the gauge structure of the model. The discrepancies between the Standard Model's expectations and the measured value of gauge boson self-couplings would serve as strong evidence towards the existence of new physics phenomena that extend beyond the Standard Model. Such deviations could provide valuable insights into the nature of new physics and potentially lead to a deeper understanding of fundamental particles and their interactions. In this study, we examine the sensitivities of anomalous couplings associated with dimension-8 operators that affect the $\gamma \gamma \gamma \gamma$ and $Z \gamma \gamma \gamma$ quartic vertices. The study focuses on the process $e^- \gamma \to e^-\gamma\gamma$ with the incoming photon under Weizs\"acker-Williams approximation at the stage-3 scenerio of Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) that is refer to a CoM energy of 3 TeV. Due to the CLIC options, we take into account the both unpolarized and $\mp80\%$ polarized electron beam with the related integrated luminosities of ${\cal L}=5, 4, 1$ $\rm ab^{-1}$ under the systematic uncertainties of $\delta_{sys}=0, 3, 5$. Obtained sensitivities on the anomalous quartic gauge couplings (aQGCs) for the process $e^- \gamma \to e^-\gamma\gamma$ at $\sqrt{s}= 3$ TeV and various polarizations, are improved by a factor of 2-200 times better for the couplings $f_{T,j}/\Lambda^4$ compared with the experimental results.


[Objective] To evaluate the primary clinical results of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) for surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence. [Methods] The outcome of 21 TVT procedures for women with genuine stress urinary incontinence (n =18) and mixed urinary incontinence (n =3) were retrospectively amalyzeel since May 2003. [Results] Mean operation time was 45 minutes (range 30~85) , mean postoperative stay duration was 2.5 days (range 1~9) . 85.71 % of the women with genuine stress incontinence were cured and another 14.29 % significantly improved. [Conclusions] From the present study we can consider thetension 2 free vaginal tape operation to be a safe and effective surgical procedure for the treatment of female urinary stressincontinence.


A field experiment was conducted during rainy reason of 2018 to rectify stable and high yielding rice varieties at moisture stress condition at Lamjung, Nepal. 13 rice genotypes were evaluated at randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. About 5 cm stagnant water was maintain in irrigated field until one month before harvesting whereas in rainfed field no extra irrigation was provided and drainage of excess rainfall water. Drought indices such as tolerance index (TOL), stress susceptibility index (SSI), yield stability index (YSI), Stress tolerance index (STI), mean productivity index (MP), geometric mean productivity index (GM) were computed. Results showed significantly different for all drought indices Average yield reduction was 27% . Ys was positive and significant association with Yp.  The MP, GM and STI were positive correlation with grain yield under both environments whereas SSI and YSI was negative non-significant association with both stress and normal condition yield. In principle component analysis (PCA) two component explained more than 99% variation. Combined analysis showed that Radha 11, Radha 13, DRR 44, NR 119, Sukhadhan 5 and Ghaiya 2 were top performer in stress condition whereas NR 119 reported the lowest yield reduction in stress condition. Sawa Mansuli Sub-1 most susceptible under stress condition exhibiting 54 % yield reduction in stress condition. Manabahu was stable but lower yielding varieties.


This fascinating, infuriating, and unforgettable book is very old-fashioned. It is a pleasure to read, to begin with the quiet force of Christopher Newfield s stringent prose may well create an audience for the book which reaches beyond its core constituency in academe. It contains a lengthy and learned defense of humanism which acknowledges but neutralizes contemporary theoretical axioms in literature and history, not to mention the cross-disciplinary suburbs that now thrive on their outskirts. It provides a concise history of higher education in the United States which shows that the ivory tower never got off the ground because the old college of the nineteenth century and the new university of the twentieth century never wanted exemption from the imperatives of economic growth or the ambiguities of business ethics. And instead of assuming that academic intellectuals have no purchase on the political future unfolding outside the university instead of scolding professors for their self-imposed exile from the "real world" it locates a principle of hope in their social position and cultural inheritance. Everyone employed, incensed, confused, or enrolled by the institutional matrix we call "the university" should read this book. The old college was the mirror image of the small "business proprietorships" that dominated resource allocation until the late nineteenth century (23). The new university, with its many divisions, schools, programs, and departments, emerged as the educational adjunct of the corporate reconstruction of American capitalism. But it was never merely the primary source of the servants of power, even though, like its antecedents, it has always remained dependent on private-sector funding. For the new university accepted the old college s commitment to free markets and economic growth, but it meanwhile renovated the old colleges ideal of self-development by defining the humanities as the pilot disciplines, the central places, of higher education as such (21-40, 56-64).


On heating the tetraethylammonium salt of [IrCl 6 ] 2#75 with trifluoroacetic acid the edge sharing bioctahedral anion [Ir 2 Cl 10 ] 2#75 is formed, the IR and Raman spectra of which are assigned according to point group D 2h .