AIM: To study pharmacokinetics of loxoprofen tablets in healthy volunteers by a new RP HPLC method. METHODS: The separation was performed on Hypersil ODS(200 mm×4.0 mmID,5 μm)column and the mobile phase system consisting of acetonitrile, tetrahydrofuran and 0.02 mol·L -1 phosphate buffer (pH2.5) with the ratio of 30∶4∶66 and that was suitable for the biosample assay of loxoprofen tablets. The detection wavelength was 222 nm. Ten healthy volunteers were given orally with a single dose of 60 mg loxoprofen tablets and the plasma concentrations of loxoprofen were handled with 3P87 program and the theory of statistical moment. RESULTS: Loxoprofen peaks in plasma samples were not interfered under the optimal chromatographic conditions and the good linearity was obtained between the peak areas of loxoprofen and the concentrations of loxoprofen in plasma samples. The main pharmacokinetic parameters were as follows: T max was (0.6±0.3) h, C max was (3.9±1.1) mg·L -1 , T 1/2 was (2.0± 0.4 ) h, MRT was (2.0± 0.3 ) h, AUC 0~∞ was (7.1±1.3) mg·h·L -1 ,respectively. CONCLUSION: This RP HPLC method is simple, quick, accurate, reliable,and suitable for the pharmacokinetic study of loxoprofen tablets.


THE second season of excavation, again confined to the Workmen's Village, extended between 24 February and 10 April. The team comprised Barry J. Kemp as director, and Michael Jones, Susan Allen, Josephine Goode, Christopher Hulin, Mark Lehner, Patricia Lynch, and Angela Milward. Professor J. J. Janssen joined the expedition for two weeks, and contributed a preliminary study of the hieratic jar labels found. The Antiquities Department was represented by Gamal Mustafa Amin as Inspector, who eased the many local problems of organization and greatly helped the expedition to pursue an uninterrupted programme of work. A great expression of gratitude is also due to the Higher Committee of the Antiquities Department for granting an excavating permit, and in particular to Dr Shehata Adam, Dr 'Abd el-Kader Selim, Dr 'Ali el-Khouli, and Mr Mutawwa Balbush in Cairo, and to Mahmoud Hamza and Samir Anis at El-Minya and Mallawi. Except for a short period of mapping of surface features on the desert to the south of site XI excavated last year,' the work of the 1980 season was confined within the grid of 5-m squares immediately to the south of the walled village (see fig. I and pl. II, I). This was in direct continuation of excavation begun last season. The picture that is emerging is a relatively complicated one for the site as previously understood, indeed, for EVAmarna as a whole. This naturally has an effect on the pace of the work. In particular, the considerable and unexpected depth of archaeological deposit in certain places (up to 3 m) has greatly slowed down progress in clearing individual squares to bedrock. On the other hand, we have shown that the disturbed and unpromising surface appearance of the extra-mural area hides a zone of considerable interest, where structures and stratigraphy seem to be usefully preserved. The Workmen's Village as hitherto known is just a part of a more complex whole, both spatially and chronologically. It cannot be properly understood in isolation, without taking full account of what else lies around it. This can only be achieved by a good deal of further excavation. Furthermore, the small scale and close juxtaposition of individual features demands excavation and recording with care and precision. The system developed last year was, with some refinements, used throughout this season, and fully justified itself, whilst suggesting further scope for improvement in the future. A part of last season's work, it will be recalled, lay in a group of squares adjacent to the south-east corner of the Walled Village. The principal discovery was the front of a chapel, numbered 450, belonging probably to a row lower down the slope of the hill


If drugs that must be restricted in their concomitant use with a new investigational drug are not accurately chosen, then both the ethical and scientific objectives can not be sufficiently achieved in clinical trials of new drugs. We compared the differences between the drug selections made sponsor and by a hospital pharmacist for all drugs (2, 093 drugs) adopted by Osaka Medical College Hospital.Accurate selections were made in 215.82±130.21 instances of drug use by the hospital pharmacist, but only in 151.77±105.45 instances of drug use by the sponsor. The number of accurate selections by the hospital pharmacists was significantly lager than that of sponsor (P<0.05). Furthermore, the hospital pharmacist selected drugs that were unnecessary in the protocol in only 1.91±8.95 instances of drug use, while the sponsor did so in 5.59±7.97 articles. The number of unnecessary selections by the hospital pharmacists was therefore significantly smaller than that of the sponsor (P<0.01).These results demonstrate that the ability of hospital pharmacists appears to be superior to that of the sponsor in selecting drugs which have certain restrictions. These findings thus indicate that hospital pharmacists possess sufficient drug information regarding the pharmacological action, drug interaction and pharmacodynamics of most drugs.We therefore maintain that hospital pharmacists should thus play an important role in drafting the protocol of clinical trials for new drugs. If hospital pharmacists are involved, then such clinical trials will be both more effective and more accurate.


As a main measure to help the unemployed, the labor dispatch is developed rapidly with the impetus of the government. But the high profit of the labor dispatch agency and the low cost of employment infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of the labor. Under China' s existing conditions, the legal system of labor dispatch shall be established by learning from the experiences from foreign countries.


Learning low dimensional representations of text corpora is critical in many content analysis and data mining applications. It is even more desired and challenging to learn a sparse representation in practice for large scale text modeling. However, traditional probabilistic topic models (PTM) lack a mechanism to directly control the posterior sparsity of the inferred representations; While the emerged non-probabilistic models (NPM) can explicitly control sparsity using sparse constraint like l_1 norm, they convey different limitations in latent representations. To address the existing problems, we propose a novel non-probabilistic topic model for discovering sparse latent representations of large text corpora, referred as group sparse topical coding (GSTC). Our model enjoys both the merits of the PTMs and NPMs. On one hand, GSTC can naturally derive document-level admixture proportions in topic simplex like PTMs, which is useful for semantic analysis, classification or retrieval. On the other hand, GSTC can directly control the sparsity of the inferred representations with group lasso by relaxing the normalization constraint. Moreover, the relaxed non-probabilistic GSTC can be effectively learned using coordinate descent method. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that GSTC can discover meaningful compact latent representations of documents, and improve the document classification accuracy and time efficiency.


Objective To investigate genetic susceptibility of primary dysmennorrhea. Methods This study collected data of 499 female workers in textile mill. The association of PON1 and PON2 polymorphisms with primary dysmennorrhea were evaluated by logistic regression analysis with adjustment for potential confounders. Results PON1 Arg192 Gln/Gln192 Gln genotypes had significantly increased risk of dysmennorrhea, while PON2 Ala148 Ala genotype slightly increased risk of dysmennorrhea, but it was not statistically significant, (PON1: OR=1.91, 95% CI 1.33~2.75; PON2: OR=1.33, 95% CI 0 84~2.11). After adjusted potential confounders, PON1 Arg192 Gln/Gln192 Gln genotypes had significantly increased risk of dysmennorrhea yet, and PON2 genotypes showed increased risk of dysmennorrhea, but it was still not statistically significant(PON1: OR=2.01, 95% CI 1.36~2.96; PON2: OR=1.31, 95% CI 0.80~2.13). Analysis of interaction between PON1 and PON2, if PON1 Arg192 Gln and Gln192 Gln PON2 Ala148 Ala existed at the same time, they had significantly increased risk of dysmennorrhea(OR=1.86, 95% CI 1.07~3.23), but this was affected by PON1. Condusions Variation in PON1 is significantly associated with primary dysmennorrhea.


This paper will study the consumption of biogas in the world and study the advantages and disadvantages of biogas. Biogas typically refers to a mixture of different gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Biogas can be produced from the raw materials such as plant material, municipal waste, agricultural waste, manure, sewage, green waste or food waste.


This paper presents the research history and recent advances in study on Pteridophytes of Guangxi.Some problems and future orientation of the research are pointed out in this review.


SYNOPSIS: This paper presents a case study on the collapse accident of a temporary earth support structure. The ex8111nation of the design plans and investigations of the construction site where the accident occurred bas been carried out to throw light on the accident situations. Some causes of the accident occurrence which have been derived from these ex8llinat1ons and counter11easures for J'!'evention of these types of accidents are discussed.


A field examination on the chloroquine sensitivity of Plasmodiumfalciparum in acute infections was carried out in the Iwahig Penal Colony of Palawan Island, the Philippines, during the periods of September, 1971, to January, 1972, and of January to February, 1973. The standard chloroquine dosage to subject patients was 25 mg base/kg body-weight over 3 days and the follow-up examination for the parasites was made for 17 days (Day 0 to Day 16) on the subjects who were kept admitted in the medical units established in the survey area. Results obtained were as follows: (1) The recru- descence of asexual parasites was found in 44 (RI in 40, RII in 4) of 90 subjects examined (48.9%). Five RI recrudescences were additionally detected among 18 subjects who were examined during the shortened follow-up period. (2) To the 44 recru- descing patients, 35 mg chloroquine base/kg over 3 days was administered and 6 (RI in 5, RII in 1) of them exhibited recrudescence again, (3) In relation to the RI recrudes- cence cases to the standard dosage of chloroquine, the detection of the earliest recrudes- cence was done on Day 6 and the number of the detection of recrudescences on each day thereafter tended to increase as days passed until the end of the follow-up period. (4) In the number of days until the initial clearance of asexual parasitaemia from the begin- ning day of chloroquine administration, no significant difference was found between two groups of the RI recrudescence cases and the cured cases. (5) From the results obtained, it could be concluded that the falciparum strains resistant to chloroquine had distributed in the area of the Iwahig Penal Colony.


Objective
To explore the value of serum epididymal protein 4(HE4)and carbohydrate antigen 125(CA125)for the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with ovarian cancer.

Methods
Two hundred patients with pelvic mass were enrolled in this study from January 2016 to January 2017 in the department of gynecology, hospital of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular of Ningxia medical university general hospital.Patients were randomly divided into 3 groups.In the ovarian cancer group, Eighty patients including 22 patients in stage I, 17 patients in stage Ⅱ, 23 patients in stage Ⅲ, 18 patients in stage Ⅳ, were recruited.Eighty patients with benign ovarian disease, including 20 patients with ovarian cyst, 16 patient with ovarian fibroma, 21 patients with chocolate cyst, and 23 patient with serous cystadenoma, were recruited.The serum HE4 and CA125 levels were detected by using Abbott i2000 SR automatic chemiluminescence immunoassay.The patients were followed up.

Results
The levels of CA125 and HE4 in ovarian cancer group is(651.4±346.6)U/mL and(530.7±208.4)pmol/L, the levels of CA125 and HE4 in ovarian benign disease group were(204.6±147.8)U/mL and(189.3±116.4)pmol/L, and the levels of CA125 and HE4 in the controled group were(30.8±11.4)U/mL and(68.8±24.6)pmol/L.The levels of CA125 and HE4 both showed a tendency to reduce.There are statistical differences among every two 2 groups(P<0.05). The optimal cut-off values were got according to ROC curve analysis, the optimal cut-off value of HE4 was 80 pM, and the optimal cut-off value of CA 125 was 45 U/mL.The specificity and positive predictive value in combined detection of HE4 and CA125 were significantly higher than that of HE4 or CA125 alone.To premenopausal women with ovarian cancer, there was no significant difference in the sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value and positive predictive value, while to postmenopausal women with ovarian cancer, the sensitivity and negative predictive value of CA125 were significantly higher than that of HE4.Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that the median PFS was 14.5 months (95% CI: 12.4~19.4 months) and the median OS was 11.3 months (95% CI: 42.1~49.6 months). The mean follow-up duration for the study was 36 months.On international federation of gynecology and obstetrics (FIGO)stage III or IV, the residual tumor was bigger that 1.5 and the mean values of CA125 and HE4 were higher, which were closely correlated with the progression free survival (PFS)of patients.Meanwhile, the mean values of tissue type non-serous and HE4 were higher which were closely related to patients'OS.

Conclusion
The combined detections of HE4 and CA125 may improve the specificity in diagnosing ovarian cancer which was significant for early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.The values of CA125 and HE4 were higher than the means related to PFS.The value of HE4 was higher than that the mean correlated with the overall survival (OS) of patients.

Key words:
Epididymal protein 4; Carbohydrate antigen 125; Ovarian


We report here measurements of the 55Mn spin‐lattice relaxation time as a function of temperature and external magnetic field in manganese‐iron spinels; and a comparison of the experimental results with current relaxation theories. The results offer evidence for nuclear relaxation via coupling of the nuclear spins to low‐frequency fluctuations in the electronic spin system resulting from the presence of impurities, as proposed by de Gennes and Hartmann‐Boutron. The field dependence of T1 indicates that relaxation due to frequency‐pulling effects gives a negligible contribution to the total relaxation rate in comparison with the above mechanism even at the lowest temperature studied. This conclusion is in direct contradiction with the theory based on the classical electron‐nuclear equations of motion. A more detailed calculation taking explicit account of the existence of a well‐defined nuclear spin‐wave spectrum in this temperature range shows that frequency‐pulling effects are indeed negligible. The resu...


Abstract Consumer's definitions of energy could serve as a basis for structure/function claims. Therefore, this research explored consumer's descriptions of mental and physical energy by obtaining their responses to 2 ways to characterize energy: (1) peaks and valleys and (2) gold standard (accomplished all you want to) and off days. Seven focus groups were conducted in Bethesda, MD, and Denver, CO (Summer 2001): women 25-55 yr (2 groups), men 25-55 yr (2 groups) and men and women 56-75 yr (3 groups) (N = 65). Terms used from peak and valley descriptions were extracted from the taped interviews, and the top 5 terms used to characterize gold standard and off-days were circled on a sheet of paper. Descriptive statistics were conducted on all measurements. Terms were categorized to allow comparisons among groups. The top categories used to describe energy peaks (aided) were happiness (24), energy (17), high performance (15) and mental alertness (11) compared to the top aided categories for gold standard days, which were happiness (108), energy (72), mental alertness (43) and calmness (4). The top categories for energy valleys were unhappiness (19), lack of energy (19), calmness (10) and nonsociaibility (6), compared to lack of energy (119), unhappiness (62), anger (36) and low performance (30) for off-days. Many participants believe mental and physical energy are connected whereas a few say physical energy creates mental energy. These results can be used as the basis for further research to develop a valid, reliable method for substantiating mental and physical energy claims.


Based on the fact that the model reference adaptive speed identification method has identification with high precision, but its mathematical model is very complex, and it has to match high-speed controller in real-time control, an observation on the rotor flux of the induct machine direct torque control was presented, and the mathematics model of the rotor flux and flux slip was built to estimate the motor speed. The simulation results show that the low speed observation accuracy can be improved using this method, and robust characteristic of the system is enhanced when motor parameter changes.


In the both of East and West, one would find the history of health and illness is long, divided into two sections, a physiology section and a psychology section. The physiology section is based on blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm as suggested by Hippocrates, while the psychology section is based on mood and divided into four temperaments or constitutions: sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic, as suggested by the Greek physician Galen and said to be closer to the stable-extrovert, neurotic-extrovert, stable-introvert, and neurotic introvert temperaments, respectively [1, 2, 3]. On the other hand, there is also a section on traditional medicine, such as Ayurveda, Tibetan medicine, and traditional Chinese constitution medicine together with Korean Sasang typology; furthermore, the first section has been a major concern for them [4]. Researchers have developed effective medical methods based on unique diagnosis, treatment, prevention and physiological pathology of their clinical application, taking into account the ABSTRACT Asian J Kinesiol 2018; 20(3):37-44· DOI: https://doi.org/10.15758/ajk.2018.20.3.37


An efficient and highly stereoselective synthesis of stagonolide E (1) starting from the readily available hexane-1,6-diol (8) was accomplished, employing MacMillan α-hydroxylation, Horner WadsworthEmmons olefination, (Z)-selective StillGennari olefination, and Yamaguchi lactonization as key steps.


This paper presents an NMOS pseudo-digital low-dropout (PD-LDO) regulator that supports low-voltage operation by eliminating the amplifier of an analog LDO. The proposed pseudo-digital control loop consists of a latched comparator, a 2X charge pump and a RC network. It detects the output voltage and provides a continuous gate control signal for the power transistor by charging and discharging the RC network. Fast transient response is achieved due to the source follower structure of the power NMOS, with a small output capacitor and small occupied chip area and without consuming large quiescent current. The proof-of-concept design of the proposed PD-LDO is implemented in a 0.18-J.1m CMOS process. The minimum supply voltage is 0.7 V, with a dropout voltage of 100 mV and a maximum load current of 100 mA. Using only 20 pF of on-chip output capacitor and 10 MHz comparator clock frequency, the undershoot is 106 mV with 90 mA load current step and 150 ns edge time. The quiescent current is only 6.3 μA and the active chip area is 0.08 mm2.


A study was carried out to determine groundwater contamination levels on waste disposal sites of Ibadan city center in Nigeria. The surface areas of the sites vary between 23.5ha to 3.5acres. The field investigation included surface geological, hydrogeochemical and geochemical studies on the study area. Water samples were collected at 18 points. Three observation wells were dug in front of the open waste disposal site. Soil samples from these observation wells were collected at 15, 35 and 75 cm depths, and some heavy metals were analyzed. The results obtained show that concentrations of lead, copper and zinc in soil at the depth of 150 cm decreased with distance from the waste disposal site. The closest well to the waste site showed higher contamination than the control sites. Strictly speaking, use of groundwater drawn from wells located in proximity of the waste dumping sites should be avoided. If precautions are not taken, these contaminants may well spread with groundwater and pollute other soil resources used for agriculture in Ibadan.


The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology is another in a series of volumes devoted to the history of archaeology that have appeared in recent time. Paul Bahn, the editor of the volume, has broken down his coverage of the history of worldwide archaeology into the following arrangement 'The Archaeology of Archaeology", "Old Worlds and New, 1500-1760", "Antiquarians and Explorers, 1760-1820", "Science and Romanticism, 1820-1860", "The Search for Human Origins, 1860-1920", "Archaeology Comes of Age, 1920-1960", "New Techniques and Competing Philosophies, 1960-1990",and "Current Controversies and Future Trends". Bahn's volume explores many of the major developments in archaeological practice from both in the classical world and was as from the practice of archaeology in the Americas. The volume even gives the reader a glimpse into the origins and growth of archaeology in New Zealand. Of particular interest is coverage of the history of early archaeological efforts having to do with early studies of human origins.


Abstract A new species of the genus Dugesia is described from the Lake Ohrid region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, forming the first fully documented species description for this genus in the Ohrid area. The morphological species delimitation is supported by complementary molecular, karyological, and cytogenetic data available from the literature. Therefore, species delineation is based on a truly integrative approach. Further, a short account on the degree of freshwater planarian endemicity in the Ohrid region is provided.


Presenters at APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo this fall may be using a new design for their posters, and they have a Michigan State University student to thank.


In this article, we propose a general downside risk measure based on high-frequency downward moves below minimum acceptable target in asset prices. We derive the central limit theorem of this measure, and Monte Carlo simulation experiments support our theoretical results. We also investigate the distributional properties of this measure in China's stock market. The theoretical and empirical works on realized downside risk measure shed light on the potential of this measure in measuring and modeling financial risk.


The injection of jets normal to a crossflow is a key technology for the development of an advanced low NOx gas turbine based on a Rich-Burn/Quick-Quench/Lean-Burn (RQL) combustor. The RQL combustor depends on an efficient quick mix section that rapidly and uniformly dilutes the rich zone products to minimize emissions. Therefore, an experimental investigation of a non-reacting mixing process of jets in a crossflow was conducted. The jets were perpendicularly injected through one stage of opposed rows of circular orifices into a slightly heated crossflow within a rectangular duct. All geometries were tested with staggered arrangements of the centerlines of the opposed jets. The temperature distribution was measured and from that the mixing rate was determined for parametric variations of flow and geometric conditions. In accordance with the application to RQL-combustion, emphasis was put on high momentum flux ratios with high massflow addition. The experimental study provides the data base for a correlation of best mixing depending on geometric conditions for staggered mixing configurations. The correlation presented specifies the optimum momentum flux ratio as a function of the duct height to hole diameter ratio and the relative spacing of the injected jets.Copyright © 1996 by ASME


Abstract After massive proliferation over the last decade, distribution modelling (DM) – research with the purpose of modelling the distribution of observable objects of a specific type – has grown into an independent branch of ecological science. There is consensus that this new discipline needs a stronger theoretical foundation. I describe DM as an inductive scientific process with 12 steps, organised into three composite steps: ecological model, data model, and statistical model. Step 8, modelling of the overall ecological response, places DM unambiguously among gradient analysis techniques and motivates for a gradient analytic (GA) perspective on DM. DM terminology is reviewed and revised accordingly. Three fundamental insights of the GA perspective are described: (1) that external 'factors' do not influence the species one by one, but act on the species in concert; (2) that a few major complex-gradients normally account for most of the variation in species composition that can be explained environmentally; and (3) that species occur within a restricted interval along each major complex-gradient. These insights are developed into a theoretical platform for DM. General patterns of species performance variation along environmental complex-gradients and the structuring processes responsible for these patterns are reviewed. Three categories of ecoclines, i.e., gradients of variation in species composition and the environment, are recognised: regional ecoclines, local ecoclines, and condition or impact ecoclines. Causes and implications of the unimodal shape of species' responses to environmental complex-gradients are reviewed. Structuring processes are divided into three categories: limited physiological tolerance, interspecific interactions, and demographic processes. Relationships between categories of ecoclines, the processes responsible for variation in species performance along them, and the spatial and temporal scale intervals in which variation is large, are reviewed. The GA perspective forms the basis for discussions of important steps in the DM process. Initially, the controversial concepts of the habitat and the niche are reviewed and their role in the ecological model (Step 1) discussed. I conclude that neither of these concepts are necessary, nor useful, for DM. As an alternative to conceptual models based upon the niche concept, I propose a new conceptual modelling framework for DM, the HED framework, which is rooted in the gradient analytic perspective. I show how this new framework can be used, in initial phases of a DM study to formulate a meta-model for factors that influence distributions, and in the analytic phase to guide important choices of methods and options and to assist interpretation of modelling results. Important data model issues are: collection of data for the modelled target and preparation of raw response variables (Steps 2 and 6); collection of explanatory data (Step 3); conceptualisation of the study area (Step 4); collection of data for calibration and evaluation (Step 9); and transformation of explanatory variables to derived variables subjected to DM (Step 5,ii). Important statistical model issues are: statistical model formulation, i.e. choice of method (Step 7,i) and model specification (Step 7,ii); model selection and internal assessment of model performance (Steps 8,i and 8,ii); and model evaluation (Step 10). Two points are emphasised: (1) that modelling purpose should inform choice of methods and options; and (2) the importance of an independently collected presence/absence data set, which can be used to calibrate, evaluate and iteratively improve models. Finally I list seven challenges of particular importance for progress in DM: (1) that more knowledge of patterns of natural variation is needed; (2) that a better mechanistic understanding of causes of patterns of natural variation is needed; (3) that the availability of relevant rasterised explanatory variables needs to be improved; (4) that more studies of patterns at local and micro spatial scales, in addition to multiple-scale studies using DM methods, are needed; (5) that evaluation by independent data should be established as a standard in DM; (6) that further insights into statistical modelling methods and their options, with particular reference to appropriateness for different types of data and DM purposes, are needed; and (7) that DM methods should be incorporated in studies with a broader scope. I conclude that there are considerable potentials for improvement of DM methods and practice. Increased return from DM in terms of contributions that improve our understanding of patterns of natural variation and their causes, should be expected.


Ferrohydrodynamic pumping of a ferrofluid through a planar duct by means of a running magnetic wave is studied to second order in the amplitude of the exciting current density. The theory for electrohydrodynamic pumping of a polar liquid by means of a running electric wave is shown to be nearly identical. For the given fluid parameters, the net flow rate can be optimized by suitable choice of wavenumber and frequency of the running wave.


Abstract : Operation ICEBERG, the campaign for the Ryukyus and the Keramas, was the largest naval campaign conducted in the Pacific theater during World War II. ICEBERG was one of five major amphibious operations that collectively represent the evolution of amphibious doctrine over the course of the war. Guadalcanal (8-9 August 1942), Tarawa (20 November 1943), Leyte Gulf (24 October 1944), and Iwo Jima (19 February 1945), as precursors to the Ryukyus Campaign, are remembered as the major milestones enroute to final victory. (Arguably, the less studied Bougainville operation (1 November 1943) may be inserted into this sequence based on demonstrated advancements in the application of combined arms and logistics.), Focused on the largest of the Ryukyus (Okinawa), Operation ICEBERG was the final episode in the four-year long advance across the Pacific. The Ryukyus Campaign warrants continuing study for a number of reasons. Foremost, ICEBERG was a joint air, land, and sea campaign of unprecedented size and scope. Moreover, ICEBERG was the product of a continuous assessment of both strategic and operational variables, resulting in the fusion of resources previously dedicated to several subordinate campaigns. It is therefore an ideal model of campaign design. Of particular interest to students of operational art, ICEBERG provides the opportunity to examine a formidable and determined opponent's decision-making at both the operational and operational-tactical levels. Further, this campaign superbly illustrates the concept of operational vision as exercised by both U.S. and Japanese commanders and their respective staffs.


Textile and clothing industry in the EU is, since the beginning of 2005, facing a free competition world. In the past decades has been widely protected. However after the Marrakesh Agreement of 1994 the final stage of liberalization begun and came to an end at the end of 2004. In these years Chinese industry has grown preparing itself for competing in the free international market. The same we cannot say of the EU industry that has missed to implement major adjustments and changes. For this very reason the industry is facing increasing difficulties to face the fierce competition of China's production. In the first half of 2005 there have been strong possibilities for a trade war between EU and China. The solution has been found in the Agreement signed by the two parties on June 10, 2005.


In order to design high performance magnetorheological (MR) devices, an accurate force/torque estimation for MR devices is greatly significant. This work presents a method for torque estimation with consideration of centrifugal effect (CE) for disc-type MR devices. A modified magnetorheological fluid (MRF) constitutive model is proposed to introduce the radial stress for analyzing the CE. With the modified constitutive model, the radial dynamics about CE is considered in the MRF governing equations. Comparing to the traditional MRF flow description, which only includes the circumferential dynamics, the new flow equations is extended to consider both circumferential and radial dynamics by integrating the radial equilibrium and circumferential equilibrium. Then, an extra boundary condition for radial stress is assumed to solve the equations based on the analysis of CE. The torque is obtained by integrating the circumferential stress acted on the rotor surface, which is determined by the flow governing equations. To analyze the applicability of the torque estimation method, a critical velocity is defined for analyzing the conditions of centrifugal movement occurring. Several cases are calculated to verify the accuracy of torque estimation. Also, the influences factors are discussed in torque estimation considering CE. The results show that the proposed torque estimation method is demonstrated to have a higher accuracy compared with the traditional torque estimation. It is up to 50% of the maximum relative error between the torque with and without considering CE, which indicates the necessity to consider the CE into torque estimation for disc-type MR devices. And, it shows that the influence of CE could be reduced by decreasing MRF velocity and increasing yield stress in the design of MR devices.


INTRODUCTION: Experimental and clinical studies have shown that the mechanical stability of internal fixation for a disrupted pelvic ring is far superior to that of external fixation. However, external fixation is preferred in the acute setting due to its relative ease and speed of application. Complications associated with external fixation are numerous, including pin site infection, loosening, and frame bulkiness, hindering nursing care and interfering with general surgery procedures. An innovative technique using available spinal implants and principles of pelvic external fixation has been developed (Fig 1). The device uses the same techniques as supra-acetabular external fixation pin placement; however, the pedicle screws are fixed under the skin, and attached to a bendable rod which is tunneled subcutaneously. This device would combine the benefit of rapid placement with having the construct entirely under the skin, thus avoiding many of the complications associated with external fixation.


This is an ambitious paper. It documents a novel set of facts about the nature of labor market expansions during the last 15–20 years in the United States, and it develops a significant extension to the Burdett andMortensen (1998) model to explain them. I am not going to quibble with the facts. Moscarini and Postel‐Vinay are correctly cautious in noting that most of their data cover only two recessions, in 1991 and 2001. Both events were mild by historical standards, and the comovement of labor market variables, for example, unemployment and hours, and other economic outcomes, notably labor productivity, was unusual by historical standards. Unfortunately, there is little to do about this exceptwait until the economy generates more data and possibly look for data from other countries. I instead focus this discussion on the authors' theoretical explanation for these facts. I start by explaining the mechanics of their model, the forces driving the firm size distribution and the amount of job‐to‐job transitions. The main point of this part of my discussion is that one can understand the mechanics without studying firm optimization, which hopefully clarifies how the model works. I then turn to wage determination. While Moscarini and Postel‐Vinay assume that firms have the ability to fully commit to a path of wages, they also implicitly assume that following an aggregate shock, firms can reoptimize. Since the solution to the firm's problem is time inconsistent, I discuss whether reoptimization, rather than the shock, drives the transitional dynamics of wages in the model. Finally, I offer an alternative model of wage determination that both avoids this time inconsistency issue and improves the model's performance along other dimensions.


Based on studying of the working principle of rocker-pin chain Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), the profile of rocker pin was improved from arcs into a combination of involute and cardioid which has better transmission performance. The notion of equivalent teeth number was brought up, and then the equivalent teeth numbers of the driving and driven pulleys were calculated under different transmission ratios. The variable pitch characteristic of new rocker-pin chain was studied and the harmonious relationship between transmission ratio, pitch increment and chain link rotation angle was analyzed. Based on the force analyzing of each component of CVT, transmission efficiency of the CVT was studied and the discipline of transmission efficiency changing with the variation of friction wedge angle was analyzed. The calculation results show that the new design method not only realize the variable pitch characteristic, but also improve the transmission efficiency of new rocker-pin chain CVT effectively.


The present invention provides a method and apparatus for pre-loading based on real-time embedded Java virtual machine. The method comprising: modifying a class loader java class file list is provided according to the class of the loading method for loading the class; modify a virtual machine kernel jni class, provided for loading method call the desired application preloaded all pre-class class loading method; obtaining class contains the list of all classes required for an application; method according to the pre-loading based, pre-loaded in accordance with the class list of all classes required by the application. Based on real-time embedded Java virtual machine class pre-loading method and apparatus of the present invention provides a timing jitter can be avoided and the limited resources of the embedded system defects, to achieve the pre-embedded real-time classes of a Java virtual machine loads.


The purpose of this research is to examine and analyze corporate social responsibility affect the firm value with profitability as a moderating variable. Sample of this study is Mining, Cement, and Chemical Company in Indonesia registered in Indonesia Stock Exchange which published that financial report or annual report in 2014-2016. The technique of data analysis in this study is use regression analysis and moderated regression analysis with using all company samples. The results of this study explain that the disclosure of corporate social responsibility does not affect the firm value and profitability there is no relationship between the disclosure of corporate social responsibility with firm value.
Keywords : corporate social responsibility, firm value, profitability


In the future, the complex tasks of developing autonomous vehicles can only be solved using highly specialized semiconductors and new approaches, such as artificial intelligence. But in such an interconnected environment, new attack methods or sophisticated hacking tools can cause huge problems for the automotive industry. EnliteAI and AVI Systems explain why the race against cybercriminals is won only when explicable AI and so-called bounty hunting programs are used.


The biocultural heritage of historical landscapes is an expression of intertwined ecological and socio-cultural dynamics at different temporal and spatial scales. Such a legacy is what confers high nature value on agricultural systems worldwide. Today there is an urgent need to develop approaches that may allow a more integrated study of biocultural heritage in order to better direct future endeavours for the sustainable management on such agricultural systems. Here, a methodological approach to unpack space-time complexity in the land-use dynamics of historic and current-day agrosystems is presented, based on the use of contextual and spatial-relational segmentation techniques within the research framework of historical ecology. With reference to work done in a case study area in Sicily, the authors first extract geographic contextual configurations and develop a spatial-relational ontology for their semantic interpretation, before using these spatial objects as temporal proxies to disentangle the spatial and temporal dynamics of land use. The result is a cross-disciplinary approach in which perspectives from historical ecology can be used to achieve a deeper understanding of evidence extracted from remotely sensed images. At the same time, advanced spatial analysis techniques may provide a further interpretative tool for scientific inquiry into biocultural heritage.


—Convolution neural network (CNN) based methods offer effective solutions for enhancing the quality of compressed image and video. However, these methods ignore using the raw data to enhance the quality. In this paper, we adopt the raw data in the quality enhancement for the HEVC intra-coded image by proposing an online learning-based method. When quality enhancement is demanded, we online train our proposed model at encoder side and then use the parameters to update the model of decoder side. This method not only improves model performance, but also makes one model adoptable to multiple coding scenarios. Besides, quantization error in discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients is the root cause of various HEVC compression artifacts. Thus, we combine frequency domain priors to assist image reconstruction. We design a DCT based convolution layer, to produce DCT coefficients that are suitable for CNN learning. Experimental results show that our proposed online learning based dual-domain network (OL-DN) has achieved superior performance, compared with the state-of-the-art methods.


Purpose This study was performed to assess potential improvements in clinical outcomes when applying recent advanced hip arthroplasty surgical techniques and understand the potential relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and surgical outcomes. Materials and Methods Among 37 cases of periprosthetic femoral fractures after hip arthroplasty treated between March 2014 and September 2016, all included a follow-up of at least one year and were included in this study. Outcomes were evaluated using the Beals and Tower's criteria. BMD was examined in 27 of 37 cases and the relationship between osteoporosis and treatment outcomes was analyzed. Advanced hip arthroplasty surgical approaches varied depending on the fracture type: i) open reduction with wiring for Vancouver A, ii) open reduction with double plate fixation for Vancouver B1, iii) revision THA with long stem for Vancouver B1-Nonunion, B2 and B3, and iv) open reduction with double plate fixation for Vancouver C. Results When assessed using the Beals and Tower's criteria, 33 out of 37 (89.2%) patients were excellent and 4 (10.8%) were poor. These outcomes were an improvement compared with series I (81.8%). When analyzed according to the Vancouver classification, patients with type A (n=8), type B1 (n=16), and type B2 (n=2) were all excellent, the patients with type B3 were excellent (n=1) and poor (n=1), and the patients with type C were excellent (n=6) and poor (n=3). The mean BMD was −2.6 (T-score) in 27 of 37 cases and −4.4 in 4 cases with poor prognosis. Osteoporosis was statistically correlated to those classified as poor by Beals and Tower. Conclusion The results of the analysis suggest that applying new surgical hip arthroplasty treatment approaches leads to improved outcomes compared with the author's previous study. When treating periprosthetic femoral fractures following total hip arthroplasty, an appropriate internal fixation method should be selected, at least in part based on the Vancouver classification. In addition, osteoporosis may be a major prognostic factor for the outcomes of surgical treatment.


Evaluating the power loss in power semiconductors is an important step in the process of research, development and design of a power electronics circuit topology. This paper presents a way of doing this via computer simulation. It is based on relatively simple component models and a fast simulation tool, but can quite precisely estimate the loss in power semiconductors, including conduction loss, switching loss and loss caused by diode reverse recovery. Several different continuous-conduction-mode (CCM) single-phase power factor correction (PFC) topologies are studied with this simulation approach. The losses in the semiconductors and subsequently the efficiency of different topologies are evaluated and extensively compared. The simulation results reveal quantitative insight of the power losses in different topologies and also verify that this simulation approach is faster and more cost-effective than numerical calculation or experimental measurement approach.


work, particularly as it is something she acknowledges in dedicating one volume to so many aspects of an under-researched area. Van de Water sees her book as a 'springboard', and the lack of research in TYA thus far as hopeful, since it leaves open 'new horizons and possibilities' (p. 147). I agree that possibilities are the gift of this book. Through engaging critically with theatre made for children and young people, and calling for this engagement to feed into ever higher quality work, van de Water opens an exciting potential for understanding, and perhaps combating, its marginalisation as a field. I can imagine Theatre, Youth and Culture becoming a seminal text for those studying TYA, as well as being ideal for practitioners looking for a historical and theoretical perspective on their work. The book's great strength is in the breadth of TYA practices and contexts that it explores, setting an example of intellectually challenging and culturally responsive engagement in TYA scholarship.


There are many heavy metals which have tremendous toxicity and cancerigenic hazardous in electroplating wastewater.So treatment of electroplating wastewater receives attention from more and more researchers.The chemical precipitation,ion exchange,adsorption,barrier separation and other method for treating electroplating wastewater,and estimates advantages and disadvantages and application foreground of various methods were introduced.


The complex Cp'2Ta(H)(OCOCF3)2 (2) is synthesized by the acidolysis of Cp'2TaH3 (1) (Cp' = η5-tBuC5H4) in the presence of an excess of trifluoroacetic acid. 1 undergoes a loss of H- upon the reacti...


Large commercial and industrial customers usually cannot accept the grade of power typically supplied to residential customers. Service interruptions can be devastating to industrial processes as well as a problem to any business using sensitive electronic equipment. Varying demands of large customers can be met by choosing from an array of incoming services. The choice depends on the type and size of load, the quantity and arrangement of sensitive equipment on the premises, the type of business, and inherent reliability of utility feeders serving the area. 13 figs.


This document has two aims: first, to discuss the place of social medicine in undergraduate and graduate teaching in the light of its position as an academic discipline; second, to consider the teaching of four related subjects. These are medical statistics, human genetics, the behavioural sciences, and occupational medicine. Provisions for instruction in social medicine vary among the medical schools of the United Kingdom. In some schools teaching is given by departments with full-time academic staff and in others by part-time teachers. In a few schools, mostly in London, there is no teaching described as social medicine. Because of these differences we introduce our comments on teaching by considering some wider questions likely to confront medical schools seeking to improve their instruction in the subject.


The human relief stand-by automatic change over switch is a device specifically designed with the purpose of eliminating the frequent manual switching of the central control switch from the Electricity Distribution Company's power source to that of the private or home generating set and back to the Electricity Distribution Company's (EDC) source when power is restored.  The uniqueness of this design is its ability to automatically detect when power is restored to the mains supply and returns the loads to this source while turning off the power from the generator set. The present design is such that it would take two different sources simultaneously and also give preference to particular power sources with the unique ability to ensure that there is always power supply to the load as required. This paper also x-ray on the design of its automation in the transfers of the consumer loads to a power source with the best voltage supply source for the case of a three phase source. To ascertain its workability, varieties of test were carried out and the Proteus electronic software was used for its simulation.


I Knowledge is power, giving strength to one who possesses it, weakening him deprived of it. On this concept secret intelligence arose over the centuries, justified by the sovereign state system in which a nation's independence and welfare depended on its strength. But in recent years a new concept of national strength has arisen. The active political involvement of a nation's population was seen necessary to national survival and progress. This development led to the necessity of informing and even "indoctrinating" the nation in its government's policies in order to inspire the population to sacrifice for the nation's goals. As universal suffrage, education, and communications improved and spread, so did the need to inform the people of the challenges their nation faced. In nations with authoritarian discipline or ones amenable to direction by an "establishment," the reserve power of the secret was accepted, and preserved. But free societies and their free press strove for the revelation of the secret, creating a contest between how much should be revealed to produce an informed public and how much should be withheld in the nation's interest. In times of great challenge, national allegiance prevailed over curiosity, and secrets were respected. In other periods, the public and the press were less acquiescent, and exposures proliferated. In the United States, Vietnam and Watergate marked a turning point in this relationship. The media penetrated the deepest recesses of government. These revelations convinced many citizens that the leadership was manipulating access to fact in order to mislead the public and that it was violating the trust which justified any claim to secrecy. Sensational charges of intelligence abuses then cast doubt on the propriety of any secrets, as it seemed that wrongdoing could be concealed behind even the most justifiable of secrets. Is secrecy incompatible with a free society? Should we forswear secret intelligence in order to protect our freedoms, and look to a resulting moral strength ro save us from threats from the world around us? Or must we accept limits on our freedoms in order to preserve our community in a dangerous world? We are not faced with such cataclysmic choices. Both exposure and secrecy are essential to a truly free society. But we must achieve a new theory of secrecy appropriate to our new society of instant communication, universal education, and mass opinion.


Objective: To observe the effect of grape seed proanthocyanidin extract (GSPE) on the endothelial inflammation molecule level in atherosclerotic rabbits. Methods: 30 male New Zealand rabbits were randomized equally into three groups, and were given restricted amounts of food (100~120 g/head per day) and free drinking. The control group (group A) was fed on standard diet. The cholsterol group (group B) was fed on standard diet plus 1% cholesterol. The GSPE group (group C) was fed on standard diet plus l% GSPE plus 1% cholesterol. All the rabbits were fed for twelve weeks, and were drawn fastingblood samples on one day before the experiment, at the first, second, fourth, eighth and twelfth weekend of the experiment, then they were determined serum interleukin 6 (IL-6) by commercially available ELISA kits, and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) by commercially available EIA kits. Results: ①Compared with the group B, serum IL-6 absorbency level was lowered markedly by dietary GSPE at the eighth weekend (P0.05) and even more markedly at the twelfth weekend in group C(P0.00 01). the serum CRP contents were lowered markedly by dietary GSPE (P0.00 01) at the first weekend, which lasted to the end of the experiment. ③IL-6 was highly correlated with the treat and time(r=0.703 14,P0.00 01) in the group B,but not in the group C (P=0.251 3). CRP, in both the group B (r=0.990 47, P0.00 01) and C (r=0.747 77, P0.00 01) was highy correlated with the treat and time. Conclusions: GSPE can decrease the endothelial inflammation molecule level in atherosclerotic rabbits, which maybe one of the molecule mechanisms of antiatherogenesis.


Nowadays there are many techniques and mechanisms to announce the products or services of a company, as in the case of advertising, public relations and marketing, which are adapted to the situation of each company due the world has been evolving in the field of brand communication. In the present project, a branding strategy was developed to generate the positioning of the Saratex company in the city of Riobamba. It is remarkable the grown that the company has had in the city and thanks to this has allowed marketing its sportswear in several cities and cantons of the country. Due to the economic crisis that the country croses, the Saratex company has a shortage in its sales by major and minor, so it is necessary to create a brand for its clients identify it, and the same way it can be positioned in the market local and national, allowing conquer new customers. Therefore, from his study, we can conclude that through Robert Scott`s methodology, the four phases were executed, in order to develop the brand strategy for the Saratex company in the city of Riobamba, in which it is posible to demonstrate the creation of the brand, the brand manual and the strategies of brand that will help to position the company.


During the last 20 years, water resources datasets have been compiled in the Mesilla Basin: groundwater level monitoring data across the Mesilla aquifers, piezometric measurements along three cross sections located across the Rio Grande, seepage survey of the Rio Grande reaches between Leasburg Dam in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, and groundwater pumping in the Canutillo wellfield located northwest of El Paso. Groundwater contour level maps have been generated for three different time periods. Daily groundwater level graphs for five different years from piezometers of the cross section A-A' were evaluated. The impact of groundwater pumping was evaluated at the Canutillo well field cross section. Seepage data was reviewed to identify how gains or losses have been behaving since the beginning of surveying efforts. Overall, this study provides with fresh analysis of groundwater-surface water interactions in the basin, aimed to contribute to enhancing the understanding of surface-groundwater interactions.


In this work, we investigate a novel training procedure to learn a generative model as the transition operator of a Markov chain, such that, when applied repeatedly on an unstructured random noise sample, it will denoise it into a sample that matches the target distribution from the training set. The novel training procedure to learn this progressive denoising operation involves sampling from a slightly different chain than the model chain used for generation in the absence of a denoising target. In the training chain we infuse information from the training target example that we would like the chains to reach with a high probability. The thus learned transition operator is able to produce quality and varied samples in a small number of steps. Experiments show competitive results compared to the samples generated with a basic Generative Adversarial Net


Onyx travertine deposits have long been known to occur in the Trough Namib in the Sperrgebiet, Namibia, but only recently have they b een mapped in the Plain Namib. Previous interpretations concluded that the travertines of t he Sperrgebiet accumulated in lagoonal settings clo se to the sea, but the ones in the Plain Namib, some o f which lie at altitudes of over 500 above msl, ind icate that their genesis had little to do with proximity to the sea, but that they formed where cold lime-ch arged groundwater emerged at springs, precipitating some f their dissolved lime as they warmed up when they rose towards the land surface and the remainde r of the lime at the surface, often as lobes with sloping margins. Most of the Kaukausib and Tsirub t ravertines are associated with sand, grit and conglomerates, some of which are fossiliferous, the reby providing biochronological controls on the period of accumulation. Based on fossil mammals fou nd in the intercalated calcified sands, some, if no t all of the travertine occurrences in the Plain Nami b are Plio-Pleistocene. The only known exception is an Eocene occurrence at Eoridge, well south of the Kaukausib Valley.


In order to clarify transmission properties of an ion beam extracted with various capillaries into the air, we have measured intensity distributions for the core and the halo components of MeV ion beams using various capillaries. In addition, we have performed in-air-RBS and in-air-PIXE from the point of the application. At the conference, progress report of transmission properties of ion beams with various capillaries and its applications will be presented.


The present invention provides a system for preventing the theft of dehydrated fuel. The system for preventing the theft of dehydrated fuel is intended for systems having a reformer (103) for the dehydrogenation of an organic fuel, which contains at least hydrogen, and a tank (106) for storing recovered dehydrated fuel, which occurs when a organic fuel in the reformer (103) is dehydrated. The hydrogen obtained thereby can be used for example in fuel cells for energy. The anti-theft system is provided with a means for mixing an odorant as part of a pungent odor that is different from the odor of the fuel components, or a coagulant for the fuel constituents. The odorant or the coagulant is mixed in the production, the distribution, in use, during the manufacture or during storage of the fuel, or when attempting to steal fuel.


Reaction of nitrate radicals, NO*3 , with aromatic amino acids leads to irreversible oxidative functionalization at the beta-position or at the aromatic ring, suggesting that this important atmospheric oxidant could potentially cause damage to peptides lining the respiratory tract and may contribute to pollution-derived diseases.


Many embedded Java platforms execute two types of Java classes: those installed statically on the client device and those downloaded dynamically from service providers at run time. For achieving higher performance, the static Java classes can be compiled into machine code by ahead‐of‐time compiler (AOTC) in the server, and the translated machine code can be installed on the client device. Unfortunately, AOTC cannot be applicable to the dynamically downloaded classes. This paper proposes client‐AOTC (c‐AOTC), which performs AOTC on the client device using the just‐in‐time compiler (JITC) module installed on the device, obviating the JITC overhead and complementing the server‐AOTC. The machine code of a method translated by JITC is cached on a persistent memory of the device, and when the method is invoked again in a later run of the program, the machine code is loaded and executed directly without any translation overhead. A major issue in c‐AOTC is relocation because some of the address constants embedded in the cached machine code are not correct when the machine code is loaded and used in a different run; those addresses should be corrected before they are used. Constant pool resolution and inlining complicate the relocation problem, and we propose our solutions. The persistent memory overhead for saving the relocation information is also an issue, and we propose a technique to encode the relocation information and compress the machine code efficiently. We developed a c‐AOTC on Sun's CDC VM reference implementation, and our evaluation results indicate that c‐AOTC can improve the performance significantly, as much as an average of 12% for EEMBC and 4% for SpecJVM98, with a persistent memory overhead of 1% on average. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The ability of using internally generated funds to finance investments affects corporate sustainability. We empirically examine trends and gaps in the reliance of company's investments on internally generated funds. We collect financial data of Chinese listed companies from 1998 to 2020, use corporate cash flow as a proxy for internally generated funds, control for corporate investment opportunity Q, and specify a two-way fixed effects model of investment on cash flow. We find that investment-cash flow sensitivity exhibits a decreasing trend over time; firm size, government equity, and the HP and WW indices effectively explain the gaps in the sensitivity of investment to cash flow between two types of firms with tighter and looser financing constraints, but cash dividends do not explain the gaps; and the gaps in the sensitivity of investment to cash flow are narrowing in the long term. These empirical findings indicate that compared to external funding, internal funding is becoming less important in supporting a firm's investment-induced sustainability.


The authors investigate the entropic properties of a simple two-dimensional random quasicrystal model: a random tiling by the 36' and 72' rhombi. Applying the transfer matrix Monte Carlo (TMMC) method to random tilings for the first time, they have calculated the entropy as a function of phason strain. They confirm earlier results that the state of zero phason strain (i.e. ten-fold symmetry) has the largest entropy; the entropy is 0.4810 (5) per tile. In addition, by fitting the dependence of the entropy on the phason strain they determined the three stiffness constants in the phason elasticity, one of which is not measurable by previous approaches. They compare the efficacy of the TMMC method with that of other methods.


S U M M A R Y: Anthropological studies of state-making have stressed the need to analyse the creation of a hegemonic notion of culture and nation, which must overcome heterogeneity in terms of ethnic and cultural diversity. The article seeks to highlight some aspects of historical processes through which the Catholic Church has struggled for the establishment of a consensual discourse of a homogeneous Catholic Lithuanian nation. Based on the Gramscian analysis of hegemony, the authors present two examples of contestations of Catholic hegemony in Lithuania – the complex understanding of the role Catholicism plays in the idea of the Lithuanian nation and its cultural heritage and the national antagonism between Polish and Lithuanian ethnic groups within the Catholic community.


The invention belongs to the field of yarn processing and provides an air-jet vortex spinning device for spinning low-tow yarn by twisting fibers with free tail ends using high-speed swirling air flow. The device comprises a guide pipe, a guide needle, an air storage cover, a twisting nozzle, a first air storage room, a second air storage room, an exhaust cover, a tight spindle, a vortex tube and a vortex tube support. By additionally arranging the guide needle and the tight spindle and improving the structures of the twisting nozzle and the vortex tube and the process, the device can effectively lower the tow rate in the spinning process to obtain high-quality yarn with less hairiness and less thin places, and can simultaneously improve the utilization rate of material and lower the yarn production cost.


Low-l/f-noise GaAs MESFETs (metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors) were used to develop a preamplifier for cryogenic detectors. It operates at 1 K, has a voltage gain of 50, a bandwidth of 8 MHz and a noise level of 1.3 nV/ square root Hz at 100 kHz. It is used to amplify the signal of bolometric detectors, avoiding microphonics and RFI (radio-frequency interference) energy pick-up which heats the detector. It can also be used for risetime studies on fast detectors. >


W. I. Slichter: There is a point in the subject of cascade connection of induction motors which the speaker would like to hear discussed, as it is particularly important in connection with railway engineering. The usual and first idea of the result of the cascade connection of induction motors is that it will make it possible to obtain from a given pair of motors a greater torque at a low speed than is obtained in normal operation. But a closer study of this subject shows that the maximum torque of two motors connected in cascade is always less than that of either one of the individual motors. This is a proved fact with regard to the operation of motors with like number of poles, but it would be interesting to know what the relation is with motors having different numbers of poles.


Introduction The Australian Sub and Non-Acute Patient (AN-SNAP) data collection was barely known through WA Health until 18 months ago. In addition, Subacute Care wards collected separate, disparate patient-level Australian-Refined Diagnostic Related Group (AR-DRG) data. With the selection of AN-SNAP as the national proxy output classification system for Subacute Inpatient Care, an opportunity presented to champion safe, high quality care for Western Australian patients by collecting uniform data for the first time.


High risk patients who are candidates for laparoscopic cholecystectomy differ from the patients who have no existing risks and comorbidities in terms of the methods to be used as well as the expected outcomes. In order to recognize the safety of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, different cases of high risk patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy were gathered which demonstrate their conditions during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. These articles focused on patients with cardiopulmonary diseases, diabetes mellitus, sickle cell diseases, renal diseases, liver cirrhosis, during pregnancy and in the elderly. The results of the different cases showed that laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a safe procedure to be utilized and it is therefore recommended as the treatment of choice, as long as it is done cautiously and skillfully in all the high risk groups. The consequences of this technique including the bile duct injury, influence of pneumoperitoneum on cardiorespiratory system and other complications are outweighed by the benefits that the patients acquire after the surgery. Patients who are high risk and undergo traditional cholecystectomy carries high morbidity and mortality as compared to laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has decreased the number of contraindications in the past recent years and in which more studies are focused on the constant modifications in terms of the assessed risks as well as the indications for the procedure.[1] Patients who have past or recent medical conditions who are at risk of presenting perioperative complications and those who cannot survive an operation are the ones classified as high risks patients.[2] The issue that is always brought up for patients with such conditions is whether the benefits of laparoscopic cholecystectomy offset the risks involved especially with the new methods used in the procedure such as CO2 insufflation and pneumoperitoneum.[3] There are collated cases which demonstrate the conditions of the high risks patients during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. These articles focused on patients with cardiopulmonary diseases, diabetes mellitus, sickle cell diseases, renal diseases, liver cirrhosis, during pregnancy and in the elderly.


Automated rotating carousels (ARCs) are increasingly used as building blocks for material storage and control systems in factories to provide easy and quick access to materials. This technical note introduces a simple and robust storage assignment policy that minimizes the expected turnaround time for accessing an item in an automated rotating carousel. The policy is shown to be optimal for a class of dwell point strategies.


Partitions and compositions of integers are, besides their intrinsic interests, usually used as theoretical models for evolutionary processes in different contexts: statistical mechanics, theory of quantum strings, populaw x tion biology, nonparametric statistics, etc.; cf. 1, 4, 8, 10, 12, 30, 49, 54 . Also parameters in partitions often have natural interpretations in terms w x Ž of characters in symmetric groups; cf. 15, 47 . Thus properties statistical, . algebraic, analytic, . . . of these objects received constant attention in the literature. In many situations, the notion of ''degree of distinctness'' naturally arises. The classical birthday paradox states that one needs on the average ) 23 people to discover two that have the same birthday with probability w x ) 1r2, assuming all birth dates to be equally likely; cf. 16 . The coupon collector problem is similar: what is the expected number of coupons one needs to gather before a full collection, under suitable probability assumptions on the issuing of the coupons? In applications in which only the first Ž . product element, particle, . . . is ''expensive'' and the ''cost'' of the remaining reproductions is negligible, the study of the measures of distinctness becomes meaningful and important. The number of distinct outcomes Ž . in a sequence of multinomial trials the classical occupancy problem has w x w x wide applications; see, for example, Knuth 34 , Johnson and Kotz 28 , w x w x w x Kolchin et al. 35 , Arato and Benczur 5 , and Vitter and Chen 50 . The number of distinct sites visited by a random walk plays an important role


Spindle-cell lipoma (SCL) of the oral cavity is very rare. There are only four such reported cases in the literature. A concise literature review of SCL and a case report of a SCL affecting the cheek and lip of a 23-year-old man is presented.


The study of transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) features prominently among the goals of the EIC program. During Week 2, several topics related to TMDs have been discussed, offering complementary information with respect to the original EIC white paper. In this introduction to Week 2, we mention the main ideas and include some developments that occurred even after the conclusion of the program.


We establish a magnetic Agmon estimate in the case of a purely magnetic single non-degenerate well, by means of the Fourier-Bros-Iagolnitzer transform and microlocal exponential estimates a la Martinez-Sjostrand.


The Banking Union increased bank capital requirements and tightened crisis response policy instruments, favoring bank resolutions or liquidations, while hindering bank bailouts. The ECB has gained new powers as the Eurozone's main supervisory authority and as the leading 'resolution or liquidation' authority. The new framework has led to the multiplication of triggers for the application of resolution or liquidation measures. As a result, the Banking Union has had significant fiscal costs and large redistributive effects. Further, it has weakened financial stability and the 'irreversibility of the euro'.


Surveys conducted in the Jerada mine site (Northeastern Morocco) have revealed the existence, for the first time, of three Basidiomycetes species. These species have been harvested under Pinus halepensis, belong to the Tricholomataceae family: Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis, Clitocybe cerussata and Tricholoma terreum. The first species is considered to be rare, edible, and encountered for the first time under Pinus halepensis, the second is toxic and the third species is safer to eat. The obtained results are part of the contribution to the determination of the fungal diversity in Morocco, which remains till now incomplete.


Contemporary process planners for sheet metal bending solve the process planning problem for individual parts. Quite often, many different parts can be produced on shared setups. However, plans generated by current process planning systems fail to exploit this commonality between setups and try to generate optimal setups for individual parts. In this paper, we present an algorithm for multi-part setup planning for sheet metal bending. This algorithm takes a set of parts and operation sequences for these parts, and tries to find a shared setup plan that can work for every part in the set. Setup changes constitute a major portion of the production time in batch production environments. Therefore, multi-part setup planning techniques can be used to significantly cut down the total number of setups and increase the overall through-put.


Let $(R,m)$ be a Noetherian local ring of dimension $d$ and $K,Q$ be $m$-primary ideals in $R.$ In this paper we study the finiteness properties of the sets $\Lambda_i^K(R):=\{g_i^K(Q): Q$ is a parameter ideal of $R\},$ where $g_i^K(Q)$ denotes the Hilbert coefficients of $Q$ with respect to $K,$ for $1 \leq i \leq d.$ We prove that $\Lambda_i^K(R)$ is finite for all $1\leq i \leq d$ if and only if $R$ is generalized Cohen-Macaulay. Moreover, we show that if $R$ is unmixed then finiteness of the set $\Lambda_1^K(R)$ suffices to conclude that $R$ is generalized Cohen-Macaulay. We obtain partial results for $R$ to be Buchsbaum in terms of $|\Lambda_i^K(R)|=1.$ We also obtain a criterion for the set $\Delta^K(R):=\{g_1^K(I): I$ is an m-primary ideal of $R\}$ to be finite, generalizing preceding results.


This paper deals with the movements raised by the presence of arts in a professional education school in Brazil. Under the guidance of a teacher, the students undertake artistic interventions in the institution. As soon as these proposals took place, it could be observed that teachers currently working in other areas reacted to such activities, understanding them as disruptions or counterbalances brought from the starting point of art. To understand these shifts, a Master research program was created addressing the question of dislocations caused by the artistic practices carried out by the students at the campus. The research sheds light on the possibilities of experiencing with art in order to create an alternative teacher training in professional education, also emphasizing the fact that a much more open-minded attitude towards aesthetic experiences within the school is to be found as these practices become more frequent.


The huge growth in the Internet market and the emerging of the new web technologies and the trend toward what is called web 2.0 and recently web 3.0 come with a new challenges, new applications and new concepts such as NoSQL databases which is recently becomes a very popular as an alternative to the relational databases specially in dealing with large data which is one of the most common features of web today, providing high availability and scalability to the distributed systems which need fast access time and can't tolerate any down time during failures and have been used heavily by the big enterprises and web companies such as Facebook, amazon and google. Every new technology faced many challenges like Security vulnerabilities. This paper addresses the concepts of NoSQL, the movement, motivations and needs behind it, and reviews the types of NoSQL databases and the issues concerning to these databases mainly areas of application and the security issues compared with traditional relational databases.


The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) has been the de facto operational drought monitoring product for the United States for the last two decades. For most of this time, its coverage included the 50 States and Puerto Rico. In 2019, coverage was expanded to include the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI). The geography, geomorphology, and climatology of the USAPI significantly differ from those of the mainland U.S. (CONUS) and they posed a unique challenge for the USDM authors. Following National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) priorities for development of products in collaboration with users in what is termed "use-inspired science", NOAA agencies conducted several workshops to identify data and impacts relevant for, and develop drought monitoring criteria appropriate for, the USAPI. Once the criteria were identified and data processing systems were set up, the USAPI were included as part of the operational USDM drought monitoring beginning in March 2019. The drought monitoring criteria consist of weekly and monthly minimum precipitation thresholds for triggering drought, and they follow the USDM "convergence of evidence" methodology for determining the severity level (Dx) of the drought spell.


Let k be a local eld, and GLn(k) a linear group over k. We prove that either contains a relatively open solvable subgroup, or it contains a relatively dense free subgroup. This result has applications in dynamics, Riemannian foliations and pronite groups.


Increased urine albumin excretion above normal, but below that detected by Albustix (Ames Division, Miles Laboratories Ltd, Slough, Bucks, UK) is termed microalbuminuria and has been shown to be a strong predictorfor future development of diabetic nephropathy. I Detection of microalbuminuria is important since it represents a stage in the development of nephropathy which may be reversed. A method is described for the measurement of urine albumin by end-point immunonephelometry which is sufficiently sensitive and has an adequate assay range for screening diabetic patients for microalbuminuria. The method is simple, inexpensive and could be performed sufficiently rapidly to provide results at the time when patients attend out-patient clinics.


We have used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to measure the shape of micelles adsorbed to the interface between hydrophilic silica and solutions of hexadecyltrimethylammonium (CTA+) ions in the presence of various counterions. Spherical CTA+ surface micelles are adsorbed from solutions containing salts of CH3CO2-, CO32-, SO42-, SO32-, and HSO32-, even at high salt concentrations (>100 mM). Cl- and Br- form slightly oblate micelles near their respective critical micelle concentrations. Addition of Br- causes a transformation to cylindrical micelles whereas addition of Cl- does not. The difference between Br- and Cl- is similar to the behavior observed previously in bulk solution. Addition of S2O32- or CS32- or HS-/S2- transforms spherical micelles to cylinders. We rationalize these effects on the basis of the hard/soft (unpolarizable/polarizabile) nature of the ions. The ability to effect the sphere-to-cylinder transformation correlates with the availability of a soft anionic atom in the counterion. Presumab...


In this study, we developed a pricing system that reflects the appraisal of the used car market transaction characteristics. appraisal system to correct the Registration date, options, mileage at the average market price. Also appraisal to correct the accident information, vehicle condition, special factors. The result, in the case of a normal vehicle is not departing from the average price range. If the accident history and the special factors that correction has been calculated as the lower of the average market price or less. Generally appraisal were rated somewhat lower than the dealer price sale. All differences -14.7~5.5%, the mean difference was -4.72%.


The invention discloses a synthetic method applicable to industrial mass production of Abiraterone acetate. According to the method, Abiraterone acetate is prepared through the steps of acylation, condensation and purification; in the step of acylation, dehydroepiandrosterone acetate is used as a raw material, the solvent of dichloromethane is added to dissolve dehydroepiandrosterone acetate under stirring, trifluromethanesulfonic anhydride is added at low temperature, a reaction at low temperature is maintained, then an alkaline catalyst is added at low temperature, and a reaction at room temperature is carried out. The method provided in the invention enables reaction byproducts to be reduced, operation to be simplified and purity of an HPLC test product to be more than 97% and is applicable to industrial mass production.


Four novel ZnII coordination polymers, [(ZnCl2)2(L)2]n (1), [(ZnBr2)2(L)2]n (2), and [(ZnI2)2(L)2]n (3) and {[Zn(SCN)2]1.5(L)3}n (4), have been synthesized based on 4′-ferrocenyl-3,2′:6′,3′′-terpyridine with ZnII ions and different coordination anions under similar ambient conditions. Their structures have been confirmed using single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, showing that complexes 1–3 are one-dimensional (1D) double-stranded metal ion helical polymer chains and complex 4 is of a two-dimensional (2D) network. The structural transformations of them from a 1D polymer chain to a 2D network under the influence of the coordination anions has been systematic investigated. Furthermore, the optical band gaps have been measured by optical diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, revealing that the ligand and the complexes should have semiconductor properties.


Although the AutoCAD system provided a lot of standard line type,but far from the actual project can not meet the needs of graphics,so customize their professional mining line type,in order to easily drawings,raise work efficiency.


: A cascade model for forecasting municipal water use one week or one month ahead, conditioned on rainfall estimates, is presented and evaluated. The model comprises four components: long term trend, seasonal cycle, autocorrelation and correlation with rainfall. The increased forecast accuracy obtained by the addition of each component is evaluated. The City of Deerfield Beach, Florida, is used as the application example with the calibration period from 1976–1980 and the forecast period the drought year of 1981. Forecast accuracy is measured by the average absolute relative error (AARE, the average absolute value of the difference between actual and forecasted use, divided by the actual use). A benchmark forecast is calculated by assuming that water use for a given week or month in 1981 is the same as the average for the corresponding period from 1976 to 1980. This method produces an AARE of 14.6 percent for one step ahead forecasts of monthly data and 15.8 percent for weekly data. A cascade model using trend, seasonality and autocorrelation produces forecasts with AARE of about 12 percent for both monthly and weekly data while adding a linear relationship of water use and rainfall reduces the AARE to 8 percent in both cases if it is assumed that rainfall is known during the forecast period. Simple rainfall predictions do not increase the forecast accuracy for water use so the major utility of relating water use and rainfall lies in forecasting various possible water use sequences conditioned on sequences of historical rainfall data.


(PPDM) privacy preserving data mining is recent advanced research in (DM) data mining field; Many efficient and practical techniques have been proposed for hiding sensitive patterns or information from been discovered by (DM) data mining algorithms. (ARM) Association rule mining is the most important tool in (DM) data mining, that is considered a powerful and interested tool for discovering relationships between items, which are hidden in large database and may provide business competitors with an advantage, thus the hiding of association rules is the most important point in (PPDM) privacy preserving data mining for protecting sensitive and crucial data against unauthorized access; Many Practical techniques and approaches have been proposed for hiding association rules for (PPDM) privacy preserving data mining; In this paper we have summarized the current existing techniques and algorithms for all approaches for (ARH) association rule hiding.


The use of selective therapeutic ERCP, indicated by ultrasonographically detected dilation of the common bile duct, is a safe procedure with low morbidity, no mortality and a significant reduction in the need for conversion to open cholecystectomy.


Objective Through analysis the correlation of tuberculosis empty tuberculosis imaging and tuberculosis therapy,to help clinical treatment help and predict the prognosis.Methods Retrospective analysis of 200 cases admitted to Shunde chronic diseases prevention and cure center smear-positive TB patients,in which select smear 100 cases of cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis as the experimental group,smear-positive non-cavitary tuberculosis 100 cases as control group.Both groups were treated in accordance with 2HRZE/4HR program,through the imaging dynamic to observe the empty nature,size,wall thickness changes and the impact on efficacy.Results After 2 months the sputum negative conversion rate of treatment group was 82%,after 6 months was 90%,treatment failure in 5 cases,accounting for 5%.After 2 months the sputum negative conversion rate of the control group was 88%,after 6 months was 95%.The thick-walled cavity cases was 63(of which 78.5% tunnel wall thickness of inequality),thin-walled cavity in 37 cases,22 cases with intramural nodule,similar to cancerous hole,54 cases of single and multiple cavity 46 cases.Hole in the chemotherapy of tuberculosis after the treatment process with the dynamic changes:①hole gradually shrinking the final absorber 78 cases;②into a clean empty 13 cases;③the formation of fibrous cavity in 1 case;④ the formation of tuberculoma in 3 cases;⑤treatment failure in 5 cases.Conclusion Tuberculosis empty after chemotherapy have certain vesting laws of dynamic observation of imaging diagnosis and efficacy evaluation of its great value.


Radio loud active galactic nuclei present a remarkable variety of signs indicating the presence of periodical processes possibly originating in binary systems of supermassive black holes, in which orbital motion and precession are ultimately responsible for the observed broad-band emission variations, as well as for the morphological and kinematic properties of the radio emission on parsec scales. This scenario, applied to the quasar 3C 345, explains the observed variations of radio and optical emission from the quasar, and reproduces the structural variations observed in the parsec-scale jet of this object. The binary system in 3C 345 is described by two equal-mass black holes with masses of ≈7.1 × 10 8 Mseparated by ≈0.33 pc and orbiting with a period ∼480 yr. The orbital motion induces a precession of the accretion disk around the primary black hole, with a period of ≈2570 yr. The jet plasma is described by a magnetized, relativistic electron-positron beam propagating inside a wider and slower electron-proton jet. The combination of Alfven wave perturbations of the beam, the orbital motion of the binary system and the precession of the accretion disk reproduces the variability of the optical flux and evolution of the radio structure in 3C 345. The timescale of quasi-periodic flaring activity in 3C 345 is consistent with typical disk instability timescales. The present model cannot rule out a small-mass orbiter crossing the accretion disk and causing quasi-periodic flares.


It is essential to excavate the potential in the load side to increase the flexibility of the power system under the smart grid environment. Since the energy consumption in electricity has the highest percentage in HVAC among all building services installations and electric appliances. Energy management of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems is a primary concern in building projects. This paper proposes a global optimization model for the overall control of HVAC system aiming at minimizing the energy consumption based on fundamental laws of energy-mass balance, heat transfer, momentum, and flow balance. Building schedulable potential evaluation indexes, the effects of peak cutting and valley filling, adjustable capacity, and power saving potential, are summarized and used to derive a load dispatching potential evaluation method suitable for the model proposed in this paper. Taking one real HVAC as the case study, the hourly optimal conditions of all components in this system on one operation day were simulated by the global optimization model, and the schedulable potential evaluation method is applied. The energy analysis indicated that the energy saving brought by the global optimization was mainly thanks to the adjustment of pumps and fans rather than that of the chillers, and more energy saving would be achieved under the lower load condition of the system if the globally optimal control scheme were implemented, and its schedulable potential evaluation verifies that buildings have great energy saving potential and scheduling capacity.


In this work, we presented a theoretical study by using DFT method on three conjugated compound based on carbazole and phenothiazine prepared by Y. Zhou et al [10] and shown in Figure 1. The HOMO, LUMO, Gap energy, λmax, λemi, Voc of these compounds have been calculated and reported in this paper. A systematic theoretical study of such compound has not been reported as we know. Thus, our aim is first, to explore their electronic and absorption properties on the basis of the DFT quantum chemical calculations. Second, we are interested to elucidate the parameters that influence the photovoltaic efficiency toward better understanding of the structure–property relationships. We think that the presented study of structural, electronic and optical properties for these compounds could help to design more efficient functional photovoltaic organic materials.


The GMI employs a unique dual calibration system. Unlike other microwave imagers, the GMI noise diodes on the lower frequency channels as well as black-body hot and cold sky views providing four calibration points rather than two. The dual calibration system enables on-board trending of non-linearity, as well independent cross-checking of each calibration element for stability and anomalous behavior. One important benefit of the dual calibration system is the direct evaluation of noise diode behavior on-orbit. For systems that depend solely on noise diodes for calibration, validation of the noise diode performance has to be done vicariously, using the earth as the reference. This paper presents the pre-flight and early on-orbit calibration performance of the noise diodes. We address stability of the noise diodes, and draw conclusions of continued on-orbit noise diode performance based on the ground and early flight measurements.


The Environmental Preservation Area (EPA) of Sana is a Municipal Conservation Unit with private and public lands in the rural area of Macae. This region has been densely occupied, due to the increase of tourism and urban rowth. This EPA has a Management Plan and Environmental Zoning to regulate nature conservation with sustainable use of local natural resources. As the Environmental Zoning is the most important tool to support decisions made by EPA, an evaluation of the cartographic adequacy of its limits was conducted in this study


A rapid method is described for the determination of potassium in mixtures containing potassium salts and basic slag. Four Geiger Muller tubes connected in parallel are used to measure the natural radioactivity of 40K and the potassium contents of the mixtures are evaluated from a previous calibration. The effects of variation of particle size of both the potassium source and the basic slag are demonstrated, the count rate varying in different directions as the fineness increases in the two cases.

Use of the technique in the production of a mixture of potassium chloride and basic slag has shown that the results from the method are comparable with those of the flame photometer.


A module (4) in a support structure (5) for container handling machines (2), comprises a connecting bar (6) provided with bearing expansions (7) at its ends, each of the bearing expansions (7) being detachably connectable with a corresponding bearing expansion of another module in such a way as to define a support (8) for a star wheel conveyor (3).


Scenes of geniality abound in Melville's works, a reminder that gatherings of the Melville Society borrow their splendor from a festive source. This "Extracts" records a number of such events, suggesting that even in a season of considerable turmoil—a national election and period of economic uncertainty—the Society has met in a spirit as jovial as (if less predatory than) that of the Barrington Isle buccaneers. First a warm welcome to our new officers: President Robert Milder, Treasurer Tony McGowan, Associate Secretary for Programs and Conferences Joseph Fruscione (working with Secretary Mary K. Bercaw Edwards), Murray Endowment Committee member Sanford E. Marovitz, MLA Program Chair Peter Norberg, and ALA Program Chair Maurice S. Lee ("Melville and the End(s) of Philosopy"). We bid a grateful farewell to Treasurer John Matteson after his years of superb service. The Melville Society Cultural Project convened in New Bedford, MA from July 30-August 1 for its semiannual activities at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The group—Jennifer Baker, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Wyn Kelley, Timothy Marr, Christopher Sten, and Robert K. Wallace—joined John Garfield, acting director of the Museum since the departure of Anne Brengle in December 2007; Madelyn Shaw (now Vice President for Collections and Exhibitions); and Karen Allen (now Director of Programs and Operations) to discuss the search for a new director and the status of our affiliation and programs. At that point the Museum was actively continuing its search; since then James P. Russell has been appointed the new President, and the MSCP met him in January during the Moby-Dick Marathon. With new leadership, the Museum can now move forward with its plans for joint efforts with the MSCP, including a guided Melville tour through the collections and a Melville-themed exhibit in the Lagoda Room. After assessing our programming during this transition time at the Museum, the group decided to phase out the Melville Lyceum series and focus on two events that bring the largest audiences into the building: the MobyDick Marathon Melville Society Lecture (January) and the Melville Birthday Lecture (July). The Marathon lecturer this year, stepping in for new President Robert Milder, who is not available, was Wyn Kelley speaking on "Crossing


Abstract In this paper, we consider the positive solutions for a Schrödinger-Poisson system containing p-Laplacian and Poisson equation. With a local condition on the potential, by using penalization method, Nehari manifold and Ljusternik-Schnirelmann category theory, the multiplicity and concentration of solutions are obtained.


This paper focuses on the Electronic skin(E-Skin) to build a skin work similar to that of the human skin and also it is embedded with several sensations or the sense of touch acting on the skin. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electronic holographs. This device would enhance the new technology which is emerging and would greatly increase the usefulness of robotic probes in areas where the human cannot venture. The sensor could pave the way for a overabundance of new applications that can wirelessly monitor the vitals and body movements of a patient sending information directly to a computer that can log and store data to better assist in future decisions. This paper offers an insight view of the designing, developing, implementing and usage of E-Skin. KeywordsE-Skin, organic field-effect transistor (OFET), Quantum Tunneling Composite (QTC), micrographs.


A finite element model is proposed to investigate the effect of thickness differential on Limiting Dome Height (LDH) testing of aluminum tailor-welded blanks. The numerical model is validated via comparison of the equivalent plastic strain and displacement distribution between the simulation results and the experimental data. The normalized equivalent plastic strain and normalized LDH values are proposed as a means of quantifying the influence of thickness differential for a variety of different ratios. Increasing thickness differential was found to decrease the normalized equivalent plastic strain and normalized LDH values, this providing an evaluation of blank formability.


Free Legal Aid is one of the ways in which certain persons are provided with legal aid in order to exercise their rights and defend their interests at the court or other competent state bodies. Free Legal Aid is also one of the ways in which the right of access to the court and other state bodies is realized and implemented in practice, on the basis of the principle of equality, in which proceedings, the party itself does not pay any procedural costs and fees, nor costs of professional representation. These costs are already covered from the state budget or from the budget of the organization providing Free Legal Aid. Provision of Free Legal Aid (hereinafter: FLA) is a modern acquis communautaire, which gained its legal basis, respectively its source, relatively late. The most important document that refers to it and in some way, although indirectly, establishes the provision of Free Legal Aid is the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted in 1950, which stipulates that all persons accused in criminal proceedings must be provided with legal aid and the right to adequate defense. This Convention does not directly mention the right of access to court, however, analyzing the practices of the European Court of Human Rights, one gets the impression that this Court in some way "derived" or created this right by interpreting an article of the European Convention on Human Rights. The legal logic of such interpretation, we believe, is reflected in the fact that the exercise of the right of access to justice is the basis for the exercise of all other rights guaranteed by the above mentioned convention, but also by other Conventions.