The author discusses methods applicable to loose sediments or consolidated but easily dissociable sediments. The method recommended for fine fractions is that of the andreasen pipette; a brief mention is made of areometer methods. For coarse fractions, emphasis is placed on sieving methods and recent hydraulic methods, the procedure of which is described. Part of the book deals with methods of interpreting the most commonly used grading data. Other methods of interpretation, very different from conventional techniques, are also outlined. Data are presented on two methods and their variations; (1) linear moment method; (2) method of grading evolution indices. A description is given of the attempts made at applying factorial analysis to the interpretation of grading data. An appendix gives additional information on the grading use of the optical observations of thin plates; a paragraph is devoted to simple linear correlations and regression. Numerical tables, tables, formulae and hp 65 programs are also appended. /TRRL/


Unified scalable models have led to many technical advances, including thin clients and Byzantine fault tolerance. Given the current status of atomic technology, mathematicians compellingly desire the synthesis of hash tables, which embodies the natural principles of hardware and architecture. In this work, we review some heuristics that may be the solution to meet all of these challenges.


In order to solve the downhole problems of great change of equivalent mud density at annulus created by interrupting circulation for a connection such as making up or breaking out,the foreign companies have researched on continuous circulation drilling.Continuous circulation drilling refers to the wellbore is at the state of continuous circulation with no pumping off when joining and unloading single pipe among tripping in the process of drilling.This technology can make downhole pressure change stop caused by pumping on or off,and make complicated downhole problems and accidents less caused by the pressure change.It fits for pressure-sensitive wells,horizontal wells with long horizontal interval,extended reach wells,deepwater wells,unbalanced wells and wells with narrow density window.There are two types of continuous circulation drilling:continuous circulation system and continuous circulation subs.The former keeps the drilling mud circulating continuously and operates connections functions currently,provided by various drilling equipment,such as top drive connection tool,the coupler,the mud diverter manifold and control system.The later has later research,which consists of two-position three-way valve crossover and automatic coupling.Continuous circulation of drilling fluid may be realized through pre-connection of three-way valve crossover at the top of vertical column of the intervals need to continuous circulation,and fluid-in direction convert under the control of automatic coupling on by-path circulation pipeline and valve crossover.It has simple structure and easy operation,which has been widely applied to horizontal wells with long horizontal interval,extended reach wells,and high-temperature and high-pressure wells.


The development of today's global low carbon economy reflects in essence the gaming between international political and economic interests. This inevitably brings new challenges to the international trade rules. Given that the main developed countries such as the US and European Union, etc. They benefit a lot from their strong trade structural power advantages, they are struggling and competing for the low carbon related rule-making power in the international trade area. China will inevitably face various challenges brought by the reshaping of international trade rules. China should incorporate the low carbon economy into the framework of the sustainable development for consideration and avoid discussing it as a separate issue.


In the present work, Zn1−xNixO (x = 0.02, 0.04, 0.06 and 0.08) nanoparticles have been synthesized using sol-gel auto-combustion method. The structural and magnetic properties of the Ni-doped ZnO samples annealed at 800oC were characterized by Thermogravimetry/Differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA), X-ray diffractometer (XRD), Scanning electron microscope (SEM), FTIR spectrophotometer, Vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) and Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Thermal analysis of as–prepared Zn0.98Ni0.02O sample shows that the synthesis process undergoes two stage weight losses before yielding Zn0.98Ni0.02O nanoparticles. Structural analysis using XRD reveals the formation of hexagonal wurtzite structure. SEM micrographs of Zn0.98Ni0.02O show the presence of spherical nanoparticles and the formation of well defined pores in the sample. FTIR study confirms the formation of ZnO with the stretching vibrational mode around 525 cm-1. VSM measurement of sample (Zn0.96Ni0.04O) shows the hysteresis loop at room temperature confirms the ferromagnetic property of the sample. EPR spectra of the nickel doped ZnO samples suggest that the exchange interaction between Ni2+ ions results in the ferromagnetic nature of the samples.


Soft ground tunnelling describes as additional measures that are needed to be taken as it has been associated with settlement due to changes of stress and strength of the soil induced by tunnelling. Segmental tunnel lining is a structure used to support the ground and to have allowable movement due to soil stress redistribution. The research will be focusing on the type of modelling, structure parameter of the tunnel, pressure upon the tunnel lining and relationship with the induced ground settlement. Tunnel modelling was done in three dimensional (3D) modelling using ABAQUS software; of tunnel as parameter. This paper will discuss the effect of jack forces to the global behavior of the tunnel in order to support the surrounding load, thus be able to handle the tunnel-soil reaction without any visible or critical deformation, so that the tunnel can be used in the stable condition. A stand-alone ring method together with all-in-once method was used to simulate the Singapore MRT Circle Line 3 (CCL3). In the findings, when the tunnel lining thickness is reduced, the settlement of the ground surface is increased. Jack forces is also one of the reason of the tunnel to distort and the effect is more visible on the rings with reduced thickness compared to original thickness of the tunnel lining.


This essay was to investigate what self-image public libraries convey on Facebook and what image is received by the users, along with comparison of those. It was investigated if the received image ...


We report the controlled formation of nanoscale constrictions in junctionless nanowire field-effect transistors that efficiently modulate the flow of the current in the nanowire. The constrictions act as potential barriers and the height of the barriers can be selectively tuned by gates, making the device concept compatible with the crossbar geometry in order to create logic circuits. The functionality of the architecture and the reliability of the fabrication process are demonstrated by designing decoder devices.


A fast detection method of rice storage quality was studied in this paper. The smell quality detection of stored rice was as a research object, and the odor data was collected by the gas sensor array. The method of principal component analysis was used for feature dimension reduction. Finally the BP network and stochastic resonance algorithm were used for classification respectively. The test results showed that the correct recognition rate was 93.33% by using the classification method of stochastic resonance. The machine olfaction system proposed in this paper can achieve the purpose of testing the rice storage quality non-destructively, rapidly and accurately, which provides a new way for food quality nondestructive testing research.


In article, it is considered, the information approach in which frameworks, there is a revival of interest to cultural world–view conditions of formation of Web–space it considerably distinguishes a modern world–view of culture, from a classical world–view of the past. Besides, because of complexity and ambiguity of a modern social and cultural situation, a projection of a cultural world–view should be different as much as possible to consider its essential parties and a variety of display.


Laser-based methods are investigated for the development of an in situ diagnostic for spatially and temporally resolved characterization of the first wall in fusion devices. Here we report on the first systematic laser-induced ablation spectroscopy (LIAS) measurements carried out on various surface layers in the TEXTOR tokamak. These materials include a-C:D, mixed W/C/Al/D2, Oerlikon Balzers 'Balinit' diamond-like carbon layers and EK98 fine-grain graphite. In LIAS, the bulk or deposited material is evaporated during the plasma discharge by intense laser radiation. The light emitted by particles entering the edge of the ionizing tokamak plasma is then observed by optical spectroscopy. In the measurements taken, it was found that the studied layers can be identified by their characteristic line emission. A good correlation between the observed line intensity and layer thickness is found. The observed plumes show target material dependence. To analyze layers formed during tokamak operation, further investigation of the ablation process and reference materials for cross calibration is required.


Abstract An interview with Shawn Kinley, teacher and performer of improvisational theatre, whose work has taken him to 52 countries across five continents over a 30-year career. His diverse teaching experience includes working with scientists, opera companies, the military, family therapists, and more. Shawn shares his thoughts about the need for the teacher to also be a student in the training experience. Examples of how to engage with improvisational teaching are described. As a performer and teacher of improvisational theatre for 30 years, Shawn Kinley has taught in 52 countries across five continents. He has worked with theatre groups, schools, opera companies, the military, and therapists. In the last few years, the teaching has expanded even further to include a United Nations project on equality for women in Dubai and working with scientists at the Weissman Institute in Israel on experiments ranging from pills for creativity to the science of human connection. He is based at the Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary, Canada—established by improvisation pioneer Keith Johnstone—where he both performs and teaches. He is one of the main trainers in the International Improvisation School, which has run since 1989 teaching students from around world who come for 2 weeks of intensive training.


We determine the primitive ideal space and hence the ideal lattice of a large class of separable groupoid C*-algebras that includes all 2-graph C*-algebras. A key ingredient is the notion of harmonious families of bisections in etale groupoids associated to finite families of commuting local homeomorphisms. Our results unify and recover all known results on ideal structure for crossed products of commutative C*-algebras by free abelian groups, for graph C*-algebras, and for Katsura's topological graph C*-algebras.


Cultural causal correlation is different from natural causal in essence.Therefore,it cannot be comprehended either by positivism method from natural science,or by "understanding" method from methodological hermeneutics to eliminate prejudices.It should be comprehended by the "understanding" method from ontological hermeneutics,and principal foresight into traditional and classical culture is desired.Then new meanings can be created combining with the survival situation of ontological hermeneutics.All these may promote the development and innovation of Chinese future culture undertakings.


The purpose of this grounded theory study was to analyze the maternal process of managing the later stages of established breast-feeding and, ultimately, weaning the child from the breast within a Western Australian context. Data were analyzed from 33 participants'interview transcripts, field notes, 9 postal questionnaires from fathers, and individual and discussion group interviews with child health nurses. A common social problem of incompatible expectations was revealed. All participants faced a dilemma in the management of their experience when personal expectations were in opposition to others' expectations. A process of Constructing Compatibility by Adapting Focus was adopted to compensate for this incompatibility.


We describe the mechanical design of a medical-imaging monochromator for the Multiple Energy Computed Tomography (MECT) project at the X17B superconducting beamline of the NSLS. The monochromator consists of two independent two-crystal Laue-Laue units in tandem, with the option of using a Laue-Bragg/Bragg-Laue configuration. It provides two collinear exit beams of different energies that can be alternatively selected by a shutter. The heart of the design is a mechanically driven spindle with a double gimbal mechanism used for precise angular positioning of each of the four crystals about two orthogonal axes of rotation. An angular precision of 0.041 arcsec is achieved by using a linear motion of 0.1 {mu}m on a lever arm of 50 cm. The main features of the system include a fixed-exit beam having a 15 mm vertical offset, watercooled first crystals in both units, a 12 cm beam width, a 3 mm maximum beam height, an energy range of {approximately} 25--50 and 75--100 keV, a 2.5 s beam-switching time, and high vacuum compatibility.


Seminested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to amplify the DNA fragments of the complementarity‐determining region 3 of the immunoglobulin (Ig) gene heavy chain from the malignant cell specimens of patients with leukemias and lymphomas of B‐cell lineage. Two different pairs of primers were used sequentially. Twenty of the 27 (74%) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients, 14 of 19 (74%) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients and eight of 20 (40%) non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients, who had rearrangement of the Ig gene heavy chain by Southern analysis, were positive by the seminested PCR. False‐negative results appeared to occur more commonly in cases of lymphoma. The PCR analysis was also less likely to be positive if one‐stage PCR studies with either pair of primers were both negative. The seminested PCR technique was found to have a high sensitivity of detecting malignant cells at the level of 0.02%. The clinical application of this assay needs to be investigated further.


Indonesian students' achievementin PISA was unsatisfactory. This shows that the problem-solving ability of Indonesian students is still not as expected. This research aims to describe the ability of Indonesian students and the causes of difficulties in solving PISA problems. The study involved 26 students. The data obtained through test and interview. The test was given to students in grade VIII-3 at SMPN 6 Banda Aceh. The interview was conducted with 5 students selected based on criteria, i.e. one student on good ability, one student on fair to good, one student on poor, and two students on very poor ability. The results showed that the students' ability in solving PISA problems was low which is at Level 2 of the 6 levels by  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development  (OECD). In addition, the results also indicated that the causes of the difficulties were because the students unfamiliar to answer the questions that require reasoning. Students were also difficult in understanding about the word problems. Another factor was caused by the lack of students' ability of mathematical concepts.  Keywords: PISA, level of students' ability, causes of difficulties.


OBJECTIVE
The purpose of our study was to prospectively compare a recently developed method of isotropic 3D fast spin-echo (FSE) with extended echo-train acquisition (XETA) with 2D FSE and 2D fast recovery FSE (FRFSE) for MRI of the knee.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS
Institutional review board approval, Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA) compliance, and informed consent were obtained. We studied 10 healthy volunteers and one volunteer with knee pain using 3D FSE XETA, 2D FSE, and 2D FRFSE. Images were obtained both with and without fat suppression. Cartilage and muscle signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and cartilage-fluid contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) were compared using a Student's t test. We also compared reformations of 3D FSE XETA with 2D FSE images directly acquired in the axial plane.

RESULTS
Cartilage SNR was higher with 3D FSE XETA (56.8 +/- 9 [SD]) compared with the 2D FSE (45.8 +/- 8, p < 0.01) and 2D FRFSE (32.5 +/- 5.3, p < 0.01). Muscle SNR was significantly higher with 3D FSE XETA (52.1 +/- 4.3) than 2D FSE (45.2 +/- 9, p < 0.01) and 2D FRFSE (23.6 +/- 6.2, p < 0.01). Fluid SNR was significantly higher for 2D FSE (144.9 +/- 33) than 3D FSE XETA (104.7 +/- 18, p < 0.01). Compared with 2D FSE and 2D FRFSE, 3D FSE XETA had lower cartilage-fluid CNR due to higher cartilage SNR (p < 0.01). Three-dimensional FSE XETA acquired volumetric data sets with isotropic resolution. Reformatted images in the axial plane were similar to axial 2D FSE acquisitions but with thinner slices.

CONCLUSION
Three-dimensional FSE XETA acquires high-resolution (approximately 0.7 mm) isotropic data with intermediate and T2-weighting that may be reformatted in arbitrary planes. Three-dimensional FSE XETA is a promising technique for MRI of the knee.


We designed and implemented a software for packet capture and analysis and to extract samples of what we identified as random variables. We called it PLAB. We tried to design a program flexible enough but that needed as few processing resources as possible, to be capable of analyzing traffic traces of hundreds of millions packets. In this chapter we illustrate the main architecture of the software, motivate some design decisions and describe some features that were introduced.


In even years the leadership of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry changes January 1 st . This year professor Pieter Steyn from University of Stellenbosch in South Africa stepped down and was succeeded by professor Leiv K. Sydnes from the University of Bergen, Norway. The new president intends to continue where his predecessor left, which means that the Union gradually will be changing to take care of traditional tasks and meet new challenges to advance the worldwide role of chemistry for the benefit of Mankind living in a changing world.


The paper presents the analysis of the basic constructive disadvantages of the present day  microprocessor-based protective devices (MBR) and offers the basic principles for creating a new  MBR that can be used in newly constructed devices.


In 2001/2002, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) conducted the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), the largest and most ambitious comorbidity study ever conducted. In addition to an extensive battery of questions addressing present and past alcohol consumption, alcohol use disorders (AUDs), and utilization of alcohol treatment services, NESARC included similar sets of questions related to tobacco and illicit drug use (including nicotine dependence and drug use disorders). Furthermore, NESARC contained questions that operationalized the criteria set forth in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) for the following psychiatric disorders: * Five mood disorders (major depressive disorder, bipolar I and bipolar II disorders, dysthymia, and hypomania) * Four anxiety disorders (panic with and without agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobia, and generalized anxiety) * Seven personality disorders (avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, schizoid, histrionic, and antisocial disorders). The unprecedented sample size of NESARC (n = 43,093) made it possible to achieve stable estimates of even rare conditions. Moreover, its oversampling of Blacks and Hispanics as well as the inclusion of Hawaii and Alaska in its sampling frame yielded enough minority respondents to make NESARC an ideal vehicle for addressing the critical issue of race and/or ethnic disparities in comorbidity and access to health care services. NESARC's diagnostic classifications were based on the Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disability Interview Schedule-DSM-IV Version (AUDADIS-IV), a state-of-the-art, semistructured diagnostic interview schedule designed for use by lay interviewers. The reliability and validity of this instrument have been documented in a wide range of international settings, using both general population and clinical samples (for an extensive list of publications on reliability and validity, see the data notes section of the NESARC Web site). General Characteristics and Purpose of NESARC The NESARC longitudinal survey consists of a first wave (Wave 1), which was conducted from 2001 to 2002, and a second wave (Wave 2), which was conducted from 2004 to 2005. The NESARC sample represents the civilian, noninstitutionalized adult population of the United States, including residents of the District of Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii. It includes people living in households, military personnel living off base, and people residing in the following group quarters: boarding or rooming houses, nontransient hotels and motels, shelters, facilities for housing workers, college quarters, and group homes. All potential NESARC respondents were informed in writing about the nature of the survey, the statistical uses of the survey data, the voluntary aspect of their participation, and the Federal laws that rigorously provide for the confidentiality of identifiable survey information. Respondents who consented to participate after receiving this information were interviewed. The research protocol, including informedconsent procedures, received full ethical review and approval from the U. S. Census Bureau and the U. S. Office of Management and Budget. Data were collected in face-to-face, computer-assisted personal interviews conducted in respondents' homes. The NESARC response rate was 81 percent. The major purposes of the Wave 1 and Wave 2 NESARC are to: * Determine the prevalence, incidence, stability, and recurrence of AUDs and their associated disabilities in the general U. S. population. * Estimate the magnitude of health disparities in AUDs and their associated disabilities among population subgroups defined by gender, race/ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, age, and socioeconomic status. * Estimate the size, characteristics, and changing nature of populations of special concern, including alcohol abusers and other people in the general population who are impaired or affected by the use of alcohol (e. …


It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2008), which was held on June 8, 2008 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America. PLAS 2008 was co-located with the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2008), and was sponsored by IBM Research and Microsoft Research.

The call for papers attracted 24 submissions from leading researchers at locations around the world (compared to 18 submissions in 2006 and 28 in 2007). Overall, the submitted papers were quite strong, and the program committee ultimately accepted 13 papers (compared to 10 papers in 2006 and 14 in 2007), for an acceptance rate of 54% (compared to 56% in 2006 and 50% in 2007). The accepted papers at PLAS 2008 encompass a variety of topics, including: software verification, static and dynamic analysis for security-policy enforcement, information flow, language-based security, and software protection.

This year, ACM SIGPLAN offered to publish the two top papers in a special issue of ACM SIGPLAN Notices. The Program Committee chose the papers A Type System for Data-Flow Integrity on Windows Vista, by Avik Chaudhuri, Prasad Naldurg, and Sriram Rajamani, and Verified Enforcement of Stateful Information Release Policies, by Nikhil Swamy and Michael Hicks.


We assembled a globally-derived data set for site-averaged foliar delta(15)N, the delta(15)N of whole surface mineral soil and corresponding site factors (mean annual rainfall and temperature, latitude, altitude and soil pH). The delta(15)N of whole soil was related to all of the site variables (including foliar delta(15)N) except altitude and, when regressed on latitude and rainfall, provided the best model of these data, accounting for 49% of the variation in whole soil delta(15)N. As single linear regressions, site-averaged foliar delta(15)N was more strongly related to rainfall than was whole soil delta(15)N. A smaller data set showed similar, negative correlations between whole soil delta(15)N, site-averaged foliar delta(15)N and soil moisture variations during a single growing season. The negative correlation between water availability (measured here by rainfall and temperature) and soil or plant delta(15)N fails at the landscape scale, where wet spots are delta(15)N-enriched relative to their drier surroundings. Here we present global and seasonal data, postulate a proximate mechanism for the overall relationship between water availability and ecosystem delta(15)N and, newly, a mechanism accounting for the highly delta(15)N-depleted values found in the foliage and soils of many wet/cold ecosystems. These hypotheses are complemented by documentation of the present gaps in knowledge, suggesting lines of research which will provide new insights into terrestrial N-cycling. Our conclusions are consistent with those of Austin and Vitousek (1998) that foliar (and soil) delta(15)N appear to be related to the residence time of whole ecosystem N.


The increasing number of vehicles especially in Surabaya means resulting in congestion in light traffic and there are a lot of gas such as CO, CO2, SOx, NOx and HC which produced by motorcycles and other vehicles. It has a big impact for the living things health and needs a specific studies. Copper catalyst design is the most effective in reducing HC motor vehicle gas. The purpose of this study is using a copper catalyst design method that is varied with engine speed (rpm) 1000, 3000, 5000, 8000, type of fuel and using the number of skates 1, 3, 5. The best result of HC gas reduction from the design with skat 5 at rpm 8000 with premium used of 41,5 % from 171 ppm to 100 ppm. This best condition (8000 rpm, 5 skates) uses premium with 88 octan number, pertalite type fuel with 90 octane number, then use the pertamax with 92 octane number. The HC gas results are 6 ppm, 72 ppm and 42 ppm.


The tolerance of the optimized parameters obtained using a genetic algorithm (GA) is an important consideration in the practicality of the design. Here, the geometry of a vertical loaded monopole (VLM) is obtained using a simple GA. To understand the effect of errors in the geometry, a metric called the range improvement factor is developed, a multiplicative factor for the required distance between two quarter-wavelength monopole antennas, which is achieved by using the superior VLM design. The results of corrupting the VLM geometry with Gaussian distributed geometry errors is investigated and indicates that the original design is on a stable plateau within the solution space.


Abstract : President Bush is implementing a comprehensive and visionary foreign policy against international terrorism. The President's policy puts the world on notice that any nation that harbors or supports terrorism will be regarded as a hostile regime.


In this research, we explore the viability of using participatory sensing as a means to enhance a sense of community. To accomplish this, we are developing and deploying a suite of participatory sensing applications, where users explicitly report on the state of their environment, such as the location of the bus. In doing so, community members become reliant on each other for valuable information about the community. By better understanding the relationship between participatory sensing and community, we inform the design and research of similar participatory sensing, or crowd-sourced sensing applications.


Applying Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis to an Unrestricted Corpus: A Case Study in Indonesian and Malay Newspapers Sara LuAnne White Department of Linguistics and English Language, BYU Master of Arts In 2008 Baker et al. proposed a nine-step method that combines quantitative corpus linguistics with qualitative critical discourse analysis. To date this cycle has only been used to analyze a single language with a restricted corpus. Can this method, originally designed for this narrow focus, be applied cross-culturally to an unrestricted corpus? There are two over-arching goals for this paper, one linguistic and one methodological. The first goal is to learn about language ideologies in Indonesian and Malay newspapers; the second goal is to evaluate the efficacy of a mixed-methods corpus-driven approach to discourse analysis using the methods proposed by Baker et al. Our research will be based on the cross-cultural analysis of two 4million-word corpora of newspaper articles; one Indonesian and one Malay. Malaysia and Indonesia are home to two peoples, living side by side and sharing a common language background, but reacting to the Islamic fundamentalist movement in different ways. Applying Baker et al.'s cycle, we will use keyword analysis, collocation, concordance lines, and qualitative analysis in this study. Whereas Baker employed a corpus restricted to articles about refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants, our corpus encompasses articles on any topic; whereas their study focused solely on English, ours will compare Indonesian and Malay. To build a "useful methodological synergy" between qualitative and quantitative analysis (Baker, et al., 2008), this corpus-driven study will consider how Islam and related terms are being represented by government, historical, and religious sources. The results of this study will help us discern how these two countries are reacting to the fundamentalist movement. This study will also help evaluate the applicability of Baker et al.'s proposed methods to other types of sociolinguistic research and bring to light any modifications that could be made.


The new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics requires qualified builders and successors. At present, some students have problems such as self-alienation and personality loss. They are weak in psychological quality, lacking in ideological and moral cultivation. Their ndividual subjective personality has not been well developed. The main reason is that they have not adapted well to the social transformation caused by the rapid development of China, and have failed to deal with personal physical and mental relations, personal and social relations, and personal and national relations. Therefore, we need the joint efforts of individuals, society and the state to help them get out of the personality dilemma as soon as possible and cultivate the ideal personality to adapt to the development of society through the integrated education system of individual selfeducation, social pluralism, common education and national guidance.


This paper outlines an investigation of the incidence and impact of physical, verbal and property-violation bullying in 25 secondary schools within a partnership operating with Keele University. The investigation also considers the impact of antisocial behaviour on pupils and the effectiveness of intervention to secure improved behaviour patterns. Evidence shows that in any year 75 per cent of pupils are bullied but that severe and repeated bullying is likely to be perpetrated and suffered by about seven per cent of pupils. Four behaviour patterns can be identified: bullies, bullies who are also victims, victims and non-participants, and the link between behaviour and factors in developing self-esteem is explored. Successful intervention requires a change of attitude on the part of both pupils and the community, a willingness to report events, and an understanding of respect for personal space.


This paper introduces a quick classification method of the power quality disturbances. Based on analyzing the characteristics of different electrical disturbance signals in time domain, four distinctive features are extracted from electrical signals for classifying different power quality disturbances and then an automatic classifier is proposed. Using the proposed classification method,a PQ monitor of the classifying power quality disturbances is developed based on the TMS320F2812DSP micro-processor. Semi-physical simulation, lab experiment and field measurement results have verified that this proposed method can classify single or complex disturbance signals effectively.


The purpose of this article is to provide some reflections and considerations in relation to the way in which universities carry out postgraduate thesis advising, considering that the completion of a PhD thesis requires rigorous work both by the PhD student and by the advisors, with the academic unit in charge of the postgraduate program being responsible for the latter. In this regard, the aim of the article is to identify practices in the preparation of PhD theses in Peruvian universities in order to propose good practices in thesis advising, adopting measures to regulate the procedure and to ensure that the PhD student receives adequate guidance to achieve the objective of graduation with a high-quality academic paper through good practices. This is motivated by the fact that there are often different criteria not only among schools, but also among universities, regarding the way to guide the preparation of doctoral theses, added to the absence of research policies, lack of development of research lines by the universities according to their area of influence and, occasionally, poor tutor preparation. In this order of ideas, university or academia, as it is rightly called today, has a great social responsibility that goes beyond its public, private or associative nature toward national development. As a result, rather than being limited to professional training, its contribution should comprise the development of technological knowledge to meet social needs.


Part I: Multinational Firms, International Production and Home Employment 1. Foreign Production by US Firms and Parent Firm Employment Part II: Multinational Firms and International Trade: FDI and Export, FDI and Intra-Firm Trade 2. Relationships between Trade and FDI Flows within Two Panels of US and French Industries 3. Intra-Firm Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: an Empirical Analysis of French Firms 4. Foreign Investment Transactions and International Trade Linkages 5. Intra-Firm Trade and Market Structure Part III: Multinational Firms, Linkages and Spillover Effects 6. Linkages, Multinationals and Industrial Development 7. Local Procurement by Japanese Manufacturing Affiliates Part IV: Multinational Firms, Structure and Diffusion of Technology and Innovation: How it is Structured in the Context of Globalization 8. The Effectiveness of Intellectual Property Rights: an Exploration of French Survey Data 9. The Innovative Activities of Multinational Firms in Italy 10. Innovative Strategies and Know-How Flows in International Companies: Some Evidence from Belgian Manufacturing 11. Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Sourcing


An ultrastable low-noise current amplifier (ULCA) is presented. The ULCA is a non-cryogenic instrument based on specially designed operational amplifiers and resistor networks. It acts as a current-to-current amplifier or a current-to-voltage converter. Its transfer coefficient is extremely stable versus time, temperature and current amplitude within the full dynamic range of ±13 nA. The concept aims at achieving an uncertainty of one part in 107 at direct currents of 100 pA. A cryogenic current comparator is used to calibrate both current gain and transresistance, providing traceability to the quantum Hall resistance. A low noise level of 2.4 fA/√Hz helps to keep averaging times low at small input currents.


LonWorks is a completed,opening,operable,developed and low cost distributed network.It is used by many device manufacturers and end users.It is introduced from the characteristic,network principle and control network advantages,from system structure and programming,LonWorks and the application of it in measuring room temperature control is introduced,the availability and advanced performance in control are verified.


The miracle with Alvise Finetti's son occurred against a background of financial and political shocks that affected the Venetian population as a whole and the cittadini originarii in the service of the republic perhaps more than other social classes. Financial and other sacrifices in time of war were expected, but the near failure of the "foundation of (Venetian) existence", the State Loans Office, must have generated unusual uncertainty and apprehension. Supernatural intervention absorbed these into its miracle. The micro-narrative categories in which the accounts operate dovetail neatly with and correspond fully to the marco-economic categories that determined social conditions and security for a large section of the Venetian cittadini originarii in 1480. The state had narrowed the options of its leading citizen class to the point where other identities became irrelevant, and the cittadini had acquiesced.Keywords: Alvise Finetti; cittadini originarii; republic's affairs; state finances; State Loans Office


Electron delocalization between molecules in chemical reactions is represented compactly in terms of the pairs of localized interacting orbitals. These interacting orbitals are illustrated to be reproduced approximately by projecting on to the occupied and unoccupied MO subspaces of an isolated reactant molecule a reference orbital function that has been chosen to specify the local characteristics of a given reaction. These projected reactive orbitals allow us to estimate the potential of an atom or a functional group for electron donation or electron acceptance in the reactant molecule


The bridgeless power factor correction circuit is provided. According to the present invention, the first input terminal and a second input terminal, a first output terminal and second output terminal, respectively of the cathode (cathode) which can be connected to the load first output terminal which may be connected to an AC power source and connecting a first diode and a second diode, a first input terminal and a second inductor connected between the anode of the first inductor, a second input terminal and a second diode connected between the anode (anode) of the first diode, a is which is connected between the anode and the second output terminal of the first diode first switch, the first to form a neutral point between the second switch, the first output terminal and a second output terminal connected to the anode and the second output terminal of the second diode first capacitor and the second capacitor, the second being connected between the first input terminal and a neutral third capacitor, and a second input terminal and the bridgeless power factor correction of the rotating body and a fourth capacitor connected between the neutral point It is to be provided.


Objectives: The antioxidant activity of the synthesized compounds along with the standard compound for comparison is reported. There is comparison of binding analysis and the ligand interaction of the compound. Methods: The protein crystal structure complexed with 4-methyl-6-[2-(5-morpholin-4-ylpyridin-3-yl)ethyl]pyridin-2-amine inhibitor was selected from Protein Data Bank (5FVP) for our study. Results: The docking studies and structure-activity relationship reveals that the compound 2'-chloro-4-methoxy-3nitro benzilic acid after three different docking strategies reveals that the score was found to be higher compared with others.Conclusion: Based on the in vitro antioxidant results, the compounds synthesized were investigated for the molecular docking study to identify the amino acid interactions in the active site pocket of nitric oxide synthase enzyme. Based on the docking score results, all the compounds were oriented toward the active site pocket occupied by the cocrystallized ligand


Glucocorticosteroids (CT) show a powerful anti-inflammatory effect. In view of this, they are extensively used in sports medicine, but their misuse (systemic administration) can lead to severe injuries on athletes and has been restricted by the IOC in recent years. For GC-MS analysis, a derivatization step is necessary in order to convert them to a stable form, thus preventing thermal breakdown with the loss of the ketone side chain. Derivatization of CT is reviewed and a new approach of silylation is presented for screening of CT in urine.


POEMS syndrome is a rare multisystemic disorder characterized by polyneuropathy, organomegaly, monoclonal gammopathy and skin lesions.Here we present a case of Castleman disease variant of atypical POEMS syndrome presented with organomegaly,mediastinal conglomerate lymph nodes,bilateral pulmonary involvement,monoclonal gammopathy,elevated IL-6 levels, anemia and thrombosis but no polyneuropathy.A 40 year-old female was presented with a history of dyspnea, fever and 20 kilograms of weight loss in four months.Thorax computerized tomography revealed bilateral conglomerate hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes,bilateral diffuse parenchymal consolidations and multiple parenchymal spiculated nodules.Fiberoptic bronchoscopy showed no morphological pathology,bronchoscopic biopsy specimens had no specific diagnosis.Diagnostic mediastinoscopy session was terminated because of the increased fibrotic tissue.Hence, patient was undergone thoracotomy and multinodular,dense lymphoplasmocytic infiltration was seen in biopsy specimens.Immunohistochemistry studies showed no specific pathology.The bone scintigraphy and the knee magnetic resonance imaging revealed cortical erosion at distal femur, which showed kappa monoclonal plasma cell infiltration at biopsy.IL-6 level was elevated and electromyography showed no polyneuropathy.On the basis of the findings of conglomerate lymphadenopathy,monoclonal gammopathy, organomegaly,anemia, elevated IL-6 levels and trombocytosis, patient was diagnosed with Castleman disease variant of atypical POEMS syndrome.Atypical and multisystemic rare diseases should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of a patients with interstitial lung disease with unusual presentation.


A series of model experiments demonstrated that aortic sinus dilatation results in diastolic valvular incompetence only when compensatory valvular elongation was insufficient mechanically to effect valve coaptation. Since abnormalities of fluid dynamics were not responsible for leakage, simple restriction of the aortic root by a ligature could abort the aortic incompetence.


Program Description: This miniseminar will highlight advances in clinical case management of patients with dyspnea associated with upper airway tract abnormalities. Both endoscopic and open management of the difficult airway will be discussed. A perspective on advances and options for office based management will be offered. A perspective on indications for advanced techniques including airway transplantation will be offered. This miniseminar will be interactive, with audience participation encouraged. Educational Objectives: 1) Differentiate options and indications for endoscopic and open management of upper airway stenosis. 2) Demonstrate office based management of the difficult airway. 3) Recite the decision pathway for upper airway transplantation.


Beam losses in accelerator elements of the LHC may pose a limit for machine performance or can give rise to long-term damage of equipment. In this paper, we present a selection of beam-machine interaction simulations with FLUKA, considering different sources of beam losses like collisions in the interaction regions or halo collimation. Relevant nuclear reactions, as well as atomic displacement mechanisms that lead to long-term radiation damage, are briefly reviewed. The impact on the machine is illustrated by means of a few examples, like the radiation damage induced in collimators and magnets or the risk of magnet quenches due to secondary ions emerging from lead-lead collisions.


Functional GUT problems are common. Nearly everyone occasionally suffers some GUT symptoms however 15% of the population will have the chronic symptoms i.e. for at least 3 months of the year, without pathological changes. Traditionally the patient is diagnosed as IBS after normal upper and lower abdominal endoscopic investigations and the management involves a SSRI or a tri-cyclic antidepressant.


Aim: Skin grafting is a common clinical practice for plastic surgeons, yet primary contraction of these grafts is a neglected topic. This study was designed to investigate primary contraction and introduce the shape of skin graft as a possible factor that modifies primary contraction behavior, using porcine models. Methods: In the first series, full-thickness skin grafts (FTSGs) and split-thickness skin grafts (STSGs) were compared. In a second series, how the shape of the skin graft affected the degree of contraction was examined. Results: The mean percentage of FTSG shrinkage was 12.04%, and the median was 12.18%. The mean percentage of STSG shrinkage was 6.87%, and the median was 5%. Circle-shaped and square-shaped FTSGs showed mean/median graft shrinkage of 5.83%/6.93% and 4.15%/3.75%, respectively. In STSGs, the circle-shaped and square-shaped grafts had mean/median graft shrinkage of 1.07%/0% and 0.31%/0%, respectively. Conclusion: Our preliminary report revealed an expected greater shrinkage of FTSGs compared with STSGs. Furthermore, in a limited number of specimens, the shape of the skin graft seemed to affect the primary contraction of the STSGs.


In the context of modern business globalization, cross-border e-commerce has its characteristics of large span and wide market, which promotes the rapid development of international e-commerce. Based on the background of the era of big data, this paper analyzes the collaborative development mechanism of cross-border e-commerce and logistics, analyzes the difficulties affecting the development of cross-border e-commerce and logistics, and proposes the collaborative development path of cross-border e-commerce and logistics in the data environment, so as to realize the core goal of promoting the collaborative development of both sides.


In this article, the author critically examines a variety of approaches to multicultural education noted in integrated (mixed Catholic and Protestant) schools in Northern Ireland and considers their implications in the context of the wider debate around multiculturalism. She argues that educators should challenge sectarianism, but should also resist the essentialization of group identities.


The paper gives a VAR model of behavioral equilibrium exchange rate between Renminbi(RMB) nominal exchange rate and its determinate factors during the period 1994 and 2006 in seasonal data.The evidence shows that the misalignment of Renminbi's nominal exchange rate was less than 3% during the period,which gives a theoretical explanation to the appropriate level of Renminbi Exchange rate.The empirical analysis also shows that the exchange rate reform and appreciation in July 2005 was reasonable not only in time,the range of appreciation,but also the direction.With the model,the future appreciation of Renminbi should be realized chronic ally and by small percentage.


1. Enzymes - Catalysts of Life. Classification of enzymes. Principles of the kinetics of enzymatic reactions. Effects of organic solvents on enzymes. Effects of temperature and pH on the stability and activity of enzymes. Units of enzymatic activity. 2. The Biocatalyst Form. Free enzymes. Immobilized enzymes. Cells of microorganisms. Immobilized cells of microorganisms. Plant and animal cells. Non-enzymatic biopreparations. 3. Biocatalysts and the Problem of Selectivity in Organic Synthesis. Specificity of chemical action and substrate specificity of enzymes. Differentiation of enantiomers. Differentiation of enantiotopic groups. Differentiation of enantiotopic sides. 4. Substitution Reactions Using Biocatalysts. Methylations. Halogenations. Substitution reactions in the side chain of amino acids. Substitutions on aromatic systems with the formation of a C-C bond. Substitutions at C-1 in saccharides. 5. Elimination and Addition Reactions. Additions to the C=C bond. Additions to the C=O bond. 6. Syntheses and Hydrolyses of Esters. Syntheses of esters. Chemo- and regioselective hydrolyses of esters. Kinetic resolutions of racemic esters, acids and alcohols. Diesters of prochiral dicarboxylic acids. Prochiral diols. 7. Synthesis and Hydrolyses of Amides. Syntheses of amides and peptides. Hydrolyses of amides and nitriles. 8. Oxidations. Oxidation of alcohols. Further oxidation reactions. 9. Reductions. Reductions of aldehydes and acyclic ketones. Reductions of cyclic ketones. Reductions of di- and tricarbonyl compounds. Reductions of oxo acids, oxo esters and oxo amides. Reductions of the carbonyl group in organometallic compounds. Reductions of the C=C bond. Syntheses of alpha-amino acids from alpha-oxo acids. Reductions of the nitro group. Miscellaneous reductions. References. Subject Index.


"The final task of phenomenology as a philosophy of consciousness," Merleau-Ponty wrote, "is to understand its relationship with non-phenomenology. That which resists phenomenology in us – natural being, the 'barbaric principle' of which Schelling spoke – cannot remain extra-phenomenal and must have its place within it." The barbaric principle (Schelling read by Merleau-Ponty), and the there is (the il y a of Levinas) – such is the confrontation that must be attempted here. Far from remaining simply pre-reflexive or presupposing the signified, the Nietzschean 'abyss' (Abgrund), even more radical than the Schellingian 'groundless ground' (Urgrund), is an invitation for us today to probe what could also stand 'outside the phenomenon' (hors-phénomène).


Iron is involved in the virulence and pathogenic effects of certain intracellular parasites. In the pathogenic process of Brucella, the uptaking and metabolism of host iron are closely related to intracellular parasitism and immunity escape of Brucella. In this paper, we elucidated the iron transport system, iron response regulators and nutrient immunity of iron based on the latest report and data about Brucella.

Key words:
Brucella; Iron uptake systems; Iron response regulators; Nutrition immune


The invention discloses a resin binder fretsaw with a spiral groove core wire. The resin binder fretsaw comprises a core wire, diamond abrasive grains and a resin binder, wherein the core wire comprises an outer wire and an inner wire; the outer wire is spirally wound on the outer surface of the inner wire; and the diamond abrasive grains are fixedly bonded on the outer surface of the core wire through the resin binder, and are clamped at a thread of the outer wire. The resin binder fretsaw has the beneficial effects that firstly, when the resin binder fretsaw is subjected to an alternating cutting force and the impact of a fluid, the diamond abrasive grains can transmit the cutting force to the outer wire, so that the stability of the diamond abrasive grains in the cutting process is improved; and secondly, the contact area of the resin binder with the core wire is increased, and the binding force of resin and the core wire is increased.


Discontinuation of the normal skin cleansing in geriatric or self-neglected patients can result in accumulation of keratinous scales, crusts on the skin and its most severe form has been named as Diogenes syndrome. The usual affected sites are upper central chest, back and the groins. These patients may have psychiatric or mood disorders or temporofrontal dementia. Alcohol abuse is a co-factor. Subjects are mainly the elderly, but a few cases in younger age group of patients have also been recorded who showed lesions on the scalp, face or arms. We report a case of Diogenes syndrome in a 20-year-old girl who was suffering from familial neurodegenerative disease.


The joint analysis of several simultaneously recordered datasets is essential for a better understanding of the principles underlying the complex systems dynamics. Here we consider three methods for the estimation of the stability of the relative dynamics of two processes based on their phase synchronization, coherence function and cross-conditional entropy measures. The first measure is based on the calculation of the phase synchronization coefficient Sync, while the second one is based on the cross-conditional entropy CE. The third approach implies the calculation of the average value of the coherence function of the two processes and is denoted here as the coherence coefficient Coher. All methods were applied to the two types of surrogate normally distributed random stochastic datasets, with either short-term or long-term correlations, characterized by either finite or infinite correlation time, respectively. We created two copies of each dataset and added white noise to one of them with either uniform or Gaussian distribution exhibiting zero mean and equal variance this way simulating the amplitude randomization effect. We next investigated the statistical characteristics of the mutual stability coefficients between the original and the modified datasets. We have shown explicitly that long-term correlations are more vulnerable to the amplitude randomization then short-term correlations. Moreover, coefficients Sync and Coher exhibited different reactions to the increased amplitude randomization for different Hurst exponents, while CE did not show any significant dependence. On the contrary, the influence of the correlation time in short-term correlated datasets could be demonstrated clearly for the coefficients Sync and CE, while no such effect could be observed in Coher. Our results may appear useful in investigations of the mutual dynamics of two datasets in various complex systems analysis including complex networks.


PURPOSE
Glutaminase is a key enzyme that supports elevated dependency of tumors on glutamine-dependent biosynthesis of metabolic intermediates. Dual targeting of glucose and glutamine metabolism by the mTOR inhibitor everolimus plus the oral glutaminase inhibitor telaglenastat showed preclinical synergistic anticancer effects which translated to encouraging safety and efficacy findings in a phase 1 trial of 2L+ renal cell carcinoma (RCC). This study evaluated telaglenastat plus everolimus (TelaE) versus placebo plus everolimus (PboE) in patients with advanced/metastatic RCC (mRCC) in the 3L+ setting (NCT03163667).

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
Eligible patients with mRCC, previously treated with at least 2 prior lines of therapy (including {greater than or equal to}1 VEGFR-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor [TKI]) were randomized 2:1 to receive E, plus Tela or Pbo, until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Primary endpoint was investigator-assessed progression-free survival (PFS; 1-sided alpha <0.2).

RESULTS
69 patients were randomized (46 TelaE, 23 PboE). Patients had a median 3 prior lines of therapy, including TKIs (100%) and checkpoint inhibitors (88%). At median follow-up of 7.5 months, median PFS was 3.8 months for TelaE vs 1.9 months for PboE (hazard ratio [HR]=0.64; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.34, 1.20; 1-sided P=0.079). One TelaE patient had a partial response (PR) and 26 had stable disease (SD). Eleven patients on PboE had SD. Treatment-emergent adverse events included fatigue, anemia, cough, dyspnea, elevated serum creatinine, and diarrhea; Grade 3-4 events occurred in 74% TelaE patients vs. 61% PboE.

CONCLUSIONS
TelaE was well tolerated and improved PFS vs PboE in patients with mRCC previously treated with TKIs and checkpoint inhibitors.


Lymph nodes from 70 patients during operations for cancer of the stomach, lung, breast, esophagus and intestine were examined in order to study the blood microcirculatory channel of lymph nodes regional to the tumor and the possible role of the detected changes in cancer metastasis. There were 52 men and 18 women; mean age, 54.9 years.


A new species of Amphidinium, A. cupulatisquama Tamura et Horiguchi, from sand samples from Ikei Island, Okinawa Prefecture in subtropical Japan, is described based on light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy and the partial sequencing of the large subunit rDNA gene. The species has a typical morphology for the genus, but is distinguished from previously described species by having a combination of the following characteristics: (i) a relatively large cell (over 30 µm in length); (ii) possessing an eyespot on the dorsal side of the cingulum; (iii) the longitudinal flagellum emerging from a point close to the cingulum; (iv) cell division taking place in the motile phase; and (v) possessing body scales. This is the third species of this genus to possess body scales. The body scales of A. cupulatisquama are uniform and cup‐shaped in side view and elliptical in face view. Their dimensions are 136.4 nm by 91.0 nm by 81.8 nm high. In side view, the scale is seen to have a thick lower half and a thin upper half. This scale type is very different from those of previously reported Amphidinium species (HG114 and HG115). The molecular tree indicated that A. cupulatisquama and the two other strains of body scale‐bearing Amphidinium are distantly related within the Amphidinium clade.


Global value chains (GVCs) are changing not only the way firms organize production but also the policies that influence social and economic development. In this chapter I make a first effort to develop and illustrate this framework. First, I present a typology of industrial innovation policies and extend it to "GVC-oriented policies," that is, those policies that target the fostering of production and technology upgrading through GVCs. The examples from trade and foreign investment policies, and from innovation policies, confirm that a radical rethinking and theorizing of policies is necessary and urgent. Future research will need to move further and deeper into this direction.


We present colour transformations for the conversion of the W1 and W2 magnitudes of WISE photometric system to the Johnson Cousins' BVRI, SDSS gri, and 2MASS JHKs photometric systems, for dwarfs. The W3 and W4 magnitudes were not considered due to their insufficient signal to noise ratio (S/N). The coordinates of 825 dwarfs along with their BVRI, gri, and JHKs data, taken from Bilir et al. (2008) were matched with the coordinates of stars in the preliminary data release of WISE (Wright et al. 2010) and a homogeneous dwarf sample with high S/N ratio have been obtained using the following constraints: 1) the data were dereddened, 2) giants were identified and excluded from the sample, 3) sample stars were selected according to data quality, 4) transformations were derived for sub samples of different metallicity range, and 5) transformations are two colour dependent. These colour transformations, coupled with known absolute magnitudes at shorter wavelenghts, can be used in space density evaluation for the Galactic (thin and thick) discs, at distances larger than the ones evaluated with JHKs photometry.


A method of transferring data to or from a fluid meter, such as, for example, a water, electricity, gas or micro-generation meter, the fluid meter comprising a near-field active communication device. The method comprises: - a data transfer step (50) between the active communication device and a passive communication device external to the fluid meter and physically independent of the counter, said passive communication device being in the vicinity of the active communication device in said data transfer step, and - a recording step (52), during which the data is stored in a memory of the communication device which receives the data and / or in a memory of the fluid counter. Fluid meter, passive communication device, support and associated transfer set.


This article explores the determinants of farming households' commitmentto the certification process, or lack thereof, following the 2005 Madagascanland reform. The field work, which was carried out in a rural town in theHighlands, shows that (i) the main motivation for requesting a certificateis securing one's land tenure, independently from the prospect of futureinvestments or land sale, and (ii) the characteristics of the plot of landinfluence both the decision to obtain a certificate and the choice of theplots for which a certificate is requested.


The information society in which we live increasingly makes us dependent on the Internet. This brings positives in the organization of the learning process of modern students, as it diversifies the methods and means and arouses their interest more easily. On the other hand, digitization leads to the need of further research in the field of the psychological impact of technology on students. Attention plays an important role in the learning process, as it is a mechanism regulating the psyche and ensures the course of mental processes. Attention with its characteristics largely determines the behavior, assimilation of learning material and student achievement. In this article we present the results of a study of the impact of Internet access on the resilience, concentration and volume of attention in 11th grade students.


The application of a methodology for quantitative protein analysis from formalin‐fixed and paraffin‐embedded (FFPE) tissue by using hydrogels. Miniaturized polymeric gels are placed onto histologically defined tissue regions in order to perform localized digestion for bottom‐up proteomics. Hydrogel‐extracted peptides are then labeled with tandem mass tags (TMT) reagents for relative protein quantification. A cardiac myxoma biopsy is used.


This list contains 14C dates pertaining to the Stone Age in southern Africa and covers the region from Zambia in the north to Natal and the northern Cape Province in South Africa. The southern and southwestern Cape Province are not included. Descriptions are based on information supplied by the submitters.


Previous research has indicated that physical attractiveness can "radiate" or spill over onto an interaction partner. This study examined the possible radiating effect of a newly discovered social stereotype, religiousness. Males ( n = 56) and females ( n = 119) college students initially rated the religiousness of a male target and then each subject read one of five scenarios describing the male's dating  partner's religious background. The female's religious background was described in four ways: 1) Always religious, 2) Recent religious convert, 3) Recent religious heretic, 4) Never religious, and a fifth control condition which omitted information on the female's religious background. Following presentation of the scenarios, subjects again rated the boyfriend's religiousness. Analysis of pre- vs. post-scenario  change scores indicated the boyfriend's religiousness increased following knowledge of the girlfriend's long-term or recent religious involvement (positive radiation effect) but decreased following knowledge of the girlfriend's long-term or recent nonreligious involvement (negative radiation effect). It was concluded that the radiation effects identified can serve to further expand our understanding of the interpersonal perceptions people hold of the religious and nonreligious.


Statement of the problem. Leonid Lisovsky (1866–1934) is the Ukrainian and Russian composer, conductor, pianist, ensemble player, teacher, music critic, editor of musical works, translator, musicologist. He is the author of over 300 works in various genres, among which an important place belongs to compositions of comic genre. L. Lisovsky was very well known in his lifetime, but later he was completely forgotten. The relevance and scientific novelty of the research is determined by the necessity to study the person and creative heritage of the famous artist. The purpose of the offered research is to reveal the ways of creation of comic musical characters in L. Lisovsky's chamber-vocal compositions and to identify stylistic peculiarities of this works. Cultural-historical, theoretical, musical-analytical, structural and systematic research methods were used when the history of Lisovsky's chamber-vocal compositions were studying, the key principles of comic in music were identifying, the works of the composer were analyzing and their genre and style features were revealing. The results of the researches by O. Solomonova, B. Borodin, O. Freidenberg, I. Gendler on issues of the laugh culture and I. Gorbunova who viewed the comic genres in Ukrainian music were used as methodological basis for our study. Works by I. Trofimov and others are used for contextual analysis, as well as the studies of S. Koltysheva, M. Rzhevska and A. Litvinenko, where the person of L. Lisovsky presented in the biographical aspect. Results of the research. Based on abovementioned scientific sources, the principles of embodiment of the comic by the ways of musical art were highlighted. Some chamber and vocal works by L. Lisovsky were analyzed, such as the Suite for baritone and bass cantando "At the Bailif's Gate" (words by O. Tolstoy), comic Romance for tenor and baritone "TheCuckoo and the Rooster" (words by I. Krylov), the fable "Woman" (words by K. Kropyva) and the vocal cycle "Four jokes by Alexander Pushkin". The peculiarities of the composer's reading the literary stories were disclosed. L. Lisovsky's enthusiasm for satirical poetic texts in the works of the early period and especially in the 1920s were revealed. Conclusions. L. Lisovsky's turn to the comic chamber vocal works becomes his response on the social and economic hardships and promotes to regeneration of his creative forces in the important periods of his life. For implementation of the comic poetic texts by musical resources L. Lisovsky uses the genre mixes. The comic imaginative and emotional spectrum in chamber and vocal music lengths from good humor to bitter satire. The composer uses romantic, late romantic and impressionistic stylistic peculiarities to create musical characteristics.


Orumieh Lake due to economic, tourism, microclimate effect, agricultural activities have an important role in the northwest of Iran. This lake basin area is 52700 km 2 with 102 islands, as known a familiar it as known one of the protected areas, with 186 species of birds, and animals. The water of lake is very salty (240 gr in winter and 260gr in summer) and fluctuation of Lake water level threaded 500km 2 of banks or shorelines lands. Water level rising in intensive rainfall years caused damage for ports instruments in shoreline and agricultures lands. This tectonically Orumieh Lake surrounded by agricultural plains and consists of 10.5 % of basin area and has 340 million m 3 water resources. The ratio of salt in soils is from %1 an Ec 8 mmhose to %3 and Ec more than 40 in around lake expanded in vast area. Due to the construction of many dames on the main rivers, dominated of drought climate, diverting river water to agriculture land and Tabriz city water supply, sea level this lake intensively decreased. For control satiation preceding and rehabilitation marginal soils due to environmental potential, some techniques suggested for land using of shoreline.


Retired educators and other older adults can be influential advocates for K-12 education about aging, by promoting balanced and accurate education related to aging across grade levels and core disciplines. This article presents the processes, outcomes, and evaluation of a pilot project involving retired educators in Colorado and Montana. The experiences from this pilot project can help guide future efforts of retired older adults to increase teacher awareness of the need for K-12 education about aging.


ObjectiveTo study the protective effect of Chinese Medical Formula Decoction on anoxic damage in cultured hippocampal neuronal cells from newborn rats. MethodsThe sera with Chinese Medicine (SCM 1,2,3) were collected from rats fed on Chinese Medical Formula Decoction Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ(CMFD Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ) for 3 days,while the sera of rats which were fed with normal saline was collected as control. Hippocampal neuronal cells were obtained from dissociated cerebrella of 2 day old Wister rats. The cells were maintained in 5% CO 2 humidified atmosphere at 37℃. After 7 days, the cells were grown in culture media containing SCM 1?2?3 and normal saline for 24 hours and in anoxic atmosphere for 1 hour. After anoxia, the cells were cultured for 24 hours. Culture media were collected and Malonaldehyde (MDA) and Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) in culture media were detected. ResultsThe survival neuronal cell rate in SCM 1 and 2 groups were significantly higher than control group. LDH and MDA in culture media of SCM 1 and 2 groups were lowed than control group. Conclusions There is a protective effect of CMFD 1 and 2 on anoxic damage in cultured hippocampal neuronal cells from newborn rats.


The interest in the field of porous materials is continually increasing; a very important step for any applications of these materials is the preparation and characterization ofmaterials. In parallel, applications of these materials are also rising in areas such as catalysts, electrochemistry, membranes, gas separation, and selective adsorption for environmental and energy uses. Accordingly, researches in this area are often challenged with a rapidly growing literature on the subject, describing the development of porous materials with uniform pore sizes, good stability, selectivity, activity, and also enhanced crystallinity. The contributions to the present special issue have been grouped into several categories according to their subject matter: synthesis, processing, characterizations, and property evaluation of porous materials. Contributors were requested to provide work introductions to their areas of expertise, so that the subject matter might be more generally accessible to no specialists. Authors were also encouraged to provide the readers with updated information on different aspects of their field. The editors hope that the objectives of the present special issue have been met, so that the articles will be useful not only to working materials researchers but also to interested engineers as well as students and researchers in materials field.


Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay (ELISA) is a technique commonly used to detect and identify viruses (Clark & Adams, 1977; Clark, 1981). This is convenient for screening of large numbers of samples. There are several types of ELISA tests (Koenig & Paul, 1982; Cambra et al., 1991, 2011) and the most widely used are: (i) Double antibody sandwich ELISA (DAS-ELISA), (ii) Double antibody sandwich indirect ELISA (DASIELISA; also named triple antibody sandwich-TAS), (iii) Plate Trapping Antigen ELISA (PTA direct and indirect ELISA), (iv) Tissue print-ELISA, also named Direct tissue blot immunoassay-DTBIA (direct-ELISA).


The network hypothesis proposed by Jerne' demands an internal regulation of the individual's immune system mediated by recognition of lymphocytes carrying complementary immunoglobulin variable domains (idiotypes/anti-idiotypes). Since it is known that anti-idiotypic antibodies can mimic the structure of hormones as well as of receptors for these hormone~,Z.~ anti-idiotypic antibodies may profoundly influence the flow of information in the endocrine network and vice versa: a neuroendocrinologic system could be a regulatory element in the immunologic network by the high connectivity of both, through regulatory idiotopes? The internal recognition of lymphocytes leads to a mechanism responsible for the induction of a transplantation barrier towards isogeneic or congeneic immune When immune cells are transferred to nonirradiated animals of the same genotype, the mutual influence of the donor's and recipient's immune network causes a barrier ("isogeneic bamer") towards the transplanted cells which severely affects their capacity to function in the host.'.' Our aim has been to test whether environmental stress factors can influence the regulatory circuits of the donor's and host's immune network. The thymus-independent immune response of mice against a( 1 3) dextran provides an excellent system to examine such phenomena. It is linked to allotype-Igh"."" Mice of allotype-Igh" respond strongly to dextran (dex) with a crossreacting idiotype shared by the myeloma proteins MOPC-104E and J558." FIGURE 1shows the genetic control of the anti-dex response in strains of different genetic background. After the transfer of IgW-immune cells into congeneic Ighb-mice, one can be certain to measure only the idiotype-positive immune response of the donor cells. As one can see from FIGURE 2, transplantation of idiotype-positive cells from Igh" mice faces a barrier in nonirradiated Ighb-mice, which severely affects their capacity to function in the congeneic host. This congeneic barrier is lost in mice that are immune-defective, either by X-irradiation or by an X-linked chromosomal defect (FIG. 2). These results indicate that mature B cells play a fundamental role during the induction of this transplantation barrier. From other experiments it has been suggested that mature B cells display suppression of transplanted cells by anti-idiotypic reactions.'* Our aim has been to examine whether these reactions can be modulated by distressing environmental stimuli, such as crowding or increased ambient temperature, since it has been shown that anti-idiotypic antibodies can mimic the biological activity


Copyright © 2012 by The Geochemical Society of Japan. In the 1990s, many studies reported an increase in thyroid cancer in children due to the release of 131I during the Chernobyl accident in 1986 (Prisyazhniuk et al., 1991; Kazakov et al., 1992). The activity of 131I around an accident site needs to be known to evaluate precisely the health impact. However, 131I can hardly be detected after several years owing to its short half-life. The measurement of the activity of 137Cs (half-life: 30.1 y) is not completely suitable for the estimation of the 131I level because the two isotopes behave differently in the environment due to different chemical property (Hou et al., 2003). On the other hand, 129I (half-life: 1.57 × 107 yrs) is the optimum proxy for 131I because the two isotopes are of the same element and move identically after release during an accident. Moreover, 129I hardly decays and is considered to remain much longer in the environment than other proxies. Although the detection of 129I was complex and time-consuming when employing the radiochemical neutron activation analysis (RNAA) method, it became much easier to detect and with higher reliability following the development of the 129I detection system employing accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Several attempts were made to reconstruct the 131I level from the measureIsotopic ratio of radioactive iodine (129I/131I) released from Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident


The geometric influence of an electric vibrator, immersed in a linear homogeneous collisionless an isotropic plasma and excited by an extraneous electromotive force, on the radiation resistance of the vibrator is analyzed for a frequency range below the hybrid frequency.


Although the ocean environment in shallow water is very complex, there still exists stable interference pattern for broadband low frequency sound propagation. The waveguide invariant concept is introduced to describe the broadband interference structure of the acoustic pressure field in a waveguide and now it is widely used in underwater acoustic signal processing. Acoustic vector sensor can measure the particle velocity in the ocean and provides more information for the underwater sound field. In this paper, the interference phenomena of broadband vector acoustic signals in shallow water are investigated by numerical simulation. Energy spatial‐frequency distributions are shown for energy flux density vector obtained by combination of pressure and particle velocity signals and they are analyzed according to normal mode theory. Comparisons of the interference structure between the scale acoustic field and vector acoustic field also have been made. The waveguide invariant concept is extended to describe the...


Teicoplanin is a mixture of five closely related compounds (designated TA2-1 to TA2-5) with molecular weights of between 1875 and 1891 Da; and the more polar product, teicoplanin TA-3, which has a molecular weight of 1562 Da [3]. The components of the TA-2 complex, which constitute 90-95% of teicoplanin, differ only in the structure of the fatty acid acyl component of the N-acylglucosamine part of the molecule. Like vancomycin, teicoplanin has a heptapeptide backbone with linked hydroxphenyl-glycine moieties, which produce a tetracyclic structural molecule (Fig. 1). In the core structure there are three substituents: n-mannose, N-acetylglucosamin'e and an N-acylglucosamine residue, attached to the aryl groups [4]. It is this residue which carries the various fatty acids that characterise the five different members of the teicoplanin complex. The antibacterial activity of teicoplanin against Grampositive bacteria is achieved by inhibiting the synthesis of cell wall peptidoglycan. Teicoplanin binds to the amino acyl-D-alanyl-n-alanine terminal of muramylpentapeptide [5]. This interaction prevents the transfer of cell wall precursors from the cell membrane lipid carriers, to cell wall growth points. The majority of Gram-negative bacteria prove insusceptible to the activity of teicoplanin, because the large


This volume examines the influence of the renin-angiotensin system and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on the central nervous system. The first section describes the direct effects of the renin-angiotensin system within the brain. The next section examines the trophic actions of angiotensin 11 and explores the prospect of modulating growth and differentiation in the central nervous system. A section on ACE inhibitors and cerebral blood flow includes detailed analyses of the effects of various ACE inhibitors and other antihypertensive drugs on cerebral blood flow. The final section places in a balanced perspective the potential of ACE inhibitors to alter cognitive function. The authors stress the importance of including cognitive effects in the risk/benefit analysis of ACE inhibitor therapy, and also underscore the cognitive impact of the two conditions for which these drugs are commonly prescribed: hypertension and cardiac failure.


Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (April 23, 1891 March 5, 1953) was a famous conductor, composer and pianist of the former Soviet Union. His works cover a wide range of genres and forms in the direction of music and art, totaling more than 100 works. Among them, Sonata is the theme that Prokofiev loved to create all his life. The sixth, seventh and eighth Piano Sonatas created in his later period have great momentum. They are also called "Sonata of War", and are his most representative works. From the background of Prokofiev's times, this paper analyses and summarizes the structure of the three piano sonatas, the characteristics of their later creation and the grasp of their styles.


This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis of the S&P500, FTSE100, NIKKEI225 and EURO STOXX 50 by testing for stock return predictability using daily data from January 1990 to May 2014. We apply three bootstrapped versions of the variance ratio test to the raw stock returns and also whiten the returns through an AR-GARCH process to study the nonlinear predictability after accounting for conditional heteroscedasticity through the BDS test. We evaluate the time-varying return predictability by applying these tests to fixed length moving subsample windows. We also examine whether there is a relationship between the level of predictability in stock returns and market conditions. The results show that there are periods of significant return predictability, but also episodes of no significant predictability in stock returns. We also find that certain market conditions are significantly related to predictability in certain markets but each market interacts differently with the different market conditions. Therefore our findings suggest that significant return predictability in stock markets does vary over time in a manner consistent with the adaptive market hypothesis and that each market adapts differently to certain market conditions.


For the past three years, scientists at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory have been conducting studies aimed at determining the presence and influence of bacteria found in geothermal plant cooling water systems. In particular, the efforts have been directed at understanding the conditions that lead to the growth and accumulation of biomass within these systems, reducing the operational and thermal efficiency. Initially, the methods selected were based upon the current practices used by the industry and included the collection of water quality parameters, the measurement of soluble carbon, and the use of selective medial for the determination of the number density of various types of organisms. This data has been collected on a seasonal basis at six different facilities located at the Geysers' in Northern California. While this data is valuable in establishing biological growth trends in the facilities and providing an initial determination of upset or off-normal conditions, more detailed information about the biological activity is needed to determine what is triggering or sustaining the growth in these facilities in order to develop improved monitoring and treatment techniques. In recent years, new biochemical approaches, based upon the analyses of phospholipid fatty acids and DNA recovered from environmentalmore » samples, have been developed and commercialized. These techniques, in addition to allowing the determination of the quantity of biomass, also provide information on the community composition and the nutritional status of the organisms. During the past year, samples collected from the condenser effluents of four of the plants from The Geysers' were analyzed using these methods and compared with the results obtained from selective culturing techniques. The purpose of this effort was to evaluate the cost-benefit of implementing these techniques for tracking microbial activity in the plant study, in place of the selective culturing analyses that are currently the industry standard.« less


Taller pipe-framed greenhouses (pipe houses hereafter) are required to maintain a buffer zone for an improved thermal environment or to install devices for controlling the thermal environment, such as movable curtains. This study investigates the effect of ridge height on the distributions of the wind pressure coefficient (C p ) on pipe houses based on a wind tunnel experiment using 1:20 scale models. The width and length of a standard pipe house in full scale were 6 and 50 m, respectively, while the ridge height was varied from 3.16 to 5.16 m. The results indicate that the C p distribution on the windward roof was strongly affected by the ridge height when the wind direction was normal to the ridge line. The windward roof was generally subjected to negative wind pressure (suction). The suction had a maximum value behind the windward eave, which increased in magnitude with an increase in ridge height. This effect may be related to the flow separation at the windward eave and reattachment on the windward roof. As a result, the drag and lift coefficients (C D and C L ) obtained from the C p distribution were also affected by the ridge height. High suctions were induced locally at the ridge corner of the leeward roof with an oblique wind.


This research is a study on the objectives of mergers and acquisitions, as to why organizations undertake the inorganic mode of expansion. This particular research is conducted to get the effect of mergers upon financial performance regarding acquiring firms in a variety of manufacturing industries of Pakistan.Sample of this research consists of twelve manufacturing companies involved in the process of merger during 2000-2009. Three years before and after-merger data is used to test the significance of study. Paired sample t-test statistics is applied on accounting ratios with the help of statistical software SPSS. The results of this study show that Pakistani companies are no different than the companies in other parts of the world. On the basis of findings, it is concluded that overall financial performance of acquiring manufacturing corporations insignificantly improved in after merger period. The liquidity, profitability and capital position insignificantly improved while the efficiency deteriorated in after- merger period.It is finally concluded that merger impact on different industries of manufacturing sector differently.


The question of political participation beyond elections is a recurrent subject in contemporary political life. Since the beginning of the 1990s, official European Union documents stress the participation of a so-called 'organised civil society' 2 , thought to lead to increased democratization of the national and international sphere. The paper starts from the assumption that this discourse has an effect on 'civil society actors' and goes on to study the tools developed to analyze these effects, called institutionalization, bureaucratization or professionalization of the organized civil society. The political party and social movement literature has identified these changes empirically and theoretically already at the beginning of the twentieth century. The aim of this paper is to analyze these approaches and to draw lessons for the study of the transformation of civil society organizations' structures in the EU.


In this letter we construct a large sample of early-type galaxies (ETGs) with measured gas-phase metallicities from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Galaxy Zoo in order to investigate the origin of the gas that fuels their residual star formation. We use this sample to show that star-forming elliptical galaxies have a substantially different gas-phase metallicity distribution from spiral galaxies, with ≈7.4 per cent having a very low gas-phase metallicity for their mass. These systems typically have fewer metals in the gas phase than they do in their stellar photospheres, which strongly suggests that the material fuelling their recent star formation was accreted from an external source. We use a chemical evolution model to show that the enrichment time-scale for low-metallicity gas is very short, and thus that cosmological accretion and minor mergers are likely to supply the gas in ≳ 37 per cent of star-forming ETGs, in good agreement with estimates derived from other independent techniques.


Introduction: Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a promising source of green energy because of their ability to harvest electricity from organic matter using electron transferring microorganisms, exoelectrogrens. However, their low power densities and high-associated costs have limited their practical applications. Anode performance is a key factor limiting MFC power densities and has been improved upon by many groups with the use of carbonbased anodes. Recently graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have demonstrated improved power performance as the anode material in MFCs because of their high electrical conductivity and high specific surface areas that enable faster electron transfer and higher sites for bacteria attachment. Nanoribbons can be synthesized easily via longitudinal unzipping of carbon nanotubes and then further reduced chemically using hydrazine in solution. In this study, we developed an inexpensive solution-phase method for the preparation of graphene nanoribbon films on multiple substrates such as stainless-steel mesh and polyethylene terephthalate using a simple vacuum filtration setup with dimethylene formamide (DMF). Compared to bottom up approaches to graphene synthesis such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD), vacuum filtration and solution based unzipping of nanotubes is much less expensive and easier for large-scale manufacturing requirements in the future. As a proof-ofprinciple, these GNR film anodes were tested in singlechambered, soil-based MFCs.


In order to design experimental studies, researchers must (1) identify criteria for the evaluation of the results of possible experiments and (2) identify independent variables which ought to be controlled; this article suggests some of the possible criteria and probable variables.


A method for Conflict Detection and Alerting (CD&A) was developed as part the Small Aircraft Transportation System, Higher Volume Operations (SATS HVO) program at NASA Langley Research Center. The method addresses the specific problems and conditions of the concept of operations and uses a combination of state vector and procedure-based intent for conflict detection. The SATS HVO concept of operations has been developed to operate in small airports at self controlled terminal areas in near all-weather conditions. The concept uses vehicle-to-vehicle selfseparation logic and centralized ground based sequencing. The self controlled area (SCA) is a volume surrounding a SATS airport where pilots accept responsibility for self-separation. Flights operating in the SCA, during instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), are given approach sequencing information computed by a ground based automated system referred as the Airport Management Module (AMM). All participating aircraft must be Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped and able to communicate with the AMM. This paper proposes an innovative conflict detection method that combines linear state projections and intended approach paths based on the concept of aircraft conformance to a published procedure. The conflict alerting logic implements a multi-stage, non-symmetrical technique, also based on the conformance concept, that determines the order and time in which aircraft are notified of an impending conflict. Preliminary batch simulation results have shown that the proposed CD&A technique is as effective as a purely state based logic but issues significantly less false alarms. High fidelity batch simulations and human-in-the-loop experiments are underway to further assess the concept's performance.


A new type of single input and three output current mode universal filters which use only four OMA+ (Operational mirrored amplifiers) and five passive elements is presented.Not only can the circuit be used to realize second order low pass,high psss,band pass,all pass and notch current mode filters simultaneously ,it can also presert the characteristics of the low pass notch and high pass notch filter . No component matching is required and the sensitivities are low all of the passive parts. The PSPICE simulation frequency responses of the second order filter are also given.


This paper discusses eastern of JingAn oilfield Panguliang chang 6_2 reservoir fracture in shape,and combining with actual reservoir development,put forward the developing reasonable avoid fracture,the determination of reasonable extended injected water volume early development policy.


In this chapter I will introduce the measurement of thermal conductivity using the bolometric effect. The bolometric effect is defined as the resistivity change of a material due to heating. Indeed, the bolometric effect forms the basis of many modern technological sensors and devices. For instance, most commonly used integrated circuit thermometers are based on the well calibrated resistivity change of a Pt strip. Another example is the thermal imaging sensors. A cooled array of high temperature coefficient of resistance material can sensitively detect the infrared spectrum due to the change in the electrical resistance of the active material.


Abstract This installment of "Serials Spoken Here" covers events that transpired between late September and late October 2008. Reported herein are two Webinars, one on ONIX for Serials, the other on SUSHI, and two conferences: the eighty-fourth annual Meeting of the Potomac Technical Processing Librarians and the New England Library Association's Annual Conference.


PURPOSE: A stacked semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof are provided to extend a size of cache without widening a chip area of microprocessor by controlling DRAM(Dynamic Random Access Memory) with a memory controller. CONSTITUTION: A second chip is arranged on a first chip through a first Through Silicon Via(TSV1). The second chip includes a first memory and memory controller(30). The first memory and memory controller are controlled each by the first chip. A second memory is arranged on the second chip through a second Through Silicon Via(TSV2). The second memory is controlled by the memory controller.


A unified basis from which to study the transport of tokamaks at low collisionality is provided by specializing the ''generalized Balescu–Lenard'' collision operator to toroidal geometry. Explicitly evaluating this operator, ripple, turbulent, and neoclassical transport coefficients are obtained, simply by further specializing the single operator to different particular classes of fluctuation wavelength and mode structure. For each class of fluctuations, the operator possesses a diffusive, test‐particle contribution D, and in addition a dynamic drag term F, which makes the operator self‐consistent, and whose presence is accordingly essential for the resultant fluxes to possess the appropriate conservation laws and symmetries. These properties, well known for axisymmetric transport, are demonstrated for one type of turbulent transport, chosen for definiteness, by explicit evaluation of both the ''anomalous diffusion'' term arising from D, as well as the closely related ''anomalous pinch'' term coming from ...


This article explores the explicative capabilities of neural network classifiers with automatic relevance determination weight regularization, and reports the findings from applying these networks for personal injury protection automobile insurance claim fraud detection. The automatic relevance determination objective function scheme provides us with a way to determine which inputs are most informative to the trained neural network model. An implementation of MacKay's, (1992a,b) evidence framework approach to Bayesian learning is proposed as a practical way of training such networks. The empirical evaluation is based on a data set of closed claims from accidents that occurred in Massachusetts, USA during 1993. q 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C45


Discussion of George W. Bush's rhetoric typically focuses on his spoken address, yet his use of cowboy visuals also qualifies as public communication. By visually identifying himself as a cowboy Bush associated his presidency with the story of the mythic cowboy, a powerful concept in American culture. While visual images are typically not considered a substantive and rational form of political communication, Bush's cowboy persona, emphasized visually, prompted widespread debate about his leadership style and approach to national problems, particularly terrorism. While many did not agree with his policies, the simplicity of the visual message and the foundational nature of the cowboy story provided a narrative that prompted a national debate on substantive issues of the day. Language is still considered the critical element of political debate, but as Bush's experience demonstrates, rhetoric includes visual communication as well.


Suitable for producing the hydrophilic silicone macromer composition of aquogel polymer film, bio-medical instrument, such as contact lenses can be prepared by the aquogel polymer film.The hydrophilic silicone macromonomer includes polyether backbone, and the main chain includes the side group containing organosilicon.On the one hand, hydrophilic silicone macromonomer has formula 1: formula (1) the hydrophilic silicone macromonomer can be used to form the polymer and aquagel membrane for suitably forming contact lenses.


This paper introduces the proportioning principles and technology of reactive powder concrete( RPC),and then summarizes RPC durability and high temperature resistance. It is found that in the calculation of bond-anchorage length,the appearance coefficient of steel bar is higher in RPC than in ordinary concrete. The flexural cracking strain of RPC beam is 705 × 10- 6-864 × 10- 6,higher than that of ordinary concrete beam,which is 80 × 10- 6-120 × 10- 6.The normal section limit compressive strain of RPC beam is 4 100 × 10- 6-5 500 × 10- 6,higher than that of ordinary concrete beam,which is 3 300 × 10- 6. The plastic influence coefficient for sectional resisting moment of RPC beam increases with the longitudinal reinforcement ratio; the test value of inclined section shearing load-bearing capacity is lower than the calculated value due to lack of coarse aggregate interlock effect on both sides of inclined cracks in RPC beam. Compared with ordinary concrete,RPC possesses excellent performance of chloride ion permeability resistance,carbonation resistance,frost thawing resistance and sulfate resistance; RPC mixed with fiber appropriately can prevent thermal spalling effectively. Finally,this paper briefly introduces the pilot projects of RPC and manifested its broad application prospects.


Summary: Pelvic fractures, especially those of the Malgaigne type, frequently occur in the setting of a polytraumatized patient. Sacroiliac disruption reflects a massive disruptive energy force with concurrent soft-tissue injury. Fixation through an anterior approach facilitates the accurate and stable fixation and avoids many of the soft-tissue and wound problems associated with posterior approaches.