The invention discloses a paint environment-friendly coating method. The paint environment-friendly coating method includes the following steps that firstly, a workpiece is fed, the workpiece is hung to a hanging hook of a hanging conveying chain, and the subsequent processing steps are executed on the workpiece carried by the hanging conveying chain in sequence; secondly, ultrasonic cleaning is conducted; thirdly, air dust removing is conducted; fourthly, preheating is conducted; fifthly, automatic primer coating is conducted through water curtain type static; sixthly, manual checking and supplementary coating are conducted; seventhly, leveling and drying are conducted; eighthly, automatic finish paint coating is conducted through a water curtain type reciprocator; ninthly, leveling is conducted for 10 minutes; tenthly, manual checking and supplementary coating are conducted; eleventhly, leveling and drying are conducted; twelfthly, drying and curing are conducted; thirteenthly, natural cooling is conducted for 30 minutes; fourteenthly, rust-protection workpiece discharging is conducted. According to the environment-friendly paint coating method, the subsequent processing steps are sequentially conducted on the workpiece carried by the hanging conveying chain, automatic connecting and conveying among all the processes are achieved, and automatic and continuous work can be conducted. The paint environment-friendly coating method has the advantages that few persons are needed, labor intensity is low, an occupied working place is small, safety is high, product quality is stable, logistics time is short, production efficiency is high, production cost is low, and better environmental friendliness is achieved.


In this work, we introduce ICON, an ontology that models artistic interpretations of artworks' subject matter (i.e. iconographies) and meanings (i.e. symbols, iconological aspects). Developed by conceptualizing authoritative knowledge and notions taken from Panofsky's levels of interpretation theory, ICON ontology focuses on the granularity of interpretations. It can be used to describe an interpretation of an artwork from the Pre-iconographical, Icongraphical, and Iconological levels. Its main classes have been aligned to ontologies that come from the domains of cultural descriptions (ArCo, CIDOC-CRM, VIR), semiotics (DOLCE), bibliometrics (CITO), and symbolism (Simulation Ontology), to grant a robust schema that can be extendable using additional classes and properties coming from these ontologies. The ontology was evaluated through competency questions that range from simple recognition on a specific level of interpretation to complex scenarios. Data written using this model was compared to state-of-the-art ontologies and schemas to both highlight the current lack of a domain-specific ontology on art interpretation and show how our work fills some of the current gaps. The ontology is openly available and compliant with FAIR principles. With our ontology, we hope to encourage digital art historians working for cultural institutions in making more detailed linked open data about the content of their artefacts, to exploit the full potential of Semantic Web in linking artworks through not only subjects and common metadata, but also specific symbolic interpretations, intrinsic meanings, and the motifs through which their subjects are represented. Additionally, by basing our work on theories made by different art history scholars in the last century, we make sure that their knowledge and studies will not be lost in the transition to the digital, linked open data era.


Current Energy Efficiency Rating System focused on thermal performance and air tightness rather considering complex performance such as optical properties or the ventilation frequency. Insufficient evaluation values are limited to evaluate window performance precisely so that additional values should be considered to enhance window performance and reduce building energy consumption as a consequence. In this study, SHGC and mid-term ventilation frequency have been selected for the additional values and then proposed window's optimized performance index by optimization procedure. In optimization, the direct search method Hooke&Jeeves algorithm which efficient for searching extremum has been used. As a result, the optimized model have shown energy saving 11% in central area and 15% in southern area.


(The genera Eriochrysis P. Beauv., Imperata Cirillo and Saccharum L. (Poaceae – Andropogoneae – Saccharinae) in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). The subtribe Saccharinae belongs to the tribe Andropogoneae and comprises ca. 140 species in 13 genera, including Eriochrysis, Imperata and Saccharum. This work presents a survey of the species of these three genera in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Intensive field collections were made in different physiographic regions of the state, as well as studies in several herbaria. The occurrence of three native species of each genus was confirmed in Rio Grande do Sul, in addition to sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) that is cultivated in the region. Based on the material examined, Eriochrysis villosa is reported for the first time in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Identification keys for the species, descriptions, data on their geographical distributions, habitats and flowering and fruiting periods, as well as illustrations of important taxonomic characters are provided.


The presence of the microRNA-141 target molecules activates the DNA molecular machine powered by the DNA fuel strands, leading to non-enzymatic target cyclic reuse of microRNA-141 and significantly amplified fluorescent signals for sensitive monitoring of microRNA-141 from low numbers of human prostate cancer cells.


Haptic devices allow us to feel virtual worlds through touch and forces; yet they are incompatible with haptics present in our everyday life. This urges us to re-think how to engineer a wave of new haptic devices for extended reality.


The synthesis of the penta-N-protected polyamine homocaldopentamine {PA 4333, 1, tert-butyl N-[9-allyl-16-azido-13-(2,2,2-trichloro-tert-butoxycarbonyl)-5-(trimethylsilylethylsulfonyl)-5,9,13triazahexadec-1-yl]carbamate}, containing five independent amino-protecting groups is described. These five protecting groups usedallyl, azido, tert-butoxycarbonyl (BOC), 2,2,2-trichloro-tert-butoxycarbonyl (TCBOC), and trimethylsilylethylsulfonyl (SES)were removed selectively. The acylation with p-methoxycinnamoyl chloride at each nitrogen of the pentaamine was determined.


Abstract : The immunotherapeutic potential of the antibody-cytokine fusion proteins has been investigated as an alternative means of the therapy for refractory breast cancer. These novel molecules contain the antibody portion recognizing the tumor associated antigen and is covalently linked to a potent immune stimulator. Experiments were performed to elucidate the mechanisms of targeting tumor cells for destruction and mechanisms of stimulation immune effector cells by these molecules, to ultimately translate these findings to clinical application. Initially new delivery approach of fusion protein was studied, based on particle-mediated gene transfer (PMGT), and most effective expression vectors were developed. Animal model for tumor immunotherapy was established, using cancer cell lines engrafted to syngeneic animals. After gene delivery detectable expression of fusion protein was achieved. Despite of lack of therapeutic effect of this approach in animal model, substantial progress has been made in studies with fusion protein used as a protein reagent. In vitro was demonstrated that fusion protein can specifically bind to cancer cells and deliver IL-2 to their surface. It can activate IL-2 responsive cells and induce tumor specific ADCC. Sensitive assays for detection of fusion protein and its components in animal and patients serum were developed. It was shown that after administration this molecule is stable for several hours in animal and human serum (confirmed also on clinical samples from separate trial of similar fusion protein of different specificity), retains its functional activity and induces immune activation. These findings will provide a model for bringing novel immunocytokines to the clinic to improve effectiveness of human cancer treatment.


Student Problems Students up to the age of 19 are invited to send solutions to either of the following problems to Stan Dolan, 126A Harpenden Road, S1, Albans, Herts. AL3 6BZ. Two prizes will be awarded a first prize of £25, and a second prize of £20 to the senders of the most impressive solutions for either problem. It is, therefore, not necessary to submit solutions to both. Solutions should arrive by May 20th 2010. Please give your School year, the name and address of your School or College, and the name of a teacher through whom the award may be made. The names of all successful solvers will be published in the July 20 I0 edition.


Altered mitochondrial fitness is a potential triggering factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Mitochondrial quality control pathways are dysfunctional and mitochondrially-derived reactive oxygen species (mROS) levels are increased in AD patient brains. However, the pathways responsible for dysregulated mROS accumulation have remained relatively unclear. In this study, we demonstrate that levels of ECSIT, a mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) complex I (CI)-associated protein, are reduced in AD-affected brains. Neuronal ECSIT downregulation increased mROS generation and impaired mitophagy of defective mitochondria. Consequently, decreasing neuronal ECSIT caused AD-like changes, including memory loss and neuropathology. In contrast, augmented neuronal expression of ECSIT protected against the development of an AD-like phenotype. Decreased levels of ECSIT in AD patient brains therefore likely contribute to oxidative stress, neuroinflammation and AD pathogenesis.


This paper intends to contribute in reflection on Conselhos Municipais de Direitos da Crianca e Adolescentes Brazilian entities those are responsible for guaranties of children and teenagers rights in municipal spheres. The purpose of that reflection is to offer opportunities for a construct of social terms like citizen. The goal of the research is to give enough evidence about the reduction of representation in popular and effective forms. The text considers investigations from the Program of Post-graduation studies in Social Service at PUCRS those were significant in order to understand the passivity result of times of Brazilian colonization and as result of the story of citizen in our country. In our understanding is possible to consider effective citizen if the praxis of agents in those municipal courts could be assured under deliberation and leadership capable to promote that desirable intervention of all members. Key words – Municipal Courts of Children and Teenagers Rights. Citizen. Effective Participation. Popular intervention.


Case files and case studies occupy a significant place in histories of mental illness, sexuality, and "delinquency," and historians have considered the ways case files and case studies construct subjective categories and social problems. This paper foregrounds questions of age, and I ask how young people have been conceptualized within New Zealand case files and case studies between 1900 and 1960. I suggest that, within the case record, the texts of adolescent subjectivity reveal wider concerns around work, discipline, respectability, and social order, along with changes in social science research and writing. At the same time, I argue that case files and case studies have played an active role in the social construction of adolescence in New Zealand's past.


Abstract A 25-year-old female with sickle cell anemia presented with respiratory failure due to acute chest syndrome (ACS). Given her severely compromised cardiopulmonary status, she was started on veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO). After 20 days, the patient's respiratory status improved and she was successfully decannulated. Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation can be utilized for severe ACS in adult patients with sickle cell disease. Prompt initiation of this modality may improve outcomes in adult patients with sickle cell disease complicated by life threatening ACS.


The c‐fos protein belongs to a family of transcriptional cofactors that can complex with proteins of the Jun family and activate mRNA transcription from gene promoters containing an activator protein 1 (AP‐1) binding element. The shear stress inducibility of the c‐fos protein was studied in human and animal cell lines of vastly different origins. Primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC, passage 2–14), HeLa cells, and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were subjected to steady laminar shear stress using a parallel plate flow apparatus. After 1 h of flow exposure at 25 dyn/cm2, the c‐fos levels in nuclei of shear stress HUVEC, BAEC, HeLa, and CHO were 5.4 ± 2.0 (n = 3), 2.25 ± 1.38 (n = 6), 2.14 ± 0.07 (n = 8), 1.92 ± 0.58 (n = 2) times higher, respectively, than in matched stationary controls. Flow exposure at 4 dyn/cm2 caused no enhancement of c‐fos levels in any of the cell lines tested, but caused significant reduction in c‐fos expression in the HeLa cells. The c‐fos induction by shear stress could be blocked by pharmacological agents. For example, the flow induction of the c‐fos protein levels was blocked by 50% with the preincubation of HUVEC with a protein kinase C inhibitor, H7 (10 μM) and blocked completely in HeLa cells preincubated with the phospholipase C inhibitor, neomycin (5 mM). The minimum time of shear stress exposure required to induce the c‐fos protein expression in HeLa cells was found to be as low as 1 min. By Northern analysis, the c‐fos mRNA levels were found to be elevated in BAEC, CHO, and HeLa cells exposed to 25 dyn/cm2 for 30 min. These studies indicate that c‐fos induction is a consistent genetic response in a variety of mammalian cells that may alter cellular phenotype in mechanical environments. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


The managers very often don't take into consideration cultural determinants which can influence their employees' attitude and preferences. This can result in the transfer of practices which are not suitable in specific cultural environment. The aim of this paper is to present the direction of the influence of one of the national culture dimensions – power distance on the internal relations between managers and workforce which include employee participation and communication. The first part of this article presents the direction in which differences in the level of power distance influence relations between managers and employees in the chosen country whose cultural background in the power distance dimension is diverse enough to allow cultural differences to be easily observed. The remaining part of the paper is dedicated to presenting the results of the empirical study examining how this relations are shaped in practice in the foreign capital enterprises operating in Poland. The comparison with the practice in the capital source countries will allow to draw conclusions about the degree of the influence of the capital source country culture on the employee participation and communication in foreign capital enterprises.


For every Christian, the Resurrection is the center of faith in Jesus Christ. In this remarkable book, bestselling author and educator John Aurelio focuses on resurrection experiences in modern life, and asks readers once again to take seriously the Gospel statement, "Know that I am with you always, until the end of the world" (Mt. 28:20).


Land disposal was the earliest or ganized method of waste treatment. Waste application by irrigation was used more than 100 years ago. Un suitable soils and other conditions, as well as the unavailability of large acre age, resulted in its discontinuance in many cases. The history of sewage farming is not only interesting, but also informa tive. Irrigation principles are still the same and much benefit can be obtained from the early mistakes. However, it is interesting that this method of dis posal is still in use today by some large cities, including Paris, Berlin, and Mel bourne. Irrigation of industrial wastes exclusively is apparently more recent; there is practically no mention in the literature of its separate use until the 1920 's.


The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of firm characteristics on the level of intellectual capital disclosure. This analysis uses the independent variable is the size of the company, profitability, leverage, business age, ownership structure, independent and dependent variable level of disclosure of intellectual capital. The sample used is secondary data from the Indonesia Stock Exchange ( IDX ) that the Annual Report of listed companies in LQ45 and listing in 2011 and 2012 in IDX . Samples were taken by purposive sampling method , and who meet the criteria for sample selection. The samples are 59 companies. The results of the analysis is based on the use of all the independent variables indicate that the size of the company have a significant effect on the disclosure of intellectual capital , while profitability , leverage , listing age , ownership structure , and independent commissioner had no significant effect on the disclosure of intellectual capital. Keywords: Intellectual Capital Disclosures, Firm Size, Profitability, Leverage, Listing Age, Ownership Structure, and Independent Commissioner


The aim of this study is to create a deeper understanding of educators' work on gender equality in preschool. In order to address the study´s aims we used focus group discussions in which active t ...


Diversity of plant morphology is a result of interaction between genetic factors and environment. To identify the differences between accessions of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.), morphological characterisation were tested for its suitability. Quantitative, qualitative and pseudo-qualitative traits were evaluated for distinctness and the more stable traits resulted in accurate discernment in different growing conditions. The experiments were carried out in RCBD (randomized complete block design) for seven indigenous bitter gourds accessions collected in Vietnam in two different environmental conditions: greenhouse in Berlin, Germany and field in Binh Thuan, Vietnam. There were 28 characteristics evaluated for stability under both conditions. Measurements and visual assessment values were analysed using NTSYS-PC version 2.10. UPGMA (the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean) was applied to compare the diversity of accessions, and "doublecentered" matrix allowed figuring out the stable characteristics. Among 28 assessed morphological characteristics, seven characteristics were firmly fixed (including number of leaf lobe; ridge of fruit; size of fruit warts; present of fruit spines; color of fruit skin at ripe stage; indentation of seed edge; and striation of seed coat) and four characteristics were less varying (including fruit weight; weight of 100 seeds; number of note up to note with first male flower, and time of first male flower flowering). The clustering patterns of seven accessions based on the above 11 traits were consonant in two growing conditions. These traits were appropriate for classifying the diversity of bitter gourd.


Let us take a critical look at how "appreciation" can be taught. We first need to ask these questions: Is "appreciation" the same as "understanding"? Will the acquisition of an adequate number of facts insure that appreciation will result? For example, does a sixth-grade child appreciate a culture widely different from his own if he merely learns a great number of facts about that culture? Or is appreciation the final result of a series of carefully planned and sequential steps


This paper reports quantum-chemical characterization and structural optimization of α-cyanonitrostilbene, nitrostilbene derivatives and DR, DMNPAPE, C3 chromophore toward a multifunctional amorphous material with magnitude photorefractive performance. The calculations were carried out in an PM3 approximations (HyperChem 7.0). It was founded the relationships between electronic structure and nonlinear optical activity of chromophores and presents the perspectivity of applying the quantum chemical methods for prediction of photorefractive properties of polymers materials.


Recent trends indicate that dosage form drug delive ry systems are especially suitable for achieving su stained or delayed release oral formulations with low risk of dose dumping, flexibility of blending to attain dif ferent release patterns as well as reproducibility. One of the app roaches toward this goal was to develop and formula te extended release matrix oral tablets of itopride hydrochlori de (ITO) as a highly water soluble drug and to incr ease its gastric retention time. Matrix tablets of (ITO) were develo ped using different methods such as: (wetting granu lation, direct compression, and coating compression), by using dif ferent types of polymers (hydroxypropyl methyl cell ulose (HPMC) K15M, hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) low visc o ity, Eudragit ® RL100, and Carnauba wax). The prepared tablets were evaluated according to various physico chemical characteristics such as: weight and thickn ess variation, drug content, hardness, friability, and in vitro drug release. Tablet weight variation rang ed from 395 ± 0.34 to 409 ± 1.78 mg, thickness ranged from 3.16 ± 1.37 to 3.74 mm, drug content ranged from 94.5 ± 1 .01% to 106.2 ± 0.08%, friability ranged from 0.04 ± 0.69 t o 0.84 ± 0.45, and hardness ranged from 5.25 ± 0.25 to 8.80 ± 0.4 Kg/cm. Results indicated that drug release depended upon method of preparation and polymer type. Furthermore, in vivo testing of the optimum sustain ed release tablet formulation (F23) using coating c ompression by HPMC as coat was performed in human subjects, an d determined and compared to that of a commercial or l tablet (Ganaton) as a reference formulation. The obtained the maxi um plasma concentration (C max) and the area under the curve from zero to infinity (AUC (0– ∞) values were higher following formulated tablet adm inistration than after Ganaton administration. The percentage relative bioavailab ility of ITO from the selected formula in human volunteers was found to be 243% compared to Ganaton ®.


Objective] To study the effect of different analgesics after epidural anaesthetic cesarean section. [Methods] Retrospective analysis of 235 pregnant women who used analgesics after cesarena section was done. They were divided into three groups since three different analgesics were given. The first group was treated with Kaflan, the second group was treated with Dolantin and the third group was treated with Fortanodyn. We analyzed the timelapse these analgesics began to work, the duration of the effect and their effectiveness together with the time needed for the stomaches and intestines to regain their functions. [Results] The Kaflan was the most effective (P0.05).[Conclusion] Using Kaflan is effective, safe and convenient in easing pain after cesarean section.


A 71-year-old lady was admitted with the sudden onset of right upper quadrant pain. It had begun the previous evening, about half an hour following a small meal of pork and beans. Pain was located in the right upper quadrant, was crampy, gradually worsened, and was associated with intermittent vomiting. She received two injections of demerol Pethedine without relief. There was no previous history of fatty food intolerance or jaundice. She had had previous admissions for typical left ureteral colic in 1955 and low back pain in 1960. She was in acute distress and holding her right upper quadrant. On physical examination, there was much voluntary guarding at this site. Rebound and palpation tenderness were elicited in the same area. The bowel sounds were reduced but present. The temperature was 101·4. A W.B.C. was 15,400 with a shift to the left. Urinalysis and rapid amylase were normal, and the alkaline phosphatase was 2·3, the bilirubin 0·4 total. A chest radiograph showed a raised diaphragm with right low...


The study begins with a proposal to design a small-scale DC Vernier reluctance machine (DC-VRM) for direct-drive wind generator drives. The motivation centres on the increasing need for renewable energy technologies, as well as the quest for non-PM and gearless wind generator drives upon which the DC-VRM is uniquely compatible. A global optimisation is first undertaken based on solutions from 2D finite element modelling (FEM) to produce optimal benchmark designs (OBDs). The OBDs are further evaluated for independent performance improvement of the torque ripple using the simple rotor tooth-pairing technique. The findings show that the torque ripple can be drastically reduced when absolved from the integrated optimisation process. On the average, at 0.8 tooth-paring ratio, the torque ripple reduces by at least by 50 %, with observation of special quid pro quo effects in torque ripple and average torque generation of this machine. Already, 3D FEM simulations have been issued to draw out the end-effect discrepancies, while laboratory validation is still pending.


Reptiles and amphibians were kept in Frankfurt Zoo from the very beginning in 1858. Information on the col- lection is somewhat fragmentary but still sufficient to draw a picture on its development from then until today. Starting with just a few reptile cages in the monkey house, reptiles soon became a major attraction for the visitors, and a special section in the aquarium building was opened for them in 1904. Knowledge about how to keep reptiles and amphibians was still very poor, but evolved steadily, and shortly before World War II Frankfurt Zoo was famous for its impressive collection of herps, especially crocodilians. Completely destroyed in 1944, the zoo re-opened only a few months after the end of war, but it was not until 1957 that the reptile hall on top of the newly erected aquarium building, which now was called "Exotarium", could be opened. Having undergone a number of improvements and renovations in the last four decades, the Frankfurt Exotarium today has a number of remarkable breeding results and is putting - as the whole zoo - a focus on nature conservation.


attacking those who dare to assault our professional complacency. Patients and taxpayers are now insisting on a greater voice in their treatment, and some are beginning to reject highly technical and impersonal medicine in favour of greater personal involvement. From Dr While's account, doctors must accept that some colleagues fall short of the standards of sensitivity that we require for the treatment of our own and our patients' families. It matters not that most anaesthetists are both caring and competent in the widest possible sense. What does matter is that a patient has had cause to criticise a common medical procedure, and we fail our profession if we do not try to understand why. To brand these comments as "causing unnecessary concern," a "diatribe," and "the exception rather than the rule" emphasises just how appropriate was Dr While's Personal View. CLIVE RICHARDS


The invention relates to a device for an almost simultaneous synthesis of a plurality of samples, which comes particularly in automated laboratory work in the field of combinatorial chemistry is used. The object of the invention to provide such a device which allows synthesis of a variety of samples that bound to microspheres which are present in cavities of a support plate is achieved in that a planar support plate (1) having a plurality of cavities (11) is provided, which are arranged regularly in a repeating pattern and which accommodate microbeads (12), wherein a removable cover (2) is provided, which is provided with webs (21) each having at least one of a series corresponding cavities (11) in such a way is assigned to conceal the fact that between the micro-beads (12) and the webs (21) leaving a capillary gap (3) and between adjacent webs (21) each have a larger recess (22) and the capillary gaps (3) are each a dosable liquid dispenser (4) ,


Summary. This paper features a method of synthesizing the track irregularities by which the alignment may be analytically represented by a...


The author describes the efforts of the Naval Aviation Depot North Island, CA, over the past five years (1984-9) to implement the total-quality-management (TQM) philosophy of W.E. Deming. The cultural gains and lessons learned during the implementation efforts are highlighted. Also provided are background information on TQM, a summary of the history of TQM at North Island, an explanation of TQM organization at North Island, and selected results. Based on experience at North Island, TQM is judged a success.<<ETX>>


The fact that some 30% of the US population is uninsured or underinsured underscores the urgency to address the growing problem of many Americans lacking access to health care. The past year has seen some 15 different proposed plans in Congress to deal with the uninsured, plus the Pepper Commission recommendations. The problem of access to health care involves issues of cost, quality of care, and the hassle factor of burdensome administrative paperwork. The problem is being addressed both at the Federal and state levels. The only federal regulation that I am aware of that directly concerns access is the "antidumping" regulation passed in 1986. This action was designed to prohibit hospitals from refusing treatment to indigent patients with medical emergencies, including women in labor. Changes effective July 1, 1990, tightened requirements and stiffened penalties. The amended regulation requirements basically state that if a Medicare-participating hospital has an emergency room,


DRUMMOND (Kew Bull. I907:90-92) has described a new genus (Chlamydites) of Compositae from Tibet.-H. D. HOUSE (Muhlenbergia 3:37-46. I907) has described I5 new species of Ipomoea from Mexico and Central America.-REIaDER (Rhodora 9:60-62. I907) has published a new variety of Quercus prinoides from -Mass. and N. J.--FINET and GAGNEPAIN (Bull. Soc. Bot. France IV. 6:55170. piS. 9-20. i906), in continuation of their Flore de l'Asie orientate, have presented the Anonaceae, including 25 genera represented by 249 species, 28 of which are new.--O. E. JENNINGS (Ann. Carnegie Mus. 4:73-77. pl. 20.i906) has described a new species of Lonicera (L. altissirza) from Penn.-H. D. HoUSE (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 34: I43-I55. I907), in his third paper on N. Am. Convolvulaceae, has described a new species of Calycobolus.-K. K. MACKENZIE (idem I5I-I55) has described 4 new western species of Carex.-W. WV. ROWLEE (idem I557-I59) has described 2 new species of Salix from the Canadian Rocky Mountains.J. M. C.


Talk and Social Structure: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. Deirdre Boden and Don H. Zimmerman. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. 305 pp. $35.00 (cloth)


The dependence of transport critical current density () and Lorentz force () of on the magnetic field direction have been investigated. When the mole fraction became larger, while the values of the transport critical current density were in the range of 82~340 A/, were rapidly decreased as the magnetic field increased. The dependence of on the angle() at the external field of 60 Oe showed a maximum at 0 and 180 for both the FCz and ZFCz cases. The Lorentz force appeared to depend on and was at its maximum at 90 for both the FCe (FCz) and ZFCe (ZFCz) cases.


This book, which appears to be a by-product of research carried out by the authors on behalf of the National College for School Leadership, is an interesting contribution to the field of educational leadership. In drawing on their previous research and discourse in the field they are able to offer an informed view of contemporary and emerging issues in England, particularly in regard to leadership in state-funded schools. Their experience is both a strength and weakness, however, as whilst the book purports to be an investigation of particular leadership behaviours the discussion often becomes generalized into a critical review of government policies and actions. There is nothing ostensibly wrong with this discourse which most readers will find informative and insightful, although this approach sometimes leaves the reader wondering where the empirical evidence that informs this approach to educational leadership is to be found. At no time was I able to discover, for example, details of the methodology that underpinned data collection, nor even the number of case studies that informed their conclusions. Through a process of deduction (undertaken by examining direct quotations from participants) I was able to establish that the work appeared to be based on enquiry carried out in a range of English state schools that included eight primary schools, eight secondary schools and two school clusters (described alternatively as a 'family' of schools and a community school, each of which 'managed' a group of schools). Even if this is the total population investigated the enquiry still has interesting findings, although these would have been strengthened considerably if more information and justification for the sample had been provided. In presenting their findings the authors employ the phrase 'high-leverage' to describe the work of school leaders where pupils' academic attainment and other outcomes are better than national averages for similar pupils and similar neighbourhoods. Drawing on the analogy offered by Archimedes (that with a long enough lever, and a place to stand, he could move the earth), they argue that high-leverage leaders hypothetically might stand at a distance and apply a massive effort against an inert weight – in their case, 'the school' — not only to address short-term issues, but also to invest in long-term capability. The school leaders they examine are uncommonly powerful in this respect and frequently to be found in areas where there are a disproportionate number of socio-economically disadvantaged families. The authors are cautious in their description of the high-leverage leaders they identify and suggest that the activities they engage in are not unfamiliar to those found in any major text on school effectiveness and school improvement. What makes these leaders different, they conclude, is the uncommon way in which they combine and apply such characteristics and exhibit a combination of Educational Management Administration & Leadership 41(3) 393–394 a The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav emal.sagepub.com


The invention provides a method for cheap and effective preparation of leverbuterol in industry. The method consists of: taking protected 4-hydroxy-3-hydroxymethyl acetophenone as the raw material to react with bromine to generate acyl or alkyl protected 4-hydroxy-3-hydroxymethyl bromoacetophenone, under in the presence of (1R, 2S)-(+)-indanol as a catalyst, using borane to conduct chiral reduction on carbonyl in the structural formula to obtain R configuration acyl or alkyl protected 4-hydroxy-3-hydroxymethyl alpha bromo phenethyl alcohol, then carrying out reaction with tert-butylamine to generate acyl or alkyl protected 4-hydroxy-3-hydroxymethyl phenylaminoethanol, and finally removing the acyl protecting group to obtain leverbuterol free alkali, and letting the free alkali and acid form a salt. The finished product has optical purity up to 99.9%, and no other chiral resolution way is needed for purification.


—High performance traditional and optimized lightweight fibrous concrete was investigated by using steel fibers and glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) sheet, double action of Fibers. Basically, fibers could controlled the cracking of concrete, crack propagation and crack width. However, using fibers capable of enhancing failure mode of concrete to semi-ductile or ductile mode. Experimental work was consist of two phases, the first phase was focused on cast traditional fibrous concrete specimens in addition to control specimens to compare obtained results. These specimens were cubes, cylinders and prisms, which were tested after seven, fourteen and twenty eight days. Three percentages of round crimped (corrugated) steel fibers (0.5%, 1% and 1.5%) were used to get the optimum percentage. The second phase was concerned with cast lightweight concrete specimens by using the obtained optimum percentage of steel fibers. Specimens were cast by using waste lightweight sand bricks as an coarse aggregate (replacement percentage 50% of actual weight). The effect of strengthening with external GFRP sheet was studied for traditional and lightweight concrete specimens. The results confirmed that, steel fibers and GFRP sheet (external strengthening) increased the studied mechanical properties with competitive values in comparison to traditional concrete.


Most of the linear statistics deal with data lying in a Euclidean space. However, there are many examples, such as DNA molecule topological structures, in which the initial or the transformed data lie in a non-Euclidean space. To get a measure of variability in these situations, the principal component analysis (PCA) is usually performed on a Euclidean tangent space as it cannot be directly implemented on a non-Euclidean space. Instead, principal geodesic analysis (PGA) is a new tool that provides a measure of variability for nonlinear statistics. In this paper, the performance of this new tool is compared with that of the PCA using a real data set representing a DNA molecular structure. It is shown that due to the nonlinearity of space, the PGA explains more variability of the data than the PCA.


The problems in this study is the auditors working environment has an influence on the career choice of accounting students as an auditor. This is motivated by the doubt for accounting students to choose a career as an auditor due to the displacement of work to leave profession of the auditor for many reasons based on their working environment. This study aims to know the effect of accounting students perceptions of the auditors working environment of their career as an auditor.
 The population in this study were all accounting students in the academic year 2011 UNIMED, USU, UMSU, UISU, and UHN. Questionnaires were distributed to as many as 233 and as many as 170 questionnaires processed using purposive sampling method and data used in this study is primary data using a Likert scale.
The results showed that the partial hypothesis is accepted that the work environment of auditors significantly influence student career choice of accounting as an auditor with the significance probability value of t-table (8.570 > 1.974). This means that accounting students will consider the work environment of auditors in choosing their career as an auditor.


absorbed. I kept hiim in bed for ten days and then gradually increased the amount of daily exercise. He returned to work on November 4th, a month after the commencement of the illness. Before permitting his return I made hlim vigorously exercise lhis arms, and found his pulse very little raised as a result. He appeared and felt quite well. Treatment consisted in tlle first place of relieving the pain and slhock by a hypodermic injection of morphine followed by small doses of brandy during the night, later by a hleart mixture, and a diet carefully chosen to avoid flatulence. Dr. Arthur Latlham informs me that "some few years ago the pneumonia cases at the London general lhospitals 'were analysed for a period of ten years at the Medical Section ot tlhe Royal Society of Medicine. As far as I know, in over 7,000 cases there were not more than three complicated by pneumothorax, and two of them proved fatal." C. B. MOORING ALDRIDGE, Bo0urnernouthL. M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond.


This paper is on the basis of experiment, through studing the performance of load about the cross-section of "part reinforcement steel-fibre high-strength concrete beam", educe the calculation formulas about cross-section bearing power of beam of part reinforcement steel-fibre high-strength concrete from the studing, and point out:the formulas fit the commonly "reinforcement steel-fibre high-strength concrete beam" too. Through testing, the calculation results of the formulas is correspond with the actual force.


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This article discusses falconry as a way to manage bird strikes at airports. The article describes the impact of bird strikes and other wildlife collisions on the aviation industry, noting the risk of collisions with birds is greatly concentrated in take-off and landing phases of flight. The article describes multi-step approaches used for effective integrated bird control, going on to discuss falconry as a tool implemented by several Spanish airports, and stressing its purpose is not necessarily to prey on wild birds but instead to prevent them from entering airport's vicinity. The article notes the technical aspects of falconry, including the specific breeds used and important logistical issues involving both the falconers and the ATC towers. The article concludes falconry to be an effective form of fauna control despite high costs associated with the practice.


The mathematical modeling and the simulation of a hydrogen purification system is carried out in the present work. The hydrogen is produced in a bioethanol steam reforming reactor. The proposed plant has two catalytic reactors where the carbon monoxide content is reduced below 20 ppm, allowing in that way the coupling of the system with a polymeric fuel cell. The kinetic model used in the design and simulation has shown good results. It is demonstrated that the WGSR can be carried out at 3 atm and 523K in an adiabatic reactor, while the PROX reactor should be operated isothermally at 433K–453K avoiding the catalyst sintering and considering the system safety.


The focus of this paper is to study the case teaching in the "game theory" undergraduate teaching and to explore how to use a large number of examples to explain the game theory in the abstract theory.The main objective of "game theory" undergraduate teaching is to help students master the basic concepts of game theory and analytical framework,use them to explain and predict economic behavior in reality,and provide theoretical basis for future postgraduate study and research.Firstly this paper points out the "game theory" teaching characteristics,then analyses the importance of case teaching,finally puts forward the principles of case teaching.


Due to the different parameters in the algorithm varying degrees of accuracy and complexity are affected, besides, as the number of categories in the data set increases, gradient explosions in classifiers cause unwanted crashes in early training. Therefore, synthesizing high-resolution photo-realistic images has been a long-standing challenge in machine learning. In this paper, a new idea is provided that the aim of providing more accurate image synthesis, and giving more powerful feedback (i.e. accuracy) Briefly, this study by adding a new generator layer and modifying the number of channels and the activation function to improving the performance of composite images. At the same time, by using the control variable method (i.e. channel number and activation function) to analyse respectively. Tring the situation when the number of channels attempted is 64.32.16 and the activation function is ReLU and LeakyReLU respectively, to accumulate different numbers. Finally, visualize different situations, and show them in the paper. Experimental results indicate that by adding a new generation layer and changing the parameters separately, the accuracy of the generated images is better than before. The result will be the best when the number of channels is 16, and the activation function is LeakyReLU.


The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically exacerbated pre-existing social inequalities and added urgency to the awareness of the need for social transformation. Social movements for the decolonisation of knowledge and governance systems have gained new momentum and the demands for historical reparation and climate, health and food justice. Historical reparation has sometimes been equated only to restitution of material goods or financial compensation. Still, it is a much more complex endeavour that necessarily involves making knowledge production a more engaging and participatory process, inside and outside the academy, linking different knowledge to build fairer and more inclusive futures. This text stems from an interview de sociologist and "Leadership Social is a in and executive The interview unfolded on different occasions. The first part was in October 2019, before the and the second part 2 years later, in November 2021, address the challenges in knowledge production, historical reparation and social justice in the current planetary context.


Reactor pressurized vessel (RPV), which determines the lifetime of the nuclear power plant (NPP), is mainly forged using A508-3 steel in China. In order to meet the requirement of the small specimen test technique in the nuclear application, the fracture toughness of A508-3 steel was tested under-100°C using 1/4 CT specimens, and analyzed using Master Curve according to ASTM E 1921. In this work, the relationship of the KIC and the distance between the cleavage crack initiation site and the front of the fatigue crack is studied, and the transition temperature T0 of A508-3 is-98.7 oC, which is quite close to the test temperature.


This essay takes as its focus bodies and the disembodied in Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei hat zwei Türen aus einer kam ich rein aus der anderen ging ich raus (1992) by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, discussing these in relation to the Deleuzian idea of a 'Body without Organs'. In this understanding of a body and its relationship with the material that surrounds it, the intensive, uncontained organs (or elements) of a body enter into a becoming with elements traditionally viewed as existing 'outside' or in opposition to a body. This style of reading allows us to understand the narrator of Özdamar's novel as the conduit of a narrative that defies the divide between the body and its surroundings and produces affect in its readers. Furthermore, shadows function as 'nonorganic vitalities' that precede individual human life, and come to produce both narrator and text.


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The study assesses the green growth risks in the institutional capacity for the sustainability of research and human capacity governance at the postgraduate level. The assessment of the natural resources by humans described in quantitative measurement is called "footprint". Some considered footprints in the footprint family are emission, energy, ecological, economic and social. The paper aims to promote a governable economic engagement in the challenges of sustainability through attaining efficacy. The first objective examined the human capital development over the economic and emission footprint. The second objective was to operationally assess the development of knowledge through research engagement for the green economy. The third objective analysed the depletion of the human capital value over the risks of the environment in order to nurture the green growth on the natural resources. The research engagement on natural resources benefits the critical green growth by growing the knowledge capacity over the carbon footprint support. These assessments were determined to promote knowledge development in the growth of the green economy by challenging and governable winning the outcome for the nested capital which aims to involve generations in the complexities of the perplexing problems. The existence of efficacy on complexities scrutinised the weaknesses of solutions engineered greenly through renegade practice.


Category: Ankle; Trauma Introduction/Purpose: The use of intraoperative three-dimensional fluoroscopy to evaluate syndesmotic and articular reduction in ankle fractures is a relatively new tool demonstrating usefulness in the literature. It has been described that it can detect up to 32.7% of intraoperative malreduction. The objective of this prospective study is to observe if surgeons, when performing operative treatment in ankle fractures with three- dimensional fluoroscopy assistance, modify the syndesmotic reduction and/or fixation. The definitive syndesmotic reduction was assessed with bilateral ankle CT-scan postoperatively. Methods: Sixteen patients with ankle fracture and syndesmotic instability were analyzed. After malleolar and syndesmotic fixation, intraoperative three-dimensional fluoroscopy was performed. The surgeon then analyzed cross-sectional images to evaluate the reduction of the fracture and syndesmosis. In this scenario, the surgeon decided whether to make any changes in the reduction of the syndesmosis or in the configuration of the fixation strategy. Postoperative bilateral computed tomography was carried out to corroborate in detail if there was any syndesmotic malreduction. Results: Sixteen patients were included in this study (10 men) with a mean age of 40 years (range 25-60 years). 62% were supination-external rotation fractures according to Lauge-Hansen classification. Of all the patients evaluated, only 4 underwent any modification after performing intraoperative three-dimensional fluoroscopy. From the previous group, in 3 patients (19% of the total) there was a change in syndesmal reduction and in only one there was a change of any element of osteosynthesis. When evaluating syndesmal reduction with postoperative bilateral CT, there were 6 patients in the total group who presented syndesmal malreduction. In patients in whom a modification to syndesmal reduction was made, it persisted in 2 of the 3 cases. Conclusion: In our series, the use of intraoperative three-dimensional fluoroscopy did not motivate most surgeons to make changes in syndesmotic reduction, unlike other previously published studies. Even despite making changes in syndesmotic reduction, the percentage of patients who persists with poor reduction is considerable. In this study, the percentage of poor syndesmotic reductions was 32.7%. Despite being a figure that is within what is expected according to the literature, we consider that it is high even using intraoperative fluoroscopy as support.


Silicone is an organic material largely used in outdoor electrical insulation. Performances and results have shown to be largely depending upon chemistry and applications. It is used either in the form of silicone rubber moulded over a fiberglass core in composite insulators or as a coating over ceramic insulators in overhead line or substation applications. Corona activity has been identified in the last fifteen to twenty years as a major threat for silicone rubber, and besides the erosion pattern often visible in such cases there are other signs of degradation of the polymer. Progressively, experts have pointed out the necessity to be more stringent in the evaluation of maximum acceptable stress levels allowed on silicone housings [1]. Among the typical degradation seen on the housing material, whitening and hardening of the silicone compound in its structure after exposure to corona and the acidic by-products remain incompletely described even today. This paper will provide some keys explaining the chemical degradation of silicone rubber under electrical stress with correlations to field reports and actual chemical investigations on failed composite insulators. Likewise, silicone coatings on ceramic insulators which are being used for their hydrophobic properties can be degraded over time. Ageing tests on samples covered with silicone coatings of various chemistries are presented. The main degradation patterns are described in this paper as well as field results from actual insulators returned from service. Based on numerous observations and testing, an ageing classification chart is proposed combined with the hydrophobicity of the material and recovery considerations. Periodic Soxhlet analyses over years of field observation described in this work are supporting this evaluation.


For time-based location systems, a common time base is important for obtaining the correct position. However, wireless clock synchronization is considerably easier to deploy in certain environments, such as large areas. A single-region positioning network is often restricted to the anchor communication range. Therefore, multiple master anchors form the basis of an extensible location network and provide an effective means of adapting the system to a complex propagation environment. In this article, we consider simultaneous network scalability with the relative clock synchronization and localization. We first establish an extendable UWB location system model through intelligent response across the routing layer and physical layer. Anchors act as master or slave anchors in different cluster areas and advance the clock check packet (CCP) from an initial region to the surrounding area to achieve clock synchronization of the entire network. The intracluster CCP transmission is achieved by broadcasting, and the intercluster CCP transmissions use vMISO and are automatically driven by the broadcast arrival time for better results. Furthermore, the physical-access and clock synchronization algorithms are discussed. Finally, location tests combined with routing simulations are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme.


ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a method for the tutoring process in order to improve academic tutoring in higher education. The method includes identifying the main skills of tutors in an automated manner using decision trees, one of the most used algorithms in the machine learning community for solving several real-world problems with high accuracy. In our study, the decision tree algorithm was able to identify those skills and personal affinities between students and tutors. Experiments were carried out using a data set of 277 students and 19 tutors, which were selected by random sampling and voluntary participation, respectively. Preliminary results show that the most important attributes for tutors are communication, self-direction and digital skills. At the same time, we introduce a tutoring process where the tutor assignment is based on these attributes, assuming that it can help to strengthen the student's skills demanded by today's society. In the same way, the decision tree obtained can be used to create cluster of tutors and clusters of students based on their personal abilities and affinities using other machine learning algorithms. The application of the suggested tutoring process could set the tone to see the tutoring process individually without linking it to processes of academic performance or school dropout.


There is no doubt as to the importance of coping as an explanatory construct when exploring the nature of stress. Nevertheless, understanding the ways in which coping strategies are used, in general, and the role and significance of different patterns of coping, in particular, has been somewhat hampered by conventional measurement practices that involve the simple aggregation of coping strategies into mean scores. The aim of the present study was to explore coping patterns in relation to two emotions, anger and anxiety, using the score profiling technique of sequential tree analysis. The coping patterns to emerge reflected the 'facilitating', 'inhibiting' and 'fallback' role that coping strategies play. These results are discussed in terms of their implications for established measurement practices. If we are to better understand the nature of coping then researchers must now be prepared to take the next step forward and investigate coping using more person-centred, daily process designs.


We present an investigation of the reinforcement of the interface between a flexible amorphous polymer (polystyrene, PS) and a semi-crystalline polymer (a polyamide, Ny6). Different processes ( a reactive ion-beam process(RIB), a plasma surface activation process(PSA), and a combined ion-beam process(CIB)) were used for the surface functionalization. Poly(styrene-co-maleic anhydride) was also used as the compatibilizer. Fracture toughness was measured using the asymmetric double cantilever beam test (ADCB). For bonding temperatures above 190C, the adhesion strength was found to increase with bonding time, pass through a peak value, and then reach a plateau. The fracture toughness increased with increasing bonding temperature, passed through a peak near 200C, and then decreased with further increase of the bonding temperature. This behavior was more obvious for an amorphous polymer / semi-crystalline polymer pair than for a pair of semi-crystalline polymers. The variation of the fracture toughness with bonding time and temperature can be plausibly explained in terms of two different failure mechanisms : adhesive failure at the interface for short bonding times and when the bonding temperature is low, and for longer bonding times and at high temperatures, cohesive failure between chains at the interface and the bulk PS due to decreased chain entanglement. CIB process showed better efficiency than the others because of surface area expanding effect by etching process and more effective surface functionalization.


Numerous studies have been performed on the conversion of individual types of waste into activated carbon (AC). However, this study focused on the evaluation of the simultaneous conversion of different types of wastes (palm, paper, and plastic wastes) into AC via copyrolysis. The tartrazine adsorption capacity onto the produced AC was optimized. The results showed that the carbon content of the AC improved as the calcium hydroxide concentration varied from 0.0 to 2.0 mol L−1. In addition, the volatile matter and ash content were reduced as the concentration of calcium hydroxide was increased from 0.0 to 2.0 mol L−1. The tartrazine adsorption capacity of the prepared AC samples increased as the calcium hydroxide concentration increased from 0.5 to 2 mol L−1 at a carbonization temperature of 400°C for 2 h and a final activation temperature of 500°C for 1 h. Effective adsorption occurred at pH 2. The maximum adsorption capacity (74.9 mg g−1) was obtained with a contact time of 300 min and an initial tartrazine concentration of 150 ppm. The adsorption kinetics of tartrazine were modeled with pseudo-first order, pseudo-second order, and intraparticle diffusion models, which revealed that the tartrazine adsorption onto the AC showed a best fit with the pseudo-second order kinetic model. The thermodynamic parameters ΔG0, ΔH0, and ΔS0 indicated that the adsorption of tartrazine onto the AC was spontaneous and endothermic. The values of ΔG0 were between −1.3 and −2.3 kJ mol−1, and the ΔH0 and ΔS0 values, in the temperature range of 25–50°C, were 9.12 kJ mol−1 and 35.5 J mol−1 K−1, respectively. In general, the thermodynamic parameters indicate that the adsorption is spontaneous and endothermic.


QIAO Ji's SanQu is always considered to be the outstanding representative of school of elegant and flowery(清丽派).However,looking far and wide his creation of SanQu,his artistic style can not just be concluded as elegant and flowery.The author attempts to analyze the artistic style of QIAO Ji's SanQu in particular and at length from four subjects perspective,including the female and love,sighing society and meditating on past,reclusive life,designing view and singing creature,and also discusses simply on the reason of the variety of artistic style from AIAO Ji himself,artistic persuit,social life,literary inner regularity and so on.


Stamped metal sheets are mounted in a magazine (5) in the form of a gap-free sheet column. Rotating discs (4) are pressed to a depth of 0.05 - 0.5 mm into the sides of the sheet column to bring about an adhesive connection. Located at the end of the sheets combined to form an endless strand is a severing device, by means of which sheet stacks of the desired thickness are severed. Deformations of the sheet column as a result of the connection of the stamped sheets are thus avoided.


During exploration of exotic species in Aurangabad, Odontonema cuspidatum (Nees) Kuntze. Was found to be frequently occurring. This species has not been reported earlier from Maharashtra (Almeida, 2003; Singh et al 2001.) and therefore, it is a new exotic addition to Maharashtra. The present paper deals with update citation, detail description, flowering and fruiting season, locality and field photograph of the species.


The health effects of a dust may not be correctly estimated by material analysis only. Therefore additional biological methods for risk assessment are required. First choice method is inhalative exposure, but exposure experiments are expensive in time and money. A more practicable method is the in-vitro-testing in cultured cells. However, the routinely used classic assays (cytotoxicity-methods) are of low specifity. Therefore a new in-vitro-testing concept was developed. It is based on the knowledge of the primary reactions of aveolar macrophages (AM) activated by the phagocytosis of dust particles. Depending on the type of dust phagocytosis of particles stimulates or inhibits distinct reactions of AM. Alterations in the state of the AM can induce pathogenic changes in the alveolar environment, which are followed by manifest lung diseases (fibrosis, emphysema, cancer). The AM state and the AM secretory products can be measured in cultures of isolated AM. Certain reactions (vitality, membrane damage) or secretory products (enzymes, mediators, radical molecules) can be regarded as independent,,vectors of the AM dust reaction. Analysis and combination of the vectors (vector model) gives multidimensional reaction patterns. In tests using dusts of known in vivo reaction (inert, fibrotic, carcinogenic) the vector model was shown to be more sensitive and specific compared to the classic testing method using only a single vector.


PURPOSE: A wearable life support apparatus and a method are provided to correctly support the user's life such as health control by a wearable device. CONSTITUTION: A wearable life support apparatus comprises a physiological information acquirement unit configured to acquire physiological information, an action information acquirement unit configured to acquire action information, a status recognition unit configured to recognize a status in accordance with the action information, a physiological information decision unit configured to decide whether the acquired physiological information is normal in accordance with the recognized status, and a presentation unit configured to present a decision result of said physiological information decision unit.


Vinho Verde wines, together with Port wines, provide Portugal's main wine exports. Vinho Verde wines are characterised by having a relatively low alcohol content and quite a high malic acid content. High levels of acidity are sometimes undesirable. To control the acidity of the wines, deacidification process can be done using lactic acid bacteria that convert malic acid to lactic acid – the malolactic fermentation. The presented results describe the use of phase contrast microscopy coupled to image analysis to simultaneously monitor bacteria and yeast during Vinho Verde fermentation.


This dissertation attempts to expand our understanding of the deficient selfregulation (DSR) of Internet use and media habit development. Drawing from a social cognitive perspective, DSR is described as lapses in effective self-control that are self-corrected over time. A shortcoming in this area of research is that factors relevant to the technology that may encourage the development of DSR or media habits are rarely, if ever, discussed. A large focus of existing research is instead narrowly placed on individual factors that motivate DSR and media habits. An extension is proposed to theory on DSR in this dissertation by examining the role played by novelty perceptions of technology. In the initial stages of technology use, when perceptions of novelty generally grow, perceived novelty is hypothesized to elicit a state of flow, which in turn diminishes the subfunctions of self-regulation and provokes DSR. The relationship between perceived novelty and flow is moderated by psychosocial problems, boredom proneness, and selfreactive outcome expectation. As perceived novelty of a technology decreases, it is presumed that self-control is restored given that flow no longer inhibits selfregulation. However, DSR and media habits are hypothesized to persist in later technology use if individuals experience psychosocial problems, boredom proneness, or high self-reactive outcome expectations. The manifestation of DSR in later stages of technology use increases the likelihood of forming media habits. The influence of novelty perceptions was evaluated on flow, DSR, and media habits at initial and later stages of technology use. The pretest demonstrated that


4-[(Benzo1,3-dioxol-5-yl)propyl]-mresorcinol hemihydrate, CI6HI604.1H2 O, Mr = 281"3, monoclinic, C2/c, a=41.01 (6), b=4.842(3), c = 14-11(3)A, f l=93.28(8) °, V= 2798 (7) A3, Z = 8 , Dx = 1.33 g cm -3, Mo Ka, a = 0"71069 A, /z = 0-908 cm-1, F(000)= 1184, room temperature, R = 0.090 for 863 observed reflections and 88 parameters. Each pair of molecules of diarylpropane, related by a crystallographic twofold axis, are linked through hydrogen bonds to a disordered water molecule located on the twofold axis [Ow...O2 = 2.77 (1)A]. Other important intermolecular contacts are O1..-O2'(x, l y , 0 .5+z) at 2.67(1) A and O1.-.Ow"(2 x, y , 2 z) at 2.74 (1) A. The phenyl rings 1 and 3 are planar to within standard deviations of 0-006 and 0.008 A, respectively; the methylenedioxy atoms 03, 04 and C37 are -0.009, -0.021 and -0.047A. out of the 3-phenyl ring plane; the angle between normals to phenyl-ring planes is 100.3 (9) ° . The results of the X-ray study are in full agreement with the structure proposed on the basis of spectral and analytical data. * To whom correspondence should be addressed. 0108-2701/91/081746-03 $03.00 Experimental. Benzenic extract of trunk wood of a specimen of Iryanthera tricornis collected in the Amazonic region of Colombia affords 1-(2',4'dihydroxyphenyl)-3-(3",4"-methylenedioxyphenyl)propane and also two additional 1,3-diarylpropanes. Transparent colourless needles of the title compound were obtained from a benzene-n-hexane solution (m.p. 373-374 K), a crystal suitable for X-ray study with dimensions 0.10 x 0.06 × 0.02 mm was mounted on an Enraf-Nonius CAD-4 diffractometer, Mo Ka radiation, graphite monochromator. Unit-cell parameters by least squares from 25 reflections with 3 _< 0 _< 17°; 2071 reflections collected, 863 considered observed with I>_2.5tr(/); to-20 scan mode, hkl range: l l _ < h _ < l l , 0_<k_<5, 0_<l_< 13, 0___23°; three standard reflections monitored every 50 measurements showed no significant decay in intensity. Lorentz-polarization corrections, but no absorption correction. Structure solved by direct methods (MULTAN11/84; Main, Germain & Woolfson, 1984). The poor diffracting quality of the crystals did not allow measurement of sufficient intensity data to perform anisotropic refinements; isotropic full-matrix least-squares refinement (on F) © 1991 International Union of Crystallography M. DE MATHEUS, J. C. MARTINEZ, J. RIUS AND C. MIRAVITLLES 1747 Table 1. Atomic coordinates with e.s.d. 's in parentheses and equivalent isotropic thermal parameters (A2) Beq = (87r2/3)Y~ ~5jU,~a,*a,*a ,.a i.


The purpose of this paper was to analyze the influence mechanism of the new round of Collective Forest Rights Reform (CFRR) on farmers' production efficiency from the perspective of forestland transfer. Based on the panel data of field investigation in Jiangxi Province, a panel logit model was used to verify whether the new round of CFRR has affected farmers' forestland circulation behavior. The results showed that the new round of CFRR has played a significant role in promoting forestland circulation. Secondly, the non-parametric DEA method was used to estimate the technical, scale, and comprehensive efficiency of households. DID and panel quantile models were constructed to analyze the impact of forestland inflow policy and forestland outflow policy effects on rural household productivity. The regression results showed that the effect of forestland inflow has had a significantly positive impact on scale and comprehensive efficiency, but it only had a significant effect on technical efficiency in the 0.1 quartile. The effect of forestland outflow was not found to be significant for technical, scale, and comprehensive efficiency, but it was found to be negative for technical efficiency in the 0.75 quartile and negative for scale efficiency in the 0.5 and 0.75 quantiles.


With an ingenious kit of parts, spaces can be quickly changed and floor levels altered to simulate the arrangement of spaces in house design at the architectural department of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland. How this facility was applied to a user-participation exercise is described here. The author, an architect, is a senior research assistant in the department at Lausanne. Acknowledgements are made to the Group Y architects for their co-operation and to Claire Charton for research assistance throughout the project.


The main characteristics and performance of the helix superconducting resonators designed and mounted in the new Saclay Booster Linac, the first European heavy ion superconducting accelerator, are reported. Half-wave resonators have been tested with a continuous /sup 12/C beam delivered by the FN tandem. The behavior is very similar to the theoretical calculations done with field distribution measurements. The accelerating field achieved is 2.15 MV/m, corresponding to an energy gain of 535 keV/charge. The complete booster, which now has 16 half-wave resonators in the first and last large cryostats, makes it possible to extend the mass range from A=12 up to at least A=80 with excellent optical and dynamical beam qualities. The important advantages of the new structures are the broadness of the transmit time factor curve, which makes it possible to accelerate low-velocity beams with good efficiency, and the simplicity of the mechanical design which only requires two helix welds.<<ETX>>


Photophysical parameters of a set of metallocomplexes of meso-phenylthiazinylporphyrins with Zn (II), Pd (II) and Cu (II) ions were studied in different organic solvents, solid solutions and polymeric matrices at room and liquid nitrogen temperatures. The dependence of the spectral and photophysical parameters on changing the molecular structure with increasing number of branched substituents attached to aryl groups in different positions of the porphyrin macrocycle has been established.


Since World War II,the capitalism's development and new change have had the great impact on socialism and attracted people's attention.But we should be also concerned about,since the Keynesianism implementation,the influence of Marxism and the Soviet socialism on the West political activities and social ideological trends.This article selected the current Western active eco-socialism to obtain,analyzed Marxism and the Soviet socialism that had made a profound impact on it.Thus,we understand the relationship and the essence difference of eco-socialism and Marxism,having a firm belief in scientific socialism.


The magnitude of tropical cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has been the subject of uncertainty for over 25 years. We use principles of meta‐analysis as an objective approach to reconcile estimates from different proxies. This approach treats each observation as a random estimate of the true mean and weights estimates by their reported precision. We assigned global uncertainties to proxies and derived a new regional standard deviation for temperatures calculated from the Sr/Ca ratio in tropical corals (σ = 1.4°C). Using a Bayesian spatial interpolation scheme, we estimate a mean cooling of LGM tropical sea surface temperatures of −2.7 ±0.5°C (±σ) and surface air temperatures of −5.4 ±0.3°C (±σ).


With the risk of being re-marginalized of women's status after the Reform in China,many scholars have introspected about the ideology of gender equality and the related actions since the foundation of the Republic of China.Their conclusions focus on the following: First,they think that women's emancipation was always related to China's social development.Secondly,the way of women's emancipation was male-centered and nationalism.Thirdly,women were objects of being liberated but not subjects.Fourthly,the studies paid more attention to the state power's influences on women rather than those of the family power.Last,these research were macro-narrative with strong elitism and without individual sights.


This article reports on the experiences of language teachers with their teacher preparation in the use of learning technologies in Puerto Rico. Three focus group interviews were held with 28 pre-service teachers; 9 in-service teachers were interviewed, and a post focus group interview was held with student teachers after they completed their field teaching experience. The following themes emerged during the analysis of the qualitative data: (a) Course Content must be more than learning to use a program or machine in order for a teacher to be prepared to integrate technology in the classroom; (b) Modeling technology use by teacher educators and cooperating teachers instructs by example, (c) Self-acquisition of technology skills needs to be supplemented by formal training for teachers to acquire the technology skills they need; (d) Access and exposure to technology and Internet needs to be expanded; (e) Practical integration of technology in language teaching requires hands-on-experience throughout the teacher preparation program. Based on the findings, recommendations are made to higher education institutions and school administrators in Puerto Rico to face the challenge of preparing language educators in the integration of learning technologies in their curriculum.


The Doherty amplifier architecture is a well known technique offering the potential to improve transmitter efficiency especially for signal protocols that exhibit high peak-toaverage power ratios. Although the Doherty approach has significant efficiency advantages, it generally must be augmented with some form of correction or linearity enhancement in the full transmitter design. Wireless infrastructure applications have demanding linearity and spectral mask specifications. The latest WiMAX standards present a particular challenge with their combination of very high peak-to-average power ratios, 10 MHz or wider channel bandwidths and high linearity standards. This article demonstrates a 2.5-2.7 GHz Doherty amplifier that achieves, when augmented with digital predistortion, 8 watts of WiMAX average output power at greater than 47% efficiency, while satisfying demanding spectral mask specifications. The appeal of the Doherty amplifier configuration is that it involves familiar core amplifier designs connected in a manner that maintains high efficiency over an extended input signal range. Doherty development has been energized by the latest generations of transistors and is well represented in recent literature [1-5]. Applying the Doherty approach to modern WiMAX signals can present unique challenges. In particular, WiMAX signals combine two challenging features: wide video bandwidth of 10 MHz or greater, and large peak-to-average ratios of 10 dB or greater. Additionally, the latest WiMAX standards require that the spectral emissions mask (SEM) at close offsets (1.5 MHz) be at least –45 dB. A typical amplifier (without correction) will exceed this level by 15 to 20 dB, resulting in a significant correction demand for the digital predistortion circuitry. The technologies applicable to this challenge have improved in three areas:


Research to develop tests that can accurately predict the effects of deicing chemicals on the corrosion of steel in reinforced concrete structures is reported. The research includes the development and evaluation of a standard test specimen and the use of three deicing chemicals to determine the sensitivity of both corrosion potential and macrocell corrosion to molal ion concentrations ranging from 0.4 to 6.4. The standard test specimen consists of a No. 4 reinforcing bar embedded in a 1.18 in. (30 mm) diameter, 4 in. (100 mm) long mortar cylinder. The mortar is made using portland cement, deionized water, and standard graded Ottawa sand. Specimens cured in lime-saturated water reach a passive condition within 14 days. The tests are easy to perform, require no special training, and can normally be completed within 60 days. Of the two tests, the corrosion potential test provides more consistent results and should prove to be a useful tool for comparing the effects of deicing chemicals on the corrosion of reinforcing steel. Additional modifications are needed in the macrocell test before it is ready for general use. Based on limited test data using sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and calcium magnesium acetate, calcium chloride appears to be the most detrimental, followed in order by sodium chloride and calcium magnesium acetate. Corrosion in the presence of calcium magnesium acetate appears to be highly sensitive to relative concentration, with no corrosion occurring at a molal ion concentration of 0.4. In contrast, specimens exposed to both calcium chloride and sodium chloride exhibit measurable corrosion potential at a concentration of 0.4 m. At the highest concentration for which comparisons were made (6.4 m), both the CMA and the CaC12 appear to be equally detrimental, while the NaCl appears to cause somewhat less corrosion.


Abstract More than 30 years have passed since Latvia gained its independence, however, systematic studies of present‐day relationship between media and politics are still missing. Latvia is a country where choice of media is largely determined by ethnicity. Representatives from ethnic groups acquire their daily information from different news sources, as the result the trust levels in media depend on the media format and the language of choice. This study adds to the literature by studying the perceptions of Latvian Members of Parliament on media agenda‐setting power. Drawing on surveys of Latvian parliamentarians, the agenda‐setting power of media is assessed and compared to the survey results in Finland. The results reveal that politicians in Latvia and in Finland think that, in general, media have a massive influence on politics, but the power of written press in Latvia is less evident. And although MPs acknowledge that media can have a significant influence on how decisions are made, the greatest impact will be observed during political debates that can be covered by the media. This study also demonstrates that even though Latvia scores high in the world press freedom ranks, MPs do not trust the media to a large extent and that can be a dangerous signal for the functioning of democracy. The results offer valuable information about the influence of media in countries outside Western Europe and provide a basis for further discussions on surveys as a method for studying the power of media agenda‐setting.


The author, executive director of CCI-Brasil, a mission organization based in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, and professor of missiology at the Paraná Baptist Theological Faculty, begins with an overview of the so-called "openness of God" theology that has been propagated by some noteworthy proponents among North American Evangelical theologians (such as Clark Pinnock) over the past ten years. After identifying certain theological problems of this "freewill theism" which in many ways resembles the more liberal "process theology" the author addresses what he sees as the greater danger associated with this theological framework, namely, its implications on how the Church fulfills her mission.


Overmuch usage of chemicals in crops, especially in leafy vegetables, caused people exposed to health and environmental risks. In Iran, spinach used as a winter vegetable that believed has high Iron and is useful for anemia. The objective of the experiment was determining optimum usage of each macronutrients for obtaining safe with maximum growth and yield in order to extension among farmers. Treatments were chemical fertilizers including ammonium sulfate, super phosphate triple and potassium sulfate at 50, 100, 150 and 200 kg/h against control in a randomized complete block design. Results showed that nitrogen caused elevation of fresh and dry weight in spinach as the maximum obtained in 200 kg/h ammonium sulfate. Results obtained from effect of phosphorus showed that super phosphate increased fresh and dry weight of spinach; but potassium sulfate had no effect on its growth and yield. Analysis of variance on cross effect of data showed significant differences in fresh and dry weight, number of leaves, chlorophyll content and nitrate, but no in length and wide of leaves.


1) Sleep is a neuropsychic state in which metabolism of body is minimum ,growth is maximum ,ageing is least and cell division is high . 2) Subconscious brain is active in sleep which make growth faster by processing and sequencing daily situation . 3) Controlled by melatonin pigmentation


We examine how Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE) contracts allocate contingent cash flow rights between investors and issuers and the role of placement agents in PIPE contract design. Issuers advised by expert agents agree to more investor-friendly terms than issuers advised by nonexpert agents. Expert agents appear to help issuers understand the payoff consequences of negotiable terms. Moreover, expert agents allow issuers to negotiate more attractive pricing when they agree to investor-friendly terms. Issuers earn higher postoffering stock returns when they use expert agents or agree to more investor-friendly terms. These results suggest that the involvement of expert agents is beneficial to PIPE issuers.


Calculations of operating stresses in elements of the shovel swing bearing are submitted and assessment of their impact is presented. Recommendations for reducing the impact of the calculated operating stresses on construction stresses are given.


This paper introduces an approach for applying real-time scheduling techniques to balance electric loads in cyber-physical energy systems. The proposed methodology aims to determine, guarantee and optimize an upper bound on the peak load of electric power, which represents a desirable feature for both the electricity supplier and the user of the electrical system. For this purpose, networked electric devices are modeled using parameters derived from the real-time scheduling discipline used for computing systems. Therefore, the upper bound can be enforced by predictably and timely switching on/off the electric devices composing the electrical system. The paper contribution include: the illustration of the relevance of electric load balancing in cyber-physical energy systems, motivating the use of real-time scheduling techniques to achieve predictability of electric loads scheduling; the presentation of a novel and powerful modeling methodology of the physical system based on a set of periodically activated loads, to enable the use of traditional real-time system models and scheduling algorithms, with adequate adaptations, to manage loads activation/deactivation. We finally derive interesting properties of real-time parameters and provide theoretical results concerning the computation of their values. Keywords-Cyber-Physical Energy Systems; Load Balancing; Real-Time; Modeling; Peak Load


B ecause voluntary approaches have not reversed the trend of declining employer health insurance, states have begun to consider more mandatory approaches. However, legislating employer financing of health care access initiatives runs the risk of a legal challenge under federal ERISA law. ERISA clearly prohibits states from requiring private employers or unions to offer coverage. Yet policymakers should be able to overcome ERISA challenges by drafting laws that (a) rely on traditional state authority, (b) avoid direct references to ERISA health plans, and (c) minimize impacts for multi-state employers desiring uniform national plans. For example, mandating individual coverage, as Massachusetts did, raises no ERISA problems. ERISA should not preempt a welldesigned pay or play law that offers dollar-for-dollar credit for employer health care spending. States should be able to require employers to establish Section 125 cafeteria plans, as long as the law does not specify what type of health coverage should be offered.


ABSTRACT Soil acts as a natural source and sink for greenhouse gases (GHG) that are responsible for global warming and climate change. As the agricultural sector has an important impact on GHG (e.g., CO2, CH4, N2O) emissions, the definition of mitigation strategies is needed, especially for the Mediterranean climate areas that appear most vulnerable to climate change. The introduction of perennial legumes, such as alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), falls within this scope, but it requires the application of a termination method aimed at reduction of GHG emissions. With the aim of assessing the short-term effects of two different alfalfa termination methods (Tillage vs No tillage plus herbicide), we defined the hypothesis that alfalfa termination by Tillage will increase soil GHG emissions compared to its termination by No tillage plus herbicide. Soil CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions were monitored over ~2 months (71 days; October–December, 2017) following alfalfa termination, using closed static chambers. The soil total GHG emissions after 71 days were significantly different for Tillage and No tillage plus herbicide: 311.90 ±21.21 versus 195.89 ±11.14 g CO2 equivalent m−2, respectively. For both termination methods, CO2 (up to a maximum value of 1.24 ±0.18 and 0.65± 0.07 kg C-CO2 ha−1 h−1, respectively) was the greatest contributor to the total soil GHG emissions (about 96%), compared to N2O (up to a maximum value of 0.37 ±0.13 and 0.31± 0.10 g N-N2O ha−1 h−1, respectively) and CH4 (up to a maximum value of −0.01 ±0.03 and 0.07 ±0.03 g C-CH4 ha−1 h−1, respectively). These data suggest that over the short term, legume perennial crop termination by No tillage plus herbicide better supports the purpose of climate regulations.


Understanding the absence of composition in western Canada is predicated upon understanding the presence of composition in the United States, the only country in the world with a highly visible tradition of composition. This absence in western Canada, between 1900 and 1950, is largely a matter of appearance--composition in both countries was an institutional requirement. The blending of composition and literature, however, was the dominant pattern of instruction in western Canada, a pattern inherited from Harvard, where many professors had studied. After 1950 the two federal governments' responses to the Cold War and subsequent funding of postsecondary education differed. Canada established the Massey Commission which, after hearing presentations from art groups, university representatives, and others, resulted in federal funding of universities in 1952, and, in 1957, in funding of the humanities. American federal support for the arts has consistently been a practical, rather than a philosophical issue. For Canadian scholars in the 1960s to have turned to composition and rhetoric as a research agenda would simply have been to Americanize the curriculum and to pursue a low art rather than a high culture. Rhetoric and composition have not yet made, and may never make, a significant impact in western Canadian English departments and universities as long as researchers continue to pursue and governments continue to fund high culture. (Contains 24 references.) (CR) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. ********************************************J-************************** Understanding the Absence of Composition in Western Canada: A Brief History U S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office o' Eduscarrohar Research ahd EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC, 9/IThis document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy Kevin Brooks Department of English Iowa State University Ames, IA 50010 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)


ABSTRACT Maltooligosaccharides were transformed into both endo-modified oligosaccharidonolactones as substrate analogue inhibitors for human α-amylases. p-Nitrophenyl 65-O-benzyl-α-maltopentaoside (1) and p-nitrophenyl 65-O-β-D- galactosyl-α-malto-pentaoside (11), which have been synthesized as substrates for human α-amylases in serum, were selectively hydrolyzed by specific α-amylases to afford 63-O-benzyl maltotriose (8) and 63-O-β-D-galactosyl maltotriose (10), respectively. Both the modified oligomers were chemically oxidized to 63-O-benzyl maltotrionolactone (6) and 63-O-β-D-galactosyl maltotrionolactone (7), respectively. Compound 6, which is a strong competitive inhibitor, had K i values of 2.8 and 9.6 x 10−6M for human salivary α-amylase (HSA) and human pancreatic α-amylase (HPA), respectively. On the other hand, the inhibition activity of 7 was about ten times less than 6. These results indicated that the 6-O-substituted hydrophobic benzyl group enhances the binding with enzymes, whereas the corr...


Just-in-time inventory management and short production cycles require flexible material flow as well as usage of small transportation units. These demands can be met by using small Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) which act as a swarm of mobile robots. The paper presents real-time communication and localization for a swarm of mobile robots which transport Euro-bins in a distribution center or warehouse. Localization is realized by trilateration using range measurements obtained from an IEEE 802.15.4a CSS network. The IEEE 802.15.4a network is used for communication as well as for localization. The paper presents the design of the networks as well as the communication protocol which provides communication and localization in real-time. In order to support a large number of robots, the whole working area is divided into cells which uses different frequencies. The network protocol provides handover between the cells and routing capabilities in real-time.


The structure and connections in networked microgrids consisting of two or more interconnected microgrids is influenced by the dynamic behaviors of power markets, the demand and supply interactions between market participants, and the possibility of operating in the grid-connected or islanded modes. Protection zones in the above-mentioned scenarios are dynamic and should not be determined a priori. Also, fault currents will vary depending on the operating modes, online or offline status of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), variation of solar irradiation or wind speed, etc. This paper proposes a Centralized Intelligent Station-Level Protection (CISP) approach for the protection of various electric power equipment technologies in networked (interconnected) microgrids using adaptive protective relaying algorithms and a network theory-based zone selection algorithm. The proposed CISP approach utilizes wide area IEC 61869-9 Sampled Values (SVs) measurements and IEC 61850 Generic Object-Oriented Substation Events (GOOSE) messages, intelligently determines the protection zones, and automatically selects the protection algorithms to use in each of the protection zones based on the prevailing system topology and operating conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed CISP approach is demonstrated through real-time simulations using the RTDS®. The results obtained were promising for the various system configurations, operating conditions, and fault conditions considered.


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The paper examines 9858 global publications output on metamaterials research, as covered in Scopus database during 2007-16. The study reveals that metamaterials research registered 15.27% growth and averaged citation impact to 10.08 citations per paper. The global share of top 10 most productive countries in metamaterials research is 84.97 % and their individual global share ranged from 3.30% to 25.57%. China accounted for the largest global share (25.71%), followed by USA (23.96%), U.K. (6.06%), India (5.26%), etc. Five of top 10 countries scored relative citation index above the world average i.e. more than 1: Germany (2.06), USA (1.81), U.K. (1.49), Canada (1.03) and Spain (1.01). The international collaborative publications share of top 10 most productive countries varied from 6.14% to 59.80%. Physics and astronomy, among subjects, contributed the largest publication share (59.36%), followed by engineering (56.71%), materials science (33.30%), computer science (20.32%), mathematics (6.74%) and chemistry (4.46%). The top 20 most productive organisations and authors together contributed 24.69% and 13.17% global publications share respectively and 35.72% and 25.96% global citation share respectively. The top 20 journals accounted for 45.97% share of global output (5743 papers) reported in journals. Of the total global output on metamaterials research, 52 papers were found as highly cited papers averaging 535.64 citations per paper in 10 years. These 52 highly cited papers involved the participation of 310 authors and 142 organisations and were published in 20 journals.


A new generation of mechanical energy harvesters re cently appeared, using vertically aligned piezoelectric nanowires as active elements. In this paper, we present an original model of the electro mechanical conversion occuring in a deformed ZnO nanowire (NW) . The coupling between the NW piezoelectric and semiconducting properties has been taken into accou nt. We investigated the behaviour of free charge ca rriers in a bent NW with an infinite resistivity. We show here that an optimal concentration of free charges combi ned with a high aspect ratio of the NW can improve the efficie n y of the electromechanical conversion.


Theconference at Yale University, where some of these essays on The Authoritarian Personalitywere first presented, feels in retrospect like the last days of disco. It wasmid-February in 2020, just amonth before the Yale campus and the city of New Haven were shut down by COVID-19, before the summer of protest against police violence, before the 2020 presidential election and the Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol. We were in the midst of a protracted but still undecided Democratic primary and the everyday train wreck of the Trump administration. As organizers of the conference, we did not give a second thought tomeeting in person, nor to coffee breaks and lunch receptions, or seminar rooms packed beyond capacity. We only thought of how we might facilitate a conversation about The Authoritarian Personality with the scholars who know it best and who have helped to reintroduce this monumental work to new readers. Over those two days in February, we discussed the book in its historical context and for its contemporary resonance, considering its uses and misuses in making sense of a globally resurgent Far Right, reflecting on its collaborative example and cross-disciplinary impact, raising questions of race and gender, thinking over the different forms of psychoanalytic argument. We spent our evenings in lively political debate over dinner. Two years later, it remains for some of us the last time we gathered in person for an academic event. The Authoritarian Personality was first published in 1950 to instant acclaim. Coauthored by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, the study was a joint effort of the Institute for Social Research, based in Los Angeles at the time, and the Berkeley Public Opinion Study team, based in northern California. The authors—some of them Jewish émigrés and suspected communists— sought to identify the prevalence of attitudes and impulses among "ordinary Americans" ripe for conversion into fascism. They pursued a mixed-method study of