ABSTRACT We analyze the policies of China and Israel towards students from Hong Kong and East Jerusalem respectively. We demonstrate that they are treated as International students and subject to a form of 'internationalization' designed to consolidate national forms of identity and extend state control over 'troublesome' minorities within the nation state. This domestic adaptation of the structures designed to support internationalization within Universities, through which the state deploys higher education as a tool of 'soft power' to control parts of the nation, operates within a broader program of 'internal colonization' that is neither well developed in the literature nor explained by prominent typologies of internationalization.


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PurposeThe smoothness of the high-speed railway (HSR) on the bridge may exceed the allowable standard when an earthquake causes vibrations for HSR bridges, which may threaten the safety of running trains. Indeed, few studies have evaluated the exceeding probability of rail displacement exceeding the allowable standard. The purposes of this article are to provide a method for investigating the exceeding probability of the rail displacement of HSRs under seismic excitation and to calculate the exceeding probability.Design/methodology/approachIn order to investigate the exceeding probability of the rail displacement under different seismic excitations, the workflow of analyzing the smoothness of the rail based on incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) is proposed, and the intensity measure and limit state for the exceeding probability analysis of HSRs are defined. Then a finite element model (FEM) of an assumed HSR track-bridge system is constructed, which comprises a five-span simply-supported girder bridge supporting a finite length CRTS II ballastless track. Under different seismic excitations, the seismic displacement response of the rail is calculated; the character of the rail displacement is analyzed; and the exceeding probability of the rail vertical displacement exceeding the allowable standard (2mm) is investigated.FindingsThe results show that: (1) The bridge-abutment joint position may form a step-like under seismic excitation, threatening the running safety of high-speed trains under seismic excitations, and the rail displacements at mid-span positions are bigger than that at other positions on the bridge. (2) The exceeding probability of rail displacement is up to about 44% when PGA = 0.01g, which is the level-five risk probability and can be described as 'very likely to happen'. (3) The exceeding probability of the rail at the mid-span positions is bigger than that above other positions of the bridge, and the mid-span positions of the track-bridge system above the bridge may be the most hazardous area for the running safety of trains under seismic excitation when high-speed trains run on bridges.Originality/valueThe work extends the seismic hazardous analysis of HSRs and would lead to a better understanding of the exceeding probability for the rail of HSRs under seismic excitations and better references for the alert of the HSR operation.


A miniature refractive index sensor formed by a high quality (Q-) photonic crystal (PhC) cavity based fiber loop ring-down (FLRD) was demonstrated. To the best of our knowledge, this technology has not been reported. The ring-down time would be changed with the transmittance of PhC cavity, which is related to the refractive index of the infiltrated liquids. By using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, the system sensitivity was simulated. Result showed that the sensitivity of this simple scheme could reach to 1.25ms per refractive index unit (RIU) and the detection limit below 8×10-6RIU was achieved. Moreover, the proposed structure has the potential to build on-chip device for in-situ measurement with high sensitivity and high precision.


This paper is concerned with the frictional unilateral contact problem governed by Coulomb's law. We define an a posteriori error estimator based on the concept of error in the constitutive relation to quantify the accuracy of a finite element approximation of the problem. We propose and study different mixed finite element approaches and discuss their properties in order to compute the estimator. The information given by the error estimates is then coupled with a mesh adaptivity technique which provides the user with the desired quality and minimizes the computation costs. The numerical implementation of the error estimator as well as optimized computations are performed.


Since, for photon radiation, several current instruments are already suitable for the determination of ambient dose equivalent with acceptable accuracy over a wide energy range, there should be no serious problem in designing new instruments with response optimized for this quantity. Materials should be selected for simulating attenuation by a 10 mm layer of tissue and the effects of backscattering from a tissue-equivalent sphere on the energy response. Additional material to produce electronic equilibrium is not appropriate. Some detectors, such as GM tubes and detectors employing relatively high effective atomic number materials, may be more appropriate to determine the new operational quantities and it will be easier to modify their energy response with filters.


The abrupt rises of water level in rivers by torrential rain or storm repeatedly cause inundation damage, such as erosion and deposition in floodplains. However, studies on identifying the abrasion of waterfront facilities or the accumulation of sediment near rivers under extreme flow conditions are seldom found because floodplains are utilized in various ways in each country. In this study, novel floodplain sustainability indices by spatial classification of erosion and deposition were developed for sustainable waterfront development. The indices can provide the relative spatial distribution of erosion and deposition in a floodplain by using only kinematic flow information, such as flow depth and velocity obtained by 2D numerical analysis. Accordingly, applying a complex sediment transport model that involves numerous assumptions and parameters can be moderately replaced with the present approach. The suitability of developed indices was tested in several flow problems by comparing the predicted erosional or depositional region with measured data. In addition, the developed indices were applied to a floodplain in a natural river to examine the relative spatial distribution of the erosion and deposition for a typhoon event, and the results were compared with field monitoring data. It was found that deposition was more likely to occur than erosion in most floodplains, and the developed floodplain sustainability indices accurately quantified the erosion and deposition phenomena.


Before discussing models in photomorphogenesis it is necessary to give a brief outline of the general uses and limitations of mathematical models in investigat ing the mechanisms of biological phenomena (see also FUKSHANSKY and MOHR 1980). The use of mathematical models is an attempt to apply quantitative descrip tions of phenomena to situations which lack precise information. This method can become very successful within a combined study of a complex phenomenon, however, only if applied correctly. The basic properties of mathematical models are presented in Fig. 1. First of all, the analysis of a mathematical model must give consequences of underly ing statements, which are not obvious, i.e., cannot be obtained on the basis of the same statements by means of qualitative reasoning only. In order to build a model one must have a set of firmly established facts (set F in Fig. 1). This set has to be divided into two subsets (F 1 and F 2). Subset F 1, with the possible addition of supplementary statements, underlies the model; subset F 2 is to be compared with results of its analysis [i.e., with non-obvious (N.C.) and obvious (O.C.) consequences]. In photomorphogenesis F 1 usually contains data of spectrophotometrical in vivo and in vitro measure ments, while F 2 contains results concerning physiological responses (such subdi vision is, however, not obligatory). The statements to be added to subset F 1 can be conditionally divided into two classes: plausible assumptions (P.A.) and arbitrary postulates (A.P.) (the first being statements about properties which are likely, but not firmly established, the second group statements which cannot be supported by experimental findings to any degree). The third property can be formulated half-quantitatively: IP.A·I+IA.P·I~IN .C·I +IO·C.I, i.e., the number of statements underlying the model must be considerably less than that of statements derived from the model. This requirement is obvious in an extreme case: nobody is permitted to make an assumption for each "ex plained fact". Here occurs, in a natural way, the concept of a minimal model, i.e., the model containing a minimal number of P.A. and A.P. Results of model analysis can contain not only statements about facts from F b but also other statements which cannot be confronted with known facts. These statements about supposed new properties, or predictions (P) are most


This paper discusses the development of millimeter wave dielectric image guide integrated circuit comuonents and their application in communications and radar systems. It describes specific systems such as a 60/70 GHz communication set, a 70 GHz binocular radio, a pulsed radar, a FN-CW radar using a self-oscillating mixer and a FSK radar transceiver, all at 94 GHz, to demonstrate the feasibility of dielectric waveguide type components in practical systems applications.


The authors examine the internetworking of the distributed queue dual bus (DQDB) metropolitan area network (MAN) with asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) of broadband integrated services digital network (B-ISDN). Several scenarios are discussed. It is suggested that the best solution is through the use of a connection-oriented (CO) DQDB service. Some of the provisions of the CO DQDB service necessary for an efficient and simple interworking are provided.<<ETX>>


This paper brings together experiences of three years effort toward implementing an Overcurrent and Earth fault relay coordination software. A substation based coordination method has been developed by using the programing language, Vb.net and connection to the database, Microsoft Access. By this, sufficiency of the new proposed view is evaluated. Since short circuit calculation programs are usually available, a substation including all the current protective relays plus distance relays is considered in this applied research. A special attention is paid to define a few relevant short circuit scenarios and different rules are developed based on this methodology to achieve optimal settings and to cover instructions and standards. The resulted software program facilitates all the calculations of current relays for any high voltage substation with any configuration and offers detailed calculations. The results have been tested frequently on a large power system grid in a regional electric company for about 10 years.


Honeycrisp™ [Malus × domestica (L.) Borkh.] can be a very profitable cultivar if fruit quality is high. Some crop-load bio-regulators were evaluated for improving fruit quality and annual flowering. Ammonium thiosulphate applied at full bloom reduced crop-load, increased fruit weight, fruit colour and return bloom. Fruitone N® combined with Sevin XLR® reduced the percent of fruit in the 40–60% colour category and also crop-load. Fruitone N® alone reduced crop-load. Key words: Honeycrisp™, fruit thinning, crop-load, return bloom


This paper demonstrates a feasible method for using a deep neural network as a sensor to estimate the attitude of a flying vehicle using only flight video. A dataset of still images and associated gravity vectors was collected and used to perform supervised learning. The network builds on a previously trained network and was trained to be able to approximate the attitude of the camera with an average error of about 8 degrees. Flight test video was recorded and processed with a relatively simple visual odometry method. The aircraft attitude is then estimated with the visual odometry as the state propagation and network providing the attitude measurement in an extended Kalman filter. Results show that the proposed method of having the neural network provide a gravity vector attitude measurement from the flight imagery reduces the standard deviation of the attitude error by approximately 12 times compared to a baseline approach.


This article-based thesis offers a study of how the increasing policy emphasis on children's school readiness shapes early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers' work with children aged between 0 and 6 years. In four articles, I examine how Norwegian and Danish ECEC teachers both challenge and comply with the ruling constructs of school readiness by drawing on various and at times conflicting institutional discourses in their interactions with children, colleagues, parents, municipal authorities, and school representatives. The data for the studies consist of detail-rich transcripts of individual and group interviews with 22 ECEC teachers, describing their work of supporting and assessing the language development of children from minority-language backgrounds. These are coupled with a systematic configurative research review of the existing empirical studies on ECEC teachers' perceptions of school readiness.


With the continuous progress of machine vision technology, crack detection in pipelines has been greatly improved. For crack detection in deep holes, inner tubes, and other environments, it is not only necessary to detect the existence of cracks, but also to collect important information regarding the crack detection direction for further analysis. Because shooting with a frontal field of view causes the real side wall images to produce certain distortions, the detection and calibration of cracks requires a certain amount of professional technology and time. It usually takes a long time to collect the image to eliminate the distortion, and then to identify the crack and mark the direction according to the data line. Therefore, a simple and efficient end-to-end neural network model for crack recognition and three-dimensional visualization are proposed by using a cascade network and simple recognition technology in conjunction with inertial navigation equipment. In addition, we screen the crack data via pixel calibration and eliminate the ambiguous data to make the visualization more accurate. Experiments in pipelines and burrows show that the accuracy, performance, and efficiency of the proposed method reached a high level.


In spite of these positive features, most content teachers are justifiably concerned with students' poor comprehension of expository material. Although textbooks must serve students with diverse reading abilities, they are often too complex for poor readers. When the concept load is considered, even able readers can have difficulty. Thus material with a single readability level and a heavy concept load produces such a mismatch between text and reader that


P2P network attracts more and more attention as an alternative to publish or access
to information, because of its advantages in scalability, decentralization and self-organization.
While a lot of research has been focused on semantic query routing in information system over
P2P network, little work concerns if semantic query routing can satisfy the requirement of
semantic information retrieval, and to what extent the query routing mechanism can provide
the information semantically related to users' query. In this paper, we study the application
of semantics in traditional information retrieval and information system over P2P network;
The gap between semantic information retrieval and semantic query routing is demonstrated;
Finally, the challenge of semantic information retrieval over P2P network is presented.


We study the general properties of the CMB temperature four-point function, specifically its harmonic analogue the angular trispectrum, and illustrate its utility in finding optimal quadratic statistics through the weak gravitational lensing effect. We determine the general form of the trispectrum, under the assumptions of rotational, permutation, and parity invariance, its estimators on the sky, and their Gaussian noise properties. The signal-to-noise in the trispectrum can be highly configuration dependent and any quadratic statistic used to compress the information to a manageable two-point level must be carefully chosen. Through a systematic study, we determine that for the case of lensing a specific statistic, the divergence of a filtered temperature-weighted temperature-gradient map, contains the maximal signal-to-noise and reduces the variance of estimates of the large-scale convergence power spectrum by over an order of magnitude over previous gradient-gradient techniques. The total signal-to-noise for lensing with the Planck satellite is of order 60 for a LCDM cosmology.


In this work, we show that a bilayer SiN x passivation scheme which includes a high-temperature annealed SiN x as gate dielectric, significantly improves both ON and OFF state performance of AlGaN/GaN metal insulator semiconductor high electron mobility transistors (MISHEMTs). Surface and bulk leakage paths were determined from devices with different SiN x passivation schemes. Temperature-dependent mesa leakage studies showed that the surface conduction could be explained using a 2D variable range hopping mechanism; this is attributed to the mid-gap interface states at the GaN(cap)/SiN x interface generated due to the Ga–Ga metal like bonding states. It was found that the high temperature annealed SiN x gate dielectric exhibited the lowest interface state density and a two-step C–V indicative of a superior quality SiN x /GaN interface as confirmed from conductance and capacitance measurements. High-temperature annealing helps form Ga–N bonding states, thus reducing the shallow metal-like interface states. MISHEMT measurements showed a significant reduction in gate leakage and a four-orders of magnitude improvement in the ON/OFF ratio while increasing the saturation drain current (I DS) by a factor of 2. Besides, MISHEMTs with two-step SiN x passivation exhibited a relatively flat transconductance profile, indicating lower interface states density. The dynamic R on with gate and drain stressing measurements also showed about 3× improvements in devices with bilayer SiN x passivation.


Accurate measurements of the phase and group velocity dispersion curves have been made for Δv/v waveguides on (001) 〈 110 〉 Bi12GeO20. The measurements are shown to be in good agreement with the results of a simple theory which includes the effect of substrate anisotropy. Results indicate that the acoustic energy is bound more tightly to waveguides fabricated on crystal orientations where anisotropy provides a reduced diffraction loss for unguided waves.


Studies on the potential for parboiling of rice by soaking in hot water without further steaming are described. Laboratory, pilot and large-scale trials were conducted on several var.; soaking temp. of 70-85 degree C, soaking times of less than2 h, and subsequent tempering times of less than2 h were studied. Incidence of husk splitting, 'white belly' (presence of a non-gelatinized core), milling breakage %, alakali score, water uptake ratio and equilibrium moisture content were determined. The results show that soaking at a temp. 10-15 degree C above the gelatinization temp. for 1.5-2 h, draining, then tempering for 1-2 h gives good results: freedom from 'white belly' or husk splitting and reasonably good milling quality and colour.


Superluminescent diode based absorption spectroscopy is demonstrated for simultaneous measurement of CH4 and CO2 in biogas. A free space etalon is used to avoid interference from other gases and allow measurement with a low resolution spectrometer.


To develop a novel type of bacteria for biocontrol agents of plant pathogenic fungi, we are focusing on bacteria that possess high chitinase activity and more biofilm formation. In this study, a bacterial strain was isolated from chitin flakes placed into the water of a sand dune lake in Niigata, Japan and was identified as Aeromonas salmonicida based on morphology and phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The train showed high chitinase activity and formed the highest biofilms compared to other isolates. Total activity of chitinases produced by the strain in the presence of chitin powder was lower than that of a reference, Serratia marcescens 2170. However, total protein concentration produced was lower than that of the reference, indicating the bacterium produces a considerable amount of chitinases in the presence of chitin. Zymogram analysis of chitinases demonstrated that the strains produced at least one chitinase into culture supernatant. In addition, the dialyzed culture supernatant containing chitinases produced by the bacterium showed antifungal activity against the growth of Trichoderma reesei. These results indicate that our isolate might a good candidate for further studies on biocontrol of plant pathogenic fungi. We plan to identify and characterize the chitinase molecules of the bacterium by applying gene cloning for the development of a biocontrol agent.


The introduction of real-time dispatching (RTD) to semiconductor manufacturing has greatly improved productivities for the last two decades. Recently, researchers have revealed that data available and complexity of the algorithms to the dispatcher are limited-in effect the dispatcher has tunnel vision, dutifully rank ordering the lots in the queue, but oblivious to what is happening around it, which leads to the poor results compared to other modern optimization-based approaches. However, the author admits that most semiconductor manufacturing companies are still using RTD not only as a last-minute loading-check, but also as a scheduling logic-hub. Here comes a business need of improving the brainpower of RTD by using the optimization technologies. In this paper, we propose an integration of RTD with linear programming technique in photolithography area by using two-stage modeling. The transportation model at the first stage finds the least-cost means of assigning jobs to reticles and machines. Then, the sequencing module provides an expository sequencing decision by inheriting the same dispatching business rules. The experimental study demonstrates the proposed method can reduce the count of reticle delivery by 40.5% in a low-mix fab instances.


The Fc gamma receptors have been shown to play important roles in the initiation and regulation of many immunological and inflammatory processes and to amplify and refine the immune response to an infection. We have investigated the hypothesis that polymorphism within the FCGR genetic locus is associated with giant cell arteritis (GCA). Biallelic polymorphisms in FCGR2A, FCGR3A, FCGR3B and FCGR2B were examined for association with biopsy-proven GCA (n = 85) and healthy ethnically matched controls (n = 132) in a well-characterised cohort from Lugo, Spain. Haplotype frequencies and linkage disequilibrium (D') were estimated across the FCGR locus and a model-free analysis performed to determine association with GCA. There was a significant association between FCGR2A131RR homozygosity (odds ratio (OR) 2.10, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.12 to 3.77, P = 0.02, compared with all others) and carriage of FCGR3A-158F (OR 3.09, 95% CI 1.10 to 8.64, P = 0.03, compared with non-carriers) with susceptibility to GCA. FCGR haplotypes were examined to refine the extent of the association. The haplotype showing the strongest association with GCA susceptibility was the FCGR2AFCGR3A 131R-158F haplotype (OR 2.84, P = 0.01 for homozygotes compared with all others). There was evidence of a multiplicative joint effect between homozygosity for FCGR2A131R and HLA-DRB1*04 positivity, consistent with both of these two genetic factors contributing to the risk of disease. The risk of GCA in HLA-DRB1*04 positive individuals homozygous for the FCGR2A-131R allele is increased almost six-fold compared with those with other FCGR2A genotypes who are HLA-DRB1*04 negative. We have demonstrated that FCGR2A may contribute to the 'susceptibility' of GCA in this Spanish population. The increased association observed with a FCGR2A-FCGR3A haplotype suggests the presence of additional genetic polymorphisms in linkage disequilibrium with this haplotype that may contribute to disease susceptibility. These findings may ultimately provide new insights into disease pathogenesis. Introduction Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a common chronic granulomatous vasculitis that is restricted to the over-50 population and thus serves as a paradigm for ageing-related immunopathology. Permanent ischaemic lesions, predominantly irreversible blindness, occur in 15% of patients due to hyperplasia of the intimal layer of involved arteries and non-thrombotic luminal occlusion. Some patients present acutely with blindness, secondary to anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy or central retinal artery occlusion, whereas others present with a systemic inflammatory syndrome [1]. High-dose steroids are conventionally used to prevent these ischaemic complications, but in an elderly population this leads to a high incidence of adverse events [2]. There is some evidence that GCA is an antigen-driven, autoimmune disease. One of the earliest changes within the vessel wall is the accumulation of dendritic cells within the adventitia, which are believed to initiate and maintain antigen-specific adaptive immune responses, following an as yet unknown vascular insult [3]. The familial clustering of GCA supports a


This work comprises of a detail study of the impact of building integrated heating (BIH) systems on energy efficiency and thermal comfort. The work has been sponsored by a company called Thermotech ...


The title of Eric Sundquist's collection promises a great deal in its understated way. One expects to see reflected in its pages the changes registered by recent developments in the theory and practice of criticism on our understanding of a group of texts that we have traditionaUy regarded as epistemologically conservative—novels, primarily, that seem uniquely resistant to the current emphasis on the mediations of language and form. Of course, American realism, as the Jamesian more than any one else knows, has never presented any sort of united front, and students of "realism" have always been forced to decide whether they want to use the term in its strong sense to designate a specific program for representing reaUty in fiction or in its weaker sense simply to name the set of texts produced in America over a certain span of years. The task of a volume of this sort is, at least implicitly, to account for why certain authors need to be considered collectively as a movement, a school, or merely a chapter in American literary history and, conversely, to explain why others can be discounted even though they share similar representational strategies or are exact contemporaries of the realists. Sundquist, I think correctly, opts for the "weak" definition of realism (he identifies it with the decade of the 1890s, giving and taking a few years on either side) and so allows his contributors license to approach their subjects from a variety of "new" critical perspectives.


Analysts have finally started to pay increasing attention to the rapidly rising levels of Chinese investment abroad. Deals such as Lenovo's purchase of IBM's PC production arm have sparked interest in a quiet revolution. The story now is not just about the flow of foreign investment in China, but also of the flow of China's investment into other countries. However, most interest so far has concentrated on big ticket investments in the West and the consequences for European and particularly US geopolitical interests. Of less concern thus far have been the implications of Chinese investment on corporate social responsibility. This paper is a preliminary assessment of the potential implications of Chinese investments: in particular, the effect on sanctions designed to improve human rights (with specific reference to Myanmar), and whether pressure can be maintained on foreign investors to comply with international standards and norms in the face of Chinese investment. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.


The PLUG MOBILITY as the new high Ecology creative RID Project is an Innovative MAI Partnership of the new "Plug Mobility" Concept for Develop the Robo Mobile (DLR) project and future cooperation with EC to progress of know-how Ecological El-Grid Road Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles (EV) with Superconductor Magnetic Connector (SMC) for Dynamic Recharging: Any Free Time part side Ro Arm Contact and Safe Non Hand Movement as the "EV Plug-Socket Mobility" of the all Low Cost EV-City Taxi & Sharing Service Non Limit Drive for Minimize Risks of COVID contacts, Energy Source of Battery Consumption/Price and Non Lost any Self Time & Money to Recharge Stations as the main negative aspects of EV-Mobility. Innovation Proposal of the New Know How Simple Dynamic Robo Recharging-in-Drive System for Energy Share Economy of Smart Cities with Electro Energy Efficiency for E-Drivers Logo: "Non-Stop as You Need for all EV-Drive Any Time and Any Where".


The problem associated with building language processors for African tone languages seems intractable. These problems, which range from homographs handling to domain specific words not in language dictionaries, have resulted in the boundless growth of the font's system. Some attempts have been made in recent times to overcome these problems. One interesting attempt is the development of the tone language keyboard. The design of such hardware is complex (using more functional keys) and from users' perspective, more troublesome (keeping an auxiliary of key combinations). This paper implements a software approach to solving this problem for Ibibio, a Lower Cross language of the (new) Benue-Congo language sub-family widely spoken in the southeastern, oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The system is designed to enable language database or dictionary switching, provided such dictionaries are designed in a csv file format. We discuss the problems and challenges of this design and proffer solutions to handling them. This initiative will arouse new insights and collaborative interest in solving this open question that demands a specific answer.


Kale is one of the top economically valuable crops in the world because of its high antioxidant content. Research shows that the antioxidant profile of Brassica crops varies with growth stages due to soil fertility, temperature, light and other agronomic factors. This study aimed to analyze the effect of potassium humate on phenolic compound content, the greatest contributor to the antioxidant properties of the highest-ranking superfood kale (Brassica oleracea var. sabellica). Our results showed that potassium humate at different growth stages elicited phenolic compounds in the studied samples. Leaves of 22 weeks old plants accumulated phenolic compounds about two times higher than those of 7 weeks old plants. Vitamin C content was increased by potassium humate treatment at 7 weeks. At 22 weeks levels in controls and treated kale leaves did not significantly differ.


The author presents a design and validation results of a 11-year aerosol optical thickness (AOT) reanalysis generated by a modified NAAPS aerosol transport model and its data assimilation system (NAVDAS-AOT). The validation results demonstrate that the reanalysis AOT successfully represents spatial distribution and temporal variation (e.g., long-term trend and seasonal cycle) appeared in AERONET measured AOT. The manuscript includes recommendations for application of the reanalysis dataset. This will be useful for users of all aerosol reanalyses. The manuscript is well written, well structured and enjoyable to read. I recommend publication after addressing the following minor concerns.


Upon Northern blotting, Saccharomyces cerevisiae that was treated with diazaborine showed aberrant mRNAs that were extended at the 3′-end and terminated at secondary processing sites. These bands were also detected in untreated Δupf1, Δxrn1, and rat7-1mutants. This finding demonstrates that the aberrant mRNAs also occur in untreated strains in small quantities and can reach the cytoplasm, where they are normally degraded by Xrn1p. Diazaborine treatment stabilizes these mRNAs. The detection of the aberrant bands in the untreated rat7-1 strain indicates that Rat7 is involved in quality control of RNA. The aberrant mRNAs were not detected after diazaborine treatment of a DRG1-1mutant. Drg1p, a member of the family of AAA (ATPases associated with a variety of cellular activities) proteins, which are thought to represent specific chaperones, may be involved in the process of unfolding the mRNA-ribonucleoprotein complex or in the recognition of aberrant mRNA molecules in the cytoplasm.


6538 Background: Adult patients with Ph+ALL have an extremely poor outcome. In order to improve outcome of patients with Ph+ALL, a phase II trial of high-dose imatinib and dose-intensive chemotherapy was conducted in newly diagnosed Ph+ALL.

METHODS
In induction therapy, oral imatinib 600 mg/day was given from day 8 for 8 weeks (day 63) with dose-intensive chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide (day 1:i.v. 1200 mg/M2), daunorubicin (days 1-3:i.v. 60 mg/M2), vincristine(days 1,8,15,22: i.v.1.3 mg/M2), prednisolone(days 1-21:p.o. 60 mg/M2). As consolidation therapy, alternating chemotherapy course [high dose chemotherapy with methotrexate(MTX) (day 1: i.v.1 g/M2) and cytarabine (Ara-C)(days 2 and 3:i.v. 2 g/M2 /q12h)] and single administration of oral imatinib (600 mg/day for 4 weeks) were repeated in a total of 8 courses. Risk-adapted intrathecal prophylaxis (MTX+ Ara-C+ dexamethasone) was given. Patients having either related or unrelated HLA-identical donor were permitted to receive allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT).

RESULTS
To date, 23 patients with newly diagnosed Ph+ALL have been treated with this protocol from September 2002 to October 2003. Median age was 40 years (range15-59) and 48 % were male. Twenty-two out of 23 patients (96%) quickly attained CR and one patient died of pulmonary bleeding on day 9. The prospective monitoring of the minimal residual disease by quantitative (real-time) RT-PCR on Day 28 and Day 63 indicated that 16 out of 20 patients (80%) examined entered molecular remission (defined as BCR-ABL/GAPDH ratio being < 10-5). Allogeneic SCT was performed for 8 patients in CR. Toxicity profile was similar to that seen with chemotherapy alone. All CR patients were alive even though 2 patients relapsed during consolidation therapy. Therefore, failure free and overall survival rates at 6 months were 87% and 96%, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS
Combination treatment of high-dose imatinib with intensive chemotherapy might increase not only the rate of CR but also the quality of CR in patients with Ph+ ALL. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


PurposeThis study explores whether the unique organizational form of family firms helps to mitigate the negative effects caused by the announcement of product recalls.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use an event study, for a sample of 2,576 product recalls in the United States (US) automobile industry, between January 2010 and June 2021.FindingsThe authors found that stock market's reaction to a product recall announcement is less negative for family firms. This superior performance is partially driven by the family firms' long-term investment horizons and higher strategic emphasis on product quality. However, the relationship between family ownership and cumulative abnormal returns around product recall announcements is nonlinear as the impact of family ownership starts by being positive but becomes negative for higher levels of family ownership. The authors also find that family firm's chief executive officer (CEO) and managerial ownership influence positively the stock market reaction to product recall announcements.Practical implicationsThis work has several implications for family firms' management as well as for investors and financial analysts. First, as higher managerial ownership is associated with a greater emphasis on product quality, decreasing stock market losses when a product recall occurs, family firms should consider increasing equity-based compensation. Second, as there seems to exist an optimal proportion of family ownership, family firms should consider the risks of increasing too much their ownership share. Third, investors and financial analysts can use the results in the study to help them in their investment and trading decisions in the stock market.Originality/valueThe authors extend the knowledge of product recalls by studying the under-researched role of the flexible, internally focused culture of family businesses on the stock market reaction to product recalls.


Study Design: Randomised controlled trial (double-blinded) Funding: Selffunded or unfunded Setting: Outpatient (specialty) Allocation: Concealed Synopsis: Statins have vasoactive and anti-inflammatory properties in addition to their lipidlowering properties. These authors decided to evaluate whether adding a statin to standard therapy (wound cleansing, saline compresses twice daily, compression therapy, and elevation therapy) improved clinical outcomes. They recruited 66 patients who met the inclusion criteria of a confirmed venous ulcer smaller than 10cm in diameter present for at least three months, and who had no contraindications to a statin. The patients were randomised, with appropriate allocation concealment, to receive either simvastatin 40mg once daily or matching placebo. Outcomes were assessed by the study dermatologist who was masked to treatment assignment. Approximately two thirds of ulcers were smaller than 5cm in diameter, the mean age of patients was 56 years, and approximately one third were men. The average duration of the ulcer was 3.9 months. The primary outcome was complete ulcer healing at 10 weeks and that outcome was more common in the intervention group (90 vs 34 per cent; P < 0.05; number needed to treat = 2). For the subgroup of patients with small ulcers (smaller than 5cm in diameter), 100 per cent of ulcers healed in the simvastatin group compared with 50 per cent in the placebo group. The time to healing among the simvastatin group was faster for small ulcers (6.9 vs 8.4 weeks; P < 0.001), but not for all ulcers (at least, statistical significance was not reported). POEMs


Human's factors are in the fundamental status in the ideological and political education work.Ideological and political education work should lanuch this subject based on persons,insist on taking people as the foremost,pay great attention to person's development,utilize the method of implanting and dreadging combination to enhance the efficiency of ideological and political education work.


This paper presents a method for generating optimal command profiles for linear time-invariant mechanical systems with model uncertainty. Command generation for such systems should satisfy multiple conditions and constraints such as initial and final conditions, actuator limits, and residual vibration suppression after the motion. We had previously proposed a novel command-generation method for relatively simple dynamic systems and verified the method using single input examples. In the proposed method, the control input is represented as a linear superposition of triangle waves, and the problem is formulated as a linear programming problem. In this study, the proposed method is applied to more general linear time-invariant mechanical systems and verified using some benchmark problems, including a multi-input case.


A linear stability analysis of the combined plane Couette and Poiseuille flow of shear-thinning fluid is investigated. The rheological behavior of the fluid is described using the Carreau model. The linearized stability equations and their boundary conditions result in an eigenvalue problem that is solved numerically using a Chebyshev collocation method. A parametric study is performed in order to assess the roles of viscosity stratification and the Couette component. First of all, it is shown that for shear-thinning fluid, the critical Reynolds number for a two-dimensional perturbation is less than for a three dimensional. Therefore, it is sufficient to deal only with a modified Orr–Sommerfeld equation for the normal velocity component. The influence of the velocity of the moving wall on the critical conditions is qualitatively similar to that for a Newtonian fluid. Concerning the effect of the shear thinning, the computational results indicate that this behavior leads to a decrease in the phase velocity...


Rationale: Early diagnosis of pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis (CF) is necessary to permit timely eradication therapy, but is difficult in those who are unable to expectorate sputum. Specific P. aeruginosa quorum sensing signal molecules (QSSMs) are detectable in the systemic circulation of patients with CF, suggesting they have potential as biomarkers to aid diagnosis of infection.

Methods: A prospective multicentre observational study of 176 adults and 68 children with CF. Cross-sectionally, comparisons were made between current infection with P. aeruginosa using QSSMs detected in sputum, plasma and urine, and routine hospital respiratory culture results. In longitudinal analysis, children with CF were reviewed annually for 3 years to determine if QSSMs are potential early biomarkers for future P. aeruginosa .

Results: In children, plasma HHQ (2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline) had a sensitivity of 86% and specificity of 86% and, in urine, the sensitivity was 79% and specificity was 71%, compared to conventional microbiological culture. In longitudinal analysis of 45 children without P. aeruginosa infection at baseline, plasma HHQ was significantly associated with subsequent positive culture during the following year (OR=1.04 (95% CI=1.01 to 1.06; p<0.01). Of the children who became P. aeruginosa culture positive in the first year, 71% (5/7) had detectable HHQ in plasma at baseline compared to 3% (1/38) of those who remained culture negative.

Conclusions: Systemic QSSMs are sensitive and specific biomarkers for P. aeruginosa in patients with CF and have potential to direct earlier intervention with eradication therapy.


Data Mining for Design and Manufacturing: Methods and Applications is the first book that brings together research and applications of data mining within design and manufacturing. Book objectives are 1) to clarify the integration of data mining in engineering design and manufacturing, 2) to present a wide range of domains to which data mining can be applied, 3) to demonstrate the essential need for symbiotic collaboration of expertise in design and manufacturing, data mining and information technology, 4) to illustrate how to overcome central problems in design and manufacturing environments. The book also presents formal tools required to extract valuable information from design and manufacturing data and facilitates interdisciplinary problem solving for enhanced decision making.


In the established tradition of the journal, challenging and extending the boundaries of conventional wisdom in social work and social work education, this issue brings together an intriguing collection of papers from around the world. Anucha's article is an important contribution to the debate about the universality of social work. She questions the value of imported Western models of practice to the African continent, and most particularly Nigeria. She asserts that such models of practice embody the legacy of remedial social work and casework by locating problems within individuals and families. Those models are fundamentally unsuited to the African context, she argues, not least because they fail to build on what she refers to as 'indigenous knowledge'. It would be interesting to consider whether the psychosocial theory on which Frost's article focuses has the capacity for transferability across continents. Despite some potential limitations in its application to practice, it has, she suggests, the ability to offer a 'rich' conceptualisation of the subject and equity in the relationship between worker and service user. That leads her to argue that psychosocial theory is productive, useful and appropriate to social work. Two other articles deal with the ways programmes make links between class and field. In the first O'Sullivan gives an account of one English-based programme's efforts to encourage students to use 'decision analysis' as a practice tool. The author discusses whether the tool, which has quantitative and qualitative dimensions and had been generally effective in the University setting, might have more extensive application in practice and might enhance service user involvement. The second, an Ideas in Action piece by Clapton et al., draws on research carried out in Scotland to argue that there is much untapped potential for Universities and field agencies to work together in social work education, research, policy and practice. The subject of suitability for social work is a theme that links three other articles. Cowburn and Nelson focus on the recruitment to social work training of individuals with criminal convictions. The authors illustrate some of the difficulties facing UK Universities in trying to reconcile safe recruitment practices, intended to protect vulnerable individuals from harm, with social justice and the avoidance of social exclusionary practices that marginalise oppressed groups such as ex-offenders. In contrast, Crisp and Gillingham writing from Australia where they discovered that some of their students were in prison, highlight variations in the gatekeeping role of social work educators in different parts of the world and pose questions about the impact of policy that precludes the entry to training of individuals with a conviction history. However, as Currer and Atherton argue in another article, judgments about suitability for social work do not stop at recruitment. Indeed, post-entry decisions about the suitability of students to continue training are necessarily complex. Social Work Education Vol. 27, No. 3, April 2008, pp. 227–228


Objective To investigate the prophylactic application of antibiotics during perioperative period in our hospital.Methods 354 cases who had undergone class Ⅰ sterile operation during May to December in 2010 in our hospital were investigated restropectively for the situation of prophylactic antibiotics usage.Results All the 354 cases(100.00%) were administrated antibiotics,the ratio of used antibiotics without indication was 88.14%.142 cases(40.11%)were administrated antibiotics 0.5~2h before the operation and 277 cases(78.25%)were treated with antibiotics over 48h after the operation.Cephalosporins had the highest use frequency among all the antibiotics used during perioperative period.The nonstandard used of antibiotics manifested as following forms:The use of antibiotics without indication,incorrect choice of drugs variety,inappropriate time of administration,overlong duration of administration and nonstandard drug combination and so on.Conclusion Great attention should be paid to the irrational use of antibiotics during the perioperative period in our hospital.


This study concerned remediation of heavy metal contaminated farmland soils near abandoned mine, using stabilization method, with particular emphasis on the remediating the soils contaminated with multi-elements. In this study, stabilizing heavy metals based on 'In-situ chemical fixation' has been applied to the soil collected from an abandoned mine in Korea, using column test, with various stabilizing agents, including , , sludge (collected from coal mine drainage treatment pond), zero-valent iron (ZVI), zeolite and . Sixty five-days operation of the flow-through columns yield and zeolite are efficient on reducing As leaching from the soil. ZVI and sludge are reducing the leaching of Cu. Although seem to be efficient for most heavy metals, high pH in the initial stage of test enabled high leaching of the heavy metals, whereas fixation of the heavy metals maintain throughout the rest of the test period, with increasing pH up to around 6. Addition of some alkaline agent may inhibit the low pH during the application. The column test was also run as two set: one set incubated with deionized water for 72 hours prior to starting the test, and the other without incubation. The incubated set demonstrated better stabilizing efficiency, indicating the potential optimized operation method.


Today, information attacks occupy a prominent place in hybrid wars and their influence and significance are not inferior to armed aggression. Furthermore, information warfare begins long before the invading tanks and launching missiles. It continues during the so-called "hot" war, taking on more and more "sophisticated" forms, using a wide range of tools, and improving the distribution network. One of the primary targets of information attacks is civil society, which, being misinformed, disoriented, and processed by enemy propaganda, becomes an enemy ally in the "hot" phase of the war. Therefore, strengthening society's resilience to information threats is an urgent issue for global security. This article analyzes the experience of European countries, in particular, Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, which shows that citizens' immunity to disinformation and hostile propaganda can be strengthened through: their media and information education; development of critical thinking; and civic education. As a result of theoretical analysis of scientific sources and the results of a questionnaire survey of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University students, the course "Counter-manipulation Strategies in Information Security" was substantiated and developed to build university students' resistance to destructive information influences.


This paper discusses the contribution of the results of real-time simulator experiments in deteriming the horizontal dimensions and arrangements of shipping channels from the point of view of the safe navigability of ships.


We report a field study of operators in a London Underground control room, analysing cue disambiguation in support of sensemaking. Disambiguation is understood as specifically aiming to map situations to a finite and modest repertoire of responses. However, information 'bottlenecks' threaten this, resulting in 'default' responses under pressure of time.


In this short article, the author addresses some of the criticisms Professor Dinstein raises of the book, Defending Humanity. He argues that these criticisms undervalue both the use of robust jurisprudence of domestic criminal law in fleshing out international criminal law concepts, and the potential of resorting to this wealth of case law to interpret traditional international law from different perspectives. Moreover, in the author's view, Professor Dinstein's unstinting reliance on positive international law is not entirely convincing and is applied inconsistently in support of his strict interpretations.


Background This study was designed to develop and cross-validate a statistical model for predicting post-transplant serum creatinine of living donor kidney transplantation. Materials and methods Adult recipients of living donor kidney transplantation from August 2012 to October 2017 at Samsung Medical Center (SMC) and Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) with normal post-transplant protocol biopsy were included for modelling. Demographic data including recipient and donor's sex, age, body measurements and comorbidities, pre-transplant donor serum creatinine, graft weight, post-transplant recipient serum creatinine and the result of protocol biopsy were collected. Multivariate linear regression analysis was performed for developing the model based on SMC cohort. Internal validation was performed using leave-one-out cross-validation with the same cohort. External validation using leave-one-out cross-validation was performed based on the cohort of SNUH. Results A total of 238 and 191 recipients were included from SMC and SNUH, respectively. The prediction model included recipient's sex (β = 0.228, P<0.001), height (β = 0.007, P<0.001), and weight (β = 0.006, P<0.001), donor's age (β = 0.004, P<0.001), height (β = -0.007, P<0.001), pre-transplant serum Cr (β = 0.377, P<0.001) and graft weight (β = -0.002, P<0.001). The model showed R2 of 0.708, root mean square error of prediction (RMSEP) of 0.161 and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.83. The internal validation showed predicted ICC of 0.82, RMSEP of 0.161, and accuracy was calculated 0.895. The external validation showed predicted ICC of 0.78, RMSEP of 0.170, and accuracy was calculated 0.876. Conclusions The linear prediction model based on body measurement and donor serum creatinine and graft weight showed a high accuracy in cross-validation.


The goals of this session were to
 • Discuss implementation experience with the new realtime features
 • Review the support provided by the new real-time features
 • Review features proposed but omitted from Ada 2005


'Father's Journey into Night' is an autobiographical essay centred on the life of the author's father, stretching from pre-Communist China to the present day. During these seven decades of his life, China transformed from a feudal agricultural nation to a politically fanatical and militantly violent communist state under Mao Zedong and, later, a rapidly developing capitalist authoritarian nation under Deng Xiaoping. The essay examines the impact of these drastic historical changes on the life of one individual and his family. The author's father was the grandson of a wealthy farmer, whose house and land were seized by the communist state in 1949. The author's father strove all of his life to restore the lost family fortune by any means available to him, including military service, mining, obtaining an education and finally resting his unrealized hopes on his son. At the end of his life, the father becomes completely paralysed by a stroke, a still vigorous mind trapped in a helpless body. His life story depicts the powerlessness of the individual when caught in the turning wheels of recent Chinese history.


In view of the multiple factors and their interactive influences affecting the transmission performance of harmonic drives used in spacecraft,thermal-vacuum tests are performed using harmonic drive of type XB1-60-150.Based on the interactive orthogonal design method,the effects of rotational speed,surrounding temperature,output load torque,and lubrication type on the transmission efficiency of the harmonic drive are investigated.Range analysis and variance analysis are applied to analyze the sensitivity of these factors and their coupling influences.The results achieved by both range analysis and variance analysis are close.When confidence p=99%,the study indicaties that rotational speed and surrounding temperature have notable effect on the transmission performance of harmonic drive,and so do the interactive influences of output load torque and lubrication type.The best application conditions are obtained by interactive analysis under which the transmission performance of harmonic drive can achieve the most satisfactory effect.


Apply the method of numerical simulation,combi ne d the theory of orthogonal test,the fact of effect to the forming limit such as blank-hold force、coefficient of friction、chamfer of blank、radius of shoulder corner in the drawing process is researched,the order of chief to secondary whi ch is effect the forming limit is defined as well as the tendency of forming lim it depth as the effect changed.At last defined a group of best combination param eters.


Remote sensing was considered invaluable for seeing landforms in their regional context and in relationship to each other. Sequential images, such as those available from LANDSAT orbits provide a means of detecting landform change and the operation of large scale processes, such as major floods in semiarid regions. The use of remote sensing falls into two broad stages: (1) the characterization or accurate description of the features of the Earth's surface; and (2) the study of landform evolution. Recommendations for future research are made.


The distribution and elimination of griseofulvin residue in rabbit tissues were studied in order to provide basis for the safety assessment of griseofulvin used for prevention and treatment of rabbit fungal dermatopathy. Forty-two rabbits (70 days old) were fed for 14 days with pelleted feed containing 0.8 g griseofulvin/kg. The liver, kidney, muscle, skin and brain were collected from 6 rabbits per drug withdrawal day (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 21). The concentrations of griseofulvin in rabbit tissues were determined by HPLC. Results showed that after continuous administration, the griseofulvin concentration in liver tissue was the highest (134.61 ng/g), followed by kidney tissue (54.09 ng/g). The griseofulvin residue in brain was not detected. Along with the drug withdrawal time extension, the griseofulvin concentration in muscle, liver, kidney and skin tissue was gradually eliminated. At the 21 day of drug withdrawal, the griseofulvin residue in liver and kidney tissue could still be detected (12.36 ng/g and 3.39 ng/g, respectively). The elimination rate of griseofulvin in the liver tissue was found to be the fastest. We suggest that griseofulvin should be used with caution in the rabbit farming practice.


The present invention discloses an image display for displaying existing image data by a still or moving image, characterized by comprising a data group designating section (122) for designating an image data group which is a set of the image data in response to a request of a user, a group creating section (124) for grouping a series of image data which is in the designated image data and in which the interval of the imaging or storing start times and dates is within a predetermined time, a representative image data selecting section (126) for selecting, as representative image data, at least one item of image data in the created group, and an image data display section (128) for displaying the representative image data of each group as a thumbnail on a display section.


The strategies of managing the coumtry by law as well as edutational develop ment and reform urge colleges and uriversities to strength to educare and manege college shldents properly.Urder such a circumstance,it is essential for colleges and universities to manege in the 21th century.


Abstract This paper rediscovers the meaning and relevance of Luigi Einaudi's Scienza delle Finanze, which still aspired to a reflection on man and good polity. It reconstructs some key moments in Einaudi's thought: the vision of the fiscal process, the legal-political speculation, the last reflections aimed at going beyond both the Italian Tradition in Public Finance and Wicksell's scheme, up to the synthesis elaborated in the critical point theory. Einaudi shows why the fiscal process is at the heart of horizontal/vertical reciprocities and vicious/virtuous circles between society and state, and why a good polity needs free and morally responsible people.


The Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS) offers a formal specification for integrating loose-coupled Web services and building flexible business processes. However, due to the increasing number of the available services, it is becoming a new challenge to dynamically select and integrate the appropriate partner services for Internet-scale business processes. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive framework to implement such dynamic selections and integrations. In this framework, the abstract process template (APT) is utilized as the starting point for the dynamic integrations; the domain services and partner requirements are semantically described with SSD and PPC models, respectively. In this way, the qualified services can be selected through the matchmaking between SSD and PPC instances, and the technical information of the selected operations can be merged into APT through APT binding. To this end, the selected partner services can dynamically be integrated


Due to the success of motion capture technologies, large motion capture data become available. Although organizing large databases has been widely researched for various purposes, there is little attention to motion capture data. In this paper, we propose an effective scheme to organize large motion databases according to its nominal features. To do this, we first define a set of attributes and its corresponding values to form a set of attribute‐value pairs. Each attribute represents a visual characteristic of human motion. We adopt machine learning algorithms to assign a specific value to the attribute. Then, we categorize all motions in database according to the set of attribute‐value pairs. Since attributes define nominal properties rather than numerical ones, we adopt a conceptual clustering algorithm based on formal concept analysis (FCA). After clustering, we can acquire a clustering dendrogram called classification tree that characterizes each cluster with a probabilistic description. We present experimental results to show the effectiveness of our scheme for organizing large motion database. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Rap fans and word lovers can enjoy this alphabetized collection of today's most current terms used in "the poetry of the streets". From ace to base, buddah to zooted, this book not only provides definitions, but offers examples and sources. Includes a discography of classic rap albums and a bibliography of source material.


Ansoft EM software package is introduced and used to analyze a PMDC motor.Rmxopt module is used to choose the initial scheme.Next Maxwell2D module is used to analyze magnetic field and simulate motor's dynamic behavior.Motor is precisely designed with the method of the combination of magnetic field and circuit.Satisfying design result is achieved.


We present the design, synthesis, and characterization of a class of heteroaromatic bichromophores in order to investigate intermolecular interactions and their effect on optical and nonlinear optical properties. As a design strategy we have linked two dipolar or quadrupolar units through a non-conjugated alkyl chain. The two units are connected either through their donor or their acceptor end-groups. This study represents a first step towards the design of bi- and multichromophoric systems with optimized NLO responses in order to exploit collective and cooperative effects from interchromophore interactions.


In this article, a simple algorithm is provided to maximize a family of optimal statistics for hypothesis testing with a nuisance parameter not defined under the null hypothesis. This arises from genetic linkage and association studies and other hypothesis testing problems. It is known that the maximum of optimal statistics over the nuisance parameter space can be used as a robust test in this situation. In this article, we apply the algorithm to examine the sensitivity of testing results with respect to the unknown nuisance parameter. Examples from genetic linkage analysis using affected sib pairs and candidate-gene association study in case-parents trio design are studied using the algorithm.


The aim of this study was to determine risk factors associated with readmissions, reoperation, and extended length of stay (LOS) following posterior cervical fusion (PCF) for spondylotic myelopathy.

 The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program from 2011 to 2016 was queried for all patients undergoing PCF with a diagnosis of spondylotic myelopathy. The inclusion criteria for this project were defined by the CPT code 22600 for PCF. Patients with a history of trauma, malignancy, and those with nonelective surgery were excluded. Patients without ICD9 (721.1) or ICD10 (M47.12) codes for myelopathy were also excluded. For analysis, patients were classified into 2 cohorts: patients who were readmitted, and those who were not readmitted. Patient demographics, comorbidities, intraoperative variables, and number of levels involved in surgery were collected.

 A total of 893 patients with PCF for spondylotic myelopathy were identified, of which 816 (91.4%) were not readmitted and 77 (8.6%) were readmitted.The readmitted cohort was significantly older (No Readmission: 62.6 +/–10.8 vs Readmission: 65.5 +/– 10.8, P = .029). The readmitted population had a significantly higher proportion of dyspnea on exertion (No Readmission: 8.1% vs Readmission: 15.6%, P = .026) and COPD (No Readmission: 6.9% vs Readmission: 14.3%, P = .018). There were no differences in operative time (P = .762) or multilevel surgeries (P = .453) between the 2 cohorts. LOS was similar between readmitted and nonreadmitted patients (P = .640). Upon logistic regression controlling for demographics, comorbidities, surgery level, and operative time, multiple risk factors predicted extended LOS, including female gender, black race, noninsulin-dependent diabetes, chronic steroid use, and length of surgery. BMI and CHF predicted an unplanned return to the operating room. Age [OR: 1.03,95% CI (1.004-1.06), P = .025] was the single predictor of readmission.

 Our study suggests that while there are a host of risk factors for both reoperation and extended LOS, increased age is likely the most significant risk factor for readmission following PCF.


Incremental physical CAD is encountered frequently in the so-called engineering change order (ECO) process in which design changes are made typically late in the design process in order to correct logical and/or technological problems in the circuit. As far as routing is concerned, in order to capitalize on the enormous resources and time already spent on routing the circuit, and to meet time-to-market requirements, it is desirable to re-route only the ECO-affected portion of the circuit, while minimizing any routing changes in the much larger unaffected part of the circuit. Incremental re-routing also needs to be fast and to effectively use available routing resources. We develop a complete incremental routing methodology for FPGAs using a novel approach called bump and refit (B&R). We significantly extend this concept to global and detailed incremental routing for FPGAs with complex switchboxes such as those in Lucent's ORCA and Minx's Virtex series. We also introduce new concepts such as B&R cost estimation during global routing, and determination of the optimal subnet set to bump for each bumped net, which we obtain using an efficient dynamic programming formulation.


Lantent-trait theory provides a flexible and comprehensive framework for constructing models of the processes reflected in data on two dichotomous variables, each obseved twice for each member of a panel of repondents (i.e., data in the form of the so-called 16-fold table). The more important parts of the analysis developed from this theory can be carried out by elementary methods and therefore require no great mathematical or statistical sophistication. In several illustrative data sets, the observed changes are adequately accounted for with a model allowing no causal relationship between the two latent variables or their observable indicators. In other examples, a model of asymmetric causation is plausible; in still others, the situation is so complex that a convincing causal interpretation, excluding rival interpretations, is not available. The basic form of the latent-trait model can be modified to include parameters pertaining to association of the observed indicators. This modification is especially appropriate when the two variables arise from parallel observations on the memebers of dyads rather than from observations on two distict items (attitudes, actions) pertaining to individual respondent. Limitations of the illustrative analyses reported here are, for the most part, intrinsic to the 16-fold table itself, whatever the analytical strategy, or are shared with other forms of survey analysis. The latent-trait approach, however, may make such limitations easier to see.


The 9D spin model was initially discovered in the mathematical analysis of space-time. A major finding of this analysis was that a strange, heretofore unexplained constant related to fermions, namely the Cabibbo mixing angle, could not be derived with the Standard Model of Physics, yet it could be derived by applying the 9-dimensional finite vortical (spin) model proposed by the Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP). It could not be derived from any other n-dimensional model such as n = 4, 5, 8, 10, 11 or 26. The Cabibbo mixing angle findings are also supported analytically by demonstrating that electrons exhibit intrinsic spin based on their angular momentum. Our derivations also show that electrons cannot be completely spherical in our current 3 dimensional space physical reality because the speed of light would have to exceed 300,000K per second locally, which violates the most basic principle of special and general relativity. The finding of 9- dimensional spin appears to have also been replicated mathematically through a thought experiment where the angle works out at 13.038 degrees.


The International Standards Organization Technical Committee 112 (ISO/TC 112) held a plenary meeting in Moscow, USSR 15–19 April 1991. This is the first such meeting since 1972. Delegations from China, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, United States, and the USSR were present. Dana Hauschulz served as the delegate from the United States. The function of ISO/TC 112 is standardization in the field of vacuum technology both in the area of apparatus (essential characteristics, dimensions, and materials) and in the area of definitions and methods of measurement. The five resolutions adopted at this meeting pertain to ultrahigh vacuum gauging, leak detection, vacuum materials and cleaning, and vacuum pumps. These are fully described in this report. Currently, the United States has only observer status on this committee. However, in view of a resurgence of activity by this international standards body and in recognition of movement towards a global economy, the American Vacuum Society board of directors has authorized the pursuit of an active role in this international committee. The means for securing this involvement are also explained.


The aims of this study are to analyze influence of independent variable
Loan to Deposit Ratio, Non Performing Loan, Operational Cost to Operational
Income , Return On Asset, Net Profit Margin, Capital Adequacy Ratio to Bank
Profit Growth. Selection of sample use purposive sampling method. Purposive
sampling method is the method which based on certain criteria. The sample that
used in this study are six of regional development bank for period quarter I 2010
to quarter II 2014 . Quantitative data for this study get from Bank Indonesia and
quarterly financial report of Regional Development Bank. The data were analyzed
by linear regression analysis using SPSS version 19.0 for windows.
Research result of F test shows that LDR, NPL, BOPO, ROA, NPM,
and CAR have significant influence simultaneously toward Bank Profit Growth in
regional development bank. The result of t test shows that LDR, and BOPO have
positive and unsignificant influence to Bank Profit Growth of Regional
Development Bank. But ROA and NPM have positive and significant influence to
Bank Profit Growth of Regional Development Bank. NPL and CAR have negative
and unsignificant influence to Bank Profit Growth. The result of the count can be
known that bank performance gave the great influence to the growth of bank
profits of Regional Development Bank.

Keywords : LDR, NPL, BOPO, ROA, NPM, CAR, Bank Profit Growth, and
regional development bank .


ABSTRACT Studies were conducted to evaluate the use of transparency tubes to predict total suspended solids concentrations (TSS) and NTU turbidity in streams. Linear regression of data collected from 29 sample stations (12 streams) in northeast Ohio revealed a highly predictive correlation for both parameters using the Ohio Sediment Sticko. Laboratory studies showed significant differences between water clarity readings among individual observers using the Ohio Sediment Sticko. The type of visual end point target used in the tube had no effect on water clarity readings. A table to predict TSS concentrations based upon water clarity was developed for the Ohio Sediment Sticko. A comparison of three tubes of differing design (e.g., Minnesota Pollution Control Agency tube, NOAA GLOBE tube, and Ohio Sediment Sticko) found no significant differences in the relationship of water clarity measurement vs. TSS concentrations or NTU turbidity among tubes. Our data indicate that predictive equations developed for the Ohio Sediment Sticko can be applied with statistical confidence to both the MPCA tube and the NOAA GLOBE tube. When appropriately used, transparency tubes can be an effective and inexpensive monitoring tool to estimate relative sediment loads to lakes from different watersheds.


[Objective] To estimate the existing prevention and curative effect by analyzing the tuberculosis surveillance data in Shiyan from 2001 to 2005. [Methods] Collected and analyzed the tuberculosis surveillance report in Shiyan from 2001 to 2005. [Results] Through government intervention, introduced project, strengthened network trace, main management, we got the following results: the active tuberculosis patients were 10 633, among which the new patients were 8 187, the new registration rate was 42.09 / 100 000 in 2001 and 55.94 / 100 000 in 2005 respectively, the result had the statistic difference (χ2 = 29.85, P﹤0.01). The ratio of initial treatment for male and female positive patients was 2.13︰1, the mainly age concentrated between 15-35, the initial recovery rate was 94.94% in a year, the retreatment rate was 88.69%. [Conclusions] The new positive tuberculosis registration rate (55.94 / 100 000) in 2005 is higher than the data (36.08 / 100 000) of the whole country in 2005. The data show the tuberculosis is serious in Shiyan comparing to that in the whole country. The main patients are men and young men and they are main population of tuberculosis prevention and care in future.


PURPOSE
This study investigated the effect of argon gas shielding on the strengths of laser-welded cast Ti and Ti-6Al-7Nb and compared the results to those of two dental casting alloys.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Cast plates of Ti, Ti-6Al-7Nb, gold, and Co-Cr alloy were prepared. After polishing the surfaces to be welded, two plates were abutted and welded using Nd:YAG laser at a pulse duration of 10 ms, spot diameter of 1 mm, and voltage of 200 V. Five specimens were prepared for each metal by bilaterally welding them with three or five spots either with or without argon shielding. The failure load and percent elongation were measured at a crosshead speed of 1.0 mm/min.

RESULTS
The factor of argon shielding significantly affected the failure load and elongation of the laser-welded specimens. The failure loads of argon-shielded laser-welded CP Ti and Ti-6Al-7Nb were greater compared with the failure loads of specimens welded without argon shielding for both three- and five-spot welding. Regardless of argon shielding, the failure loads of the laser-welded gold alloy were approximately half that of the control specimens. In contrast, the failure loads of the nonshielded laser-welded Co-Cr alloy were greater. The percent elongations positively correlated with the failure loads.

CONCLUSIONS
The use of argon shielding is necessary for effective laser-welding of CP Ti and Ti-6Al-7Nb but not for gold and Co-Cr alloy.


Detection of different kinds of shapes, i.e. lines, circles, hyperbolas etc., in varying kinds of images arises in diverse areas such as signal and image processing, computer vision or remote sensing. The generalized Hough Transform is a traditional approach to detect a specific shape in an image by transforming the problem into a parameter space representation. In this paper we use the observation that the number of shapes in an image is much smaller than the number of all possible shapes. This means the shapes are sparse in the parameter domain. Rather than forming the parameter space from the image as in the HT, we take a reverse approach and ask "which combination of parameter space cells represent my data best?". This leads us to generate a dictionary of shapes and use additional information about sparsity of shapes within a basis pursuit framework. The results indicate enhanced shape detection performance, increased resolution, joint detection of different shapes in an image and robustness to noise. In addition to this, combining the sparsity of shapes with the Compressive Sensing ideas shows that it is possible to directly find the shapes in an image from small number of random projections of the image without first reconstructing the image itself.


Sweep the entire product lifecycle information from design to recycling is the great challenge to overcome in manufacturing worldwide. Actually, managing product after-sales information is a key to innovation and launching new products that meet the customers' expectations. To address this objective, the current study proposes architecture for closing the product lifecycle information by using the emerging technologies (PEID) and Mobile Agent software. In this paper we focus on the End of Life (EOL), especially the after-sales stage. To this end, the proposed architecture aims enable product knowledge management (PKM) by gathering and analyzing product-related information after-sales and with the feedback to the previous phases for help actors to decision making process. Furthermore, we aim to enable the product data and knowledge management (PDKM). The proposed architecture uses the advent of hardware and software related to product identification technologies and multi-agent systems (MAS).


This paper presents T-S fuzzy lighting control of an unknown arranged LED (Light Emitting Diode) array for universal adaptable applications. In order to driving and lighting an unknown arranged LED array, a boost converter is applied to adjust the input voltage of the LED array. Based on the proposed T-S fuzzy model based control, exact LED lighting current control is achieved without searching the arrangement and turn-on voltage of the LED array. By solving linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), the T-S fuzzy LED lighting controller is guaranteed with asymptotic convergence and high robustness to uncertainty and disturbance. Moreover, the satisfactory performance is shown from experimental results.


Mobile Robot competitions are an important way for dissemination of science and engineering to the general public but are also excellent way of testing and comparing different research strategies. In this paper we discuss how today's research challenges of Intelligent and Autonomous Mobile Robots are being handled by the Autonomous Driving competition that takes place in the Portuguese Robotics Open annual mobile robotics competition.


To decrease the emission of greenhouse gases, as well as to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels for satisfying our energy needs, we see a trend towards the use of more sustainable energy sources. However, one of the challenges of these renewable energy sources is the mismatch between energy demand and energy production that often occurs. One of the solutions to deal with this mismatch is energy storage. With storage, energy generated during times of excess production may be stored for use during times of energy shortage. The Ecovat system is an example of an energy storage technology, which aims to store excess thermal energy during times of the year with high thermal and/or electrical energy production, generally during the summer, for use during times of the year with high thermal energy demand, generally during winter. The Ecovat system is designed to be able to satisfy the heat demand of a neighbourhood of houses throughout the year. The Ecovat system consists of a large well insulated underground buffer (i.e. a large water tank), combined with a number of devices, namely photovoltaic-thermal panels, heat pumps, and a resistance heater, to charge the buffer. The buffer of the system consist of a number of segments, which although not physically separated, may be charged or discharged individually through heat exchangers integrated inside the buffer walls. The energy to charge the buffer can be obtained from locally available energy or can be bought on the energy market, preferably when the energy price is low. In this thesis we focus on the operational control of such an Ecovat system. We develop a model to determine which of the available devices in the system should charge which buffer segment at which point in time. Furthermore, the model also determines which buffer segment should be used to satisfy the heat demand from the neighbourhood. As the developed model should serve as the base for handling the operational control of a real Ecovat system, we develop a model that computes such charging strategies in at most a few seconds.


The creation of works as a portrait documentary that aims to show the power of statements, the concept of "BALI BUJA" is an association of several art galleries located around Klaten Regency and the outskirts of the Special Region of Yogyakarta. "BALI BUJA" is located in Tlogo Village, Prambanan District, Klaten Regency, Central Java. The formulation of the idea of the creation of this work is to tell a traditional Javanese cultural performance such as music with gamelan or wayang kulit, using the internet as a means of broadcasting. Balibuja has a compulsory song that must be played in every performance. The creation method in this work is conducting research and interviews with relevant parties by using a portrait documentary and ABC resource theory to get a statement that can be trusted and accounted for. The conclusion of this work is a portrait-type documentary work by raising a community that cares about Javanese culture, abbreviated as "BALI BUJA", by utilizing internet technology as a means of performance.


The EU strategy of intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth and the spending review ask for effective and transparent models of performance improvement of the public institutions . The importance of good governance is particularly evident against fundamental and inalienable individual rights like instruction and training. Recent reforms of Italian educational system impose rapid changes in the school governance system, high demand for managerial skill and operational autonomy, the capability to optimize performance, dialogue with stakeholders, and transparency of behaviour . The Italian school is called to face a profound change to improve its performance and to build an effective network with its stakeholders.


Confirming uranium enrichment by nondestructive method is a challenging problem in deep nuclear disarmament verification technologies.This paper studies the feasibility of confirming uranium enrichment by high-energy photon by analysis and numerical simulation.Simplified models are established to study the method,physical basics and measuring condition of inverting uranium enrichment.The transport processes of photon and neutron are simulated by Monte-Carlo transportation code and the relation of neutron intensity and the uranium enrichment in different conditions is obtained.The relation curves between neutron intensity and uranium enrichment indicate that for uranium components of given shapes,the uranium enrichment can be obtained by comparing the neutron intensity and the known relation curves,and for the uranium components of concealed shapes,the enrichment can be obtained by measuring the shape parameter of neutron response curve for different energy photons.


In this study, the formation of bonded pairs which represent amorphous and crystalline structures of Cu-Pd and Cu-Pt ordered alloy systems for different composition of copper was determined with molecular dynamic simulation method during the fast cooling process. The structural properties and phase transformation of systems at different temperatures were investigated with radial distribution functions. The structural formation of bonded pairs was obtained by using Honeycutt-Andersen (HA) method. Physical interactions among atoms were modelled using Sutton-Chen (SC) type of the Embedded Atom Method (EAM) based on many-body interactions. During the rapid cooling process, an amorphous phase conversion was observed at 300K and an increase in the number of bound pairs representing the amorphous phase was detected.


Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a result of the enlargement of the infra-renal aorta, expanding to a diameter of greater than 29 mm, or 1.5 times the diameter of the normal aorta. AAAs affect about 0.4% of people older than 50 years old; annually approximately 15,000 people die of aneurysm rupture [1,2]. For aneurysms less than 50 mm in diameter, the risk of rupture ranged from 0–2.3% per year, and for AAAs greater than 50 mm in diameter, the risk is 5–9% per year. However, 55 mm is the critical diameter for elective repair [3].© 2008 ASME


Objective To learn the status of health literacy of urban and rural residents in Shandong Province.Methods Using multi-stage stratified random cluster sampling,8 546 urban and rural residents were selected to complete the face-to-face survey in 2008.Health literacy questionnaire for Chinese citizen in 2008 was designed by Ministry of Health.Results The proportion of urban and rural residents with health literacy was 14.93% and 2.18% respectively.The proportion of urban residents with basic health concept knowledge,healthy lifestyle behaviors,and health related skills was 26.91%,14.89% and 35.52% respectively,and that of rural residents was 8.34%,2.09% and 14.65% respectively.The proportion of urban residents with scientific attitude towards health,literacy of safety and first aid,infectious diseases prevention,basic medical care,and chronic diseases prevention was 40.11%,27.49%,8.24%,33.09% and 16.27% respectively,and that of rural residents was 22.65%,8.97%,1.07%,10.10% and 4.03% respectively.Conclusion There was significant difference in the proportion with health literacy between urban residents and rural residents in Shandong Province.The proportion of urban residents was higher than that of rural residents.Different strategies should be developed on health literacy promotion according to the characteristics of populations.


Dinah Craik (1826–1887) was a prolific writer of fiction, poetry and essays. She was best known for her novels, which appropriated well-worked narratives of individuals triumphing over adversity through hard work and moral integrity against a backdrop of industrialisation and the ascent of the middle classes. The most successful, John Halifax, Gentleman, tells the tale of a boy who works his way out of poverty. Craik herself was familiar with hardship: her father Thomas Mulock, a nonconformist minister, had spent periods confined to a lunatic asylum, and abandoned his children after his wife's death in 1854. In this work (originally published serially in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts), Craik provided support and advice for single women like herself. She was highly critical of learned helplessness and advocated independence and cross-class sympathy, believing women should 'lead active, intelligent, industrious lives: lives complete in themselves'.


The effect of association on chain molecules is studied, and we consider the case of an associating homonuclear disphere fluid as an example. Monte Carlo simulation results of associating hard disphere and Lennard-Jones (LJ) disphere fluids are presented. We consider the molecules to have one association site placed along the molecular axis. For associating LJ dispheres we investigate the effect of bond length on the properties of the molecule. We extend a theory for associating spherical molecules to chain molecules. The agreement between molecular simulation results and predictions from theory is good. We explain the approximations used to simplify the theory and show how a spherical reference can be used to predict the properties of an associating chain fluid.


(I922). Experiments were made on specimens of T. navalis which had been grown in wooden blocks suspended in the waters of Carquinez Straits, at Crockett, California. The blocks were removed from the straits water for only a short time before the experiments were performed. Immediately after such blocks are removed from the water, the siphons are found withdrawn into the burrows. However, if the surface of the block remains wet with a film of water the siphons soon extend themselves into this film, remaining there as long as the surface remains wet and they are not disturbed. I often observed this extension of siphons on the surface of pilings taken from the dock of the California and Hawaiian Sugar Company at Crockett, during the spring of 1922. Great variations of the salinity of the straits water occurred at this time, and it was noted that the siphons were only extended when the salinity was above the lethal point (5 o/oo). In these experiments, the blocks, after removal from the water, were dried with filter paper. This caused the retraction of all the siphons. The pallets of a single organism could then be caused to withdraw, and the siphons to extend, by placing a drop of sea water over the opening of an individual burrow. The movements of the


Leading order in $\ensuremath{\epsilon}(=4\ensuremath{-}d)$ solutions of renormalization-group recursion relations are used to calculate the two-point correlation function in an $n$-component compressible magnet. The effect of finite compressibility on two-point correlations is studied and comparisons with the rigid system are made.


Part 1 History and physiology of venous surgery: history of venous surgery in the United States physiology: hemodynamics of the venous system, calfpump and valve function. Part 2 Diagnostic techniques: diagnosis of venous disease: duplex imaging functional duplex evaluation of chronic venous obstruction and incompetence air plethysmography impedance plethysmography in the study of venous disease foot volumetry venous hypertensive microangiopathy: evaluation by laser-doppler flowmetry ascending and descending venography lymphedema ambulatory venous pressure regulation and pressure measurements rational approach to diagnosis of venous insufficiency. Part 3 Techniques: sclerotherapy for varicose veins: guidelines and procedures the conservative management of chronic lower extremity venous insufficiency cosmetic excision and stripping of varices use of compression and elastic devices surgery for perforator incompetence present status os surgical intervention for chronic venous insufficiency bypass procedures for venous obstruction: Palma and May-Husni bypasses, Raju perforator bypass, prosthetic bypasses, primary and adjunctive AV fistulae venous valve surgery - an overview angioscopic valvuloplasty venous valve reconstruction modern interventional techniques: endoscopy, balloon dilatation, and stents. Part 4 Clinical features - pathology and management: superficial varicose veins: therapeutic options chronic venous obstruction vena cava syndromes axillary subclavian venous thrombosis investigation of lymphedema congenital vascular malformations of venous predominance diagnosis and treatment of the pelvic venous disorders: pelvic congestion and pelvic dumping syndromes. Part 5 Deep venous thrombosis: diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis: diagnostic versus surveillance testing vena cava interruption and filters venous thrombectomy diagnosis and management of venous trauma.


The length of sides of a rectangle marked on the cloth with white thread was measured with eyes. The rectangles were 20, 25 and 30 cm in longitudinal length by 2, 2.5 and 3 cm in side length respectively. The cloth was hanged vertically 25 cm distance in front of the subject siting down on a chair. Thirty girl students (16-17y) and fifteen adult women (20-30y) were employed as the subjects. The half of girl students were naked eyes and the others were cured eyes, the adults were all naked eyes.Among these groups (a group of naked eyes students, cured eyes student and adult women) the average value of the differences between the assumed length and real one i, e, error in average was compared. It was smaller on the adult group than on the student group of naked eyes, and it was smaller on the group of naked eyes students than on the group of cured eyes ones.Errors were 10-20% through all the subjects, and the average value of the errors was larger on smaller length than on larger length in every group._


Stimulus factors such as timing, spatial location, and stimulus effectiveness affect whether and how information across the senses is integrated. Extending recent work highlighting interactions between stimulus factors, here we investigated the influence of visual information on auditory processing, complementing previous studies on the influence of auditory information on visual processing. We hypothesized that task-irrelevant and spatially non-informative visual information would enhance auditory contrast processing, when visual information was at an optimal salience level and changed synchronously with the sound. We asked human observers to indicate the location of an amplitude-modulated white-noise sound, while its loudness against a constant white-noise background varied across trials. To test for the influence of task-irrelevant visual information, we modulated screen brightness smoothly (Experiment 1) or transiently (Experiment 2) in phase or out of phase with the amplitude modulation of the target sound. In addition, to test for the interaction between temporal synchrony and stimulus salience, maximum brightness varied systematically across trials. Auditory contrast thresholds were compared across conditions. Results showed that task-irrelevant visual information did not alter auditory contrast thresholds regardless of the nature of modulation of brightness, contrary to our expectations. Nonetheless, task-irrelevant visual information modulated in phase with the target sound reduced auditory contrast thresholds if we accounted for individual differences in the optimal salience required for the largest multisensory effects. Our results are discussed in light of several stimulus factors that might be critical in modulating multisensory enhancement.


Taking 3 representational local water resources in the churchyard of Mianzhu city as design foundation, the programming which have a total conception of "water words and wonderful scape" was finished. The city water resources scenery plan design principle and the method at present were summarized from 3 different aspects, sightseeing and agricultural industry, the fallow land landscape arrangement and a conceptive plan. Then some measures on perfecting and improving the programming of city water area scenery were put forward


An extensive laboratory experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of liquid and lime additives on the moisture sensitivity of asphalt mixtures from five different sources around the United States. Three types of mixtures were evaluated from each source: un-treated, liquid-treated, and lime-treated. The measured properties of the fifteen mixtures included the dynamic modulus master curves at the unaged and aged stages and their resistances to moisture damage. The measured dynamic modulus properties and moisture sensitivity characteristics are then used in a mechanistic analysis of a typical asphalt pavement to assess the impact of liquid and lime treatments on the rutting and fatigue performance The analyses of the laboratory generated data on all fifteen mixtures showed the significant impact of the lime in improving the moisture resistance of asphalt mixtures from all five sources as compared to that of the liquid additives. On the other hand the mechanistic analysis showed that the lime-treated asphalt pavements from all five sources significantly out-performed the un-treated and liquid-treated pavements in both rutting and fatigue. In addition, the mechanistic analysis showed that adding liquid anti-strip to some asphalt pavements may reduce their rutting and fatigue performance.


To clarify the quenching characteristics of flame for a narrow cylindrical passage, the critical velocity of flame likely to ignite the outer mixture over a passage exit was investigated in relation to the dimensions of the passage. As the result of experiment, it was found that there existed two critical velocities of flame for given dimensions of passage in lower and considerably higher ranges of velocities. After some discussions about two critical limits from several points of view, it was shown that the lower limits were mainly concerned with cooling effect in passage and the higher limits had close relation to the flow conditions of hot jet issuing from the passage, and that in the latter case, quenching of flame by turbulent eddies might be considered one of the possible mechanisms.


The bikes – a black and orange 2011 KTM 250 SFX and a black and orange 2012 KTM 250 SFX – were taken during a burglary at a property on Mallinson ...


To solve the problems such as indoor air pollution exceeding the standard required limits of harmful substance of interior architectural coatings,and the pollution produced during the casting process of current commercial two-component light floor paint coating,a novel kind of high performance environmental-friendly two-component light floor coating formulation and process is obtained.The effects of raw materials,resins,additives and the ratio of n(—NCO) and n(—OH) are investigated.The results suggest that the obtained two-component light floor coating is cost-effective and environmental-friendly,and also has good construction tolerance.


Report documents 26-month program to optimize performance of commercial high performance concentric tube solar collector. Report discusses program objectives, accomplishments, encountered problems, and final hardware. Certification test results are also included.