Rapid impact assessment of cyclones on coastal ecosystems is critical for timely rescue and rehabilitation operations in highly human‐dominated landscapes. Such assessments should also include damage assessments of vegetation for restoration planning in impacted natural landscapes. Our objective is to develop a remote sensing‐based approach combining satellite data derived from optical (Sentinel‐2), radar (Sentinel‐1), and LiDAR (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) platforms for rapid assessment of post‐cyclone inundation in non‐forested areas and vegetation damage in a primarily forested ecosystem. We apply this multi‐scalar approach for assessing damages caused by the cyclone Amphan that hit coastal India and Bangladesh in May 2020, severely flooding several districts in the two countries, and causing destruction to the Sundarban mangrove forests. Our analysis shows that at least 6821 sq. km. land across the 39 study districts was inundated even after 10 days after the cyclone. We further calculated the change in forest greenness as the difference in normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) pre‐ and post‐cyclone. Our findings indicate a <0.2 unit decline in NDVI in 3.45 sq. km. of the forest. Rapid assessment of post‐cyclone damage in mangroves is challenging due to limited navigability of waterways, but critical for planning of mitigation and recovery measures. We demonstrate the utility of Otsu method, an automated statistical approach of the Google Earth Engine platform to identify inundated areas within days after a cyclone. Our radar‐based inundation analysis advances current practices because it requires minimal user inputs, and is effective in the presence of high cloud cover. Such rapid assessment, when complemented with detailed information on species and vegetation composition, can inform appropriate restoration efforts in severely impacted regions and help decision makers efficiently manage resources for recovery and aid relief. We provide the datasets from this study on an open platform to aid in future research and planning endeavors.


The first modern light rail line in California was opened in San Diego in 1979. It was built on a budget and consisted on trams running over electrified goods tracks. Since then the San Diego LRT network has been expanded several times. Because of the immediate success of the San Diego LRT in attracting ridership, many other cities in California have either built or are planning to build light rail systems. The article takes a look at light rail systems in four California cities: San Jose, Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles.


Abstract—The purpose of this research was develop a biological nutrient removal (BNR) system which has low energy consumption, sludge production, and land usage. These indicate that BNR system could be a alternative of future wastewater treatment in ubiquitous city(U-city). Organics and nitrogen compounds could be removed by this system so that secondary or tertiary stages of wastewater treatment satisfy their standards. This system was composed of oxic and anoxic filter filed with PVDC and POM media. Anoxic/oxic filter system operated under empty bed contact time of 4 hours by increasing recirculation ratio from 0 to 100 %. The system removals of total nitrogen and COD were 76.3% and 93%, respectively. To be observed internal behavior in this system SCOD, NH3-N, and NO3-N were conducted and removal shows range of 25~100%, 59~99%, and 70~100%, respectively. Keywords—BNR, nitrification, denitrification, organics removal, anoxic, oxic, advanced treatment. I. INTRODUCTION ATER/SEWAGE facility, one of the urban base facilities constituting a city, is an important infrastructure, and to manage it the nation has a systematic system established for a long time. In the mean time, recently the nation has recognized the importance of an ubiquitous environment to lead the future society and established 'u-Korea ' plan, and each local government is expanding the promotion of u-city construction projects connected to the ubiquitous environment (1). At the same time, low-carbon green growth, a national project, and water quality standards of discharged water(2) continuously reinforced to improve the water quality of rivers has presented a new paradigm trend composed of improvement of existing wastewater treatment plants, application of advanced treatment technology and distributed wastewater treatment for tertiary treatment. Thus, cases for application of the biological nutrient removal system (BNR) have been on the rise to reduce the installation site, produce high quality treated water, and save labor and operating costs with automated operation (3). The BNR system which has been developed mainly in Europe not only can maintain SRT (4) for a long time without separate operation and make free load changes but also does not require the secondary sedimentation tank and can secure high-concentration microbes, providing due to the shorter reaction time a higher degree of intensity for site requirement than the existing suspended growth process. Thus, the BNR system is advantageous in application to wastewater treatment


The formation of thin, well-ordered β-Ga2O3 films on CoGa(001) was studied by means of high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), and Auger electron spectroscopy. The crystalline β-Ga2O3 films on CoGa(001) are prepared upon adsorption of O2 at 300 K and subsequent annealing at 700 K or by oxidation of the sample directly at 700 K, respectively. EEL spectra of these films exhibit Fuchs–Kliewer modes at 305, 455, 645, and 785 cm−1 in good agreement with calculated spectra using the IR parameters of Ga2O3. The band gap was determined to be 4.5±0.2 eV. In addition, a gap state at 3.3 eV was found. The observed LEED pattern of β-Ga2O3/CoGa(001) can be explained by a (2×1) structure in two perpendicularly oriented domains. STM images exhibit atomically flat and large oxide terraces (up to 2500×700 A2) mainly of rectangular shape. STM pictures with atomic resolution confirm the (2×1) structure. In addition, a square subst...


CO SM O S + TA X IS 20 Understanding is often significantly aided with metaphor and analogy. In this paper, we will argue that the process of jazz music provides a powerful analogy for understanding distributed theories of cognition and systems approaches to biology. Fields like cognitive science and biology often conceive of a difference between "nature" and "nurture"—between organism and environment or between the brain's cognitive process and the environment it thinks in. Distributed theories of cognition and systems biology both propose a unique take on the interaction between "nature" and "nurture," essentially arguing that these two cannot meaningfully be separated. Distributed theories of cognition suggest that cognition is shaped by an interaction between brain and external tools that aid the brain's cognitive process (be it a calculator, cell phone, or paper and pencil). Systems biology similarly conceives of phenotypic development as a deeply interactive process where genotype and environment interact: organisms develop a certain way because of their environments and environments are shaped by organisms. We believe the metaphor that aids in understanding these interactive approaches to cognition and biology is jazz music, a music which often depends on each musician affecting what the other plays through a process of improvisation. Thanks to its improvisatory element, jazz music is the result of deep interactions between musicians who both affect and are affected by what the other musicians play. In the same way, distributed theories of cognition and systems biology treat the phenomenon they examine (the cognitive process and biological systems) as the result of deep interactions between elements that both shape and are shaped by each other. Before ending this introduction, we should discuss why we believe it important to analogize theories of distributed cognition and systems biology to jazz. Much research has been done on the importance of analogy and metaphor to human cognition (Lakoff and Johnson 1980; Hofstadter and Sander 2014) as well as the crucial role analogy and metaphor play in academic disciplines. Mathematics, for instance, has deep roots in (and may be impossible for humans to understand without) bodily metaphors, such as > as bigger or more and < as smaller or fewer (Lakoff and Núñez 2000). Economists attempt to illuminate economic exchange with analogies to a marketplace or a zero(or non-zero-) sum game (McCloskey 1995). The genome is understood by analogy, sometimes as a building block, other times as a blueprint or pure information (Keller 1995). Why does analogy and metaphor pervade human thought and help us understand otherwise abstract or intricate concepts? Analogy and metaphor help us assimilate new information into our mental schema by highlighting parallels between things that are easier for us to understand (or that we already understand) in order to make sense of what we don't yet understand. For instance, understanding how memory works is tricky, so we may look for analogies that link how memory seems to work to memory storage devices we are familiar with. Memory, Plato believed, could be best understood by thinking of it like a wax tablet that experience can write on. Some minds (with good memories) have stronger wax that can hold symbols longer than others (with weak memories) whose wax is less durable. More recently, psychologists have made analogies of human memory to dual processing computers, where the analogy serves as a conceptual framework for thinking about memory and a hypothesis (human memory works the way computer memory works) to help guide future research (Roediger 1980). No one, of course, believes that human memory is a wax tablet, that experience literally writes on that tablet, or that humans store memories exactly the way computers store information, but pointing out possible simShaping and Being Shaped: Jazz as a Way to Understand Human/ Environment Interaction


The creation and development of theory and methods used in the study of organizations is predominantly carried out grounded in the positivist paradigm – epistemological and methodological assumptions similar to those of the natural sciences. This essay looks at the limitations of that paradigm for the study of human organizations and the benefits of relativist, humanist and post-modern assumptions, theory and methods. Limitations of the predominant paradigm are taken up by analyzing basic assumptions – objectivity, generality, empiricism, and linearity. The benefits of a more inclusive paradigm are reviewed in terms of two topic areas: Organizational learning and decision making, and financial markets and price distortion.


In order to expand the telecommunication network to the rural area, a suitable antenna is required to be applied on the High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS). In this paper, design and study of rectangular patch antenna array is proposed, in case determining antenna parameters based on 5.18GHz working frequency. High gain patch array antenna is required to use on point to point communication, so the array method is chosen to get high gain. The parameters observed from the antenna such as gain, radiation pattern, return loss, bandwidth and Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) are simulated by Microwave Office Software to get best result of design antenna. The simulation result shows that designed antenna has high gain and suitable for HAPS due to its small size and thickness.


Cylindrical roller bearing in mine-used rotary drill bit serves as example, the paper founds analysis model for bearing hot elastic flow based on surface roughness, analyses influence of amplitude value and direction of surface roughness of bearing rollaway to bearing elastic flow


Proteases catalyze the coupling of N-protected L-amino acids and C-protected L-amino acids, but the enzymatic synthesis of aminomalonic acid (Ama)-containing peptides has not been reported. We undertook the synthesis of sweet (R)-Ama-(S)-Phe-OMe (800 times sweeter than sucrose) and (R)-Ama-(S)-Phe-OEt (50 times sweeter than sucrose) by coupling Z-(RS)-Ama(OBzl)-OH and H-L-Phe-OR (R, Me or Et) with thermolysin (EC 220.127.116.11) and subsequent hydrogenolysis. Thermolysin catalyzed the synthesis of Z-(R)-Ama(OBzl)-(S)-Phe-OR (R, Me or Et), which is the precursor of sweet (R)-Ama-(S)-Phe-OR (R, Me or Et). The Ama residues of Z-(R or S)-Ama(OBzl)-(S)-Phe-OR (R, Me or Et) and (R or S)-Ama-(S)-Phe-OR (R, Me or Et) were susceptible to facile racemization. Both Z-(R)-Ama(OBzl)-(S)-Phe-OMe and Z-(S)-Ama(OBzl)-(S)-Phe-OMe were sparingly soluble in water. The desired Z-(R)-Ama(OBzl)-(S)-Phe-OMe was more soluble than Z-(S)-Ama(OBzl)-(S)-Phe-OMe; consequently, the precipitated Z-(R)-Ama(OBzl)-(S)-Phe-OMe gradually dissolve...


Most basic electrical protective measures are intended to ensure that significant electrical energy cannot be dissipated anywhere other than within current using equipment. These measures include primary and secondary insulation, enclosures, barriers etc., and they have a passive function. Active measures are generally arranged to interrupt the supply to a circuit when electrical energy dissipation becomes excessive either within the circuit conductors and current using equipment or outside the circuit (for example in a person) where no dissipation is intended. The author examines active protective measures generally and describes the conditions necessary to ensure their successful operation. >


Urinary tract obstruction and reflux nephropathy can be associated with changes in renal handling of water and electrolytes, leading to hyponatremic dehydration, hyperkalemia, and metabolic acidosis.1,2 Infants with this spectrum of electrolyte abnormalities fit into the diagnostic spectrum of salt-losing congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a family of autosomal recessive disorders in which there is a deficiency of one of the enzymatic activities necessary for cortisol synthesis.3 Because of this enzyme abnormality, there is excessive adrenal androgen production with absent cortisol production. In female infants, varying degrees of genital virilization are present, facilitating diagnosis at birth. However, in male infants, physical examination is usually unremarkable, and the first evidence of this disease can be dehydration and shock with severe urinary saltwasting and hyperkalemia. Failure to address the physiologic abnormalities of these patients with aggressive volume resuscitation and steroid replacement can result in death. Infants with pseudohypoaldosteronism from reflux/obstructive nephropathy will also benefit from volume replacement. However, their electrolytic abnormalities will not improve with glucocorticoid/mineralocorticoid replacement. In addition, recognition and correction of urologic abnormalities may prevent further damage that can result in renal failure. Here we present 3 infants with dehydration, metabolic acidosis, and electrolyte abnormalities resembling CAH who were found to have congenital urologic abnormalities.


1.We suppose that the artificial satellite has been sent up towards the zenith of a place at 30°northern latitude.It is going to start its orbital motion at a height of 300 km and this point is to be the perigee.We re- quire the apogee to be at a height of 1200 km and the inclination of the orbit to the equator should be about 40°.We have found that the velocity at perigee should be 7.962 km/sec,pointing towards the azimuth 62°13′ east of south,with the eccentricity e=0.0631,circulating around the earth with a period of 1.665 hours.If the satellite moves in a circular orbit at a height of 300 km,then its orbital velocity would need to be only 7.721 km/sec,and its period 1.510 hours.


Today smart phones integrate many sensors and provide large computing capacities. They enable the shift towards massive quantities of real-time information becoming access push rather than demand pull on a global case. In this we describe CAPIM, a platform to support such a paradigm. It integrates services to monitor and a context for adapt with the user's context using sensors and capabilities of smart phones, together with online social data. It integrates context-aware services that are dynamically configurable and use the user's location, identity, preferences, profile, and relations with individuals, as well as capabilities of the mobile devices to manifest themselves in many different ways and re-invent themselves over and over again. Such services aggregate and semantically organize the context data. They react based on dynamically defined context-oriented workflows, and the platform includes an execution engine that supports context-aware actions for orientation, information, and recommendation. We describe the design of our system, the challenges that need to be solved, and the evaluation methodology we are planning to adopt.


The vibration mode shapes are often used to identify damage of bridges because the mode shapes are not only important modal properties but also sensitive to damage. However, the key issue is how to conveniently obtain the mode shapes of a bridge in service. Traditional methods invariably require installation of instruments on the bridge for collection of dynamic responses for constructing mode shapes, which are both costly and inconvenient. Therefore a method is developed to construct the mode shapes of simply supported bridges based on Hilbert Transform using only vehicle acceleration response for identification of the location of damage. Firstly, an algorithm is devised to construct the mode shapes by using the dynamic responses extracted from a moving vehicle under impact excitation. Then, based on these intermediate results, the coordinate modal assurance criterion in conjunction with suitable wavelets is used to identify the location of damage. Compared with the traditional methods, the proposed method uses only the information from the moving vehicle. Moreover, additional impact excitation on the vehicle helps to excite the bridge. This helps to improve the accuracy by overcoming the adverse effects of measurement noise and road surface roughness, which leads to high accuracy of damage detection. To verify the feasibility of the proposed method, some numerical studies have been carried out to investigate the effects of measurement noise, road surface roughness and multiple locations of damage on the accuracy of results.


The freshwater shrimp, Macrobrachium nipponensis is one of the largest species as well as one of the Important types of food. It can be found widely in rivers and swamps from Che-ju island in the south to Chung-ju in the north. The larval development of these shrimps was studied by Yu (1966) and CHUN and YU (1967), but they didn't provide any other features. Shrimps for the present study were collected from the Ntk-Dong River, near Pusan, once each month from March to December 1963. The following is a summary of the results. 1. The relationship between the carapace length (X) and the body length (Y) is: Y=2.68996X+1.14784 in female. Y=2.73121X+1.10827 in male. 2. The relationship between the carapace length(X)_ and tile basipodite length of the 2nd pereiopode (Y) is: Y=0.16910X-0.06422 in female Y=0.19410X-0.06075 in male. 3. The relationship between the carapace length (X) and the ischiorodite length of the 2nd pereiopode (Y) is: Y= 0.48524X-0.10812 in female. Y= 0.69052X-0.28616 in male. 4. The relationship between the carapace length(X) and the meropodite length of the End pereiopode (Y) is: Y=0.51217X-0.04088 in female. Y= 1.9792X-0.98258 in male. 5. The relationship between the carapace length (X) and the carpopodite length of the 2nd pereiopode (Y) is: Y=0.87701X-0.33919 in female. Y=2.00091X-1.64116 in male. 6. The relationship between the carapace length (X) and the propodite length of the 2nd pereiopode (Y) is: Y= 1.04672 X-0.50727 in female. Y=2.67663X-2.40488 in male. 7. The relationship between the carapace length (X) and the dactylopodite length of the 2nd pereiopode (Y) is: Y=0.26366 X+0.15743 in female. Y=1.04866 X-0.67781 in male.


Introduction: Currently non-communicable diseases are responsible for 60% of all deaths worldwide. There is evidence that many of these diseases originate from fetal programming. These include diseases related to the metabolic syndrome associated with obesity. Certain perinatal factors may interact with the fetal genome, alter the fetal-placental homeostasis, lead to persistent physiological changes, and chronic diseases in adult life, conditioning future generations. Objective: To review current evidence on the effects of high fructose consumption on the metabolism of mothers and offspring, from a long-term perspective and with transgenerational consequences. Results: In the last decades, there has been a progressive increase in the consumption of fructose, in relation to a higher consumption of processed foods, mainly sugary drinks. The metabolism of fructose differs from that of glucose, since, when consumed in high amounts, much follows the path of lipogenesis; in addition, it provides substrates for gluconeogenesis and glycogenesis. Thus, it has been suggested that high fructose diets will be a determinant of the occurrence of various chronic diseases, such as fatty liver, type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity, and may also lead to hypertension and dyslipidemia. Maternal obesity, by itself, is a significant predictor of childhood obesity and the development of metabolic complications in offspring. In addition, animal model studies have shown that when obesity is combined with physiological changes caused by fetal exposure to a high fructose diet, it may trigger a cycle of obesity/chronic disease, in which, daughters of obese mothers have metabolic dysfunction, become obese mothers themselves, giving rise to another generation with a risk of developing metabolic alterations. High fructose intake during pregnancy, by altering the permeability and diversity of the mother's intestinal flora, can affect the development of the fetal gut. Conclusion: Studies in animal models seem to indicate that high fructose content in diet is a determinant factor in fetal programming for some diseases of the metabolic syndrome. Evidence in humans is still sparse; studies have many biases that are difficult to solve. There are also many mechanisms to explain, yet we believe that sufficient evidence be gathered the of syndrome


Based on the unique advantages of fiber Bragg (FBG) in the field of vibration monitoring, a 2-D FBG accelerometer based on multi-axis flexure hinge is proposed. With the adoption of symmetrical multi-axis flexure hinges, the sensing probe has the same sensitivity in two measuring directions. The differential arrangement of the two couple FBGs can eliminate the influence of temperature, and in addition, its sensitivity is twice that of single FBG. The structure and principle of the sensor are explained, and its acceleration sensitivity and resonance frequency are analyzed theoretically in this paper. On this basis, the simulation analysis is carried out and two kinds of sensors for different occasions are made finally. Experimental studies show that the sensors can pick up the vibration signal accurately and have preferably temperature self-compensation effect under the condition form 20 °C to 90 °C. The stable frequency band of the max-sensor is 5 to 170 Hz, the acceleration sensitivity is up to 220 pm/g, the cross-interference in two measuring directions is not exceeding 4%, and the resonant frequency is 279.2 Hz. The min-sensor has a wide flat range from 20 to 600 Hz with an acceleration sensitivity of 40 pm/g. Its cross-interference is less than 3.5%, and the resonant frequency is 814.3 Hz.


Abstract Background Transmission of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) from environment to patient and patient to patient can both occur in healthcare settings. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a cohort of exposed patients on an inpatient unit with an extensive VRE outbreak needed to switch physical locations with a non-exposed patient population. By comparing outcomes of both cohorts, we aimed to determine the role of the physical environment (both direct and indirect contact) as compared to the patient population, in ongoing VRE transmission. Methods From 10 March to 21 April 2021, 41 new nosocomial acquisitions of VRE were detected as part of a VRE outbreak on a 34-bed acute care unit. Prior to the switch of units, extensive cleaning of the unit was conducted including electrostatic adjuncts to standard cleaning and environmental swabbing for VRE yielded no positive surfaces. The exposed cohort included 3 of 30 patients with VRE while the non-exposed cohort had 0 of 28 VRE positive patients based on prevalence testing on 21 April 2021. Following the physical relocation of both cohorts on 22 April, 2021, prospective VRE screening was performed on both units for one month including on admission, discharge and weekly prevalence screening. Hand hygiene compliance rates on both units was measured using group electronic monitoring. Results Figure 1 depicts the timeline and number of VRE cases before and after the unit switch. Following relocation of the VRE exposed cohort to the new unit, no further VRE transmission was detected (0/235 VRE screens; 0 VRE cases per 1000 patient days). Conversely, there were new VRE transmissions (3/99 VRE screens, 5 VRE cases per 1000 patient days) in the non-exposed cohort. When the units resumed their original location, one additional case of VRE was identified in the exposed cohort upon return to their original location. These transmissions occurred despite HH compliance of 94% (141,610/150,706) during the entire study period on the outbreak unit, which was consistently higher than on the non-outbreak unit (141,589/227,136, 62%).Figure 1. Conclusion The environmental reservoir for VRE may be more important in transmission than the patient reservoir. These findings underscore the importance of environmental cleaning to contain VRE outbreaks. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures


The new microstrip gap waveguide supports a quasi-TEM mode in the air by the use of artificial magnetic conductors which force the field to travel in the air rather than in the substrate. This paper presents an evaluation of losses by measuring the Q-factor of a resonator made in this technology, made using a mushroom-type EBG surface. Losses are crucial when using printed circuits to feed slot antennas, thereby motivating this work. Comparisons with standard microstrip lines will be provided, showing promising results.


Objectives Sandwich ELISA(sELISA) using polymyxin B(PMB) and anti-endotoxin polyclonal antibody was built to detect endotoxin.Methods Polymyxin B was coated onto ELISA plates.After blocking the different concentrations of endotoxin,polyclonal antibody against endotoxin and HRP-labelled antibody were added into each well to establish the sELISA.Results The consequence of sELISA was as follow: the concentration of endotoxin from 0.1 μg/ml to 100 μg/ml was in direct proportion to the value of OD and showed a linear regression equation: y=0.094 lnx+0.227,R2 was 0.914 and the detection limit was 100 ng/ml.Conclusion The method was suitable for detecting endotoxin.


Introduction Musculoskeletal injury (MSKI) represents a considerable threat to the effectiveness and productivity of military organisations globally. The impact on the medical chain, occupational disposal with associated loss of working days and associated financial burden have far-reaching consequence. The moral and legal responsibility to reduce avoidable injuries through risk assessment and prevention strategies is fundamental to governance and a key component of best practice. Methods A retrospective observational analysis was performed of 4101 MSKIs presenting from a total inflow of 10 498 British Army Infantry recruits recorded over four consecutive training years between 2012 and 2016. Injury incidence, site, type and week of training were recorded and analysed. Results The total incidence of all MSKI was observed as 39.1%. Overuse injuries were the most common subclassification of injury type (24.5%), followed by trauma (8.8%) and then stress fractures (5.7%). Causes of medical discharge over a four-year cumulative incidence were from overuse injuries (59.3%), stress fractures (21.5%) and trauma (19.2%). 45.5% of all MSKIs presented within the first eight weeks of training. Conclusions MSKI data highlighted the requirement for a comprehensive service evaluation of the Combat Infantryman's Course and subsequent justification for the introduction of an injury prevention intervention — Project OMEGA.


This paper presents the design of a roll-yaw autopilot for a non-axisymmetric missile model to robustly decouple roll tracking from yaw regulation. This method is based on trajectory linearization and consists of the design of two controller sub-sections. The first of which is designed to put the missile on the desired trajectory by inverting the nonlinear plant. The second is a PD-spectrum assignment controller, which exponentially stabilizes the linearized tracking error dynamics. This is a systematic design method which is applicable to uniformly completely controllable MIMO nonlinear time-varying systems, and is an extension of previous results on SISO designs for the pitch autopilot. After a brief background on PD-spectrum and the particular nonlinear plant is presented, the design is shown with some encouraging simulation results.


This  paper  unpacks  the  negative  impact  of  student  evaluations  for  faculty  of color  in  a  Caribbean  and  North  American  context.


This work describes the process of employee evaluation and its development in 10 years long period in the XY Organisation. It may be serve as a a device for the evaluation process in another organization.


The 5th block pit support in the National Geographic Information Science and Technology Industrial Park was taken as research object, based on the fuzzy analytic hierarchy theory, the establishment of a complex decision-making model to evaluate the deep foundation excavation plan for the proposed excavation with three programs Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation and analysis to determine the best support program for the actual construction provides a basis for decision making.


i.I. Anthropology and Archaeology of the Near and Middle East W. Bernhard Inst. for Anthropology Johannes Gutenberg University P.O. Box 3980 Saarstrasse 2i 6500 Mainz Germany i.2. Easter Island: Archaeology, Ethnology, and Linguistics S. V. Rjabchikov Krasnodarmejskaja 1/39 Krasnodar 350023 U.S.S.R. 1.3. Island Archaeology W. S. Ayres Dept. of Anthropology University of Oregon Eugene, Ore. 97403 U.S.A. 1.4. Methods and Theory in Ethno-Archaeological Research or Practice in Africa E. K. Agorsah Dept. of Archaeology University of Ghana P.O. Box 3 Legon, Accra Ghana I.5. Neolithisation of Europe N. I. Xirotiris Dept. of Biology University of Crete P.O. Box 1470 71 1 1 0 Iraklion Crete, Greece


Tourism industry has a special place in today's world as one of the largest and cleanest industry in the glob. In the meantime, cultural and natural tourism as two major subfields of tourism may open new windows for better understanding of societies. The main objective of this research is to examine the role of terrestrial and marine protected areas in developing tourism industry in a selection of the world's historical countries. The variables of terrestrial protected areas, marine protected areas, tourism per capita income, gross domestic product (GDP), governance quality, rail lines and number of arrivals international tourists is used to construct and identify a model for empirical part. A research gravity model has been estimated by using panel data technique for twelve most selected historical countries of the world, during the (1996-2012) period. The findings indicate positive and significant effects on the tourism industry for marine protected areas, terrestrial protected areas, gross domestic product (GDP) and rail lines variables. While, the results of the study show a negative and significant impact on the tourism industry for tourism per capita income variable. In between, governance quality coefficient is not significant.


In designing an electromagnetic actuator it is important to clarify the relationship between the response time and the design factors. The main design factors are the dimension and characteristics of its material. The relative magnetic permeability mu /sub s/ and electric resistivity rho of magnetic steel have serious effects on the response time of an actuator. These effects are quantitatively examined by dynamic analysis using the finite-element method. Criteria for selecting optimum design are proposed in view of the minimum allowable mu /sub s/ and rho and the optimum values of the spring constant. >


The relativistic plasma wave excited when the frequency difference between two copropagating C${\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ laser beams equals the plasma frequency is detected for the first time. The plasma-wave frequency, wave number, spatial extent, and saturation time are directly measured by use of 7-mrad, collective, ruby Thomson scattering and the forward-scattered ir spectrum. The wave amplitude $\frac{\stackrel{\ifmmode \tilde{}\else \~{}\fi{}}{n}}{{n}_{0}}$ is inferred to be (1-3)% which gives a longitudinal electric field of 0.3 to 1 GV/m at a laser intensity of 1.7\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}${10}^{13}$ W/${\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$, in reasonable agreement with theory.


X-ray diffraction studies of oriented poly(3-n-alkylthiophene) (P3AT's) solution-cast films show that these samples are characterized by well-organized lamellar structures whereby stacks of planar thiophene main chains are uniformly spaced by the allyl side chains. In spite of considerable hydrocarbon chemical bonding and conformational disorder, a high degree of structural regularity is observed with appreciable three-dimensional ordering of the polymer chains. Analysis of the results leads to suggestive models in which an open packing of the alkyl chains is maintained with considerable side-chain disorder and side-chain mobility


Homologous series of low molecular weight monocarboxylic acids (C2 to C12) and γ-lactones (C5 to C12) were detected in Miocene to Pliocene sediments of Shinjo basin. Abundances of the monocarboxylic acids are 10-6 to 10-8g/g, and those of the γ-lactones are 10-7 to 10-9 g/g. The monocarboxylic acids show the unique predominance of nonanoic acid over octanoic and decanoic acids. The γ-lactones show a predominance of hexanoic lactone in most of the sediments. No δ-lactones were detected in the sediments. It seems that the two classes of organic compounds were converted from common precursors, namely cis-9 unsaturated fatty acids, during the early stages of sediment diagenesis.


Introduction: Currently, neuroresearchers report that the median nerve shows severity-correlated intracarpal enlargement in idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) as a most common peripheral neuropathic disorder. The purpose of this paper was to investigate ultrasonography morphological findings in patients with idiopathic CTS and comparing some physical properties such as age, gender, BMI with dominancy in the hands. Materials and methods: This research was a cross sectional study that conducted in Al-Zahra hospital. 125 patients who came to ultrasonography department for any reason were studied randomly and selected by a convenience method. The thickness of median nerves of these patients was measured by ultrasonography and analyzed based on age, sex, BMI and dominancy and non-dominancy in hand for each patient separately as main aim of our study. The data collected entered to computer and analyzed by SPSS software. The chi- square and t-student tests were used for data analysis. Results: The mean cross-sectional area of right median nerve in right-handed patients was 0.063±0.02 cm2 and for left median nerve in the same group was 0.056±0.022 cm2. Results demonstrates differences in cross-sectional area of median nerve in dominant hand in comparison to non-dominant-hand in right-handed ones (P<0.001). Again, mean cross-sectional area of left median nerve in left-handed patients was 0.064±0.013 cm2 and for right median nerve in the given group was 0.057 ± 0.017 cm2. Conclusion: No relation between median nerve, BMI and age was existed and probably we can apply ultrasonography as a diagnostic imaging tool to distinguish between competent and non-competent median nerves.


The article compares the meaning of the following notions: «interpersonal interaction culture», «communication culture» and «communication competence». It also defines the meaning of interpersonal interaction culture, describes the structure and outlines the criteria and indicators of interpersonal interaction culture building.


Abstract A new lithophytic species of Gesneriaceae, Petrocodonrubrostriatus K.Tan, X.Q.Song & M.X.Ren, sp. nov. from Lvchun County, South Yunnan, China, is described and illustrated here. It closest resembles P.mollifolius (W.T.Wang) A.Weber & Mich.Möller, but the new species is differentiated from it by red to brownish-red stripes in the yellow corolla throat and 4.5 mm long bract lobes, a ca. 10 mm long style, and staminodes inserted at 2.5–3 mm from the corolla base. The species is preliminarily assessed as 'Critically Endangered' (CR) according to IUCN criteria, since currently only one single locality is known with a few subpopulations on a fragmented limestone cliff, with fewer than 300 individuals.


Cancer Science & Pediatrics 2019 Background: There are lots of treatments for cancer but always enzymes are the most efficient. Glutamine can be used to support proliferation in multiple ways. It is a proteinogenic amino acid, and can be act as a nitrogen donor for the synthesis of amino acids as well as nucleotides biosynthesis in cellular processes. The presence of L-glutaminase has been reported in various organisms, including animals, plants, and microorganisms except humans. It's a treatment enzyme for ALL and L-glutaminase also has proved ineffectual for treatment solid tumours such as breast cancer and colorectal. In following research Yarrowia yeast glutaminase is used.


Background: Drug utilization research (DUR) is an effective program to identify variability in drug use and to support interventions that will improve patient outcomes. The appropriate use of aminophylline/theophylline was evaluated in Shiraz, southern Iran. Methods: A prospective DUR study was conducted in Ali-Asghar Hospital from April 2005 to April 2007. All inpatient cases of asthma or COPD who were started on IV loading dose of aminophylline were included in the study. A blood sample was provided from the patients at steady state condition just before the next dose, in order to determine the trough serum concentration of the drug. Demographic characteristics of patients, along with clinical and paraclinical findings, lab data, drug history, and adverse drug events were recorded using their files and a face to face interview. Results: One hundred patients were enrolled among them, 57% (n=57) were female and 43% (n=43) were male. The age range was 16-90 years with mean age±SD of 65.63±14.7. Diagnosis was asthma in 46% and COPD in 54% of patients. Theophylline serum concentration range was 0-37 mcg/ml (7.94±5.4). Ninety eight percent of patients had at least one adverse event due to aminophyline or theophylline use. 14 items were evaluated for aminophylline/theophyline administration and compared to a standard guideline. The mean score for 100 patients included in the study was 8 out of 14. Conclusions: The most considerable problem in aminophylline/theophylline usage in our hospital was ignorance to the important role of pharmacokinet ics in optimizing aminophylline/theophylline therapeutic response and minimizing ADEs and the cost of hospitalization. Training of the healthcare providers is recommended. Performing population pharmacokinetic studies will be a good guidance for improving aminophylline/theophylline usage in our population.


Introduction: The current number of women in the reproductive phase (from 15 to 45 years) in Europe is estimated at about 105 million, with about 5 million children annually born in average. About 1% of pregnancies among women in Europe are complicated by heart disease, the risk of cardiovascular disease in pregnant women being further increased by the fact that ever older women are giving birth. Methods: Preparing this paper is based on a systematic PubMed search of existing professional databases and accessible medical journals and textbooks dealing with this subject matter. Topic: Being certainly drugs with the best anticoagulant effect in situations of high risk for thrombosis, especially in patients with mechanical prosthetic heart valves during pregnancy, vitamin K antagonists (VKA) on the other hand also entail a well-known dose-related risk of embryo toxicity, genotoxicity, and hemorrhage in the fetus and in the mother. The choice of appropriate anticoagulant depends on the stage of pregnancy. In accordance with the North-American guidelines (American College of Chest Physicians - ACCP) for women already on oral vitamin K antagonists actively trying to conceive frequent pregnancy tests, and substitution of VKA with heparin drugs when pregnant are recommended rather than VKA replacement with low molecular weight heparin (Low Molecular Weight Heparin - LMWH) when planning a pregnancy. Heparin derivatives have no embryo toxic and fetotoxic characteristic effects of VKA but they are less effective at preventing valve thrombosis, due to which they have recently been superseded by improved techniques for monitoring effects of heparin, with a mentioned made that low molecular weight heparin used in high therapeutic doses requires obligatory (on a weekly basis) monitoring of anti-factor Xa coagulation activities. Conclusion: Adequate anticoagulant therapy during pregnancy requires an analysis of risk factors for thrombosis, hemorrhage risk, consideration of comorbidities in pregnant women, especially renal function, especially taking into account the gestational age. Though it must be admitted that there is no absolutely safe anticoagulant therapy during pregnancy, a choice of the safest option regarding the stated risks for the mother and the child is of paramount importance.


The article is devoted to some aspects of the preparation of the USSR for bacteriological war in the second half of the 1930s, as well as the activities of intelligence agencies and the Military-technical Bureau to obtain information in the fi eld of military bacteriology, taking into account the realities of the state of international relations. Special attention is paid to the development of offensive bacteriological weapons abroad, as well as the evaluation of the materials obtained by experts in the USSR. The paper uses previously unpublished archival sources covering the successes of Soviet intelligence, as well
as shedding light on the state of development of the sphere in question in some foreign countries. The author describes the mechanism of interdepartmental cooperation implemented in order to strengthen the defence potential of the USSR in the military-bacteriological sphere and the introduction of the information obtained in the industry.


A pitfall for an artist working with non-traditional materials, such as polyester resin, is that he can become so fascinated by their unusual properties that technical considerations override aesthetic ones. How a work was accomplished, rather than what was accomplished, takes on undue importance. By combining novel materials with traditional ".?_ media, in this case polyester resin with images on paper, guidelines can be set to profit from the ^ unexplored properties of the material. The marriage of the new with the old should result in a greater . ^ sensitivity in handling the polyester resin and give . new life to images executed with traditional media. The basic alteration of a picture on paper caused


The purpose of this study was to compare the career decision-making self-efficacy of university students with and without disabilities and to examine the characteristics of the career decision-making self-efficacy of students with disabilities by analyzing the differences in their background variables and subscales. The study participants were 30 university students with disabilities who attend J university, which has a disabled student support center, and 60 university students without disabilities. Their self-efficacy was measured by the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale–Short Form, which consists of five subscales. The results form this study are as follow: First, the results of a comparison of the factors of the career decision self-efficacy of university students with and without disabilities indicated that students without a disability had higher levels of information gathering than those with a disability, and that there was no difference in the levels by academic field. Second, a comparison of the factors representing background variables indicated that physical science and engineering university students with disabilities showed more meaningful differences than arts and social science students in the following areas, ordered from greatest to least difference: accurate self-appraisal, problem solving, and making plans for the future. Students in the Received(August 06, 2014), Review request(August 07, 2014), Review Result(1st: August 22, 2014) Accepted(December 10, 2014) Publish(December 31, 2014) 560-759 Dept. Secondary Special Education, Jeonju Univ., 303 Cheonjam-ro, Wansan-gu, Jeonju, Korea email: firstname.lastname@example.com Awareness Comparison in Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy of University Students with and without Disabilities Copyright c 2014 SERSC 314 upper grade had higher levels than those in the lower grade, and students with in grades 4-5 had the highest level of factors like target selection, information gathering, and problem solving.


The purpose of this study was to investigate the change of the activity of creative phosphukinase ;EC 184.108.40.206), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (EC 220.127.116.11) ana glutamic pyruvic transaminase (EC 126.96.36.199) of serum and thoracic duct lymph in dogs induced hetnocrhagic shock with the blood pressure maintained at 60mmHg. for 4 hours. The serum and thoracic duct lymph creative phosphokinase activities were found similarly increased in both sham (6 animals) and hemorrhagic shock (8 animals) induced groups following hemorrhage. But the increased level was less significant in sham operation dogs. The activities of serum a11d thoracic duct lymph transaminase were significantly increased Due to narrowness between tumor effective dose and toxic dose, there appeared a variety of dose of BCNU to be used in cancer. It was an annoying problem that the seemingly optimal dose in one patient would sometimes induce serious side effects. This study was carried out to determine the efficacy of lower dose of BCNU with immunotherapeutic agent tubercin-3, tuberculoprotein complex, extracted from human type Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ehlich ascited mice. Sixty tumor-bearing mice were divided into 6 groups; 10 animals in each group receiving saline, tubercin-3, 2㎎ or 4㎎ per ㎏ body weight of BCNU, and 2㎎, and 4㎎ per ㎏ body weight of BCNU combined with tubercin-3, respectively in each time. Treatment was started 24 hours after tumor cell implantation and every other day for six times. The tubercin-3 was administered subcutaneously and BC NU intraperitoneally. After treatment began, the animal condition was observed daily two times and the time of death was recorded for life expectation of mice. The average increases of animal life span of each group were respectively as follows. Control is 13.8 days; tubercin-3 administration, 27.8 days; 2㎎ per ㎏ body weight BCNU, 36.4 days; 4㎎ per ㎏ body weight BCNU, 38.6 days; 2㎎ BCNU with tubercin-3, 42.6 days; and 4㎎ BCNU with tubercin-3, 43.5 days. Conclusively, the therapeutic potentiation is reflected to be extened life span in combined treatment of tubercin-3 and BCNU then none combine3 and it was also noticed that the low dose of BCNU could extend the life of Ehrlich ascites cancer-bearing mice when administered in combination with tubercin-3.


The experimental investigation has been done in the month of April 2015 for climate condition of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India (latitude 23o18ˈN; Longitude 79o 95ˈE) during full day, 06.00 AM to 06:00 PM. The performance of the solar still with modification of water flow over the glass cover (sprinkler attachment) and nano particles (cuprous oxide) in basin water has been observed, recorded and compared with conventional still. It has been found that the collection of pure water in modified solar sill was 4000 ml/(m2-day) as compared to 2900 ml/(m2-day) in conventional solar still. The efficiency of 34% and 22% has been obtained for modified solar still and conventional still respectively. With design amendments, increase in overall effectiveness was found to be 54.54 %. The computed cost of pure water produced in modified still is expected to (INR) Rs.0.98/liter, in view of 12 yrs life of the solar still.


Stacking polarized radio emission in SKA surveys provides statistical information on large samples that is not accessible otherwise due to limitations in sensitivity, source statistics in small fields, and averaging over frequency (including Faraday synthesis). Polarization is a special case because one obvious source of stacking targets is the Stokes I source catalog, possibly in combination with external catalogs, for example an SKA HI survey or a non-radio survey. We point out the significance of stacking sub-samples selected by additional observable parameters to investigate relations that reveal more about the physics of the source. Applications of stacking polarization include, but are not limited to, obtaining in a statistical sense polarization information to the detection limit in total intensity, depolarization as a function of cosmic time at consistent source-frame wavelengths, magnetic field properties in objects with a low radio luminosity such as dwarf and low-surface-brightness galaxies, and investigating potential correlations of observable parameters with the average magnetic field direction in a sample. We also point out the potential use of stacking in validating the polarization calibration of a survey. While stacking is flexible in terms of survey definition, we discuss optimal survey parameters for the science experiments presented, as well as computing and archiving requirements.


With the development of technology, the display industry has been focusing on the development of new types of displays, such as bendable and wearable displays. However, the PVA/TAC polarizing film used in the manufacturing of a normal display is associated with low luminance and low efficiency. If the existing polarization film is replaced with a wire grid polarizer, it is possible to reduce the thickness significantly. Moreover enhanced brightness can also be expected. This study confirms the optical properties of the WGP through a simulation.


Objective:To study the effects of Chan-Yu-Bao-Yuan-Tang on apoptosis of SK-MES-1 cell.Methods:The SK-MES-1 cells were incubated with different concentrations of Chan-Yu-Bao-Yuan-Tang(20、40、80、160μg/mL) for 48h and 72h.The morphologies of apoptotic were observed by fluorescence microscope.The Inhibitions rates of cell proliferation were detected by MTT.The apoptosis rates were detected by flow cytometry.The expression of caspase-3 activated fragments and gelsolin activated fragments were detected by western blot.Result:With the increasing of drug concentration and incubating time,it showed:The quantity of apoptosis cells increased under the fluorescence microscope;The Inhibitions rates of cell proliferation increased;The apoptosis rates of the early apoptotic cells and mid and late apoptotic or necrotic cells both increased;The expression of caspase-3 activated fragments and gelsolin activated fragments both increased.Conclusion:Chan-Yu-Bao-Yuan-Tang induces apoptosis of SK-MES-1 cell lines via a caspase-3-generated fragement of gelsolin pathway.


in which native military veterans serve as the primary agents in local acculturation processes. Tiel-Passewaaij is viewed as a typical rural settlement that follows a general pattern recognised for the civitas Batavorum , the territory of the Batavian 'military community' for which much archaeological, epigraphic and historical data is available. The discussion will focus on five analytical domains: economy, dress, burial, commensality and housing.


This article explores the performance and the dissolution of two viniculture firms which had boost wine's market in XX century: the state-owned company Bodegas y Viñedos Giol and the firms controlled by Greco's group. In this comparative study, we examine the conditions of business failure, distinguishing different levels of analysis: the incidence of political and institutional background in the collapse of firms, the situation of viniculture during the crisis of the model of massive production and wine consumption, and the managerial strategies of the firms.


The use of context is shown effective for researchers. However, most of them only take context information at the visual word level without considering the context relationship of local features. For tackling this problem, a novel method is proposed by considering the detection based local feature context. Each image is represented as background and foreground. Given a position in background or foreground, to represent this position's visual information, we use the local feature on this position as well as other local features based on angles and distances to this position. Taking use of local feature context is more discriminative and is also invariant to rotation and scale change. The local feature context can then be applied in the task of image classification. Our method is demonstrated effective by experiments on the UIUC-Sports and Caltech-101 datasets.


This research based on internal light environment change of solar greenhouse,using fulfilling plants illumination demands as aim,developing ensuring the irradiance decay rates less than 2% after sunlight through the greenhouse roof in 4 h around noon on winter solstice and the last row plant canopy receiving sunlight all day in cultivated area as limitation conditions,established a kind of determination method for solar greenhouse integral sizes.By comparing with construction criterion of solar greenhouse in typical regions,the results showed that this method had high credibility and can provide theoretical reference for scientifically guiding standardization construction of solar greenhouse in China.


In a series of 187 consecutive patients sustaining aortic dissection during a 15-year period, 144 had an acute dissection of type A, whereas 43 patients suffered from other types of aortic dissection


Based on Private-Private county industrial park mode of operation and the government-led industrial park development mode of comparatively analysis,It shows that the former has the comparative advantage than the latter.And the Private-Private Industrial Park operation mode of Shaodong is a kind of innovation to other private industrial park's private operation modes in Hunan,mainly as follows:The function innovation of the development subject;The policies innovation government provided;The innovation of relation channel and economic environment among the enterprises in the zone,developers and the government.


In the present study, the protective effect of garlic against cypermethrin -induced lung toxicity was studied. Adult male mice (N=20) with average weight 1820 g were used in the study. Animals were divided into four groups of 5 each: group I control received corn oil; group II received cypermethrin (2.8 mg/kg BW) in corn oil. Group III received garlic (500 mg/kg BW); group IV received both cypermethrin and garlic. All treatments were given by oral gavage for 14 days. The results showed that cypermethrin increased thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) and decreased activities of the antioxidant enzymes (GST: glutathione S – transferase; -SH group; SOD: superoxide dismutase). Lung injury was confirmed by histopathological changes. Animals treated with garlic and cypermethrin together showed that lung TBARS returned to the control level which indicating a protective effect of garlic. Also, garlic was able to increase the reduced activities of the antioxidant enzymes induced by cypermethrin. In addition, garlic protected the lung from histological changes induced by cypermethrin. In conclusion, garlic was found to provide protective effect against and cypermethrin induced damage in mice alveoli and bronchioles with the attenuation of the oxidative stress and the preservation in antioxidant enzymes. It could be advised as an as Therefore this effective dietary supplements in developing countries where pesticide pollution is high. [Turki M. AlShaikh. Protective antioxidant effect of garlic against cypermethrin induced lung toxicity in adult male mice: Biochemical and Histopathological studies. Life Sci J 2012;9(4):4017-4025]. (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 599


As the interface between fuel cells and the utility line, a self-commutated inverter is preferred to a line-commutated inverter because of its easy controllability. Using the gate turn off (GTO) thyristors, this inverter can have high efficiency and simple circuit configurations. This paper describes the design features and test results of the dc-to-ac power converter, which is principally composed of four-phase transistor chopper and 12-pulse GTO inverter, for a 50kW experimental fuel cell power system. Furthermore, new GTO inverter which improves the circuit efficiency is presented. Special emphasis is placed on a detailed analysis and evaluation of this GTO inverter.


The demanding for high energy density as well as high safety is still an important threshold for battery commercialization. Next-generation layered LiNi x Co y Mn 1 − x − y O 2 (NCM) cathodes will meet the specific energy required for driving range of at least 300 miles from a single charge to guarantee the success of electric vehicles. Extending operating voltage of NCM cathode materials is considered as an effective way to increase energy density of lithium ion batteries. However, unstable electrode electrolyte interface (CEI) limits the electrochemical performance of NCM cathodes when operating at high voltages ( > 4.3 V). In this review, underlying factors and mechanisms that result in the failure to form a robust CEI are analyzed, including surface phase reconstruction, stress-induced cracking, transition metal dissolution, electrolyte decomposition and oxygen redox reaction. Then, progress on how to improve and stabilize CEI is summarized. To bridge the gap between current and next generation automotive batteries, it is expected that the situation of NCM electrode materials at high voltage to be fine-tuned with available variables such as nickel content, packag-ing density and loading level. Moreover, more detailed work on designing and studying a reliable CEI can help the application of NCM cathodes under high voltage.


In the management of ground water resources, the uncertainty will exist in the parameters of the system and the relationship will intensify the problems associated with water allocation conflicts between the urban, industrial and agricultural interests. Furthermore, the discrepancy and uncertainty which are always associated with groundwater and eventually result in a difficult case to solve. The causes of the presence of uncertainty in groundwater management, among others: (i). Lack of knowledge about the aquifer system, (ii). The characteristics and parameters of the flow and the characteristics of the transportation and (iii) Economic considerations. This paper will focus on the methods and formulations that explicitly combine the uncertainty by using a mathematical model that can help the underground water system management which is beneficial for the supply of clean water that has been contaminated or threatened by chemical pollutants. The main purpose in the stochastic program model in this study is to build a model of groundwater management in an effort to manage the quality and quantity of groundwater so that the objective function of obstacle control can minimize the pumping costs. The results of the research of the non-linear stochastic program model have been built in to a basic framework for the management of groundwater, especially to manage the quantity and quality of groundwater, uncertainty condition (stochastic) is required due to the fluctiating hydraulic and groundwater, while the cost components appeared in this model is to control the excessive groundwater pumping.


This work integrated zero-valent copper (ZVC) onto the surface of zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) to form hybrids of ZVC/ZIF-8 as a non-noble catalyst for catalytic reduction of PNP as a reliable model reaction. The ZVC/ZIF-8 exhibited superior catalytic properties and good recyclability after the fabrication. 6%ZVC/ZIF-8 hybrids complete the reduction process in 2 min with a rate constant estimated to be 2.39 min
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. The study's findings explored a simple and powerful way to incorporate metal ions into the backbones of open framework materials without losing their properties.


Objective To study the curative effects of Escitalopram in the treatment of diabetes with depression and its influence on blood glucose and qulity of life.Methods Totally 60 patients keeping kinds of hypoglycemic agents and doses mixed were treated with Escitalopram for 12 weeks.Assessments were conducted before treatment and at the ends of 12 weeks of treatment,and fasting blood glucose and glycosylation hemoglobin regularly measured.Results After 12 weeks treatment,there was significant improvement in depressive and anxious symptoms(P0.001).Fasting blood glucose and glycosylation hemoglobin and the GQOLI-74 score had significant difference between pre-treatment and post-treatment(P0.001 or P0.05).Conclusions Escitalopram has significant effectiveness in the treatment of diabetes accompanying depression and cooperative effects of reducing blood glucose.It also significantly improves the quality of life of diabetes mellitus patients with depression.


Abstract : Improvements on, or alternatives to, the acrylonitrile melt retarding process were sought by three different approaches. First, trying to crosslink with halo-phosphorous compounds, and thus to combine melt and flame retardation holds excellent promise for an alternative process of meltproofing, but has not been found practical for flameproofing. Second, coating by inter facial polymerization. Time was not sufficient to elaborate all the many angles of this group of reactions. It was established that the basic method can be applied on a laboratory scale and does lead to meltproofing. An elaboration of this approach with a view to achieving simulta neous flame retardation is highly indicated. Finally, reactivating melt-retarding coatings for the anchorage of flameretarding agents. Promising leads uncovered were the copolymerization of acrylonitrile with methacryloylchloride, though the subsequent steps of anchoring a suitable chemical to the active acid chloride site has not been worked out.


Abstract This paper investigates the values assigned to the archaeological site widely known as 'Lykeion' of Aristotle' — the famous ancient Greek philosopher — by experts and non-experts. The paper revolves around the premise that values should be holistically conceived as both the 'what' is valued and the 'whys' that drive the 'whats'. Based on semi-structured interviews and quantitative questionnaires, the diverse values attributed by professionals, such as architects, archaeologists, or conservators, and the wider public will be unveiled. It will be demonstrated that values vary fundamentally not only between experts and non-experts but also within groups of experts. Furthermore, it will be argued that the conduct of in-depth research aimed at exploring experts' and non-experts' values and meanings, prior to interventions for the enhancement of any archaeological site, is vital for managing potential tensions and for offering an integrated interpretation strategy.


Laser-induced breakdown is believed to be a primary retinal damage mechanism for sub-50 fs laser pulses. Recent studies of ultrashort pulse ocular effects indicate that with frequency chirp compensation, damage thresholds for the retina can be reduced. However, the reductions in threshold do not follow trends predicted by strictly input pulse duration-dependent models. We present a study of the effects of dispersion and the effects of spherical and chromatic aberrations in the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses. We consider optical models of the eye and also common laboratory optical configurations that mimic the eye. Intensity profiles in the focal volume of the optical system are computed for various materials, models, and amounts of aberration. A comparison of relative peak intensities is used to estimate trends in laser-induced breakdown (LIB) thresholds, based upon computation models previously published. These trends in LIB thresholds are compared to experimental data collected in our laboratory.


The ubiquitin-dependent 20s/26s proteasome system is the capital pathway of exo-lysosome proteolysis within eukaryotic cell. Under conditions of denervation, starvation, glucocorticoid, infection, tumor, burn and so on, the proteasome system was stimulated to degrade protein, which results in muscle lose fast. Glucocorticoid, insulin, thyroid hormone,TNFα and IL-1β play important roles in the regulation of muscle protein degradation and the proteasome system. Inhibition or activation of the proteasome system was approved to be a novel means of treatment with cachexia and negative nitrogen balance. [


Abstract Some methodological modifications are suggested to improve a DRASTIC-based method as a reliable predictor of microbial contamination in extensively fractured and subordinately karstified carbonate aquifers. These modifications will allow a better assessment of vulnerability induced by the concentrated infiltration of surface runoff in two different scenarios: (a) when the karst system is entirely located within an unsaturated aquifer and (b) when the karst system is partially located within a saturated medium. The effectiveness of the updated method has been experimentally verified by comparing the vulnerability values with the results of a hydrogeological and microbiological study at a test site.


The workshop was held 5--7 July 1993 at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) and hosted by the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The objective of this workshop was to bring together individuals interested in DNA technologies and to determine the impact of these current and potential improvements of the speed and cost-effectiveness of mapping and sequencing on the planning of future small genome projects. A major goal of the workshop was to spur the collaboration of more diverse groups of scientists working on this topic, and to minimize competitiveness as an inhibitory factor to progress.


1. The histological characteristics of the cement apparatus of barnacles have been compared in Lepas anatifera and Balanus tintinnabulum.2. In both species the cement is formed in unicellular glands and conducted to the points of attachment through a series of tubular canals.3. The cement gland cells of L. anatifera differ from those of B. tintinnabulum in several cytological details which may indicate differences in the secretory mechanisms.


【This research selected Daegu Metropolitan City representing a combination of natural space and urban space for this case study. To achieve this, a prerequisite was to set up an optimal block size to evaluate landscape diversity of the research site by using a RPR-Area Curve. Further, landscape diversity evaluation was conducted based on land cover map by using FRAGSTATS to analyze spatio-temporal changes. Notably, this research regarded it as the most significant to set forth criteria in order to apply landscape diversity to the development plans of the newtown and outskirt of a city under high pressure development. Results derived from this research are summarized as follows. According to the results derived from establishing the optimal block size, a size about $2km^2$ was analyzed to measure landscape diversity of the research site. Also, according to the results derived from land diversity evaluation based on land cover map, land diversity was highly measured around urban stream such as Nakdong River and Geumho River, and in particular, the value of landscape diversity was measured considerably high around the urban parks. Results derived from analysis on spatio-temporal changes of land diversity demonstrated that a certain level of urban development exerted a positive effect on an increase in land diversity, but consistent urban development lowered a value of landscape diversity. Results derived from regression analysis to set forth the optimal urban space showed that an urban area of a space about $2km^2$ exerted a positive effect at a rate of about 0~43.3% and a negative effect at a rate about 43.3~100%. In conclusion, the results of this research are considered to provide important basic data for future urban and landscape planning. Nonetheless, as only the layout on the 2D plane was analyzed in this research, further research in future is required to complexly consider diverse factors such as height of structure and change in visible real area arising from geographical features.】


This study aimed to determine and analyse the factors of religiosity, psychological factors on purchasing decisions, and loyalty. The method used in this study is a quantitative research method in the form of a cross-section. The population in this study are Marketplace users who live in Makassar and have purchased Muslim clothing products, especially in the Shopee application. This study uses a sampling technique with purposive sampling, part of a non-probability sampling technique. The sample obtained from the calculation results amounted to 100 respondents who were deemed sufficient to represent the population. The data analysis technique used in this research is the Structural Equation Model (SEM). The results showed that religiosity and psychological factors directly had a positive and significant effect on purchasing decisions. Meanwhile, social factors have a positive and insignificant impact on buying decisions. Religiosity, Social Factors and Psychological Factors have a positive and significant effect on loyalty. Purchase Decision has a positive and significant impact on Loyalty. Religiosity Social Factors and Psychological Factors through Purchase Decisions have a positive and significant effect on Loyalty. The results of this study can also be used for marketing in motivating consumers to make purchasing decisions. This indicator is the strongest indicator of consumer psychology in deciding the purchase of Muslim clothing and always considers increasing customer loyalty based on religiosity so that customers are committed to continuing to be loyal in purchasing Muslim clothing.  And can be a reference for further researchers to develop research instruments used in this study.


Many literatures have focused on the design, fabrication and intrinsic damage of multilayer dielectric gratings (MLDGs). However, contamination may be a key factor of the MLDGs lifetime. In this paper, we compare the laser damages of the clean and contaminated MLDGs, and damage threshold of clean MLDGs is 3.12J/cm2 . We obtain the curve of the critical particle size at various laser fluences, above which the MLDGs will be damaged. Intrinsic LIDT of clean MLDGs is larger than that of contaminated ones, so the cleanness control is a crucial problem for the MLDGs. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) morphologies of intrinsic and contaminant induced damages are different. The intrinsic damage is cold ablation, while contaminant induced damage is thermal ablation.


The new government of the United Kingdom has not yet indicated the kind of new relationship it wishes to achieve with the European Union. However, a crucial element of any new relationship will regard access to the EU's single market. Four non-EU countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the European Economic Area; Switzerland through bilateral agreements) have wide-ranging access to the single market. A comparison could be useful, so we look at three indicators which may be indicative about the conditions which the UK would have to fulfil if it wishes to get similar access to the single market - Net financial contribution to the EU; Net inflow of EU immigrants; Adoption of EU law. The main contribution of this blog post is a precise comparison of the four non-EU countries (partly based on novel data not available elsewhere) with the UK and some other larger EU countries along the above factors. Financial contribution to the EU Social and economic cohesion in the European Union and the European Economic Area is a goal stipulated in the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. Thereby, the three non-EU EEA members contribute financially to this goal through various financial mechanisms. Switzerland also contributes to various projects designed to reduce economic and social disparities. Upon my request, the Directorate-General for Budget of the European Commission kindly provided information about the gross and net financial contributions of the four non-EU countries to the EU (see annex), which allows a proper comparison to EU countries. The table below shows that Iceland was a net beneficiary of EU payments, while the net contributions of Switzerland and Liechtenstein were very small. On the other hand, Norway's net contribution was similar to the contribution of the United Kingdom - it was somewhat smaller when expressed as a % of GDP, and somewhat larger when expressed in per capita terms. [infogram id="86e40a0f-76af-4dd8-8f01-5f16aca1c598" prefix="L7r" format="interactive" title="Annual net financial contribution to the EU"] It is also noteworthy that both relative to GDP and relative to population, the UK pays less than Germany, France and the Netherlands. The UK even pays less than Italy relative to GDP, despite the fact that Italy is a less developed country than the UK. The reason for the UK's low financial contribution is primarily related to the UK rebate on the EU budget, which was introduced in 1985 in order to reduce the UK's contribution. The net inflow of EU immigrants Both the European Economic Area agreement and the bilateral agreement with Switzerland ensure the free movement of labour, although Switzerland wishes to renegotiate this. The chart below shows that relative to population, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein received about twice as much inflow of EU immigrants as the United Kingdom in 2013-14. Germany also received more EU immigrants than the UK as a percentage of its population, and even more so in terms of the number of people. [infogram id="f197e7f6-0e8c-44c3-ae92-1d3eb618ade7" prefix="ZQD" format="interactive" title="Annual net immigration according to citizenship, average for 2013-14, percent of previous year population"] It is noteworthy that immigration from outside the EU was also sizeable in all nine countries included in the chart (note that the data refer to 2013-14, before the recent wave of large inflow of refugees to Europe). In the United Kingdom, more than half of immigrants were non-EU citizens - an inflow which was fully under the control of the UK government. It was therefore a UK decision to let non-EU nationals come to work in the UK, probably because immigrants brought major benefits to the UK economy, as I argued here. Adoption of EU laws and regulations Access to the single market requires the adoption of single market legislation. We have not found studies assessing the share of the relevant single market legislation that has to be adopted (probably all), but fullfact.org quotes a Norway government report which says "Norway has incorporated approximately three-quarters of all EU legislative acts into Norwegian legislation" (page 6). And while in principle Norway, as well as other EEA members, may raise reservations, the study concludes (page 8) - "Of the more than 6 000 new EU legislative acts that have been incorporated into the EEA Agreement, the use of our right to enter a reservation has only been proposed in connection with 17, and so far we have not entered a reservation in practice, although the first case may be on the horizon." Switzerland is also obliged "to take over relevant Community legislation" in the sectors covered by the approximately 100 bilateral agreements that currently exist between the EU and Switzerland. Summary While the UK's strategy toward access of the EU single market after Brexit is unclear, the experience of the four non-EU countries having access to it suggests that the conditions of access may involve - Sizeable net financial contribution to the EU budget (Norway pays similar amounts to current UK payments in relative terms, though Switzerland and Liechtenstein pay surprisingly small amounts.


Since China's low-carbon pilot policy (LCPP) was launched in 2010, it has moved closer to accomplishing its carbon peak and neutrality targets. However, there is still scant literature on how to accurately consolidate the achievements of the policy in the pilot cities within which it was implemented. This research seeks to address the gap in the current literature by providing a theoretical basis for estimating the effect of LCPP on urban CO2 using a multi-period difference-in-differences model. Panel data from 283 Chinese cities from 2006 to 2019 was utilized. We found that: (1) The LCPP evidently reduced the pilot cities' CO2. (2) Mechanism verification shows that the LCPP curbs CO2 emissions by improving urban technological innovation and reducing energy consumption. (3) Heterogeneity analysis displays that the CO2 reduction effect is more pronounced in eastern areas, non-resource-based cities, and urban agglomerations. The LCPP has accelerated China's CO2 reduction process and provided Chinese characteristics methods for limiting CO2 emissions and reducing climate change. This is crucial for advancing urban low-carbon governance in the broader country.


The Addison Creek watershed is in Cook and DuPage Counties just west of Chicago, Illinois. Because the watershed has a history of major flooding, eight major stormwater and flood control structures have been constructed in the watershed. These structures were planned and constructed over a 20-year time frame using different design standards and methodologies, and were constructed by different agencies. A hydrologic-hydraulic model was developed to evaluate how these structures interacted in controlling flooding. A major effort associated with the model development was the calibration of the hydrologic-hydraulic models. This paper presents some of the unique and interesting aspects of the hydrologic calibration process.


Nb5+、Mg2+ were doped into Ba0.9Sr0.1TiO3 to improve the breakdown performance. Results show that when Ti4+ is co-replaced by Nb5+ and Mg2+, Curie temperature of Ba0.9Sr0.1TiO3 moved to lower temperature, dielectric pick became more flatten and breakdown electrical field(Eb)is promoted. High voltage ceramics with er=1 053,Eb=13 MV/m, tanδ=0.01,ρv 1 010 ?·cm are obtained for Ba0.9Sr0.1(Nb2/3Mg1/3)0.04Ti0.96O3 sintered at 1 320℃.


The study empirically examined the impact of electronic banking on detection of fraud in Nigeria banking system. The specific objectives were; to examine the Impact of ATM, Internet, mobile and POS on Fraud Detection in Nigeria. Primary sources of data was used and it is comprised of questionnaire, interview and observation. Desk survey method was adopted in this study to gather relevant information. Chi square statistical analysis was adopted in this study. Based on the analysis the following findings revealed thus; there was a significant impact between Automated teller machine and fraud detection of selected banks in Nigeria, there was a significant impact between Internet banking and fraud detection of selected banks in Nigeria, there was a significant impact between mobile banking and fraud detection of selected banks in Nigeria and there was a significant impact between Point of sales and fraud detection of selected banks in Nigeria. The following recommendations were made for the study. Banks should organize seminars/workshops on the awareness of electronic banking to people in the rural area and customers who find it difficult to make use of their ATMs for transaction and also let them know the benefit that accrues from using electronic banking. Also it is recommended that customers should be protected from the internet hackers, tight security should be put in place to ensure that customers information are not easily available to information hackers.


A method for the wireless sensing of the permittivity and level of liquids is presented. The use of a simple, thin-film slotted cylindrical cavity wrapped around a standard polytetrafluoroethylene pipe is proposed. Wireless interrogation of the slot excites a resonant mode whose frequency is dependent on the liquid currently present within the pipe. The proposed method allows for measurements to be taken in situ with no requirement for taking samples of potentially hazardous liquids. The device is capable of sensing materials of high relative permittivity, including water, as well as very lossy liquids. A comprehensive set of results is presented, including measurements of butanol, ethanol, methanol, and water, for several device configurations. The proposed sensor is also shown to be sensitive to small changes in liquid level, allowing for accurate water-level measurements down to 0.1 ml. This sensor is a good candidate for very low-cost, low-complexity real-time monitoring of liquids.


Generation Y consumers make purchasing decisions based on brands that can stimulate unforgettable experiences to be shared with others. Postmodern life has changed the habits and patterns of wedding events, where ideas and bridal concepts play a significant role. This study aims to examine the mediating role of brand experience variables in the influence of value co-creation on word of mouth. The study found that value co-creation does not have a direct impact on word of mouth. This is due to the bridal couple's need for wedding organizer services to ensure convenience and smooth execution of the wedding event without directly being involved in the preparation process and equipment. The study concludes that in wedding events, the exchange value still relies on the use of oper and resources, and the bridal couple still lacks the ability to directly appreciate their wedding concepts and ideas.


IT IS A COMMONPLACE OF O'Neill criticism that the areas of action within his plays are neatly coincident with his own moral universe that as an obsessed dramatist, his entire canon is a search for meanings in a world he finds sterile and corrupt. Certainly the complexity of O'Neill's obsessions and their relationship to his well-known psychological difficulties are the sources of his unique virtues and defects as an artist; the author's psychological state is the catalyst bringing together artistry and idea, linking each play to his own core concern. His conclusions are thus often far less interesting than the various means he uses to analyze his material.


Deformational cutting is a promising method of increasing wear resistance of friction surfaces by creating a strain hardened surface layer on them. An important factor influencing the deformational cutting process is the temperature in the cutting zone, therefore, it is necessary to obtain calculation formulas for predicting it. In this paper, the temperature change during deformational cutting of non-hardened austenitic steel in order to form a hardened layer was studied in relation to the cutting parameters: cutting depth, feed and cutting speed. Austenitic steel was selected as a promising material for strain hardening by the deformational cutting method. Temperature measurements were carried out using the natural thermocouple method. An empirical formula for calculating the temperature in the cutting zone depending on the cutting parameters was obtained.


The instability of soil slopes induced by rainfall or the variation of water level is often related to unsaturated transient seepage in soils and the stability analysis of slopes subjected to unsaturated transient seepage has attracted increasing attention in recent years.The purpose was to give a comparison between the limit equilibrium method and the displacement-based FEM for the stability analysis of soil slopes subjected to unsaturated transient seepage.Emphasis was given to the discussions on the utilization of the strength reduction FEM in the stability analysis of slopes considering seepage and some primary results were presented.Topics for the further research in this area were also discussed.


An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of organic fertilizer and age defoliation of some nutrients silage elephant grass ( Pennisetum purpureum). This experiment used elephant grass, compost, and organic liquid fertilizer. The experiment was conducted according to completely randomized design pattern 3 x 3 factorial with 3 replications, the first factor is fertilization: A1 (without fertilizer), A2 (fertilizing with compost) and A3 (fertilizing with a liquid fertilizer), while the second factor is the age of defoliation: B1 (age defoliation 30 days), B2 (age defoliation 45 days) and B3 (age defoliation 60 days). The results showed that the crude protein content of elephant grass silage at the age of 30 days defoliation treatment is higher than the age of defoliation 45 days and 60 days. While the highest crude fiber obtained at the age of defoliation 60 days. Elephant grass defoliation at the age 45 days and compost can to improve the content of crude fat and BETN elephant grass silage.


Material challenges in fabricating flexible OLED displays will be presented with specific focuses on transparent thin film barriers, novel light extraction techniques, and the design of multi-lay flexible transparent optical stacks. Article not available.


Tube thoracostomy is usually the first step to treat several thoracic/pleural conditions such as pneumothorax, pleural effusions, haemothorax, haemo-pneumothorax and empyema. Today, a wide range of drains is available, ranging from small to large bore ones. Indications for an appropriate selection remains yet matter of debate, especially regarding the use of small bore catheters. Through this paper, we aimed to retrace the improvements of drains through the years and to review the current clinical indications for chest drain placement in pleural/thoracic diseases, comparing the effectiveness of small-bore drains vs. large-bore ones.


Silo relevant mechanical properties of granular materials are described together with the experimental techniques which are used in order to determine the pertinent quantities. Typical experimental results, accuracy limits, error sources and scatter are also discussed. It is shown that widespread notions such as friction angle and cohesion can only roughly characterise granular materials, and a more detailed investigation needs material parameters which are embedded within a constitutive theory. The latter can only be introduced and checked on the basis of thorough experiments which support homogeneous deformation of the sample. A constitutive model is introduced and discussed, which describes the irreversible behaviour of particulate materials with a method which is completely different from any elastoplastic formulation. This new model is characterized by its simplicity. This paper presents partial results of a research project on silo materials running at the University of Karlsruhe.


We report two related Thai children having a new syndrome of microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism (MOPD). The findings which classify them as having MOPD include IUGR, microcephaly, prominent nose and nasal bridge, small pinnae, short stature, cone‐shaped and ivory‐epiphyses, delayed bone age, slender long bones, and abnormal pelvis. The findings that distinguish them as having newly recognized syndrome consist of severe microdontia, malformed teeth, single‐rooted or rootless teeth, severely hypoplastic alveolar bone, café au lait spots, acanthosis nigricans, and areas of hypo‐ and hyperpigmented skin. The reported patients appear to have the same condition as the family reported by Kantaputra [2002: Am J Med Genet 111:420–428]. This article contains supplementary material, which may be viewed at the American Journal of Medical Genetics website at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0148‐7299/suppmat/index.html. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The investigator tried to explore educational achievement of ST students in mathematics in class VIII in EMRS and JNV. Class VIII ST students in JNV performed better than their grade-mates in EMRS in mathematics. It may, however, be mentioned that the performance of students from two types of schools was not in the satisfactory range as students in EMRS schools scored only 41.40 % in mathematics, while those in JNV scored in the range of 48%. Even if the performance of JNV students was better than those in EMRS, their performance was not also satisfactory, as they scored 48.32 % in mathematics. there is no significant difference in mathematical achievements of ST students in EMRS and JNV. Strengths of mathematical achievement of ST students in EMRS as reported by students and teachers are: Supply of free textbooks and uniforms and learning materials, engagement of qualified teaching staff for mathematics subject, special attention and coaching to student in mathematics, remedial teaching in mathematics, supervised teaching in mathematics, interactive mathematics classroom and special attention to weak students. strengths of mathematical achievement of ST students in JNV as reported by students and teachers are: supply of sufficient and free textbooks and uniforms and learning materials, engagement of qualified teaching staff for mathematics subject, high salary of mathematics teachers, special attention and coaching to student in mathematics, remedial teaching in mathematics, supervised teaching in mathematics, house master's role in supervised teaching in hostels, interactive mathematics classroom , special attention to weak students and online coaching in mathematics wherever required. Concerns mathematical achievement of ST students in EMRS are: poor salary and service conditions of mathematics teacher, poor hostel atmosphere for teaching-learning process in mathematics, personal problems of students in mathematics not addressed, poor community involvement in mathematical activities, no mathematics laboratory, teacher-directed rather than student-initiated activities, poor attention to build capacities of teachers and adoption of CCE in student assessment in EMRS. The concerns in JNV are: poor hostel atmosphere for teaching-learning process in mathematics, personal problems of students in mathematics not addressed, teacher-directed rather than student-initiated activities, poor attention to build capacities of teachers and adoption of CCE in student assessment in JNV. Suggestions for EMRS to improve mathematical achievement of ST students in EMRS are: regular employment, proper salary and service conditions of mathematics teacher, solving mathematical achievement crises, strengthening laboratories, adopting innovative educational practices including CCE in true spirit, special measures for improving students' mathematics proficiency, capacity building of teaching staff, student involvement in school practices and strengthening schoolcommunity link in EMRS. Suggestions for JNV to improve mathematical achievement of ST students in EMRS are solving mathematical achievement crises, strengthening laboratories, adopting innovative educational practices including CCE in true spirit, special measures for improving students' mathematics proficiency, capacity building of teaching staff Student involvement in school practices, strengthening school-community in JNV. Index Terms – Eklavya Model Residential Schools, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Mathematical Achievement, Tribal Children ________________________________________________________________________________________________________


To meet the factories need, a little veneer drying kiln was designed. In this drawing, the door and the pallets were paid more attention, in order to keep the kiln's temperature and its obturation as well as the flat of the dried veneer. Using this little veneer drying kiln, it can load two times veneer and let the period of the drying decreased 1/3.


The precision rectification of satellite image of remote island is hard to perform for lack of reliable ground control points.In this paper,we present a promising geometric rectification method based on registration of coastline.Supposing the coastline of island is relative stable.Firstly,we retrieve the coastline from the satellite image based on spectrum analysis.Then,we retrieve the coastline from the chart based on the distinctive color of land.Finally,we fulfill the precision rectification by registration of two coastlines.Experiments show that the method is reasonable and results are satisfying.


The sections in this article are

Introduction
The Hierarchy of Models
The Full Reaction Dynamics
The Kinetic Monte Carlo Approach
Langmuir–Hinshelwood Description
Power-Law Kinetics

Microkinetic Modeling
Equilibrium
Statistical Thermodynamics
Sticking
Temperature-Programmed Desorption
Catalytic Reaction at Steady State
Catalytic Reaction at Quasi-Equilibrium
Parameters
Test
Applications

Ab Initio Kinetics
Applications

Keywords:

microkinetics;
reaction dynamics;
reaction kinetics;
ab initio kinetics


We present updated and complete radio, optical and X-ray dat a for BL Lacs in theEinsteinMedium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS). The complete "M91" sample first presented in M orris et al. is updated to include 26 BL Lacs in total and we define a new, virtually complete sample consis ti g of 41 EMSS BL Lacs (the "D40" sample). New high signal-to-noise, arcsecond-resolution VLA obser vations are also presented for eleven EMSS BL Lacs, completing VLA observations of the M91 sample. The addition of four new objects, as well as updated X-ray flux and redshift information, has increased the 〈Ve/Va〉 value for the M91 sample to 0.399± 0.057; and〈Ve/Va〉 = 0.427 ± 0.045 for the newly defined D40 sample. In conjunction with other st udies of X-ray-selected BL Lac (XBL) samples, these results solidify negative evoluti n for XBLs, especially for more extreme high-energypeaked BL Lacs, for which we find 〈Ve/Va〉 = 0.271±0.77. The observed〈Ve/Va〉, spectral and radio properties of XBLs are completely consistent with being the beamed popu lation of low-luminosity, FR–1 radio galaxies. However, our VLA observations do confirm that XBLs are too cor e-dominated to be consistent with a beamed population of FR–1s seen at intermediate angles, as suggest ed by the unified model, if XBLs have moderate outflow velocities ( γ ∼ 5). Subject headings: BL Lacertae Objects — AGN — Unification Models


A new design approach of the sliding-mode variable structure controller basing on the eigenvector of the specific area is presented for the position tracking servo control system in this paper. In order to accelerate the reaching phase and reduce chattering, the exponential approach law is adopted as the control function. Simulation results show that the new control algorithm exhibits the better control performance than the classical control method. Moreover, its realization is simple and convenient.


The project presented to continuation has as it appoint "Separate Souls" creation of the ex-Legendary ecuadorian "band", a song that belongs to the musical gender *Heavy Metal. The subject rescues of the forget and begins to produce under the supervision of the musical producer Gustavo Lozano with the collaboration of musicians invited, expecting obtain the best results; giving him a new approach turning it into the in a ballade, where the combination of acoustic and electrical guitars improve the emotional sense of the song. The process of technical and musical production, has been oriented with the end to satisfy the planned requirements by the producer, using technical suitable of production, attaining an affine sonority to the gender arriving to be of the like of listen them. "Separate souls" tries to become attached to the listened by big exponents of the gender, so much in the auditory part like visual. Turning into a song that can be heard by affine people or no to the gender, with a big acceptance between the same.


The aim of this paper is to raise the awareness on domestic violence towards women and children, by analyzing and underlining the apparent similarities that can be found between this phenomenon and terrorism. It will firstly distance itself from the past attempts taken in the literature to link these two phenomena; secondly, it will take an empirical approach from a criminological point of view on both crimes and will conclude by emphasizing the severity of domestic violence as a human rights violation.


The present study (N = 97) hypothesized that both major life events and daily hassles would be associated with anxiety and depressive symptomatology. While the results partially supported the hypothesis, the inconsistent findings suggest methodological flaws in each life stress measure. These limitations are reviewed, and the use of the semi-structured interview is presented as one possible refinement.