The following article deals with the possibility of creating a wireless sensor by embedding a magnetic microwire in a composite material. Conventional strain gauge measuring methods comprise of measuring surface stress, while measurements inside the material are limited [1]. There is one significant disadvantage of strain gauges a galvanic connection between the sensor and the sensing device. Magnetic microwires [2, 3, 4] offer the possibility to create a builtin sensor inside the material. Moreover, the sensor itself reacts to several physical quantities [5] and special measuring method allows us to measure these parameters simultaneously. These advantages make this sensor a very perspective and interesting technology application [6].


Contemporary immunosuppression, which is almost universally cyclosporine A (CsA)-based, has produced progressive improvements in transplantation results. The combination of CsA with other agents like azathioprine, prednisone, anti-lymphocyte/anti-thymocyte globulins (ALG), and anti-CD3 antibody (OKT-3) may provide a smoother post-transplant course, but CsA toxicity remains a potentially important clinical problem. Newer agents like FK-506, RS-61443, rapamycin, deoxyspergualin, and monoclonal antibodies may improve results further with less toxicity.


Context: Nowadays, video games look and feel increasingly realistic, and provide engaging and immersive experiences to players. Understanding what makes games so appealing and immersive is important to grasp in order to provide better experiences. Objectives: To provide a better understanding of the concepts of flow, immersion and usability in video games and understand how usability interact with these different concepts. Method: 20 participants took part in user tests and answered a survey about usability and immersion. Results: Usability had a positive effect on immersion which was fully mediated by appeal. Learnability was correlated with absorption by activity, and usability was correlated with fluency of performance. Conclusions: Usability and appeal are both contributing to the feeling of immersion which in turn increases the general appreciation of the game. Immersion and flow are both relevant to understand players' appreciation of the game.


This paper has taken 48 different levels men Long Jump as study objects, consisting of master, primary, secondary, and used literature, questionnaire, factor analysis, stepwise regression analysis, multivariate Regression analysis, mathematical modeling methods to establish the special force projections Specific Performance Indicators equation. The results show that: Different levels of the athletes in Special Strength Index Score existing differences, the prediction model can predict the level of the athletes as a special strength level model.


This study aims to find out that forest management often occurs when conflicts arise between the community and the state regarding land/natural resources. In customary law communities, disputes that have occurred have long been resolved by deliberation and consensus through customary institutions known as customary courts. This study uses normative legal research that is descriptive analytical, with a normative juridical approach, namely an approach based on the main legal materials related to this research. The data analysis in this study was carried out qualitatively. The results of the study indicate that the existence of customary law as a component of legal substance must be given a reasonable place in the development of legal materials in accordance with the socio-cultural diversity of the community. Disputing Indigenous Peoples generally have different customary laws which are strongly adhered to by the community, so that it can make it difficult to resolve disputes that occur. In general, the causes of this case are due to the acquisition of forest areas for plantations, usurpation of customary lands and violations of other prohibitions by plantation companies against customary law


The linear driving for a single-mode optical field in a cavity can result from the external driving of a classical field even when the coupling between the classical field and the cavity is weak. We revisit this well-known effect with a microscopic model where a classical field is applied to a wall of the cavity to excite the atoms in the wall, and recombination of the low excitations of the wall mediates a linear driving for the single-mode field inside the cavity. With such modeling about the indirect driving through the quantum excitations of the wall, we theoretically predict several nonlinear optical effects for the strong-coupling cases, such as photon antibunching and photon squeezing. We propose a greatly simplified nonlinear quantum photonics model.


Building a secure system is one of the most complex and error-prone processes in computing. Unfortunately, the current design and development process is primarily manual, ad hoc, and far from satisfactory. In this thesis, I propose a new automatic approach for building secure systems. With this approach, users only need to specify desired security and system requirements. Such an automatic system can then explore the possible design space, generate design candidates, evaluate those candidates to find the most efficient correct design, and finally generate source code implementing the optimal design. Compared to the manual design and development process, this automatic approach is faster, more economical, yields protocols and implementations of higher security and efficiency.
To demonstrate this automatic approach for building secure systems, we have focused on one of the most important aspects, designing and developing security protocols. In particular, I have designed and developed an automatic toolbox, called Athena, for automatic protocol generation, verification and implementation. The system contains three components: the automatic protocol generator (APG), the automatic protocol verifier (APV), and the automatic code generator (ACG). APV proposes a new automatic approach for security protocol analysis. Given a security protocol and desired security requirements, APV analyzes the protocol automatically. When APV terminates, it can either generate a proof of correctness, if the protocol satisfies the given requirements, or generate a counterexample, if the protocol is flawed. APV is the first automatic approach that has both the capability of providing a proof of correctness when the protocol is correct and the capability of generating a counterexample when the protocol is flawed. Athena runs efficiently and this high efficiency enables the approach of automatic protocol generation. APG uses powerful pruning techniques to drastically reduce the protocol search space. It is the first approach for automatic generation of security protocols. In our experiments, APG has generated new protocols that are more efficient than previous protocols proposed in the literature for different system settings. The composition of APG, APV and ACG forms an end-to-end system, Athena, which is the first system able to automatically generate, verify, and implement security protocols.


It is shown that a finite number of conditions are not sufficient to determine the locality of transformations between two probability distributions of pure states as well as the locality of transformations between two dxd mixed states with d{>=}4. As an example, an infinite, but minimal, set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a local procedure that converts one probability distribution of two pure pair of qubits into another one is found.


Nine different samples of ready to-eat meat comprising of three samples of smoked meat bought from hawkers in Ihiala market and three samples bought from hawkers in Danboyi market, Jos. Three samples of kilishi meat were purchased from West Mile market, Jos. These were analyzed to access the public health implications of eating vended ready-to-eat meat. Standard microbiological methods were used for isolation. Morphological and biochemical analysis were carried out on discrete colonies using pure cultures to establish their identities. The biochemical tests utilized include: catalase, oxidase, coagulase, citrate utilization, and urease tests. The result of this study revealed that a total of four Genera were isolated, characterized and identified. The isolates include: Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus, Bacillus and Proteus species. Meat from all three sources were contaminated with heterotrophic bacteria. Results revealed that ready-to-eat kilishi and smoked meat studied were grossly contaminated with bacteria. Aseptic precautions should be employed in the processing, packaging and preservation of ready-to-eat meat to avoid outbreak of diseases.


Different
 forms of keratitis or keratopathies in the horse are associated with a viral
 aetiology. A review of the literature showed that EHV-2 is suspected as the
 causitive agent, but no specific clinical signs corresponding to the detection
 of EHV-2 have been determined.
 In this
 study 28 horses showing keratitis, keratoconjunctivitis or conjunctivitis
 (group 1) were examined for their general state of health and subjected to a detailed
 ophtalmological examination, as were 28 horses with no ocular disease (group
 2). In addition, samples of the conjunctiva were taken with cotton wool swabs
 for microbiologic examination; for the detection of EHV-2 genome with nested
 PCR, samples were taken with cotton wool swabs and cytobrushes. Cotton wool
 swab samples from the nasal mucosa and isolated peripheral blood leukocytes
 were also taken and examined by nested PCR for presence of the EHV-2 genome.
 These investigations were carried out twice over a course of four weeks.
 Furthermore, conjunctival scrapings were taken with the cytobrush during the
 first examination for cytological evaluation.
 Comparison
 of the horses showing keratitis, keratoconjunctivitis or conjunctivitis with
 those without ocular diseases showed no significant difference in any of the
 samples examined for the presence of the EHV-2 genome. For both examination
 times, the rate of detection of the EHV-2 genome in the samples taken with
 cytobrushes was significantly higher than in those taken with cotton wool
 swabs (p < 0,01).
 The
 microbiological examination showed a slightly significantly higher rate of
 detection of gram-positive cocci in the diseased eyes (p < 0,05).
 Microbiological examination revealed a wide variety of different infective
 agents in both diseased and healthy eyes. As none of the infective agents
 found are obligatorily pathogenic, a microbiological swab from the
 conjunctiva must always be assessed in consideration of the clinical signs. Microscopic
 examination of the cytological preparations revealed only a few inflammatory
 cells, even in the diseased eyes with conjunctivitis. Lymphocytes and
 neutrophile granulocytes were found in only a few cases, with no difference
 between diseased and healthy eyes, nor was there a correlation of these
 findings with the detection of the EHV-2 genome.
 No
 aetiological participation of EHV-2 in keratitis in horses was determined in
 this study. Use of the cytobrush was found to be a significantly more sensitive
 sampling method for virological examination.


We propose in this paper an iterative method composed of three steps to derive architecture alternatives from quality requirements using a catalogue of patterns and styles. The solution candidates are chosen by answering a set of questions which reflects the requirements. We instantiate then the solution candidates using a UMLbased enhancement of the problem frame approach. To ensure that the instantiated architectures fulfill the quality requirements, we evaluate them in the next step. A desired refinement of the software architectures is then achieved by iterating over the described steps.


The aim of the music major in teachers college is to cultivate the talents who can sing,accomying and have the theory base and can carry out outside class activities.To deal with the songs correctly is the main side of the college students comprehensive abjlity of music major.


The solid phase microextraction device is based on plasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) as an extraction solvent, which is coated on a primed steel rod. The plasticizer is a phosphate triester. A simple device for back-extraction of analytes into a few microliters of back-extraction solution is described. A Teflon tube, with an inside diameter just larger than the PVC-coated extraction rod, is terminated at one end by a syringe. A few microliters of back-extraction solution is placed into the open end of the tube. Because the Teflon does not wet, the drop remains together. After exposure to sample, the PVC-coated extraction rod containing the analytes is inserted into the back-extraction solution-containing tube. The aqueous back-extraction solvent spreads out in the narrow annular space thus formed. After a suitable period, the rod is removed, and the droplet re-forms. It can be ejected into a sample vial with the syringe. The device has been used in a CE-based determination of barbiturates. Extraction...


The article reveals the models, methods of students' civic education in the modern higher school. The quintessence and value of the application of role modeling, case-stage, information labyrinth are analysed as well.


This past July 17, a new outbreak of pesticide food poisoning occurred in India. According to news reports, 23 children died and more than 48 required medical treatment. The poisoning occurred from the consumption of a free lunch of rice, soybeans and lentils cooked with oil contaminated with monocrotophos, an organophosphate pesticide. The oil had been stored in a pesticide container and sold to the school. Indignation over the poisoning triggered violent protests and complaints about many problems related to the government's …


A new consensus in macroeconomics called the New Neo-Classical Synthesis or New Keynesian Macroeconomic Model (NKMM) emerged at the end of the 1990s. The fundamental feature of this consensus is that it is formed by the synthesis of ideas from the New Classical, Real Business Cycle, and New Keynesian Models. The NKMM consists of an inflation equation, an aggregate demand equation, and a monetary policy rule. In this paper, the full information maximum likelihood (FIML) method is used to estimate the NKMM and determine whether it is useful in explaining the fluctuations in the Turkish economy. The first implications show that the NKMM can be used to explain the fluc tuations in the Turkish economy. OZET


p-Toluidides of 3-acetoxy ursolic and 3-acetoxy oleanolic acids were prepared. On the basis of different intensities of the m/e 452 and 453 peaks the identification of oleanolic and ursolic acids is possible.


In general the Caribbean suffers from a pet overpopulation problem and this can have a negative impact on both residents and tourists. In order to get a better understanding of the issues involved, 45 participants from 22 territories in the wider Caribbean region part icipated in a survey to assess animal welfare issues, and in particular those relating to dogs. The most important issues facing animal welfare workers were the need for education and neutering programmes. These needs are reflected in a low neutering rate, estimated to be 19%, and animal welfare only being taught in schools of four territories.


Objectives:To investigate frequency of fetal nucleated erythrocytes(NRBCs) in maternal peripheral blood and relationship to gestational age.Methods: Using fluorescence activated cell sorting,CD71 + cells were isolated from peripheral blood of 61 women of 11~34 week's gestation at the age of 21~35.We compared maternal blood with nonparous blood and cord.Results: Frequency of CD71 + cells in maternal peripheral blood during 11~34 week's gestation was(0.35±0.25)×10 -2.There were significant difference between the gravida and nonparous and newborn cord blood. Frequency of CD71 + cells was increased until 17~18 week's gestation[(0.64±0.25)×10 -2 and(0.54±0.35)×10 -2].Conclusions: Fetal NRBCs are presented in peripheral blood of pregnant women during the first and second and third trimester of pregnancy.The best optimum time of prenatal diagnosis using fetal cell in maternal blood is at the 17~18 week.


MEASUREMENTS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT OF FORCES AND MOVEMENT WITHIN THE ROAD CONTACT AREA OF CROSS-PLY TYRES. IT IS POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE INFLUENCE OF BRAKING AND DRIVING SLIP ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF FORCES AND MOVEMENT. PARTICULARLY NOTEWORTHY IS THE RESULT THAT IN THE BRAKING CONDITION THE TRANSVERSE SHEAR IN THE RISING HALF OF THE DEFORMED SECTION CHANGES ITS DIRECTION. THIS RESULTS IN A PARTIALLY ASYMMETRIC TRANSVERSE EXPANSION OF THE TYRE, THE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH IS INTEGRAL SIDE FORCES. IN MOVEMENT GREATER CIRCUMFERENTIAL FORCES ARE REACHED THAN IN BRAKING. THIS RELATION MAY BE TRACED FROM THE FACT THAT IN THE MOVING SITUATION PRESSURE AND CIRCUMFERENTIAL SLIP MAXIMA OCCUR IN THE SAME AREA OF THE CONTACT SURFACE. THE RESULTS OF THE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS INFER THAT EVEN WITH HIGH EXTERNAL SLIP THERE EXIST ADHESIVE ZONES IN THE CONTACT AREA. THE LENGTH OF THIS AREA OF ADHESION DEPENDS UPON THE PERIPHERAL ELASTICITY OF THE TYRE AND UPON THE PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION IN THE DEFORMED SECTION. IT CAN BE DEMONSTRATED THAT THE MERIDIONAL CURVATURE OF THE RUNNING SURFACE HAS A SPECIAL IMPORTANCE WITH RESPECT TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRESSURE AND THEREFORE ALSO AFFECTS MOVEMENT OF THE CONTACT SECTION. THE PROFILE OF THE TYRE ALSO HAS A ROLE TO PERFORM IN THIS CONNECTION. THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE DIFFERENT PROTECTION INDENTATIONS SHOW THAT EVERY PROFILE MODIFICATION PRODUCES A DIFFERENT EFFECT UPON THE MOVEMENT INSIDE THE DEFORMED SECTION BECAUSE OF THE ASSOCIATED CHANGE IN ELASTICITY. FURTHER INTO THE TRIALS IT BECAME CLEAR THAT A PROFILE INDENTATION ALSO AFFECTS THE STIFFNESS OF THE TYRE AND THUS IS IMPORTANT FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRESSURE.


We consider a search and rescue game introduced recently by the first author. An immobile target or targets (for example, injured hikers) are hidden on a graph. The terrain is assumed to dangerous, so that when any given vertex of the graph is searched, there is a certain probability that the search will come to an end, otherwise with the complementary {\em success probability} the search can continue. A Searcher searches the graph with the aim of finding all the targets with maximum probability. Here, we focus on the game in the case that the graph is a cycle. In the case that there is only one target, we solve the game for equal success probabilities, and for a class of games with unequal success probabilities. For multiple targets and equal success probabilities, we give a solution for an adaptive Searcher and a solution in a special case for a non-adaptive Searcher. We also consider a continuous version of the model, giving a full solution for an adaptive Searcher and approximately optimal solutions in the non-adaptive case.


Objective To discuss the problems of using high pressure injector in the 16-detector-row CT. Methods Reviewed and analyzed the courses of using high pressure injector in the 16-detector-row CT for 799 patients. Results 774 patients obtained successful infusion,contrast medium hydrops were occurred in 20 patients,2 patients were infusion failure and 3 patients were redid for misoperation. Conclusion Master the details of operating high pressure injector can alleviate the pain of patients,and then obtain the satisfactory effect.


A high Cu{2\} resistant Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SC) mutant was obtained by composite mutation with UV and NTG and SC monoploid as starting strain. Later its biological function was studied. The results showed that its resistance against UV and ionizing radiation, OH free radical clearing, and detoxification against Cu{2\} were higher to some extent than the starting strain, and its genetic stability was maintained over 96%.


This paper presents the results of a documentary investigation with the intention of substantiate how and why, and the level and depth of the topics used by the teacher in the classroom for the development of the mathematical knowledge on the part of higher level engineering students. The analysis of the mathematical object was made through the construction of conceptual cartography, being the core of the derivative concept. To construct the axes, the socio-formative theory of Sergio Tobon was used, together with the semiotic representation register of Raychmond Duval and Tall's mathematical advanced thought in the engineering context. The topic is a part of the Unit of learning: Differential and Integral Calculus. This corresponds to the first semester. The course lasts for a semester and is intended for students aged between 18 and 20 years. The research shows that by constructing a conceptual cartography involving at least 8 axes of analysis that the socio-formation orientates, and taking mathematics in the context of careers offered by the educational institution, the teacher is allowed to place the thematic content in the appropriate level and depth, guiding in a possible treatment of knowledge to be brought into the classroom.


Rab GTPases and their effectors play important roles in membrane trafficking between cellular compartments in eukaryotic cells. In the present study, we examined the roles of Rab11B and its effectors in insulin secretion in pancreatic β‐cells. In the mouse insulin‐secreting cell line MIN6, Rab11 was co‐localized with insulin‐containing granules, and over‐expression of the GTP‐ or the GDP‐bound form of Rab11B significantly inhibited regulated secretion, indicating involvement of Rab11B in regulated insulin secretion. To determine the downstream signal of Rab11‐mediated insulin secretion, we examined the effects of various Rab11‐interacting proteins on insulin secretion, and found that Rip11 is involved in cAMP‐potentiated insulin secretion but not in glucose‐induced insulin secretion. Analyses by immunocytochemistry and subcellular fractionation revealed Rip11 to be co‐localized with insulin granules. The inhibitory effect of the Rip11 mutant was not altered in MIN6 cells lacking Epac2, which mediates protein kinase A (PKA)‐independent potentiation of insulin secretion, compared with wild‐type MIN6 cells. In addition, Rip11 was found to be phosphorylated by PKA in MIN6 cells. The present study shows that both Rab11 and its effector Rip11 participate in insulin granule exocytosis and that Rip11, as a substrate of PKA, regulates the potentiation of exocytosis by cAMP in pancreatic β‐cells.


Extracting causality information from unstructured natural language text is a challenging problem in natural language processing. However, there are no mature special causality extraction systems. Most people use basic sequence labeling methods, such as BERT-CRF model, to extract causal elements from unstructured text and the results are usually not well. At the same time, there is a large number of causal event relations in the field of finance. If we can extract enormous financial causality, this information will help us better understand the relationships between financial events and build related event evolutionary graphs in the future. In this paper, we propose a causality extraction method for this question, named CBCP (Center word-based BERT-CRF with Pattern extraction), which can directly extract cause elements and effect elements from unstructured text. Compared to BERT-CRF model, our model incorporates the information of center words as prior conditions and performs better in the performance of entity extraction. Moreover, our method combined with pattern can further improve the effect of extracting causality. Then we evaluate our method and compare it to the basic sequence labeling method. We prove that our method performs better than other basic extraction methods on causality extraction tasks in the finance field. At last, we summarize our work and prospect some future work.


Anonymized publication on static micro data can be achieved with heavy information loss by Generalization. An enhanced utility of Generalization known as Angelization produces the same level of anonymization but with minimal information loss. In reality, there may be a need to publish another version of micro data, after insertions and deletions. Anonymization is applicable to any generalization principles like k-Anonymity, l-diversity and t-closeness. Incremental m-invariance with Angelization preserves privacy in re-publication of dynamic micro data after insertions and deletions. Mondrian algorithm is used for the partitioning in Angelization. m-invariance also supports publication of marginals from the generalized micro data. KL-divergence is employed for quantifying the discrepancy of two distributions. The reconstruction error will be measured as the KL-divergence between the reconstructed distribution and the original distribution. Data reconstruction error is minimal in m-invariance with enhanced utility of Generalization. General Terms Retrieval Model, Information Search and Retrieval.


Supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) is being investigated as a material for a secondary cooling system of sodium (Na)-cooled fast reactor to avoid Na/water reaction. In this type of reactor, however, it is necessary to consider the consequences of Na/CO2 reaction, which might occur in the case of tube rupture in a heat exchanger between primary and secondary systems. Experiments were carried out with test equipment for the Na/CO2 reaction, which can handle 1-5 g order of Na and measure temperatures using thermocouples. The solid products of the Na/CO2 reaction sampled from the equipment were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and chemical analysis. The parts of exhaust gases were analyzed by gas chromatography. From these experimental results, we proved that the reaction proceeded between liquid Na and CO2. The Na/CO2 reaction stopped only the pool surface reaction with a small quantity of aerosol emission when the initial temperature of Na was lower than 570°C. On the other hand, the reaction continuously proceeded with an orange-colored flame and aerosol release when the Na initial temperature was higher than 580°C, and the reaction products expanded to the margin of the Na pool tray.


Discoloration (extrinsic and intrinsic) reduce the beauty of someone's appearance and confidence. Discoloration affected the increased aesthetic treatment needs in dentistry. Discoloration can be treated by teeth whitening procedures. Teeth whitening can be done with dental bleaching from the application of chemicals on the surface of the teeth. However, dental bleaching has side effects such as reduce the amount of calcium, phosphate and fluoride in tooth enamel, reduce enamel hardness, enamel surface roughness, and dental hypersensitivity. Belimbing wuluh is one of the herbal ingredients to minimise the risk; it contains oxalic acid, a natural peroxide compound. This study purposed to determine the effect of belimbing wuluh gel extract in increasing the degree of teeth brightness colour by in vivo in rabbits. This study used an experimental analytic method with 27 rabbits' incisors, divided into three groups: 50% belimbing wuluh gel, 40% oxalic acid gel, and negative control group. Rabbits' incisors were previously coated in a transparent varnish on the specified area. Teeth bleaching is done for 4 hours in 14 days. Colour measurements used camera and ring-light, which MATLAB will convert. The data were analysed statistically with One way ANOVA followed by a post-hoc NSK test (p <0.05). The result showed that belimbing wuluh gel extract caused an increase in the teeth colour's brightness (p = 0.0030). So, it can be concluded that belimbing wuluh gel extract affects increasing the degree of teeth brightness.


Abstract The thesis of this article is that an appropriate apocalyptic is remarkably pertinent, perhaps essential, in addressing certain theological challenges of our time. What an appropriate understanding of apocalyptic might be will, I trust, emerge with discussion; clarifying the contemporary challenges will be the first concern. Once that is done, the argument will proceed through two steps or concepts: first, the issue of concreteness and second, a concept I will call 'contextualisation'. These steps establish the connection between the challenges and apocalyptic. I conclude by sketching some implications. Throughout, the article is guided by an ongoing conversation with Karl Barth, especially II/1 of the Church Dogmatics.


Oxidative modifications of lipoproteins of the plasma play a causal and important role in the beginning and progression of the atherosclerosis. Studies in vitro indicate that the speed and extension of the oxidation of LDL and HDL are influenced by its fatty acid composition. In the present study the effect of the consumption for 60 days of a diet purified containing 10 % of either palm, sunflower or fish oil were evaluated on the susceptibility to in vitro oxidation of LDL + HDL lipoproteins from the plasma of male Sprague Dawley rats. For this evaluation we performed two methods: determination of reactive substances with tiobarbituric acid (SRTBA) proposed for Kosugi et al, and the peroxides as described by Al –Saadani. It was found, by both methods, that a statistically significant difference (p<0, 05) existed between the susceptibility to oxidation of LDL and HDL fractions for the three dietary groups. The greatest degree of oxidation was observed for the group supplemented with fish oil followed by groups of sunflower and palm. This suggests that the incorporation of monounsaturated fatty acids (oleic) in the diet instead of polyunsaturated protects the oxidative modification of LDL and HDL by reducing the concentration of PUFA available for peroxidation. An Venez Nutr 2008;21 (1): 20-24.


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 The European Space Agency has been parading its achievements in 2005, including the first batch of published results from the Huygens probe to Saturn9s enigmatic satellite Titan and tantalizing glimpses of underground water from the Mars Express mission9s ground-penetrating radar. (Read more.)


After the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia War, Sweden and Finland abandoned their neutrality policies and announced that they would apply for NATO membership. Türkiye declared that it would veto their membership applications, stating that these two countries supported terrorist organizations. This situation alarmed the European member countries of NATO and the United States, and it was stated that Türkiye's veto would cause a rift in the NATO alliance and jeopardize European security. This study analyzes reader comments in the three leading U.S. newspapers: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. The study was limited to the reader's comments on news about Türkiye's veto between May 19, 2022, when Türkiye announced its objection to Sweden and Finland's NATO membership applications, and June 30, 2022, when the crisis was resolved. The study applies an eclectic methodology and employs a corpus-assisted discourse analysis method. The themes, strategies, and linguistic practices through which Türkiye and Turkish identities are discursively constructed were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, it was concluded that Türkiye's announcement to veto Sweden's and Finland's membership applications to NATO has fed the anti-Turkish sentiment that dominates U.S. public opinion, especially in the context of Türkiye-U.S. relations that reached a breaking point after 2016. Moreover, it is argued that anti-Turkish sentiment is constructed through "traditional" discourse themes such as the stereotype of the "bad Turk" and Islamophobia, as well as discourse themes that establish the identification of President Erdoğan and Türkiye.


The article looks into the problem of euphemistic borrowings in the five European languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). The research work is aimed at determining which languages contributed most to replenishing the other languages' euphemistic vocabularies, singling out the main types of borrowings synchronically and diachronically, deciding which thematic fields have been most receptive to foreign elements, which types of assimilation processes have been most common.


A 26-year-old woman presented with a 1-week history of pleuritic chest pain and abdominal pain, which was associated with nausea but unrelated to food intake or bowel movements. She had also had gross hematuria for the past 10 days and swelling around her eyes and ankles as well as fatigue and arthralgias for 2 weeks.


This article analyzes the concept of Great Unity (da tong), textually enshrined in the treatise "Kong-zi jiayu", chapter "Li yun". The concept of Great Unity is considered by Confucian thinkers as the ideal state in which the Tianxia was in the period of golden antiquity. This concept is directly related to the modern political culture of China. It was embodied in the idea of a "Community of Shared Future for Mankind," which was first introduced at the 18th National Congress of the CPC in November 2012 by the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping. Within the framework of this article, there isa preliminary comparison of the chapter "Li yun" from the "Kong-ji jiayu" and the chapter of the same name from the famous written monument, named "Li ji"; the article also discloses the main ideological content of this chapter.


Yield formation and plant physiological characters of super hybrid rice variety Liangyou 293 were studied under condition of Pure Organic Manure Cultivation(POMC) in Changsha,Hunan in 2004.The results showed that grain yield of super hybrid rice reached to 8 586 kg/hm~2 under POMC,which was near to the local yield potential of the test variety and only was decreased by 1.17% compared to chemical fertilizer treatment(CK).The bigger proportion of secondary tillers and the significant decrease of grain number per panicle and seed setting percent were main reasons that yield decreased.Non-pre-senescence in the late duration,higher leaf area index,higher chlorophyll content in flag leaf and increase of 1000-grain weight were the advantages of POMC.These results showed that production rice by organic manure cultivation in some areas was feasible and increasing the proportion of organic manure application at large extent was necessary to renew paddy field ecosystem.


An analytic method is proposed for the estimation of the cell-edge bearer-rate required to ensure, with a target probability, the stalling-free reproduction of a streaming video of arbitrary length, given the start-up buffer size and the target video encoding rate. Compared to other relevant methods, the proposed formulation is simpler and in general, involves a more realistic set of system model assumptions. Comparison between theoretical results and simulations shows close agreement, suggesting further exploitation of the proposed method in the context of mobile radio network design.


This paper presents to apply PLC to improve a circuit of foreword and reverse control of three-phase asynchronous motor.It expounds the desgin methods of the circuit and the ladder diagram,analyzes problems which appear easily and improvement measures.


ABSTRACT The application of the novel technique of solubility–parameter spectroscopy to assist in characterizing properties of polymeric materials is discussed.Its use in the study of coal is shown to lead to a consistent inter–pretation scheme for solvent–extraction effects observed experimentally in the slurry–phase chlorination of coal. Possible applications of solubility–parameter spectra in other coal–beneficiation processes are suggested.


The implementation of rural minimum living security system is a basic project of building rural social security system and also an important content of building a new socialist countryside.At present,China's rural minimum living system has en-tered a new stage of promoting comprehensively,how to perfect this system has caused widespread concerns.This paper analyses the existing problems in the implementation of rural minimum living security system and puts forward countermeasures.


Ever since the publication of Keynes' The General Theory in 1936, both the theoretical and methodological content of macroeconomics, and the role of economic policy, have seen continued change. In contemporary times, macroeconomics is dominated by the New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS) and the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. However, since the Great Recession, the modern mainstream has been increasingly exposed to criticism from various alternatives of a more heterodox nature. The aims of this article are threefold. First, to give a selected presentation on the development of modern macroeconomics. Second, to address why and how the NNS has become the dominant (and, for most mainstreamers, the only) way of analysing macroeconomic phenomena. Third, to present two alternatives to the mainstream that might challenge the future dominance of this thinking.


Abstract Overlapping tryptic, peptic, thermolytic, and Pronase peptides containing 4'-phosphopantetheine were isolated from rat liver fatty acid synthetase. Characterization of these peptides and a 4'-phosphopantetheine dipeptide obtained after dilute acid hydrolysis permitted the elucidation of the amino acid sequence of 13 residues. Five out of the 13 residues are identical with those in the corresponding region of Escherichia coli acyl carrier protein.


This paper investigates the free vibration characteristics of a beam carrying multiple two‐degree‐of‐freedom (two‐dof) spring–mass systems (i.e. the loaded beam). Unlike the existing literature to neglect the inertia effect of the helical springs of each spring–mass system, this paper takes the last inertia effect into consideration. To this end, a technique to replace each two‐dof spring–mass system by a set of rigidly attached equivalent masses is presented, so that the free vibration characteristics of a loaded beam can be predicted from those of the same beam carrying multiple rigidly attached equivalent masses. In which, the equation of motion of the loaded beam is derived analytically by means of the expansion theorem (or the mode superposition method) incorporated with the natural frequencies and the mode shapes of the bare beam (i.e. the beam carrying nothing). In addition, the mass and stiffness matrices including the inertia effect of the helical springs of a two‐dof spring–mass system, required by the conventional finite element method (FEM), are also derived. All the numerical results obtained from the presented equivalent mass method (EMM) are compared with those obtained from FEM and satisfactory agreement is achieved. Because the equivalent masses of each two‐dof spring–mass system are dependent on the magnitudes of its lumped mass, spring constant and spring mass, the presented EMM provides an effective technique for evaluating the overall inertia effect of the two‐dof spring–mass systems attached to the beam. Furthermore, if the total number of two‐dof spring–mass systems attached to the beam is large, then the order of the overall property matrices for the equation of motion of the loaded beam in EMM is much less than that in FEM and the computer storage memory required by the former is also much less than that required by the latter. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Queert omojligt och mojligt i mellankrigstidens Finland : Review of Alexandra Stang, Possibilities and Silences: The Publishing and Reception of Queer Topics in Finland during the Interwar Years (and Beyond)


This essay grows out of an experience of severe puzzlement. For several years now I have been watching with growing incomprehension as increasing numbers of feminist scholars have been trying to use or adapt the theory of Jacques Lacan for feminist purposes. I myself have felt a deep disaffinity with Lacan, a disaffinity as much intellectual as political. So while many of my fellow feminists have been using Lacanian ideas to theorize the discursive construction of subjectivity in film and literature, I have been relying on alternative models of language to develop a feminist social theory. Until now, I have avoided any explicit, metatheoretical discussion of these matters. I have explained neither to myself nor to my colleagues why it is that the footnotes in my recent papers contain some positive or quasi-positive references to Foucault, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Habermas, and Gramsci, but no positive references to Lacan, Kristeva, Saussure, and Derrida.1 In this essay, I want to begin to provide such an explanation. I will


Coronary heart disease is often associated with multiple complications,which needs drug combination to control.For investigating the drug combination of coronary heart disease in a hospital,guiding rational drug use in clinical,We randomly selecte outpatient prescriptions in one week in a general hospital,collect patients' gender,age,drug names usages and dosages,count drug utilization and combinations.The main drugs treating coronary heart disease include nitrates,antiplatelet drugs,β-blockers,calcium channel blockers,ARBs,ACE inhibitors and statins.Coronary heart disease is a common disease in the elderly,because of its complex pathogenesis and complications,it need's for drug combinations to alleviate symptoms,improve quality of life.


Political satire show, distinguished from other forms of political protests, specialize in gaining entertainment from politics. Its popularity leads to the academic researches of audience's viewing motivation. In Singapore, even though the government has strictly controlled the traditional media, a well known political satire show Mr. Brown Show has found its way to survive. As a Singaporean-made pod cast program, Mr. Brown Show satirizes Singapore's policy and current affairs via the Internet so that people can always download the program content. According to the research findings in the western culture, watching political satire shows could be information-motivated or entertainment-motivated. Based on the fact that no study had ever detected the motivation of people's viewing political satire shows in Singapore, this study tried to explore the motivation of viewing Mr. Brown Show and also to figure out the casual relationship between viewing frequency and citizen's political efficacy and political cynicism. The Nielsen Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd. was commissioned to conduct a formal online survey by using the Nielsen's online panel which consists of Singaporean adults spanning a wide range of demographic segments. Respondent quotas were set on key demographic variables (gender and age) to ensure that the sample represents Singapore Internet users. Finally, 503 samples were collected. The results show that the motivations of the viewing include search for identity/surveillance/discontent, entertainment value/social rituals and peer influence. In addition, viewing frequency can successfully predict people's political efficacy and political cynicism. Yet, people tend to have higher political cynicism than political efficacy after viewing the show. Moreover, internet use can also predict political efficacy and cynicism, but traditional media use is not a significant factor for the above dependent variables.


Background—Kidney function is a known predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Although patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) often have kidney dysfunction, less is known about the association between AF and kidney function. We sought to assess changes in kidney function after catheter ablation of AF. Methods and Results—Patients who underwent catheter ablation of AF were recruited for the present prospective study. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was evaluated before and 1 year after the ablation. Three hundred eighty-six patients (paroxysmal AF, 135; persistent AF, 106; longstanding persistent AF, 145) were studied. Their baseline eGFR was 68±14 mL · min−1 · 1.73 m−2. Sixty-six percent and 26% of patients had eGFR of 60 to 89 and 30 to 59 mL · min−1 · 1.73 m−2, respectively. Overall, 278 patients (72%) were arrhythmia free over a 1-year follow-up. In patients free from arrhythmia, eGFR increased 3 months later and was maintained until 1 year, whereas in patients with recurrences...


Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Presentation Introduction Chapter 1: A Redaction-critical Study: Methodology and Terminology Chapter 2: The Redactional Compositions Underlying the Amos-text Chapter 3: The Coherence of the Redactional Compositions Underlying the Amos-text Chapter 4: The Relationship of Amos 2.8 to Exodus 22.5-26 (26-27) and Deuteronomy 24.10-18 Chapter 5: The Presence of Election Traditions in Amos 2.9-12 Chapter 6: Semantic Change in the Terms Chapter 7: Interpretations of the Reasons for Judgment in Amos 2.6-16 in the Redactional Compositions Underlying the Amos-text Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions Bibliography.


We propose a new trellis coded modulation (TCM) scheme. The proposed TCM is encoded by employing the encoder of a convolutional code C, which is followed by a convolutional processor and a signal mapper. Large free distances can be easily achieved for the proposed TCM. The decoding can be implemented by using the trellis for the convolutional code C with some feedback information.


The aim of this article is to outline the challenges and solutions faced when delivering an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) station using actors with learning disabilities so that other educators can learn from and build on our experience. People with learning disabilities (LD) face extensive health inequalities and premature mortality in comparison to the general population [1] and there is evidence to suggest that such inequalities could be preventable through better training [2]. The GMC's Outcomes for Graduates (2018) stipulates that UK medical graduates should be competent in communicating with and assessing the needs of patients with LD [3]. We already know that medical students' attitudes to people with LD are responsive to intervention and it has been demonstrated that involving people with LD in undergraduate training improves medical students' communication skills [4]. Sir John Michael, in the Independent Inquiry into Access to Healthcare, recommended that LD training should be made mandatory in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical training, ideally involving people with LD and their carers in training. This requirement became statutory, through the Equality Act [2010, 5,6]. Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are commonly used in medical schools as a way of providing reliable and reproducible clinical assessments. However, it is also important to consider the OSCE as more than just an assessment but also as a learning opportunity and a demonstration to students of which outcomes are important [7]. Here we describe how we used the OSCE to expose students in their fourth year of medical school to patients with LD and we explore some of the challenges faced and how we overcame them. Challenges and solutions


This paper attempts to summarize the findings of three consecutive studies, with each study progressing on variables investigated and research methodology applied. It is hoped that these findings could lead to the rethinking of the factors concerned on EFL writing, and stimulate more insightful ideas for implications in teaching. I also expect that these findings may provide more thorough interpretations of the cognitive and affective dimensions of EFL writing. There has been plentiful research on EFL writing, but few took both the cognitive and affective aspects into one comprehensive picture of students' difficulties in writing in a foreign language. This field is also rich in teaching strategies, but few consider the root of the writing problems. My studies indicated that extensive free reading and a good composing process help reduce the cognitive and affective difficulties facing EFL students at the university level. My studies also revealed that error correction and grammar instruction are not effective in teaching EFL writing as people anticipated. This paper also discusses some related issues that are inspired by previous work in writing that helps us see the whole picture of EFL writing. These discussions are expected to help us determine what is more urgently in need when considering a writing curriculum at the university level.


The polling network considered here consists of a finite collection of stations visited successively by a single server according to a state-dependent routing scheme. At every visit of a station, a possibly random number of customers are served and depart from the network thereafter. The server takes a possibly random time to walk from one station to the next. The network receives groups of customers at Poisson instants. These customers are distributed randomly over the stations and wait until served. A necessary condition for stability is derived, which proves to be also sufficient in certain special cases. Such cases include a starlike network and a ringlike one with a greedy service policy. Mathematically, positive recurrence of a Markov chain is studied.


Based on the ISO7816 international standards, the paper designs the type and the organizational structure of file on the smart card, file access and management, at the same time detailed designs the file system in the file allocation table and file management instruction in order to meet the demand of dynamic storage of applications.


The aim of the research is to assess new forms of interaction between business entities in the maritime economic complex (MEC) of Ukraine. The paper analyses the results of the activities of enterprises of the Ukrainian maritime industry over the years of its independence and noted the growing role of private capital in the development of the MEC. The share of state enterprises in the port services market is inexorably decreasing, and there are practically no state shipping companies and service enterprises, their market share is minimal, and there is almost no profit. But in the maritime industry, the share of private companies is growing, they are developing, and contribute to increased competition. Therefore, further development of the Ukrainian maritime economic complex is possible with the participation of private companies and with the support of private capital.The cluster, combining representatives of business, authorities and science, is an informal organization whose main goal is to increase the welfare of the region and the competitiveness of the industry.Clusters are recognized as one of the most efficient production systems in the era of globalization and the knowledge economy, focusing on the priority of their development. A program for clustering the maritime industry and specific steps have been developed to enhance mutually beneficial cooperation in the maritime industry within the framework of the cluster, which will result in increased competitiveness of both coastal regions and the maritime industry as a whole.


In this article, for the first time, self-rectifying memristors are exploited for logic-in-memory computation. We report a Pt/TaOx/Ta memristor with salient self-rectifying bipolar features (104 ON-/ OFF-ratio, 105 rectification ratio, 105 nonlinearity, and ~1 pA leakage current), which could support a large passive crossbar array up to 160 Mb with the premise of 10% read margin. Moreover, we propose and experimentally validate a controlled majority-inverter graph logic method based on the self-rectifying switching behaviors, with advantages in computation complexity. Our work is a step forward toward in-memory computing in high-density or even 3-D memristor architectures.


This review aims to briefly discuss about the research progress of the dynamics of binary droplet collision in gaseous environment, with emphasis on revealing the multi-scale, multi-physics, and nonlinear characteristics of the problem. First, we reviewed the previous experiments on binary droplet collision in various gases of sub-and super-atmospheric pressures. Second, we highlighted several theoretical models accounting for coalescence, bouncing, and separation of identical droplets. Finally, we discussed the recent studies on droplet coalescence and subsequent mixing, and non-Newtonian droplet collision, which have been gained increasing interests.


Memory Technology plays a vital role in fast
searching applications. Content Addressable Memory (CAM) is a
special type of memory used for search operation. CAM provides
access to the stored data by its content instead of the address.
Advanced version of CAM is known as Ternary CAM (TCAM)
which is a memory that can also store don't care bit. TCAM is
most relevant in routers in networking applications. Review of
TCAM design techniques at different aspects are carried out, and
obtained that an Energy Efficient TCAM (EE-TCAM) is the one
which is having less power consumption. Compared with other
SRAM-based TCAM designs, EE-TCAM use up reduced energy
as it selectively activates only one row of SRAM at a time for
search operation instead of activating the whole SRAM memory
as in the other architectures. Partitioning of the TCAM table,
designing of a pre-classifier and memory mapping are done prior
to the work. This paper focuses on designing an EE-TCAM using
Verilog HDL on Zybo7000 platform using Vivado design suite.
Functional analysis of a 6*6 EE-TCAM is performed and power,
delay and resource utilization are obtained. From the obtained
results it is clear that EE-TCAM is having very less power and
delay.


Given a compact K\"ahler manifold, we prove that all global isometries of the space of K\"ahler metrics are induced by biholomorphisms and anti-biholomorphisms of the manifold. In particular, there exist no global symmetries for Mabuchi's metric. Moreover, we show that the Mabuchi completion does not even admit local symmetries. Closely related to these findings, we provide a large class of metric geodesic segments that can not be extended at one end, pointing out the first such examples in the literature.


An emerging literature suggests that estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) derived from recent observations and energy balance models are biased low because models project more positive climate feedback in the far future. Here we use simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) to show that across models, ECS inferred from the recent historical period (1979–2005) is indeed almost uniformly lower than that inferred from simulations subject to abrupt increases in CO2 radiative forcing. However, ECS inferred from simulations in which sea surface temperatures are prescribed according to observations is lower still. ECS inferred from simulations with prescribed sea surface temperatures is strongly linked to changes to tropical marine low clouds. However, feedbacks from these clouds are a weak constraint on long‐term model ECS. One interpretation is that observations of recent climate changes constitute a poor direct proxy for long‐term sensitivity.


HighlightsManure analysis proficiency laboratories were assessed for accuracy and precision.Total nitrogen analysis was accurate and precise and is a strength of industry.Ammonium analysis resulted in most variability in laboratory results.Phosphorus and potassium mean comparison indicated significant differences between lab results.Abstract.Nutrient management planning (NMP) is an effective method for ensuring proper nutrient applications to agricultural fields. At livestock facilities, quantifying manure nutrient content is crucial for producers to obtain accurate and precise data to properly apply nutrients to the field to optimize crop yields while minimizing nutrient losses to the environment. In this study, eight manure analysis proficiency program (MAP) certified laboratories each received six replicates of four manure samples (two dairy and two swine) and analyzed for total solids (TS), total nitrogen (TN), ammoniacal nitrogen (NH4-N), phosphate (P2O5), and potash (K2O). Laboratories were compared using the MAP robust statistics comparison approach and a one-way ANOVA using laboratory means. Total nitrogen analysis had high precision and accuracy across laboratories selected for analysis. However, laboratories had less accuracy and precision in determining NH4-N concentrations. Additionally, while P2O5 and K2O met MAP standards for accuracy and precision, there was concerns for reading accuracy, as the median absolute deviation (MAD) to overall median ratio was high (ranging from 5.9% to 14.4%) and many of the laboratory means were statistically different. Keywords: Laboratory variability, Manure, Nutrient analysis.


A national quarterly natural family planning (NFP) data collection system has been started. Its purposes are to better understand the variations over time in the use of NFP to provide NFP leaders and scholars with the information needed for policy and planning decisions regarding allocation of resources and to give a truly national outlook to NFP teachers and enhance the national image of NFP. The system will require only 5 pieces of information each quarter: how many teachers reported in the quarter; how many clients were seen at an initial NFP visit this quarter; how many of those who came for their 1st visit wanted not to become pregnant; and the referred source for those who came for their 1st visit. The national reporting system for NFP will show the Catholic Church and the US public both the capabilities of these NFP services and what they are accomplishing.


This guide explains the reasons for employing the case method as a tool in the academic discipline of aviation. It promotes the use of case writing as a unique opportunity to derive even further benefits from case analysis. The benefits to students of using case writing as a learning strategy include a focus on the strategy of a real situation; development of an ownership interest; and development of reasoning, decision making, judgment, group dynamic, formal written and oral communication ability, and organizational skills. Issues related to computerization, research, and internalization are also addressed. Among the topics covered are case writing guidelines, case components, time line for case writing for individual and group projects, case development, case presentations, case evaluations, peer evaluations, group self-evaluations, examples of case writing, and a breakdown of those sample cases. (DDR) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** O THE UNO AVIATION MONOGRAPH SERIES UNOAI Report 94-1 Interactive Learning: The Casewriting Method as an Entire Semester Course for Higher Education


Quantum-Inspired Computational Intelligence based on quantum postulates is an emerging research area that exploit the parallelism of quantum mechanics. However, existing research efforts are limited to theoretical simulations and has not been implemented in robot application. With regards as Human-Robot Interaction, associative memory become essential for mutual communication. However, associative memory always suffers from limited memory capacity and high sensitivity to noise and the ability to recall from multi-modal sensory inputs. In this paper, we propose a Quantum-Inspired Multidirectional Associative Memory. This is the first attempt to overcome these two problems effectively with robot application.


The rate of the reaction between Fe3+ and I– ions, in aqueous 0.05 mol dm–3 HClO4 made up to an ionic strength of 0.1 mol dm–3, has been determined from 5 to 20 °C both homogeneously and in the presence of a large reduced platinum rotating disc catalyst. At low iodide concentrations the catalytic rate was first order in iodide and zero order in iron(III), at low iron(III) concentrations it was first order in iron(III) and zero order in iodide, and at intermediate and comparable concentrations of reactants both kinetic orders were fractional. In all three concentration regions the catalytic rate was proportional to the square root of the disc rotation speed, indicative of mass transport control. These results, as well as the variation in the potential adopted by the catalyst and other findings, agreed with the predictions of the electrochemical mechanism of the catalysis and with the current–potential curves measured for each of the two couples at the same platinum disc.


The established technique for performing position sensitive structures by means of photolithography and subsequent plasma etching of grooves through detector contacts was applied for amorphous germanium contacts (a-Ge contacts). A simple 50 strip structure with a pitch of 615 /spl mu/m was produced. Charge sharing between two adjacent strips (33 mm long) was investigated with the help of 60 keV photons and 5.8 MeV /spl alpha/-particles. No charge losses could he detected irradiating the front (structured) contact of the 16 mm thick detector by 60 keV photons. The same was concluded for /spl alpha/-particles hitting the rear, not structured p/sup +/-contact made by boron implantation. Moreover, excellent position information for a-particles, with an accuracy of about 30 /spl mu/m, could be extracted in this case. Surprising results were obtained for /spl alpha/-particles impinging on the front contact. No coincidental signals from the two adjacent strips caused by a-particles could be observed. But a normally positive signal from one of the strips coincided occasionally with a negative signal from the other strip and vice versa. Using a cooled FET assembly mounted near a strip an energy resolution of 0.78 keV [FWHM] for 60 keV photons was achieved and slightly better for lower energies. Even better energy resolutions will be probably possible, because the measuring set up was far from being optimized.


With the increasing demand for intelligent security in power plants, the rapid and accurate processing of massive surveillance video data is urgently needed. Researches on the detection and analysis of abnormal human behaviors in power plants still focus on traditional image processing technology, and most of them lack robustness. In this article, abnormal behavior detection and analysis system based on personnel information are proposed to solve the above problems. The proposed method using an improved Y oLov3 algorithm first detects persons and extracts abnormal behavior information on this basis. In the implementation, some training tricks are introduced to improve performance. Experimental results show that the system can effectively detect abnormal human behaviors, and the improved Y oLov3 algorithm can also effectively improve model performance. The proposed abnormal behavior detection and analysis system based on personnel information prove its effectiveness through experiments, which can efficiently perform in power plants with lower computing costs.


Genital psoriasis (GenPs) has been reported in up to 63% of patients with psoriasis. It is often associated with significant impairment of health-related quality of life (HRQoL),1, 2 including a significantly greater impact on sexual health than psoriasis with no genital involvement.1,3 Despite its prevalence and burden, GenPs is often underdiagnosed and undertreated.4, 5.


Exposure oftheexcised growing region ofthemesocotyl ofyoung corn seedlings toheat shock stimulated theproduction ofspecific heat shock proteins andtheintensification ofsynthesis oftwoproteins witha molecular weight ofapproximately 70,000. Waterstress andabscisic acid also stimulated synthesis ofthese 70,000-dalton proteins, andother unique proteins distinct fromthose induced byheatshock. Growing tissues ofintact cornmesocotyls exposed toheatshock, water stress, or abscisic acid accumulated mRNAspecies homologous toacloned genomic probe of-the 5'endofthe70,000-dalton Drosophila heatshock protein gene. Since cutsegments ofthemesocotyl under unstressed conditions produced asimilar mRNA,wesuggest that thehsp70geneisactivated incornbyavariety ofdiverse stresses. Production ofthemRNAisrapid, buttransient, being induced within 3hours oftheimposition ofthestress, butdeclining after reaching amaximum at9hours.


Shape-persistent macrocycles (SPMs) are organic molecules
characterized by a rigid non-collapsing ring with a cavity of
fixed size. The ring can be either fully or partially
conjugated. The properties of such macrocycles can be altered
by derivatization with suitable substituents on the ring
structure [1]. SPMs have wide application as building blocks
for the "bottom-up" design and development of highly organised
supramolecular architectures [2], nano-materials, nano-sized
molecular devices, receptors, selective catalysts, chelators,
discotic liquid crystals, metal organic frameworks, etc.
Systematic mass spectrometric study of the fragmentation
pattern of SPMs induced by pulsed laser and/or by collisions in
quadrupole ion trap (QIT) has not been carried out up to now.
The aim of this work is to: i) study the laser- and
collision-induced fragmentation pathways of a series of
shape-persistent macrocycles, ii) search for self-assembled
supramolecular aggregates and iii) study the effect of
fullerene as matrix by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption
Ionisation Quadrupole-Ion-Trap Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
(MALDI-QIT-TOF-MS). Collision-induced fragmentation patterns of
fifteen SPMs were studied by MALDI-QIT-TOF-MS and the
stoichiometry of detected fragments was determined by modelling
of the isotopic pattern. It was found that the use of fullerene
as MALDI matrix enhances the laser-induced fragmentation during
mass spectrometric analysis. The study of the fragmentation
patterns of SPMs is useful for understanding their gas-phase
behaviour after laser-induced excitation.


OBJECTIVE: To observe the curative effect of Compound Glycyrrhizin in treating pregnant women complicating chronic type B hepatitis.METHODS: 279 pregnant women complicating chronic type B hepatitis were randomly selected to receive compound glycyrrhizin by iv gtt q.d with 15 days as a course of treatment,with the change of the related parameters in the pregnant women and their fetuses before and after treatment observed.RESULTS: The liver function had a significant improvement after treatment as compared with pre-therapy(P0.01).The development of these fetuses was similar to those fetuses that with normal gestational age(P0.05).No obvious adverse reactions were noted during treatment.CONCLUSION: Compound Glycyrrhizin is safe and effective in the treatment of pregnant women complicating chronic type B hepatitis.


Abstract : The status of experimental and theoretical work dealing with UHF propagation in vegetative media has been investigated. The area of particular interest is work that is applicable to spread-spectrum communication. A literature search revealed that a number of experimental investigations of UHF propagation in vegetative media have been conducted, but that there have been very few wideband experiments that are relevant for spread-spectrum communications. A vast literature exists on the theory of wave propagation in random media in general, but specific application to UHF electromagnetic wave propagation in forests appears to be lacking. An outline of the application of propagation-mechanism theory is included together with a brief discussion of the characterization of a vegetative medium. (Author)


Because of the changing global concentration of carbon dioxide and the possible effects of this change on photosynthetic activity worldwide, a program has been developed for monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and gradients representative of a large agricultural region. The program is carried out at Mead, Neb. A meteorological tower is equipped with sampling intakes at various elevations up to 16 m, through which air is drawn to the laboratory for analysis with infra-red gas analyzers. An automatic calibration system has been developed to permit hourly checks of analyzer performance. Profiles of wind speed and air temperature are also measured. The equipment, the calibration techniques, and the errors associated with the measurements of CO₂ concentration and gradients are described. Some initial observations of CO₂ concentrations and fluxes are presented.


Introduction On 30 March 1982, at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, an unprecedented medical experiment took place-the transplantation of tissue into a human brain'. The patient was a 55-year-old man, severely disabled by Parkinson's disease. Two-thirds of his left adrenal medulla was removed and fragments thereof stereotactically introduced into a target point in his right caudate nucleus. On the first postoperative day, his arms were less rigid than preoperatively; this slight improvement lasted approximately one week. Six months afterwards he was in the same clinical state as before the transplant and remained so when seen 14 years later. On 5 May 1983, at the same hospital, a 46-year-old woman with a 5-year history of Parkinson's disease underwent a similar operation'. During the first two postoperative days she moved both arms with less rigidity than preoperatively. There was no tremor


Implementation of intensive forestry (fertilization, cultivation of non-native tree species, and clone cultivation) on part of the forested land area in Sweden and an increased construction of wood ...


The chapter shows how different political and social circumstances shaped Zionist opportunities for influence in local communities. Relief work constituted the main battleground between the various parties and determined how Zionists worked to gain respect and credibility through their engagement. Welfare and relief were not only essential to reduce the suffering of the Jewish population but also became the primary field of activism for all Jewish political movements. Using local examples from German-occupied Poland and Ober Ost, from Galicia, Vienna, and Prague, the chapter investigates struggles for control over relief funds and the building of welfare institutions, as well as their connection with Zionist political ideas. It analyses welfare work for refugees in Vienna, soup kitchens in Białystok, and attempts to find work for unemployed Jews in Warsaw. Within months after the outbreak of the war, relief work became the only area in which activists were engaged. The ramifications of these efforts were often contradictory. Whereas in the Ober Ost region, for example, Zionists were integrated into the German administration and applied top-down, authoritarian policies towards local communities, in the Generalgouvernement Warschau, they remained outside the administration and had to rely on grassroots activities and on the energetic efforts of their members. The chapter also analyses relief efforts for refugees in Vienna and Prague, and shows how Zionist activists in Galicia acquired positions as leading figures in communities, taking over communal responsibilities after the Austrian order had disintegrated.


The mechanical properties of bone degrade as we age and this effect is partially contributed by the decrease of bone water content during aging. In this paper, we study the role water plays in stabilize the molecular structure of collagen. Collagen type I is the major constituent of bone. The stability of collagen triple helix is evaluated with and without hydration utilizing both molecular mechanics and finite element methods.


Hannah Arendt developed her ideas about race and racism in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) in response to the collapse of European society and culture in the interwar years, preceded by the history of European expansion. The late nineteenth century was the period when modern racism first became a crucial factor in European life. All these elements crystallized into racial totalitarianism, particularly in Nazi Germany. In her adopted country, the United States, she entered the debate about school desegregation in the South and also was worried by the explicit return of race to politics furthered by black militancy. Overall, she objected to the creation of public institutions based on exclusionary principles altogether.

Keywords:

antisemitism;
colonialism;
race;
racism


ABSTRACT Objective: This study investigated body weight and nutritional behavior perceptions among Division II collegiate athletes. Participants: The sample was composed of 155 collegiate athletes who responded to a survey. Methods: Data were self-reported by athletes via questionnaire. Independent-sample t tests were used to identify significant gender differences related to body weight perceptions, nutritional practices, and ideal weight difference (IWD). An alpha level of .05 was used to determine statistical significance. Results: Mean ± SD female and male IWD was −6.8 ± 8.8 and 1.3 ± 12.3 lbs, respectively (p < .001). Significant differences in level of agreement regarding perceived body weight effects on performance and dietary practices existed between genders. Conclusions: Significant gender differences may exist regarding body weight perceptions and nutritional practices among collegiate athletes. Deliverance of gender-specific educational information about proper nutritional practices is warranted. To properly tailor interventions to specific sports, research with larger sample sizes is needed.


Despite enormous performance gain with multi-antenna transmission in the single cell environment, its gain diminishes out in the multi-cell environment due to interference. It is also very hard to solve the efficient downlink beamforming with low complexity in multi-cell environment. First, this paper shows that the asymptotically sum rate optimal downlink beamformings at low and high SNR are maximum ratio transmit (MRT) and zero forcing (ZF) beamforming in the multi-cell system, respectively. Secondly, exploiting the asymptotically optimal downlink beamforming, we develop simple two types of near optimal downlink beamforming schemes having the form of minimum mean squared error (MMSE) beamforming obtained from the dual uplink problem. For each type, three different subclasses are also considered depending on the computational complexity. The simulation results show that the proposed near optimum algorithms provide the trade-off between the complexity and the performance.


This article analyzes the theological legacy of Tokunboh Adeyemo, a leading voice in African evangelical circles. In academic literature on African Christianity, African evangelical theologians are often accused of endorsing a biblicist or Westernized form of theology that fails to deeply engage with African realities. This study retraces Adeyemo's contribution to the evangelical debates on mission after the International Congress on World Evangelization held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. It will be argued that, while Adeyemo undoubtedly was influenced by North American dualism, he increasingly distanced himself from Western theological concepts, advocating for a broad, holistic, contextual, and transformational understanding of mission. Thus, this study shows that categories commonly used to describe African evangelicalism, such as "biblicist," "conservative," "dogmatic," and so on, do not do justice to the complexity, heterogeneity, and contextuality of African evangelicalism.


Summary The Mentally Ill Chemical Abuser is a challenge to both mental health and chemical dependency providers and requires an integrated collaborative approach. Guidelines for comprehensive assessment are presented. Treatment issues such as pharmacological interventions and abstinence are raised. Characteristics of chemically dependent and mentally ill chemical abuser families are compared. Family therapy and family management approaches which focus on education about the illness and skill building behaviors are advanced. An integrated, collaborative approach is recommended.


Given the extraordinary circumstances confronting us in a world profoundly unsettled by the advances of globalisation in all walks of life, and by the reactions provoked by this process, it may perhaps not be inappropriate to reflect upon how the growing interdependence among nations will affect cultural life. This interdependence is derived from the internationalisation of communications, the economy, ideas and technologies. A certain degree of perplexity and a number of prejudices surround this question. It may be worthwhile to dispel them. However, first of all it is essential to have a clear idea of what it is we are talking about when we utter the word 'culture'. For an anthropologist, this word, with its agrarian overtones, merely indicates a network of practices, ways, customs and beliefs comprising what is most representative of a particular people. This includes the language used by the inhabitants to communicate with each other, their food and the sports they play, and also their habits, gods, demons and every kind of ghost and spirit. But this conception of 'culture' is so vast that, because of its very all-inclusiveness, it turns out to be imprecise. Its boundaries are simply too vague. It may be more convenient to condense this notion of 'culture', restricting it exclusively to that spiritual dimension of human life where knowledge and beliefs ideas and myths merge into each other. This offers us a perspective that allows us to comprehend the world in a particular way, to take our place in it with a minimal degree of confidence and security, and to be able to relate to things and to our fellow human beings in a precise way. The further back we go in time, the fewer are the common denominators shared by cultures and the greater the specific characteristics that separate them and set them at odds. For this reason, in Antiquity, in that archipelago of self-absorbed, isolated islands that was the world, mistrust, hatred and war


Most writers on the subject of King John have been puzzled by the emphasis Shakespeare lays on the fact that the eponymous monarch was an usurper. In what must for many years remain the standard study of the History plays, for instance, Mr. Reese 1 speaks of 'Shakespeare's curious insistence that John was a usurper. . ..' E. A. J. Honigmann in his Preface to the New Arden King John2 says 'John's " usurpation " is Shakespeare's fiction, for his " right " is not seriously questioned in the chronicles.' Recently, John R. Elliott has pointed outs that Shakespeare presumably got the idea of making him an usurper from the Tudor historian Polydore Vergil. We may ask why a Tudor writer should emphasise this view when, as Elliott says '. . . most of the chroniclers had grudgingly admitted that King Richard had indeed designated John his heir in a deathbed will which replaced an earlier one favouring his nephew Prince Arthur.' Why, too, we may ask, did a Tudor playwright in 1595 go to such lengths to emphasise this ' usurpation ' in a play notoriously written to rally the country behind Elizabeth against a foreign threat backed by Papal authority? Mr Reese, after remarking that Shakespeare makes more of this weakness in John's position than do the authors of Bale's King Johan or of The Troublesome Raigne, comes to the seemingly reasonable conclusion that the play was intended to show how a monarch even with a faulty title must be supported when the country is threatened with invasion. He feels that John, who tried to have the legitimate heir Arthur put to death in prison, is in some sense a parallel of Elizabeth, who similarly disposed of her rival, Mary. He says 4 '. . . he gives fresh emphasis


Abstract The outermost region of both the pollen exine and the orbicules in Calluna vulgaris (Ericaceae) consists of isomorphous, identical hemispheres which are commonly 70–80 nm in diameter. In tangential ultrathin sections these hemispheres are seen as ± circular profiles, while in transverse sections and in single stage carbon replicas they are seen as hemicircular humps. The hemispheres are interpreted as orbicule and exine sporopollenin "units", each formed by some "sub-units" sensu Rowley. They represent further evidence not only for the close structural relationship between the exine and the orbicules but, together with the exine tuft-units, evidence also for the inhomogeneity of the sporopollenin containing structures in general.


ID: 280 Effects of Music Therapy on Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Author Information: Authors List: Presenting Author: Ashley Wood Presenting Author: Ashley Hodges Wood Address: 3217 Mockingbird Lane Birmingham, Alabama 35226 USA Ph: 205-975-6315 Fax: Email: email@example.com Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham Abstract InformationInformation Presentation Preference: SNRS Poster Presentation Abstract Categories: Interest Group: Parent-Child Thematic Areas: Perinatal/Neonatal/Infancy Introduction: Much emphasis has been placed on techniques for reducing environmental stress and stimuli in the NICU. More recently, the use of structured stimuli (e.g. music) has been encouraged as a means of reducing environmental stress. The study purpose was to examine the effects of a 15-min live-music therapy intervention on heart rate, oxygen saturation, level of motor activity, behavioral distress, and behavioral state levels in premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Method(s): The study used a 1-group repeated-measures crossover design, infants were randomly assigned order of music versus no-music conditions. The convenience sample included 20 infants born at 26 to 29 weeks' gestational age. Data were collected on 4 occasions over a 2to 4-week period On 2 occasions, the infants received 15 min of live music; the other 2 occasions, the infants did not receive the music intervention. Results: Results did not support the hypothesis that, during and for 10 min after exposure to a 15-min live-music intervention, infants would exhibit a greater decrease from baseline in heart rate, level of motor activity, and signs of behavioral distress than they would exhibit after exposure to a no-music condition. Results did not support the hypothesis that infants would exhibit a greater increase from baseline in oxygen saturation during and for 10 min after exposure to a 15-min live-music intervention than they would exhibit after a no-music condition. Discussion: Although no deleterious effects were identified, more research is needed before music therapy can be recommended for use with preterm infants in the NICU. Music is a noninvasive, nonpharmaceutical, relatively low-cost intervention. Future research with even further individualized music therapy interventions is needed. Comparisons of this study with other investigations indicate that music therapy interventions provided for a longer period and with increased frequency may also be of benefit. Research Completed : Yes Abstract History: NA Financial Disclosure: Have a financial arrangement or affiliation with commercial companies whose products may be mentioned in this material? No FDA Disclosure:


We present recent progress of high-speed Mach-Zehnder interferometer based device technologies for advanced modulation formats, and high-performance optical switching. Multi-level quadrature amplitude modulation signal can be synthesized by using parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators. Mach-Zehnder interferometer based switching devices can provide guard-time-free switching with 10-Gb/s signals.


The sample is composed of coarse ash formed by acidic glass shards and pumice (up to 1.6 mm long) and angular fragments (up to 0.3 mm long) of volcanic minerals (Plagioclase, sanidine and a few unidentified grains); all are cemented by dolomite or ankerite, opal, and some montmorillonitic material. The presence of dolomite or ankerite, sanidine, plagioclase, opal, and montmorillonitic material was checked by X-ray diffraction. Lenticular layering is emphasized by an opaque material probably formed by a clay mineral (montmorillonite?) along with Fe-Mn oxides. No organic structures were observed.


Although rates of violence committed by adults have recently been declining, murder by juveniles has continued a steady increase. Of particular interest are cases of parricide, which are receiving more attention in both the popular media and criminal justice research. As more research emerges addressing parricide, particular implications arise concerning the etiology, prosecution, and treatment of these offenders. Under existing law, only a medical finding of clinical psychosis can be used as a defense for parricide. An alternative explanation understands parricide as a rational response to long-standing abuse. By examining representative case studies, this article finds psychiatric explanations of parricide and self-defense by abused children inadequate explanatory models. A sociological jurisprudence is proposed that considers family disintegration, weakened moral values, drug abuse, and family violence and neglect as salient causes of parricide. Only by considering all the factors that create this offender can postoffense intervention be effective.


An upgraded finite control set model predictive control strategy (MPC) for a multilevel inverter is introduced in this paper. A 3-level neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter is presented. The control strategy ensures current control with a narrow spectrum and unwanted harmonics reduction. The designed model predicts system behavior for all probable switching states of the multilevel inverter and uses a cost function to generate the expected operation. This cost function is frequency weighted as it employs a discrete-time filter for current errors. The current drawn by load as well as voltage spectrum is modified by precisely designing the filter resulting in the reduction of undesirable harmonic components. The proposed strategy is corroborated by plausible simulation results. The simulation result shows a narrower load current spectrum after the addition of a 2kHz filter component in the cost function.


This paper studies the temporal dynamics of power-line frequency electric and magnetic fields in Saint-Petersburg and environs. It is found that electromagnetic fields generated by high-voltage transmission lines (HVTL) constantly change, depending on their loading and weather conditions. The dependence on weather conditions involves both the direct effect of air electrical conductivity as a function of its humidity, and indirect effects including the dependence of energy consumption on temperature and also the correlations between meteorological characteristics. An attempt has been made to evaluate the role of influencing factors.


Pancreatoduodenectomy with a novel pancreato-jejunal anastomosis by the single layer long parenchymal traverse technique: a technical note with perioperative outcome 1 1 2 Dharmapala A.D , Galketiya K.B , Siriwardena A.K 1 Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom


A Linear Hierarchical Radiosity method using point collocation and triangle meshes is proposed that allows C continuity and performs energy ex change at any level both in the shooter and the re ceiver this method leads to an exact representation of the Gouraud shading interpolation that will be used for rendering A new re nement criterion is pre sented which tries to improve image quality taking into account the smoothness of the solution based on pixel intensity values instead of energy ones and visibility changes along the surfaces for high gradient detection sharp shadows In order to perform a ef cient re nement a data structure is proposed which isolates every shooter contribution over each receiver and allows to only re ne high error interactions


Feline infectious peritonitis is a serious and fatal disease that arises as a consequence of infection with feline coronavirus. This chapter covers presentation and clinical signs, diagnostic testing, differential diagnoses, treatment, prevention and management following confirmation of feline infectious peritonitis in a shelter. Quick reference guide: Toxoplasmosis.


Abstract In this semi-expository note, we first recall that every boolean function f of n variables is determined uniquely by a certain subset S of the nodes of the hypercube Q". We then propose the subgraph of Qn induced by S as a realization of f, and call it the graph of a boolean function. We observe that boolean functions of the same type always have the same graph, but the converse does not hold. We conclude with the open question which suggests itself from a confrontation of the disjunctive and conjunctive normal forms of a boolean function.


Objective To study the diverse needs of the books in the market economy under the influence of changes in the design as well as readers of the books on the book design. Methods From design concept,design tools and design materials,it discussed the design features of the books in the market economy. Conclusion Combined with the needs of the market economy development,in response to the economic challenges of the market at the same time,the designer should improve their own communication,planning and market consciousness.


AbstractThis paper investigates the shear behavior of continuous concrete beams reinforced with glass fiber–reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars and stirrups. A total of six beams, with 200×300  mm rectangular cross section and continuous over two spans of 2,800 mm each, were constructed and tested. Three main variables, namely, concrete strength, longitudinal reinforcement ratio, and transverse shear-reinforcement ratio, were investigated. Two beams were without transverse reinforcement to evaluate the concrete contribution to the shear strength and four beams had GFRP stirrups to examine the minimum shear-reinforcement contribution to the shear strength. All test specimens were designed to satisfy an assumed 20% moment redistribution. It was observed that all test specimens failed in shear near the interior support after significant moment redistribution from hogging moment to sagging moment regions. In addition, the test results were compared with the predictions of the CSA-S806-12, CSA-S6-06, and ACI 440.1R-06.


Radar systems have changed in a similar way to mobile communications. What once used to be expensive technology, restricted to a limited circle of users, has become accessible to anyone. Radar sensors have become cheaper, less power-consuming and can be found in many different applications, ranging from industrial automation to consumer products such as automobiles. Many of these applications also require communication capabilities, and given the similarities between the nature of wireless data transmission and radar – both emit and receive electromagnetic waves – it is an obvious question to ask if both components could be combined into a single device. Such a combined system would require less hardware, less power and allocate less spectrum – all of these characteristics being highly desirable in mass-produced technology. One solution for this is to use OFDM waveforms, which nowadays are commonly used in communications standards already. OFDM-based radar has been suggested several times independently in the last decade, but many important questions remain unanswered.


Polyamide 6 (PA6)/Brazilian organoclay nanocomposites were obtained by melt intercalation and the structural and rheological properties were studied. The nanoclay was treated with quaternary ammonium salt (Cetremide) and characterized using infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results indicated the effective organophilization of nanoclay. The nanocomposites were obtained by melt intercalation using a twin screw corrotacional extruder in two steps. Firstly, a masterbatch of PA6 / nanoclay (1: 1) was prepared. In the second step the masterbatch was diluted in PA6 to obtain 3 and 5 wt% of nanoclay in the nanocomposites. The specimens were injection molded and analyzed using capillary rheometry, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results of capillary rheometry showed that the presence of the organoclay in PA6 increased the viscosity of the systems. Structural characterization showed that the nanocomposites were predominant in exfoliated structure.


The unavailability of textbooks on the contextual introduction to Microeconomic Theory makes it difficult for students to understand the concept of microeconomics. The textbooks available only cover microeconomic theory accompanied by examples in other countries where conditions are much different from the conditions in the environment around students. In addition, the textbooks that have been used are in the form of translation books that cause many concepts and terms that are difficult for students to understand. This makes students do not have the ability to think critically well in solving economic problems when faced with the practice questions. This research aims to develop an introductory textbook on microeconomic theory based on contextual economic learning in schools and the Android platform. This type of research is included in the type of development with the 4D approach. Analysis of the data used is the feasibility analysis of the textbook from both the study and its validation. The research subjects were textbook users, namely lecturers and students of economics education, State University of Surabaya (Unesa). The expected result is getting an introductory textbook on microeconomics with a good level of eligibility as well as the version in the form of an android platform.


Abstract This paper presents a knowledge-based methodology dedicated to automate the specification of virtual organization collaborative processes. Our approach takes as input knowledge concerning collaboration coming from involved organizations and produces as output a BPMN compliant process. The collaborative network ontology consists of (i) collaboration attributes, (ii) description of participants and (iii) collaborative processes inspired from the enterprise Process Handbook (MIT). This OWL ontology coupled with a reasoning engine will be used by a collaboration aided design tool (CDT) provided by EBM WebSourcing.


A reduction in surface water quality in urban watersheds due to nonpoint source phosphorus (P) loading has prompted municipalities to consider management practices to reduce P loss from landscapes. However, locating P source areas can be time consuming and expensive. Use of distributed models allows delineation of P source areas and focused management strategies. Using the spatially distributed soil moisture distribution and routing model, we adapt and validate a dissolved P (DP) loading model for application to an urban watershed, in Ithaca, New York, to identify P source areas. The model calculates DP loss separately for base flow, impervious surfaces, plant‐soil complex, and fertilized areas. The load at the outlet is the sum of P loss from the four components distributed throughout the watershed. Both stream and distributed DP loss were well predicted as indicated by comparison with measured data. The model predicted the largest contribution from plant‐soil complexes (36%). Impervious surfaces contributed 10% of the total load but as much as 17% in the winter. More important, the impervious surfaces increased DP losses from the adjacent areas due to runoff from the impervious surfaces saturating the soil, thus increasing runoff losses. Fertilizer contributed substantially following application but decreased rapidly thereafter, a result of conversion from soluble to insoluble P. However, fertilization increased soil P levels, and thus DP losses were higher as a whole (19%). Results demonstrate that correctly predicting the coincidence of P and runoff source areas can be a powerful tool to identify and mitigate contamination of surface waters.


This research is motivated by the unique reduplication of the Malay language in terms of form and meaning, in terms of form related to the number of syllables produced can be different when translated into Indonesian. Then in terms of meaning, there is a change in meaning if a word undergoes a reduplication process and does not change the meaning of its basic form. The formulation of the problem in this study, namely, (1) What is the form of reduplication of Riau Malay dialect of Rokan Hulu in Rantau Kasai Village, North Tambusai District? and (2) What is the meaning of reduplication of Riau Malay dialect of Rokan Hulu in Rantau Kasai Village, North Tambusai District? The purpose of this study is to describe, analyze and conclude the form and meaning of the Riau Malay language reduplication in the Rokan Hulu dialect in Rantau Kasai Village, North Tambusai District. The method used is ethnography. The data analysis technique used is the Spradley model. The techniques used are interview techniques and note-taking techniques. This research uses Ramlan's opinion. Based on the results of the study, the data used in this study amounted to 119 data. The conclusions in this study are, 1. The form of reduplication contained in Riau Malay dialect of Rokan Hulu in Rantau Kasai Village, North Tambusai District (1). Entire Reduplication (2). Partial Reduplication, (3). Reduplication with the process of affixing affixes, and (4). Phoneme change reduplication. 2. The meaning of reduplication in Riau Malay dialect of Rokan Hulu in Rantau Kasai Village, North Tambusai District (1). Many Meanings, (2). Meaning Repetitive, (3). The meaning of the act with pleasure, (4). Mutual Meaning, (5). Meaning related to work, (6). The highest level of meaning, and (7). The meaning of feeling intensity.