BACKGROUND
Numerous studies deal with the use of computers and the Internet in the health sector. Most of these studies show an increase in the use of the new technologies in searching for medical information-particularly by patients--but these uses remain very heterogeneous and depend on the studies.

AIMS
The aim of this work was to consider the use of computers by French general practitioners (GPs) and to analyse the impact that computerization could have on their information-seeking behaviour.

METHODS
The nature of the approach used is qualitative using interviews.

RESULTS
Most of the GPs interviewed are equipped with a computer. The policies of the government were supposed to give financial incentives for GPs to start using computers for the management of administrative procedures, but many physicians do not know how to use the new tools properly. Their computers are, in most cases, underused for searching for medical information. Most of the time, the Internet sources are thought to be unreliable.

CONCLUSION
This study sheds light on the use of computers and the preferences of GPs in searching for medical information.


Over the past few years, the landscape of top-class gastronomy has empirically changed: some celebrity chefs are returning their hard-won awards to instead provide low-cost food while others work tirelessly to gain access to the inner circle of international top-class restaurants. Things are changing, but the direction is unclear. To analyse the situation, we took the case of French Parisian gastronomy – because it has been the main model for world gastronomy. Our study of it focuses on the Michelin Guide selection, covering the 60-year period 1950–2012. We then applied multiple correspondence analysis to establish the profiles of the Parisian restaurants and to find out whether these profiles have evolved. This article shows that a turning point has clearly been reached and that gastronomic pluralism is on the rise – to the detriment of the hegemony of elitist gastronomy.


Electric Vehicles (EV) are being introduced in the market, however the reduced energy storage capacity of their batteries and the lack of a high density charging infrastructure, limits their autonomy range. In order to overcome this limitation, we propose the development of a new solution for EV drivers that enables to travel longer distances. This is achieved by integrating some components of the cooperative transport infrastructure, as EV battery charging systems and public transports systems, and by increasing the driving autonomy through energy consumption reduction, achieved by driving efficiency increase. The integration with the charging infrastructure allows planning the journey of the driver, considering the position of charging points, and booking a charging point for a specific time period in order to perform the battery charging. Therefore, the distance that the driver can drive comfortably, without fearing running out of battery, is increased. The integration of the EV with public transports systems allows extending the travel distance beyond the EV drive autonomy, given by the storing capacity of vehicle's battery. The supplying of information on availability, schedule and price of public transports allows planning the journey of the driver, using the EV and public transportation in a complementary way, through functions like car parking booking (and charging) and ticket buying. Keywords—Decision Systems, Data Warehouse, Data Mining, Electric Vehicle, Energy Efficiency, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Discovery, Public Transportation, Range Autonomy.


The studies were carried out in the breeding herd of purebred Simmental cattle of SPK Abodimovskiy of Saratov region, which is characterized by stable parametres of milk productivity. Methods generally accepted in zootechnics were used for the research. Exterior and constitution of the animals were assessed visually, as well as by taking main body measurements and calculating body build indexes. The paper presents results of assessment of purebred Simmental servicing bulls of milk-meat type, belonging to Florian 374 line, by exterior and constitution of the offspring. The estimated bulls have a conformation score of 91 and 94 points. Comparison of bulls by exterior measurements taken at the age of 18 months shows that Coral 4067 bull is significantly superior to Record 306 bull in terms of depth, width, circumference of chest (by 12.8; 9.6; 6.3%), as well as pelvic-thoracic and blockiness indexes (by 5.6 and 6.3%). In order to determine the nature of bulls' transmission of their conformation features (body shape) to descendants and compare them with each other in terms of conformation and constitution, body measures of the descendants of the evaluated bulls (castrated bulls and heifers) at 6, 12 and 18 months of age were taken and body indexes were calculated. It was established that the offsprings (castrated bulls and heifers) of Coral 4067 bull differ from the offsprings of Record 306 bull in larger exterior measurements and especially in wide, deep and voluminous chest, i.e. they have a declination towards Eirison type, like their father. Castrated bulls - the descendants of Coral 4067 bull at the age of 18 months had superiority over the descendants of Record 306 bull in terms of width, depth and girth of the chest by 4.33; 2.51 and 3.25%, and heifers, respectively, by 2.30; 1.78 and 2.17%. According to the indexes of blockiness, chest index and massiveness, their superiority was 3.5; 1.2; 10.8% and 2.1; 1.2 and 6.5%, respectively.


LORD HALDANE'S book, The Philosophy of Humanism, has more significance than might appear at first sight for Christian apologetic. His purpose is " to find, if possible, some common denominator for all knowledge, and to bring within the light cast by the principle of its relativity the aspects of human experience which stand in contrast with what we call scientific knowledge." Among these aspects is religion. It is interesting to note now the conception of different" levels" of experience and of reality, which plays so large a part in Baron von Hugel's Essays and Addresses, is cardinal in Lord Haldane's epistemology too. For him, as for Aristotle, the actual is " the foundational fact of reality."


Optical interconnects to couple light from single mode fiber to waveguides and photonic elements have remained expensive due to tight alignment tolerances, materials choices, fabrication methods and assembly processing techniques. Methods that have been used to lower the cost of optical interconnects will be reviewed and compared to current and future market application demands. Design approaches, fabrication methodologies, and assembly processing techniques for optical interconnects to meet future lower cost market application demands will be shared.


The paper describes the process whereby we investigate the implementation of non-functional requirements and their implications on the reengineering process. The authors' work has so far concentrated on the identification of reusable units from existing legacy systems. However, the results from their approaches so far have found that the functionality is difficult to separate into separate units. They have found that certain aspects of the code tend to hold the units together. They propose that these aspects be the implementation of non-functional requirements, and, that if these aspects can be filtered out, larger and more reusable object would be obtained through the use of reuse reengineering approaches. The paper describes the process by which they identify the non-functional requirements and evaluates the usefulness of the process through a number of case studies.


Monte Carlo method is applied to machining process simulation study,adopting the combination of VB and MATLAB to simulation turning not only can rapid and efficient to processing data and the result can be intuitive displayed in the VB interface.


The article by Baldwin and Allo 1 in the June 1993 issue of theArchivesdraws attention to the important but infrequently recognized problem of adrenal insufficiency in critically ill patients. The authors describe four patients with refractory shock who significantly improved after the infusion of doses of hydrocortisone that simulated physiologic stress response. We recently reported a similar syndrome in three elderly, poorly nourished, critically ill postoperative patients but postulated a different pathogenic mechanism. 2 Unexplained hypotension developed perioperatively in our paitents, and although hypotensive, they had inappropriately low plasma cortisol concentrations (276, 331, and 165 nmol/L). Despite normal responses to infusions of cosyntropin, these patients responded dramatically to the administration of glucocorticoids. Two of our patients had low serum thyroxine concentrations without increased thyrotropin levels and had depressed levels of gonadotropins. After recovery, serum thyroxine levels increased, gonadotropin levels reverted to normal, and a normal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis was


Starr, Michael S., "Further Studies on the Effect of Prostaglandin on Intraocular Pressure in the Rabbit:", Exp. Eye Res. 1971, 11, pp. 170-177. Bito, L. Z., "Prostaglandins and Related Compounds as Potential Ocular Therapeutic Agents':, Biological Pro tection with Prostaglandins, Cohen, M. M., ed. Boca Ratan, Fla., CRC Press Inc., 1985, pp. 231-252. Bito, L. Z., "Prostaglandins, Other Eicosanoids, and ||||||||||I|| USOO533273OA


The refuse incineration plant in Stuttgart has been retrofitted with effluent-free wet washing and a catalytic cleaning stage connected on the load side. The wet washing segregates, in addition to conventional pollutants, even dioxins and furans. Following initially poor segregation performance, the results are surprisingly good. The catalytic stage serves both for nitrogen removal and also for destruction of dioxins and furans. The destruction rate in the catalyser has been mostly above 99% irrespective of the input concentration. However, effects in the regenerative reheating system operate partially against this.


In October 1946, Jos Schroeder, Luxembourg Commissioner General for Reconstruction, takes stock of the material destruction suffered by the Grand Duchy and explains the first measures to be taken to rebuild the country.


Aiming at the cavitation phenomenon which may occurred in the centrifugal pump,caviation test was designed to improve the service performance and operating life of forest fire-extinguishing pump. The test was carried out on the open-type pump cavitation test system,which was mainly composed of AC electrical dynamometer, test-control computer and pump test-bed. The AC electrical dynamometer powered the system,drove the pump to work and transmitted the data to test-control computer for real time reading. And by acquiring all the data at three different working conditions,including the rated working condition,such as the pump flow,speed,the inlet pressure value,the first stage impeller pressure value,the atmospheric pressure value and the experimental temperature,the NPSH and the first stage impeller lift value at the three working conditions were calculated. With NPSH when the first-stage impeller lift value decreased to 3% of no cavitation lift value as the critical one,the critical NPSH discrimination curve at the three working conditions and the NPSH curve of forest fire pump were drawn, then the allowable height of installation was calculated according to the hydraulic loss of the pipeline. It provides guidance for the research and improvement of this type of fire pump's cavitation performance.


The concept of effective pair potential (EPP), in which medium effects and contribution of long-range interactions are added to near-neighbor pair interactions, is a useful tool to derive and calculate the thermodynamic quantities. It has been shown that the extended Lennard-Jones (12, 6, 3) potential is an accurate EPP for many systems. However, the parameters of this EPP are not known for any systems. We introduce a new approach to use experimental pvT data of a fluid to calculate its EPP parameters. Such calculation has been carried out for some fluids at some temperatures. Unlike the isolated pair potential, it has been shown that the parameters significantly vary with temperature. We have found that the potential well of the EPP for a fluid is larger than that of its isolated pair potential at all temperatures.


We report the discovery of GeV emission at the position of supernova remnant Kes 17 by using the data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Kes 17 can be clearly detected with a significance of ∼ 12σ in the 1 − 20 GeV range. Moreover, a number of γ−ray sources were detected in its vicinity. The γ−ray spectrum of Kes 17 can be well described by a simple power-law with a photon index of Γ ∼ 2.4. Together with the multi-wavelength evidence for its interactions with the nearby molecular cloud, the γ−ray detection suggests that Kes 17 is a candidate acceleration site for cosmic-rays. Subject headings: acceleration of particles — cosmic rays — Gamma-rays: ISM — ISM: Individual objects (Kes 17, G304.6+0.1) — ISM: supernova remnants


'Land use transport integration' has been part of planning ideology for decades. Today it is seen as a means of achieving sustainable travel outcomes. Despite the clear intentions of early planning policy, its selective implementation resulted in a low-density, dispersed city. Now the ability to reduce motorised travel and car kilometres is a major challenge given the spread of land use and scatter of activity across a very large metropolitan area. The 'love affair with the car' has seen a struggle for focus on access for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport. But the more recent experience in the context of this dispersed city is promising, urban development is achieving some of the physical characteristics of land use transport integration with greatest progress made in recent years. At the neighbourhood scale there are small 'islands' of development change with a strong focus on achieving accessibility, proximity and creation of shared streets. At the metro/regional scale the focus is on extending...


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This book presents a model of interpretative psychotherapy that is provided through twice weekly sessions over several years. It is for people who may be able to get by, but not to fulfil themselves, in work or love. (In a UK context, they will be typical of many seen


Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is more and more important in teaching evaluation.Since it can reflect the ambiguity and uncertainty of things better than others,interval-valued fuzzy set can reduce the loss of information effectively.In order to evaluate objectively and scientifically the university classroom teaching,a model of college mathematics classroom teaching evaluation based on interval-valued fuzzy sets is shown.It is illustrated that this method of college mathematics classroom teaching evaluation could evaluate college mathematics classroom teaching more accurately and comprehensively than traditional ones.


Abbes et.al (2010) in their paper a decentralized and fault-tolerant Desktop Grid system for distributed applications proposes a decentralized and fault-tolerant software system for the purpose of managing Desktop Grid resources. Its main design principle is to eliminate the need for a centralized server, therefore to remove the single point of failure and bottleneck of existing Desktop Grids. Instead, each node can play alternatively the role of client or server. Main contribution is to design the Pastry Grid protocol (based on Pastry) for Desktop Grid in order to support a wider class of applications, especially the distributed application with precedence between tasks in a parallel environment, to take care of failures.


Lyotard's Le Diff6rend is angled. Its concern with language, with sentences or phrases, is, however, somewhat puzzling. Is there a Cartesian moment here? Is it the case that Lyotard's turn to the sentence is the result of a meditation similar in form to Descartes' First Meditation? Is this where the initial certainty lies, a certainty which will be needed in order to begin to speak of differences without rules of resolution? In fact, the answer to these questions is no. The point is that the apparent indubitability of the sentence is required in order to demonstrate


[Objective] By carrying out the anther culture on the monosomic alien addition line MAAL8 of O. officinalis-O. sativa and the back crossing with O. sativa H1493, the genetic characteristic of monosomic alien addition line was studied. [Method] The phenotype analysis was used to study the separation proportion of progeny. Moreover, SSR and methylation analysis were used to study the transmission behavior of alien chromosome. [Result] 78 plants of 145 backcross progenies preserved the rolled leaf mark trait of MAAL8. In 32 anther culture plants, 5 plants had the normal rolled leaves, and 2 plants had the extremely rolled leaves. The rest had the flat leaves. 14 couples of SSR markers were used to analyze, and it indicated that all the rolled leave plants could obtain the characteristic bands of O. officinalis, but the flat leave plants showed none of them. 11 polymorphic RFLP markers were used to carry out Methylation-Sensitative Southern analysis. It showed that the methylation variation manners of 8 plants between AA and CC genome were different. [Conclusion] The alien chromosome of MAAL8 could independently and completely pass to the future generations via the meiosis, and the phenotype characteristic didn't change. Moreover, the methylation manner of O. officinali could be stably inherited in the hybrid progeny as the addition of single chromosome. The stability of methylation might have the certain effect on the relatively independent inheritance of alien chromosome in the genome environment of O. sativa.


The Article is devoted to the topical issue of the introduction and use of digital technologies and their impact on improving the efficiency of public administration in the context of obtaining the expected result of social orientation, focused on the interests of the end user – the population and business. Digitalization of the public sector at its various levels is aimed at improving the business environment, the well-being of citizens, raising their awareness and digital literacy, ensuring maximum accessibility and achieving a high level of quality of public services. The article deals with the negative factors that prevent the implementation of an intensive process of digitalization, and, consequently, improve the efficiency of public administration. The purpose of this article is to review the process of digitalization of the sphere of state and municipal management, the analysis of statistical, reflecting the scope and scale of its digital development, to identify aspects that negatively affect the quality of services provided by the authorities. The methods of comparative and factor analysis, synthesis and generalization became the main methods of the problem research. The results: the analysis of the introduction of digital technologies in the sphere of state and municipal administration, reflected the positive social effects achieved through the transition to the digital format of management, systematized reasons hindering this process, proposed measures to minimize the impact of the considered adverse factors, of which the most significant are the improvement of administrative regulations and standards for the provision of state and municipal services, legal and methodological support for the interaction of information systems at the departmental and regional levels, increasing digital literacy of the population, the elimination of social inequality in the digital space. Direction of using the achieved results: the materials of the article will be of interest to researchers and practitioners, graduate students and students.


On March 4, 2016, WayAnne Watson, a 2015 graduate of Andrews University, received the Kapp Award for the most outstanding undergraduate paper presented at the 2015 Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Conference. Watson, a music major, presented a paper entitled "Mashup Strategies in Las cuatro estaciones portenas: A model for connecting compositonal techniques to cultural interpretations" in the Academy's Interdisciplinary Studies section. She received a $100 honorarium and recognition at the 2016 Michigan Academy conference.


during the war with the Iroquois and the English colonies, usually known as King William's War. Although a goodly number of heroes emerged uring the course of the war, a critical reappraisal of the evidence suggests hat Frontenac was not of their number, and that he was rather a mediocre military commander. Moreover, throughout the war his policies were seriously influenced by two things: his vanity and his interests in the fur tr•tde. These factors have to be taken into account in explaining the course of events during the war. In October, 1689, when Frontenac returned to New France, the Iroquois had been warring with the French allies for ten years in a determined effort to break the French hold on the western fur trade.


Cage (5) for a rolling bearing (1), with side rings (6, 7) and the side rings (6, 7) connecting the webs (8), wherein between two adjacent webs (8) each having a pocket for receiving a roller body (4) is formed and at least one web (8) at least one rotatably mounted sleeve (10, 14, 15).


The utilization of robots in circumstances that can be as well risky for human intercessions is developing. Developing sensor furthermore, mechanical advances, out threats individuals from danger of flame risks. This paper displays a clever multi sensor based self-sufficient and semi-independent robot, which salvages from flame mishaps in like manner everyday life. The proposed robot can be emerged in all respects monetarily, which establishes six essential modules which incorporates its structure, snag shirking and driver framework, control framework administered by a microcontroller, fire recognition framework, remote administering framework, Global System for Portable correspondence module. In self-ruling mode, when compared with a smoke identifier, it accepts lead as it can extinguish the flame at its beginning than sitting tight for an item to seethe what's more, make smoke. It deliberately distinguishes, explores itself and douses fire with no human guide, accordingly sparing existences of numerous people. It likewise sends the crisis cautioning signal alarms to the security staff in the obligation and inside achieve fire station through the established GSM module. In semi-self-governing mode, this robot was intended to follow up on voice directions just as from a general UI created on the touch screen. This robot has included component of working in gatherings by imparting between them.


In June 2000, NASA launched the first of three next generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS-H, I and J) that incorporate a 650 MHz-wide Ka-band Single Access Return (KaSAR) service using the 25.25 – 27.5 GHz space-to-space link (SSL) allocation. In parallel with this space segment upgrade, NASA has been upgrading the ground segment to support the 650 MHz-wide Ka-band service. As part of this upgrade effort, analyses were performed to determine the fidelity requirements of the ground terminal equipment and to estimate the implementation loss of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) KaSAR 650 MHz service for customer data rates from 600 Mb/sec to 1.2 Gb/sec using various modulation schemes. This paper summarizes the results of the TDRSS KaSAR 650 MHz service implementation loss analysis. 1.0 Introduction Modifications to the TDRSS ground segment to support a KaSAR 650 MHz service are being performed under the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Ka-Band Transition Product (KaTP). In support of these modifications, simulation and analytical models were developed to determine appropriate fidelity requirements for the new hardware, evaluate vendor bids and hardware noncompliances, and estimate the total implementation loss of the TDRSS KaSAR 650 MHz service. The simulation models were developed to incorporate the primary customer transmitter and TDRSS distortions including modulator gain and phase imbalance, phase noise, channel gain and group delay variation, amplifier nonlinearities, and spurs. The output of the models was Bit-Error-Rate (BER) performance versus Eb/No. Using the models as well as hardware requirements and measurement data, a comprehensive assessment of the TDRSS KaSAR 650 MHz service implementation loss was performed. This assessment evaluated the performance of the service for a variety of modulation schemes including Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (OQPSK), 8-ary Phase Shift Keying (8PSK), Trellis Coded 8-ary Phase Shift Keying (8PSK/TCM) and Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK). The analysis focused on customer data rates between 800 Mb/sec and 1 Gb/sec, however, a range of 600 Mb/sec to 1.2 Gb/sec was analyzed.


Background: Early sexual initiation is often considered risky sexual behavior because of its adverse effects like sexually transmitted infection or unintended pregnancy. Thus, in this study, we aimed to assess spatial patterns, and determinants of early age sexual initiation among reproductive women to provide information for the policymakers. Methods: We used cross-sectional data from the 2005-2016 EDHS. We considered all nine regions and two city administrations. We applied multi-level logistic regression for determinants and spatial analysis for their distribution. We used a p-value of less than0.25 to include variables before modeling and a p-value less than0.05 with 95 Percentage CI to declare association. Results: The trend prevalence of early sexual initiation was decreased from 72.90 Percentage to 66.95 Percentage from 2005 to 2016 over the three surveys. Amhara, Afar, Tigray, Benshangul, and Gambella region were hotspots in all 2005, 2011, and 2016 surveys. Eastern Oromia,and Somali had hotspot in 2016 survey. Age, marital status, education, ever had chewed khat, region, and residence were significantly associated with early sexual initiation among reproductive age women. Conclusion: Although we saw decreased early sexual initiation over the three surveys, the problem remained profound in the country and factors like age, marital status, education, ever chewed khat, region, and residence were associated. Enlightening access to education, promotion, and behavioral change among substance users and early marriage were forwarded for improvement by the team to the region holding the problem like in Amhara, Tigray, Afar, and Beneshangul regions.


In the post-Cold War, and even in the early twenty-first century, armed guerrillas persisted in linking their armed struggle to ideological platforms, though in more flexible versions. Nationalism, fundamentalism and socialism are functional to their tactics and strategies, and have tangible effects at strategic and tactical levels. ree sample cases have been revised exhaustively, but that methodology impedes the examination of a wider spectrum of post-Cold War insurgent organizations, which may balance the results here presented. However, the high relevance of the ideological component in contemporary armed conflicts, as shown in the Afghan, Congolese and Colombian cases, demonstrates the need for further academic works on this topic.


In this research, quality control and homogeneity tests were performed for 20 surface meteorological stations records in Iraq. For this purpose, the annual precipitation data series at the stations of Iraqi meteorological organizations and seismology for the period (1981-2010) were considered. Quality control procedure involving outlier detection using Mandel's k method. Homogenization were analyzed by using four absolute methods tests namely SNH test, Pettitt test, BR test and VNR test, these tests were chosen to detect the inhomogeneity in data, the results of each test were evaluated at significance level 0.05. Results of Mandel's K methodwere classified into four categories (Normal, Abnormal 1, Abnormal 2 and Extreme) and represented in GIS software.The results showed that 5 % of station classified as Normal, 20% of stations classified as Abnormal 1, 25% of stations classified as Extreme and 50% of stations were classified as Abnormal 2. The homogeneity tests results displayed that 5% of station assigned as "doubtful" class with break years found in (1998) for (Pettitt and BR) tests, 50% of stations assigned as "useful" class , and the other stations which represent 45% assigned as "suspect" class with break years detected for (Pettitt, SNH and BR) tests most found in (1998 ad 1999) were represents 28% of break years, 21% of break years found in (1997) and other break years found between (1991-2004).


An engine and the traction motor and the transmission are selectively connected in series system of a vehicle for controlling an engine, a traction motor and a system and method for the transmission of the vehicle via a clutch selectively connected in series includes a clutch is not engaged when the engine speed is less than the motor and the rotation speed, the engine torque is adjusted, so that the engine speed increases. In response to the motor speed exceeds the engine speed, the clutch is engaged to connect the engine to the motor.


hypoglossia the spectrum from to total absence These congenital malformations classified as part of the group of oromandibular-limb hypogenesis syndromes (OLHS).


Nanosuspension is a novel drug formulation for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs. The problem of medications that are poorly water-soluble and have low bioavailability is countered by nanosuspension technology. Solubility is a significant physiochemical element that influences drug absorption and therapeutic effectiveness. Poor aqueous solubility has the potential to impair formulation development. Nanosuspension technology can improve the drug's stability and bioavailability. Nanosuspensions can be formulated for various routes of administration such as oral, parenteral, ocular, topical, and pulmonary routes. Nanosuspension can be used for targeted drug delivery also by mucoadhesive gels and ocular inserts. Recent studies were approached to develop nanosuspension on site-specific drug delivery.


The present study examines male and female learning style preferences, as identified by the Learning Style Inventory Version 2 (LSI-2), as well as gender role expression, as identified by the Bem Sex Role Inventory Short Form (BSRI-SF). Psychologists and sociologists alike study what are believed to be sex-based differences in human behaviors and traits. However, a major confounding factor in research may be gender role expression. If gender role expression were a confounding factor, then male versus female research findings would not apply to people unless they are congruent with sex-based stereotypes. One of the objectives of the present study (female N = 44, male N = 42) was to observe whether gender expression related to learning style preferences. The second objective was to examine whether sex related to learning style preferences. The final goal was to examine whether gender expression accounted for more of variance observed in learning style preferences than did sex. We observed that female participants were significantly more likely to be categorized as assimilative, that participants who were gender undifferentiated were disproportionately less likely to endorse assimilative learning style preferences, and finally, that gendered traits did account for more of the observed variance in learning style than did biological sex. Degree Type Dissertation Rights Terms of use for work posted in CommonKnowledge. Comments Library Use: LIH This dissertation is available at CommonKnowledge: http://commons.pacificu.edu/spp/1117 Copyright and terms of use If you have downloaded this document directly from the web or from CommonKnowledge, see the "Rights" section on the previous page for the terms of use. If you have received this document through an interlibrary loan/document delivery service, the following terms of use apply: Copyright in this work is held by the author(s). You may download or print any portion of this document for personal use only, or for any use that is allowed by fair use (Title 17, §107 U.S.C.). Except for personal or fair use, you or your borrowing library may not reproduce, remix, republish, post, transmit, or distribute this document, or any portion thereof, without the permission of the copyright owner. [Note: If this document is licensed under a Creative Commons license (see "Rights" on the previous page) which allows broader usage rights, your use is governed by the terms of that license.] Inquiries regarding further use of these materials should be addressed to: CommonKnowledge Rights, Pacific University Library, 2043 College Way, Forest Grove, OR 97116, (503) 352-7209. Email inquiries may be directed to:. firstname.lastname@example.com This dissertation is available at CommonKnowledge: http://commons.pacificu.edu/spp/1117 LEARNING STYLES AND GENDERED TRAITS


The authors conducted an exploratory content analysis of 269 English language articles about the digital divide to identify potential connections between proposed solutions and the strategic interests of the proposers, or stakeholders. Articles were coded by type of suggested solution and by type of stakeholder offering the solution. Educators predominated in the study literature, stressing the need for a change in Internet connectivity, educational content, and a change in user education, socioeconomic status (SES), and culture. The digital industry provided the next largest number of articles, suggesting governmental policy changes to promote new equipment, increased Internet connectivity, the training of digital industry workers, and a change in content of the Internet. Articles from the nondigital business community suggested that no gap existed or that market dynamics (the status quo) would close it.


The purpose of this study is to determine the shopping values of new millennial. Scarcity of research in this domain triggers to investigate this phenomenon and to evaluate the moderating role of corporate social responsibility toward hedonic and utilitarian value. This research work investigated changes in new millennial behavior toward hedonic and utilitarian product purchase intention. The samples of 197 actual users of products having age (20-35) were analyzed. Measurement tool for variables was adapted form (Chaisurivirat, 2009) study. The result shows that new millennial has dominant hedonic values which are influenced by corporate social responsibility. These values have positive effect on purchase of hedonic products. Corporate social responsibility has strong positive effect on hedonic products as compare to utilitarian products. Research impletion and future direction are discussed in the commentary.


The invention discloses an infrared focal plane array signal simulator which comprises a panel button control circuit, a main control machine, a CPCI (compact peripheral component interface) bus interface circuit, a DPLL (digital phase locked loop) clock generation and programmable clock distribution circuit, a memory management circuit, a synchronous signal generation circuit, a programmable synchronous delay circuit, a DAC (digital-to-analog converter) control circuit and a low-voltage-difference high-steady-state power supply circuit, wherein the panel button control circuit is connected with the main control machine; the main control machine is connected with the CPCI bus interface circuit through a CPCI bus; the CPCI bus interface circuit is respectively connected to the DPLL clock generation and programmable clock distribution circuit, the memory management circuit, the synchronous signal generation circuit, the programmable synchronous delay circuit, a direct-current and alternating-current DAC control circuit through an internal bus, and the synchronous signal generation circuit, the programmable synchronous delay circuit and the DAC control circuit are also connected to the low-voltage-difference high-steady-state power supply circuit through the internal bus. The infrared focal plane array signal simulator provided by the invention can simulate a simulation source output by an infrared focal plane device signal according to the electric signal output characteristics of an infrared focal plane array device, thus the qualitative inspection and quantitative calibration of a data collection system can be realized.


Poor power quality affects the functioning of utilities, industrial units, productions, system performance, customer services and operating cost. There is an ever increasing need for power quality monitoring systems owing to the growing number of sources of disturbances in AC power systems. Thus, a real-time signal detection and harmonic analysis is of great significance to provide power quality solutions. In this paper, a power quality monitoring system is developed by designing Virtual Instruments (Vis) using LabVIEW™. Power quality parameters such as instantaneous power, active and reactive power, power factor and harmonics are all presented.


ABSTRACT Grain drying is a simultaneous heat and moisture transfer problem. The modelling of such a problem is of significance in understanding and controlling the drying process. In the present study, a mathematical model for coupled heat and moisture transfer problem is presented. The model consists of four partial differential equations for mass balance, heat balance, heat transfer and drying rate. A simple finite difference method is used to solve the equations. The method shows good flexibility in choosing time and space steps which enable the simulation of long term grain drying/cooling processes. A deep barley bed is used as an example of grain beds in the current simulation. The results are verified against experimental data taken from literature. The analysis of the effects of operating conditions on the temperature and moisture content within the bed is also carried out


This course book introduces quality concepts, definitions of quality assurance and development and discusses the question why quality management (QM) is an important concept for higher education institutions.


In inert solvents in the presence of aluminum chloride, aroyl peroxides decompose to esters and carbon dioxide. In highly nucleophilic solvents such as anisole or mesitylene, p,p′-dinitrobenzoyl peroxide effects a Friedel–Crafts type of substitution of the solvent molecule. Both decomposition and substitution reactions probably depend on a heterolytic fission of the peroxide linkage catalyzed by aluminum chloride.


The purpose of this study is to determine effects of regular participation in dance activities on young girls mood state and self-esteem.For the purpose, this researcher surveyed total 435 middle and high school girls(217 participants and 218 non-participants) to know whether they participated in dance activities regularly differences in mood state and self-esteem among them in accordance with their school level. As a result, the researcher could get significant results as follows.
First, young girls participation in dance activities is effective in reducing their negative mood states such as depression, anger, anxiety and confusion.
Second, young girls participation in dance activities promotes their positive self-esteem and reduces their negative self-esteem
Third, young girls self-esteem are correlated with their mood state. Whether such correlation is static or non-static depends on whether those girls participate in dance activities or not.
In conclusion, regular participation in dance activities reduces young girls negative mood and promotes their positive self-esteem. However, it is still needed to make further analyses to know why such participation promotes self-esteem, what type of dance is more effective, what physical strength of dance is most effective and what relations exist between self-esteem and mood state. These should be further dealt with through subsequent studies.


This research paper investigates current experimental designs and regression models for calibrating internal wind tunnel force balances of non-monolithic design. Such calibration methods are necessary for this class of balance because it has an electrical response that is dependent upon the sign of the applied forces and moments. This dependency gives rise to discontinuities in the response surfaces that are not easily modeled using traditional response surface methodologies. An analysis of current recommended calibration models is shown to lead to correlated response model terms. Alternative modeling methods are explored which feature orthogonal or near-orthogonal terms.


The present study examines the phylogeography of Pholidopterini (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae), a lineage distributed in the East Mediterranean and estimated substitution rates for the three mitochondrial and two nuclear gene segments. The last common ancestor of Pholidopterini was dated to 18 myr ago, in Early Miocene. Phylogeography of the lineage was marked with three waves of radiations, first during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, the second during the Serravallian, and third during the ending of Messinian. The substitution rate estimations were 0.0187/0.018/0.0141/0.0010207 s/s/myr for COI/ND2/12S-tRNAval-6S/ITS1-5.8S rRNA-ITS2. The following main conclusions were drawn; (i) Radiation of Pholidopterini directed by the climatic shifts, (ii) signs of vicariant speciation were poor, contrary to the active tectonic history, (iii) the ultimate generic ancestors were dated to the Langhian and Serravallian, and (vi) the Tortonian transgression of Mid-Aegean Trench appears to be a reliable geographic calibration point for lineage splitting between Crete and Anatolia.


century before Christ.1 The Euphrates, represented by wavy lines, is mapped as flowing past the walls of the town. A plan of the city of Madaktu of 650 B.C. (not Susa or Shushan, as the city is called by Daly and Loftus), appearing on a slab of baked brick, is probably contemporaneous with the map of Babylon.2 The bas-relief was made to adorn the walls of the palace of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, who reigned in 668-626 B.C. at Nineveh. Unfortunately a part of the slab showing the city has been destroyed. The part remaining is bordered by two rivers, and the ground plan of the city is distinct. The immediate town, surrounded by a turreted wall, is made up of square flat-roofed buildings, a few of which have turrets. Outside


Abstract Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are essential components in numerous natural and man made organic compounds. In asphaltenes, knowledge of the electronic structure of both its aromatic and aliphatic components is of crucial importance, when trying to understand and predict its macroscopic properties. Theoretical studies of complex PAHs have led to simple rules to describe their π electron distribution, but systematic experimental support is still needed. A novel approach to directly probe carbon type in PAHs is described here, namely the technique of X-ray Raman spectroscopy (XRS). Conventional X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has been used for many years for element specific characterization of local structure and chemistry. However, in the soft X-ray region (relevant for light elements) its application to numerous carbonaceous systems including asphaltenes encounters problems. Most of the difficulties, including surface sensitivity and restricted sample environments, stem from the submicron path lengths of soft X-rays and/or electrons. XRS provides a means for obtaining the information content of soft X-ray absorption spectra while maintaining the experimental benefits of hard X-ray techniques (˜mm path length). In the XRS process an incident photon is inelastically scattered and part of its energy is transferred to excite an inner shell electron into an unoccupied state. Under the dipole approximation, the resulting features are identical to the corresponding XAS spectrum. In the past, the extremely low cross-section of XRS has made this technique impractical, but intense new X-ray facilities and improvements in X-ray optics have helped to advance this unique spectroscopic tool. We have applied XRS to a series of PAHs and several asphaltenes. The results directly support the simple ideas contained in the "sextet-double bond" description of PAHs. Furthermore, we show that XRS can probe the geometrry of aromatic ring systems in asphaltenes, as well as its ratio of aromatic and aliphatic constituents.


When a system behaves abnormally, a diagnosis is a set of system components whose failure explains the abnormality. It is known that compiling the system model into deterministic decomposable negation normal form (d-DNNF) allows efficient computation of the complete set of diagnoses. We extend this approach to sequential diagnosis, where a sequence of measurements is taken to narrow down the set of diagnoses until the actual faults are identified. We propose novel probabilistic heuristics to reduce the diagnostic cost, defined as the number of measurements. Our heuristics involve the posterior probabilities of component failures and the entropies of measurement points. The structure of the system is exploited so that a joint probability distribution over the faults and system variables is represented compactly as a Bayesian network, which is then compiled into d-DNNF. All posterior probabilities required are computed exactly and efficiently by traversing the d-DNNF. Finally, we scale the approach further by performing the diagnosis in a hierarchical fashion. Compared with the previous GDE framework, whose heuristic involves the entropy over the set of diagnoses and estimated posterior probabilities, we avoid the often impractical need to explicitly go through all diagnoses, and are able to compute the probabilities exactly. Experiments with ISCAS-85 circuits indicate that our approach can solve for the first time a set of multiple-fault diagnostic cases on large circuits, with good performance in terms of diagnostic cost.


Since monkeys certainly understand much that is said to them by man, and when wild, utter signal-cries of danger to their fellows; and since fowls give distinct warnings for danger on the ground, or in the sky from hawks ... may not some unusually wise apelike animal have imitated the growl of a beast of prey, and thus told his fellow-monkeys the nature of the expected danger? This would have been a first step in the formation of a language. ...When we treat of sexual selection we shall see that primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, probably first used his voice in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing, as do some of the gibbon-apes at the present day; and we may conclude from a widely-spread analogy, that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes,would have expressed various emotions, such as love, jealousy, triumph,and would have served as a challenge to rivals. (Darwin 1871: 56-57.)


"Europe" is an historical concept that first been discussed widely in the 15th century. "Europe" and concepts concerning it are closely connected with the historical development in the continent, as the conceptual evolution of "Europe" is an integral part of European history. It indicates not only a territory in geographic sense, but also the identity of Europeans. In order to understand better the current discussion on the border and eastern enlargement of the EU, it is necessary to understand the evolution of the idea of "Europe". In this paper, Europe is observed from three aspects: the territorial changes, the transformation of social and political institutions, and the cultural core of "Europe".


The net photosynthetic rate,chlorophyll content and chlorophyll fluorescence characteristic of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) were determined under different inter-row space of cassava/peanut intercropping(30,35, 40,45,50 cm) and monocropping in the field after 90 d of sowing.The result showed that the net photosynthetic rate and chlorophyll(Chl a+b) content,initial fluorescence(Fo),photochemical quenching(qP) in leaves of peanut intercropped with cassava decreased.However,the maximum fluorescence(Fm),variable fluorescence(Fv), maximum photochemical efficiency(Fv/Fm),potential activity of photosystem II(Fv/Fo,non-photochemical quenching(qN) of intercropped peanut increased.Moreover,Pn,Fv,Fv/Fm,Fv/ Fo,apparent electron transport rates(ETR) and effective quantum yield of photosystem II(Yield) of peanut intercropped under 30-35 cm inter-row treatment were more than those under 40-45 cm row space.In conclusion,the shading of intercropping decreased net photosynthetic rate and chlorophyll content of peanut in leaves,and these changes of chlorophyll fluorescence characteristic showed that peanut had flexibility to shading stress under intercropping.


This project addresses the demand for an intelligent and rapid classification system of skin diseases - Acne, Melanoma, Psoriasis, Rosacea, Vitiligo using highly-efficient convolutional neural network. Diseases like Melanoma can be prove to be fatal if not identified early. Thus, identifying the diseases at early stages is critical to save lives. Towards this goal we propose a system that uses recent deep Convolutional Neural Network learning methods that are capable of classification of skin disease. The model is trained with labelled data of the skin diseases. Using feature extraction, the features of the diseases like the diameter, color and border are identified. The features are then summarized while retaining the important information. Then, the image of the skin lesion is loaded into the model along with various factors like the patient's history, drinking or smoking habits and results of the tissue testing. These factors help provide additional information about the patient to produce more accurate results. The system then classifies the type of skin disease along with the severity of the diseases based on the trained data. Automated systems capable of detecting diseases could save lives, costs and reduce needless interference. Celebi and M. proposed an automatic method for detecting melanoma in skin microscopic pictures. The suggested method collects texture and statistical histogram information from the microscopic sub-image, then uses asymmetric analysis and the retrieved data to estimate tumour location. The final choice is made using a fusion-based HMM classifier that is trained for each sub-image using the EM approach. The classifier's parameters are optimised using EM, which merges the retrieved features and makes an optimal judgement for each sub-image at the same time. Melanoma may be recognised in each pathology sample utilising textural characteristics and a fusion-based HMM classifier, according to our findings. A modest number of examples were used to calculate the Gray level parameters.[1]


The 2-percent polarization sensitivity specification in many of NASA's Earth Observing System sensors has motivated Santa Barbara Research Center (SBRC) to develop computer programs that model the polarization characteristics of optical systems. In support of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer program, SBRC has developed an analytical tool which unites the completed 3D lens design and coating designs to accurately predict an optical system's polarization characterization compensators, nonnormal incidence reflection and transmission from dichroic beam splitters and protected silver mirrors are analyzed without the need for proprietary coating prescriptions. The phenomenon of diattenuation and phase change are treated using the Jones matrix formalism.


A number of recent publications have suggested that Pc5 field line resonance (FLR) azimuthal phase speeds may provide a diagnostic for determining pulsation excitation mechanisms. We analyze a subset of 27 multiple frequency FLR pulsation events identified from a total of 137 events observed with the IMAGE magnetometer array from March 1994, March 1995, and March 1996 to test the validity of this diagnostic. We show that during intervals of high solar wind speed, the frequency components within a pulsation event display a commonality of azimuthal phase speed, which may be related to the propagation speed of a shear-flow instability on the magnetopause. In contrast, events observed during lower solar wind speed intervals often result in frequency components which have differing azimuthal phase speeds and may be more closely associated with impulses in the solar wind. Examining the local time dependence of each type of event reveals that the common phase speed events seem to be much more prevalent in the morning sector. We suggest that the local time dependence of the magnetospheric waveguide modes' boundary condition may account for the observed pulsation characteristics, in accordance with the theory of Mann et al. [1999]. Our observations provide some support for the hypothesis that many of the morning sector events are driven by magnetopause shear-flow instabilities during intervals of enhanced solar wind speed and that these events are superposed on a background of more impulsively driven pulsations which may occur over a wider range of local time in response to solar wind discontinuities and buffeting.


This article focused on the National Monitoring and control stations and selfbuilt two dust four gas, and the data were analysed, taking into account the humidity, temperature, wind speed, pressure, precipitation of the five meteorological factors, the difference between the two data analysis, and made the establishment of a mathematical model, the self-built Point data was calibrated.


Abstract This is a case study on the restoration of historic buildings in the historic town Zhaohua, which was damaged in the 5/12 Sichuan Earthquake. Based on post-earthquake investigations of damage and the restoration of historic buildings in Zhaohua, the authors described the restoration conditions of historic buildings both during and following the recovery process. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the restoration methods of historic buildings, in order to preserve the historic district after the earthquake. The authors summarize by suggesting that governments should make a restoration plan which provides for the long term (5-10 years), and focus on not only cultural properties, but also undesignated historic buildings in the historic district.


According to the principle of capacitive sensors and the A7102 RF chip with a high sensitivity and the STM8L101F3 MCU with low-power consumption,this paper designed a multifunction wireless measurement system.This system can track the maximum and the minimum,keep count and clear.The system used a special chip to convert the signal level of the sensor to the CMOS level,and it used opto isolation technology to enhance the system's anti-jamming capability.


In a ferromagnet, an anomalous-Hall heat current, given by the off-diagonal Peltier term α xy , accompanies the anomalous Hall current. By combining Nernst, thermopower and Hall experiments, we have measured how α xy varies with hole density and lifetime τ in CuCr 2 Se 4 − x Br x . At low temperatures T , we find that α xy is independent of τ , consistent with anomalous-velocity theories. Its magnitude is fixed by a microscopic geometric area A ∼ 34 ˚A 2 . Our results are incompatible with some models of the Nernst effect in ferromagnets.


The 1997–2010 Labour Government introduced wide-ranging constitutional reforms, creating new democratically elected bodies and rights for UK citizens. However, the governance of England was left largely unchanged. With the exception of the Greater London Authority, no new democratic bodies were created for England, nor were any significant powers granted to local government. An extensive system of regional administration was created but then swiftly swept away by the incoming Coalition Government in 2010. England became the only part of the union whose domestic policy was determined by the UK Government. This chapter argues that this outcome was rooted in Labour's traditions of political thought: its assumption of a unitary state, its centralist instincts, its distrust of local government and its reluctance to consider England's identity and constitutional position within the union. It finds some evidence Labour is now taking the English Question more seriously, but old attitudes retain significant weight.


Chapter Eleven discusses comics that look back at American political history through presidential allohistories—fictionalized, reimagined, or reinterpreted versions of historical record in forms that can be considered speculative fiction. The chapter primarily focuses on several "punk" histories: steampunk, dieselpunk, and biopunk accounts of wartime presidents and eras: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and the Cold War of Franklin Roosevelt through Lyndon Johnson. It argues that nostalgia plays a large role in the shape of these accounts, and in current political debates, continuing to reinforce the American presidency as an inherently White, masculine, institution.


This paper analyzes the efiects of aft-loaded empennage airfoil on the aircraft global trim through CFD (computational ∞uid dynamics) methodology, using MGAERO software and a basic fuselage-wing model of a typical civil aircraft of several difierent empennage modes. The calculation results indicate that the empennage of aft-loaded design would cause less loss of the lift and drag after the global trim of the aircraft, which would lead to some gains in the overall lift/drag ratio and aerodynamic performance with some combined efiect such as twist. The theoretical evaluation of the gains is provided. This paper reveals the root cause of the trend that aft-loaded design is preferred for the empennage airfoil on the civil aircraft, and also shows that the overall drag including the trim part is important in the assessment of aircraft drag performance.


Dynamic heat lamp usage (HLU) of neonatal piglets exposed to 250W, 175W, and 125W heat lamps was measured during four production seasons. The 24-hour HLU patterns were measured at one and two weeks of age for each production season, and expressed as the percentage of litter mates using the heat lamp. HLU was significantly higher (P


This paper discusses critical issues related to extraction of information from the brain of a person, without his behavioral or oral outputs. Information extraction has become an important forensic/security need, and newer non invasive methods of investigation of suspects are being adopted for this purpose. Two paradigms that have been used extensively so far are that of detection of deception, and remembrance of experiences (memory of autobiographic episodes). A Third paradigm- recognition of concealed information (known only to the guilty) was considered unsuccessfully in the past. Both lie detection and recognition of concealed information paradigms usually require responses from the subjects to the stimuli presented, whereas remembrance of experiences is achieved through verbal/visual cueing, which does not need any response from the subject. Lie detection is primarily used in a forensic context, whereas the use of remembrance is only incidental in Forensics. It is important to note that none of the methods available today can indicate the contents of thoughts. A Large spectrum of personal activities or episodic details can be tested using the remembrance paradigm, which involves several neurocognitive stages linked to attention of internal processing, accessing memory, semantic processing, and recreation of sensory and motor imageries, which occur during remembrance. Changes associated with these neurocognitive processes are recorded using the electrical oscillations from the brain, they are analyzed in the frequency and time domains for eliciting a signature of remembrance, triggered by the verbal probes used for cueing the individual.


An experimental target recognition system (XTRS) for detecting and recognizing target vehicles in laser radar imagery is discussed. XTRS is a model-based system with four major processing stages; detection, extraction, decomposition, and matching. Recognition decisions are made by comparing image features and their spatial relationships to a hierarchical library of target appearance models. Laser radar sensors and the imagery they produce are briefly described. XTRS and its processing stages are described. System performance on several data sets is discussed


Social networks have begun supporting external content integration with platforms like OpenSocial and the Facebook API. These platforms let users install third- party applications and are a popular example of a mashup. Content integration is often accomplished by proxying the third-party content or importing third-party scripts. However, these methods introduce serious risks of user impersonation and data exposure. Modern browsers provide no mechanism to differentiate between trusted and untrusted embedded content. As a result, content providers are forced to trust third-party scripts or ensure user safety by means of server-side code sanitization. We demonstrate the difficulties of server-side code filtering -- and the ramifications of its failure - with an example from the Facebook Platform. We then propose browser modifications that would distinguish between trusted and untrusted content and enforce their separation.


A rainbow matching in an edge-coloured graph is a matching such that its edges have distinct colours. We show that every properly edge-coloured graph $G$ with $|G| \ge (9\delta(G) -5)/2$ has a rainbow matching of size $\delta(G)$, improving a result of Diemunsch et al.


Flat panel detectors remain a new and emerging technology in under-table fluoroscopy systems. This technology is more susceptible than image intensifiers to electronic noise, which degrades image contrast resolution. Compensation for increased electronic noise is provided through proprietary vendor image processing algorithms. Lacking optimization in pediatrics, these algorithms interfere with patient anatomy particularly in neonate patients with low native anatomic contrast from bony structures, which serve as landmarks during fluoroscopic procedures. Existing phantoms do not adequately mimic the neonate anatomy making assessment and optimization of image quality for these patients difficult if not impossible. This work presents a method to inexpensively print iodine based anthropomorphic phantoms derived from patient radiographs with sufficient anatomic detail to assess system image quality. First, the attenuation of iodine ink densities (μt) was correlated to a standard pixel value grayscale map. Next, for proof-of-principle, radiographs of an anthropomorphic chest phantom were developed into a series of iodine ink printed sheets. Sheets were stacked to build a compact 2D phantom matching the x-ray attenuation of the original radiographs. The iodine ink printed phantom was imaged and attenuation values per anatomical regions of interest were compared. This study provides the fundamentals and techniques of phantom construction, enabling generation of anatomically realistic phantoms for a variety of patient age and size groups by use of clinical radiographs. Future studies will apply these techniques to generate neonatal phantoms from radiographs. These phantoms provide realistic imaging challenges to enable optimization of image quality in fluoroscopy and other projection-based x-ray modalities.


9 shift from aSeiv to r]X °f t n e S n a t s e t s off a chain of intertexts which eventually arrives at the cicadas of Plato's Phaedrus: ' recognition of the cicada's shadowed presence clarifies the threat to traditional speech, and traditional understanding of speech, posed by Socrates' analysis and the (parodic) transformation worked on the song of the gnat' (p. 37). However, I would doubt whether many beside O'R. have detected this 'shadowed presence'. The attempt to read Clouds in as precise and fruitful way as possible becomes unconvincing because she tries too hard, and leads to errors and carelessnesses, as the discourse begins to feed off itself rather than the text, and paraphrases state what her theory requires rather than what Aristophanes says. Some errors are not important, e.g. Aiaoiois 'festival of the Diasioi' (p. 88), but others are more troubling since they are being used to support the main argument. One could say that these errors are often no more than 'noise' in a basically satisfactory signal, but there are a sufficient number of them to undermine one's faith in some of the argumentation. Her suggestions that the Clouds 'are introduced as arguments' and are finally stripped ' implicitly' of their divinity are also unconvincing (p. 44). Finally, do we need whole books on individual plays? The pressures to publish substantial works are all too well-known, but sometimes brevity can be more influential: published as a major article, with blemishes removed and argumentation thinned, this could have been generally recommendable, but in its present dense form (and indeed at its outrageous price) it may undeservedly deter all but specialists from persevering with it. Nonetheless, if some readers may feel it is against them that rhetoric and the violence of language have been directed, those enjoying the unfettered play of signifiers in a text will derive pleasure and instruction from the book.


Pressure ulcers are common complications in clinical patients. Nutritional management of pressure ulcers is one of the difficulties in clinical medical work. The occurrence of pressure ulcers has a certain relationship with malnutrition,and sufficient supply of calories,protein and micronutrient to the patients can promote the healing of pressure ulcers. Here is to make a review of the progress in nutritional management of pressure ulcers,including macronutrients,micronutrients and high blood sugar control,etc.Improving the quality of medical care and strengthening the nutritional management can reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers and promote their healing,thus,reduce the patients' sufferings.


The recently developed Bacterial Foraging Optimization algorithm (BFO) is a nature-inspired optimization algorithm based on the foraging behavior of Escherichia coli. Due to its simplicity and effectiveness, BFO has been applied widely in many engineering and scientific fields. However, when dealing with more complex optimization problems, especially high dimensional and multimodal problems, BFO performs poorly in convergence compared to other nature-inspired optimization techniques. In this paper, we therefore propose an improved BFO, termed ChaoticBFO, which combines two chaotic strategies to achieve a more suitable balance between exploitation and exploration. Specifically, a chaotic initialization strategy is incorporated into BFO for bacterial population initialization to achieve acceleration throughout early steps of the proposed algorithm. Then, a chaotic local search with a 'shrinking' strategy is introduced into the chemotaxis step to escape from local optimum. The performance of ChaoticBFO was validated on 23 numerical well-known benchmark functions by comparing with 10 other competitive metaheuristic algorithms. Moreover, it was applied to two real-world benchmarks from IEEE CEC 2011. The experimental results demonstrate that ChaoticBFO is superior to its counterparts in both convergence speed and solution quality in most of the cases. This paper is of great significance for promoting the research, improvement and application of the BFO algorithm.


One of the subtle problems in color image processing is the difficulty of adjusting specific color tones in the image without affecting all other colors. The usual method is to adjust the primaries so as to produce as realistic as possible skin tones, and at the same time balance the rest of the colors dose to their natural appearances. The reality, however, is that a balance of all color tones to their natural appearances by just adjusting the three primaries is not always a possible task. An alternative approach is to selectively adjust specific color tones without altering the color balance in the rest of the image. Such a scheme can be referred to as selective color tone adjustment. It is also possible to selectively sharpen or blur a specific color by selective color filtering. One application of this method is in the production of true-to-life colors in television systems. Other applications could include special effects such as soft blur or color change of specific subjects, etc. The authors present a scheme for color classification and examine its application in selective color tone adjustment. >


AbstractEight years of Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) level-3 cloud data in conjunction with collocated Interim ECMWF Re-Analysis are used to investigate relationships between isolated low-topped cloud fraction (LCF) and dynamics/thermodynamics versus averaging time scale. Correlation coefficients between LCF and −SST exceed 0.70 over 56% of ocean regions from 25°S to 25°N for 90-day running means and exceed 0.70 between LCF and 500-hPa omega (ω500) for over one-third of oceans from 50°S to 50°N. Correlations increase most dramatically by increasing the averaging time scale from 1 day to about 15, owing to the large LCF synoptic variability and random effects that are suppressed by averaging. In five regions selected with monthly mean SSTs between 291 and 303 K, SST decreases by −0.13 K %-1 low-cloud cover increase. Monthly LCF is also correlated with estimated inversion strength (EIS), which is SST dominated in low latitudes and free tropospheric temperature dominated in the n...


The airborne activities during the ASTAR 2004 [1] campaign were extended by the operation of a second AWI research aircraft Polar 2 deployed for the remote measurements of vertical distribution of aerosol and thin cloud optical properties with the AWI Airborne Mobile Aerosol Lidar (AMALi) [2], as well as for the in-situ measurements of the microphysical and optical properties of Arctic clouds (particularly ice phase in mixed-phase clouds) by an unique combination of LaMP instrumentation. It allowed development of an experimental methodology for the description of the cloud properties using alternated remote and in-situ observations. In this paper the results obtained during the flight on 5 June 2004, taken under the requirement that both lidar and in-situ instrumentation probe the same cloud system are presented. Quasi-simultaneous alternated remote observations of clouds vertical and horizontal structures and depolarisation effects due to presence of ice particles are combined with in-situ microphysics and optical properties of cloud particles.


Rates of oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection are increasing in men. The obligate precursor to OPC is a persistent infection with an oncogenic HPV type that is unable to be cleared via natural immunity alone. However, the factors that influence HPV persistence at the oral cavity are unknown. It is plausible that long-term infection with other pathogens at the same anatomic site indicates an overall inability to clear an oral infection. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a saliva-transmitted gamma herpesvirus that infects 90% of the population by adulthood and replicates in the epithelial cells of the oropharynx. This study aimed to investigate whether oral EBV shedding, a marker of active viral replication, could serve as a biomarker for persistent, oncogenic oral HPV infection in men. Men with an HPV16 or 18 oral infection present at the baseline visit of the HPV Infection in Men (HIM) Study were included (n=63). Briefly, men from Tampa, FL, U.S.; Cuernavaca, Mexico; and Sao Paolo, Brazil were followed every 6 months for a median of 4.1 years. Men completed a risk factor questionnaire and provided an oral gargle sample at each visit. For this study, the baseline, 6-month, and 12-month oral specimens were HPV genotyped using the SPF10 PCR-DEIA-LiPA25 system. Presence of EBV was evaluated in the baseline specimen using PCR to amplify and quantify the EBV DNA on the Rotor-Gene Q MDx instrument. Men with the same oral HPV type present at the 6-month and 12-month visit were categorized as 6-month and 12-month oral HPV persistent, respectively. The association between EBV and persistent HPV infection was investigated using a logistic regression model adjusted for age, country, and smoking. Among 63 men with oral HPV 16/18 infection at baseline, 44 HPV infections did not persist, 19 persisted to at least 6-months and 11 persisted to at least 12 months. Among the total sample, 32 also had EBV detected in the oral gargle at baseline. Among men who did not have a persistent HPV infection, 21 (47.7%) had EBV detected at baseline while 11 (57.9%) men with an HPV infection that persisted at least 6 months had detectable EBV at baseline; and 9 (81.8%) of the men who persisted to 12 months had EBV detected. Mean EBV viral load was highest among men who persisted to at least 12 months (5.0 log copies/ml) and was significantly higher than men who did not persist (2.5 log copies/ml; p=0.047). Detection of oral EBV at baseline was significantly associated with elevated risk of ≥12-month oral HPV 16/18 persistence (aOR: 9.90; 95% CI: 1.38-70.96), but not ≥6-month HPV 16/18 persistence (aOR: 1.62; 95% CI: 0.52-5.06).These data support the hypothesis that EBV reactivation may be a biomarker of poor immune control leading to increased risk of oral HPV persistence. The use of a biomarker that identifies men whose HPV infection may persist would be a useful tool to allow for screening and early detection of OPC.
 Citation Format: Brittney L. Dickey, Anna R. Giuliano, Bradley Sirak, Martha Abrahamsen, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Luisa L. Villa, Anna E. Coghill. Co-infection with Epstein-Barr virus impacts oral HPV persistence [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 2264.


This paper presents an improved performance of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) using a hybrid Fuzzy/ Proportional-Integral (PI) controller. Hybrid control has an advantage of integrating a superiority of two or more control techniques for better control performances. A fuzzy controller offers better speed responses for start-up and large reference input changes (large speed error) as compared to a Proportional-Integral controller. Nevertheless, a rules-based fuzzy controller is limited to a particular operating condition. If the nature of the load torque is varied, the steady-state error of the fuzzy logic controller will be significant. The Proportional-Integral controller has good adaptability over load torque variation and can maintain high steady-state accuracy. However, the transient responses are quite poor. This study has incorporated a Fuzzy and PI into the control of PMSM to improve its dynamic speed performances. The simulation is carried out using Matlab Simulink.


The purpose of this research is to produce a model of skill training in passing in sepaktakraw game for high school students. In addition, this research and development is conducted to gain in-depth information on the formation and application of the passing skill training model in the sepaktakraw game for high school students and to know the effectiveness, efficiency and attractiveness of the child against the established model. This research uses Research & Development (R & D) development method from Borg and Gall. Subjects in this research and development are participants of extracurricular activities sepaktakraw high school level consisting of 50 children.The instruments used in this research and development are questionnaires, questionnaires, and passing skills test instruments in sepaktakraw games that are used to collect data on skill baits as well as individual high school students. The stages of the research and development are: (1) Jurnal Pendidikan Olahraga, Vol. 7, No. 1, Juni 2018 84 needs, (2) expert evaluation (initial product evaluation); (3) limited testing (small group trial); and (4) the main test (field testing). The model effectiveness test uses the passing test to determine the skill level of the baited high school student skill skill prior to the assignment of the skill module training model in the established high school level game and to determine the skill level of the baits as long as the treatment or practice of the baiting skill training model which has been established.Based on the results obtained it can be concluded that: (1) With the exercise model of passing skill in games sepaktakraw for high school age children can improve the quality and yield of passing effectively and efficiently.(2) With the artificial feedstock material that researchers have developed, high school aged children can quickly understand and understand varied and rapidly differentiated preliminary bait exercises. obtained evidence of this increase in the show on the test results data pretest and posttest results of significant differences between before and after the treatment of the model


Abstract. The concept of a Digital Twin (DT) takes an increasingly important role in the construction industry and related research fields. It is a concept associated with Industry 4.0; however, the scientific literature does not provide a unique and clear definition of this concept. This paper aims to analyse the definitions of the digital twin to clarify this concept in the related fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). Moreover, this work proposes and employs the concept of a Digital Twin as an objective for a project-based learning approach in a didactical setting. As an interdisciplinary approach, this work demonstrates the potential impact on the traditional didactical frameworks in the educational domain of construction and its value as an opportunity to introduce interdisciplinary expertise to all students in these fields. This work presents a use case applying the concept at the School of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics of FHNW.


Multivariate time series (MTS) data are ubiquitous in science and daily life, and how to measure their similarity is a core part of MTS analyzing process. Many of the research efforts in this context have focused on proposing novel similarity measures for the underlying data. However, with the countless techniques to estimate similarity between MTS, this field suffers from a lack of comparative studies using quantitative and large scale evaluations.  In order to provide a comprehensive validation, an extensive evaluation of similarity measures for MTS clustering were conducted. The 14 well-known similarity measures with their variants and testing their effectiveness on 23 MTS datasets coming from a wide variety of application domains were re-implemented. In this paper, an overview of these different techniques is given and the empirical comparison regarding their effectiveness based on agglomerative clustering task is presented. Furthermore, the statistical significance tests were used to derive meaningful conclusions. It has been found that all of similarity measures are equivalent, in terms of clustering F-measure, and there is no significant difference between similarity measures based on our datasets. The results provide a comparative background between similarity measures to find the most proper method in terms of performance and computation time in this field.


Transport planning of island cities has set, until recently, as a priority, the service of travelling by private vehicle, so their development was based on this logic. However, the consequences of the dependence on the car use are now evident at all levels: urban, transport, environmental, economic and social. The era of car dominance in island regions must come to a closure. After recognizing the problems that modern island cities have to face, due to the inability of existing infrastructures and networks to respond to the dynamics for more sustainable mobility, new models of transport and urban planning need to be adopted. Sustainable mobility is one of the most contemporary directions of the EU, in terms of organizing the transport system and addressing the main problems of island cities. Sustainable mobility practically describes a transport system that meets transport needs and, at the same time, defends environmental integrity, social equity and economic efficiency. The "Sustainable Island Mobility Plans" (SIMPs) which provide a comprehensive strategy to meet mobility needs through the principles of "integrated planning, participatory effort and evaluation", tend to this direction. The SIMP differs completely from a conventional traffic approach, as it focuses on the human factor (residents and visitors), as well as the change in attitude towards mobility, promoting alternative and friendly means of transport. This paper will present island cities policies that will provide measures and strategies for the enhancement of sustainable island mobility, namely traffic and road network management, equal mobility of vulnerable users, improvement of network service, transport infrastructure, and spatial and urban planning. Future planning should aim to reduce the negative impact of transport on the environment, as well as create efficient and affordable transport in island regions.


A mathematical model is developed to predict the rate of distilled water production for a solar still with convective, double-deck configuration. The model is based on the one-dimensionally distributed formulation in the flow direction and two media treatment in the vertical direction. Different operating conditions are investigated to include different airflow rates, variable rates of solar radiation and ambient temperature. The effects of materials used in the still canopy and physical phenomena such as solar radiation absorption of liquid film on the performance are also investigated. The comparisons between the model results and fully two-dimensional CFD model results are presented.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


The surface plasmon response of metal nanoparticles is studied for different shapes and physical environments. For polyhedral nanoparticles, the surface plasmon resonances are studied as a function of the number of faces and vertices. The modification of these surface plasmons by different surrounding media and the presence of a substrate or other nanoparticles is also discussed. We found that polyhedral nanoparticles composed with less faces show more surface plasmon resonances, and as the nanoparticle becomes more symmetric, the main surface plasmon resonance is blue-shifted. It is also found that the corners induce more surface plasmons in a wider energy range. In the presence of a substrate, multipolar plasmon resonances are induced, and as the nanoparticle approaches the substrate, such resonances are red-shifted. The interaction among nanoparticles also induces multipolar resonances, but they can be red or blue-shifted depending on the polarization of the external field.


Titanium dioxide (TiO2) powder was prepared by a sol-gel method. Titanium isopropoxide (Ti(OCH(CH3)2)4) and citric acid ((C3H5O(COO)3)H3·H2O) were used as the starting precursors with a mole ratio of 1 : 3. Ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) was added to adjust the pH of the mixed final solutions. Co-precipitation powder was obtained with the final solutions at pH = 2, 4 and 6. The powder was dried at 80 C for 24 h and calcined at 400 and 800 C for 2 h with a heating rate of 5 K.minute−. The phase transformation was investigated by an X-ray diffractometer (XRD). The anatase structure of titanium dioxide was obtained after calcination at 400 and 800 C for 2 h. The microstructure was characterized by a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The range of particle size was 0.1-0.5 μm with an irregular particle shape.


Cognitive Psychology and related disciplines have identified several critical mechanisms that enable intelligent biological agents to learn to solve complex problems. There exists pressing evidence that the cognitive mechanisms that enable problem-solving skills in these species build on hierarchical mental representations. Among the most promising computational approaches to provide comparable learning-based problem-solving abilities for artificial agents and robots is hierarchical reinforcement learning. However, so far the existing computational approaches have not been able to equip artificial agents with problem-solving abilities that are comparable to intelligent animals, including human and non-human primates, crows, or octopuses. Here, we first survey the literature in Cognitive Psychology, and related disciplines, and find that many important mental mechanisms involve compositional abstraction, curiosity, and forward models. We then relate these insights with contemporary hierarchical reinforcement learning methods, and identify the key machine intelligence approaches that realise these mechanisms. As our main result, we show that all important cognitive mechanisms have been implemented independently in isolated computational architectures, and there is simply a lack of approaches that integrate them appropriately. We expect our results to guide the development of more sophisticated cognitively inspired hierarchical methods, so that future artificial agents achieve a problem- solving performance on the level of intelligent animals. Humans and several other higher level intelligent animal species have the ability to break down complex unknown problems into hierarchies of simpler previously learned sub-problems. This hier- archical approach allows them to solve previously unseen problems in a zero-shot manner,


Prognosis.—Osler makes the statement, in his classical workv that "Pneumonia is one of the most fatal of acute diseases. Hospital statistics show that the mortality ranges from 20 to 40 per cent. Of 1,012 cases treated in the Montreal Gen eral Hospital, the mortality was 20 4 per cent. It appears to be somewhat more fatal in Southern climates. Statistics from the Charity Hospital, New Orleans, show the death rate to be 28.01 per cent. It has been urged that the mortal ity in this disease has been steadily increasing, and attempts have been made to connect this increase with the expectant plan of treatment, but careful analysis of 1,000 cases by


In today's competitive scenario, long working hours is a common issue for the information technology employees. The challenges are not only to retain the talented employees by fully engaging them, capturing their minds and hearts at every stage. The present research study is carried out to investigate the impact of the working environment on job satisfaction of software professionals in Infosys Ltd, Chandigarh. By considering the work environmental factors of 100 employees, the study analysed the employees' performance, and how it affects the job satisfaction of software professionals. With the total sample, out of 100 employees, 55 were male and 45 were females. The questionnaire was well designed and pretested for the data collection. The data was assessed by the means of statistical tools correlation and reliability statistics. Convenience sampling method is used for data collection. The study revealed that the working environment has a positive impact on job satisfaction of software professionals of Infosys Ltd., Chandigarh.


Abstract Following a nine-year economic boom, many states have commenced reforms to cope with growth challenges. In broad brush terms, these reforms have boiled down to a single proposition—a regional perspective must accompany purely local decision making about the use of land. The question now being asked is whether local land-use planning as a whole must be superseded by regional growth management approaches.


This research aims to find out the effect of religiosity, service quality and image on customer loyalty in using trust as mediation on Bank Pengkeditan Rakyat Syariah customers. The population of this research was all customers of Bank Pengkreditan Rakyat Syariah in Banyumas Regency who had savings products. The number of respondents in this research was 135 respondents. Purposive sampling method was used in choosing the respondents. The results and data analysis by using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) with AMOS (Analysis Moment of Structure software) application showed that: (1) Religiosity had a significant effect on trust, (2) Religiosity had a significant effect on customer loyalty, (3) Service quality did not have an effect on trust, (4) Service quality had a significant effect on customer loyalty, (5) Image had a significant effect on trust, (6) Image did not have an effect on customer loyalty, (7) Trust had a significant effect on customer loyalty, and (8) Trust did not mediate the causality relation of religiosity and service quality, but trust significantly mediated the causal relation of image on customer loyalty.


In 2013 the Kenya Ministry of Health (MOH) and USAID's predecessor Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) initiated an implementation research study to inform the MOH and its partners about the feasibility success factors and challenges of implementing integrated community case management. This endline assessment report was completed under MCSP together with the MOH.


We present the TCS Alignment Toolbox, which offers a flexible framework to calculate and visualize (dis)similarities between sequences in the context of educational data mining and intelligent tutoring systems. The toolbox offers a variety of alignment algorithms, allows for complex input sequences comprised of multi-dimensional elements, and is adjustable via rich parameterization options, including mechanisms for an automatic adaptation based on given data.
Our demo shows an example in which the alignment measure is adapted to distinguish students' Java programs w.r.t. different solution strategies, via a machine learning technique.


The high power LED lighting utilizes half-bridge resonant (HBR) drivers, whose high switching rate, however, results in severe electromagnetic interference (EMI) problem. The pseudo-randomness and continuous spectrum features of chaos is applied to design chaos-based pulse width modulation (CPWM) for suppressing harmonics in the HBR LED drivers. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed CPWM in suppressing EMI.


An outdoor communication machinery room gate inhibition centralized control and management method based on communications network includes a centralized monitoring center platform, mobile phones, a gate inhibition control circuit and an electronic lock. The centralized monitoring center platform is principally composed of a server, a system software, a database software, a monitoring software, a wireless modem and a cable network card, wherein, the wireless modem can select wireless communication networks based on GSM, CDMA or Xiaolingtong network and the like commercial operated network. Maintenance personnel communicate with the centralized monitoring center through the wireless communication network in a mode of sending messages by mobile phones. The monitoring software performs identification authentication, verify permissions, and tasks confirmation, and then use a wired commercial correspondence network to transmit operation instructions to the gate inhibition control circuit of the outdoor communication machinery room, the gate inhibition control circuit performs the gate inhibition release or gate inhibition latch operation through the electronic lock after receiving the instructions from the centralized monitoring center platform. The monitoring software can count the gate inhibition and maintenance personnel of the outdoor communication machinery room, and can generate statistical logs and maintenance reports.


In the framework of an european nutritional project, a mathematical pattern for the geometrical isomerization of the linoleic and linolenic acids was developped in order to produce the requested selectively isomerized oil with a high level of trans linolenic acid isomer (5%) and a minimum level of trans linolenic acid isomers. Experiments were carried out, first using a laboratory deodorizer with a capacity of about 3L. Differing from linoleic acid, a decrease of the total linolenic acid content called degradation was observed during the deodorization and considered when developping the equations of the pattern. The equations describing the degradation and the isomerization of the polyunsaturated fatty acids are those of first order reactions. The corresponding kinetics coefficients follow up the Arrhenius'law. The pattern was confirmed on a pilot scale with a 100L deodorizer The best conditions needed to produce the oil for the study were deduced from theoretical considerations. The pattern is a good tool to foresee the isomerization levels during deodorizations. Isomerization tables are an easy way to select the temperature-time couples respecting an isomerization target. The pattern can also help us to check the good working of industrial deodorizers and to chose new ones. Relative to this last point, the application of the pattern to industrial equipments has shown that at least, one of them, was isomerizing too much.


If ever there were "charismatic megaflora" of the sea, the Laminariales (kelp) would undoubtedly meet that designation. From the Northeast Pacific kelp forests to the less diverse, but nonetheless dense, kelp beds ranging from the Arctic to the cold temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere, kelp provide habitat structure and food for a variety of productive marine systems. Consequently, kelp are well represented in the literature, however, understanding their evolution has proven challenging. We used a 152‐gene phylogenomics approach to better resolve the phylogeny of the "derived" kelp families (viz., Agaraceae, Alariaceae, Laminariaceae, and Lessoniaceae). The formerly unresolved Egregia menziesii firmly joined a significantly expanded Arthrothamnaceae including Arthrothamnus, Cymathaere, Ecklonia, Macrocystis, Nereocystis, Pelagophycus, Postelsia, Pseudolessonia, Saccharina, and Streptophyllopsis, which rendered both the Laminariaceae and Lessoniaceae monogeneric. A published eight‐gene alignment, the most marker‐rich prior to this study, was expanded and analyzed to facilitate inclusion of Aureophycus. Although the topology was unchanged at the family level between the transcriptome data set relative to eight‐gene analyses, the superior resolving power of the former was clearly established.


(18) y3* = 9yi 8y" 3A[/(x0, y0) + 2fixx, yt) /(x2, y2*)]. These formulas are used to find yi as follows: a) Guess yi = y2*(x — A), y2* = y3*ix — A). b) Calculate improved values of y3*, y2*, yi in that order. c) Repeat from b) until yi has converged before proceeding to the next point. Note that no starter formulas are required since initially we may guess yo = yi = y2* = y3* and proceed from b) above. Nuclear Development Corporation of America, White Plains, New York 1. Herbert S. Wilf, "An open formula for the numerical integration of first order differential equations," MTAC, v. 11, 1957, p. 201-203.


Now that many shops, offices and institutions are re-opening again after the Corona lockdown, many businesses are faced with the need to provide the best possible protection for their staff and customers. Face masks and body temperature checks play an important part in the protection effort. While this is already done routinely and at a large scale at airports or railway stations, many businesses and institutions are struggling to meet the challenge. Face mask monitoring often requires additional staff resources. At the same time, body temperature checks by staff come with certain risks in terms of hygiene and data privacy. In this project, we introduce an affordable IoT-based solution aiming to increase COVID-19 indoor safety, covering several relevant aspects: 1) contactless temperature sensing 2) mask detection. Contactless temperature sensing subsystem relies on Arduino Uno using infrared sensor or thermal camera, while mask detection and social distancing check are performed by leveraging computer vision techniques on camera- equipped computer.


In this study, we investigated the influence of the separate-clock structure and embedded-clock structure on the characteristics of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and audio clock jitter during high-speed serial transmission. We found that the EMI peak spectrum of a separate clock can be reduced by 11 dB if its frequency is decreased. The peak spectrum of transmission when using a separate clock is much lower than that of transmission when using an embedded clock, and results in less audio-clock jitter than transmission using an embedded clock.


The global persistence of warfare, aggression, oppression and political unrest testify to the growing vulnerability and impatience of those who live in conditions of extreme poverty. A larger injection of aid is needed to help stabilize the poorest countries: projects that promise only long-term results are inadequate responses to immediate needs. But in order to insure that this aid is not wasted, the population of these countries must be prepared to act in partnership with the donor nations in monitoring funds distribution and assessing their impact on the economic welfare of their countries. This paper argues two points. First, foreign aid in the US and other developed countries must be raised to a minimum of .7% of the combined GDP of the developed countries. Second, 10% of that foreign aid must be earmarked for higher learning in engineering and technology in order to increase economic development and its concomitant result, alleviation of poverty. With an adequately educated and trained indigenous workforce to help implement foreign assistance, chances are increased for sustainable improvement in the living standards of the people.


A highly sensitive x-ray image pickup device has been developed based on the scintillator and photoreceptor conversion method for a radiation image and the xerographic technique. As compared with the conventional x-ray film with the combination of the phosphor screen, a high sensitivity of nearly 10 times has been obtained. The experimentally made camera houses a scintillator-photoreceptor image plate together with a corotron charger as well as a toner developer, and a x-ray photograph is obtainable in a short time.