An m-colored digraph D has k-colored kernel if there exists a subset K of its vertices such that for every vertex v / ∈ K there exists an at most k-colored directed path from v to a vertex of K and for every u,v ∈ K there does not exist an at most k-colored directed path between them. In this paper we prove that an m-colored semicomplete r-partite digraph D has a k-colored kernel provided that r ≥ 3 and (i) k ≥ 4, (ii) k = 3 and every − C 4 contained in D is at most 2-colored and, either every − C 5 contained in D is at most 3-colored or every − C 3 ↑ − C 3 contained in D is at most 2-colored, (iii) k = 2 and every − C 3 and − C 4 contained in D is monochromatic. If D is an m-colored semicomplete bipartite digraph and k = 2 (resp. k = 3) and every − C 4 ⇈ − C 4 contained in D is at most 2-colored (resp. 3-colored), then D has a 2-colored (resp. 3-colored) kernel. Using these and previous results, we obtain conditions for the existence of k-colored kernels in m-colored semicomplete r-partite digraphs for every k ≥ 2 and r ≥ 2.


In this Letter, a wideband antenna operating in a portion of the L‐Band frequency range is presented. The antenna is based on a prefractal geometry belonging to Julia Set and optimized by means of hybrid‐coded genetic algorithm to minimize size and voltage‐standing‐wave‐ratio coefficient and consequently meet physical and electrical requirements. After numerical assessment, a prototype of the global positioning system‐band antenna has been built and experimentally tested. The comparison between numerical and experimental data shows a good agreement and the satisfaction of requirements. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:2327–2330, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.27088


In 1833, John Stuart Mill criticized Browning's very first poem, Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession, because he claimed that it overexposed the author. What Mill meant by this was that he thought Browning was self-obsessed and depressed. This criticism affected Browning's writings throughout the middle of his career by provoking him to formulate dramatic monologues in an attempt to distance himself from the narrators he created. But even though Browning was careful not to overexpose himself, his self-consciousness still made its way through to the reader. Browning exposes himself through his narrators in "My Last Duchess," "Porphyria's Lover," and "Andrea del Sarto." In each of these works, Browning shows growing comfort with writing in a more personal voice and exposing his social views. By 1887, when Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day was published, Browning had come to terms with Mill's criticism. The fictional conversations in this work allowed Browning to write from his own personal perspective and include his philosophies on life and writing.


Simple Summary Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that affects millions of people around the world. Knee osteoarthritis is one of the causes of more significant functional disability among people with it. Currently, obesity is identified as one of the main risk factors for the onset of the disease due to excess load on the joints of the lower limbs, especially the knees. The association of measures, such as weight reduction through diets and exercise, can alleviate symptoms and increase the physical condition of people affected by these clinical conditions. However, many individuals with obesity have difficulty adhering to diet programs and need to improve in order to perform their functional activities. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the results of several physical exercise programs conducted without the association of diet, demonstrating the improvement of the functional capacity of individuals with these concomitant clinical conditions, presenting another proposal to reduce the symptoms of the disease in this population. Abstract The association between obesity and knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is reported in the literature. The inflammatory factors described in obesity associated with mechanical overload on the knee joint lead to KOA development and reduced functional capacity in these individuals. Most physical exercise (PE) protocols associate a diet program to improve the functional capacity of individuals with concomitant KOA and obesity. There is a lack of published protocols performing PE alone, which would be without an associated diet program in individuals with both clinical conditions. In this systematic review, the authors summarize the effects of the application of PE alone, describing each protocol and reporting the improvement in the function of people with these clinical conditions. This investigation was conducted according to the PRISMA guidelines and registered in PROSPERO. Five databases (MEDLINE/PubMed, PEDro, Scopus, CINAHL and Web of Science) were used up to July 2022 and ten studies, including 534 participants, met the inclusion criteria. The PEDro scale, Cochrane collaborations and ROBINS-I tools were used to evaluate the methodological quality and risk of bias. It was concluded that PE performed alone seems to provide an improvement in the functional capacity of these individuals even without an associated diet plan in the condition of obesity.


Most companies are confronted with change and have to deal with it effectively in order to survive. Based on the theoretical lens of phenomenology and sense making, we explore if situatedness - being located at different hierarchical levels and functions - results in different perspectives, views and assessments of change processes and their outcomes. Three hypotheses are proposed and tested regarding the potentially different perspectives of top managers, middle managers and employees using the change-fitness data base. The results reveal some significant differences between these three groups and we discuss the results in terms of their impact on designing and implementing change processes. The paper closes with implications for future research and practice of change planning and implementation. 2014). This study was designed to assess the status quo how organizations, predominantly located in Germany, deal with change. The data collection instrument consisted of an online questionnaire covering the all phases of a change process including its implementation success. Data were collected from employees, middle managers and top management. We used 5 items from the survey that included the views from top management, middle management and employees. The answer format was a Likert-type scale ranging from 1 = "does not apply at all" to 6 = "fully applies". The developed questionnaire was designed as an online tool and had satisfactory properties.


Objective To explore the effects of self management guidance onself-nursing ability and quality of life of hemodialysis patients. Methods 78 cases of hemodialysis patients were included in this study,and they were educated with self-management guidance for half a year. Compared the degree of mastering relevant knowledge of hemodialysis,the change of self-nursing ability and thequality of life,patients' blood pressure,body weight and ultrafiltration volumebefore and after the education. Results Patients learn more about related knowledge of hemodialysisafter self-management education guidance, and their ability of self-nursing and lifequality improved,their blood pressure,body weight and ultrafiltration volumewere closer to health indicators( P 0.05). Conclusions Self management education guidance on hemodialysis patients can help to decrease the incidence of complications,improve self care ability and quality of life,relievepatients of suffering.


The present invention relates to the field of immunology, more specifically it relates to cancer immunotherapy. In particular, to inhibit the growth of tumor cells, and / or relates to immunotherapeutic combination and therapeutic methods for removing tumor cells. Methods described in the present invention is based on inhibition of the receptor (receptor tyrosine kinases, RTK) and ligands of these receptors with protein kinase activity in tyrosine residues. The immune combination therapy is defined as a treatment that inhibits RTK receptor and / or its ligand with a combination of passive and active immunotherapy. The described procedure is applicable to patients in various clinical phase of epithelium-derived tumors that over-express these receptors. Combination of active and passive immunization, either using a treatment procedure in patients with advanced disease, or whether used as adjunctive therapy, may be performed sequentially be performed simultaneously.


The paper seeks to examine, within a broader historical context, administrative aspects of the 2000 VIIIth Festival of Pacific Arts in New Caledonia. This quadrennial Festival of indigenous arts is crucial as a major international opportunity to express Pacific solidarity and to celebrate the region's diverse and dynamic cultural identities. However, its most recent (and more affluent) manifestation departed from the usual Pasefika way of doing things, influenced by its location in a former French colony-cum-tourist resort. Drawing upon the experiential perspective of a western cultural tourist and arts critic, the paper charts some examples of unnecessarily obstructive bureaucracy and their effects upon participants and audiences. Notwithstanding organisational adversity - and at some cost - the artists eventually triumphed over what may be considered a parallel and sometimes entertaining universe of 'theatrical' debacles. The Festival will once more take place in 2004 but the administration saga continues.


The study of early theropod flight involves avialans as well as other pennaraptorans. It requires the study of anatomy that is familiar to the modern ornithologist, but also very different and alien. Early theropod flight therefore necessitates study methods that can incorporate what we know about sophisticated powered and unpowered flight in living birds while being mindful of the differences between them and the earliest theropod flyers. In this chapter we will survey key methods and approaches, covering their best-practice applications along the timeline of early theropod flight evolution and priorities for future method development. 1 Vertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory, Division of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2 College of Natural and Social Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles. 3 Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles; and Real Academia Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Madrid. 4 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge. 5 Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles. 6 Division of Natural Sciences, Mount Marty College, Yankton, SD. 7 Foundation for Scientific Advancement, Sierra Vista, AZ. 8 Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal. INTRODUCTION Locomotion plays a central role in the lives of most vertebrates, and reconstructing locomotor behaviors of extinct taxa is key to understanding some major evolutionary transitions—for example, the origin of walking tetrapods or swimming whales. But how do we reconstruct locomotion in extinct taxa when it is very difficult to compare them to modern forms? When trying to decipher early theropod flight, researchers are faced with substantial anatomical differences between modern flying birds like pigeons and early birds like Archaeopteryx as well as their closely related nonavialan relatives. In particular, extant volant birds have a large keel on the sternum, which anchors two main flight muscles, the pectoralis for downstroke and the supracoracoideus for upstroke (George and Berger, 1966). Though the supracoracoideus is in a ventral position, it is 278 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 440 few anatomical features, such as feathers and/or wings (e.g., Burgers and Chiappe, 1999; Nudds and Dyke, 2010; Chiappe et al. 2019), tails (e.g., Gatesy and Dial, 1996; Gatesy, 2001; Pittman et al., 2013), the shoulder (e.g., Jenkins, 1993; Baier et al., 2007; Navalón et al., 2018), or the supracoracoideus muscle (e.g., Poore et al., 1997b). Recent efforts to leverage the locomotor variation among nearly 11,000 living species (Prum et al., 2015; Gill and Donsker, 2017) using large-scale datasets to characterize aspects of the avian flight apparatus have begun to bear fruit. New analytical techniques are showing that yet more high-fidelity flight-related soft-tissue details are hidden in the very best preserved pennaraptorans, especially those from China (Falk et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2017; see Serrano et al., chap. 13). Advancements in early flight studies have greatly benefited from the evolutionary context provided by a range of detailed phylogenetic analyses, the details of which are provided by Pittman et al. in chapter 2. Large-scale Avian Anatomical Datasets: Seminal datasets like those by Greenewalt (1975) or Hartman (1961) have been extremely helpful in informing our understanding of early theropod flight (e.g., Dececchi et al., 2016; Pei et al., in press), but their use has generally fallen out of favor in recent times. The reason for this may be that these datasets are often created from amalgamations of other datasets or sources, so that specific specimens are rarely scored for all relevant measurements (Hartman, 1961; Greenewalt, 1975). A new generation of studies has begun to broach this data gap to quantify anatomical variation for key modules of the flight apparatus by using large comparative samples that draw on the majority of avian higher-order subclades. These studies have begun to yield form-function relationships that may provide new lines of investigation into early flight. This includes work on the furcula (Close and Rayfield, 2012) as well as on flight feathers (Feo et al., 2015) and skeletal proportions (Field et al., 2013; Serrano et al., 2015). Feathers are among the most characteristic avian specializations, but quantitative compariable to elevate and supinate (Poore et al., 1997a; Tobalske and Biewener, 2008) the wing because it loops through a donut-shaped triosseal canal and attaches to the dorsal surface of the humerus, similar to a pulley. Archaeopteryx, in contrast, has no triosseal canal and no ossified sternum, but some early avialans and possibly volant nonavialan pennaraptorans have either feature or both in an incipient form (Zhou and Zhang, 2002; Xu et al., 2003; Baier et al., 2007; Dyke et al., 2013; Zheng et al., 2014; Pei et al., in press). Consequently, at least some of the flight muscles of many early avialans and suspected volant nonavialan pennaraptorans were probably not very large, and would have had different configurations compared with extant birds. What does that mean in terms of the locomotor capacity of early birds and some nonavialan pennaraptorans? The study of early theropod flight engages tailored methodologies with their own emphases to address the spectrum of form-function differences along the line of descent from the first theropod flyers to modern living ones. Theropod aerial locomotion seems to have multiple origins, the study of which involves anatomy that is very different to modern birds. At the other end of the theropod flight timeline, the origin of avian flight involves looking at a much more refined set of flight-related avian features that allowed birds to adopt different flight styles, but not the sophisticated powered flight of living birds. In this chapter we will survey key methods and approaches adopted in studying early theropod flight, detailing their best practice applications to the facets of this iconic field of pennaraptoran paleontology. FORM-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS Substantial efforts to characterize the morphology of early pennaraptoran theropods and investigate their relationship with flight function continue to greatly advance our knowledge of early theropod flight. This ranges from numerous studies assessing the functional morphology of single taxa (Navalón et al., 2015; Xu et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2017) to work focusing on one or a 2020 PITTMAN ET AL.: METHODS OF STUDYING EARLY THEROPOD FLIGHT 279 sons between flight-feather morphology in living and extinct total-clade birds are hampered by the rarity of intact fossil feathers and the preservation difficulty posed by their flexible feather vanes. A large comparative dataset examining feather-barb geometry was successfully generated and used to characterize macroevolutionary patterns in barb arrangement across the crown bird tree of life (Feo et al., 2015). Among other observations, this study observed that crown birds exhibit characteristic barb-to-rachis attachment angles on the leading and trailing edges of flight feathers (Feo et al., 2015). Primary feather barbs on a wing's leading edge that cut into the air during flight connect to the rachis at narrow attachment angles, providing a relatively inflexible airfoil for stability during flight, whereas barbs on the trailing edge of flight feathers connect to the rachis at broad angles of attachment, providing a more flexible vane in order to maintain a coherent wing surface through feather-tofeather contact. These patterns are generally conserved across crown birds. In contrast to this pattern, deinonychosaurians, like Microraptor, and early-diverging volant avialans, like Archaeopteryx, Confuciusornis, and Sapeornis, exhibit trailing edge barbs with angles of attachment indistinguishable from the narrow angles of FIG. 1. Flight feather morphology across paravian phylogeny (modified from Feo et al., 2015). Early-diverging taxa (indicated by dashed pink lines) exhibit flight feather trailing edges characterized by narrow angles of barb-to-rachis attachment. The crownlike condition (broad angles of barb-to-rachis trailing edge attachment; blue dashed lines) arose on the internode subtending Ornithothoraces, and may have conferred a more flexible trailing edge of the wing during flight in order to increase feather-to-feather contact and maintenance of a coherent wing surface in flight during active downstrokes. Silhouettes from phylopic.org. Microraptor Archaeopteryx Sapeornis Confuciusornis Eopengornis Aves


Activated T cells engage aerobic glycolysis and anabolic metabolism for growth, proliferation, and effector functions. In contrast, resting memory CD8 T cells depend less on high rates of glycolysis and more on fatty acid oxidation to persist, self-renew and respond to secondary infection. This talk will discuss the concept of metabolic checkpoints for immune cells in tumors, referring to the idea that the nutrients utilized by different types of T cells can affect both their energetic demands and their functionality. In particular, the metabolic state of exhausted T cells found in tumors is only recently starting to be studied. Our data in mouse models of cancer suggest that a glucose-poor, fatty acid-rich tumor microenvironment limits aerobic glycolysis, but promotes fatty acid uptake in tumor-infiltrating T cells, which suppresses tumoricidal effector functions and increases PD-1 expression. This talk will discuss recent analyses of the signaling pathways that respond to these nutrient alterations in T cells in tumors and how this may relate to new modalities of treatment in combination with checkpoint blockade. Citation Format: Guoliang Cui, Ping-Chih Ho, Robert Amezquita, Susan M. Kaech. Anti-tumor T cells: You are what you eat. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy; 2016 Oct 20-23; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Immunol Res 2017;5(3 Suppl):Abstract nr IA03.


God's biblical command to blot out the memory of the Amalekites (Deut. 25:19) has long been a source of consternation for Jewish thinkers. Michael J. Harris's book, Divine Command Ethics: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, (1) devotes an entire chapter to the issue. Critics of religion have, for their part, focused on the Amalekite "genocide" as an easy point of attack against biblical morality. The British Guardian newspaper recently ran an item by Katherine Stewart entitled, "How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren." (2) That article discusses the story of King Saul's battle against the Amalekites, and cites Philip Jenkins, a prominent American academic historian, as claiming that the story has been used to justify acts of genocide perpetrated by white settlers against Native Americans, Catholics against Protestants, Protestants against Catholics, and even Rwandan Hutus against Tutsis. In recounting the passage from Samuel, Stewart first quotes the command to wipe out the Amalekites that Saul received from Samuel (I Sam. 15:3) and then summarizes the rest of the story as follows: "Saul dutifully exterminated the women, the children, the babies and all of the men--but then he spared the king. He also saved some of the tastier looking calves and lambs. God was furious with him for his failure to finish the job." One can hardly blame Stewart for her interpretation of the biblical passage; as far as I know, it is universally accepted by Bible believers and Bible critics alike. A close reading of the actual text of Samuel, however, reveals a very different story. It is the prophet Samuel himself who offers the first clue to the new interpretation. It should be remembered that, having been spared by King Saul, the Amalekite king Agag is brought before Samuel, who promptly executes him, but not before uttering this harsh goodbye: "As your sword has bereaved women, so shall your mother be bereaved among women" (I Sam. 15:33). There is apparently a logical contradiction in this verse. If Saul has killed all the Amalekite women, Agag's mother should be long dead, but if she is dead, what sense is there in declaring that she will be bereaved!? Evidently, some of the women--Agag's own mother at least--must have survived Saul's onslaught. However, for those who have read beyond the story of Saul's battle there is no need for pedantic demonstrations that some Amalekites survived the war. After all, just twelve chapters later (I Sam. 27:8) we find David attacking the Amalekites, who later return the favor: By the time David and his men arrived in Ziklag, on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and against Ziklag; they had stormed Ziklag and burned it down. They had taken the women in it captive, low-born and high-born alike (I Sam. 30:1-2). If Saul had exterminated all of the Amalekites, who was left to fight against David? In order to arrive at an interpretation that will solve these quandaries, our story must be dissected into its relevant sections. These are: 1) Samuel's command to Saul (I Sam. 15:1-3); 2) Saul's execution of the command (15:4-9); 3) God's complaint to Samuel and the latter's reaction to it (15:10-12); and 4) Samuel's condemnation of Saul (15:13-31). The operative verse in Samuel's command is categorical and chillingly straightforward: 'Now go, attack Amalek, and proscribe all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses' (15:3). Saul's actual execution of the command is more complicated. He first assembles his troops, approaches the Amalekite city, and warns the Kenites to stay clear of the fighting. Finally, we have arrived at Saul's attack, which is described as follows: Saul destroyed Amalek from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is close to Egypt, and he captured King Agag of Amalek alive. He proscribed all the people, putting them to the sword (15:7-8). …


Low-temperature oxygenation of {Cu[P(imiPr2)3]CH3CN}CF3SO3 affords a μ-η2:η2-peroxo adduct. Upon warming a dilute solution (<10-3 M) of the peroxide complex, intramolecular hydroxylation occurs at the tertiary carbon atom of one of the isopropyl groups of the ligand, reminiscent of the one catalyzed by the copper enzyme dopamine β-monooxygenase.


Variations in the parameters affect the injection characteristics of a common-rail injection system and leads to fluctuation in the fuel injection quantity. This paper is aimed at combining the numerical modelling and design of experiments to investigate the significant effects of the interactions between the common-rail injector parameters on the fluctuation in the fuel injection quantity using response surface methodology. A numerical model of a common-rail injector was developed. The model was validated by comparing simulation results with experimental measurements, which showed that it can accurately predict the fuel injection quantity of the system. The design of experiments was performed using a two-level five-factor D-optimal design. The factors studied were the pre-tension of the control valve spring, the diameter of the outlet orifice, the diameter of the inlet orifice, the needle lift and the diameter of the nozzle holes. A quadratic response surface model was suggested by means of partial least-squares regression analysis. The distribution of the standardized residuals, the relation between the predicted fluctuation and the observed fluctuation in the fuel injection quantity, the coefficient R2 of determination and the adjusted coefficient R adj 2 of determination for the response surface model were analysed, which demonstrated the significance of the model. Analysis of the F value and the p value for the model terms at the 95% confidence level revealed that the interactions between the control valve spring pre-tension and the nozzle hole diameter, between the outlet orifice diameter and the nozzle hole diameter, between the inlet orifice diameter and the nozzle hole diameter and between the needle lift and the nozzle hole diameter had significant effects on the fluctuation in the fuel injection quantity of the system. Furthermore, the significant effects of the interactions between these parameters were analysed in detail.


The share of non-conventional renewable energies in Colombia represents less than 4% of electricity generation; the government aims to increase the net installed electricity generation capacity to over 10% by 2028. A structural analysis was carried out for decision-making: international experiences was used to identify Social, Environmental, Technical and Economic indicators and with the MICMAC method, the key variables were identified to define improvement strategies. This research determined the driver elements that will allow Colombia to effectively include biomass as an electrical energy source.


In this dissertation, a novel approach to program JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment Framework) agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) is proposed. JADE is a well-known agent platform which provides support to consolidated agent technologies, an agent-oriented distributed architecture, and several tools, both textual and graphical, for the creation of agents and MASs. The work presented in this dissertation originates from the need to assist programmers by means of tools that reduce the complexity and speed up the building of JADE MASs. The need for a simpler and more intuitive way to program JADE MASs in all their parts, from agents and behaviours to ontologies and interaction protocols, has led to the construction of a high level Domain-Specific Language (DSL), explicitly tailored for JADE agent and MASs. The proposed agent-oriented DSL is called JADEL, which stands for JADE Language. The language is designed to support the effective implementation of JADE MASs in the scope of model-driven development. JADEL provides a simple and clean syntax to describe agents and message passing among agents, behaviours and sub-behaviours, and JADE ontologies with their propositions, concepts and predicates. Moreover, it allows to integrate JADE-native agents, behaviours, and ontologies within JADEL code, which is translated into Java code. One of the main results of the proposed approach is that it permits to clearly put agentoriented programming methodologies above the object-oriented programming paradigm of JADE programs, decoupling the agent meta-model from the Java meta-model.


: To be an advance nation, it takes 14% of one country citizen as entrepreneur, while curently, Indonesia only has 3,1% entrepreneur of its citizen. Therefore, the government promotes entrepreneurial program for students especially those in higher education. Through this research, the factors that might influencing students of Politeknik Negeri Padang, especially non-engineering students, intention as entrepreneur is identified. By distributing questionnaires which developed based on planned behavior theory, data was collected and processed by utilizing structured equational model. It resulted that there are variables that positively influencing intention as entrepreneurial attitude, and others, subjective norms and behavior control are not confirmed.


Experiments were conducted to study the effects of dietary zinc supplementation on the immune gene expression and immunity and disease-resistant ability of white shrimp(Litopenaeus vannamei).The shrimp were fed with 3 zinc methionine diets(supplemented at 0,50,150 mg Zn/kg diet respectively)respectively for 14 days.Then the expressions of Toll Receptor mRNA and lysozyme mRNA in gill and superoxide dismutase(SOD)activity and lysozyme(LSZ)activity in hepatopancreas,muscle and haemolymph were assayed respectively.The shrimp treated with different zinc diets were also challenged with Vibrio alginolyticus.The results showed that the zinc levels in hepatopancreas and muscle of shrimp significantly increased(P0.05)as the dietary zinc increased.While the hepatopancreas accumulated more zinc than muscle.Compared to those of the shrimp in 0 mg Zn/kg and 150 mg Zn/kg treatments,the expressions of Toll receptor mRNA and lysozyme mRNA in gill of the shrimp in 50 mg Zn/kg treatment were significantly up-regulated.The lysozyme activities in muscle,hepatopancreas and haemolymph of the shrimp in 50 mg Zn/kg treatment were significantly higher than those in 0 mg Zn/kg treatment(P0.05).The SOD activities in hepatopancreas and haemolymph of the shrimp in 50 mg Zn/kg and 150 mg Zn/kg treatments were also higher than those in 0 mg Zn/kg treatments(P0.05).While the SOD activity in muscle of the shrimp treated with 150 mg Zn/kg was significantly higher than those treated with 0 mg Zn/kg and 50 mg Zn/kg respectively.The half lethal time and complete lethal time for the shrimp in 50 mg Zn/kg treatment were longer than those in 0 mg Zn/kg and 150 mg Zn/kg treatments after being challenged with V.alginolyticus.It is therefore suggested that compared to those in 0 mg Zn/kg and 150 mg Zn/kg treatments,the shrimp fed the diets added 50 mg Zn/kg(the content of zinc in diet was 73.25 mg Zn/kg)had improved immunity and Vibrio-resistant ability.


We consider the Ito equation and the Sawada-Kotera equation both of time-fractional type in this paper. The approximate solutions of these equations are calculated in the form of series obtained by q-Homotopy Analysis Method (q-HAM). The presence of fraction-factor in this method gives it an edge over other existing analytical methods for nonlinear di erential equations. Comparisons are made with Modi ed Adomian decomposition method MADM, homotopy perturbation method HPM and the exact solutions. Numerical results are obtained using Mathematica 8.


International treaties become legal rules based on a social reality. The lawyers are convinced that JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) is something novel and this has led them to identify the type of this agreement and to understand the scope of the requirements and obligations of the parties to the negotiations. The present study, based on analytical-descriptive method and by using the documents available in this field, has examined the differences and reasons for not converting Iran's nuclear deal into an international treaty, and by understanding the nature of this contract, ultimately concludes that such an agreement, because it is more political in nature based on the distribution of power and the power equation in the international arena rather than having a legal nature, therefore it cannot be converted into an international treaty.


This contribution presents a robust approach to acoustic event source localization for surveillance under reverberant environmental conditions. In particular, we support the classical generalized cross-correlation algorithm with phase transform weighting (GCC-PHAT) and the steered response power (SRP) algorithm by a sound activity detection and an event onset detector. The proposed algorithmic framework including spatial minimum tracking and smoothing for the suppression of artifacts in the spatial likelihood function significantly outperforms a respective reference approach, decreasing both the miss ratio by up to 9% absolute, and the average angular estimation error by up to 4°.


The invention provides an intelligent automobile-key system based on bluetooth communication, which comprises a PEPS (Passive Entry & Passive Start) controller, a vehicle-mounted bluetooth module, an electronic terminal and a door-handle switch, wherein the PEPS controller is connected with the vehicle-mounted bluetooth module and the door-handle switch, the PEPS controller is used for controlling a vehicle antitheft system and an engine system, the vehicle-mounted bluetooth module is used for realizing bluetooth communication with the electronic terminal, the electronic terminal has an intelligent automobile-key application program, and the door-handle switch is used for the input of user unlocking and locking requests. Because the vehicle-mounted bluetooth module exists, a vehicle is controlled to actively send out a bluetooth signal for actively identifying and authenticating the electronic terminal, such as a mobile phone, so that complicated operation is avoided.


The reliable assessment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) rupture risk is critically important in reducing related mortality without unnecessarily increasing the rate of elective repair. A multi-d ...


Torpor use in primates appeared to be restricted to African species and was only recently discovered in a species from Asia, the pygmy loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus). This finding has considerable implications for our perception of torpor in this mammal group and demonstrates that torpor is probably more widespread in mammals than commonly thought. This article summarizes the current knowledge on the use of torpor in the pygmy loris and places it into the context of ongoing research on this topic.


Recently, the studies about rock physics model (RPM) in shale reservoir are widely performed. In shale reservoir, the degree of the maturity can be estimated by kerogen and GOR (Gas-Oil Ratio). The researches on the rock physics model of shale reservoir with the amount of kerogen have been actively carried out but not with GOR. Thus, in this study, we analyzed the changes in seismic velocity and density, and AVO (Amplitude Variation with Offset) response depending on changes in GOR and the amount of kerogen. Since the shale consists of plate-like particles, it has vertical transverse isotropy (VTI). Therefore we estimated the seismic velocity and density by using Backus averaging method and analyzed AVO responses based on these estimated properties. The results of analysis showed that the changes in the velocity with the GOR variation are small but the velocity changes with the variation in kerogen amount are relatively larger. In case, GOR 180 (Litre/Litre) which is boundary between heavy oil and light oil, when volume fraction of kerogen increased from 5% to 35%, the P-wave velocity normal to the layering increased 51%. That is, it helps estimating maturity of kerogen through the velocity. Meanwhile, when rates of oil-gas mixture are large, the effect of GOR variation on the velocity change became larger. In case volume fraction of kerogen is 5%, the P-wave velocity normal to the layering was estimated in heavy oil (GOR 40) but in light oil (GOR 300). The AVO responses analysis showed class 4 regardless of the GOR and amount of kerogen because variation of poisson`s ratio is small. Therefore, shale reservoir has possibility to have class 4.


The co-achieving of stable colossal permittivity (CP) and low dielectric loss in dielectric materials has been a challenge. In this paper, a transition in CP was observed in V-doped CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) ceramics. The fast high-frequency dielectric relaxation that mainly contributed to CP of CCTO ceramics was greatly suppressed in V-doped CCTO samples. Its relaxation activation energy remained ∼0.10 eV, while its magnitude dropped from thousands in CCTO to dozens in V-doped CCTO. Instead, CP of V-doped CCTO ceramics mainly arose from another slow dielectric relaxation, which appeared in a much lower frequency range. Moreover, this dielectric relaxation gradually turned from a "carrier-dominated" relaxation into a "dipole-dominated" one with the increase in temperature. Its relaxation activation energy also changed from ∼0.06 to 0.42 eV in the meanwhile. These results indicated important roles of multiple point defects and their relating charge transport in CP behaviors. It supported that CP arose from electron trapping behaviors at the edge of double Schottky barriers at grain boundaries. On this basis, suppression of any deep-level point defects was concluded to be a potential clue to achieve both stable CP and sufficiently low dielectric loss in CCTO ceramics and other CP materials.


And the electrode material is substantially planar, comprising a frame including a non-conductive material, and one or more first electrically conductive material which is connected or fixed to the frame, and for use in biological electrochemical system electrode is described. Bioelectrochemical systems, methods used rack for inserting electrodes, and a rack are also described.


Field experiments were conducted at Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar and Rohtak to test the efficacy of atrazine applied at different stages in pearlmillet. Application of atrazine 0.25 or 0.50 kg/ha at 7 or 14 d.a.s. (days after sowing) proved highly effective against most competitive and aggressive weeds like carpetweed (Trianthema portulacastrum) and barnyardgrass (Echinochla colonum). The effect of atrazine at 7 or 14 d.a.s. was better than its pre-emergence application. Its application beyond 14 days (21 d.a.s.) failed to control these weeds. Similarly, better crop yield was recorded with post-emergence (7 or 14 d.a.s.) atrazine than its pre-emergence and 21 d.a.s, application at both the locations.


Telemetry, sightings, and tracks in snow from 1978–81, with subsequent observations until 1991, showed that woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) did not use cut portions of traditional wintering areas for 12 years after cutting. Two attempts by management personnel to modify commercial cutting patterns for caribou failed to prevent abandoning cut areas. In four instances where entire wintering areas were cut, caribou sightings and tracks decreased drastically or ceased entirely. Caribou in unlogged areas have shown no similar declines. Minimal efforts to ensure caribou survival in commercial forests should include deferral of cutting in caribou wintering areas, protection of calving areas, and accelerated research. Keywords: woodland caribou, forest management, threatened population, wildlife conservation


The number of doctoral student enrolling increased dramatically nearly a decade in our country,the annual number of graduates received a doctoral degree has been a corresponding increase,which promoted China's rapid economic development in the field of science and technology,as well as challenge the traditional education system and education way.This article discusses the status of doctoral education,the problems,and contrasts the U.S.system of doctoral education in the corresponding solutions and policy recommendations.


Summary The introduction of the acatalasemic gene locus, Csb, which presumably affects only catalase biosynthesis, not only reduces the catalase activity of blood and liver in two inbred strains of mice, but comparably reduces the activity of cinnabarinate synthase. This enzyme converts the carcinogen hydroxyanthranilic acid to another carcinogen, cinnabarinic acid. The injection of aminotriazole, which inhibits the catalase activity of the liver but not of the blood, similarly inhibits the cinnabarinate synthase activity of the liver and not of the blood. The proteins responsible for the two enzyme activities therefore appear identical, confirming the recent suggestion of Savage and Prinz. The cinnabarinate synthase reaction can also be carried out by Cu2+ or Mn2+ in absence of any enzyme, but addition of a source of catalase or hemoglobin accelerates the reaction. Catalase or hemoglobin, in the absence of Cu2+ or Mn2+, are incapable of carrying out the oxidative dimerization of hydroxyanthranilic acid.


Cellular mobile networks have been evolved from 1st generation to 5th generation. 5G network has uniqueness of deploying in network slicing modes which leads the technology dynamically. 5G small cell is going to become direct demand of the vertical industry. Network slicing feature opens path of new business model in which mobile phone operators can earn huge return on investment (ROI) by hiring out third party as neutral host. Small cell will be viable cost-effective solution for 5G coverage and capacity enhancement for all stake holders. In this paper we will propose and discuss design parameters for 5G indoor small cell and Open-RAN (O-RAN) based on state-of-the-art model solutions found in recent research. The proposed design model and its parameters will be of great interest for the research community in finalizing 5G indoor small cell solution. Finally, future 5G small cell design requirements are analyzed and discussed.


Lancet 2011; doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60649-1 Selective abortion of girls is a growing problem in India. The ratio of girls to boys among second born babies in families where the first born child was a girl has fallen steadily over the past two decades, say researchers. In 2005, there were only 835 second born girls in these families for every 1000 second born boys. Selective abortion is the only reasonable explanation. Sex ratios in children up to 6 years reflect the imbalance in births. Census data show that the ratio of girls to boys is falling in three quarters of Indian districts. Selective abortion is illegal, so the true extent of the practice cannot be measured. Researchers estimate that between three million and six million female fetuses have been aborted in India since 2000. Falling sex ratios are most marked in rich families with well educated parents, who presumably have access to expensive ultrasound and abortion services. This analysis of three national surveys and two national censuses found no evidence of selective abortion in poor families, families with no children, or families with boys.


Electron device modeling is a challenging task at millimeter frequencies. Conventional approaches based on lumped equivalent circuits become inappropriate to describe possible complex distributed effects, which may strongly affect the electrical transistor performance. Moreover, standard network analyzers do not allow for low-cost device characterization solutions at very high frequencies. In the paper it is shown how an empirical, scalable distributed model based on standard S-parameter measurements up to 50 GHz can be efficiently exploited to obtain very accurate small-signal predictions up to 110 GHz. Experimental validation is presented for Philips 0.2 /spl mu/m PHEMT devices. Practical consideration on the best criteria for model extraction are also provided in the paper.


A new method is proposed to detect and enhance such features as object bound-aries or line segments in a noisy gray-scale image. This method utilizes directional information at each point in the input image. The input image is convolved with a 2-D kernel, discussed below, which is rotated through 360 degrees, either continuously or discretely in a fairly large number of steps. As the kernel rotates, the convolution output is measured and the maximum, minimum, and mean values at each point (as a function of rotation angle) are stored in a computer. Once these values are obtained, a class of image processing operations can be performed. In an optical implementation of the processing operation, it is necessary to physically rotate a mask in the optical system. However, this is much faster than effecting an equivalent kernel-rotation operation with a digital image processor.


This review article is devoted to the problems of the origin and spreading of antibiotic-resistant enterobacteria producing beta-lactamases in poultry farming.The reason of the spreading of multidrug-resistant bacteria and diseases caused by them among farm animals and poultry is the irrational use of antibacterial agents, determination of enzymatic inactivation of antibiotics by laboratory methods, and the spread of resistance genes.Most gram-negative bacteria such as Klebsiella spp., Escherichia coli, Proteus spp. and others, have tolerance to various antibiotics and disinfectants due to the production of beta-lactamase enzymes. Initially, some strains produced a wide range of beta-lactamases, and these isolates were susceptible to the 1st and 2nd generations of cephalosparins. Over time, the bacteria mutated, producing extended beta-lactamases. Such microorganisms are already resistant to the 3rd generation of cephalosparins. Antimicrobial resistance leads to limited therapeutic options, which increases the difficulty of treating diseased animals.This problem is especially actual all over the world, many scientists conduct research to detect and study this phenomenon. The spread of antimicrobial resistance is one of the most acute problems of our time, carrying biological and economic threats to all countries. Many scientists are conducting research to detect and study the polyresistance of Enterobacteriaceae, such as E. coli and K. pneumoniae.The modern infectious pathology of poultry is characterized by an increase in the frequency of occurrence and spreading of E. coli and K. pneumoniae, producing beta-lactamases, which contributes to ineffective antibiotic therapy.The presence of multidrug-resistant opportunistic microorganisms isolated from poultry food can affect the health of consumers. The protection of the population from antibiotic resistance microorganisms should be based primarily on the protection of people from infection by any multidrug-resistant foodborne pathogens, therefore, it is necessary to improve diagnostic methods, therapeutic and prophylactic measures and the search for new highly effective drugs.


There has been a paradigm shift in medicine away from tradition, anecdote and theoretical reasoning from the basic sciences towards evidence-based medicine (EBM). In palliative care however, statistically significant benefits may be marginal and may not be related to clinical meaningfulness. The typical treatment vs. placebo comparison necessitated by 'gold standard' randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is not necessarily applicable. The complex multimorbidity of end of life care involves considerations of the patient's physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs. In addition, the field of palliative care covers a heterogeneous group of chronic and incurable diseases no longer limited to cancer. Adequate sample sizes can be difficult to achieve, reducing the power of studies and high attrition rates can result in inadequate follow up periods. This review uses examples of the management of cancer-related fatigue and death rattle (noisy breathing) to demonstrate the current state of EBM in palliative care. The future of EBM in palliative care needs to be as diverse as the patients who ultimately derive benefit. Non-RCT methodologies of equivalent quality, validity and size conducted by collaborative research networks using a 'mixed methods approach' are likely to pose the correct clinical questions and derive evidence-based yet clinically relevant outcomes.


In this article a modification of the Chebyshev collocation method is applied to the solution of space fractional differential equations.The fractional derivative is considered in the Caputo sense.The finite difference scheme and Chebyshev collocation method are used .The numerical results obtained by this way have been compared with other methods.The results show the reliability and efficiency of the proposed method.


A receiving apparatus for wireless charging is disposed in a wireless charging device, comprises two or more receiving terminals for wireless charging, and also comprises two or more detection units in one-to-one correspondence with the receiving terminals respectively, a comparison unit and a control unit. When the wireless charging device is disposed at a transmitting terminal for charging, the detection units connected with the output interfaces of the receiving terminals are used for detecting the output currents of the receiving terminals respectively; the comparison unit connected with the detection units is used for comparing the output currents with each other and outputting the result of comparison to the control unit; and the control unit determines the receiving terminal, of which the output interface outputs the highest current, as the receiving terminal for wireless charging.


Seamless connectivity in wireless access networks is critical for time sensitive applications requiring Quality-of-Service guarantees with bounded data transmission delay. Currently, the latency inherent in the handoff process can preclude the successful delivery of such applications by introducing delays up to several seconds. As the mobile clients are moving from one access point to another, the convectional layer-2 handoff consumes more time in the channel-scanning process. We present a novel WLAN handoff architecture using a hardware method. This new handoff procedure reduces the discovery phase according two models extended from the basis model. There are two general methods to implement MAC functions in normal case. The first method is CPU-based. It uses software for protocol analysis and CPU, such as DSP, for process management. It is more flexible in design stage and easy to modify, but its disadvantages are processing speed too low and higher cost. The other method means that all functions are processed by hardware circuits. The advantage of this method is circuit reconfiguration and processing speed very high, but it needs long developed time. We purpose the last method to implement handoff functions in the MAC layer.


This interview serves as a companion update to Ginsburg & Wright's article, as it explains how their proposed model works on the ground and with compliance programs. Donald Klawiter (Sheppard Mullin)


This paper presents a hybrid feedback controller suitable for orientation control of ships. A hybrid kinematic controller on the unit circle is constructed from the gradient of a synergistic potential function, which globally asymptotically stabilizes a desired orientation, with yaw rate viewed as control input. While this idea is not new, the potential function is novel and possesses some desired properties. The kinematic controller generates smooth reference signals for the desired velocity and acceleration, except at instances when the controller switches. Continuity of velocity and acceleration is achieved by controlling the yaw rate through a double integrator. Moreover, the velocity and acceleration converge to their desired values exponentially. The resulting closed-loop system is stable, provided the controller gains satisfy mild constraints. This is shown using a hybrid Lyapunov function.


The control capacity and flexibility of the injection compression molding technique (ICM) is significantly greater than that for conventional injection molding. It thus has potential to produce parts with better dimensional control. This article is devoted to studying the technological application of ICM on the precision molding of cylindrical parts. A modified injection molding machine incorporating a compression mechanism, and a mold with movable wall and shut-off mechanism, are used to investigate the effects of packing and compression on quality in injection-compression–molded polystyrene hollow cylinders. The quality of injection-compression–molded parts is evaluated using roundness, straightness, and birefringence. It has been found that packing is the most effective densification mechanism for cylindrical parts with ring gates. Without proper packing, compression may collapse the frozen layer and degrade the part quality. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Elastodynamic response of three-dimensional icosahedral quasi-crystals under mechanical loadings is presented in this article. Two kinds of cases are considered here, in which the plane problem and anti-plane problem are included. The phonon and phason elastic fundamental fields along with their coupling effect in crack analysis are explicitly presented in terms of the theoretical and numerical analyses. Using the finite difference method, some numerical results of stresses, displacements, and normalized dynamic stress intensity factor are obtained. By comparing the results of quasi-crystals, this article reveals the influence of phonon and phason elastic fundamental fields, which occupy an important position in dynamic deformation behavior of quasi-crystals. Of course, phonon–phason coupling effect also should not be neglected.


The NEGF method was established in the 1960's through the classic work of Keldysh and others [1] using the methods of manybody perturbation theory (MBPT) and this approach is widely used in the literature [2]. By contrast I have introduced a different approach starting with the one-electron Schrödinger equation [3, 4] which is used by many in the nanoelectronics community. In this talk I will try to answer the questions I often get regarding the relation between the two approaches and I thank the organizers of the IWCE for giving me this opportunity.


To reduce the development cycle time and cost of the transmission control unit (TCU) for automated manual transmission (AMT), a rapid testing platform (RTP) based on the concept of hardware-in-the-loop simulation is introduced and implemented in this paper. The proposed RTP features that the vehicle parts in simulation are all model-based. The torque characteristic of engine, the mechanical characteristic of DC motor, and the torque transferring characteristic of clutch are discussed. By mathematical modeling, the simulators of the vehicle motion, engine, actuators, clutch and gearbox that compose the RTP for TCU are developed. Through signal processing method, the simulators are embodied in an embedded system with functional circuits. Experiments with a product of TCU are carried out and the simulation results show that the RTP can simulate the vehicle conditions and behavior approximately well.


Attention for Meaning-Making Processes: Context and Practice of Spiritual Care in the Earthquake Area of Groningen

 In the North of the Netherlands spiritual caregivers have been employed to respond to the social and personal needs resulting from human induced earthquakes. In the Netherlands knowledge on spiritual care in times of disasters is limited. Central to the present study are two questions: How is spiritual care being put into practice in Groningen? And how do the spiritual caregivers cooperate with others in psychosocial care and in the social domain? This article describes the context, the reasons spiritual care came to be provided and the primary activities of the spiritual caregivers during their initial year of practice.


n this chapter we discuss functional data that reveal what the purpose of tenascin-C in tumors may be by focusing on studies that have examined what this extracellular matrix glycoprotein is doing in the tumor stroma as well as at sites of metastatic colonization. Tenascin-C is an extraordinarily pleiotrophic molecule. This functional plasticity is made possible by the multimodular structure of the molecule. Each domain of tenascin-C interacts with a number of specific matrix molecules and cell surface receptors (Table 3, Figure 1B). In this way, tenascin-C can influence tissue structure, modulate signals derived from other extracellular components, and signal directly to cells to affect cell phenotype.


Introduction In a coastal disaster event (e.g., hurricanes, flooding), it is necessary to have access to the information on damaged areas in near real time for effective deployment of rescue and recovery measures. The dissemination of information that time critical calls for systems that will facilitate quick assessment of the scenario from multiple perspectives. The problem is that new classes are created in disasters that were not used in the image information mining (IIM) scheme of interest. For example, classes may have been learned dealing with roadways, intact buildings, and forests. However, after a disaster, it is now necessary to classify flooded roadways, buildings with no roofs and knocked down forests from limited training data. Part of the confusion stems from the number of factors that have to be controlled. The performance of PCA depends on the task statement, the subspace distance metric, and the number of subspace dimensions retained. The performance of ICA depends on the task, the algorithm used to approximate ICA, and the number of subspace dimensions retained. Even more confusingly, there are two very different applications of ICA to face recognition. ICA can be applied so as to treat images as random variables and pixels as observations, or to treat pixels as random variables and images as observations. In keeping with , we refer to these two alternatives as ICA architecture I and architecture II, respectively. There is therefore a space of possible PCA/ICA comparisons, depending on at least five factors. This paper explores this space, in order to find the best technique for recognizing (1) Subject identity and (2) Facial actions in face images. Another reason to explore the space of PCA/ICA comparisons is to provide data for the current debate over global versus local features. The basis vectors that define any subspace can be thought of as image features. Viewed this way, PCA and ICA architecture II produce global features, in the sense that every image feature is influenced by every pixel. (Equivalently, the basis vectors contain very few zeroes.) Depending on your preference, this makes them either susceptible to occlusions and local distortions, or sensitive to holistic properties. Alternatively, ICA architecture I Produces spatially localized features that are only influenced by small parts of the image. It has been argued that this will produce better object recognition, since it implements recognition by parts .If localized features are indeed superior, ICA architecture I should outperform PCA and ICA Architecture II. This paper will show empirically that the choice of subspace projection algorithm depends first and foremost on the nature of the task. Some tasks, such as facial identity recognition, are holistic and do best with glob al feature vectors. Other tasks, such as facial action recognition, are local and do better with localized feature vectors. For both types of tasks, ICA can outperform PCA, but only if the ICA architecture is selected with respect to the task type (ICA architecture I for localized tasks, ICA architecture II for holistic tasks). Furthermore, performance is optimized if the ICA algorithm is selected based on the architecture (Info Max for architecture I, Fast ICA for architecture II). When PCA is used, the choice of subspace distance measure again depends on the task. On one specific component of the overall IIM process, i.e., feature selection and generation. The following are the specific objectives of this research: 1) reduce the number of features (feature subset selection) using wrapper-based genetic algorithm (GA) approach to build predictive models for each disaster-affected landcover classes and use the models for rapid classification and retrieval of disaster-affected regions;


The aim of this study was to analyse the effects of a Floating Market's destination image on tourist satisfaction. A closed-question questionnaire was prepared drawing from the attributes that influence tourist destination satisfaction in the literature. The sample in the study consisted of 200 tourists who visited Nakhon Pathom's Don Wai Floating Market in January 2018. Multiple regression analyses were applied to empirically test the study's four hypotheses. The results found that the uniqueness of nature, uniqueness of history, and uniqueness of tourist products are the most critical factors affecting the tourists' satisfaction at the 95 percent significance level. However, the uniqueness of architecture factor did not have a significant effect on tourist satisfaction. The study for the first time established an empirical relationship between the uniqueness of nature, uniqueness of history, and uniqueness of tourist products of a floating market and tourist satisfaction with a Floating Market as a tourist destination. These insights may help other FloatingMarkets to better understand the factors that influence tourist satisfaction with such facilities.


In this study, biomechanical behaviors of the buckling effect on human femur model under axial loading were analyzed by using finite element method (FEM). The 3D model of the human femur was created using the Geomagic and SolidWorks 2018 program. Finite element analysis was performed in Ansys Workbench 18.2. The deformations and stresses resulting from axial loading to the 3D human femur model were examined separately as compression and buckling. While the deformation of the femoral bone was 2.06 mm in structural analysis, the deformation of the femoral bone was calculated as 1.29 mm in buckling analysis. This situation shows that the flambaj effect is low in the human bone under axial load. This situation is thought to be related to the anatomical structure of the femoral bone. In addition, while the stress value at the compression effect was 15.71 MPa, the critical buckling stress under flambaj effect was 8.30 MPa. Theoretically, while the critical load (Fkr) was calculated as 2102.21 N, it was calculated as 2164.54 N in SEA.


From his early essay 'Homer's Contest' to his final writings, Nietzsche's fundamental model of both individual and collective modes of government is provided by the model of Greek institution of the agon, classically represented in the political contests conducted in the agora, in dramatic competitions such as the Dionysia, and in the Olympic games. Nietzsche's agonism, it is argued, is bound up with his doctrine of will to power, his understanding of freedom (autonomy) and his perfectionism as well as his commitment to (psychological and sociological) realism in ethics and political theory, to his development of genealogy as an historical approach to philosophy, and to his deployment of exemplars to articulate alternative ethical ideals. Using this framework, this chapter explores Nietzsche's relationship to contemporary political philosophy in terms of the themes of realism, agonism and genealogy.


A 54-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS SEEN WITH AN ENlarging papule with central depression and telangiectasias on his left cheek. A clinical diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma was made with a differential diagnosis of sebaceous hyperplasia. We investigated the use of confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) to help discriminate between these diagnoses. Imaging revealed an enlarged sebaceous lobule consisting of cuboidal cells with centrally located nuclei and a dilated sebaceous duct (Figure 1). A diagnosis of sebaceous hyperplasia was made in vivo by CSLM. Excellent confocal-histopathologic correlation was obtained confirming sebaceous hyperplasia. Two other patients with similar lesions were examined with CSLM: a 52-year-old woman with a lesion on the glabella that had an enlarged sebaceous lobule (Figure 2) and a 48-year-old man with a lesion on his left cheek that had a dilated sebaceous duct with a keratin plug (Figure 3). In these cases, CSLM provided high-resolution images of the sebaceous gland, sebocytes, and sebaceous ducts, facilitating the discrimination of sebaceous hyperplasia from basal cell carcinoma in vivo.


The state of students´ respiratory system was appreciated with the help of capnography. To discover a possible reason of hypocapnical defects the analysis of the state of health were done, the experiments of studing outward breathing were carried out. Psychological tests examined variations of cardiac rhythm.


The aim of this study was to examine the effect of 12 weeks quercetin intake and aerobic exercise on pulse wave velocity and blood lipid in obese university women. The pulse wave velocity factors were Right-PWV and Left-PWV. The blood lipid were TC, TG, LDL-C and HDL-C. The experiment method were applied aerobic exercise(n=7) and quercetin intake(n=7). The subjects of this study were 14 female in over %fat(30) or BMI(25) and all subjects were involved in each test. The PWV(pulse wave velocity) were measured by Colin Pulse Waveform Analyzer(VP-lOOO, Colin, Japan). The result was as follows. The pulse wave velocity were significantly decreased by aerobic exercise and quercetin intake for 12weeks. The blood lipid(TG) were significantly decreased by aerobic exercise and quercetin intake for 12weeks. In conclusion, Quercetin intake and aerobic exercise for 12 weeks was useful as dietary and exercise therapy for cardiovascular disease risk factor(PWV and blood lipid). Also, Quercetin intake and aerobic exercise for 12 weeks were decreased for blood lipid in obese university women and adequate quercetin intake and regular aerobic exercise may help to prevent cardiovascular disease and hypercholesterolemia.


Six system configurations of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier are analyzed accurately. Amplifier placement in the middle of the transmission link is shown to be optimum.


The central issue of this publication is whether there are structures or arrangements for the delivery of post-compulsory education and training that are preferable, particularly in terms of providing a fair choice of pathways to individuals, with minimal structural constraints. It is primarily concerned with schools and TAFE, and their relationship with industry training. The pathways leading to higher education, and the overall quality of the education provided, are considered.


An unusual upper esophageal polypoid tumor was found to be predominantly a carcinoid tumor and in part a mucin‐producing adenocarcinoma. A review of literature showed this to be a unique tumor in this location.


In this article we can see the main problems of studying of poetic occasionalisms in connection with their lexicographical representation in different types of dictionaries, such as universal and special. The article contains a short review of modern dictionaries of poetic occasionalisms with denoting standard schemes of dictionary article and general vocabulary volume.


I served Canada on five Olympic teams but being the Chief Medical Officer for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto was my most challenging games. It was the biggest project I have ever undertaken and really the only one where I felt that I was part of creating a sustainable legacy—12 Physical Activity Facilities, 2000 interprofessional Medical/Anti-doping volunteers and the first ever integrated Pan and Parapan Sport Medicine Conference…to name the top three!⇓

Julia Alleyne

Making musculoskeletal medicine 'simple' by translating it into teachable moments and key messages. I have built many course curricula—classroom, online and blended—all interactive and many in the experiential model. Learners tell me that 'it finally makes sense'. The true value is that our patients have better outcomes!

Flexibility! That is, flexible thinking, negotiations, time management and work–life balance. Being flexible just lets you shift gears and makes you a better team player.

I had been teaching for many years already, but I went …


In this paper we have examined the issue of bargaining procedure in a game where players have private information, and then we proposed some conditions for such bargaining procedure. These conditions are plausible and efficient. Two incompatible theorems are proved.


According to Sanford Katz who recently served as Editor of the Family Law Quarterly and as Chairman of the Family Law Section of the ABA, family law matters account for over 50% of all civil law filings in this country (Hennessey, 1980). Yet, professionals within the legal system have little on which to base their arguments and decisions beyond their personal experience within their family of orientation and family of procreation. As family specialists, we are all aware of the problems associated with efforts to understand other families when we have only our own family experiences as our best source of information. To make matters worse, experienced lawyers and judges' perspectives are overbalanced by the fact that, professionally, the families to which they give careful thought are families with serious problems; thus, reinforcing the value of the ways in which their own families differ from families with serious problems. The fact that the number of family law cases is increasing and that lawyers and judges are often inadequately equipped to conceptualize efficiently about families constitutes one of the reasons why family specialists need to address themselves to family-legal issues. Lest these remarks be interpreted as critical of the motives of members of the legal professions, it should be added that lawyers and judges have a history of seeking advice from


Most benthic macroinvertebrate indicators did not show a major change between pre- and post-
Basslink periods. There were significant post-Basslink changes in some macroinvertebrate
indicators, most of which may be considered positive Basslink-related impacts. The changes
identified are consistent with the conceptual model, with trigger exceedances being generally a
positive response to the post-Basslink minimum environmental flow mitigation measure.


1. We know no method which will hasten the development of tuberculosis in the guinea pig and be of practical value for giving earlier diagnostic information. 2. Years of experience with inoculation of tubercle bacilli in known and graded amounts into guinea pigs convinces one that such inoculations into various parts of the body can lead to only slight and relative, but not practical, differences in the rate of development of tuberculosis. 3. Recourse to methods, such as roentgen-ray exposure, injection of radioactive substances or other leucotoxic agents are based on erroneous observations, and do not hasten the development of tuberculosis in the guinea pig.


Purpose: This study was to evaluate performance characteristics and to validate cardiac imaging of patients on a newly installed SPECTcamera using CZT (Cadmium Zinc Telluride) solid state detector technology, and to compare the CZT camera with a NaI crystal based camera using both phantom data and patient studies. Methods: An Anthropomorphic Torso Phantom (Data Spectrum, Inc.) with a Cardiac Insert with Solid Defect in myocardium region was prepared for SPECTimaging using a CZT camera with multipinhole collimator (GE Discovery 530C). Tl‐201 and Tc‐99m were used individually to test energy response and together to check crosstalk in SPECTimaging. Phantom preparation included: 650 uCi Tc‐ 99m and 65 uCi Tl‐201 were injected to the heart insert to simulate myocardium ratio of 1.82 for each isotope respectively; 4 mCi Tc‐99m and 0.4 Tl‐201 were added to the phantom as background activity; two 500 cc saline bags were installed on the phantom to simulate breast attenuation. Same phantom was scanned on a regular SPECT using NaI crystal for comparison. Then twenty two patients were imaged on the CZT and on the NaI cameras respectively for clinical validation. Standard image acquisition and processing protocols were used for both phantom and patient studies. Results: Visual inspection on phantom images demonstrated that the CZT camera could provide same or better quality of images with lower dose and less time (half dose half time). Myocardium defect was clearly identified from Tc‐99m imaging and from Tl‐201 scan as well. There was no significant crosstalk when imaging Tc‐99m with presence of Tl‐201. Patient scans were consistent on both cameras. There were not different diagnoses using images from the two scanners. Conclusions: SPECTcamera with CZT detectors and multipinhole collimator demonstrated excellent performance characteristic especially on energy resolution and counting statistics. Those features allow lower dose and shorter acquisition time in clinical studies.


Elastomeric bridge bearings have been used by various states in the mid-America region to accommodate thermal movement of bridge decks for over thirty years. Their potential role for mitigating damage in the infrequent but high consequence earthquakes that characterize the central United States is explored in this project. The potential protective role of conventional elastomeric bearings is critically influenced by material properties such as shear modulus, known to be temperature dependent. The degree of influence at low temperatures is determined through experimental studies. Slip characteristics of in-service aged and contaminated Teflon interfaces are determined. Full-scale bearings taken from existing bridges in addition to new bearings form the basis of these tests. Materials tests performed on the elastomer characterize the properties of aged bearings. The influence of these physical properties on possible bridge damage caused by earthquake ground shaking is assessed through computational simulations. A retrofit bearing with improved details for seismic isolation is designed and tested. An apparatus for testing the bearings was developed to simulate actual loading conditions. The apparatus provides a temperature-controlled chamber to allow for low temperature testing. Test protocols are developed to address the influence of testing parameters such as low temperature exposure and compressive stress. The prototype retrofit bearing design was also tested in this setup. The seismic response of a representative bridge is assessed by computational simulations conducted using the nonlinear analysis software DRAIN-2DX.


Objective To understand KAP(knowledge,attitudes and practices)of primary school teaching staff for prevention and control of public health emergency events in Kunshan City. Methods Totally 26 primary school teaching staff were selected by the stratified sampling methods and investigated for their KAP by self-designed questionnaire.Results The total awareness rates of knowledge about infectious disease,food poisoning,sanitation and disinfection were 76.0%,56.5% and 75.4% respectively among 454 teaching staff;the rates of attitudes were more than 90%;the average rate of practices was 86.6%.The rate of KAP in public school teaching staff was higher than that in private school teaching staff;and the rates of KAP in different post staff were not significantly different.Conclusions The KAP related education and training should be strengthened on teaching staff,and the responsibility and assessment system should be adopted to improve their awareness and format conscious action on public health emergency events.


The present work discusses a new method to enhance speech signals degraded by white additive noise in high-noise environments (segmented SNR varying from 10 to 3 dB). The approach presented here is based upon a weighted sum involving a speech signal obtained from spectral subtraction and a synthetized speech signal, which is produced according to the concepts of the digital model of speech production (LPC analysis and synthesis). A spectral subtraction-based pre-processor was specifically implemented for LP coeficients and pitch period estimation, which significantly improves the overall quality of the synthetized speech signal. The weighted combination of these two speech signals allows the reconstruction of spectral regions lost due to the effects of spectral subtraction, as well as the elimination of musical noise. Tests conducted with phonetic-ballanced sentences from several speakers show that the proposed method offers better results than spectral subtraction, producing a more natural and clear enhanced speech signal, without the common artifact of musical noise.


beans, towers of slick tofu dressed with soy and fish flakes. But now you're asking about the live lobster sashimi, so I bow my head over the stiff white cloth and comment quietly about obscure things. Behind his glass, the chef points the tip of his knife at the long pleat of the lobster's tail, unzips the belly like an orange duffel and removes the entrails. He makes a quick dice, flavors the quiver with lemon before he repacks, and the lobster snaps one claw as though swatting a fly, staring straight ahead with its black eyes no bigger than roe specks. At last he chops both claws and presents the plate.


We develop and test a bistatic radar system and processing chain that recovers weak echoes at large antenna separations, which is a necessary step towards high precision temperature inversions. Traditional ice penetrating radars have limited capacity to infer temperature distributions because monostatic measurements do not provide sufficient information to resolve the depth-dependent ice temperature profile. Bistatic radar introduces quasi-independent measurements that can address this challenge, but existing systems are unable to attain the large antenna separations necessary to resolve the small temperature gradients important to glaciological processes. Existing bistatic systems are either limited in antenna separation by losses in synchronization cables or by poor signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) for unsynchronized systems. We address this challenge through coherent summation of phase re-aligned signals to recover the basal and internal layer reflections at large antenna separations without requiring hardware synchronization. The system consists of an Autonomous Phase-sensitive Radio Echo Sounder (ApRES) as the transmitter and a Software Defined Radio (SDR) as the receiver. We assess the system's capacity to achieve high SNRs and large offsets at Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, with up to a 1.3 km antenna separation. This experiment charts a course for even larger antenna separations to resolve small temperature signals with high fidelity.


Children's interpersonal cognitive problem-solving skills may be related to their social adjustment; if so, specific interventions could increase both such skills and adjustment. tilt.5-analyses were performed to examine reported relationships between interpersonal cognitive problemsolving skills and adjustment, and reported effects of training. Boundary conditions were also examined. ICPS Meta-Analysis 3 Interpersonal Cognitive Problem Solving: A Meta-Analysis Fostering social competence and behavioral adjustment has been a focus of many recent research efforts; psychologists have, through a variety of interventions, attempted to ameliorate, or even prevent, maladjustment. In one such line of research, investigators have demonstrated that there are distinct differences in the way adjusted and non-adjusted individuals conceptualize and solve interpersonal problems, from preschool age through adulthood (e.g., Spivack, Platt, & Shure, 1976). The differences between adjusted and non-adjusted persons which appear in this research are evident for the following cognitive processes: (a) generation of numerous alternative solutions to interpersonal conflict situations; (b) adequate specification of particular means that may be necessary to achieve the chosen solution; and (c) consideration of the consequences of one's social acts, for oneself and others. It is the previously mentioned investigators' theoretical position that these interpersonal cognitive problem-solving (ICPS) skills are antecedent to, and thus mediate, social competence and behavioral adjustment. For example, it is thought that a child, who can formulate many alternative ways of dealing with othars can be flexible, that one who plans his or her actions through


National agencies and international organizations are investing considerable resources to facilitate the improvement of the livelihood and living conditions/quality of life of the peoples of the Guianas. These efforts include improvements of health care, education, training and physical infrastructure. However, a silent enemy in the form of mercury contamination may be cutting the very legs out from under these efforts. A major problem facing the Guianas with various degrees of attention is the release of mercury from alluvial gold-mining activities to the environment. Mercury poisoning of local peoples is an unostentatious problem that may have profound ramifications for future generations.


Stoichiometric Lithium-Cadmium Polycrystalline Ferrite System (Li 05 Fe 05 ) 1-x Cd x Fe 2 O 4 , prepared by standard ceramic route exhibits CCNR- type electrical switching, when the field is applied across the material in the pellet form. The importance of the result is that the property is exhibited by the material which is furnace cooled and is not submitted to any additional thermal treatment. Further, the switching is observed at room temperature (25°C) and at relatively low fields. The addition of Cd ++ just by X=0.1 reduces the requirement of field drastically, however, further addition of Cd-content reverses the trend. The I-V characteristics are similar to those of three junction four layer semiconductor structure and there is no aging effect. The phenomenon is observed in all the compositions of the series irrespective of ferri or paramagnetic in nature. The system provides exception to the proposed models and therefore, no fully satisfactory explanation of this property looks to be possible at this stage, however, the experimental results will be important as it will lead to developing electrical switching devices.


The invention provides a nickel-based active electrode material in which ruthenium-zirconium composite oxide is implanted and a preparing method of the nickel-based active electrode material. The implanted body of the active material is ruthenium-zirconium composite oxide, the average particle size is 12 nm, and the Zr:Zr+Ru molar ratio is 0.16-0.20:1. According to the preparing method of the nickel-based active electrode material in which ruthenium-zirconium composite oxide is implanted, a composite electroplating method is adopted, nickel and ruthenium-zirconium composite oxide are depositedat the same time, and the nickel-based active electrode material in which the ruthenium-zirconium composite oxide is implanted is obtained. The material has excellent hydrogen evolution activity, thepreparing method is simple, operability is high, raw materials are easy to obtain, and cost is low.


Owing to large-scale diversity and location uncertainty in object detection, how to enrich semantic information has become an important issue that attracts a lot of concern. In this study, the authors propose a novel attentional detection network (ADN) to enrich semantic information of feature maps by adding an extra attention branch to the classic detection network. Compared to previous methods (e.g. feature pyramid network (FPN), single shot multibox detector (SSD)) that producing massive anchors in different layers of feature maps to detect objects with different scales and aspect ratios, which is very time-consuming, their network is lightweight and do not need to produce extra anchors. Furthermore, ADN can be applied to different object detectors with little computational cost. Extensive experiments indicate that ADN has good detection performance on different datasets without bells and whistles.


Heritability of ambulatory blood pressure parameters in western population has been well described, there is no information on Iraqi population. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate genetic influences on intra-individual variation, by performing heritability analysis on an Iraqi population (Anbar province). A total of 389 individuals, constituting 93 families were ascertained. Most of the parents included in the study were in their 5 th and 6 th decade of life, and the siblings included in the study were in their 2 nd and 3 rd decade of life. To define the portion of difference of variables that is due to genetic and non-genetic influences, full sib analysis was used to estimate heritabilities of blood pressure parameters systolic, diastolic, mean and pulse pressure were estimated during the morning and evening. Heritabilities were estimated in narrow sense which were ranged from 28 % for morning systolic blood pressure to 84% for morning systemic pulse pressure. The finding of modest narrow sense heritability indicates the significant role of non-genetic factors affecting morning systolic, evening systolic and diastolic, and mean blood pressure, whereas the high estimate of heritability for morning diastolic and pulse pressure indicate the significant effect of genetic.


In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States


: With the improvement and implementation of the national education system, preschool education has received great attention. As the primary stage of lifelong education, preschool education has a fundamental impact on future personal development, so preschool education cannot be ignored. The course "Educational Psychology" is one of the compulsory courses for students majoring in preschool education. It occupies an important position in the main subjects of preschool education and is of great significance for improving students' psychological quality. Therefore, teaching methods and teaching methods must be changed, and teaching methods must be constantly updated, in order to effectively improve the teaching effect and quality of educational psychology. In view of this, this article analyzes the importance of the teaching of "Educational Psychology" for preschool education majors, and proposes specific strategies to improve the teaching effect of educational psychology students. This article uses questionnaire survey and data analysis methods to understand the factors that affect the classroom teaching effect of "Educational Psychology" for preschool education majors, so as to improve the work and further improve the teaching effect. According to the survey results, most of the interviewees believe that the classroom teaching effect is greatly influenced by the students' interest in learning, learning methods, classroom content display methods and students' attention. If you want to further improve the teaching effect, you need to start to improve in this respect.


Biomass of spotted sardine (Amblygaster sirm) has been predicted using biomass dynamics model and cohort  analysis. These methods can predict behaviour biomass to impact of exploitation.


Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the new-born (SCFN) is an unusual form of panniculitis, with few cases described in medical literature. The disease affects new-borns at term or post-term, with normal general health. We describe a case of 5 day old new-born affected by the disease since birth. Also, we discuss diagnostic approach and the differential diagnosis.


IT management infrastructure is developing hand in hand with modern information communication technologies (ICT). As with every revolution in the history of mankind, what we call the digital revolution is reflected in virtually every aspect of human life. The digital revolution has covered management to a large extent. This influence is evident both in the take-over of certain areas of organization management by IT systems (e.g., production automation) and through changes in organizations themselves and their organizational structures. Classical organizations, structured in a hierarchical fashion, follow a unique path of evolution. It began in the mid-twentieth century. What could be observed in the 1960s was the transformation of classical linear organizational relationships into matrix structures intended to streamline management and facilitate project management. The matrix structure was a breach of the classical Fayolian principle of unity of command, yet it was more flexible and conducive to cooperation compared to a traditional linear organization, thus marking the first step towards crossing borders. Nowadays, in a world where crossing organizational boundaries is becoming a management paradigm, we can more and more often see organizations of a typically network nature.


Recently, many planners apply collaborative planning theory in planning involving two or more parties, such as between government, private and community, including in the interregion cooperation. However, the theory has rarely been used to explain the interaction between regions in city border area, especially in the cases in Indonesia. This article discusses the case of cross-border service of water supply of the Local Water Company (PDAM-Perusahaan Daerah Air Minum) of Surakarta City into the urban border area of Sukoharjo Regency, based on collaborative planning theory. This article is written based on results of the research on the case using case study research method. The discussion concludes that the approach of collaborative planning theory used on the case is cooperative-accommodation approach. It is because PDAM of Surakarta City accommodate the cross-border region service as a reciprocal policy, as most of their water inputs come from their neighboring regions. In general, such an approach is in accordance with the need of the interacting regions, which one region needs supporting service to meet the need of their communities in water service, and another can fulfill the need based on its capacity. In this case, the concerned technical agencies, PDAM of every region interact each other directly in providing the service. The important thing, the interaction is in line with the prevailing cross-border region bureaucratic regulations and does not infringe the autonomy of every region.


Abstract Food waste is one of the major global sustainability issues which, in the last few decades, has come to the attention of numerous organizations which have implemented strategies aimed either at preventing food waste, recovering the food and reusing it for human consumption or ensuring that the food unfit for human consumption is recycled into compost, animal feed etc. Previous studies have highlighted that major retailers share a large portion of the responsibility for combating food waste and that they are particularly well-positioned to contribute with a solution to this issue. Thus, the study explores the ways in which food chain responsibility can be incorporated into the overall strategy of large chain retailers through the theoretical framework of corporate social entrepreneurship. Lidl's initiative against food waste in Romania provides the background for the discussion of the means through which the resources owned by these chain retailers can be mobilized in order to help increase the amount of food that is recovered and reused for alleviating the problem of food scarcity among disadvantaged groups. The study highlights the aspects that are necessary for a successful corporate social entrepreneurship initiative aimed at reducing food waste: a) a clear articulation of the problem and solution; b) the mobilization of actors from the civil society; c) continuous investment; and d) the alignment of the scaling up strategy of the initiative with the retailer's resources. The study concludes that a food waste program based on the principles of corporate social entrepreneurship can generate a sustainable competitive advantage for retailers.


A checklist of continental African Diseae and Huttonaeeae is provided. 185 species in 7 genera are listed. Six new combinations in Amphigena Rolfe in Dyer, Herschelianthe Rauschert and Monadenia Lindl. are proposed.


In this paper, we present the effect of plasma descum by O/sub 2//C/sub 2/F/sub 6/ gas mixture on the via formation of photosensitive BCB layer and compare it with that of RF cleaning. Test vehicle was fabricated on Si wafer with Cu/photosensitive BCB layer structure and ECR-CVD system was used to descum the via. Residues at via bottom after the descum process were investigated by AES (auger electron microscope) and SEM (scanning electron microscope). It is shown in this work that O/sub 2//C/sub 2/F/sub 6/ plasma etching and the RF cleaning are effective for organic C, native C respectively, therefore the via descum by a combination of plasma etching with O/sub 2//C/sub 2/F/sub 6/ gas mixture and RF cleaning can efficiently remove the via residues.


Customer relation management could increase the customer loyalty of a catering business as customers is its survival and development foundation.Customer management in catering businesses now still has many problems in terms of insufficient concerns over customer management,lack of service awareness,monotonous marketing method,the incomplete internal organization structure of businesses,and inexact judgement of valuable customer groups.The catering enterprises should utilize a CRM system to understand customers and build a favorable relationship with them,enhance employee training to raise their service quality,price reasonably for maintaining permanent relations,and popularize the concept of customer cost to reach the goal of promoting the customer value and brand image in an effort to realize the maximum business profit.


This thesis represents a historical analysis between the XX and XXI century, explaining how the printing industry has influenced social, political, cultural and even economic situations, and became the source of the newest industrial careers such as design and advertising. Such analysis is based on the true search of the importance that printing has had over the advertising industry during the last few centuries in Ecuador, especially the city of Quito. Once the importance of printing for advertising industries was discovered, an investigation was implemented on evaluating the level of knowledge and process of printing in the recent graduates and students of the advertising career in Quito. Finally, based on the research results, several guidelines have been established for teachingthe process of printing advertisements in the academic field for the millennial students, which need different methods of teaching due to the complexity of its situation in society and the classrooms, which is radically different from past generations.


Abstract : The primary objective of project 7140 is to prove the feasibility of the concept of HF communications- using signals having bandwidths on the order of one megahertz through a series of experiments employing a flexible test facility designed and built for this purpose. The test facility includes a transmitter, equalized receiver, and interference measurement and other support equipments. This report concentrates on the design and realization of the test facility. Descriptions of the wideband HF channel and the planned experimental program are also included. (Author)


(the latch-up effect} occurring during this process. Abstruct Physical aspects of the recovery of irradiated CMOS IC parameters by means of the short-term annealing by the alternating current (latch-up effect) are considered. The methods, based on the use of the current annealing, for commercial CMOS IC (CD4000 and MC74AC series) serviceability ensuring at the electron and gamma-irradiation are offered (in particular, the method of radiation-hardened IC seIection).


While previous work has examined the structure of public opinion on church and state, to date there has been little effort to connect public opinion on this group of issues to vote choice. I begin by hypothesizing that attitudes on religious establishment are distinct from attitudes on more often studied issues like abortion and gay marriage. Second, I argue that religious establishment meets the conditions for partisan voting: the parties and candidates have taken distinct, highly public stands on religious establishment, and the issue is highly salient among a certain segment of voters. Finally, I develop a theory that establishment attitudes should exert a greater impact among those individuals who feel that their values are threatened in contemporary society because such individuals may see religious accommodation as a means of returning to their understanding of traditional values. I test these hypotheses using data from the 2008 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project, and I find considerable support for my argument.


This work was supported in part by grants-in-aid for Scientific Research (A) 20244022 and No. 217368 and by the JSPS Core-to-Core Program EFES. K. N. is supported by the JSPS. P. H. R., Z. P., and P. D. S. acknowledge financial support from STFC(UK). Thework of L. M. R., P. S., and R. R. has been supported byMICINN (Spain) under research Grants No. FIS2008-01301, No. FPA2009-08958, and No. FIS2009- 07277, as well as by Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programs CPAN CSD2007-00042 and MULTIDARK CSD2009-00064


Quality management in real time enables increased efficiency of a production process. A multitude of sensors make it possible to collect a large amount of data and builds the basis for a real time fault detection in the Smart Factory. Hence, it is important that this data, the resulting information, and the knowledge generated by the algorithmic analysis is available at the right time. Therefore, appropriate network architectures such as Edge Computing are required for efficient data transfer. In this context, the paper deals with the challenges of analyzing data gathered by an image sensor in production. The consideration is based on the implementation of an Im-age-Mining-Application for real time error detection in production, which was developed by a design science research approach. In addition to identifying the challenges in this area, algorithms with a high accuracy of fit could be identified. Thus, the results obtained form an important basis for the use of Image-Mining-Applications in Smart Factories.